With a special arrangement for rowdy Monaghan fans:
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Back on topic- surely the FAI cannot tolerate a situation where some clubs have 14 and others 16 home games.
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A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
I have it on good authority that the fixtures will be re-drafted for the first division
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Finally Official:
Premier Division:
Bohemians
Bray
Derry
Drogheda
Dundalk
Galway
Shamrock Rovers
Sligo Rovers
St.Pats
UCD
First:
Athlone
Cork
Finn Harps
Limerick
Longford
Mervue
Monaghan
Shelbourne
Salthill
Waterford
Wexford
Presume the new fixtures or the correction in them will be announced tomorrow. We had to wait a week longer for our license and if the fixtures stay the same we will also be waiting a week longer to start the season.
"Due to the issues with Limericks license, in the interests of fairness the FAI have decided to show good faith to Limerick FC and allow them an extra week to prepare for the season ahead as the association feels it would be wrong to allow all the other clubs a week longer to prepare (except for Galway Utd of course)"
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Did they get a division one licence? I haven't heard any word from Cobh about it...
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A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
Sean Ryan in todays Sunday Indo has this to say about promotion/relegation:
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...s-2558011.htmlThat leaves Bray Wanderers, Galway United, UCD and Drogheda United to fight it out at the bottom to avoid the relegation play-off spot.
With two due to be promoted automatically from the First Division, Shelbourne and Waterford United have invested heavily to boost their hopes, and Monaghan United, Limerick and Finn Harps should also be in the mix for the play-off.
He reports this as fact, rather then speculation.
Have I missed the announcement by the FAI?
There was no announcement. Must be 2 up and bottom vs. third in a play-off so. A Premier division of 12 teams next year would mean a first division of 9 teams if no club step up to take the Sporting Fingal place. Now that would be a joke. Maybe there should be a relaxing of the requirements for a First division licence is in order to allow all the A Championship teams who want to step up to do so.
Is this not the last year of the A League Could have sworn is was mentioned on here before. That they are reverting back to the under 20 league so Id imagine it would be perhaps 3 teams stepping up to the first or even regionalising the first similar to the current A League set up.
The A Championship teams would still need First division licences if they wanted to step up though. None of them got one this year under the current criteria.
I keep thinking I must have missed this anouncement by the FAI. Bad enough that teams would progress with budgets for 2011 without being able to factor in the reality of promotion and relegation prospects, but if it were anything other the LoI it would be GUBU that a league could actually start without the outcomes being set out.
Surely this has never happened anywhere else before .....except of course in the FAI / IAG debacle 5 years ago
Anyone know when an annoucement is due?
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