Eircom League looks to the future

[Rovers fan]

there would be a 9 month wait during that time Promote the new league and lots of community work

9 months with feck all income

[A face]

Jesus Christ man, are you going to wave your magic wand and just make all this happen?

If we could increase attendances, we would have done it. What ideas do you have to get new fans into the ground?
If we could improve facilities, we would have done it. What ideas do you have to get money to improve facilities?
If we could improve player quality (whatever that even means), we would be doing it. What ideas do you have to improve player quality?


You can't just say "lets have a fully professional league", because it isn't possible at the moment. The simple fact is that not enough people go to the games, not enough companies are willing to pay a lot of money to advertise at games, and not enough people are willing to invest in domestic football. How do you plan to solve that?

Most of the teams that have gone down that road have spent money they didn't have. This league doesn't have a pot to **** in, and the FAI, whatever they may say, will be directing most of their funds towards Landsdowne for a while.

What you are describing is the dream situation we'd all love to see, but sadly know we are nowhere near achieving.

Great post, and its back to the age old issue again. Clubs need to get professional off the pitch and promote the clubs locally to try and get people out to the games.

[LK37oldskool]

God knows Limerick tried its best this year to promote the game in the city,radio,TV(Setanta),posters/flyers but attendances did not improve much,same faces turn up every game.We're trying to compete with team Munster,GAA and a well supported Junior soccer league. We've got great volunteers doing donkey work in a city thats rife in cynicism. Tough times ahead.

[CSFShels]

Junior leagues and their complete isolation from League Of Ireland is the bane of this country.