QuoteWhat he said.Originally Posted by Longfordian
Training during the day four or five days a week with most players having no second job?
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
What he said.
Are Dundalk full time? David McMillan works as an architect in Dublin.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-31131166.html
Last edited by White Horse; 24/11/2015 at 2:01 PM.
Towell works in a gym.
Massey is an electrician.
O'Donnell is a coach in DKIT.
I'm sure there are others too.
I think we must be more part time than even Rovers.
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OK maybe "full-time" wasn't the best term to use.
I'll ask it a different way: What teams train during the morning/afternoon, and who trains in the evenings/night?
My guess is that Dundalk, Cork, Shams, and possibly Sligo and Pats train in the day, while the other clubs would all train in the evenings. Can anyone confirm?
Longford train twice a week in the evenings in Lexlip and then usually have a recovery session on Sunday's.
We train in the day.
Galway also train in the morning/day. I know few of them work in a sport shop, another drives a taxi, some students in the squad also. Anyone would estimate the number of LoI players who get 100% of their income from their club? 100 maybe with another 200 getting more than 50%?
I saw it somewhere a few months ago that the average LOI prem division player earned 16k this yr. So if we take it that an average player in a mid table premier team earns 16k per yr (that's 380 (pre tax) p/w of a 42 wk contract), i'd estimate that guys starting for the top 3/4 clubs would prob be on about 600/700 p/w with the best (Towell/Horgan/Sheppard etc) on about 800-1K p/w. Remember all these numbers are pre tax.
Lads above have confirmed that a few of the top Dundalk players also work part time.
Be paying very little tax on that kind of money anyway
Massey recently took at least a year out from his electrician role in Jervis, Towell used to work part time in a gym, think owned by a mate, Gartland is a basket ball coach, O'Donnell only recently got that DKIT role, think McMillan is the only one doing a full time job, well I read last season he works 3.5 days. I'm sure almost all of the squad trained in Dundalk daytime, 5 days a week, grass pitch for away games, oriel for home games.
All of above was in various DFC programme articles during the season.
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Yeap saw all them jobs mentioned in various articles in newspapers/programmes/websites/etc. but Dundalk train in the evenings. I live right beside Oriel and play five a side some evenings in the Oriel Active Centre behind Oriel and you see the players training either (as you mentioned) on the grass training pitch on the Carrick side of Oriel that the Grammar school own or on the main pitch for home matches. The players, especially the ones who live locally and don't have other jobs, would also do a lot of gym work in the town during the day as you would see them in the various gyms around Dundalk - mainly Felda these days.
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The movement of players in recent seasons would indicate that Shamrock R would have a bigger budget than St Pats. Also the Players rep organisation said last year that 1k a week contracts were back in the LoI, maybe a small number, but still significant when one considers the attendance these players/clubs attract. While Stephen Kenny has bucked the trend; level of wages paid decides where a team finished in the league.
They're on more than that!
Yeah, they train in the evenings and do their gym work during the day.
No they're not. I have it from a reliable source in Dundalk that Towell is on 1,100 p/w, but he's the outstanding player in the league by a distance (and he'll likely be gone v soon), hence why i gave the 800-1k figure as a ballpark for the leagues best players. i doubt there are many others in the league earning upwards of 1k p/w. Maybe a couple at Cork/Rovers but that'd be it.
I'd say at a push there are 4 players on 1k or more. The next down would be the players with the top few teams maybe on between 500-750. Dropping all the time then the lower down the league you go and into the first division.
I heard that the Wexford Youths players only got paid expenses last year. I'd assume that's the case with all first division teams?
Thanks Oriel. The article linked above from the Indo says McMillan works 20 hrs a week (2.5 days).
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