QuoteOriginally Posted by passerrby
didnt we do it up until last season without the fai supporting us,the league hasnt changed that much over the past year.
Governments showing interest could see a change of heart by the FAI though, important source of money for the FAI that government.
Everyone needs something to believe in, I believe I'll have another beer.
didnt we do it up until last season without the fai supporting us,the league hasnt changed that much over the past year.
i havent really been tuned into the whole g6 thing could anyone tell me how advanced the talks have come.
So I edited the Football Manager database (FM2007) to swap Irish and Northern Irish teams into the Hungarian league and the Hungarian teams into LoI/IL so that I could create one All-Ireland League. This was a 16 team league with two leagues of sixteen beneath it. Two teams get relegated, the winners of each sub-league get promoted. I didn't play as any of the teams, I just let it run. Here are the results of the 3 seasons I ran:
Year One:
1. St. Pats, 59 points
2. Bohs, 52 points
3. Cork, 52 points
4. Glentoran, 50 points
5. Linfield, 50 points
6. Derry, 50 points
7. Drogheda, 46 points
8. Dungannon, 42 points
9. Coleraine, 42 points
10. Galway, 41 points
11. Portadown, 40 points
12. Shams, 39 points
13. Sligo, 33 points
14. Ballymena, 27 points
15. Newry, 21 points
16. Cliftonville, 20 points
Cup Winner: Shamrock Rovers
Year Two:
1. Bohs, 55 points
2. Glentoran, 54 points
3. St. Pats, 53 points
4. Derry, 53 points
5. Cork, 53 points
6. Drogheda, 48 points
7. Linfield, 47 points
8. Portadown, 45 points
9. Sligo, 42 points
10. Galway, 35 points
11. Dundalk, 34 points
12. Crusaders, 33 points
13. Shams, 32 points
14. Dungannon, 29 points
15. Coleraine, 25 points
16. Ballymena, 22 points
Cup Winner: Cork City
Year Three:
1. St. Pats, 60 points
2. Bohs, 56 points
3. Drogheda, 49 points
4. Shams, 48 points
5. Portadown, 48 points
6. Glentoran, 47 points
7. Dundalk, 45 points
8. Cork, 44 points
9. Sligo, 42 points
10. Derry, 41 points
11. Longford, 39 points
12. Linfield, 35 points
13. Crusaders, 33 points
14. Glenavon, 32 points
15. Galway, 29 points
16. Dungannon, 14 points
Cup Winner: Dundalk
Last edited by Kivlehan; 31/12/2007 at 11:39 PM.
Sounds fairly accurate...
I'm starting to like this new league!
Most pointless exercise ever
It's not meant to be serious, just a bit of fun.
Huge amount of naivety on display on this thread.
I'm personally still to be convinced about the feasibility of launching an AIL right now, but I wouldn't underestimate the involvement of Drury & Co and the amount of work that went on prior to the discussions being "leaked". Drury is no fool and you can be sure all of the questions raised here, and a hell of a lot more have been discussed.
Which clubs are in are out of the "G6" at the present time is neither here nor there. If the proposals are attractive (ie lots of cash on offer), clubs will have no choice but to jump in.
The national association and governing body support issue is more problematic, but UEFA and FIFA are long overdue being taken to the European courts over freedom of trade and movement issues. I would also find it hard to believe that these bodies hadn't been sounded out unofficially before discussions began.
If anything can be a silver bullet to improve Irish football then a large, sustained injection of cash is whats required. This will improve infrastructure and the standard of play and the fans should come. If they don't, then they never will.
I'm also sceptical of UEFA being for this AIL. If it is allowed to happen is it not setting a precedent? What is to stop Celtic and Rangers from joining the premiership or teams in other countries changing leagues? I don't think UEFA want that?
http://www.irishleaguesupporters.com...d=1#post131379
A few posts down theres a scan of the front page of Today's Star.......
If there's any truth in that n wonder the 'G6' are staying defiant
Have to register to view...summarise it?
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
Total of €10m prize money for this new league, with between €1 and €2 for the winners. Also says that seven clubs from the Irish League showed up at last weeks meeting.
There's a headline saying "Super League clubs to net €10m". There's also a quote "With the top finishers in the new Super League receiving prize money between €1m aand €2m each", a bit unspecific but that's the main gist of the article.
2m for the winners, between 1m and 2m each for the 'top finishers'
And most walked away with more questions than answers!
Wells dismisses All-Ireland plans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...sh/7167621.stm
Misleading headline...
As far as I know, one paper ran with a quote suggesting the league would begin this year. If this was ever said by anybody it would only be to emphasize that the parties involved are serious about making this happen. I don't think anyone would realistically claim that the new league could begin in the middle of the next scheduled LOI season."I've had some informal chats with people about it but it has not been brought to the table of the appropriate authorities.
"As far as I am concerned, suggestions that this is all going to happen from August this year is pie in the sky," said Wells.
SIGNATURESCOPE
Sorry to repeat myself from the other thread but the promoters of the new league themselves stated August to those IL in attendance at the meeting held last Friday.
Wells is no doozer and is giving a politician style answer. He is not going to come out and completely trash any ideas until he has actually seen what has been proposed.
dont kid yourself we have never been independant
I wish i did not know then what I dont know now
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