At this stage, decision is made, and clubs should just get on with it. Going on national radio and threatening legal action does nothing to sort out much lacking public support for the league. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures, so just hop on board and get on with it.
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Yes - but I said that no reasonable argument has yet been put forward. Voting in your own self-interest doesn't constitute a reasonable argument.Originally Posted by geysir
Im going to out on a limb here & speculate there was a resounding 10-0 vote among first div clubs to keep current play off system
https://m.independent.ie/sport/socce...-39331761.html
Formal complaint from Premier clubs
Following a meeting of the FAI board this morning, it was agreed to not ratify the LOI restart now but carry out a review of the process, with a decision due by the end of this week.
That is actually outrageous.
Relegate the lot of them, I say.
It’s getting farcical at this stage. Decision had to be made one way or the other to get things moving. It’s been made so let’s just get on with it. Harps will most likely be battling it out at the bottom end of the table but we’re not complaining.
How is supporting first division clubs any less of a show of solidarity than giving Premier division clubs an out. Premier clubs going down are not going to be in any worse a position going down than any other year because of the fund from the FAI
For all the good Sligo normally do for the community its time them and Waterford were just ****ed out of the league. Two of them putting self interest ahead of the whole league. The Pats owner can **** off for just taking the **** too. This league is used to petty **** but a football club trying to use a global crisis to help themselves at the detriment of the majority of other clubs is a pathetic new low
Here's this for a solution for the Premier division clubs that are unhappy, don't finish in the bottom two, and if you finish second bottom, just beat the poxy first division club in the playoff, it's really that simple.
If you're a Premier division club with "higher outlay" and all that ****e and you can't beat a first division club that have had every disadvantage you've had on the pitch because of covid and more then maybe just maybe the 18 extra games wouldn't have helped you anyway and you don't deserve to be in the division.
It's really that simple
The question here is, when Shamrock Rovers voted for the resumption, did they do so as a delegate or as a representative? If the legal position is that they were a delegate, then the vote is void and a relegated club could apply to have the season put aside via judicial review.
But of course Noel Byrne is the great fella for his self-serving actions for Shamrock Rovers and Shamrock Rovers only, abusing the position he was elected to to represent the view of the majority of Premier clubs. Yeah.
That's not the question because firstly there is no obligation of the members representing the Premier division clubs to represent the league as a whole. And secondly the idiot sligo treasurer conveniently didn't mention how other board members on NLEC voted. It's not a 5 man board it's 7.
10 out of 19 clubs wanted this format and it passed it really is that simple. And of the 9 that didn't half of them just voted that way to shut Sligo, Waterford and Pats up.
I would also love to know how Rovers choosing to make a stance on something concerning relegation could in anyway be considered self serving. If you could give one good reason as to how it is that'd be fantastic.
And don't give me that "get the first division clubs onside ****e" cause everyone and their mother knows the FAI will make a decision regarding if Rovers 2 are in the league next year or not
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According to the Irish Times:
So Byrne's self-serving swung the vote for FD clubs.A widely held belief among clubs was that the two nominees from other sectors of the association - Dave Moran and Paul O’Brien - would go with the majority so as, in effect, to let the league decide for itself.
First that's a belief, second, the majority of clubs wanted the proposal that passed so that's that then, thirdly you still haven't given a single shred of evidence as to how it could be considered a self serving vote
And to add, there's still not a single valid argument in favour of changing promotion/relegation to suit the PD clubs at the expense of the FD.
The minutiae don't really matter when what's being sought is so ridiculous.
I'm glad that the representatives of my club actually have a set on them and didn't just fall in line with the moany feckers who are actually being self serving like the rest of the sheep.
That's why we are, always have been and always will be Irelands number 1.
KOH
You're glad that Byrne looked after Shamrock Rovers and Shamrock Rovers only, by protecting his club's B team's place in the FD.
I just hope Harps can stay up as if they can it should mean one of the dog€hit clubs festering in the Premier division will be gone - I'm also assuming Cork stay up as well, by the way.
Keep telling yourself that! You might someday manage to convince at least yourself that it's true
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