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Stuarty
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Posted: 08 Oct 2018 at 11:28pm |
Which is better 10 or 12 teams in the Premier Division?
i ask because every few years the League of Ireland's Premier Division changes in size between 10 teams and 12 teams in size.
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Stuarty
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does anybody really care?
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saintjoey
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I'm not majorly fussed other than the 10 team league gives an equal home and away games and prolongs the season
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corkery
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12 for me. Next season is already down to 9 teams with UCD getting promoted.
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'The younger generation as in 17 -25 are certainly gayer than their predecessors. I think they may cause the extinction of the human race with their activities.'- Baldrick
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Drumcondra 69er
Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 7120 |
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12. Four league games against each side it's too many especially when you then add cup games into the equation.
I'd actually go further and have a Premier Division of 16 with Division One North and South underneath. But you'd need a proper league pyramid structure in place for that which won't happen with all the individual fiefdoms that currently exist in the 'football family'. Plus it obviously would need to be made attractive and not financially crippling for the likes of Leinster Senior or Munster Senior League teams to get promoted. But given that even NI have a pyramid system in place, I can't accept that we couldn't do similar if the will was there. I'd be interested in seeing an All Ireland League eventually.
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Lostandfound
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10. 4 league matches against each opposing team is perfect but that's the ocd in me. |
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pre Madonna
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I would nearly say 8! There aren't ten teams strong enough to compete at the highest level in the country, as the table shows.
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9fingers
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10 is probably best under the current conditions.
12 would be better for the PD but you’d nearly have to hand pick the last few places as Bray & Limerick at the moment shouldn’t be there.
Shels, Finn Harps & Drogs would be good additions but you’re killing the first Division then.
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Stuarty
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Neither is ideal
10 is more boring playing each other 4 times but fairer than. 12 playing each other team 3 times but is fresher than 10 team league playing each team four times. I say 12 because when the rep Ireland league had 12 teams the Rep of Ireland reached the Quarter Finals of of Italia 90. may be just a coincidence but all the same 12 is better. |
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Stuarty
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a 10 team league allegedly creates“a poisonous climate of fear”.
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The football league's in both Wales and Scotland have toyed with the idea of whether to have a top flight of 12 or 10 teams and have opted for 12 teams!
Plus when the football league started it had 12 teams.
Ps When the Football League was created the word English and England was left out of the title name in it because the founder of the league William Merger was hoping for Irish, Welsh and Scottish Teams to enter the league but they never really did and formed their own leagues instead [except of course Wale's Cardiff, Swansea and Newport eventually enter the football League]. |
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