seand
28/06/2019, 8:00 AM
But perhaps you could seperate out the Champions League places in much the saw way other leagues split their league in the closing few weeks and have playoffs for the different places to keep things interesting and competitive. Only in this case we wouldnt "divide" the league into top and bottom half but into a championship round thing here we have a semi final/final situation for the top 6 Irish clubs and the top 6 N Ireland clubs... with byes for the higher ranked teams?
using the above projection and assigning
Dundalk (1st), Shamrock Rovers (2nd), Bohs (3rd), Derry (4th), St Pats (5th), Sligo (6th), Cork, Waterford, Linfield, Ballymena, Glenavon, Crusaders, Cliftonville, Coleraine
CL place goes to winner of Dundalk v Rovers
2 EL places:
Bohs v Sligo
Derry v Pats
plus FAI Cup
Similarly
CL place: Linfield v Ballymena
EL place: Glenavon v Crusaders
preserving a semblance of separation for the CL/EL places like theres a seperate league going on within a larger league...
I mean UEFA does make allowances now and again and could be convinced that in order to increase the quality and competitiveness on the island as well as peace/reconciliation the NIR clubs need to be attracted and losing places in the CL/EL ie money will make it tricky.
You're really falling between two stools there (and yep, I mean stools in both senses of the word)
Here's a dynamic, exciting, cross-community initiative.... the climax of which is the separation of the two parts in Paddy and Prod. And as a bonus we're going to give one of our two (TWO!) Champions League spots to the 9th of 10th best teams in the league. And as a super bonus we're going to give the second best team in the league a 50-50 chance of stealing the CL place from the champions. ;-)
using the above projection and assigning
Dundalk (1st), Shamrock Rovers (2nd), Bohs (3rd), Derry (4th), St Pats (5th), Sligo (6th), Cork, Waterford, Linfield, Ballymena, Glenavon, Crusaders, Cliftonville, Coleraine
CL place goes to winner of Dundalk v Rovers
2 EL places:
Bohs v Sligo
Derry v Pats
plus FAI Cup
Similarly
CL place: Linfield v Ballymena
EL place: Glenavon v Crusaders
preserving a semblance of separation for the CL/EL places like theres a seperate league going on within a larger league...
I mean UEFA does make allowances now and again and could be convinced that in order to increase the quality and competitiveness on the island as well as peace/reconciliation the NIR clubs need to be attracted and losing places in the CL/EL ie money will make it tricky.
You're really falling between two stools there (and yep, I mean stools in both senses of the word)
Here's a dynamic, exciting, cross-community initiative.... the climax of which is the separation of the two parts in Paddy and Prod. And as a bonus we're going to give one of our two (TWO!) Champions League spots to the 9th of 10th best teams in the league. And as a super bonus we're going to give the second best team in the league a 50-50 chance of stealing the CL place from the champions. ;-)