Is there another round of licenceing in March?

[Tenderloins]

In Todays Irish Times Emmet Malone mentions a further round of licenceing in March, suggesting (as mentioned in another thread) that Shels qualification for the Champions league may thus be in doubt.

[OneRedArmy]

Only for teams entering Europe. So Shels, Derry, Drogheda and Cork.

[Kingdom]

So then the question would be that if Shels are denied a licence, would the teams next in position to take the resulting vacant place qualify for the licence?
Those teams would be St Pats and who else.

[BohsFans]

Only for teams entering Europe. So Shels, Derry, Drogheda and Cork.

exactly, it's a UEFA license that those teams need to get to play in Europe.

Mostly the paper work is a formality and the clubs focus on their grounds, which in Drogheda's case will be Dalyer.

[marley]

surely their premier license is in jepordy now. I'm sure not paying players wages is an issue when obtaining a license. Obviously when they obtained 280 points or so from the IAG they told a few porkies or they wouldn't have got so many points

[drummerboy]

Reports on Shelsweb suggest all players are now free agents. So they have no manager, no players and their first competitive fixture is about 6 weeks away.

[daniel]

surely their premier license is in jepordy now. I'm sure not paying players wages is an issue when obtaining a license. Obviously when they obtained 280 points or so from the IAG they told a few porkies or they wouldn't have got so many points

one of the requirements was to prove that you where financialy sound, this is one thing that $hel$ most certainly are not!

[Bluebeard]

Reports on Shelsweb suggest all players are now free agents. So they have no manager, no players and their first competitive fixture is about 6 weeks away.

That sounds familiar to a few of us from the South-East...

[sligoman]

That sounds familiar to a few of us from the South-East...

and Longford.

[Dodge]

According to Smithers over onthe Shels MB, there was an article in the "Irish" Mail on Sunday about Shels possibly losing their UEFA license.

The Irish Mail on Sunday has a story on their back page saying that Shels are in danger of losing their place in the Champions League, because of the financial difficulties.

The processs for awarding UEFA licences to play in Europe begins in March and the article suggests that Shels wont get one. It says Derry would move up to the CL, with St Pats going into the UEFA Cup.

Also a full page article on the back page of the Title supplement in the same paper

"Full audited accounts up to the year end of November 30th 2006 must be submitted by March 31st 2007, together with auditors' certificates in relation to any outstanding monies due to employees."