Reasons why i won't be killing myself to bring a mate to an eL game...

[TommyT]

You can still improve the league without ****ing it up in the short term.

[eoinh]

Originally posted by Xlex
Basically, one line in an email, which read:



has me questioning why I vest so much energy in supporting the eL. Longford is easy, but the eL has had me captivated in the last 4 years.

Yesterday, I felt like co-operating with a fellow on a trust idea to propose to the club. Today, I feel like an utter ****. Following this league is depressing. The feal good factor of that Super Sunday when LT won the Cup is a far cry away from today's lowly feeling. I should be excited by the prospect of the Longford - Bohs tie which will kick my season off, but my mind is pre-occupied with the goings on which I know something about in the background.

This off-season is full of negative feeling. The state of the club licencing is killing my enthusasim. I should be excited.

The FAI and the eL League are killing Senior soccer in this country, but it seams individual clubs are intent on co-operating...

Yes i totally agree. Why cant the eircom league fight about proper footballing issues. Issues like alleged gang rape, "dogging", horse sperm, players missing drug tests, private detectives allegedly going through managers sons trash, shady money being invested in our clubs from eastern europe and having warnings imposed by UEFA about our countries fans would be so much more interesting and progressive.

Why should we be interested in issues like facilities and licences!

[Xlex]

everything your post has pointed out has to do with money and greed. The eL might be about that in some peoples eyes but nobody in it are going make the vast sums with dominate the main charactors in those instances.

The licencing is great, you choose to ignore the fact that derry are the only club to achieve the 'A' licence. Some supporters and clubs want a 22 team division, most don't. We're divided over a merger with the FAI. There's three instances.

There's much negative going on here and because of it's very public nature and the fact that bad news storys far outweigh the good news stories in the media we are loosing valuable ground in the race to secure new support and it wouldn't encourage you to put up with all the crap that is associated with getting your (non-supporting)mates into the Flancare parks of this island.