So which clubs are in danger of not finishing the season?

[Mr A]

Not a hope of getting the clubs to cooperate with each other unfortunately. But hopefully the FAI can beef up regulation and improve things that way.

And while I agree that producing youths is the way forward- eventually you have to pay them decent money of they'll depart for another club.

[Rovers Maniac]

Cobh made the classic mistake (also made at Harps and Galway) of paying premier wages to division one footballers. I do feel sorry for Cobh though, they got up on a shoestring and were always going to have to spend big to even keep the players they had. You could almost say they were not really ready to come up I guess.

But where would they have gone? Not to Cork as if Cork wanted them to would have gone anyway and not to Limerick or Waterford.

[Mr A]

Fair point- a few might have gone to Waterford though. By all accounts these guys were on buttons last year, chances are even MSL clubs could have paid them what Cobh did.

[Schumi]

some, not many of their fans were telling us that their income was about 20/25 thousand per month

For the whole season? That sounds extremely low.

[stann]

Fair point- a few might have gone to Waterford though. By all accounts these guys were on buttons last year, chances are even MSL clubs could have paid them what Cobh did.

None of them went to Waterford this year. In fact, one of ours went the other way in a roundabout way.
There is a regular crossover there alright, just not this season.

[Mr A]

Which is the sort of thing that Cobh increasing their budget would be to prevent in this case.

[DmanDmythDledge]

We were down recently the night they hammered Galway some, not many of their fans were telling us that their income was about 20/25 thousand per month and their outgoings which they said was wages only but i doubt that was 50 thosand per month.

The indo report a few weeks back has their wage bill as €12k per week, so almost €50k a month.

[gael353]

The indo report a few weeks back has their wage bill as €12k per week, so almost €50k a month.

True and when you consider that they went up on about €2,500/3000 shows what a stupid bonus structure the players are on