Calls to scrap 10 team premier

**fosterdollar** · 10/12/2001, 8:46 AM

Club Chairmen meeting soon... good shtuff!!

**Macy** · 10/12/2001, 9:43 AM

Not so sure anymore - only if someone can explain what good teams of the standard of Mons and Galway bring to the top flight.....

**fosterdollar** · 10/12/2001, 10:10 AM

would giving the less 'talented' teams a chance of playing in the premier not give them an example of what to model themselves on of they are to develop into one of the stronger teams? Otherwise, the stronger get stronger and the weaker... yada yada.

**Sinéad** · 10/12/2001, 2:06 PM

Don't agree with the ten team league at all. I mean to say as Gary Doyle pointed out, who wants to be playing a team four times a season.
The way I see it, its a way in which the FAI can look after their own (their own being Dublin). Big clubs will get bigger...and small developing won't develop...

**Xlex** · 10/12/2001, 2:36 PM

Who is on this committee, who decides such things?? Does a majority of delegates not vote on this or whats the story??

**Macy** · 10/12/2001, 2:53 PM

2/3 majority needed. I was at the NLU Forum last week, and Rico managed to convince me (and many others) that the 10 team league was the way to go. He reckons that for 2 or 3 years have the best players more concentrated and it will improve the standard of the top flight and help in europe. In the mean time it will give first division clubs the chance to improve their facilities and infrastructure to enable them to compete in the top division. There is no point in the current farce, with 2 teams already out of touch and down at the bottom. Every year there is a team that simply isn't good enough, and usually with facilities to match. In the long run it would leave the league better off.

**Éanna** · 10/12/2001, 2:58 PM

hopefully it will be scrapped. otherwise it'll be the eircom leinster league next season.

**Macy** · 10/12/2001, 3:23 PM

If teams aren't up to standard, which they clearly aren't, then they don't deserve to be in the premier just because of geography. Even if it was scrapped, then Galway and Mons are down still, with Dundalk likely to be in the playoff - Dublin City would be more likely to come up, so what difference will it make?