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Originally Posted by sbgawa
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They'll still be starting with a heavy points deductionQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
I think getting back into the PD at the first attempt is not the main priority for now. It will be to ensure they have a club next season, then they can start to rebuild and see where it will take them.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Must be a Gardai or health and safety decision if it's been 500 last few times. 400 terrace and 100 standQuote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
They will not get anymore than them 2 sections allows anyway as their is nowhere to segregate fans only over there.
If I was Rovers fan I'd just buy a home ticket for the stand and sit beside where the away section in stand is. Plenty of Dundalk fans done the same the night we won the league in Tallaght
Yeah it’s difficult enough as it is to segregate current and former owners in that main stand let alone home fans and away fans ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
There's a few empty seats going in that regard + cronies in solidarity.
Temple talks well and also always good to not have the hosts talking over every point during the interview.
The meeting of the new DFC trust on Friday night will be very interesting to say the least .
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The latter should be the priority. I'm not sure who's owed what by Dundalk but I can't imagine there'll be too much goodwill from any small businesses who've been screwed over. Seeing money being spent on an unnecessarily expensive playing squad won't be too popular.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Mike Treacy of Peak 6 has thrown his 2 cents into the soap opera
https://x.com/miketreacy/status/1849...579017929?s=46
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The €1.7m number being floated is outrageous and intellectually dishonest. €850k ex debt and cost to run club until end of 2021 more accurate. SS reduced costs by 20% the following season and put in cash for SCP. They also didn’t hand over a club with €1.5m in debt as of Dec 1st last year
I'm sure Mike knows people in Peak 6 still and is close to them, but he didn't work for Peak 6 and doesn't since the day he left Dundalk
Ironically the day he left was the day we started to go downhill
How exactly would be knows how much Peak 6 left? Id say he's trying to cover for his mates the Connollys
More conjecture? Go on Battle of the Boardroom, spill!?
More mates and agendas? Shocker! Go on Battle of the Boardroom? Spill dfc10....Quote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
I wonder if 850k excluding debt and cost to run club until the end of 2021 might be circa 1.7m? Either way the accounts will show and can be spun or out lies!
I suppose "how we got here" has some merit, or a minimum we wont do that again, but the new reality is how do we deal with todays problems. First step is to stop the bleeding, and that may means any player out of contract is gone next week, and anyone under contract is available next week. Permanent staff will be much trickiers, although how many Dundlak would have I imagine is small.
Then the hard graft of the legacy debts. In the short term , next season, thats about not adding to those, so running a first div club at a profit. Could they turn over 500k from gates and sponsorship, advertising? I reckon Dundalk could and be competitive in first.
Not suggesting anything untoward but looks like Dundalk are stepping away from online/card purchases for today's game.
Don't understand no programme as it's a good money spinner regardless of what people say.
- Dundalk's bar is definitely cash only.
- Match tickets not available online, seems to be at the ground (and presumably cash) only.
- No match programme printed.
The bar has always been cash only
You can usually pay with card in the office and they give u a receipt to get a ticket at the ticket hut
I’d say not selling tickets online is stop Rovers fans buying for the home end ….
A terrible time to be relegated too with the higher UEFA payments for Premier clubs next season
Seems like an odd reason to completely shut up shop for online sales.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Is there any particular good time to be relegated? Look it is what it is, we re-started winnings leagues when euro monies went from 300k or so to almost 1m if you won a game, spent it all on retaining leagues, and almost nothing to show for it, all our fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckett
Bar always cash only in last few years, tickets are always online but rovers fans were buying home end, programme only stopped recently as many other clubs have tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Cash sales only IN BAR - busy matchday bar enviroment,card sales can take up to a minute to process. absolute painQuote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Tix sales cash only,as explained .
Dundalk award winning matchday programme - sad to see it go but obv the club were supplementing to some extent and with costs being cut was one of the 1st items to feel the axe when JT took over. Will be back next season abs no doubt and some very determined people behind it to make sure that happens put probably with a smaller print run.
Like a lot of things a programme involves spending money to make money, and that advance mighn't have been available even if there is a predictable higher return.
Unless they're still using dial-up I can't see that being a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Sorry to see the programme go, at least there's a genuine reason for letting it happen unlike some of the mealy-mouthed excuses other clubs have given for discontinuing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Not esp Dundalk-related, but I can never understand how you couldn't at least break even on selling programmes i.e. volunteers providing content and actually selling them vs advertising + cover price revenue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Perhaps Dundalk owe the present printers money which they can't/won't pay, while word of this has got round other local printers?
Suppose it depends on who you get to sponsor it, but I know that Derry's printed programme costs are more than covered by advertising. Online sales would be more profitable again.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
UCD don't have any programme-specific ads and still make a few quid off ours in the First Division.
You definitely won't lose money on a couple of hundred sales for a match against Rovers. (Or shouldn't, at least)
I think its a PD requirement for licensing to have as min printed programme or at least online, which Dundalk did for free last few games.
Still think very disappointing no printed programme final 3 games, would think its obv due to printer credit, but I am not sure.
I know UCD have gone to Bi-Monthly now they are in the 1st Division but as an avid match day programme buyer, it’s good to still see one being produced and to hear it is making a few quid. Must say it is a decent quality production too.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Ive never bothered with online versions. HT/FT read at the game and then the next day there was always reading left. Its not old fashioned not to be fussed on online editions I think, well maybe it is when you could use your phone!? But it's always a shame when programmes go. Ive wondered if the Dundalk programme wasnt presented specifically as a matchday programme and had spot in local newsagents whether it could it have generated wider sales. It certainly was good enough. Ive had a few in the UK with me after being home and they were picked up by curious English club fans at work and they were still reading an hour later. One occasion a colleague turned and said 'Did you know Dundalk played Ajax in Europe?' I was yes I was at the game and shaking his head his reply was 'F*cking mental!'. I told him after about Athlone v AC Milan in the mud of St Mels among others and he really was WTF). Silly story but he seemed to appreciate these wee things more than Irish football fans, indeed Dundalk people too!!
I've been to a couple of Dundalk home games this year and was "invited" to buy tickets for the Rovers game. Shout out to the T/O for resending me the tickets when i lost the email on the night of the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
The fact that the property is on Hoey's Lane just adds a lovely little touch to that story.
Johnny No Bobs?
According to the article on LMFM...
Not sure if the hack means licencing is a laughing matter or clubs are laughing at Dundalk's woes. Maybe it's an obscure bust joke.Quote:
Dundalk have been tittered on the edge of extinction
Or maybe the poor boob just can't spell.
Surely the whole point of licensing is to prove your professional and ability to meet requirements on time? Does pushing the deadline, for any club, not just Craptown, fly in the face of that?Quote:
Originally Posted by redarmyfaction
I'd have thought punishment rather than changing the expectations would be the response from the League here??
I suppose it does so fair point Declan. As United Park fails many Premier Licensing requirements, derrogations should cease and relegation imposed!Quote:
Originally Posted by FabioMane19
Seriously though, licencing should be a tick box exercise, pass or fail. To apply things to the letter well we could have had a 22 teams 1st Division at times. Its impractical to be absolute yet it encourages things around infrastructure not being done. So is Licencing a load of ******, well not entirely but.....
Good man Fabio, the big fella after Drogs first major trophy in 17 years. You weren't too far off removed from the PD around 2008, owed 500K to Revenue, also 10k to Bohs for rent of Dalymount for Euro games and entered examinership.Quote:
Originally Posted by FabioMane19
The punishment you refer to here, you may have forgotten you got off very lightly and it was 'changing the expectations' you avoided the relegation that Shels and Derry faced around same era.
https://www.lmfm.ie/news/sport/gartl...dyqTMZQsTrwaqA
Brian Gartland took and won an unfair dismissal case against Dundalk ,awarded 53000 euro, compensation of 4 weeks' salary for his terms of employment being breached, as well as just over €8,000 in outstanding wages.…