All-Ireland League

[5ForKeeps]

With the success of the Setanta Cup on both sides of the border, is an all-ireland league a real possibility in the not too distant future?

[Greenforever]

With the success of the Setanta Cup on both sides of the border, is an all-ireland league a real possibility in the not too distant future?

NO as you wont see fai officials or IFA officials voting for same and losing their postitions etc, bit like turkeys voting for xmas and without FAI and IFA approval Euefa won't sanction it.

[gustavo]

what an original and thought provoking thread , moved

[A face]

This is where its at !! (http://www.allirelandpremierleague.com/)

If there are any articles/news/opinion published anywhere then you can let them know here. (http://www.allirelandpremierleague.com/contactus.html)

[Sam_Heggy]

With the success of the Setanta Cup on both sides of the border, is an all-ireland league a real possibility in the not too distant future?

Crowds are pretty low this season in the Setanta cup so I wouldn't class it as a massive success.
But as said above, these threads are covered fairly regular on here.

[harry crumb]

NO as you wont see fai officials or IFA officials voting for same and losing their postitions etc, bit like turkeys voting for xmas and without FAI and IFA approval Euefa won't sanction it.

It's called Christmas not Xmas.

Yanky!

[thischarmingman]

It's called Christmas not Xmas.



Sorry, call me Mr Picky, but it's a pet hate of mine:


The word "Christ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ)" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle) as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppercase) forms of the Greek letters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet) χ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_%28letter%29) and ρ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho)), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox) icons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icons) depicting Jesus Christ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ). The labarum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labarum), an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labarum), is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic), Protestant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant), and Orthodox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church) Christian Churches.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas#cite_note-1)

[/pedant]

Source: Wikipedia (Also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4097755.stm )

[harry crumb]

The expression is a pet hate of mine.

PC gone mad in America should not have follow suit here.

Do you like your city being called Londonderry?

[dcfcsteve]

With the success of the Setanta Cup on both sides of the border, is an all-ireland league a real possibility in the not too distant future?

Mods : the last 5 months of posts on Foot.ie seem to have been inadvertently deleted.

Can you help find and restore them ?

Thanks.

[Duggie]

i dont see the need for an All-Ireland league. how would it enhance our teams ? plus how would it actually work ? would you say oh galway, bray, sligo or whoever, sorry you have to go into some crappy second division so we can accomodate the northern teams ?? anyway apart from Linfield there all ****. :mad:

[Spoons]

In fairness Duggie what do "Galway/Bray/Sligo" bring to the table??....;)
The likes of Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Portadown, and even Glenavon have more to offer than the teams above you mentioned.....

[Duggie]

In fairness Duggie what do "Galway/Bray/Sligo" bring to the table??....;)
The likes of Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Portadown, and even Glenavon have more to offer than the teams above you mentioned.....


how do u make that out ? i just used those teams as an example by the way, it could be any team. My own team is sligo rovers i should state. i just dont see any benefit in the two league's merging, what does it offer ?

[eelmonster]

PC gone mad in America should not have follow suit here.

But hackneyed tabloidese is fine. In any case, I believe a Yanky [sic], as you put it, would refer to Xmas as 'the Holiday Season', no?

xx

[thischarmingman]

PC gone mad in America should not have follow suit here.

But it isn't. People that think that don't assume it's a shortened version to make it more inclusive when in fact it's been around for centuries and centuries. It's like people thinking the swastika is an evil invention of the Nazis.

[passerrby]

I think the good ship AIL was torpedoed of the coast of abbotstown a few weeks ago by the pocket battleship delaney supported by that frigate the L.A. gavin, all souls were lost ..thank Fcuk
Althought they say if you listen real hard on a stormy night of the coast of derry or cork you can here the sound of a ship plowing through heavy waters and the sound of jim roddy shouting "thar she blows" but nobody,s listening.

[Maroon 7]

In fairness Duggie what do "Galway/Bray/Sligo" bring to the table??....;)
The likes of Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Portadown, and even Glenavon have more to offer than the teams above you mentioned.....

Having seen Portadown and Glenavon in action I seriously doubt that. I even reckon Galway/Bray/Sligo would seriously put it up to Glentoran and Cliftonville.

[Lux Interior]

Having seen Portadown and Glenavon in action I seriously doubt that. I even reckon Galway/Bray/Sligo would seriously put it up to Glentoran and Cliftonville.

Yes, yes .... of course they would

[dancinpants]

Yes, yes .... of course they would

Yes, yes...they actually would :rolleyes:

[micls]

Yes, yes .... of course they would

Cliftonville were the worst team to come to the cross in a long long time(I realise they had played a lot of games) but I would have bet on any EL team to have beaten them

[pól-dcfc]

Yes, yes .... of course they would

Bray and Sligo would definitely beat you more times than you beat them.

[A face]

I think the good ship AIL was torpedoed of the coast of abbotstown a few weeks ago by the pocket battleship delaney supported by that frigate the L.A. gavin, all souls were lost ..thank Fcuk

How so, what happened there? AFAIK its still ongoing.


Althought they say if you listen real hard on a stormy night of the coast of derry or cork you can here the sound of a ship plowing through heavy waters and the sound of jim roddy shouting "thar she blows" but nobody,s listening.

Just because we are not hearing anything doesn't mean that things are still on going. Its more 'out of sight' out of mind' at the moment but its still ongoing.

[passerrby]

sorry face four o clock in the morning with a head full of beer is not the best time to post anyway I await with bated breath any new developments but still feel its a dead duck for the forseeable future anyway

[dcfcsteve]

I think the good ship AIL was torpedoed of the coast of abbotstown a few weeks ago by the pocket battleship delaney supported by that frigate the L.A. gavin, all souls were lost ..thank Fcuk
Althought they say if you listen real hard on a stormy night of the coast of derry or cork you can here the sound of a ship plowing through heavy waters and the sound of jim roddy shouting "thar she blows" but nobody,s listening.

??:confused: ??

[Stato]

We've tried to paper around the cracks with many different ideas over the years, cup finals at Lansdowne, top 6 bottom 6, summer football, League and FAI merger, more live televised games. For me, the talk of the possibility of an AIL is just another one of these.

[Lux Interior]

Yes, yes...they actually would :rolleyes:

I'm using logic here, boyo. If your team of revered galacticos cannot 'stick it up' a scratch Glens side (twice, now), then I'm at a loss how supposedly lesser sides would actually accompany this feat.

You reading this too, polly?

[dcfcsteve]

We've tried to paper around the cracks with many different ideas over the years, cup finals at Lansdowne, top 6 bottom 6, summer football, League and FAI merger, more live televised games. For me, the talk of the possibility of an AIL is just another one of these.

How so...? :confused:

[garyderry]

I'm using logic here, boyo. If your team of revered galacticos cannot 'stick it up' a scratch Glens side (twice, now), then I'm at a loss how supposedly lesser sides would actually accompany this feat.

You reading this too, polly?

Well considering that Galway and Sligo have both drawn with derry in recent weeks, and Bray have beaten us (and a few of the other supposedly better teams), it would tend to prove the point that the difference between most teams in the EL premier isnt that vast,

compared to that of the top and bottom team's up north, judging by results