16 Team Premier Division / Winter Season from 2012/13 TODAY'S DAILY MAIL

[legendz]

For the switch over, if it goes straight from 10 to 16, I think the fairest would be 6 up and last Premier in a play-off with 7th in Division One.

[Dodge]

I think every club should have to send in a detailed propectus containing how they're going attract new fans, how they'll develop the ground and how they'll develop their youth teams. DVDs are optional

Clubs should be ranked on a) sporting merits b) infrastruce c) location and d) potential

I can't see how this would fail tbh

[White Horse]

I think every club should have to send in a detailed propectus containing how they're going attract new fans, how they'll develop the ground and how they'll develop their youth teams. DVDs are optional

Clubs should be ranked on a) sporting merits b) infrastruce c) location and d) potential

I can't see how this would fail tbh

You are obviously taking the p1ss.

[shep]

For the switch over, if it goes straight from 10 to 16, I think the fairest would be 6 up and last Premier in a play-off with 7th in Division One.

But how is that fair...if that was the case it would be an advantage to be in Division 1 for now as opposed to being a struggling Premier club(i.e Monaghan would be at an advantage over Bray by staying in a weaker league)

[passerrby]

I think every club should have to send in a detailed propectus containing how they're going attract new fans, how they'll develop the ground and how they'll develop their youth teams. DVDs are optional

Clubs should be ranked on a) sporting merits b) infrastruce c) location and d) potential

I can't see how this would fail tbh

my sarcasm meter is now doing the same thing my sat nav does at the red cow

[legendz]

But how is that fair...if that was the case it would be an advantage to be in Division 1 for now as opposed to being a struggling Premier club(i.e Monaghan would be at an advantage over Bray by staying in a weaker league)

If it was 7 up and 1 down, it's an advantage to be in Division One. With a play-off, it's fair.

[Lim till i die]

I think every club should have to send in a detailed propectus containing how they're going attract new fans, how they'll develop the ground and how they'll develop their youth teams. DVDs are optional

Clubs should be ranked on a) sporting merits b) infrastruce c) location and d) potential

I can't see how this would fail tbh

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[peadar1987]

my sarcasm meter is now doing the same thing my sat nav does at the red cow

Quietly going on fire while sobbing to itself?

[dfx-]

They can do what they like with the league except making it winter football.

The games at Richmond, Tallaght, Bray last week and Monday night were bitterly cold/unappetising. Anyone who was at those games and still wants Winter football needs to be condemned to a straitjacket.

[Macy]

Thats why i think we will get through purely on having the Markets Field either lined up or are moving into it already. Jackman would probably fail alright as there is only one entrance and exit in the ground and if there is bigger crowds to be expected from travelling fans or even from home fans then Jackman would not be up to it. I think this has held us back from getting one previously.

Just lob in a planning application for a brand new ground on the edge of town off the new road - it's never mattered to the FAI that plans are realistic!

The games at Richmond, Tallaght, Bray last week and Monday night were bitterly cold/unappetising. Anyone who was at those games and still wants Winter football needs to be condemned to a straitjacket.

Yes, those conditions are exactly what we want for the crucial games of the season that showcase the league!

[SwanVsDalton]

I think every club should have to send in a detailed propectus containing how they're going attract new fans, how they'll develop the ground and how they'll develop their youth teams. DVDs are optional

Clubs should be ranked on a) sporting merits b) infrastruce c) location and d) potential

I can't see how this would fail tbh

I'd have 'kit loveliness' ahead of 'location' and 'potential' but pretty much bang on.

[Charlie Darwin]

Bray would be relegated on "kit loveliness" alone. Walls be damned.

[passerrby]

we choose to wear our dagloo yellow strip to unsure rescue workers would see us if their was any kind of disaster

[Lim till i die]

Just lob in a planning application for a brand new ground on the edge of town off the new road - it's never mattered to the FAI that plans are realistic!

That's all well and good but Jackman at the moment is a 200 seat stand, a gravel bank, a huge grass bank and a smaller grass bank!!

I'm not sure I'd want Premier football there, the costs would be nuts for some games.

[SwanVsDalton]

we choose to wear our dagloo yellow strip to unsure rescue workers would see us if their was any kind of disaster

Should be mandatory for every club going down to the Carlisle Grounds.

[monsexile]

Big season in First Division in 2011. Basically the 16-team Premier effectively kills the First so if you don't get in next season you could be doomed. A long-range prediction would see Waterford, Shels, Cork and Drogheda as four shoo-ins with a probably weakened MUFC, Limerick, Wexford, Harps, Athlone and Longford scrapping for the final two.

[shep]

That's all well and good but Jackman at the moment is a 200 seat stand, a gravel bank, a huge grass bank and a smaller grass bank!!

I'm not sure I'd want Premier football there, the costs would be nuts for some games.

Ah....i miss Limerick

[dfx-]

we choose to wear our dagloo yellow strip to unsure rescue workers would see us if their was any kind of disaster

They could pick out the players maybe. First thing to be issued at the turnstiles is a high-vis jacket for the fans. They would also help in the event of drowning in the lakes of rainwater collecting in the passageway....

[legendz]

Big season in First Division in 2011. Basically the 16-team Premier effectively kills the First so if you don't get in next season you could be doomed. A long-range prediction would see Waterford, Shels, Cork and Drogheda as four shoo-ins with a probably weakened MUFC, Limerick, Wexford, Harps, Athlone and Longford scrapping for the final two.

2 or 4 clubs can be invited from the A Championship, so it should still be able to continue.

[Dodge]

That's all well and good but Jackman at the moment is a 200 seat stand, a gravel bank, a huge grass bank and a smaller grass bank!!

Your celebrity friend Nick calls it a boutique seating area in an idylic rustic setting.