Foot.ie what's the future

**Mr A** · 03/04/2012, 1:57 PM

I heard foot.ie is in massive debt and haven't being paying their employees on time for quite a while. The accounts have not been signed off for 2011 yet. Pineapple Stu has left in disgust.

Whether the site will receive a license for next year remains in serious doubt.

**ger121** · 03/04/2012, 2:07 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Future of foot.ie? same as the past and the present. A load of blokes with too much time of their hands waffling about football and other related ****e. Now and again someone makes a decent joke, maybe less often someone gives a bit of knowledge, but generally, its all waffle. Maybe 5% of foot.ie users have a clue what they're talking about. That hasn't changed in its history

Its an internet forum lads, stop worrying about it, and let nature take its course. If people want to use it, they'll do it, if they don't, they won't. It really is tht simple

Now I just need to figure out, if this post is included in the 5% of users who know what they're talking about

**John83** · 03/04/2012, 2:09 PM

Originally Posted by Mr A

I heard foot.ie is in massive debt and haven't being paying their employees on time for quite a while. The accounts have not been signed off for 2011 yet. Pineapple Stu has left in disgust.

Whether the site will receive a license for next year remains in serious doubt.

He wrote to me yesterday from Ulan Ude; not clear whether he's popping in here or not but he hasn't been posting anyway.

Originally Posted by ger121

Now I just need to figure out, if this post is included in the 5% of users who know what they're talking about

Ah, but it must me. If it weren't, the categories you're using wouldn't make any sense, so it can't be in the 95%.

**SkStu** · 03/04/2012, 2:29 PM

Originally Posted by Mr A

I heard foot.ie is in massive debt and haven't being paying their employees on time for quite a while. The accounts have not been signed off for 2011 yet. Pineapple Stu has left in disgust.

Whether the site will receive a license for next year remains in serious doubt.

more worryingly there are rumours that administrators were being registered and paid as moderators to avoid the 65% rule. This issue needs its own thread.

**marinobohs** · 03/04/2012, 3:17 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

more worryingly there are rumours that administrators were being registered and paid as moderators to avoid the 65% rule. This issue needs its own thread.

4% of administrators have been paid as moderators with more holding two contracts, one contract as groundsmen and the other as barmen.

the FAI have carried out a full and thorough investigation into developments at Foot.ie and as a result have announced that Limerick have been relegated to the United Churches League Division 16z.

....rumours abound that in a fit of pique at the FAI decision Adam has sold the site - twice.

**poster** · 09/04/2012, 12:34 PM

The constant ads for "Girls who like to travel" and cougar.net are a bit off-putting when at work...

**the 12 th man** · 09/04/2012, 1:15 PM

Originally Posted by poster

The constant ads for "Girls who like to travel" and cougar.net are a bit off-putting when at work...

Just peruse them when at home so

**corkharps** · 09/04/2012, 10:08 PM

If the new Derry City paid their bills, things wouldn't be like they are! Simple!

**David BOHie** · 11/04/2012, 1:07 PM

The Soviet Russian-esque bannings,"infractions"and two mods, who make the SS look like a great bunch of lads, in particular makes it a truly awful site. There is also a helluva lot of gimps on here also.

**gormacha** · 11/04/2012, 1:16 PM

I don't post that much, and I'm a relative blow-in, but I'm posting even less recently after threads were removed. We're all grown-ups and should be left to discuss things pretty much as we see fit, save for legal reasons.

**Mr A** · 11/04/2012, 1:50 PM

Originally Posted by David BOHie

The Soviet Russian-esque bannings,"infractions"and two mods, who make the SS look like a great bunch of lads, in particular makes it a truly awful site. There is also a helluva lot of gimps on here also.

Thought for a minute you might slip into hyperbole there, but fortunately you kept things constructive and informative. Well played sir.

**Charlie Darwin** · 11/04/2012, 2:02 PM

The KGB and Gestapo were feared all across Europe for their ruthless suspension of message board posting privileges.

**punkrocket** · 12/04/2012, 10:04 AM

My favourites were the Stasi, always thought it had a nice malevolent ring to it.

**dfx-** · 12/04/2012, 7:46 PM

Originally Posted by marinobohs

....rumours abound that in a fit of pique at the FAI decision Adam has sold the site - twice.

The Bray Wanderers forum will remain however as part of any deal..

**bennocelt** · 13/04/2012, 6:53 AM

Maybe I'm getting older but when good serious informed posters are getting kicked off and the college kids take over its getting boring and turning into a frat boy site! But I still check in every day!

**BonnieShels** · 13/04/2012, 11:30 AM

I've been completely out of the loop here since the issues that were going on with the site.
Who has been kicked off?

Also, we should encourage UCD fans to come on board. :-P

**ger121** · 13/04/2012, 4:06 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Also, we should encourage UCD fans to come on board. :-P

Now you well know, that both of them are already members on this forum

**corkharps** · 13/04/2012, 4:21 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Also, we should encourage UCD fans to come on board. :-P

Nah UCD tried this and it doesn't work!

**Poor Student** · 14/04/2012, 1:21 PM

It's a funny one. Very few clubs in Ireland, if any, have the critical mass to have fuctioning, active and worthwhile forum by themselves. Foot.ie on the other hand could be all these things if more groups of supporters used this as their main forum or hub of activity as used to happen in years gone by. Football is however by it it's very nature extremely tribal. We prefer to stick to our own cliques and engage in closed minded group think and unfortunately if we go places like foot.ie we can find rational views that challenge or invalidate some of the ideas that our own group holds dear. This can be evidenced by the strongly held belief on the Rovers Ultra and Cork forums that foot.ie is anti their clubs. It seems over the years more and more groups of fans have been convinced of this and hived off into small communities and activity on foot.ie has dropped. This is by no means the only factor but certainly a contributing one.

**redobit** · 14/04/2012, 1:51 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

It's a funny one. Very few clubs in Ireland, if any, have the critical mass to have fuctioning, active and worthwhile forum by themselves. Foot.ie on the other hand could be all these things if more groups of supporters used this as their main forum or hub of activity as used to happen in years gone by. Football is however by it it's very nature extremely tribal. We prefer to stick to our own cliques and engage in closed minded group think and unfortunately if we go places like foot.ie we can find rational views that challenge or invalidate some of the ideas that our own group holds dear. This can be evidenced by the strongly held belief on the Rovers Ultra and Cork forums that foot.ie is anti their clubs. It seems over the years more and more groups of fans have been convinced of this and hived off into small communities and activity on foot.ie has dropped. This is by no means the only factor but certainly a contributing one.

Will never ever work for the simple reason that fans want to discuss their club with their own kind.
Sligo Rovers fans used foot.ie as their main forum before, but then you'd have a load of other fans coming into that section giving assumed opinions, being WUMs, etc. and just making it a free for all. It ended up just p!ssing you off.