I'd prob agree with this, also back to a previous point I made, no club should be 'forced' to join, and they wont. However this should not prevent those who want to apply to do just that.
I think one of the biggest obstacles for IL clubs is to move away from the comfort zone of possibly Tues and Thurs night training, and 3pm KO on Sat, which allows players to continue work outside football and for most to operate part time.
If their bigger clubs don't join, continuing to play in the current season of Aug to April is not going to help the euro qualifying clubs who wont play a league games for 4-6 weeks before their first euro game. Linfield had a very good euro run last year, this was an exception rather than the rule, and they got some fortunate draws, but they also did (a lot) better than Dundalk v Qarabag, and better overall as they won 4 of their 6 EL games, but they did also lose 6-0 on agg in the first round v Rosenberg in CL.
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