Stephen Kenny makes appeal to FAI board over St Patrick's Athletic schedule

Stephen Kenny has voiced his frustration as St Patrick's Athletic await a decision on their request to have next Sunday's rescheduled Premier Division match away to Galway United postponed.

St Pat's face Sabah of Azerbaijan at Tallaght Stadium on Thursday night in the first leg of their UEFA Conference League third round tie.

But with the logistics of the second leg next week in mind, St Pat's want the Galway game called off.

"We have requested the Galway game to be cancelled, because we have to come back from Galway and literally get on a flight in the early hours of the morning to Turkey, and then hang around for a lot of hours and in the end we’ll be on two separate flights," said Kenny after last night's Premier Division win over Sligo Rovers.

"We have asked Galway and we have asked the FAI. The FAI said you have to make a request to Galway, but Galway have said no, so that’s fair enough, that’s their decision.

"But I think there is a provision in the rulebook for the Director of the League to make a decision.

"My problem is this, you need a bit of vision here. All of the mission statements in the FAI are that we want to have two or three teams in the group stages within a certain amount of years.

"But there is no evidence that it is actually supported.

"We have had games cancelled. We were given a two-week break, we had no match in the first round, so we can’t have a one-size-fits-all in Europe and say, all the European teams have no match.

"So we had to organise friendlies in those weeks because we had no match.

"We then had six matches in a two-week period when I came in before that and now we have five matches in 15 days, including going to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and going through three time-zones to get to