Originally Posted by
Mr_Parker
As predicted, here comes the PR spin and reading through this thread some are already falling for it, including the journalist who wrote it.
It certainly isn't an "excellent explainer" as ThirdManRun claims.
I found it hard to get past the journalist stating "when you shackle its even more debilitated brother, the NIFL Premiership, to it". To claim that the NIFL premiership is even in a worse state than the LOI is quite frankly laughable.
Then Lucid uses what a former chairman of Glentoran once said and discussions he had with him as providing the starting point etc is frightening. At that point in time, Glentoran were facing going to the wall, and were desperate to grasp any straw. Ask any Glentoran fan about Ralph.
However, the part to take from that interview paragraph is this.
"I'm very careful how I choose my words here," he says. "The IFA were cool on the idea, that would be the word. They need to see more meat on the bone and that's a phrase they use very regularly." At least they've taken the bone via a few meetings and that's more than many envisaged. Besides, why not as there's a benefit beyond just money, with Lucid talking about better pathways for players, thus better national teams."
Why does he need to be careful in what he says? Would it be that far from being cool on the idea, they were closer to being at -1oC?
A bone has substance. Nothing that has been put forward has substance, so to suggest that there something to put meat on is nonsense.
Pathways for players and better national teams? Really, the IFA are going to support something that in reality would damage everything the IFA have being doing in the last number of years to stem players from declaring for the South!
Let's not get carried away.