With the World Cup Qualifier fast approaching, men’s national coach Paul Revington has issued guidelines to all club coaches over the availability of central squad members ahead of the tournament which gets underway in Argentina on November 14.
The build-up sees Ireland play eight matches in quick succession in the next couple of weeks. Revington states that Irish squad players are ‘free to play’ in the provincial leagues during this time with the caveat “unless there is a prior international event or training day”.
The schedule laid out sees one major clash; the Irish series with Scotland will coincide with a full series of Leinster division one matches, currently pencilled in for October 3.
That weekend was set to take in Pembroke's trip to Glenanne, though both sides will likely request a postponement until after the WCQ.
The other fixtures affected are Clontarf vs TRR, Fingal vs YMCA and Monkstown vs UCD while Railway Union vs Corinthian can currently be played barring a late call up.
A further issue that weekend to affect those fixtures, though, is the U-16 and U-18 interpros which take place in Grange Road from October 2 to 4. Otherwise, the international players 
currently remain free for league fixtures on September 26, October 10, 17, 24 and 31. Ireland are likely to depart for a holding camp in South America on November 1.
As for the Neville Cup, however, Revington adds “that Irish Senior Squad players are not permitted to play in other regional cup competitions during the period 7 September – 29 November 2009”.
These guidelines, however, do not refer to goalkeepers who are clear to play in all competitions barring a specific request from Revington.
The coach has circulated these guidelines to all Leinster league clubs and invited club coached to make contact with him should they seek any clarifications.
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7 comments:
does anyone know the start time of weston versus pembroke tonight???
These are the times I have been given:
Tuesday, September 15: Weston vs Pembroke Wanderers, 7.15pm, Esker Lucan
Wednesday, September 16: Corinthian vs Avoca, 8.15pm, Whitechurch Park
Thursday, September 17: Dublin University vs Monkstown, 7.30pm, Santry Avenue
does any one know when the league tables are been put up on the leinster web site
i may be wrong here now but i highly highly doubt that either pembroke or glenanne will want to postpone their match a week before play against europes best in barcelona in the ehl. and would suspect and hope for irish hockey that their players are released from intl duty early in order to play with their clubs for this game as it is prob their last game before the ehl and it is in Irish hockeys interest they do well in barcelona.
Im sure Ned and Arul are miles ahead of the people on this blog and have it sorted already no Pem or Glens player appears in either of the squads for games against Sco on Sat or Sun 3rd and 4th.
Ahh the advantages of being involved with the Isish set up
My apologies, I neglected to realise that the the seven Glenanne and Pembroke players selected for the Friday night match had been released from the panel for the Saturday and Sunday games against Scotland.
Here is the squad for the Saturday game:
Mark Ruddle (Cork C of I); Adam Pritchard (Cork C of I); John Jackson (Loughborough); Paul Gleghorne (Loughborough); Karl Burns (Cork C of I); Michael Maguire (Three Rock Rovers); Keith Black (Cookstown); David Ames (Cookstown); Andrew Herbert (Cork C of I); David Hobbs (Capt Cork C of I); Simon Todd (Mossley); John Jermyn (Cork C of I); Gareth Watkins (Monkstown); Peter Caruth (Annadale); Peter Blakeney (Three Rock Rovers); Timmy Cockram (Lisnagarvey) Iain Walker (YMCA)
does anyone think if argentina don't confirm revs will let the plyers be released?
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