Petition to wind up: Cork City Investment FC Ltd

[Conroy]

Good show there, very sad stuff indeed.

[Dunny]

Why the hell wouldnt they take the money out of the man's bank account when he offered it???:confused:

[The Lep]

Is it true that Cork was paying 500 euro goal bonus and something just as mad for clean sheets? ( not them clean sheets as in linen :) )

[chatterbox]

I believe that is true Lep. At least up until they entered examinership last year. POssibly it was renegotiated in January.

[Boo_Boy]

Who the hell were they paying a 500 euro goal bonus to? The keeper?:confused:

[The Midget Gem]

Its safe to say its a sad day for anyone on this forum. Most, bar the odd gob****e, are true fans of this league and news like this is obviously very very bad.

Yer man Coughlan should be banned from the city, more for his own safety than anything else, if i was a Cork fan I'd bloody shoot him

[Hairy Bowsie]

Its safe to say its a sad day for anyone on this forum. Most, bar the odd gob****e, are true fans of this league and news like this is obviously very very bad.

Yer man Coughlan should be banned from the city, more for his own safety than anything else, if i was a Cork fan I'd bloody shoot him

Oh stop the bloody dramatics. Cork didn't cut their cloth to suit and got what they deserved. Doesn't mean everyone is glad to see them go but rules are rules and have to be adhered too. The fact that it seems like this may happen makes this the most important day in recent league history. When you pick yourself up off the floor and stop sobbing you might realise that.

[Hairy Bowsie]

Is it true that Cork was paying 500 euro goal bonus and something just as mad for clean sheets? (not them clean sheets as in linen :) )

I'm glad you pointed that out, you wouldn't believe the lenghty post i'd written about the wonders of Search Bio powder. I'd have made a right fool of myself :rolleyes:

[Rovers fan]

Cork didn't cut their cloth to suit and got what they deserved.

But there was nothing the true fans could do about it. The examiner appointed coughlan and coughlan paid completely unrealistic wages. I feel sorry for the fans, because they couldn't really have done anything about it.

[Hairy Bowsie]

I never said anything to the contrary but it's still CCFC and they still need to be punished, they can't play that "it wasn't us" card that Rovers fans do.

[Rovers fan]

I never said anything to the contrary but it's still CCFC and they still need to be punished, they can't play that "it wasn't us" card that Rovers fans do.

Oh I know they can't, and it probably was the right decision but I still feel very sorry for the genuine fans as I know they couldn't have done feck all to save their club which is the worst part. There's a difference too between themselves and shams, because shams are a members club, so they could have nobody to blame but themselves if they were to go out of business.

It's still hard to believe that cork had such a high wage bill just after coming out of examinership. Like, is TC simple or something?!

[Rovers Maniac]

But there was nothing the true fans could do about it. The examiner appointed coughlan and coughlan paid completely unrealistic wages. I feel sorry for the fans, because they couldn't really have done anything about it.

To be honest i may be totally wrong but when the biggest sin Cork City fans made was not organising themselves to take control of their club coming out of examinership. The examiner had to give the club to somebody to run, and there was not a que waiting to take it over, TC passed all the FAI little tests ad was allowed to take control. But my issue was why did Foras not even attempt to take control?! When we looked doomed in the 80's we organised ourselves, Shams fans have done it as well it nearly an exact replica of the Cork situation a few years ago.

I also heard nobody complain about signings of players such as Faz and O'Donnell when they were made even though they already had looking at an expensive team. Instead TC seemed to be applauded instead of queried, to me nobody comes out of this as smelling of roses.

[Rovers fan]

To be honest i may be totally wrong but when the biggest sin Cork City fans made was not organising themselves to take control of their club coming out of examinership.

Afaik, potential ivestors had to show they had access to 500k. Sure you know how hard it was for ourselves to raise approx 50k when we were on the brink....

[Lamper.sffc]

I never said anything to the contrary but it's still CCFC and they still need to be punished, they can't play that "it wasn't us" card that Rovers fans do.

Kettle, pot and black.

[micls]

Shams fans have done it as well it nearly an exact replica of the Cork situation a few years ago.

No it wasn't. Rovers had the 400 club up and running and a member matching whatever they raised(a loan I think).

We didnt take over the club because we didnt have the money. Coughlan came in with 500k for the examiner in the bank and the examiner said yes.

There was no hope of us raising similar in a few weeks.



I also heard nobody complain about signings of players such as Faz and O'Donnell when they were made even though they already had looking at an expensive team. Instead TC seemed to be applauded instead of queried, to me nobody comes out of this as smelling of roses.
Absolute rubbish

[LukeO]

Table as out Friday?

Team Pts
1 Bohemians 42
2 Shamrock Rovers 38
3 Derry City 31
4 Dundalk 26
5 Galway United 25
6 Sligo Rovers 20
7 Drogheda United 19
8 Bray Wanderers 18
9 St Patrick's 17

That's wrong, Drogheda beat Cork too.
Pld Pts
Bohemians 19 42
Shamrock Rovers 19 38
Derry City 18 31
Dundalk 19 26
Galway United 19 25
Sligo Rovers 18 20
Bray Wanderers 19 18
St Patrick’s Athletic 18 17
Drogheda United 19 16

I'd just like to add that I'm genuinely gutted for Cork City and all their supporters. This is an absolute tragedy that should never have happened.

[Mr A]

Mad quote from TC in the Irish Times (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2009/0728/1224251492116.html):


The court was told Coughlan has put around €700,000 of his own money into City since taking over towards the end of last year and there is a feeling in some quarters he was not nearly as ruthless with the club’s cost base at that point as he needed to be.

So he put 700k in and yet never managed to pay any tax? Yeah right.

[Mr A]

Incidentally, while the rules may say that all results are null and void I still believe the fairest thing would be to retain the first two series of results and discard everything since.

[pineapple stu]

UCD are more like the cockroach of the LOI. They'll still be there after nuclear armageddon.
Pfft. You mean your club didn't budget for nuclear armageddon? Pathetic.


Who the hell were they paying a 500 euro goal bonus to? The keeper?:confused:
Maybe the players who score the goals?

[razor]

What about ST holders? Will they get anything back?I'm sitting here waiting patiently :rolleyes:
I hope the cheque is in the post.

[placid casual]

If Cork fans want a football team in their city they will get together and put a team together with their own money.
If they dont want to do that then there will be no club in cork and we all move on.
simple.

[BohDiddley]

UCD are more like the cockroach of the LOI. They'll still be there after nuclear armageddon.

Brilliantly put.

If there's any chance left at all, the very best of luck to Cork City.

[Schumi]

It's still hard to believe that cork had such a high wage bill just after coming out of examinership. Like, is TC simple or something?!Either that or he's an evil genius with a plan for world domination that none of us can see yet.


Incidentally, while the rules may say that all results are null and void I still believe the fairest thing would be to retain the first two series of results and discard everything since.Agreed, it's the same for everyone and the table gets messed around a lot less.

[The Betting Man]

Maybe Cork fans will now admit that Tom Coughlan-esque characters, like Kilcoyne, aren't heros?

Trust me Kilcoyne is a hero

[awec]

It's sad news when any football club gets wound up. For all those Cork fans, what are they going to do now?

Is it a definite that they're to go then?

[Hairy Bowsie]

Kettle, pot and black.

If you weren't so keen on churning out little internet soundbytes, you'd realise the idiocy of your post. Shels had no reason to blame previous managment or essentially Ollie Byrne, because we've been held accountable for everything he did and are still paying for it.

[John83]

It's sad news when any football club gets wound up. For all those Cork fans, what are they going to do now?

Is it a definite that they're to go then?
If they can raise about a quarter of a million by Friday, they'll limp on. No one really expects them to do so, and the consensus seems to be that if they did, they'll only be back in trouble by the next wage bill.

The likelyhood is that FORAS, the Cork fans' trust, will set up a replacement club to compete in the A Championship.

[pineapple stu]

they'll only be back in trouble by the next wage bill.
Which is, ooh - Friday. A record even for a LoI side?

[Mr_Parker]

If they can raise about a quarter of a million by Friday, they'll limp on. No one really expects them to do so, and the consensus seems to be that if they did, they'll only be back in trouble by the next wage bill.

Without reading back over everything again, can they be put into Administration again if they don't raise the money or would they be folded immediately?

[pól-dcfc]

Which is, ooh - Friday. A record even for a LoI side?

Wage bill is tomorrow according to the player interviewed on the radio there - didn't get the name, but he was English, so Dan?

[John83]

Without reading back over everything again, can they be put into Administration again if they don't raise the money or would they be folded immediately?
They'll be folded immediately.

[Umberside]

Wage bill is tomorrow according to the player interviewed on the radio there - didn't get the name, but he was English, so Dan?

Danny Murphy.

[marinobohs]

Brilliantly put.

If there's any chance left at all, the very best of luck to Cork City.

+ 1. best of luck to Cork in finding some way out. Sad day for football if they don't find a way out, even to get some breathing space.

[thischarmingman]

Incidentally, while the rules may say that all results are null and void I still believe the fairest thing would be to retain the first two series of results and discard everything since.

Don't know where you think you are, but can you watch your common sense please, or I'll be forced to report the post.





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