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Ronnie
15/10/2007, 1:38 PM
So what 3 clubs is he talking about- or besides Shels, what other two clubs?
Mr A
15/10/2007, 1:43 PM
Drogheda would be in there I'd imagine, and probably St Pats. Feck knows though, there could be a lot more than 3!
Macy
15/10/2007, 1:49 PM
Doubt Shels is one of the three. Drogs, Pats and a.n.other. Wouldn't think us, this season. Who else could we rule out? UCD, Bray, Waterford, and I assume Rovers too.
Jerry The Saint
15/10/2007, 1:53 PM
3 out of 4 from Drogs, Pats, Bohs and Cork I'd say (probably the first 3 given Cork's better gate receipts and relatively small squad).


One club had an annual player salary bill of 161 per cent of revenue.

Has to be Drogheda, surely?
gufct
15/10/2007, 2:32 PM
we are well below the 65% and thats why i was slightly shocked to see ourselves being named in the super six an idea which is being promoted by the Drogs
Bald Student
15/10/2007, 2:55 PM
we are well below the 65% and thats why i was slightly shocked to see ourselves being named in the super six an idea which is being promoted by the DrogsIf you read the Business Post article, Galway seem to think that the rules aren't strict enough where as the other 5 think they're too strict.
gufct
15/10/2007, 3:05 PM
Soory Stu i was talking about the exclusive in the Star last Thursday by Paul Lennon. Nick has been steadfast on the wage cap as any dimunition of this will see a free for all where the players will be paid even more than at present and clubs will fold.
galwayhoop
15/10/2007, 9:13 PM
just wondering here but surely the wage cap is anti-european trade laws and all the rest???

it is another form of restrictive trade, a lá bosman and number of foreigners rules isn't it?

surely it would be laughed out of the european courts if it was taken there
pete
15/10/2007, 9:17 PM
surely it would be laughed out of the european courts if it was taken there

There is no cap on individual wages. AFAIK it is already implemented in English League Football & Rugby League (clubs deducted points this season for breaking) in the UK.
jebus
15/10/2007, 9:20 PM
As for Jebus' "keep quiet down there". Are you still in that place?

You honestly don't think its laughable for Leeson to come out against the people that put his club in a division they didn't earn the right to be in, 9 months after they had done so? Honestly?
Tir Oilean
15/10/2007, 10:39 PM
Yes Gaillimh Al he's still in that place, obviously.
Patrick Dunne
15/10/2007, 10:45 PM
Each man kills the thing he loves, jebus.

The puppet has turned on the puppet master. But which is which ?
CollegeTillIDie
16/10/2007, 5:25 AM
Folks there is a salary cap believe it or not in operation in all major sports in the USA. They can pay individual players what they like but they cannot spend more than a set percentage of their revenue. Mind you the fact that transfer fees don't exist may have something to do with the telephone number earnings their sports people earn. And Beckham is way behind in that pecking order.
gufct
16/10/2007, 10:22 AM
i see the gang of six has become 5 plus wexford youths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lim till i die
16/10/2007, 11:01 AM
i see the gang of six has become 5 plus wexford youths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What?? :confused:
gufct
16/10/2007, 11:05 AM
We have been replaced by wexford youths in the super six according to todays star. Id say Nick has upset our bigger soending clubs with his attitude to the wage cap.
Lim till i die
16/10/2007, 11:07 AM
We have been replaced by wexford youths in the super six according to todays star.

They're not very super at all at this stage are they??

What happened to Mick Wallace's amateur ethos??


Id say Nick has upset our bigger soending clubs with his attitude to the wage cap

Why were Galway involved in the first place if they are rowing in the opposite direction??
gufct
16/10/2007, 11:46 AM
I dont think we were at all as the club has always been behind the wage cap as the sensible way forward and to stop clubs bankrupting themselves in search of glory.
jebus
16/10/2007, 12:51 PM
Yes Gaillimh Al he's still in that place, obviously.

Answers my question in full yet again, gotta love that Galway 'let's throw the head in the sand' attitude to things like this.

This isn't a pop about the way Galway were promoted, this is a honest question as to whether or not ye lot can't see that it is a bit ridiculous for Lesson and GUFC to start going on about the FAI's mismanagement when they are the club that have benefitted from said mismanagement most.

Patrick Dunne, thanks for not resorting to the usual Galway nonsense in regards to answering a question I put to them, much appreciated, honestly
Tir Oilean
16/10/2007, 5:33 PM
Did you not read the Business Post extract?
passerrby
17/10/2007, 9:53 AM
i see the gang of six has become 5 plus wexford youths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think the wexford inclusion comes after pat dolans article in the weekends star condeming the 65 percent wage cap so was he could have been invited by the other clubs to lend there support , dont thing its wexford youths but am not sure