Falling out of love with the league

Anseo.

Been going to pats since the early 90's. Its never been in a worse state. The public could not give a f**k. There is no ambition being shown by any club other than Dundalk. Its become a chore and there is much more temptation to do other things on a Friday night.

Saint Tom wrote: Anseo. Been going to pats since the early 90's. Its never been in a worse state. The public could not give a f**k. There is no ambition being shown by any club other than Dundalk. Its become a chore and there is much more temptation to do other things on a Friday night.

I wonder what that would be

You're not the only one.
It was a real chore to go to Rovers v Bray a few nights ago and it turned out to be one of the worst games I've ever witnessed.

The whole league needs a real kick in the balls.
I've gone through my opinions on what should be done re European play offs, 10 team PD (condense the playing pool), 3rd tier, kill the league cup... .

That stuff won't make an immediate impact and we're probably looking at 10-15 years before the underage start to produce and hold players who can make a real difference to the product.
Where the fook the league is in 15 years is anyone's guess!
Just to end on a positive note Boy Z, UCD got through a round in Europe last year and 3/5 of the last relegation play offs have been won by First Division sides.
So calling the First Division the worst league in Europe is probably a bit dramatic. I can't see the top 4 or 5 FD sides having any major problems competing in the Gibraltar, San Marino or Luxembourg PDs.

Edited by Bitored - 02 Jul 2016 at 2:13pm

First time in a few years I didn't get a season ticket. I couldn't be bother with the likes of Longford, Bray, Finn Harps or Sligo. Low crowds, poor atmosphere and gammy games.Everyone thinks it's great that Wexford got promoted but people just don't want to see them.

Edited by corkery - 03 Jul 2016 at 12:04am

Yep, it happened a few years ago for me. The word chore has been used a few times and that is exactly what it became.

There are just too many games and it gets to a point where winning and losing doesn't matter. You don't get exited about games until the last few weeks.

The league started to eat itself by running itself on the basis of more games, more money. You need to create a quality competition, not just bleed the fans dry by having game after game after game.

Limerick's match was one of the games of the season last night baffles me how it was scheduled for the same time as the Germany game surely afternoon today or yesterday afternoon was more feasible?

I think it happens when you get older aswell, priorities start changing. Before, in my late teens early twenties I used to be mad all week trying to arrange swaps or time off in work to get to Bray away or something like that, now I just keep an eye on most away games through twitter. I was up in Belfast last Thursday and its after knocking the stuffing out of me, should City get through to the second round, I have no interest in following them to Sweden, not at this point and time in my life anyway. 

Up in tallaght you can see that the novalty of havin rovers playing here has worn off somewhat. Initially you were seeing a lot of peole going to games and a lot of jerseys around. Its probably reverted back to just the old school supporters (my assumption).

Joe Stalin wrote: RKBarmyArmy wrote: I think it happens when you get older aswell, priorities start changing. Before, in my late teens early twenties I used to be mad all week trying to arrange swaps or time off in work to get to Bray away or something like that, now I just keep an eye on most away games through twitter. I was up in Belfast last Thursday and its after knocking the stuffing out of me, should City get through to the second round, I have no interest in following them to Sweden, not at this point and time in my life anyway.  Cant forget either, the league is as poor now as its ever been. Bar an average Dundalk team who are made out to be like Barcelona, and a Cork City team who would struggle in the leagues of the 2000's, this league has absolutely nothing to offer, as Corkery said, people just dont want to turn up to watch Wexford or Finn Harps who are on generally the same level as Avondale in the MSL.  In my innocence I thought it was only john caulfield who openly looked down on other clubs but it seems it's all cork fans too. Who are you to be looking down on Finn harps? If they're so sh*t why aren't you thrashing them? A strong league needs strong regional clubs like Harps etc.

+1
No LOI clubs fans should be looking down on any other club.
We're all only a bad month away from needing the begging caps out. Wouldn't think a cork fan would need to be told that.