League of Ireland fan.....

He may appear to be inebriated but he's absolutely right about following your local team. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by posting this to be honest.
 
The Irish league isnt going anywhere fast. The recession is killing those teams. More and more clubs are finding it hard to survive at the end of each season you hear of teams going out of business.

Over here my local team would of been Sporting Fingal founded in 2007 and went bust in 2011. During that short space of time they went from League 1 to the Premier League and won the FAI Cup during that time. Once the recession hit the money went out of the game. The attendences were poor with rivals like Bohs and Shels not too far away. Thats what all the clubs in Ireland find hard money people to back them. We look over the Irish sea and we have Dermot Desmond at Celtic , and even Darragh MacAnthony at Posh all involved in those sides in a ideal world they would of had a team over here. Sadly the prizemoney isnt in the game over here compared with SPL and England So why would they blow millions here in the hope of winning a fraction thats on offer elsewhere.

For Irish football on a whole to grow we need to have 1 league on the island of Ireland. We already have the Setanta Cup this is the next step and not too long ago businessmen were looking into it before the bust happend. No matter what the talent is still within the game. Look at who has gone over to England in recent years from the league we have seen Sheamus Coleman move for little or nothing. Same with the likes of Kevin Doyle , Shane Long , Noel and Stephen Hunt , Stephen Ward and Keith Fahey all started out here and most went on to play for teams in the Premier League. The players are there some teams are over looking at Quigley at Dundalk is getting a number of clubs looking at him from England. Even Padraig Amond went from playing in Ireland to move into the Portuguise league with Paco De Ferreira and was on the bench for the cup final tonight. So there is players there and for clubs on a budget Ireland is a good place to find players.
 
Support what? Clubs are going under, regardless of how well they're doing.
They're being hammered, absolutely hammered from the recession.

No team seems to be immune from it.

The best players are gone and go to England, any chance they get.
It's poor. The players get a nothing wage. They do not get a chance on the international side. (Though there are some excellent players) Most end up over in England anyway.
It's not top priority either.
In Ireland, football isn't the top sport, not even close, going on the last survery I saw it was fourth.
Money is pushed into hurling and gaelic football (and rightly so) and rugby.
At the end of the day, while people may like football here, most people will turn off a football match if their hurling/rugby team are playing on tv.

Most of our players, Given, Keane etc were in England before they were 18. So they never really had the chance to play in Ireland.

Obviously than you've the likes of Doyle who left Cork City (when he was ready, he took his time and waited till it was right for him) and I think it's really stood to him.
There have been an increasing number of players who start out in Ireland first.

But there's no question about it, you want to make it. You go to England because
you can't be sure of anything here. Top of the world one minute, best in the country, and a few months later you're players aren't getting their wages, and are slowly going into recievership.

There have been the cases where people like Coppell or Roy Keane have looked and targeted players from the League. But really that's it.


But it's an untapped place as such because if you're willing to look you'll find players.
And you'll buy them for pennies.
 
i like the way he says " they are hyprocrits for following the english teams when they are so against the queen bla bla", then goes on to say who he supports........"and of course celtic"

so where are glasgow celtic fc from again???
 
clarkie_ni said:
i like the way he says " they are hyprocrits for following the english teams when they are so against the queen bla bla", then goes on to say who he supports........"and of course celtic"

so where are glasgow celtic fc from again???
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Was that a clarkie :)
 
Just wondering if I am the only one who beliewves that if Shels had've beaten Deporivo La coruna and got into the CL group stages that Irish football would now be alot further developed than it is now.

Also, its not as if the standard of football is too bad (see Rovers vs Juventus and Pats vs Berlin)
 
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