Gary Haveron feels Larne aren't getting the support they deserve as Invermen's clash at Coleraine to go ahead as planned
Larne manager Gary Haveron has slammed the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) for failing to step in and postpone this weekend’s game against Coleraine.
The two clubs meet in the Premiership on Saturday at The Showgrounds in a clash between last year’s top two.
However, Haveron feels NIFL should have intervened and postponed the game to give them the best opportunity to qualify for the league phase of the Conference League.
After the meeting on the Ballycastle Road, Larne will face the losing side of the tie between Lincoln Red Imps and Omonia in the first-leg away from home on Thursday (August 20).
As per NIFL rules, both teams must agree for a match to be postponed, but Coleraine did not agree to the request meaning the game is scheduled to go ahead.
"I can't for the life of me understand how our league hasn't been able to step in and move this game (Coleraine) to the side,” Haveron told Larne’s social media platforms after their Europa League exit to FC Iberia 1999 on Tuesday.
"Our boys now have an eight-hour journey back, having played 120 minutes against top-level opposition.
"The league would more than celebrate if we secured the extra European spot but now we have to go back and we've got to play Saturday, recover and then play again next week.
"We've also got to travel away from home either to Gibraltar or out to Cyprus.
"We played Iberia and both of their games were cancelled by the Georgian FA. They stepped in and cancelled both games in between.
"They were meant to play two games between and both of them went by the away side because their league intervened and did what was right by them to give them the best chance to be fresh for the games.
"That's all we're asking for...is an opportunity to put our best foot forward and give ourselves the chance of not just securing Conference League for ourselves, but to guarantee the league the four spaces.
"Otherwise, it throws our league into chaos in terms of top-six and bottom-six but that's for another day and other people to have that discussion.
"I just don't feel we are getting the support we probably deserve."
NIFL has been approached for comment.