By my count, according to this article,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...fers-2014.html, there were 19 players transferred to Championship clubs from the 21 clubs who started the 2014-15 League One season and hadn't just been relegated from the Championship. So you'd have to have about four or five players going to Championship clubs per year to match this. If we want start thinking about the League of Ireland's upper half as being on a par with League One, you'd also need to have a bunch of players being picked up by bigger League One clubs (I know this has happened a little recently, with the likes of Forrester and Browne). I think we're still a bit off that level - the League is probably more at a level where a handful of young talented players, who might otherwise be squeezed out in the English system, can rack up some consistent game time experience early in their careers rather than bouncing around from club to club struggling to make an impression, which itself is a good thing.
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