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Mick Cooke and Johnny McDonnell are two the names I've heard.
Johnny McDonnell? He'd hardly leave now to go to Bray?
Bray Wanderers FC Club Statement – 2nd April 2015
New Management Team Appointment
Bray Wanderers is delighted to confirm the appointment of Maciej Tarnogrodzki as caretaker first team coach with immediate effect.
Maciej has worked on youth development at Bray Wanderers over the past season and has overseen the Bray Wanderers under 19s team. He joined the Seagulls in 2012 after a stint at Shelbourne FC.
We would like to thank Maciej for taking charge of training and first team duties last night, and he has the full support of the club and first team squad of players.
Speaking last night, Maciej Tarnogrodzki said, “We had a fantastic training session with the squad. There was a very positive and professional response from the players and we are all now fully focused on Friday and our main priority is picking up points. Our captain David Cassidy, despite injury, even took a small part in training last night and all of the players are fully behind the job at hand. The plan is very simple… we need to score goals, pick up points and move up the table. We have a very talented, young squad who are fully committed to Bray Wanderers. Results will come, we have no doubt.”
Bray Wanderers would like to thank Alan Mathews for his service to the club over the past few months. Alan was an extremely important part of the club’s survival last season. We would also like to thank his backroom team for their dedication and passion for Bray Wanderers.
Unfortunately results did not go our way during the opening games of the season, however the club is extremely confident this run of form will end and turn around.
The club would like to reassure supporters that the positive plans for Bray Wanderers are still unchanged.
The Board and Owners of Bray Wanderers are fully committed, as a priority, to sustaining the club’s Premier League status and keeping the club alive financially. There are ongoing initiatives to improve the club both on and off the pitch. These include plans to further improve and utilise facilities at the stadium, as we understand the importance of our home ground to supporters.
Finally, we would like to thank the community of Wicklow for supporting Bray Wanderers throughout the recent change of owners and management. Bray Wanderers is fully committed to youth development both on and off the pitch and we will continue to do so through Ardmore Rovers and Phoenix Youth. We will continue to inject this youth into match days and we are constantly working to change Saturday evening at the Carlisle Grounds into a family evening out.
ENDS.
No questions answered.
Number one rule of the LOIQuote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Bray sadly has been badly run for many years now but lets blame the new owners on everything!
Mayhaps they can't release any reply to the Mathews statement without legal advice?
I have no doubt Mathews and his henchmen jumped before they got the bullet. The man is a snake and is trying to preserve his LOI managerial career so he can get at least one more shot at wrecking a club on the field like he did at Shels and Drogheda.
I've also no doubt that a pub/hotel group doesn't take over a football club out of the goodness of their own hearts to burn 200-400k into a black hole per season to subsidise a perennial loss making LOI club.
There's too many questions hanging over Bray to suggest to me they'll last the season. If there's any legs on CCTV/Portakabin-gate the club is toast.
He left Shels in the lurch a couple of weeks after signing a new deal and signing up players so he probably would do it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.
Cooke would be looking for a decent budget to work with and he won't get that with a club where there's questions over whether he would even get paid himself!
Best practice would be not to make any statements to the media on such contentious things without it but they could if they wanted to obviously.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Just appoint Roddy and let's get this party started
It's all about the party with you! :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
The club seems to be a mess. I was talking to a bohs fan at Ireland game & he said they missed about 10 mins as Bray had nobody selling tickets & nobody seemed to know what was going on & who was in charge.
We can hope ...Quote:
Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.
Bray chairman speaks on Today FM. Doesn't add much to be honest, as the threat of legal action means he would not discuss the controversy in detail.
http://www.todayfm.com/Bray-Wanderer...to-take-charge
It is very clear there are a number of odd things on the go. They are avoiding completely former players being owed money. They are trying to cover all issues with positive spin. And most importantly they are not going to allow any discussion which will leave them open to any scrutiny. I hope the club will get through this, we don't need this crap so soon in the season.
Bit harsh, the man with the same name as the publican in The Riordans has done okay so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by ciaraa
I know Drogs had a bit of a spell early '80s but surely it should be Fr Dev for the Wicklow lads!Quote:
Originally Posted by KeepersBall
Fr Dev was Glenroe not The Riordans
I know - I was alluding to the Wicklow soap and Bray needing some Devine (sic) intervention. At least one Journo was quietly thinking that way.
As far as I can remember, any time someone in Glenroe tried to go to Bray, they died horribly. It was the writers' go-to situation when they wanted to get rid of a character: "Let's kill them in a terrible accident on the way to Bray".
Presumably because walls fell on them.
The club released a statement yesterday saying they've resolved their differences with Mathews and there will be no legal action. Importantly they admit there was a breakdown of communication as Mathews had alleged.
Where did they release it as I can't see it anywhere online?
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2015/...alan-matthews/Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
What's interesting about it is that Bray are not pursuing legal action against Mathews and not the other way around.
I think that was how the RTE journo interpreted the statement. I am not so sure that is what was intendedQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
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On Friday, the Seagulls released a statement which read: ''Bray Wanderers is pleased to announce that it has settled its issues with Alan Matthews and his management team, and that no action of any legal nature will be taken,” a statement read.
Open to interpretation by all so. That's precisely how I interpreted the statement too. Seemed to me all along that Bray were being tight-lipped over the whole thing because of that very reason.
I think they've dealt with the situation very well in fact. Where many clubs would have crumbled or released a hap-hazard statement themselves, they kept very quiet and didn't give anything away through the whole thing and settled all without anything going to any sort of legal proceedings, which is an almost annual occurrence in the League of Ireland at this stage.
Now here's a twist...http://www.leagueofireland.ie/#!Alan...f266495e1f1c41 I'd say the McGettigans would be very popular if they got rid of the current chairman and general manager and returned some familiar faces whatever about the return of Mathews.
there was a piece in Mirror today about this. I thought the takeover was complete though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seagull
Saw Darren Quigley say something about Mathews returning... I thought he was joking!
http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/socc...tional-5517320
Mirror bit there
It looks like the McGettigans takeover was never completed reading that article. But why not I wonder and who's funding the running costs of the club at the moment?Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
So you read one part of the article and not the others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seagull
But I wonder if you're being passive aggressive for a reason...
You're reading a lot into my comment there. What I meant was that even though it says the McGettigans have pumped money into the club, there's no certainty that that's continuing. I have no hidden agenda here, if getting rid of the O'Connors would mean the return of familiar faces, then bring it on. Too many changes have left the club feeling like an unfamiliar place to me anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
At the Limerick game relations of 2 different players told me, independently, that Matthews would be back. I didn't believe the first one but then I heard the same story a second time I did wonder!
Didn't the "familiar faces" have the club in a mess and days away from bankruptcy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seagull
A lot of "Bray People" left around the time of Devo going, is the talk I hear anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Met a few people at the last UCD game who said they'd changed from following Bray to following UCD over it.
Struck me as really unusual.
Just to say, from what I've heard it isn't necessarily "Devo's gone, I'm off" - there were more changes around that time that seem to have peed people off.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu