Very difficult for one recreational club to make the leap to professional status in one leap.
Which is precisely why you need a proper pyramid i.e. a series of leaps (steps), with each one reasonably attainable from the level below. This is all the more important when talking about youth clubs which aspire to adult football such as Kerry or Mayo, or brand new clubs entirely, such as Sporting Fingal.
Eh? That is the very antithesis of an agreed set of criteria i.e. applicants should have to meet the criteria, not the other way round.
No offence, but that sounds like making it up as you go along.
Which when you consider the number of LOI clubs which have gone into Examinership, or Bankruptcy followed by new "phoenix" entities, or even disappeared entirely, is no way to administer a league such that the game develops, rather than stagnates.
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