This shows how difficult it is to get people to go to LoI games. Also shows up the ridiculous wages paid in our league when one considers the demand i.e. fans going to games, for their services. Maybe this statement will waken up the local soccer public and get to go some games there.
Sure O'Sullivan has said much the same at Limerick matches, albeit the situation wasn't quite as bad. Assume Bray will settle back into lower half obscurity soon. Shame, but a statement like this probably won't light a fire under the town.
It came across as a fair statement. Fair enough as well to communicate it to their supporters at half time.
It's fair enough in response for people to ask what are the club doing to establish links within the community? When results aren't going the club's way, they'll need support. The statement is linking results to support.
I don't know much about the club and it's area. If their chairman is looking to move away from the Carlisle Grounds, is that a move their supporters are against?
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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.
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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.
Bray settled on the steps of the Court last with their ex manager Mick Cooke who was looking for over €50k which wasn't reported in the sports media at all and this will have taken the majority of Dylan Connolly's transfer fee. The FAI Licensing Committee approved Brays Budget where they were agreeing huge wages for fairly average players and also approved the Athlone Town Budget which brings their role into the farce that is the way the League is handled, Promoted and funded by the FAI. If the league got the €500,000 that our CEO gets in wages , expenses and pension pot we might be halfway to building a proper league. Inflatables and Posters on random bus stops will not get people to go to LOI Games. The clubs are the only ones working on promoting the league with zero budgets from JD and the expenses and gravy train brigade who are milking the game dry in Ireland.
We are the Galway Boys Stand up and make some noise"
It's easy to keep blaming the FAI, like people blaming the government. It's only in the last year or so that the PCA started negotiating with and lobbying against the FAI on league matters.
The league itself has to generate revenue. The FAI can assist with that in conjunction with the PCA.
Is the current tv deal sufficient? EirSport seem to want to broadcast more games and present a far better live broadcast than RTÉ.
I know that the idea of a Europa League playoff hasn't universal backing. At the same time, where's the harm in trialling it to see if it can boost midtable attendances, revenue and possibly through media interest raise the profile of the league.
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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.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
The PCA is just as much if not more of a joke than the FAI.
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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.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Your post shows complete ignorance off how the FAI run the league and why they refuse to give the clubs information on how much their receipts and payments are broken down into running the league. As for the TV Deal the clubs have nothing to do with that and don't get a red cent from it. The PCA is a joke should be only one body for all clubs and not give in to JD and his bootboys divide and conquer tactics. The womens national team showed the way to take on the FAI but have the club the balls to do it.
We are the Galway Boys Stand up and make some noise"
It's only in the last year or so that clubs have been pressing for more information. At the end of your post you are rightly directing attention to the clubs. Whatever happened in the past that the FAI assumed such a dominant position, it is not beyond clubs to work together and dance with the dinosaur. If weak clubs are giving in to divide and conquer tactics, I'd be asking questions of those clubs.
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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.
It always makes me smile the way league of irelands fans go on about solidarity when the actual clubs and the people running the clubs would gouge your eye out for a fiver.
You could as a club delegate stand up at a meeting of clubs and deliver the most impassioned speech against Delaney and how the league is ran. And as soon as you finished your speech there would be a stampede for the door by delegates from other clubs to see who could be the first to ring John or Fran or Eamon to mark your card in the hope that in return they'll get a few nods and winks come licensing time.
Because there isn't a club in the country that would pass a proper licensing system if it was actually enforced. The license serves as a band aid for pr purposes and a tool for shafting naughty teams. That's about the size of it.
Bray's crowds (like more or less every team in the league) are a figment of some lads imagination on match night. It's a moot point anyway. Who in the name of jaysus thinks you can run a football club on gate receipts?
Tony O'Donoghue interview with Denis O'Connor
Not a huge amount new really.
I think their chairman spoke well there anyway. I await those making their counter arguments.
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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.
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