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The English Premiership, The Scottish Premiership, The Hungarian Third Division, you name it it's better run than this leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by BohDiddley
Outside this cosy little bubble called the Eircom League. Is there always a need to spell everything out to people in this forum?Quote:
Originally Posted by BohDiddley
I'm not going to defend the running of the eL, but if you are putting forward the EPL as a model league, then it is you who is living in a bubble. Just keep paying your Sky sub and things'll be fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
Which league has climbed up the rankings as quicky in recent years as much as the Eircom League.
Never said it was a model league, but it is run far better than the Eircom League, and it is probably the best marketed league in the world, which is what counts in this day and age.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohDiddley
Just keep throwing out your petty Sky insults, makes up for a lack of any proper discussion :rolleyes:
I didn't mean it personally, so apologies if you took it that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
What I mean is that it is easy to watch EPL etc. from a distance and take the airbrushed Sky view that everything is wonderful. The EPL is riven with corruption, they have their own ineligible player ****-ups (why on earth is that banned?), and, apart from those issues it's a farce, with ludicrously big squads and domination by the Big Four that makes it akin to watching Formula One.
It's also easy to kick the eL by comparing it with the richest league in the world, and one that is now a global media/merchandising business with competing multinationals. If you think the eL will ever match that, in any department, you will be sorely disappointed.
I don't mean this a barstool-baiting rant, I follow Leeds for God's sake :rolleyes: , but the eL-is-a-shambles line is trotted out much too easily.
Jesus if Sky was to give the eL a 1/4 the amount they spend on the EPL then the game in Ireland would change for ever ! Sunderland finished last in the EPL in2005/06 and got £484,961 in prize money, thats a lot more than what the FAI are spending on our whole league which will cover all teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
From next season onwards each EPL club will be guaranteed more than £13m a season before prize money and appearance fees are taken into account ! If our clubs got 5% of that amount we would be competing in the champions league season group stages in season out IMO
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Originally Posted by jebus
yeah but football isnt business, and if i wanted happiness all the time then i wouldnt support ireland, or my local team...i would go for brazil or barcelona as "my team"
why settle for a british team to follow when you can follow an irish team?
You're preaching to the converted bennocelt. Problem is, most Irish kids grow up without ever seeing the inside of an Irish soccer ground, unless it's to watch the International side. I was football mad as a kid, as everyone here was/is I'm sure, and never saw an eL game until I brought my own son to one. Kids are more likely to be brought to the Shrine and such places rather than Tolka Park or DC Park for that matter. I know that clubs are trying to address this now; but we have the misfortune of being pitted against the glamour and spin and sexy sound effects of the Sky Sports package.
The video is fantastic and the words are by a Ballymena United fan that I met many moons ago. Not your glory hunter, but your genuine football fan like many of the contributors here ..... on the other issue regarding what happened to the Reds....There was if I am not mistaken, an Article in a recent edition of the Irish Mail in which a business reporter forecast that the collapse financially of an English Premiershi* club is a lot closer than some of you might think. Apparently some other clubs Cross Channel are currently attempting a Shelbourne only on a much larger scale...!
I knew I took a dislike to your comments for a reason, you support that dirt team called Leeds United!:) (I'm a Wednesday supporter)Quote:
Originally Posted by BohDiddley
That is a class video and really just sums it all up for me
Lads, we're run by a bunch of morons but we're not the only league to have problems. Marseille were relegated for financial reasons. Torino had to refound under a new name. Fiorentina were relegated a few divisions a few years back. Then you had the Serie A match fixing scanda etc etc
I'm sure there are many more examples from around the world.
The Irish Mail??Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
I shant hold my breath :rolleyes:
And even if it is true what relevance does it have??
It's alright for the LoI to be crap cos look loads of other leagues are crap too??
I dunno who a lot of you socialise with but if you can't see what a shambles the ordinary man in the street thinks the current set up is...........
Socialise??? :confused:
:o
Oh don't get me wrong BP, I piece together most of the "normies" opinions from snatches of conversations I hear on the bus :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Lim Till I DieQuote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
The Relevance is , that it's not only Irish clubs that are incompetently run, despite what SKY SPORTS tell you the EPL is NOT the best League in the World. The FAI are in charge of the EL now and if it is a shambles, John Delaney has no get out clause.... HE IS responsible fully for it now.:D
Delaney OUT!!!!
SKY SPORTS tells me nothingQuote:
The Relevance is , that it's not only Irish clubs that are incompetently run, despite what SKY SPORTS tell you the EPL is NOT the best League in the World.
More nonsense along the lines of "oh he's bad-mouthing the league he must be a sky watching barstool monkey" :rolleyes:
Would you actually say that it isn't :confused:Quote:
The FAI are in charge of the EL now and if it is a shambles
Not saying that at all merely that some people go on as if the EL is the only League with badly run clubs etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Not every club is in a heap!:D
The league champions were relegated and the play-off winners stayed down thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
It's all very Eastern European :p :o
great video