Waterford may go.

You talking about the aul uefa licensing? It’s not the same as to what I’m proposing. And uefa licensing isn’t properly enforced

I don’t care if its ucd turning over 50k a year or rovers turning over 2 million a year – every club should only be allowed spend a very small percentage of their income on wages say.

Even clubs that have a good stadium, or who don’t have any stadium of their own but rent and don’t need any urgent ground improvements – should still have to contribute 30% (or similar) of income into the clubs ‘stadium fund’ which can only be used on ground improvements,etc (or even to help get their own ground) even if none of it is spent til 5 years down the line

And a smililar % into a proper youth set up – and % set aside for promoting the club locally, pr inititatives,etc

Bascially f*** all allowed be spent on players wages – but off the pitch things for the medium/long term future of clubs!

A 1 division league would take the pressure off clubs for a couple of years and to take the above conditions in their stride – then hopefully it will be the new ‘club culture’ and when the league goes back to a 2 division league, clubs will be more stable and used to not been able to spend f*** all of their income on wages to chase the dream! (and hopefully a few more junior clubs like tralee and cobh would be in the league then aswel!)

I genuinely think f*** all of clubs incomes should be allowed be spent on players wages!

It should also be a max of 10euro entrance fee, with under 12s allowed in for nothing. 15e is too much in these tough financial times for people

Of course you can. What I’m suggesting is that these are strict financial rules that every club must sign up to to join the 1 division league.

If you over estimated in year 1, your punishment could be that you spend an even lower % on last years figures on wages than other clubs the following year

Why should a club like Rovers who spend the budgets of most 1st Division clubs on community football already be limited to 10% of turnover on wages?

Because no matter how much they’re spending, it is still not enough. Not having nearly enough effect (despite leading the way by a mile compared to the other clubs in the league). Maybe there could be a case that they could spend a bit extra on youth set up instead if approved by the leagues board – but the one thing that should never be allowed any compromise on is clubs % of income spent on wages

It is the same with clubs that don’t need ground improvements – some are lucky to rent top class grounds, others aren’t so lucky and own and have to pay for their own ground improvements-  for those that don’t need ground improvements straight away,  at least they’ll have built up a fund to do ground improvements when needed down the line (which they will need eventually) or maybe even to contribute to build their own stadium. Clubs been proactive rather than reactive, mad idea ain’t it!

That will drive on the field standards back 50 years

Increase in on the field standards definitely does not mean an increase in league attendances. This has been proved over the years. The standard on the pitch is the worst it has been since 2008 – and is currently only getting worse. The league would only lose a handful of players by having this strict wage constraints (as majority wouldn’t be good enough for lower leagues in England – or would even want to go to non league in England).

Maybe then with the increase in funding towards clubs youth set ups, we would finally see some improvement n the pitch a few years down the line – that would be the idea.

Until clubs, wake up and do something drastic like this – the league will never have a chance of progressing and the same problems are going to keep coming up, but in different decades