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    Duncan one the IL Premier is way behind the EL Premier. I'd expect Harps, Dublin City and Limerick to beat Cliftonville
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    Anyone watch BOTH LoI and IL, as it's hard to compare otherwise?

    As for an Irish team beating Borisov, I don't think you can go on from this to assume they'd flourish in the English Conference or D3. As I said, full-time training and thus fitness are crucial.
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    Macy, as far as I know, only two of the Pats squad at the start of last season had that arrangement re getting off work to train, the rest were full time. I'd imagine Delaney came back in on the same kind of arrangement as the other two (I presume you know about the PWC connection).

    The fact that he wanted to hold onto his day job and not go full-time was apparently one of the reasons why Liam Kelly was let go.
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    Originally posted by Dr.Nightdub
    Macy, as far as I know, only two of the Pats squad at the start of last season had that arrangement re getting off work to train, the rest were full time. I'd imagine Delaney came back in on the same kind of arrangement as the other two (I presume you know about the PWC connection).

    The fact that he wanted to hold onto his day job and not go full-time was apparently one of the reasons why Liam Kelly was let go.
    Wasnt there an article and posts on the Pats board saying that ye had only 6 full timers, the otheres got time off work??
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    Originally posted by Duncan Gardner
    Anyone watch BOTH LoI and IL, as it's hard to compare otherwise?

    As for an Irish team beating Borisov, I don't think you can go on from this to assume they'd flourish in the English Conference or D3. As I said, full-time training and thus fitness are crucial.
    I've watched games in both leagues (both divisions in the case of down south), I stand over my statement.

    The Irish team that beat Borisov is full-time. I think Bohs could beat any of the bottom 30 of the Football League, but like Irish players who go over they'd find the 46 game season against physically stronger opponents very wearing and would fall away in a 3rd division title race or have great difficulty staying in the 2nd
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    Originally posted by SÓCcfc
    Wasnt there an article and posts on the Pats board saying that ye had only 6 full timers, the otheres got time off work??
    That's what I thought - everyone was shocked that you weren't nearly all full time. It even had Collins talking about the model he was following, saying they couldn't afford to go full time...
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    Originally posted by SÓCcfc
    Denmark won the European Championships with 7 part-time players in their squad. The fella who scored the winning goal was a school teacher. Nobody can argue that they werent professional whilst they might not have been full time.
    John Jensen and Kim Vilfort scored in the final....I thought both were fully pro. Jensen at the time with Brondby and later Arsenal, and Vilfort who spent his entire career at Brondby??? I could be wrong though...

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