Which Premier division team operate on a fully or semi professional basis?

**sligobhoy67** · 02/07/2009, 4:31 PM

Bohemians?
Bray Wanderers?
Derry City?
Drogheda United?
Dundalk?
Galway United?
Shamrock Rovers?
Sligo Rovers?
St. Patrick's Athletic?

**MariborKev** · 02/07/2009, 4:37 PM

What is your definition?

**sligobhoy67** · 02/07/2009, 4:43 PM

Originally Posted by Maribor

What is your definition?

use your own definition I suppose! I suppose having a majority of fully professional players might be a good start.

**MariborKev** · 02/07/2009, 4:53 PM

Well then Derry are professional.

**Dunny** · 02/07/2009, 5:39 PM

Dundalk are professional.

**Joseph McSweene** · 03/07/2009, 5:07 PM

Originally Posted by Dunny

Dundalk are professional.

Well, since George and Dave Rogers are gone anyway

City have a majority of Full-time players with a handful of part-time (Davin O'Neil, Alan O'Connor I think are the only two!) and youth-team (Kiely, Deasy, etc) players. It should probably be more part-time in all honesty, I doubt our long-term financial viability.

**gufc2000** · 05/07/2009, 9:14 AM

Galway United, fully part-time

**sligobhoy67** · 06/07/2009, 8:50 AM

would this be a fair assessment of the state of things today?

Bohemians - mostly pro
Bray Wanderers - semi pro
Derry City - mostly pro
Drogheda United - mostly pro
Dundalk - semi pro
Galway United - semi pro
Shamrock Rovers - mostly pro
Sligo Rovers - mostly pro
St. Patrick's Athletic - mostly pro

Was there ever a time when the top division was fully pro?

**Mr A** · 06/07/2009, 8:51 AM

I think Drogheda are firmly in the semi pro camp at this stage!

**dfclilywhite** · 06/07/2009, 9:03 AM

Originally Posted by sligobhoy67

would this be a fair assessment of the state of things today?

Bohemians - mostly pro
Bray Wanderers - semi pro
Derry City - mostly pro
Drogheda United - mostly pro
Dundalk - semi pro
Galway United - semi pro
Shamrock Rovers - mostly pro
Sligo Rovers - mostly pro
St. Patrick's Athletic - mostly pro

Was there ever a time when the top division was fully pro?

Did you not see this.

Originally Posted by Dunny

Dundalk are professional.

**sligobhoy67** · 06/07/2009, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by dfclilywhite

Did you not see this.

I found it pretty hard to take that serious when a player profile on the club website states that your keeper is a "check in assistant at Ryanair"

http://www.dundalkfc.com/1stteam/chrisbennion.asp

**shep** · 06/07/2009, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by sligobhoy67

I found it pretty hard to take that serious when a player profile on the club website states that your keeper is a "check in assistant at Ryanair"

http://www.dundalkfc.com/1stteam/chrisbennion.asp

That part of website has not been updated this season...Simon Kelly and Michael Coburn are only part timers apart from the Youths as far as i know..open to correction though

**Dunny** · 06/07/2009, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by sligobhoy67

I found it pretty hard to take that serious when a player profile on the club website states that your keeper is a "check in assistant at Ryanair"

http://www.dundalkfc.com/1stteam/chrisbennion.asp

Benno has gone full-time with us this season.

**Tony Soprano** · 02/08/2009, 6:31 PM

Originally Posted by sligobhoy67

would this be a fair assessment of the state of things today?

Bohemians - mostly pro
Bray Wanderers - semi pro
Derry City - mostly pro
Drogheda United - mostly pro
Dundalk - semi pro
Galway United - semi pro
Shamrock Rovers - mostly pro
Sligo Rovers - mostly pro
St. Patrick's Athletic - mostly pro

Was there ever a time when the top division was fully pro?

anyone know how many full time players Shamrock Rovers have ? are St Pats still mostly pro ? thought they scaled back a lot in recent years are Cork mostly full time (at the moment) ?