Originally Posted by
Mr Maroon
Cobh Ramblers could drop out of the eircom League of Ireland and return to the amateur Munster Senior League, pending the outcome of an Extraordinary General Meeting scheduled for this weekend.
According to Friday’s Irish Independent, the meeting, to be held on Sunday night, will hear a proposal of ‘no confidence’ in chairman Barry Walsh and three other directors of the club.
And if the motion is carried, Cobh could resign their place among the senior ranks and return to the intermediate status they held before their election to the League 23 years ago.
Walsh told the newspaper: “There are people (within the club) who say that it’s not viable for Cobh to survive in the League of Ireland. People want to go back to what they had pre-1985. They are a small minority but they have been there all the time.
“They want to go back to the good old days when they didn’t have to pay players and the club was theirs and they did what they liked with it. These people reckon they own the club. They can’t understand why we should be paying players and can’t comprehend the fact that we’re in the Premier Division.”