QuoteThe fault lies mostly with the people who run the clubs. Secondary responsibility falls upon the FAI for not regulating more tightly and the fans for accepting far too much garbage from their own clubs.
What a joke of a league
What an absolute joke shop, its laughable the whole thing is beyond a joke at this stage. Today's news is gutting i think the league was never as bad as it is now, this is the worst shape the league of Ireland has ever been that i can recall and i don't care what people say. I am not sure who to blame but at this moment in time the FAI have to be near the front of the que. All we get from them is smoke and mirrors and PR guff, stick up your arse.
The fault lies mostly with the people who run the clubs. Secondary responsibility falls upon the FAI for not regulating more tightly and the fans for accepting far too much garbage from their own clubs.
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Is anyone surprised anymore?
It's been this way as long as I can remember except licencing has meant that all the brown envelopes now have to be slid on top of the table rather than passed underneath it. CCFC are a complete mess, but scratch the surface at a lot of clubs and you'll see they're a mistake or two away from serious trouble.
The kick in the teeth is the few clubs that are well run are looking UP the table at clubs engaged in this nonsense, responsibility for that situation lies completely with the FAI.
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I can't agree with you there, this meant to be a regulated league with a limit of 65% of your income being spent on wages. The FAI have allowed clubs who have proved time and time again that they can't run themselves to go unchecked. The Bohs farce of them them and the FAI arguing over 1 or 2% is bloody laughable as we all know Bohs are nowhere near that. It's a joke and it's a bad one at this stage, Cork wtf? Seriously i mean whats the point just wind the club up and start again. Dundalk how the hell can they let a club sign 7 players and and 3 weeks later they are asked to take pay cuts?Originally Posted by Mr A
I agree the FAI must do better. But the clubs seem determined to always find a new way around the rules. Oftentimes, non-compliance with rules is so widespread that to punish the guilty may be viewed as impossible. Personally I think that's wrong and they should punish every single club if it comes to that. But then of course the clubs would probably break away again.
Ultimately, it's time we all started to take responsibility for making sure our own clubs are properly run. It's very easy to point the finger at the FAI and demand they fix it, but until the change comes from the clubs themselves it'll remain a case of the FAI leading the clubs to water but being unable to make them drink.
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What exactly is the news that has gutted the original poster?
His kitten died outside the Showgrounds?
Greg O'Halloran's Pat Dolan impersonation is just not funny anymore?
He can't get the image of Dave Rogers' brown stained jocks out of his head?
Presume its the Dave Rogers story
Assumed it was the Cork winding-up story.
What a great league that we can't even work that bit out.
You have to admit though, even if the football is crap and the administration is hopeless, it's bloody fascinating.
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The soup is always nice at the Carlisle
I always love arguments that go..... "as we all know"... always a sign of desperation. Having listened to the rantings of many on here about Bohs breaching the 65% rule we now have to listen to whining because it looks like Bohs (at last) may have got their house in order.
for the benifits of slow people like Rovers Manaic - 64% legal, within rules = no penalty. 66% illegal, outside rules = penalty. Sure how could a team win the League by 1 or 2 points we all know they don't deserve itsame idiotic argument....
It's up to the FAI to enforce the law, but the buck stops with the clubs. The FAI aren't breaking the laws, aren't enforcing bad fiscal decisions... the clubs are.
The FAI will never be able to solve all the problems, only the clubs.
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The kick in the teeth is the few clubs that are well run are looking UP the table at clubs engaged in this nonsense, responsibility for that situation lies completely with the FAI.[/QUOTE]
Sorry to break my self imposed exile...
But the above is horse-£hit.
There are 3 team compliant in the Premier Division.
Rovers, Bray & St Pats.
The rest are in a manky state and wil need to get their act together sooner rather than later.
bye bye
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Well run clubs could be outside the Premier Division looking up the table.
The league is a complete joke though,from the Refs right up to the spineless folks in the FAI "regulating" the league.Its comical to be honest,whats even worse is that we are giving this league our hard earned money.
It's not horse-manure at all.
Your argument is particularly weak for two quick points:
1. Your three examples of Rovers, Bray and Pat's are all looking up the table at clubs who are less compliant than them, which is exactly what I wrote.
2. Like MNS, you seem to have forgotten that the first division exists, Monaghan United and Wexford Youths are making a good fist of doing things properly. Shels, in fairness, are trying to undo the mistakes of the past and do things correctly as well.
Jump back into your self-imposed exile with my blessing
Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.
semantics.
And Rovers wont have very long to look up the table at anybody.
As for the first division. F££k the first division. its a graveyard we were lucky enough to escape at first attempt.
My exile is self imposed.
your clubs imminent exile is also self imposed.
snap.
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Are Sligo Rovers not "compliant" then?
While I agree that it's ultimately the clubs responsibility and their own fault, the FAI have to give clubs a reason to be compliant. If you can be non-compliant and still get a license, win stuff etc then there's very little motivation for the clowns in charge to sort themselves out.
They need to be forced to, and the FAI are the only body that can do so.
It's not the FAI's fault we're screwed, but if they hadn't give us a license, as it's clear we shouldn't have gotten one, we would ahve been forced to cut costs, not sign players etc.
They shouldn't have to do this, be the Mammy of Daddy but with the idiots running our clubs they do.
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