On Citynet, dcnags called on students to organise a supporters club in UCC.
This is an idea that I have often thought about but never done anything about.
But apathy has lost its control over me and dcnags has given me the kick up the ass I've always needed.
Nothing about a 'UCC Cork City Supporters Club' has even been close to decided. This is as early stages as it gets.
All I've done is taken responsibility for organising an initial meeting on Tuesday next, the 28th of October in the Old College Bar for any students that use this forum or Citynet (and that obviously support Cork City).
This is merely a provisional time and only two of us so far have committed to this. It is therefore subject to change should anyone who wants to go prefer a more suitable time. We're students for Christ sake - we're not exactly run off our feet.
This get together/meeting would basically be a short one at which whoever should turn up will share ideas about how a supporters club of this nature should go foward i.e. aims, methods etc. More importantly it will be a meeting that will decide how we get the thing up and running. Therefore, absolutely everybody is invited (indeed urged) to come along.
In other words, I am calling on people who are interested in running it or people who are just simply interested in membership due to time constraints or also if people who run (or have run in the past) clubs or societies and who would be kind enough to share their experience with us.
To avoid confusion that has already cropped up on Citynet due to my naive vagueness, I must stress that this supporters club is not (if I have my way) 'feckin students' out for a bunch of handy freebies.
I see a Student Supporters club as a means of promoting Cork City on the UCC campus to Cork students whose world is the Premiership and also to introduce visiting students, be they Irish or not, to eL football if they are not aware of it already.
There are already a lot of students and former students who support Cork City so it is patently obvious that this is an accessible group willing to try something different.
I hope that student fans reading this think that this is a good idea and see it as a means of increasing our active support for our club by increasing the support of the club - if you get me.
Anyone interested in meeting up at some stage during the week (at the time stated or at another time that we could organise), please respond on this thread or PM me or contact me at johnriordan2003@hotmail.com - I'd also be interested in comments or ideas from non-student forum members who are experienced in what we intend to start up in UCC.
Vito - John Riordan
