Cork City denied a licence; club to be wound up; FORAS to enter First Division

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  • weecountyman
    Reserves
    • Jun 2009
    • 452

    #2296
    Dan Murray,Danny Murphy,Dan Connor,Mark McNulty,Stephen O'Donnell and
    Paul Deasy - not honest! If you'r going by Roddy's column this morning. It's the first article for a while where TNB doesn't merit a mention. But lots of grovelling and pleading with the new owners to keep in. Also Cork should be playing in the Permier Division this year, according to the great man!

    And shock horror, George is going to be the City captain this year - in the Premier Division!!! (At least it means he's not up with us!).

    This is going to be fun!
    Last edited by weecountyman; 31/01/2010, 11:48 AM. Reason: How could I forget George!

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    • corkboy360
      Reserves
      • Sep 2008
      • 607

      #2297
      Originally posted by Dalymountrower
      Great signing ,if it comes about.
      lol
      Tommy No Bobs

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      • Martinho II
        International Prospect
        • Nov 2003
        • 9841

        #2298
        why had cork to play their friendly in St Colmans park? Are they coming back at all to turners x?
        Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?

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        • juan
          Reserves
          • Jan 2009
          • 358

          #2299
          Since we're not training in Bishopstown any more, can someone help Boy George find the gate?
          Good evening!

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          • tiktok
            Coach
            • Feb 2003
            • 5623

            #2300
            Originally posted by Martinho II
            why had cork to play their friendly in St Colmans park? Are they coming back at all to turners x?
            MFA owed money, I assume renting the Cross for a friendly game would Only add to the debt. Normally these games would have been played at Bishopstown but we're locked out of there and I guess Ramblers are the only club stuck enough for cash to extend Tommy a bit of credit!

            There have been rumours that Coughlan and Meaney put St.Colman's down on our licence application, but even they couldn't be so daft as to break links with the Cross.
            Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.

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            • tiktok
              Coach
              • Feb 2003
              • 5623

              #2301
              Dan Murray has been stripped of the captaincy too, Riddy has handed it to Georgie for the season. That won't go down well, nothing against George but Dan, as long as he is at thr club, has to be our captain.
              Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.

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              • Riddickcule
                Reserves
                • Nov 2009
                • 529

                #2302
                Scanning the sunday papers and they all say there's a second group that want to takeover the club.
                We know one is Quintas, who's the other?

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                • Doomofman
                  Reserves
                  • Nov 2009
                  • 421

                  #2303
                  Originally posted by Riddickcule
                  Scanning the sunday papers and they all say there's a second group that want to takeover the club.
                  We know one is Quintas, who's the other?
                  Foras? Or is that part of Quintas(hint: I've no idea who or what quintas is)

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                  • weecountyman
                    Reserves
                    • Jun 2009
                    • 452

                    #2304
                    Originally posted by Riddickcule
                    Scanning the sunday papers and they all say there's a second group that want to takeover the club.
                    We know one is Quintas, who's the other?
                    I think this is where smoke and mirrors come in. Tommy will mess this about quite seriously and get the season started, make it to June when Roddy does a runner and claims, at first, it's for "personal reasons" and then reveals he'd not been paid since December and was tired of the commute (which he'd been doing since April) to Cork. Naturally he'll have demanded a pay off to go quietly, and when this doesn't materialise he'll be on every media outlet that can handle being done for slander and slate Tom, who then sells the club to a mysterious Arab Sheikh, fronted by a Nigerian Doctor, and he only finds out he'd been diddled out of the ownership of the club when the cheque, from the Bank Of Ojibwe, turns out not to be real - the fact that it was edible didn't trigger any clue for Tom who was desperate to save Cork from floods, depression and unemployment by giving the city a club in European competition.

                    On an aside, did anyone hear Tom on radio last night, it was Today FM as far as I know but it was a repeat show from the morning - I think it was the weather guy off TV3. Anyway, he came across much better than on Roddy FM and RTE, in fact only the completely heartless, or CCFC fans, would have denied he was opening up. He said that if he'd to do it again he would, but completely differently and that LOI football was more cuthroat that politics, that CCFC cannot die and that while supporters were mostly wanting him out, he wanted them to understand that he wasn't making any money from the club and that they will have a new owner soon. On the topic of players and staff revolting, he said he understood them and accepted their grievances and hoped the new owners would rectify it. About Roddy he accepted Roddy had lied about his contract in Malta, that they "took him at face value" and even that he signed a statement to the contrary. It was he, Tom, who forced Roddy to retract his false allegations but he didn't do anything to the detriment of "that Maltese club" because he didn't know the real situation. He hoped the new owners would give Roddy a chance but that they'd also "sort out" the Maltese because of the way it all happened. He ended with "I did my best, my best for Cork and for the football club, it obviously wasn't enough and now I hope the new owners will build on what I've left."

                    He mentioned new owners more than 7 times (I stopped counting).

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                    • tiktok
                      Coach
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 5623

                      #2305
                      Didn't hear the interview, but Tommy playing the victim is already old.
                      Everything that has become an issue for him is of his own creation, everything! He had offers for the club back when we were in the High Court last August, he instead chose to adopt a brass neck posture and only for the deep pockets of the person now trying to buy the club, Cork City would have been liquidated, that's Tom's legacy.

                      When we came out of Examinership, he had a chance to start again properly on a clean slate and he didn't take it. Instead he started down the same path that Arkaga had been on before him. That's why we're back in the High Court AGAIN today facing ANOTHER winding up order from the revenue. The crocodile tears now is all about being his post CCFC life, wishing to be viewed as a martyr who gave his best but fell short in some vague hope that the people of Cork will forget what he was really like.

                      We won't
                      .......and Billy Kelleher has lost a few votes because of his involvement with Meaney and Coughlan for the next time he stands for election too.
                      Last edited by tiktok; 01/02/2010, 7:46 AM.
                      Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.

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                      • weecountyman
                        Reserves
                        • Jun 2009
                        • 452

                        #2306
                        Originally posted by tiktok
                        Didn't hear the interview, but Tommy playing the victim is already old.
                        Everything that has become an issue for him is of his own creation, everything! He had offers for the club back when we were in the High Court last August, he instead chose to adopt a brass neck posture and only for the deep pockets of the person now trying to buy the club, Cork City would have been liquidated, that's Tom's legacy.

                        When we came out of Examinership, he had a chance to start again properly on a clean slate and he didn't take it. Instead he started down the same path that Arkaga had been on before him. That's why we're back in the High Court AGAIN today facing ANOTHER winding up order from the revenue. The crocodile tears now is all about being his post CCFC life, wishing to be viewed as a martyr who gave his best but fell short in some vague hope that the people of Cork will forget what he was really like.

                        We won't
                        .......and Billy Kelleher has lost a few votes because of his involvement with Meaney and Coughlan for the next time he stands for election too.
                        I understand where you're coming from, truly, and I do feel he could be a bit of a confidence trickster, both himself and his compadres have been very poor in their dealings with everyone and especially last week when Roddy was given carte blanche to rail against the FAI and try to rally fans. I didn't him believe when he said they were dealing with everyone in good faith, the Roddy - Malta saga was proof of that, but I think he saw glory, went for it and only when he was up to his neck in it realised that he was in trouble. I also believe that arrogance has cost him dearly, he could have been a major hero by bringing FORAS on board, but he didn't bother. I do hope that there is a good resolution to all this yet I do see him being in charge until the summer, Cork struggling on in the Premier and looking for a new boss by the time the Europa League rolls around.

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                        • Macy
                          Godless Commie Scum
                          • Jun 2001
                          • 11395

                          #2307
                          Originally posted by tiktok
                          .......and Billy Kelleher has lost a few votes because of his involvement with Meaney and Coughlan for the next time he stands for election too.
                          I know TNB was Kellehers election agent (property developer and FF TD in joined at hip SHOCKER!), but has he been sticking his oar in recently?
                          If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.

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                          • tiktok
                            Coach
                            • Feb 2003
                            • 5623

                            #2308
                            Originally posted by weecountyman
                            I do hope that there is a good resolution to all this yet I do see him being in charge until the summer, Cork struggling on in the Premier and looking for a new boss by the time the Europa League rolls around.
                            I agree, I think there's a huge danger that he's pretending to engage in a buyout process to buy time and ultimately retain control
                            1. With the revenue winding up order, pointing to the potential buy-out as evidence he can find the money
                            2. With the FAI licence, they'll come under pressure from many quarters to give a licence to CCIFL on the understanding that he'd sell

                            Rumours are going around that 2 of the 6 contracted players have left, if he could get rid of all 6 I think he'd be happy that he can finance the club through next season because he probably buys into Roddys blather about the players he's buying in being affordable.

                            I think there's a danger that this could all be another game of brinkmanship that TNB is playing. I think few things would give him as much pleasure as being in possession of a licence and still in possession of the Club in a month's time, with 'mouthy players' gone by mutual consent and Roddy and the new sustainable side heading up to Sligo to compete in the Setanta Cup. The revenue may even take a chance on getting their money back after the rescheduled date if he can show that the wage bill for 2010 is significantly less than 2009, while income could be unaffected.

                            Because it's almost impossible that the due diligence and change of owner could be completed by Fen 14th the next few weeks will be a Mexican Standoff involving FAI/Licencing Body on one side and Tom/Meaney on the other. if the FAI blink and give Tom a licence while he's still in a position to pull out of a deal, it's going to get incedibly messy, not to mention that the price of the club could suddenly sky-rocket for potential buyers.
                            Last edited by tiktok; 01/02/2010, 9:11 AM. Reason: Some woeful spelling and grammar in there!
                            Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.

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                            • tiktok
                              Coach
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 5623

                              #2309
                              I think Liam Meaney is Billy Kelleher's official Election Campaign Manager with Tom in the sidelines.
                              I'm not aware of Kelleher sticking his oar in, other than his rumourd word in Miriam O'Callaghan's ear to put a little comment at the end of the recent Primetime piece on Cork City FC [Kelleher was in the studio the same night in his Govt. capacity].
                              The thing is, Tom's name is toxic in many circles around Cork at this stage, people who associate with him are being tarred with the same brush.
                              Roddy Collins is already getting the 'Tom's lackey' attacks after he's stripped Dan Murray of the captaincy.
                              Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.

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                              • Spotter
                                New Signing
                                • Jan 2010
                                • 2

                                #2310
                                Originally posted by tiktok
                                I think there's a huge danger that he's pretending to engage in a buyout process to buy time and ultimately retain control
                                That seems like an extravagant conspiracy theory but, given the calibre of the guy involved, it's by no means unbelieveable. The situation where a private individual can have total control over a community-based organisation despite almost universal opposition is just wrong. It's a rare breed of megalomanic that has such a brass neck.

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