PARNELLS GAA HAVE accepted relegation from the Dublin SFC 1 after the Coolock outfit conceded their relegation play-off, which was scheduled for Sunday.
The relegation double-header dogfight was scheduled for O’Toole Park with Parnells down to face Lucan Sarsfields and Clontarf due to go head-to-head with St Oliver Plunkett’s-Eoghan Ruadh, but both fixtures have been called off after Parnells gave a walkover.
The club of All-Ireland winning captain and goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton will now drop to the Dublin SFC 2 after losing their three group games by a combined total of 48 points.
Subsequently, Bernard Brogan’s St Plunkett’s, Jack McCaffrey’s Clontarf and Lucan Sarsfielfds have all retained their senior A status for 2019.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Both SFC 1 relegation games (@ParnellsGAA v @GAALucan + @ClontarfGAAClub v @plunketts_ie) scheduled for O’Toole Park this Sunday have been called off as Parnell’s have conceded their game and accepted relegation to SFC 2 for 2019 #DSFC1
— Dublin GAA (@DubGAAOfficial) September 27, 2018
There’s all to play for yet in 2018 though with four SFC 1 quarter finals down for decision across the weekend.
Parnell Park plays host to two mouth-watering double-headers on Saturday and Sunday as reigning champions St Vincent’s title defence continues as they face Ciaran Kilkenny’s Castleknock in the last eight.
The weekend’s fixtures in full are listed below.
Saturday 29 September
- St Jude’s v Ballymun Kickhams, Parnell Park, 4pm
- Ballyboden St Enda’s v Na Fianna, Parnell Park, 5.45pm
Sunday 30 September
- St Sylvester’s v Kilmacud Crokes, Parnell Park, 2.15pm
- St Vincent’s v Castleknock, Parnell Park, 4pm
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Ah another disappointing move for a promising u21 player…. I don’t know a lot about second division Swiss football, but it doesn’t sound like a great level….
@Augustus hoop: football isn’t just confined to England. Fair play to him going for more unorthodox move, Conor looks very promising so hopefully gets hes break and has a good future. Grasshoppers are a relatively big club too
@Denis Cremin: swiss football is muck so he has a very good shot at making a real go of it. The wages are excellent though and all the good players get snapped up by german clubs. The league itself was historically a retirement home for german players looking for a last low tax payday but they started to focus alot more on younger players so the standard gradually dropped. Zürich itself is little more than a town with two football clubs who are far off being world beaters. FcZ are not that much better than grasshoppers even though they are a division above. The main teams are YB and basel nowadays. Stadiums are great also so in ralaity the only thing second rate is the football
@Denis Cremin: unorthodox doesn’t always mean good, second division Swiss football sounds more like out of sight out of mind, decent player but to progress needs to cut out the loans and get something permanent at a higher/better level than this
@Denis Cremin: my issue isn’t that he is moving away from England – I welcome that – my issue is as I say in the comment, that he is moving to a level that he should be better than based on what I’ve seen – irrespective of how big the club is.
It’s the same as lee O’Connor going to league 2
@Augustus hoop: good experience for him playing abroad, was in Slovakia last season and he did well in the games I could find streams for.
The one player in the u21s that gets me off my seat,
Cracking technical player.