gael353
22/02/2004, 12:19 AM
Spent my Saturday night meeting fellow supporters who are all worried about if we will be playing league football this season. Its not the licensing issue but the failure of the manager to sign…any players, no, player. Five weeks before the season we had all of our players who were fully committed to Limerick Football Club. Now look at us.
Gone for definite are Brendan Hughes and Derrick McCarthy to Galway. Before them Graham Loughman wasn’t contacted to come back, (remember we have John Healy who hasn’t signed a contract yet) Steven O’Flynn and Brendan Sweeney weren’t offered any contracts by Limerick so they signed for Cork. Colm Heffernan again no offer made so he went to Sligo, Eoin Keating fair enough went to the GAA while Shane O’Donoghue is going to Australia. But overall the reason we have lost players and we look like losing more is because they are not or have not been offered contracts.
I mean, the friendly match with Tralee Dynamos had to be called off, as we couldn’t field a team! What a joke, who are the semi pros here?
Who would blame any of our remaining players for leaving now? If they have any ambition of not finishing last or second last, Shur they might as well! Who’s left? None signed but still training with us are two 15yo’s who are signed by Dublin underage clubs, a useless Nigerian lad, a French lad (who’s also training with Cork) Jimmy Fyffe, John Healy, Paul Finnucane, Pat Purcell, Conor Molam, and Ross Cosgrave (who’s rumoured to be going back to Fairview)
Our team, which nearly won promotion…. was allowed to disintegrate. We have no licence and this is causing not just us but the league problems (hence the AGM being stopped) Rovers will get their licence but you see it’s us! We are the problem here. So no licence, no players, a borrow pitch! What do we offer to this league? I had to come home early tonight. I was tired, drained. I couldn’t enjoy myself knowing that my team is going….going….g
Gone for definite are Brendan Hughes and Derrick McCarthy to Galway. Before them Graham Loughman wasn’t contacted to come back, (remember we have John Healy who hasn’t signed a contract yet) Steven O’Flynn and Brendan Sweeney weren’t offered any contracts by Limerick so they signed for Cork. Colm Heffernan again no offer made so he went to Sligo, Eoin Keating fair enough went to the GAA while Shane O’Donoghue is going to Australia. But overall the reason we have lost players and we look like losing more is because they are not or have not been offered contracts.
I mean, the friendly match with Tralee Dynamos had to be called off, as we couldn’t field a team! What a joke, who are the semi pros here?
Who would blame any of our remaining players for leaving now? If they have any ambition of not finishing last or second last, Shur they might as well! Who’s left? None signed but still training with us are two 15yo’s who are signed by Dublin underage clubs, a useless Nigerian lad, a French lad (who’s also training with Cork) Jimmy Fyffe, John Healy, Paul Finnucane, Pat Purcell, Conor Molam, and Ross Cosgrave (who’s rumoured to be going back to Fairview)
Our team, which nearly won promotion…. was allowed to disintegrate. We have no licence and this is causing not just us but the league problems (hence the AGM being stopped) Rovers will get their licence but you see it’s us! We are the problem here. So no licence, no players, a borrow pitch! What do we offer to this league? I had to come home early tonight. I was tired, drained. I couldn’t enjoy myself knowing that my team is going….going….g