QuotePremier sides will have to enter reserve teams in it for a start. Optional for D1 teams.
What is it and who is going to be in it?????
Premier sides will have to enter reserve teams in it for a start. Optional for D1 teams.
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I'd love to know, but afaik nothing has been mentioned bout 'who' will be in it yet.Originally Posted by kingdomkerry
We can speculate though. A team from Kerry....? surely!
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expect to see sporting fingal as well, read it last week
"as always i will be focused on coaching and training my team" Rafa B
Hopefully, its about time kerry had a team in the LOI. Plenty of talent in the county anyway. I think it would be a disaster if premier reserve teams were in there.
It should be teams who might in the future enter teams in the league proper. ie Kerry, Mayo, Fingal etc
Yeah they're a shoe-in alright.
What about Mullingar?
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As said already, reserves of each Premier side (who cant be promoted).
Sporting Fingal, will surely be accepted, havent heard of any other clubs expressing an interest
A new club in Carlow, South East F.C., are aiming for the new U-20 league AFAIK
Letterkenny Rovers and Fanad Utd are rumoured to be applying.
Carlow is definitely big enough for an EL club.As said already, reserves of each Premier side (who cant be promoted).
Sporting Fingal, will surely be accepted, havent heard of any other clubs expressing an interest
A new club in Carlow, South East F.C., are aiming for the new U-20 league AFAIK
In Cork, Douglas Hall and Avondale have easily good enough squads.
Rockmount and College Corinthians would also be options, but you'd have to wonder how these clubs would fare if they went up.
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Castlebar Celtic, Salthill Devon and Ballinasloe town are other names being thrown in.
What say what now?
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
cant agree with that. the support which existed a few yars ago when kerry first came on the scene has vanised and i think Kerry being in the A division will be a good thing for them and they should do well in it with the seasoned LOI players which they possess. Their pitch is a disgrace as well
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The A League will be used to groom new clubs for the First Division in future as well as being a platform for reserve players to get regular football. It's like a Spanish 3rd Division where real clubs play reserve team of Primera Liga clubs who are based in other towns.
In Spain and other countries where reserve teams are allowed play in lower Divisions they are prohibited from getting promoted to higher divisions whereas real clubs are allowed to go up and down as per normal.
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If I remember correctly there's a €5k registration fee for this division. Apart from Sporting Fingal all is very quiet on this front at the moment. Does anyone know if any other clubs applied for the spot that Wexford Youths got last year?
So if Ronaldinho, for example, was working his way back from an injury, he could play a game or two for the reserves an the Spanish 3rd division? Interesting.
As a point of interest, whereabouts do the reserve teams usually finish in the table?
If kerry enter this a championship,which is 99% certain at the moment,the buisness men taking over the venture have plans to bring the the pitch up to LOI standards and to extend main stand. Agree with you about the support though.
Because Jackmam Park is the envy of every club in Europe!!
I would be very surprised if Castlebar Celtic dont enter a team here in Mayo. They have already entered a team in the under 21 eircom League. However like Kerry they wont get a huge following
If the main benefit of the A Division is to tee-up future entrants to the League proper, then it will prove a useful thing to have. Too often the league has had to go scrabbling for replacement clubs at short notice - meaning those who enter may not have been the preferred option had there been a longer notice period.
On the downside - this benefit to the A League is contingent upon existing senior clubs either dropping out, or being consistently very poor and finishing bottom regularly. Neither of which we should want to see in the league.
I could see an expansion of the EL by 2 more teams at some future point, giving each division equal numbers, but no more beyond that.
Anyways - makes sense to give us more a pyramid structure to football south of the border.
Just a question, say for example Bray get relegated next season and Dundalk get promoted, will Brays B Team be taken out and Dundalk forced to put one in?
Cmon County!
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