QuoteDefinitely won't be Shamrock Rovers. They'll only be fourth highest again.
Presume Dundalk have the highest
Definitely won't be Shamrock Rovers. They'll only be fourth highest again.
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With two consecutive years of Champions league money i'd guess they would. However, with them trying to sort out their lease situation over the winter (and hopefully planning some redevelopment in Oriel) as well as laying a new pitch i doubt they'll have a whole lot more cash than Cork or Rovers.
Rumours here seem to be suggesting that Bray will bring in quite a few new players (many on 2 yr deals) so they must have had an influx of cash recently.
If we manage to keep Towell and Horgan, it will probably be the highest.Originally Posted by Lukejennings99
Harps going professional again after our brilliant experience of it in 2008 where we not only stayed up but we won the league and the following year we won the Champions league.....
Pretty sure that's how it went anyway, I mean, what could have possibly went wrong??
My team has less money than your team
Limericks budget has been set at twenty grand (five grand of that is for Freddie Hall as his contract states he must be paid more than Finn Harps). First Division teams are always cribbing about costs I think a good solution next season would be to give walkovers rather than travel to the Markets Field. Two weeks wages and travel expenses spared.
I've nothing to confirm our budget will be increasing but my feeling is that it may increase slightly.
Oh no you haven't. Pats players are actually going to be paying subs to the club next season
(Thinks of that old Monty Python sketch !)
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Is it reasonable to think that Kelleher had been planning to scale back his contribution at Pats for a while now and was just waiting for the scholarship partnership with NUI Maynooth to start bearing fruit before he did so?Oh no you haven't. Pats players are actually going to be paying subs to the club next season
Now that players like Hoare, McGrath and O'Malley are capable of being reliable starters maybe he feels he can cut back a bit on the players with big wages and allow the scholarship lads to still keep the club challenging for Europe.
If so, it was a nice piece of contingency planning.
We're getting richer by the year.
Talk of shamrock rovers getting in major investors, 4/5 people have said
Dunno about that. To be honest Kelleher seems to have spent some silly money on players when he came in first, but that's way in the past at this stage. Even the title winning budget I wouldn't say was too extravagant - though I'm sure it was decent. The squad was a bit thin last year, lots of young lads on the bench at times. Hoare, Desmond.McgGrath and O'Malley are quality, the other lads I'm not so sure. Young lad Daragh Markey is talented according to reports, but looks tiny. I think the plan certainly seems to be to try and bring through as many young lads as we can. Need an experienced backbone to keep competitive though. Desmond, Hoare and maybe McGrath probably won't be with us for too long sadly.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Pm'd you
Last edited by Bawnville Hoop; 21/11/2015 at 12:41 AM.
I think Pats' trouble was that when you win the league, your players justifiably want more money to sign back, so even standing still starts costing more money unless you're replacing people with similar players on lower wages. Title-winning season might not have been extravagant but maintaining that year-on-year is a different story.
That's exactly what happened. Same players but higher wages. Budget stayed the same (roughly) so instead of quality squad players we had some iffy ones and the youngsters
FWIW O'Malley isn't on a football scholarship in Maynooth. McGrath, Markey, Bayly & Rooney are the 4 on the Pats scholarship now that Hoare has graduated
I'm gonna pm you too
What did the fifth lad say?
On the subject of budgets, what teams will be full-time next yr?
I know Dundalk, Cork and Shams are full time for sure, but who else? Are Sligo (still) and Pats full-time?
My guess is that outside those 5 everyone else is totally part-time and training in the evenings??
Your definition of full-time?
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