What club would you buy?

[A face]

Maybe call them Dublin City, tap into the whole Viking thing; a surefire winner.:)

Can have shirts that look identical to Dublin GAA jersey's, you'd clean up on the merchandise ;)

[chippie0001]

Garret Kelliher offered the same package to Bohs before turning to Pats, as i said the fans are the problem/solution there.

Shockingly if your fans/board had of said yes you would still be playing Dalymount not be local rivals with drogs.

kdjac


Firstly I doubt he did offer us any offer, however if its the same as Pats, what is the package. We know we are sitting on land worth €50m, I doubt Kelliher offered us anything like that, so why would we sell to someone who could in 5 years move us out and build on our ground. Our problem is we own an asset worth far more than our club is worth, and anyone interested would be deterred by that.

[dcfcsteve]

Can have shirts that look identical to Dublin GAA jersey's, you'd clean up on the merchandise ;)

Nahhhh - club shops just aren't open often enough to sell that many.

Unless you teamed-up with a local retail chain.......

[Kildare Lad]

im sorry superfrank.. had to be bitter at least once in 30 days..

anyways..on a serious note, i'd take kildare county and make it a success

interesting, can i ask why?

[cheifo]

Donegal churns out quality young players every year but a lot either go to England or if they dont get a starting place in the Harps line up lose interest and dont work at developing their game.I would buy Harps and get the best youth coaches money can buy and concentrate on local talent.
If I had to pick a team outside of Harps it would have to be Shamrock Rovers.
The least the Goverment should be doing for the Eircom League is offering potential investors tax free incentives likethey give their horsey buddies.

[osarusan]

56 posts without mentioning Limerick.

So here I go - Limerick 37.

Big potential fan base, with a decent stadium near the station you could get some good crowds. And of course I like them.

[Vitruvian Man]

If any EL club looked like it was getting its act together I'd buy it using proxy agents. I'd pick the dopiest losers to run the club for me and I'd stop any investment into it so it had to keep scratching a miserable existance in its run down stadium in front of a few hundred fans.

Then, when I finally controlled all the clubs. I'd buy a second hand rain jacket and sleep rough long enough until my hair was all straggly and grey. Then I'd just spend my time visiting my clubs at random games and talking gibberish to the locals and otherwise glorying in my very own personal league. And even though those common fans might look down on me I would own those beatches lock stock and barrel.

[galwayhoop]

pointless investing in the likes of monaghan, kilkenny imo. population would never be enough to support the club long term.

a bit like jack walker at blackburn, when he went, then it had to fend for itself and will at best only ever be a middle of the road EPL club and in all likelyhood drift into the nether regions of 2nd or 3rd tier football over the next decade or two.

personally if i bought a club I would probably be the Irish version of Vladimir Romanov! i would find it very hard to let someone else run it and probably meddle in affairs so much that i'd destroy the club!

but if i were to invest it would obviously be GUFC for me. outside of my own club it would be Rovers or Cork.

[galwayhoop]

The effect should wake up Linfield and possibly Ports and Cliftonville, and, with a bit of luck start a push towards an All Ireland league from the north rather than the republic as the thrill of playing Limavady in front of a few hundred starts to wear off.

nonsence. if a move was touted it would be a push for joining the EPL and not an All Ireland League imo!!!

[galwayhoop]

If I won the lotto, I'd never buy any club...FFS a €500,000 input would sort out every EL club every year...if it did happen I'd like to see it come through a supporters trust, the guys who promote the club and fund raise every week...(obviously not €500,000, but a couple of grand a week would be a start)...

the suggestion that someone would donate money through a supporters trust may seem good in theory but would never work.

the people involved in supporters trusts do carry out sterling work but if they were just given a lump of money every month/year then the temptation for resting on their laurels would be massive. I mean why break your neck selling lotto tickets when Mr. X is giving you half a million every year!!!

in fact after a year or two the positions on the supporters trust would become very attractive and you would never know who would fill the roles!!!

A bit like Socialism and the Green party, while talking from a pulpit it is easy to have great theory but when the power comes it is much more difficult.

[dcfcsteve]

nonsence. if a move was touted it would be a push for joining the EPL and not an All Ireland League imo!!!

Any talk of Linfield joining the English premiership is laughable. The EPL would never have them - and rightly so.

If they changed leagues, it would be into some sort of all-island structure.

[jebus]

We're already bought and according to the new owners those are the plans, as well as building up the 'Rebel Army' brand hugely

Lord almighty would people stop calling their club a brand already!?!?

[Risteard]

True. If Shels had beaten Deportivo, it wouldn't have added on a 1,000 fans for their league matches imo.

[Dodge]

it would if they beat them 3 years in a row...

[dcfcsteve]

Totally pointless thread, a small village team would have no issue filling any ground for Champs league group stage so it would not matter the size of the population as you won't be getting the barstollers back for the league games.

That seems to suggest that Irish football is fecked, will never have decent crowds, and we should all give up ? :confused:

The bandwagon obviously rolls out for big games - there isn't a team in the world where this isn't the case. But a conurbation of 20-30,000 people cannot sustain a team at a level where it is competing to a decent level in Europe regularly. A city of 1.5m like Dublin can. And you can be sure that if an Irish team was competing regularly at a high level in Europe it would add to it's ordinary matchday appeal

Just look at Derry City - one good year in Europe and our season ticket sales rocket. That shows you what can be achieved. As I mentioned before, however, it is easier to do it with a team outside Dublin, as those clubs have affinity and a residual appeal within their communities already. Shels didn't add to their gate post-Deportivo, as Shels means nothing to the overwhelming majority of people in Drumcondra, let alone Dublin. The same is not true for provincial clubs. But give Shels a few years of consistently performing at a good level in Europe and they would undouibtedly have picked up some new fans (though again - not at the same rate of conversion as a provincial club).

Hence why I said Dublin clubs offer the greatest potential return on your investment - but also the greatest risk in achieving it.

So population is absoluitely key here - as shown throughout Europe (success and catchment area are very closely linked across all leagues).

[pateen]

with a decent stadium near the station.

Yeah, loads of room for development there all right:eek:

[passerrby]

if i won billions i would buy tallagh finish the stadia and give it to TD .only joking give it to rovers just to shut them bogballers up

[sonofstan]

If any EL club looked like it was getting its act together I'd buy it using proxy agents. I'd pick the dopiest losers to run the club for me and I'd stop any investment into it so it had to keep scratching a miserable existance in its run down stadium in front of a few hundred fans.

Then, when I finally controlled all the clubs. I'd buy a second hand rain jacket and sleep rough long enough until my hair was all straggly and grey. Then I'd just spend my time visiting my clubs at random games and talking gibberish to the locals and otherwise glorying in my very own personal league. And even though those common fans might look down on me I would own those beatches lock stock and barrel.:D

And install your weird fat English friend as serial 'manager' to run each club into the ground in turn.....

[micls]

Lord almighty would people stop calling their club a brand already!?!?

I'm not, i'm recounting what Aidan Tynan said.To him that's exactly what it is. He is not by any means a football man, he is a business one

[CuanaD]

Galway - 75k population, 250k overall in the county - good potential fanbase, with no other eL teams to compete against. A fast-growing population. A popular destination, for the away-fans to 'make a weekend of it' - & a popular place, so the bandwaggoners can hop on easily.
A well-recognised name for promoting world-wide - the Galway 'brand name'.

Most of the above also works for Cork - also larger population & the fact that about 40 million americans think their granny came from cork! - but it looks like someone got there before me:rolleyes:

[kingdomkerry]

Id buy Belfast Celtic or whatever is left of them. Get them up and running again, develope a decent stadium. Put them in to the LOI and watch them take off.

[Da Real Rover]

Id buy Belfast Celtic or whatever is left of them. Get them up and running again, develope a decent stadium. Put them in to the LOI and watch them take off.

Good idea, but would they not be competing against Donegal Celtic for their fanbase?? And look at the crowds they get.

[SunnySweeney]

but your dealing with an entire country of Cork people with an inferiority complex,

kdjac

a clear 'superiority complex' actually

[gael353]

Yeah, loads of room for development there all right:eek:


ammm there is i fail to see your point. 1100 seater stand stating within weeks to begin with

[Sonic]

it is a pointless thread because everyone will just say their own club!!

[sligoman]

it is a pointless thread because everyone will just say their own club!!Feck all have said their own club.

[RonnieB]

Well I am saying my own club now :) I would buy Longford, build a roof over us poor souls opposite the stand!

[monkey magic]

Well I am saying my own club now :) I would buy Longford, build a roof over us poor souls opposite the stand!

with ambition like that we'd be headin straight to the big time:D:D

[RonnieB]

At least we will be dry ;) Fully licensed bar, strippers at half time... the possibilities are endless.

[galwayhoop]

....Fully licensed bar, strippers at half time... the possibilities are endless.

if you are bringing in the Strippers at half time then my advice would be to forget the roof altogether as it might keep them dry and warm ;):D:D