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All-Ireland League back on?
By: EalingGreen Date: April 21, 2021, 10:30 am
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Unsurprisingly, this kinda slipped under the radar after Sunday,
but it seems there may have been some movement on the above
front recently.
From 'The [Sunday] Paper Which Shall Not Be Named':
Danske Bank Premiership clubs will be able to keep their four
European slots and be permitted to play in a cross-border
competition worth £10m per year under current models being
discussed, Sunday Life Sport can reveal.
Proposals currently under consideration are based on retaining
the Danske Bank Premiership consisting of 12 teams playing each
other home and away (22 game season), then the top teams in both
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, likely to be six
from each association, to break away to battle in a lucrative
'Super League'.
Sunday Life Sport has been told by informed sources that on
offer for such a cross-border competition is up to £10m of
funding, underwritten by UEFA through their centralised policy
of negotiating television rights.
(Don't have the rest - behind a paywall)
#Post#: 4676--------------------------------------------------
Re: All-Ireland League back on?
By: exhausted Date: April 21, 2021, 10:36 am
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The loss of the European spots was one of my main reasons for
not wanting this so will be interesting to see what comes of
this.
Hopefully a trial of summer football will come soon as well
#Post#: 4677--------------------------------------------------
Re: All-Ireland League back on?
By: EalingGreen Date: April 21, 2021, 11:49 am
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[quote author=exhausted link=topic=356.msg4676#msg4676
date=1619019392]
The loss of the European spots was one of my main reasons for
not wanting this so will be interesting to see what comes of
this.
Hopefully a trial of summer football will come soon as well
[/quote]
Summer football could prove very tricky to implement.
For it's v.easy for the LOI, they don't have a pyramid below
their Championship, which follows the same calendar (obv).
But if the IL Premiership moved to a summer season, would the
Championship do so as well?
And what about Intermediate football, with Junior Football
further down again?
If you are to have Promotion & Relegation between the various
levels, they all have to follow the same season dates, or it
won't work.
#Post#: 4678--------------------------------------------------
Re: All-Ireland League back on?
By: Ernie Date: April 21, 2021, 11:56 am
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[quote author=EalingGreen link=topic=356.msg4675#msg4675
date=1619019027]
Unsurprisingly, this kinda slipped under the radar after Sunday,
but it seems there may have been some movement on the above
front recently.
From 'The [Sunday] Paper Which Shall Not Be Named':
Danske Bank Premiership clubs will be able to keep their four
European slots and be permitted to play in a cross-border
competition worth £10m per year under current models being
discussed, Sunday Life Sport can reveal.
Proposals currently under consideration are based on retaining
the Danske Bank Premiership consisting of 12 teams playing each
other home and away (22 game season), then the top teams in both
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, likely to be six
from each association, to break away to battle in a lucrative
'Super League'.
Sunday Life Sport has been told by informed sources that on
offer for such a cross-border competition is up to £10m of
funding, underwritten by UEFA through their centralised policy
of negotiating television rights.
(Don't have the rest - behind a paywall)
[/quote]
I may be wrrong or the rules may have changed but I thought
thatclubs had to play more than 22 league matches per season to
qualify for European club competitions.
#Post#: 4683--------------------------------------------------
Re: All-Ireland League back on?
By: exhausted Date: April 21, 2021, 1:12 pm
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[quote author=EalingGreen link=topic=356.msg4677#msg4677
date=1619023785]
[quote author=exhausted link=topic=356.msg4676#msg4676
date=1619019392]
The loss of the European spots was one of my main reasons for
not wanting this so will be interesting to see what comes of
this.
Hopefully a trial of summer football will come soon as well
[/quote]
Summer football could prove very tricky to implement.
For it's v.easy for the LOI, they don't have a pyramid below
their Championship, which follows the same calendar (obv).
But if the IL Premiership moved to a summer season, would the
Championship do so as well?
And what about Intermediate football, with Junior Football
further down again?
If you are to have Promotion & Relegation between the various
levels, they all have to follow the same season dates, or it
won't work.
[/quote]
I'd hope that all levels would follow but I know it's easier
said than done getting agreement on anything in Northern Ireland
#Post#: 4698--------------------------------------------------
Re: All-Ireland League back on?
By: PeteM Date: April 22, 2021, 6:55 am
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I have a feeling that if every club and player in NI was
surveyed on the matter of summer football, more than half of the
clubs would be for a move to summer football, but more than half
of the players would be against.
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