Dillon set for move to Falkirk

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Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

why not? more money, better facilites, bigger league and more change of a further bigger move.

you are on a different planet if you thing its a backwards career move.

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A bit of perspective here. Dillon might be moving to Falkirk to better facilities.
Following the Bradford Fire in 1985 and the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, and the Taylor Report, the UK Government set up a body called the Football Trust which gave significant grants to either upgrading existing stadia or in other cases partially aid those clubs to build new stadia where they weren't being paid for in full by property speculators eyeing up their old ground's location.

It's only in recent years that the Irish Government has done anything for facilities in this country via grants through the Sports Council.
Plus unlike the Scottish we are not subsidised by tax payers from a country with 50 million citizens adjacent to us .

It would be a good move for him- playing against better players and giving him a better chance of moving on to better things.

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Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

A bit of perspective here. Dillon might be moving to Falkirk to better facilities.
Following the Bradford Fire in 1985 and the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, and the Taylor Report, the UK Government set up a body called the Football Trust which gave significant grants to either upgrading existing stadia or in other cases partially aid those clubs to build new stadia where they weren't being paid for in full by property speculators eyeing up their old ground's location.

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so what?? are the facilities not considered that good because clubs got grants? falkirk's ground (with only its two stands) is better than any in the eL - and pretty much the rest of the premier division in scotland have better than falkirk. the move is still an improvement for dillon, irrespective of how the facilities were developed.

bottom line, having watched both, there is no doubt that the scottish league is a much better league than our own. those that want to continue to delude themselves can, but there really is very little comparison.

Would Dillon be better waiting for a move to a better league? Very few players from the lower SPL sides ever make it at the top levels in England. More often than not scottish based players more to League One in england and sometimes the Championship. Besides Falkrik seem to be full of loaned players so could easily be back in the 1st division if they left.

What better league? Players can't afford sit around waiting for a Premiership club to come in and swoop for them. Even Championship clubs are fairly rare. Players in the SPL can just as well impress the Old Firm as they can clubs down South. The odd player has even moved to the continent. The SPL has global exposure, it doesn't matter if it's on the back of the Old Firm, when playing one of them Dillon would be playing to quite TV audience. You can't seperate the Old Firm from the SPL no more than you can take Cork and Derry out of the eL.

I haven't actually seen anything to back the Dillon to Falkirk story up other than this thread.

He'll be getting paid more money (probably on time and in full too), so for a professional player it's probably a no brainer tbh. If I got offered multiples of my salary by a Scottish firm I'd probably take it too, so why should it be any different for a footballer in his job either? Bringing in skill levels and support is irrelevant.