he's signed with Monaghan for the coming season.Originally Posted by christo
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If Cobh have no choice but to leave the First Division, could Dynamos upgrade to a First Division licence if they wanted? I know Fingal were moved up a division, but maybe they had both licences. I've nothing against other clubs, but it would be better that a Munster club would fill any vacancy.
would kildare not be first on the list to replace any first division team that cannot compete
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Kildare County were asked by the FAI to apply for a first division licence just in case a while back.
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Dont think we would be ready yet. Gearing up for the A-Championship this season now so its all systems go. Looking forward to watching LOI football in Kerry at last. Hope we get good support!
Really hope it gets to the point where the A Championship is fully made up of teams that aren't just the reserves of the Premier sides. Could definitely be just what the league needs to create some sort of spark. A real national presence. 3 tiers instead of just 2.
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Definitely. If we could even get a ten team non-league 'a' championship it would be great. I'm sure there is teams out there. We already have Tullamore, Kildare, Tralee, Carlow, Salthill, and teams like Castlebar, Mullingar, Portlaoise, Wayside Celtic, a Meath representative, Fanad Utd, Kilkenny City could be persuaded to join.
Would the costs in a 10 team 'non' league A Championship not be up there with running a First Division club? If so then I wouldn't see too much point in doing that, I'd prefer to just see an expansion in the league itself..
That i'd agree with aswell. A ten team Premier is definitely not enough, 12 should be a minimum. If there was to be a non league A championship then it would more likely be amateur, and just have teams playing each other twice
And let there be a continued Playoff with the bottom of the 1sdt divison, it would result in the bootom sides in the 1st divison actaully giving it a real go and would give the amateur sides a chance to make a step up and to give their younger players a chance against bigger teams to impress and maybe earn a deal in the future, look at Wexford, they have done well for an amateur team since they came in.They havn't finished above part time set ups in both their years in the divison!
In reality, I would like to see a 14 to 16 team Premier Division, which would make 26-30 game season, each team playing each other twice instead of 3 or 4 times. After that, the First Division, I would like to see about 12-14 teams, again playing each other twice and a third tier, I would like to see the 4 provinces here, 4 winners of the league combined with the bottom 2 in the First Division to make 2 groups of 3, and winner of each group goes into the First Division.
Sounds good, competitive and workable. The day of teams playing each other 3/4 times plus possible cup clashes has to go
There might be some benefit in playing reserve teams for clubs adjusting to senior football, but I agree that the League could do with another ten clubs. One of the reasons the League hasn't realised its full potential is that many counties remain unrepresented, so if strong clubs from Mayo Roscommon, Tipp, Clare and Laois to name but a few places were drafted in, the local rivalries would generate strong interest. Maybe two sixteen-team divisions would give the best of both worlds?
26 games is far too few, unless you have some sort of lead up tournament.
Any news on the licence for the clubs
I think 26 would be a good amount if you make up the 5 or 6 games in another competition like the League Cup. You could add a full regionalised group stage, for example. Or a better Setanta Cup (i.e. play games at the weekend rather than Mondays and Tuesdays).
No-one goes to League Cup games though. It's been held as a season starter before. You need a minimum of 33 league games to keep the money coming in and to get the best chance of catching the public's interest.
A small reduction by eliminating the 2 or 3 midweek games wouldn't make as much of a difference so 16 teams might be doable. The quality probably isn't there though.
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the current structure i.e. 10 team prem div, 12 team first and then an A division made up mostly of non-league teams (maybe 8 or 10) playing on an amateur basis with the option of prem and first div teams entering teams (3 or 4 of the bigger clubs) into it would be a good start imo.
obviously there is better ideas out there but most workable at the current moment.
Should follow the structure of the Scottish premier league, the split for the 4th time you play teams, what is it 33 games or something like that you play?
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