Stuart Byrne column: It's time for LOI players to say 'enough is enough'

Players need to take a united stand and say ‘enough is enough, we no longer accept the pitches in this league’.

I fully understand that Palace are a Premier League club with huge resources, but Selhurst Park was like a billiard table. Such a beautiful lush surface. The artificial pitches are an abomination and should be put in the bin for starters. They inhibit the players, inhibit the pace of the game, and inhibit the product.By the end of May, we’ll have played about 18 or 19 games of the season. That’s two thirds of the league campaign played on dreadful pitches.It’s gone beyond a rant, or an annual moan. The reality is everyone knows the pitches are sub standard, but nobody wants to take action or make a plan.

Just look at the Waterford players in Tallaght on Monday. The pitch was like a bowling green and the players responded. The players have the power. It’s time we heard from them because the FAI don’t seem bothered and will just brush it under the carpet until next year.I said it a few weeks ago but April and early May is moving time for managers in the League of Ireland.

You don’t rip it up your squad, you tweak it. That was a big call by Daly to sign so many new faces, and it’s one he got wrong. Alan Reynolds had great success as an assistant at various clubs, so I think they’ll bounce off each other and work well.

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