Football Academy

[Santry_Goonshow]

Only posted up here just incase someone would be interested in reading the article. Glee

Enjoy it while you can.

As we sang today "Where's your mon-ey gone, [where is your money gone]"

[higgins]

The latter is tempting because most LOI fans live in holes with 3 inches of peripheral vision and my arguments hold the mirror up to whats wrong with the LOI.

It's comments such as the one above that I have trouble with. LOI fans are used to new fans, new managers, new directors, new owners, new clubs all saying how great things are going to be but things don't always work out in the LOI

Hopefully things go as you say, I'd be delighted for the LOI if they did.

I just think you have a very narrow minded view towards other clubs. Maybe you should learn a little more about the LOI's other clubs and put some of these ideas Sporting are working on into action before you go throwing stones!!

We've all had ideas at one stage or another and many clubs still do so you're not alone.

Rosenborg are not always in the Champions League!! They used to be but not over the last 4 years or so, think they only made Intertoto this time round.

[Sporting Man]

Lads the NDSL representative teams are usually a lot inferior to the DDSL team.If you are looking for players worthy of playing EL football I think you will find them in the DDSL. Most top quality players in the NDSL have been poached or move of their own accord to the DDSL by the team they are 12 or 13.

Fact DDSL prem sides only would be better, but with the top clubs in the DDSL from city and and south side they would not be much use to Sporting.
with the ndsl academy Rep squads are picked trought the acadmey witch gives every child a chance to be picked unlike DDSL where each year Kennedy cup teams are made up of the few top clubs.
the spotring Acadmey will be set up in the same way witch will give players in the ndsl Acadmey something to work towards.

[Santry_Goonshow]

It's comments such as the one above that I have trouble with. LOI fans are used to new fans, new managers, new directors, new owners, new clubs all saying how great things are going to be but things don't always work out in the LOI Hopefully things go as you say, I'd be delighted for the LOI if they did. I just think you have a very narrow minded view towards other clubs. Maybe you should learn a little more about the LOI's other clubs and put some of these ideas Sporting are working on into action before you go throwing stones!! We've all had ideas at one stage or another and many clubs still do so you're not alone. Rosenborg are not always in the Champions League!! They used to be but not over the last 4 years or so, think they only made Intertoto this time round.

I will gallantly stop throwing stones as you say when LOI fans stop saying that SFFC cannot work, will not work, has no fansbase, is threatening the other clubs, is a waste of public money. I was trying to point out facts:
1. That its going to be a community based club - Fingal might be a shakey "identity" for people but it could grow into something big
2. That it will have a supply of players and help junior football leagues thru the academy and these players getting thru will re-inforce the academy
3. That it will attract a big amount of fans with a thrist for soccer that was never quenched by other clubs
4. That it has the potential (alng with Wexford) to create sustainable clubs

After all Darwin said the birds with the short beak genes had to die off if the flock moved to the mudflats. What domestic soccer needs is a nice cold snap and the old and infirm will have to reform or die off. Its evolution man. You might not like the message but at least engage with the facts that LOI soccer has been deficient and needs a KUTA

[Raheny Red]

What are the people behind the scenes expecting, attendance wise, each fortnight?

[Santry_Goonshow]

Attendance

What are the people behind the scenes expecting, attendance wise, each fortnight?

Its much too early to say. There's a fair crowd coming from around Santry, a lot of people leave walking to local housing estates. There's a bunch of people from Blanchardstown. The Ultras come from Rivervalley.

The club will only stabilise when the move to Swords happens. being at the end of a Metro stop will be a boon, especially if Metro West allows the Blanch ranks to grow.

[Lamper.sffc]

One from Rush.