Revamped Eircom League - My Idea

**Naitch** · 29/07/2006, 2:10 PM

Ok iv been a true Shelbourne fan 11 years now but im realising the current format in this country just isnt working. I know some of the ideas in this thread for a new league is going to get slated but hear me out anyway.

1= Rename it the "Eircom SuperLeague"

2= Merge Shelbourne and Bohs

3= Merge Shamrock Rovers, St Pats and UCD

4= Get rid of draws. If a game is a draw then it goes straight to penalties.

5= Bonus points. If a team scores more than 2 goals and wins then they get 4 ponts for a win.

6= Improve facilities(easier said than done)

7= Have a 10 team league with the top 2 teams at the end of the season facing off in the "SuperLeague" Final for the title.

8= So the league would basically comprise of

North Dublin Devils
South Dublin Titans
Drogheda Drogs
Crok City Giants
Galway City Tigers
Derry City Dynamos
Waterford Wildmen
Longford Longers
Kerry Mounties
Sligo Westeners

You may laugh but i honestly think is is the way to market the league

**Dodge** · 29/07/2006, 2:16 PM

Oh man, you don't know what you've done...

**Soper** · 29/07/2006, 2:16 PM

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

**Dazzy** · 29/07/2006, 2:21 PM

Thats just too funny to slate!

**el punter** · 29/07/2006, 2:21 PM

I'll let that hook float right past my gills

**ollie** · 29/07/2006, 2:24 PM

one problem with your proposel.
it should be the Cork City Cougars
otherwise a brilliant suggestion.have you tried emailing onto the FAI?

**Soper** · 29/07/2006, 2:28 PM

It should also be Galway Ligers, not Tigers.And Longford Langers.

**Buller** · 29/07/2006, 2:38 PM

ahahahahahahahahahah!!!! that made my day...
thats the funniest post in years!!!
POST OF THE YEAR!!!

**hoops1** · 29/07/2006, 2:38 PM

sometimes i think freedom of speech is a bad thing
There should be some kind of secret police rounding up
the loons spouting such nonsense
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I dont even know where to start with that post
i need to lie down

**monkey magic** · 29/07/2006, 3:21 PM

Are You John Delaney!!!

**Sniffer** · 29/07/2006, 3:26 PM

Why not call ehe bohs/ shels merger Dublin City?

**kdjaC** · 29/07/2006, 4:26 PM

Should merge bohs and rovers and then lock the fans up in a big brother house and film it for the entire season.

Otherwise great idea

kdjac

**De Town** · 29/07/2006, 4:41 PM

Funniest post I've ever read!!

**CollegeTillIDie** · 29/07/2006, 4:47 PM

Originally Posted by Naitch

Ok iv been a true Shelbourne fan 11 years now but im realising the current format in this country just isnt working. I know some of the ideas in this thread for a new league is going to get slated but hear me out anyway.

1= Rename it the "Eircom SuperLeague"

2= Merge Shelbourne and Bohs

3= Merge Shamrock Rovers, St Pats and UCD

4= Get rid of draws. If a game is a draw then it goes straight to penalties.

5= Bonus points. If a team scores more than 2 goals and wins then they get 4 ponts for a win.

6= Improve facilities(easier said than done)

7= Have a 10 team league with the top 2 teams at the end of the season facing off in the "SuperLeague" Final for the title.

8= So the league would basically comprise of

North Dublin Devils
South Dublin Titans
Drogheda Drogs
Crok City Giants
Galway City Tigers
Derry City Dynamos
Waterford Wildmen
Longford Longers
Kerry Mounties
Sligo Westeners

You may laugh but i honestly think is is the way to market the league

Where are the Limerick Lancers?
I think the idea is North American and therefore a Crok

**Anto McC** · 29/07/2006, 4:51 PM

That has to,HAS TO BE a p*ss take,if it's not,it is as has been suggested,the funniest post ever!!

**CollegeTillIDie** · 29/07/2006, 4:54 PM

Here's one suggestion
Shelbourne should merge with UCD after all both clubs were formed in 1895
The new club could be called TSV 1895 Dublin .

Shelbourne nicked UCD's colours for their away strip.
We have a ground and they won't soon.

Here's another possible solution to the Dublin clubs situation ,Shelbourne and Shamrock Rovers should merge and rename themselves Ringsend United and go play in Irishtown. Thus solving both of their lack of current ground issue.

No I am not serious but these ideas have more merits than the radical restructuring shown above.

**RonnieB** · 29/07/2006, 5:02 PM

Good ideas all round. But I think if one was to paint the pitch several different colors, zones if you will and you get a certain amount of points for scoring from them.

**alabama rover** · 29/07/2006, 5:07 PM

Originally Posted by RonnieB

Good ideas all round. But I think if one was to paint the pitch several different colors, zones if you will and you get a certain amount of points for scoring from them.

Hey! Lets remove the goals and put up baskets!

... and we definitely need cheerleaders!

KOH

**Dyl10** · 29/07/2006, 5:08 PM

Is this a wind up?

**Sheridan** · 29/07/2006, 6:06 PM

I don't think this scenario is being advanced seriously, but as ever truth is almost stranger than fiction. One of the proposals which was considered too far out even for inclusion in the final draft of so outlandish a document as Genesis II was roughly as follows. The eircom League (or Premiership or John Delaney Memorial Trophy or whatever) championship would not be conferred, as is conventional, upon the team which accumulated the greatest number of points upon completion of the regular season, but rather the winner of an end-of-season play-off series involving:

The top four finishers in the Premier Divison.
The winners of the First Division
A wildcard entrant admitted on the basis of a formula comprising average attendance figures, fair play record, and a subjective criterion known as "entertainment value", to be determined by officially appointed observers. This formula would not be publically disclosed and the identity of the team thus admitted would be concealed until the regular season finished, in a ham-fisted effort to keep all league participants interested until the bitter end.

Third- and fourth-placed in the Premier would play off against the First Division winners and wildcard in the "quarter-finals" with the winners advancing to face Premier Division "winners" and runners-up in the semis. A grand final on neutral territory would determine the eventual champions.