Who's Sligo's sugar daddy?
It depends on what we mean by support. In Dublin you have Rovers with their fans and money, and 2-3,000 between Pats and Bohs (and Shels). Cork for sure, Derry yes, Dundalk yes (though we know what'll happen in a downturn). Sligo are sugar daddy too but with 1,500-2,000 fans. Unless it is just ripped apart and starts again, which would mean Drogheda goes, Cobh, one of Athlone or Longford. 10 pro "franchises" with 2 groups of 20 (north-south divisions) below it with 1 or 2 spots available depending on play-offs.
Or else there is a proper pyramid and have at it.
In Russia all clubs are sugar daddied (can I say that?). In fact in Eastern Europe I could not name a single one in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus (even BATE), the Baltics, Moldova or Serbia who are professional and not dependent on a single person, company or government for survival. BATE have ploughed their money into facilities and coaching, but they still pay very big wages. So if they can thrive, so can we.
10 fully pro clubs, backed by business, fans and government (as they did/do in Norway) and we might have a chance.
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Who's Sligo's sugar daddy?
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Doesn't every single club in this league have someone pumping some but of money into them? I find it hard to believe any club is run purely either off fans money and/or advertising sponsorship. Some obviously are getting more financial support than others.
There is a gentleman, known to most of us - if not then you've been letting the grass grow under your feet (mega hint there) who told me that without his financial support Sligo would be gone. Of course the same gentleman loves to beat the drum of being a promoter of Irish business and winning contracts etc, though the truth is rather different.
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Is the oft repeated contention of Rovers having a Aussie based benefactor just waffle?
Fyffes were club sponsors at Dundalk before the current owners took over. It is a purely commercial deal - and one that has been very cost effective for Fyffes
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/irish...2-sligorovers/
Quite a few people helped get us out of this hole in 2008. Delaney even gave us 5k at one stage. None of them are a "sugar daddy" that is pumping money into the club every year to keep it going. Maybe he should take it easy on the grass.
As crazy as it sounded Niall Quinn was right & we should be looking to sell out TV rights to the Asian market (well he said African) the football betting market is massive & given the lack of big leagues over the summer there would be decent demand for just anything to watch & bet on
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33594354
The FAI and the clubs should have acted to stop the rot in the past, before we lost Monaghan, Kildare, Fingal, Kilkenny, and all of the teams who competed in the A Championship (Castlebar, Carlow, Tralee and Tullamore).
If even a couple of them had been saved from going under, we could have two 12-team divisions, instead of one decent division and an absolute graveyard.
Agreed the initial funding in a lot of places would have to go into sprucing up the grounds & developing them for TV coverage, but when you the setting for some games on 365 punters aren't that picky
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