Soccer Republic

If that's true its a joke.

11 teams going into a playoff for one EL spot?
It doesn't make any sense and it's clearly a reach to try and keep a 16 team league interesting.
Bigger leagues than ours are 10 team leagues, like Austria and Switzerland.
The options are 10 or 12 teams.
When I look at the current PD and see clubs struggling to get 300 of their own fans through the gate I'd lean towards a 10 team with high stadia requirements.

The pyramid system is a good idea but would require a major over haul of the intermediate game.
Currently there aren't any intermediate leagues just glorified Cork,Donegal and Dublin county leagues.
We'd probably need 4 intermediate sub leagues along the lines of West/Nortwest, East & midlands, Dublin area and south. Forget about provincial leagues they don't make any sense.

As for full time football the costings are all wrong. I remember reading that a full time 10 team league would cost around E10 million/year. They seem to be leaning towards a 16 team full time league!
A E2.25M prize pot isn't going to put a dent in that.

Then there's this:
"But to help cover the increased prize money, the suggestion is clubs hand out over five per cent of their European prize money from the first round, ten per cent from further rounds and a portion of transfer fees."

They want top clubs to go full time and increase costs and at the same time give away some of their income.

Edited by Bitored - 10 Aug 2016 at 5:32pm

Doyler1993 wrote: Absolute bullsh*t that rte took a 15 minute break to soccer republic to show the paralympic swimming final, could they not show the swimming on rte news like they did for the olympics. Only get 1 hour of highlights at a sh*tty hour and than they decide to take 10 mins off it. No offence to the swimmer but she isnt even in with a realistic chance of getting a medal.

They just don't give a sh*te.
Programmes a joke.
Part of the Derry/Youths match looked like it was recorded on a potato.
JD should have taken the 2 Mil!

The swimming wasn't even listed on the TV schedule so anyone that had any interest in it probably missed it because they had no idea it was on!

Thr programme including the swimming only lasted an hour from 11.05 to 12.05, is that not the normal lenght of soccer republic every monday, or is it normally only 40 mins?

I thought Dave Barry made some good points on last night`s SR. He`s right about Galway, they`ve a good squad of players but aren`t turning up at away grounds and are letting Tommy Dunne down.

Nah I don`t buy that. Cork have one of the strongest squads in the league and yet couldn`t beat Sligo in 3 league games this season. Yet Cork easily brushed Bray aside down at the Cross, while Bray tanked Sligo at the Carlisle. 

Nah Nah Nah Nah wrote: We obviously play a game that Cork find very hard to play against. Other teams don't find it as hard obviously. If they did we'd be top of the league. We're far from it. That's the second 4-0 defeat we've taken in Bray this season.

Nah Nah Nah Nah wrote: Ah it could have gone either way really. Draw a fair result but either team could have knicked it.  We had Wexford away on Friday and then Cork away on the following Monday earlier on this season. Some great fixtures put together.

Why bother is right. Its a f**king disgrace to have it on that late , especially with all the sh*te RTE have on

Shoco wrote: 11:30 pm start time this year! Why do they even bother, would be better letting eir sports do it