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Not related but in Meath LGFA underage games if one team gets hammered they put the result down on the website as 1-0 v 2-0 so as not to embarrass the team that got hammered. How that helps them improve is beyond me.
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8760 - 04/09/2026 11:20:33 2692670 Link 0 |
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I obviously don't know what exact results, teams or competition you're talking about in Cavan, but I'd point out that Cavan LGFA has to have competition regulations to state how such things are determined, and these must surely have been sent out to LGFA club secretaries before the championships began, if they're not published online. For instance, the Wexford ones I'm referring to are here: https://wexfordladiesgaelic.ie/2026-info-hub/rules--guidelines Your club secretary should either have the Cavan ones already, or else be very easily able to get them. For what it's worth, seems a strange way to me of doing things, but if they're the competition regulations then they're the same for everybody and would have been set out as such before the start of the competition. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 4003 - 04/09/2026 12:26:32 2692687 Link 0 |
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I can tell you they don't do that here. Quick look through U16 results shows me scorelines like 9-11 to 1-4, 8-15 to 0-4, 11-10 to 2-1, and 10-16 to 1-3. And actually just clicked into U14 as well, and two of the first four scorelines I see are 9-21 to 1-1, and 10-27 to 0-0. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 4003 - 04/09/2026 12:36:40 2692694 Link 0 |
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I understand the motivation for doing that. Our coaches are requested to instruct the team to only go for points if they are ahead by a large score line, empty the bench and take of the scoring forwards. Lob sided games are not good for either team. In the example I've given, apparently the rule was introduced at underage level to minimize the hammerings, but somehow it was brought into adult football years ago. If it was known (and that is the fault of management for not knowing), the team should have brought the fullback line and keeper up to midfield and forsaken defending so that they got the necessary 2 points to progress. ExiledCuCu (Cavan) - Posts: 311 - 04/09/2026 12:47:45 2692696 Link 0 |
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Some teams can look to improve in a game after they were hammered. For me, not putting the scoreline on the fixtures website is just mollycoddling young players. It's up to coaches to get them motivated again.
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8760 - 04/09/2026 15:13:57 2692737 Link 0 |
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Well, seems to be the case you've accepted the same rule applies in Cavan, and in fairness to you, you've also accepted it's the management's own fault for not knowing that. Always amazes me how team managers and others frequently don't know the rules of the competitions they're managing in. A different matter altogether, but before our final group games in hurling here in Wexford a couple of weeks ago, when it looked like one of our club teams could end up in a three-way tie, I spent ages having to explain to the manager how that would mean a 'mini league' calculation between the three teams and how exactly it would work. I'm still not sure he actually understood it at the end of the conversation. Thankfully it didn't go to a three-way tie in the end anyway! Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 4003 - 04/09/2026 15:14:10 2692738 Link 1 |