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thread to compile a list of sporting fixtures that are postponed this weekend due to the adverse weather
format can be agreed on
NIFL Bluefin Sport Championship
Portadown P - P Newry City AFC
Harland & Wolff Welders F.C. P - P Ballyclare Comrades
Knockbreda P - P PSNI FC
.Lurgan Celtic P - P Limavady
Ulster Bank League
Fri 2nd Mar 18 19:30 Div1A St Mary’s College P - P UCD Templeville Road David Wilkinson
Sat 3rd Mar 18 14:30 Div1A Buccaneers P - P Clontarf Dubarry Park Kieran Barry
Sat 3rd Mar 18 14:30 Div1A Cork Constitution P - P Lansdowne Temple Hill Stuart Gaffikin
Sat 3rd Mar 18 14:30 Div1A Dublin University P - P Young Munster College Park Robert O’Sullivan
Sat 3rd Mar 18 14:30 Div1A Garryowen P - P Terenure College Dooradoyle Jonny Erskine
Will all EPLgames go ahead? Slim pickings otherwise, all kids activities have been cancelled
a decision will be taken on the following Tennents’s* Irish Cup games in the morning
Ballymena United? - ? Larne
Coleraine? - ? Glentoran FC
Glenavon FC? - ? Loughgall
Linfield? - ? Cliftonville
*formerly Nationwide Building Society Irish Cup, Bass Irish Cup and JJB Sports Irish Cup
prior the break away of the irish free state from the Irish Football Association in 1921 the Irish Cup was the national cup competition for the whole of Ireland
I think that is reasonable yes
Tomorrow night’s People of the Year event has been postponed.
Limerick County Football League matches are all off. Round 1 will now take place Saturday week.
Bingo in Craanford has been cancelled tonight.
What’s the sicheeayshun regarding BBC’s Final Score from Northun Ahhrland?
I was looking forward to Jackie Fullerton and David Jeffrey bouncing the bantz off each other in one of their regular 5:20pm chats on a Saturday.
All knee cappings in West Belfast have also been pulled.
Unfortunately all looting of German brand discount stores in so Co Dublin has been given the go ahead.
The Premium Limousin Bull show and sale in Roscrea is OFF today.
Aka the loverly girls competition
As expected it was unecessary to cancel most events.
What a snowflake of a country we have become
Ballincollig accessible & open for business?
Pretty much from what I can see. Not been in the village today
Incredible scenes. The poster who only two weeks ago was losing his rag at matches not being called off early in the week has now lost the plot over sporting organisations making the eminently sensible and blatantly obvious decision to call matches off early in the week.
It’s fascinating but also very sad to watch his very public mental breakdown.
Yes. These are exactly the same thing
Em, you were moaning that matches two weeks ago which were called off that morning should have been called off earlier in the week. Why on earth would anybody have done that when they thought there was a chance that conditions would be playable? Now, I know all our concentration spans have declined in this INTERNET era, but I’m pretty sure I remember that weather conditions up and down the country two weeks ago were bad, but not nearly as bad as they are now. Nevertheless in several cases they still necessitated a postponement, and the nature of most such decisions is that they have to be taken late on, because referees and groundstaff cannot know for sure what the weather and pitch conditions will be until late on.
Now this weekend, we had a situation where it was obvious to the rats running through the sewers days in advance that there would be no chance whatsoever of any sporting fixtures going ahead. Sporting organisations took the obvious and eminently sensible early decision to postpone these fixtures - for the safety of everybody involved - players and spectators.
Now, for reasons only known to yourself, you’re up in arms because of that eminently sensible decision and ranting that it demonstrates that “we have become a nation of snowflakes”.
Stupidity doesn’t begin to explain it.
Tell me how many sporting fixtures went ahead during the big freezes of 1947, 1963 and 1982 while you’re at it there, seeing as you’re under the very strange impression that postponing sporting fixtures is a new thing.
Another irony about all this is that the poster who constantly rails against what he perceives as the overworking of players, leading to injury, ie. you, is the very same poster who wants players and the general public to stupidly and unnecessarily put their physical safety at risk.