Irish League clubs in Europe?
There's always talk of losing European spots if there was an All-Ireland League but the Irish League clubs results in Europe are nothing short of an embarrassment.
On top of that there are countless stories of players being unavailable due to being on holiday etc.
There can be no doubt that Distillery will lose money on this tie against some team from Georgia I've never heard of - they're already 4-0 down at the break.
Just going on the results of the non big 2 Irish league clubs in recent seasons I don't think it would matter if the Irish League lost a place.
08-09
Cliftonville v FC Copenhagen - 0-11 aggregate
07-08
Dungannon v Suduva - 1-4 aggregate (won home leg)
06-07
Portadown v Kaunas - 1-4 aggregate
05-06
Portadown v Viking - 1-3 aggregate
04-05
Portadown v Zalgiris - 2-4 aggregate (drew home leg)
03-04
Portadown v Malmo - 0-6 aggregate
I'm just focusing on these results because this is the place that the Irish League would be losing but with clubs not interested why would they care??