FAI Invites First Division Expressions of Interest

[littlebray]

Nostalgia corner: I came across this in an Indo from late last August.

St Patrick's Athletic and Cork City are in talks with the FAI about entering reserve sides into next season's First Division. Shamrock Rovers are set to continue with their second string in the division.

Wonder who was feeding them OllieByrne-isms?

[NeverFeltBetter]

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...medium=twitter

Cabinteely chairman Martin Smith agrees: “It’s a good fit. There’s a bit of an overlap at the start and the end of our season, but we’ll cope with that.”
Smith declined to discuss the club’s proposed membership of the SSEAirtricity Leaguein any detail, citing confidentiality clauses in the application process, but confirms that the club has submitted a licence application and expresses the hope that they will receive news of how they have fared over the next week or two.

[Neish]

Hopefully this is it sorted now & they can get fixtures out in next week or two

[the 12 th man]

Small article about Cabinteely FC
http://balls.ie/football/cabinteely-...eague-ireland/

[Mr A]

38 days before the first game we finally get a semi-concrete indication of who the eighth team will be.

[Spudulika]

If they do it right, they can be a decent club in a number of years (at LOI level). With such a large number of under age teams they should be bringing in 500 a game and their under 15's now will be ready in 4-5 years etc. Maybe it's a good new sign for the LOI.

[outspoken]

If they do it right, they can be a decent club in a number of years (at LOI level). With such a large number of under age teams they should be bringing in 500 a game and their under 15's now will be ready in 4-5 years etc. Maybe it's a good new sign for the LOI.

If they bring in anywhere near 500 a game il be shocked

[Longfordian]

Mervue and Salthill had lots of underage teams. They got great crowds.

[gufcfan]

Mervue and Salthill had lots of underage teams. They got great crowds.

Apparently Salthill gave out hundreds of passes for their first game in Terryland during the SD Galway farce. Around 150 there and that was probably a record in itself.

LOI football was not in the best interests of Salthill or Mervue. It's still biting Salthill in the ass bigtime.

[Captain2007]

Mervue and Salthill had lots of underage teams. They got great crowds.

Lots of underage teams in Bray down the years, plus the population of 35,000 and we get an average 700/800 gate, don't know the population of South Dublin, Hope Cabinteely and the FAI have done their homework.

[Dodge]

Cabinteely statement

http://www.cabinteelyfc.ie/2015/01/c...-club-members/

To all Cabinteely FC members – I’m writing because you may have read in the newspapers about our application for League of Ireland Division 1 status and I wanted to give you a brief update.

We had hoped to have kept this confidential and have an announcement in due course if the license is issued. The press have got wind of our application and discussions with the FAI and hence this communication.

We have agreed in principle with Blackrock RFC that the matches could be played in Stradbrook during the season March to October. Training facilities would also be provided.

We will in due course issue a detailed briefing if the approval comes through and we agree all the relevant matters.
Mark Smith, Chairman

Things could be changing for Cabinteely FC!

[Nesta99]

Having a lot of under age teams in the area is different to having Cabinteely fc under age teams. The kids and by proxy, parents are members of the club who with the existing affinnity could boost attendances. I think thats was spudulika was getting at. If it was as easy as having a schoolboys league where many follow LoI then Dundalk would be attracting significanltly better crowds. It is very likely that some of the coaches at the schoolboys league clubs actively discourage their players from following LoI. These coaches simpley believed that during their playing days were (too) good enough for LoI and when they were found lacking at senior levels they looked for scapegoats rather than acknowledge their own limitations as footballers.

[Mr A]

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/irish...i-application/

Plenty of carping about another Dublin club in the league. But we desperately need at least an 8th team plus a third of the league teams coming from Dublin when Dublin has about a third of the population hardly seems massively disproportionate. But at this stage I think a lot of the giving out is just a reflex with no actual thought involved.

[Charlie Darwin]

The reality is that if you're looking for well-run underage clubs who have invested heavily in developing sustainable long-term structures, along the lines of the GAA, then south Dublin is more or less the only place in the country you can look right now. If Cabinteely decide a couple of years down the line it's not for them, I wouldn't be surprised if the candidates to replace them were from south Dublin again rather than Tralee or whoever.

[eitoof]

20 sets of wages/expenses. I just don't get this. I can't see the long term sustainability of this Cabinteely proposal.

[gufcfan]

20 sets of wages/expenses. I just don't get this. I can't see the long term sustainability of this Cabinteely proposal.

You have heard of the FAI before?

[nigel-harps1954]

As long as there's an eighth team, I couldn't care less if they were from Craggy Island. Just glad to see something being sorted, and hopefully some word from the FAI follows about fixture lists.

[Mr A]

It's be good to get a fixture list, so long as it doesn't have to change in mid February when the licenses are issued. Cabinteely may not make the grade, and the there is the potential for other issues as well.

[vinnie]

Cabinteely have in excess of 900 kids on their books, if they can get 20% of those and their Da's to go to home matches they'll be doing fairly ok

[eitoof]

You have heard of the FAI before?

They never cease to amaze....