Item on Eleven-a-Side

**Duggie** · 04/07/2008, 10:13 AM

see the item that cobh may drop out of the premier league
http://www.eleven-a-side.com/eircoml...ws.asp?n=33034

is the league a joke lads - where is the future going. these stories are getting to common. depressing.

**Conroy** · 04/07/2008, 10:17 AM

Its a load of **** really....

**Mr A** · 04/07/2008, 10:20 AM

Sounds like good old fashioned internal club faction fighting gone out of control.

Note that Cobh's treasurer packed it in the day they made their 4 signings.

**John83** · 04/07/2008, 10:25 AM

From the article:

{Cobh director Barry} Walsh told the newspaper: “There are people (within the club) who say that it’s not viable for Cobh to survive in the League of Ireland. People want to go back to what they had pre-1985. They are a small minority but they have been there all the time.

Story out of nothing, unless he's seriously playing down how many people are in favour of that.

**Conroy** · 04/07/2008, 12:43 PM

Can we go a year without some form of money troubles in the Eircom League??

Never

**Rovers Maniac** · 04/07/2008, 1:22 PM

Originally Posted by Conroy

Can we go a year without some form of money troubles in the Eircom League??

Never

Is this a trick question?

**Mr Maroon** · 04/07/2008, 1:27 PM

Originally Posted by Duggie

is the league a joke lads

I'm starting to think so

**Duggie** · 04/07/2008, 1:36 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Maroon

I'm starting to think so

no wonder people dont take it seriously

**harry crumb** · 04/07/2008, 2:10 PM

Go back to MSL so Cobh.

Either way shup up about your woes

**dcfcsteve** · 04/07/2008, 2:14 PM

Originally Posted by Conroy

Can we go a year without some form of money troubles in the Eircom League??

Never

Since it was fiounded in 1921, the league has never gone more than three consecutive seasons without some form of change in its membership (teams joining, teams droping out, teams changing name). And that's before you take financial issues into consideration.

This does sound like internal politics/power-struggles though, to be fair. You can't blame the league for the egos within any single club. Is this really that different in essence from the well-publicised boardroom squabbling at Liverpool, for example ? Yet no-one is using that to say the English Premier is a joke.

That said - Cobh is a small club in a small town, so will always struggle more than bigger clubs with bigger catchment areas. Even Harps - a club in a very small town, but with a good tradition of support - struggle finacially to stay afloat at the top table long-term. If long-standing clubs like them struggle, how are the likes of Monaghan, Cobh, Longford etc ever likely to prosper ?

**rambler14** · 05/07/2008, 12:42 PM

We ain't going nowehere lads!!!!...............not if I have my way anyway. I'm not going to let these club killers have their way.
Tomorrow is D-Day so hopefully the people who want League of Ireland football will win through.

**Terry** · 05/07/2008, 12:48 PM

Best of luck rambler14 and to all the rest of the great supporters of cobh ramblers, hopefully things will work out the way all EL supporters wish for them to. Ramblers have been a great addition to the league since 1985 and we all hope it will continue that way.