Jack McCarthy selling up?

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Originally Posted by Lim till i die

I've €108 quid here :rolleyes:

Next time you hear from a "good source" will you do us a favour, write down what you heard on a piece of paper and mail it to yourself.

There's a good lad.

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christ its all true what people say about you your some ass :) plus beating aisling+pike was no big deal why keep boasting about it ha ha

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Originally Posted by Lim till i die

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

There's more chance of me buying the club.



A rare moment of clarity Mr. Wizard.



Just what did the record for "Number of leeches in a room" end up finally being set at??



You're either slightly but crucially twisting someone words to suit your own ends here or you were lied to.



The dogs in the street know this.

Fairplay to them.

Congrats on a woeful attempt at $hit stirring.



The amount of people who struggle with basic maths astounds me at times it really does.



SLK only knows what I tells him. :p



Is this based on anything other than the delusions in your head and some third hand garbage you misheard from some suit at a junket??



You do realise how stupid this looks, given that you're posting your opinions on a public forum right??



It's a thundering disgrace that you got a cup winners medal "Muckles", a disgrace.

You'd some cheek showing up at the 25th anniversary aswell.

But then, you only have to ask the dogs in the street to know about you....



Absolute toss.



No fewer than four Supporters Club members are on the clubs board.



"Muckles" obviously does.



Don't believe the hype joe



Major, wholesale change is needed asap if the club is to go forward. Would have thought that blatantly obvious.



As am I.



Return on Investment??

This is Limerick football club we're talking about!! Two hopes of that happening at the moment and one of them has been dead a few years now.



Of course he has. A pretty hefty one by the average joesoaps standards (wow, what a terrible pun)



I'd say he has made bigger losses at the track.



No one shrewd gets involved in LoI football to make money. Come on now joe.



We're not going to get promoted next year because the cash isn't there.

F A C T



Would the club be profitable at this level?? Of course it wouldn't. Have a look round the league.



Off the top of my head, I'd say you could nearly double it.



Two hopes. One Dead. See above.



Not strictly true I'd imagine but the result for us is all the same.



It's never "worth" backing a LoI club. If they are willing to be philanthropic than hooray for us but I'd say money is a bit thin on the ground these days......





*I'd just like to put a disclaimer at the end of this post. I am in no way involved in the club or the club committee. I have, however, been to every game this season, have a brain, have eyes and keep my ear close to the ground. I can bet you all I have a far better idea of the shape the club is in than "Muckles" above.

Seriously lads, "Muckles" comes on here looking for All Blacks tickets and when he gets tole where to go, he coes back on a few days later with a whinge made up of lies, rubbish, stuff the dogs in the street know, sticky-back plastic and pva glue and the forum goes into meltdown?? Meanwhile I'd say you could count the number of tickets sold for the awards dance with the fingers of both hands.....................

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that's a fairly long rant!!!!!

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Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

Frankly its none of your business as to what my opinions are...

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Then keep them to yourself :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by joeSoap

However if he is a shrewd as people say he is, then surely he would stick around for one more season as I believe promotion is a real possibility. That would open the doors to average gates of over 1000, greater merchandising sales and a chance to make the club a very marketable brand.

Surely thats what he should be thinking about....not walking away from potential.

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I've said this over and over again - you don't make money in the LoI. You buy a club to make your portfolio vaired. You keep your losses to a minimum and wipe out the debt that Merchandising and Gates aren't covering every year. Owning a club at any level bar the very very very top is nothing short of a labour of love. Unless we were scouting every patch of Grass from Dingle to Derry looking for young new talent and selling it on at a profit (but to who in this rubbish league?) then we'll never do more than cover the cost of keeping the floodlights on of a Friday night.

Our loveable little club might indeed get promoted if we increase the wage bill and sign Wayne (that was for you SLK) but then things get more expensive! If you don't want to do a Cobh you have to buy in some players and pay some of our lads a little bit more to compete at all. How much merchandise will you shift to a crowd of people watching a first div. team getting hockeyed off the pitch every week by prem. teams?

Next season is going to see a lot of levelling of playing fields as regards clubs and money. Pats will have resources, Derry will have less resources and the rest of them will have little or no resources. Success in the EL will probably be confined to those two, unless Bohemians miraculously manage to sell Dalymount. After that it will be a pretty level playing field across the rest of the clubs. If we were to get promoted to the premier, a much more financially viable premier, then we would have a great chance of consolidation, stability increased revenue.

I do not like talk of 'doubling our wage bill'. That has been done before, very unsuccessfully, and would lead to more ruin. We have proven that we are more than capable of getting promoted with what we've got and my point is that if we do get promoted then the other clubs will not be much better off than us when we get there. Thats why I prefer stability, not change at this time.

As for PBW being Muckles....I don't know. The Muckles I know wouldn't know how to turn on a computer, let alone generate a Foot.ie account. The man is a clown.

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Originally Posted by Lim till i die

We're not going to get promoted next year because the cash isn't there.

F A C T

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But the cash isnt anywhere else either.

Unless you mean we wont get promoted cos we wont get a premier licence cos we dont have cash to spend on upgrading facilities or whatever when we win the league next year.

If thats not what you meant, then you can keep your reality checks to yourself, I'm not interested. We ARE going to win the league next year :p

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Originally Posted by Buzzer

that's a fairly long rant!!!!!

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That's a fairly short, pointless post. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by joeSoap

I do not like talk of 'doubling our wage bill'. That has been done before, very unsuccessfully, and would lead to more ruin. We have proven that we are more than capable of getting promoted with what we've got and my point is that if we do get promoted then the other clubs will not be much better off than us when we get there. Thats why I prefer stability, not change at this time.

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There isn't a snowballs chance in hell of the wage bill going up 20% next year, never mind being doubled.

No Change = No Promotion.

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As for PBW being Muckles....I don't know. The Muckles I know wouldn't know how to turn on a computer, let alone generate a Foot.ie account. The man is a clown

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He's not Muckles, just someone I hold in similar esteem.

I just like calling him Muckles. So sue me. :p

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Originally Posted by KevB76

But the cash isnt anywhere else either.

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Fingal
Shels
Possibly Waherfurr.

Will all piddle tens of thousands that they don't have up against the wall trying to get promoted.

We wont because we can't.

Kildare/Mervue, Longford, Athlone, Wexford, Cobh, Drogs will all be terrible and we will finish ahead of them.

UCD will be handy.

Monaghan will be Monaghan

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Unless you mean we wont get promoted cos we wont get a premier licence cos we dont have cash to spend on upgrading facilities

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We wont get promoted because we wont have the squad.

We're short cover for both full back positions, a winger and a striker.

Now if we were Shels, Fingal or Waherfurr we would say grand go out and sign Greg O'Halloran, Kevin Waters and Stephen O'Flynn, sorted, promotion party in November.

As it is, we'll be making do with what we have and we will come up short.

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We ARE going to win the league next year

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We ARE going to finish top five, at the lower end, outside the playoffs.

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Originally Posted by Buzzer

ahh!! can't you pick up your dumbtit..kid

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What does this mean?

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Originally Posted by Treaty Gooner

What does this mean?

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Well it's in rubbish now. I couldn't give an infraction because I don't know what it meant either... :confused:

A dumbtit is an old expression for a baby's soother....or pacifier, or whatever they're called these days. It was a dumbtit back in my day though.

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Originally Posted by joeSoap

A dumbtit is an old expression for a baby's soother....or pacifier, or whatever they're called these days. It was a dumbtit back in my day though.

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Ah ok. I'm glad I didn't get mod crazy now. :D I resumed it was dumb tit with the space missing.

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Originally Posted by sadloserkid

I resumed it was dumb tit with the space missing.

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Did anyone on here do basic English at school? :D

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Originally Posted by Monkfish

Did anyone on here do basic English at school? :D

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I'm blaming my keyboard. 'P' is a stupid letter anyway. :)

true about rumours doing the mills. go back to main issue will fai be issusing license again to club with no seats,poor facailites at jackman park. plans for building have being turned down by council. where will limerickbe playing soccer if any in a decent ground to attract. what the increase means is to keep the players that are already at club so other teams dont poach away.. then there is rumours off going back to markets field to develop ...

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Originally Posted by talent scout

true about rumours doing the mills. go back to main issue will fai be issusing license again to club with no seats,poor facailites at jackman park. plans for building have being turned down by council. where will limerickbe playing soccer if any in a decent ground to attract. what the increase means is to keep the players that are already at club so other teams dont poach away.. then there is rumours off going back to markets field to develop ...

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the FAI license wont be a major problem,they need a team in the mid- west.If we got one last year,next year should be the same.more important to them is the financial side of things. as for the players,there wont be too many clubs poaching players as the money is'nt there. most of the clubs will be part time and locally based next season.

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Originally Posted by LK37oldskool

the FAI license wont be a major problem,they need a team in the mid- west.If we got one last year,next year should be the same.more important to them is the financial side of things. as for the players,there wont be too many clubs poaching players as the money is'nt there. most of the clubs will be part time and locally based next season.

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well cork will be sniffing around along with galway, if they offering players premier football. players will move..

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Originally Posted by talent scout

well cork will be sniffing around along with galway, if they offering players premier football. players will move..

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Limerick will be more likely to get players from those two clubs. Check what I said in the Transfer Rumour thread.

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Originally Posted by talent scout

well cork will be sniffing around along with galway, if they offering players premier football. players will move..

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at a price as most (about 90%) are in contract and clubs will have to part with serious money. Cork or anyone wont be spending money this year and no LOI club can afford one or two of our player assets. Jack is not selling up, hes simply seeking other investment to support him in financing the club. Hes in Limerick for the annual awards this friday come along and have a chat with him. The budget is staying the way it was at just over 2 Gs a week, that was yet another repeated miss quote by the paper.
Friday 8 o clock in the Greenhills come early to avoid the ques

I was just reading in tonights Herald that Fenlon has to cut his budget by €600,000 yes...€600,000 for next season. This is only going to leave Bohs with a budget for next season of €1,200,000. See here

Their cleaner probably gets paid well more than our top players. Shows the gulf in everything really.