Anyone with any Ireland trip info?

Doubt they'll be playing any matches which the public can watch - maybe they have one behind closed doors sorted?
Shame the weather will be shite for them!
 
Nuttalls Mint Toes said:
Doubt they'll be playing any matches which the public can watch - maybe they have one behind closed doors sorted?
Shame the weather will be shite for them!
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Is Irish trip North or South?
If South Carton House is a great and popular facility, Irish Rugby team based there and Real Madrid visited once, Mick McCarthy brought Ipswich there a few times.
Anyone know where yet?
 
I don’t think Sadler will be wanting to pay Dublin prices - not if he has any sense.

No idea where they are going, but football training facilities in Ireland are generally poor compared to those for GAA or rugby Union. Obviously though you only need one decent training facility.

In Northern Ireland, a trip arriving just as the mayhem of the marching season steps up with the 12th would be inadvisable.
 
Now the first week is over, we'll be dublin down on the effort and intensity.
 
td53 said:
Now the first week is over, we'll be dublin down on the effort and intensity.
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Apparently Dougall was in charge of passports and lost them. Now there's a Kilkenny campaign. Seems they were hoping to sign TT Arnold and he was to be the passport holder, and if he'd lost them the campaign would have been to Killarney.

There's Archery available at the hotel, but the players are banned from using it, although some plan to have a Sligo. Not a nice hotel, old and Crumlin. Also signed Lee Carsley as asst. and he's tried to carry 6 drinks in his hands. TRALEE someone shouted.
 
I mentioned Carton House earlier but there are other venues.

Johnstown Hotel Enfield Co Meath specialises in team training facilities with grass and all weather pitches.
Portmarnock Links Hotel has good training facilities close by at Malahide United FC, International team trained there often.
Castleknock Hotel and Country club is a popular base for Rugby and soccer teams too.
 
I would love to see Blackpool play in Ireland, but with the League of Ireland being in mid season, and nothing announced re friendlies, we can only assume there won’t be anything on this
 
Isn’t the Irish season already in swing - or at least much further along in terms of pre-season. I can’t imagine we’ll be playing any meaningful friendlies but more likely using some fantastic university facilities whilst the students are away for summer and possibly running the rule over some trialists away from the media. It would be brilliant if Ireland becomes a regular trip and we can build connections and contacts out there. PNE and plenty of other EFL clubs for the last 20 years or so have been very successful in exploring the Irish market. Plenty go on to have long successful careers in the EFL and as a club hoping to develop players a good measure of success in the short to medium term won’t necessarily be a golden generation playing 400/500 games each in Tabgerine but a crop of Blackpool trained players forging long careers in League 1 and 2.
 
Another possible training base for the week in Ireland,
Fleetwood are in Waterford for training and playing Waterford FC tonight at 7.00 .

Good coverage on Fleetwood FC news and the training base looks top class, search SETU Waterford.

Could we be going there next week?
 
tangerinedub said:
Another possible training base for the week in Ireland,
Fleetwood are in Waterford for training and playing Waterford FC tonight at 7.00 .

Good coverage on Fleetwood FC news and the training base looks top class, search SETU Waterford.

Could we be going there next week?
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No, Pilley owns Waterford.
 
SouthernSeasider said:
Why does the league of Ireland play throughout the summer? I guess it’s weather related?
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Weather related ???. Its Ireland not Iceland. They changed the start of the season (March to October) a few years ago to try and attract bigger attendances as local TV channels and Pubs were screening Premier League games and having an impact on clubs revenue as nobody was interested, they all support Liverpool, United, etc and are more interested in the Premier League. In truth the League Of Ireland is low grade stuff apart from the top two or three sides and even switching the season hasn't worked as there up against Irish sports Gaelic Football and Hurling which are mainly summer sports.
 
Part of the decision to switch the League of Ireland to a March to November season was also that their teams start playing in Europe in mid to late July.

And with a regionalised draw, they tend to get drawn in early rounds against Scandinavian and Baltic teams who have a summer season for weather reasons and are in mid season.

The idea was to remove the disadvantage of playing European games in pre-season.

The League of Ireland is currently ranked 36th out of 55 in EUFA’s coefficient table.

in comparison the Northern Irish premiership, which has a winter season and which has far less competition in terms of other sports is ranked 44th.
 
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