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Agree with your post SLK we would get better crowds and our higher profile woul help us secure better players.
However, with regard to Mr Purcell, as long as Danny is in charge there is NO chance of him ever putting on a Limerick Jersey again. Suffice to say that he blotted his copybook with regard to promises made pre season and then left us down big style. I could care less if he came back anyway I would rather have players who want to play for Limerick in my ream. :)
All the best
JohnD
For a club of Limerick's stature,there's only one place to be-the Premier League!It would not only benefit the team,fans & those connected to the club,but would reflect Limerick city & area in a better way,businesswise,etc!Besides,from a purely selfish point of view,it would give me more opportunities to cross the sea & take-in the away matches played against the Dublin clubs!Keep it going Blues!
I think promotion this season would be good for the club this season IF its possible to consolidate at prem level next year without overstretching financially,and many of you who are at games week in week out (which i am not) seem to think this is the case,which would be great news.
However,im unconvinced of the longterm good of a yo-yo situation as,it will alert bigger fish to our more talented players having seen them first hand and they may be tempted away if we go down.this leads to a need to constantly rebuild the side which takes even more time.
Also,theres the benefit of people having a winning habit built up over a longer period and potentially,if home form is maintained,a fortress of a home ground to launch from.
Anyway,here we are discussing the pros and cons of promotion for limerick f.c.......you'd have gotten decent odds on that 12 months ago.great stuff. :ball: :)
I have to agree with what John D is saying, I didn't like the way he reacted after his penalty on Mon. night, as far as I am aware he wasn't getting any stick prior to that, but putting his hands to his ears in the manner he did was uncalled for to say the least.I would much rather we went after Brian Buckley from Fairview............Quote:
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buckley hasn't been approached i heard
Not this old chestnut again! :rolleyes:Quote:
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he did that?Quote:
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well the way johnd spoke about him i'm sure he shouted something at some point in the game?? - maybe purcell caught wind of that? maybe hes been slagged for not signing for us and its getting back to him?
:ball: The Pat Purcell debate is dead in the water. He hummed and hawed about signing at the start of the season, and while he never broke promises, he did string us along and lead people to believe that he wanted to come back. Either way, he re-signed for Waterford, and good luck to him. He's an outstanding footballer, and maybe felt himself to be still above first division standard, which he probably is to be fair.
The club was still up in a heap at the start of the season, and I'm sure now he has a sneaky regret or two up his sleeve.He did what he felt was right for him, and thats that. He should have handled it better, yes, but I don't think we should castigate him. He's one of our own, and gave great service to this club.
Football life is short enough. I don't believe in making enemies (unless you're from Cobh :D ). I'm sure we'll have the last laugh on this and that he'll ultimately regret not coming back, but it was his choice.And that should be respected.
so say he wants to come back next season? what happens then?
We sign him. He's one of the best centre halves in the premier division. Not signing him would be cutting of our nose to spite our face. He coul dhardly be blamed for not signing this season - he is a premier division player.Quote:
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Can't argue with that logic. Looks like it'll be a one-man protest JohnD! ;)
quite true. i was talking to him the other day and he said the only one who contacted him was Mick Kerley last year. He said hes away with the irish juniors this week (poland) but after that...Quote:
Originally Posted by lim abroad
Promotion is always what we should be looking at, every season, bar none (well maybe not last season), and its looking like we have a good chance of grabbing second spot anyway. I reckon Dublin will win the division outright again, because whatever about them not dominating us when we played thm, they still had a lot more organisation in their team, which at the end of the day is what will get them promoted from the first division.
As for Purcell, well all he did at the start of the season in my book was use Limerick as way of upping his worth to Waterford when negotiating his deal, which is what every footballer with any bit of sense would do in the circumstances, so I reckon we should welcome him back if he wants a return next year.
That doesn't make any sense at all. How is the commercial side of the club supposed to take off if we are stuck in the First Division? How are we supposed to expand our fan base and raise the profile of the club? We're getting an average of 1000 per game now, but that won't get any better in the First Division, except for the odd top-of-the-table clash where you might get 1500 - 2000 people. Division one is a grave yard. No TV coverage, no radio coverage, little or no media coverage. All this means the club is out of the spotlight.Quote:
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The only reason that we are getting 1000 at our games now is because there is a real chance of going up, and things are being run correctly. If we don't go up in the next two years, we're screwed, because the crowds will die again. Most of my mates will not go to watch Limerick in this division. They've been before and found it painstaking. The Premier Division, or a cup game against the likes of Shamrock Rovers, now that's a different story. They'd go then without a second thought. So we need to get out of this division asap. All this talk of 'get the foundations right first' is a load of idealistic rubbish. The reality is, unless we strike while the iron is hot we're going to find ourselves struggling again. As a Limerick man i'm sick of sporting hard luck stories, be it soccer, GAA or rugby. For once, I want to see success for a change. We can win this league. We'll worry about the Premier Division when we get there. ;)
We are definitely good enough to go up this season. Sometimes this year we haven't played well, and still managed to get a draw or a win. It does look like Dublin City are the best team in the division, but then they lost at 'home' to Dundalk. I think Limerick are better than any of the other clubs in the division. We are on a very good run of late and now we face our two biggest league games this season so far. If we do get promoted I think it would be a huge boost to the club both on and off the field. We would be able to attract more players to the club and the extra exposure the club would get being in the premier would definitely bring in more investment and sponsorship.