So about those wacky off seasons we have

[Centenary]

Not being a good week .. Cue the club rolling out our North Korean sports correspondent AOB to "explain" how this is part of the revolutionary process. Again, sends out a poor signal to would be signings ..

agree with this, it's a disaster. Had really come good. However the lower reaches in England are full of Herys, let's hope our manager is coming home with a few.

Presume we lost him over money, a case that we scrimped or Waterford throwing money at the league this season?

[Centenary]

Don't think it's time to panic yet though - theres only about 3 clubs that could actually field a team at the moment.

dont think pats, bray, bohs or Derry have done any significant new business yet?

my concern would be that the gap is widening - cork, Dundalk and rovers all moving to 52 week contracts, that's going to trump anything the rest of us can offer

[Centenary]

Ah stop, Cawley is bang average. No addition to any serious squad

[Castlepook]

agree with this, it's a disaster. Had really come good. However the lower reaches in England are full of Herys, let's hope our manager is coming home with a few.

Presume we lost him over money, a case that we scrimped or Waterford throwing money at the league this season?

If the lower leagues are full of Hery's ... How come we end up with Cameron and Berki .. Buyer beware

[bluewhitearmy]

Duggy signing up again is the first bit of really positive news took a lot of unnecessary stick on top of the bit he deserved.

[fieldofmarkets]

Hery gone to a better ground and more money, can't blame the kid. Huge loss.

[CraftyToePoke]

Believe it or not, it's Chelsea. Already played in an U 23 match for them.

Fair play to him. Doesn't help us though with the immediate ticket price going up & squad overall smaller when it was small enough already combo.

[LK37oldskool]

Very true, only thing we can hope for is a good financial deal to hopefully reinvest in the squad.

[Castlepook]

Stephen Folan was offered a deal today.

And he laughed down the phone.

Now obviously I'm not one for exaggeration.

But when that one legged, mincing, prom queen of a centre half is laughing at an offer it's absolutely time for the board to resign en masse burn the Markets Field to the ground fold up the tent and start in the first division again in a couple of years.

We're into Danny Drew with Tommy Lynch as his assistant territory here.

McDonald better have players. And he better have them locked in a room where our chairman can't get at them.

Looking at the Premier licensing criteria and given our corporate and board structure, it's fantasy and farcical that we even get a sniff of a license. If they ever have a look under the bonnet of our application and define the roles and responsibilities to those named individuals in the submission, we'll be getting the roadTBH.

[Treaty Gooner]

No way. Do tell. Is Ogbenne on a kitman's contract too? And is David O'Connor the tea lady? I for one am shocked.

[Lim till i die]

Any stories lads??

Are we still terrible with no sign whatsoever of getting better??

Is the chairman still acting the clown??

Is bruff still abandoned by all but the ghost of the occasional media man??

Any good junior players in town??

[CraftyToePoke]

NMcD flew in to Shannon last night drinking a can of Stella, I heard with seven or eight lads in tracksuits, looked like footballers Anglais. Kept saying shattupyoucaahnt to each other.

[fieldofmarkets]

Don't be saying things like that and getting my hopes up.

[CraftyToePoke]

I'm wrong, I'm wrong lads, in fact he actually piloted the plane and twas Guinness he was drinking outta the can.

[Lim till i die]

Well you're a liar anyway straightaway.

Cos I know for an internet FACT that he landed in foynes skippering a trawler full of Portuguese. No drink involved but he was smoking a massive blunt.

Just to calrify those Portuguese lads are fishermen not footballers.

Well, they were fishermen, they got whipped into galtee fuels on way in the road.

[bluewhitearmy]

Pats keeping 3 of their better players and making a good signing today.. Meanwhile in Limericks...

[Shearer]

Are Limerick not in the Munster Senior Cup this season?

[Lim till i die]

I suppose we could enter if it's a five a side

[CraftyToePoke]

One thing for sure, what we are in here now is the calm before the storm, what form the storm will take is the bit we are unsure of. A storm of announcements of riches of players to google from far flung exotic rain battered lower league UK town clubs you hear briefly of now and again in January come the 3rd round of the FA cup.

Or a different storm, a storm of I fuc*in told ye, I told ye ..... muppets, muppets clowns and fools, couldn't find their arse with both hands, never mind run a football club.

It'll be one of those.

[Treaty Gooner]

Stephen Folan signs for Dundalk.

In other weird news, Ogbene is at Chelsea and is apparently signing for them?

Stop the preseason, I want to get off. Amirite???!!!!

[LK37oldskool]

Ogbene story is old news, I put that up here last Friday. I'm sure POS will negotiate a great deal for the club though !

[LK37oldskool]

He's also got himself a new management team. The kids got ambition

[Treaty Gooner]

Anyone catch the gaffer on the radio this morning?

[Lims4ever]

Just reading the article on the website about his interview on 95 fm this morning , sounds like another season of getting in loan players and youth anyone who's cheap basically but he says we will still compete well which is the main thing🙄😣 , positive spin on a we have no money situation cause I'm being paid a fortune .Surprised to hear him saying what he said about hery in one way I suppose he's right good player with bags of ability but lacks consistency similar to ogbene

[LK37oldskool]

He said to expect announcement on new players in the next few days.

[Lim till i die]

If we are stuck for money why does the chairman constantly veto jersey sponsors?

If you want to keep your toy to yourself pay for it. If you don't want to pay for it **** off and let some other eejit pay for it.

No sponsor on the jersey and by summertime he'll be giving one of his riveting poor me spare some change speeches to the poor souls who are actually still bothering to turn up.

[sadloserkid]

Surprised to hear him saying what he said about hery in one way I suppose he's right good player with bags of ability but lacks consistency similar to ogbene

Just more deflection ****e from Neil. The notion that a player's consistency is nothing to do with him is bad enough but to intimate that the players who were sometimes good and not the ones who were never good are worth getting rid of would be laughable if it wasn't so ridiculous.

Look Waterford clearly tossed more money at Hery then we were willing to. So be it. Let's not pretend he wasn't a key player for us when we very occasionally looked good last season though.

[fieldofmarkets]

Just read his comments on the FB page. Taken at face value, he didn't rate Hery and wants more Joe Crowes.....that would not fill me with confidence. Surely that is not his real assessment.

[bluewhitearmy]

Club Facebook deleting negative comments is a bit sad too people have a right to question the nonsense being spouted by Neil. I've backed him all along this mornings interview definitely makes me question him a bit.

[CraftyToePoke]

I was encouraged by parts of it, the mention of two expected announcements this week which will make the side a lot stronger, and five or six in all being spoken to, now I know we need them all indeed & it's a huge window for the club & vital they get it right but some of the noises he was making seemed positive at least.

I'd agree Hery was super for a while, but also I'd agree he only displayed that come contract renewal time & NMcD is right to be aware of that too.

Re the Crowe mention, I took that to be about the profile of player he is after in the UK, which could be a Robson as easily as a Cameron so a few of those would do a job well.

The next couple of weeks will tell us a lot more about where we are really at I guess & we will know more about his eye for a player etc

[Lim till i die]

We need to talk about the PRO.

This is the man who went home in a strop, wasn't wanted in dundalk, came back down to Limerick. And was taken back on.

The man who doesnt do match reports of interviews if we lose or if he's in a huff. He left and was taken back.

The "man" who at one stage was pulled by his superiors about not doing enough content. Went away pussing for a few days. His comeback then? To tweet the result of a game our u12s lost 8 0. He left and was taken back.

The man who displayed his professional last season by sneaking his buddy Stuart "ITS NOT A DISGRACE" Taylor into the commentary box at the Markets Field. He left and was taken back.

Well he spent his weekend on Facebook deleting comments and telling people to go follow Pike. He left and was taken back.

I mean he was always a cost on the club. Now he is actively taking money out of the clubs pocket before it even hits it tho?!

Surely there's a couple of media students somewhere in town that would take on the PRO stuff?

No matter who you would pick they couldn't do much worse than telling a fella with a couple of kids to take them to watch Pike instead.

Limerick FC - same as it ever was. :good:

[bluewhitearmy]

Banning people from commenting on the Facebook if they had anything negative to say giving smart replies to fans of the club with concerns.

Seemingly unhappy with anyone criticising the club unless it's organised for local radio by him.

Imagine taking advice about going to games you have to pay for from a fella that didn't bother his hole to turn up to games he was paid to be at.

People like this being paid by the club and we losing players over 50 Euro lord above.

[Lim till i die]

He actually put up a sarcastic Dr Phil meme in response to another person. :D

Ffs put him on a bus.

[LK37oldskool]

It's a disgrace the way he told that person to go watch someone else instead of Limerick. I know the person who he said that to and he is a very loyal Limerick supporter
He takes his whole family to all home and away games. This PRO twit is doing a great job of turning people off going to matches.

[bluewhitearmy]

And he will be kept and paid by the club people like Barry Lynch must be wondering why they bother for free.

[Ballistinianlad]

Most of the stuff he puts up is cringey. He does a very poor job in my opionon. Telling people to go watch someone else is taking the biscuit though. Get rid.

[Castlepook]

Very much in the " if you don't like it **** off" customer service realm. If this idiot isn't shown the door and the club apologizes .. they can stick my custom where the sun don't shine. Treating loyal families in this way is simply not acceptable and stinks. Coupled with that, the man in question runs a business in the city .. just the type of message you want sending to the corporate world .. not. And they wonder why apathy exists .....

[bluewhitearmy]

Very much in the " if you don't like it **** off" customer service realm. If this idiot isn't shown the door and the club apologizes .. they can stick my custom where the sun don't shine. Treating loyal families in this way is simply not acceptable and stinks. Coupled with that, the man in question runs a business in the city .. just the type of message you want sending to the corporate world .. not. And they wonder why apathy exists .....

No no the apathy exists because of us talking on here remember. I'm sure he will be put on his final warning for the 10th time.

[blueblood]

Coupled with that, the man in question runs a business in the city .. just the type of message you want sending to the corporate world .. not. And they wonder why apathy exists .....
What business, I think I'll steer clear of the place

[bluewhitearmy]

Just I came on here to see what the story is with the strange Facebook replys by the 'club', my son pointed it out to me, he's 11 and knows you don't do that to your customers on Facebook, has been given the job on Facebook or is it some randomer trying to sabotage the club...

Might wanna edit that name out of your post pal aren't allowed to mention him on here.

[Castlepook]

What business, I think I'll steer clear of the place

The "injured" party has a business ...

[blueblood]

Might wanna edit that name out of your post pal aren't allowed to mention him on here.
Seriously???

[Marketsfield68]

In all of the mis-management that is indicative of the club, one man has survived it all and seems to be untouchable. Mr. Judge is ultimately in charge of the day to day running of the club. Spare me the plaudits that he is one of the most experienced heads in the League. He gets well paid for a job he does badly and has the personality of a lump of coal. I know companies who would support Limerick but wouldn't go near it with him and his buddy JFK at the helm. Time for change.

[bluewhitearmy]

Seriously???

Ya honestly was thread locked previously and we were directed not to mention him on here again cos he was in contact with the site.

[leedsfan88]

Ya honestly was thread locked previously and we were directed not to mention him on here again cos he was in contact with the site.

Can you PM who ye are talking about? I'm very confused

[CraftyToePoke]

Can you PM who ye are talking about? I'm very confused

Go to the Rubbish section at the bottom of the main forum page & read away.

[bluewhitearmy]

Waterford make another strong signing Derry bring in 4 plus Gavin Peers and still we wait.

Where is our one defender Neil spoke about to complete our defence :rolleyes:

[Lim till i die]

Every young player in England is chomping at Neil's bits for the January window to open.

I expect twelve loan players each taller, stronger and more African than the last.

What's the prize money for winning the Premier? If I was Pat O Sullivan I'd be putting 100 grand on in Paddy powers to supplement it.

[Lim till i die]

Actually just checked.

Dave Webster signed for flipping waterford?!

Our esteemed chairman meanwhile is busy suing the gubbermint.

Be an interesting q and a this pre season. Chaired by the supporters club chairman who supports bannings. Hopefully the offensive pro can attend as well.

And McDonald of course, assuming he's still alive.

Because make no mistake if he is willing to coach a team into a second season that the likes of Barry Cotter are starting in he is a bluffer and a spoofer.

[Castlepook]

Waterford make another strong signing Derry bring in 4 plus Gavin Peers and still we wait.

Where is our one defender Neil spoke about to complete our defence :rolleyes:

We'll need more than one defender to replace what's leaving. Currently we have BC at right back and Neil is in the market for a new one. I'm assuming to replace BC who will revert to right side of midfield when Dean Clarke is gone. O Connor has not put pen to paper yet and TW/ST has.That leaves us with two recognised first team players in the back four,that puts us in the **** in terms of quality never mind quantity. No news on Lee J or Tosi or Ogbbeni .. Tis getting cold out ...