QuoteBy 2011 Bohs will be down the road
Where could we see league clubs emerging from in the future?
IMO Navan is one, population is expected to grow to 60,000 by 2011.
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By 2011 Bohs will be down the road
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D'you not think we should be concentrating on hanging on to the clubs we've got? Young Boys Ferns are replacing CHF. Limerick 37 are replacing the old Limerick. Shels, who knows? A bit more stability would be good.
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Never thought of that actually.Originally Posted by TommyT
We draw a lot of our support from large satelite towns, so it's sort of the same situation really.
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Is there a team in Navan at the moment?
The league hasn't had much success with inventing clubs to represent entire counties or areas, to be honest. I'd rather see existing clubs with a bit of history and local attachment promoted to the league.
Parkvilla are from Navan
I live here, Parkvilla is the biggest team in Navan, but the Stadium is not too great to host high league football. They would probaly have to use Praic Tailteann at the moment, but could improve the stadium by 2011
A Mayo team.
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Im sure mullingar would have got a team in at that stage since they have been trying to get a team in for a while now, if you'd listen to rumours that often go on. Would like to see a tipp team make it back to, something like thurles town or clonmel or something.
On Navan, arent the drogs new stadium going to be just down the road too ?
Claremount stadium has a running track so If stands were built they'd probably be quite a distance from the pitch. Absolutely no way the GAA would let PT be used for Association Football. Can't see Villa ever going for league status. Think there was talk of it back in the 70's/80's when they had a few decent FAI cup runs but thats the height of it.
On Drogheda, they'll be no nearer to Navan than they are now. They are just moving to the far side of the town on the way out to Duleek.
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
Seeming as we're now talking about the experimental third flight I'd like to see teams from UCC, UL, Trinity and maybe DCU to add a bit of stability and variety. They could pad out the league without having to ever press higher up the league if they don't want.
Only for their proximity to Galway United I'd say Salthill Devon would be excellent candidates. They won the U-21 league where some other LOI clubs couldn't field a team every week. They've also got good facilities.
It's strongly rumoured that a club is being put together for Fingal County to link up with the junior scene. I think Dermot Keeley is linked with that.
Like Pineapple Stu I'd prefer to see the Kildare County type franchise idea (no insult to Kildare fans, it's a well run club) avoided and build on an existing non-league clubs in vacuum areas e.g. promote Wesport United or Castlebar Celtic instead of "Mayo County".
Navan would be great I'd have an away game or two every season about 5 minutes walk away from me.
It's been a while since I've been in Claremont Stadium but I'm not sure Parkvilla would even have the space to build any kind of stand there either
The third tier is experimental. it'll contain 10 reserve sides, it won't be about attendances and crowds. We'll need sides who can survive off little or no support to give some opposition to club's reserve teams and senior football hopeful clubs. They could also play a developmental role like UCD but to a lesser extent.
How much information is out there on this third tier apart from what was on the IAG implementation document? Will teams such as Trinity be invited to take part? Will it be a country wide division or regionalised? Surely the LSL would serve a college team like Trinity better? Being in the city centre they don't have a catchment area like UCD do and students won't support the team as they already have their own league team to support - Dundalk in my case.
theres also the ownership issue. Do they own Claremount? I think Navan Athletics club own it.
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It's regionalised and Premier Division teams have an obligation to enter a reserve team and First Division sides have an option. There's a kind of pilot model on the FAI merger document that shows Trinity and the Garda teams in an example league. It's not a full third flight but an experimental league.
The playoff between the winner of the A Championship and bottom in the First Division is a good idea. Should makes things a wee bit more interesting down at the bottom of the First Division towards the end of the season.
Would certainly make things interesting in the bottom of the First. Would also provide a route to the eircom league for any club who may develope an ambition to play at the top level over the years to come.
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Although I'd like to think that this won't be the only way for clubs to join the league in the future. Perhaps the reserve teams of clubs like Derry, Cork and Bohemians will dominate the A Championship and a club like Castlebar Celtic won't get to the stage where they have a chance at a playoff with bottom in the first. I'd like to think that the league would expand in the future if a lot of new clubs look to join the league as our population centres grow across the country.
While Premier Division teams will be obligated to have reserve teams in this A Championship, they will not be eligible to gain promotion to the First Division. That is my understanding of it anyway. So I presume the top team in the A Championship that isn't a reserve team will be involved in the play-off.
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There's always Limerick 37!
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