Bloody tragedy this. I knew they struggled a bit when we first got in the PL but christ there used to be 9 Divisions when i first started playing. Its telling when the bloke says i want to play 11 a side. Too many young kids would rather play 6 a side for ten minutes each way and get back to their XBox. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/East...-folding-108/story-26761648-detail/story.html
Same everywhere, Chazz. Driffield league is declining rapidly as well. A lot of talk about grass toots involvement in sports but we have a generation of people who would rather sit about. Junior football still doing well round our way thanks to a few dedicated people.
Blimey I've wrote I'm sad about it on the internet, thats as much as the Trust did about the Airco. All thing must pass. Fond memories of the Amateur league. Oh look I'm over it.
Twas only a joke, it didn't really warrant a response. Though for the record, we're the trust for Hull City, not for the Airco.
Wheeler White Star for years. And they even gave me time off for the home games as well. There were 7 leagues when I played. I played Premier, 3 and 6 for Wheeler ' s respective teams. RIP Amateur League and kids, you don't know what you've missed till it's gone!!!
Sad news but not totally unexpected. The County League has been benefiting for a few years now at the Amateur League's expense. When I first got involved at grassroots level (late 80's), the Amateur League was the better competition but that gradually switched over the next decade or so and certainly, since the Humber Premier League was formed, the County League has been much the stronger. I'm not sure about the argument that City's Premier League status sounded the death knell for the competition. IMO it's probably got as much to do with the attitude prevalent among young kids today. Playing football is no longer a priority for them on a Saturday afternoon as it was when my generation was their age. We've had plenty of problems at our club where lads would rather spend the weekend pissing it up and just not bother turning up to play. 11-a-side open-age football is struggling across the country not just in the East Riding. That said the County League may well have 6 or 7 divisions in 2015/16 so these former Amateur League players should have some clubs to go to.
Haven't read it cos I'm on my phone but is it the East Riding County League? Is anything gonna replace it? There was still a lot of teams in ERCL last season. It is a shame but the popularity of the small sided game is justified. No postponed games and the ball can actually move along the surface. Unless it's really well looked after like the pro grounds, grass is a ****e surface for football.
I got a taxi out a bit back and the driver who was about 25 had never played 11 aside football He played with a few others who'd never players 11 a side niether. It's struggling all over the country I remember 8 divisions in the amateur league 4/5 in the county league and 3 in the Humberside league and that was only in the early nineties. There was a programme on Talk Sportast year and a phone in One of the problems that was cited was a lot of men didn't want to be away from their wives/partners for the best part of a day because they got too much earache So they now just go play 5 aside then back home A few hours with the lads and a few beers after is what it was all about I loved it.
People always used to come out with this line about Hull's Sunday League being the biggest in the country. Was there any truth in that or was it just a local myth?
i can't find any links but given the distance to the next cities and towns and the size of the hinterland, it isn't unlikely. in the past it's had as many as 23 or more divisions of 12 teams.
You couldn't beat a sliding tackle where you had a few things running through your mind once you'd committed to the tackle. Get the man, get the ball, get man and ball, what about the dog ****, used condoms, needles etc. it'll be a worse place without it.
Although it’s the end of the Amateur league, the County league is still going strong, and the comment from the article, “This means there will be no 11-a-side men's league on a Saturday in Hull after 108 years of existence” is incorrect. The likes of Scullys, Chalk Lane, Reckitts all play in the Humber Prem…….they’re all Hull teams.
