So which clubs are in danger of not finishing the season?

Not a hope of getting the clubs to cooperate with each other unfortunately. But hopefully the FAI can beef up regulation and improve things that way.

And while I agree that producing youths is the way forward- eventually you have to pay them decent money of they'll depart for another club.

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Originally Posted by Mr A

Cobh made the classic mistake (also made at Harps and Galway) of paying premier wages to division one footballers. I do feel sorry for Cobh though, they got up on a shoestring and were always going to have to spend big to even keep the players they had. You could almost say they were not really ready to come up I guess.

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But where would they have gone? Not to Cork as if Cork wanted them to would have gone anyway and not to Limerick or Waterford.

Fair point- a few might have gone to Waterford though. By all accounts these guys were on buttons last year, chances are even MSL clubs could have paid them what Cobh did.

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some, not many of their fans were telling us that their income was about 20/25 thousand per month

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For the whole season? That sounds extremely low.

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Fair point- a few might have gone to Waterford though. By all accounts these guys were on buttons last year, chances are even MSL clubs could have paid them what Cobh did.

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None of them went to Waterford this year. In fact, one of ours went the other way in a roundabout way.
There is a regular crossover there alright, just not this season.

Which is the sort of thing that Cobh increasing their budget would be to prevent in this case. :)

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We were down recently the night they hammered Galway :cool: some, not many of their fans were telling us that their income was about 20/25 thousand per month and their outgoings which they said was wages only but i doubt that was 50 thosand per month.

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The indo report a few weeks back has their wage bill as €12k per week, so almost €50k a month.

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Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

The indo report a few weeks back has their wage bill as €12k per week, so almost €50k a month.

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True and when you consider that they went up on about €2,500/3000 shows what a stupid bonus structure the players are on