Teams who plan to take the league to court if they get screwed

[Red&White]

UCD will get in. It will be a travesty if they don't.

[NY Hoop]

Despite the ominous shrieking from Pinneapple I think UCD are safe. Despite their lack of any substantial fanbase, they will wing it on the grounds of facilities - the new Bowl, scholarships, coaching set up, track record etc. UCD have/and will offer alot to Irish soccer and are a well respected nursery club. Ok there maybe a desire by Delaney to jettison one of the Dublin based clubs but I think the demise of Dublin City made the job a helluva lot easier. Bray, the other Dublin based side will almost certain now get the chop.

Who will go up? Many hear say Rovers and Galway go up, but if Talaght isnt sorted out by December/January we could see the Hoops in a spot of bother and perhaps see one of the likes of Dundalk/Cobh or even Athlone given the nod. However I do think sense will prevail and the GAA obstructionist tactics will be given the firm boot by the High Court allowing Rovers back in.

Premier next season: Waterford are a shoe-in. Their 5 year record is quite good, good catchment area, youth set-up, facilities and of course John Delaney . UCD safe. Bray will go down leaving Rovers and Galway to replace them. If any of the clubs do take their legal appeals to the courts of the land I do think they should at least take proper legal advice beforehand as their objections simply would not stand up in court.

Agree. Have always said that if we finish in the top 2 we'll go up and that will be the new premier 12. Naturally it should be decided on the pitch but..........

Two questions to the dundalk fans:

Fair play with getting bigger crowds and all but playing on friday or saturday nights would significantly increase your away support if you did go up. Secondly are there any plans on putting a gantry, even a temporary one, as next weeks game could be a cracker and it would be a shame if there was no camera at it. Being on tv increases your profile as I'm sure your new owner knows.


KOH

[stann]

You seem not to have grasped that this is irrelevant to the FAI's plans.

The Eircom League as we know it is being DISBANDED, as voted by its members.

It is being replaced by an entirely new League, which as one of its entrance criteria, has past performance in the prior League structure.

I don't see how this breaches UEFA rules in any way.

That's the crux of the matter, there is to be no continuity across the coming off-season.
What is effectively happening is that the current league is coming to a complete end, a totally new league is starting up next season, and the FAI are more or less 'inviting applications' to the top tier of this new league.
On that basis they can admit pretty much who they like to the new Premier, with no legal repercussions whatsoever.
The only thing they must do is use their (pretty vague and ill-defined) criteria to prove a club should be asked to step inside or to do one. I think legally the FAI's homework is done on this one, and there's enough ambiguity in their rules to back up any decision they make, even promoting Athlone!

[pete]

We abstained.

Thats even worse! Ye had no opinion on one of the biggest ever changes to the eL.

[pineapple stu]

There's a huge difference between abstaining and not having an opinion.

The two clubs who didn't turn up to the vote (Kildare and Cobh reportedly) could be accused of not having an opinion. Not Monaghan.

[Poor Student]

Thats even worse! Ye had no opinion on one of the biggest ever changes to the eL.

Don't be so naive, Pete.

[holidaysong]

Two questions to the dundalk fans:

Fair play with getting bigger crowds and all but playing on friday or saturday nights would significantly increase your away support if you did go up. Secondly are there any plans on putting a gantry, even a temporary one, as next weeks game could be a cracker and it would be a shame if there was no camera at it. Being on tv increases your profile as I'm sure your new owner knows.

It has been explained before on this site why our games are on a Thursday - the revenue gained from the bar being hired out on a Friday and Saturday night. We are playing Finn Harps on Friday night though due to the First Division fixtures last night so it will be interesting to see if there is any significant change in attendance.

I have no idea if there are plans to put up a gantry. TG4 put up their own temporary one last year when broadcasting the FAI Cup game against Drogheda United. If we were in the Premier Division, I'm sure something would be sorted out so as to have highlights on eL weekly.

[passerrby]

we abstained because while we believe the FAI should run the EL we do not believe that genisis was the way forward, secondly There was never any other plan or ideas allowed on the table other that genisis

[bigmac]

Just thinking about this and I remembered that if a team takes their league to court(or something like that) that the country in question is banned from international qualifiers and all of that country's European representatives are barred from competing in Europe.

Could hardly be that with the situation in Italy. Maybe there's some regulation to allow penalties to be imposed on any team who does follow that course - I know that the Italian FA were threatening to impose a more stringent penalty on Juve if they went to court.