pete
18/07/2001, 10:11 AM
Setanta.com (http://www.setanta.com/story.jsp?story=WCContent;id-31784)
IMO as an interested neutral the meeting sumed up all thats wrong with irish football.
- For a club thats effectively been takenover there was maybe 30 middle aged supporters.
- Directors (formerly trustees) arranged the mergers/takeover behind the backs of the members/supporters & had no EGM to discuss.
Meeting got a bit nasty towards the end when a misguided comment from a director about the teams poor performance last year (1st time to finish last in any league) annoyed the manger & a player in attendance.
St Francis directors tried to appease their members about ir truelly being a merger saying the new" club would be renamed 'Dublin saints' in a couple of years. Needless to say the couple of pats fans in attendance believed this would meerly be the nickname of the club. Whose kidding who? :confused:
I'm not sure whether they said it could 100 or 160k to run St Francis every year but 160k sounds way too much. Directors weren't in favout of dropping back to the LSL as costs would be similar to the eL.
Directors seemed to be saying the merger was the ONLY solution to prevent the widing up of the club.
BTW maybe i am a closet Francis fan as i've never been to one of their games so I seemed to have a bit in comment with some of their own "fans" :(
IMO as an interested neutral the meeting sumed up all thats wrong with irish football.
- For a club thats effectively been takenover there was maybe 30 middle aged supporters.
- Directors (formerly trustees) arranged the mergers/takeover behind the backs of the members/supporters & had no EGM to discuss.
Meeting got a bit nasty towards the end when a misguided comment from a director about the teams poor performance last year (1st time to finish last in any league) annoyed the manger & a player in attendance.
St Francis directors tried to appease their members about ir truelly being a merger saying the new" club would be renamed 'Dublin saints' in a couple of years. Needless to say the couple of pats fans in attendance believed this would meerly be the nickname of the club. Whose kidding who? :confused:
I'm not sure whether they said it could 100 or 160k to run St Francis every year but 160k sounds way too much. Directors weren't in favout of dropping back to the LSL as costs would be similar to the eL.
Directors seemed to be saying the merger was the ONLY solution to prevent the widing up of the club.
BTW maybe i am a closet Francis fan as i've never been to one of their games so I seemed to have a bit in comment with some of their own "fans" :(