rovers financial crisis and reply to clubman
clubman i agree with everything you posted and its well said. my idea of 500 x200 (or 200 x 500) is just that a short term solution which would give the club a bit of breathing space to tackle the long term problems. you hit the nail on the head when you said that we should be proud that we own our ground but unfortunately we are not utilising it to the full i.e. to generate income for the club. its absolutely useless having so many acres of prime land lying idle all thes years. not for one minute am i suggesting selling the ground to raise funds but why cant we bring some business person or persons on board who have the club at heart and the community and do something (maybe a 2nd all weather pitch) to generate an income for the club but that they can also draw from that income. the club would give them the land to develope it and both parties would share the income off it. this is just one idea. properly run (and that includes properly running the the current all weather pitch which nobody seems to know what is being earned of it) and on a professional basis they would generate circa k3 conservatively per week.
what about a bowling alley again properly and professionally run (like the one in carrick on shannon). there are so many options but at the moment we all know the big stumbling block is THE TRUST. i use the word trust as a general statement but from what i hear not all the members are against developement on a wider scale so that the club can benefit financially from it without selling any of the ground. this is a very important part of the "restructuring" of the club. but there are many stumbling blocks and hurdles to surmount and this has being the cancer for a long time now. this is what needs to be sorted out. this is what the general public should be calling for and have a right to know. why all the cloak and dagger over the years. is it not time to shine a light on the murkey ongoings once and for all. then an d only then can the club move forward. i fear for our current situation greatly because we have agood team a good manager but now we need a miralce. i do believe and am led to believe that there are bodies out there who are willing to come on board and secure the future of sligo rovers but only if ther is total transparency. this will not happen this year as the first move on the chess board has to be made by the "trust" then when the way is made clear the good people will come.
Ask not what your club can do for you but what can you do for your club!!
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Rovers Maniac
Thank god you are EX MC (well i hope you are), what an opinion want the club to fold after 80 bloody years you want our club to fold? We have something clubs would give their right hand for and that is a sense of pride and tradition. People have bloody worked themselves to the bone over 80 years, look at Cork how many clubs have they gone through? And you want to throw all that away some clubman you are.
It's always advisable, Rovers Maniac, to read a post in full before you attempt a reply.
The man living on Coney Island depends on the tide to determine on when he can leave or go to the island, that's of course before he invests in a boat.
I was watching the news this week and a news story was reported on a house in the south of England that's just about to collapse into the sea. 20 years ago this same house was 15/20 yards back from the edge of the cliff. Due to coastal erosion the house is only a matter of time from being a heap of rubble. Rovers Maniac - a hypothetical question for you.
Were you the occupant of that house would you remain a resident knowing your fate or move elsewhere?
There are times in life drastic decisions have to be made and the timelier the decision the less damage - it's called damage limitation.
In the last year and a half Rovers dept has doubled, you don't need George Lee to tell you that at this rate we are heading for the rocks. Choppy waters lay ahead Rovers Maniac, you as the skipper of the good ship SRFC can we sleep in our beds soundly knowing the ship is in good hands?
This of course is by no means having a go at you Rovers Maniac, I'm just pointing out the facts as red arrow before me has done. No point sitting back and waiting for the horse to bolt before saying I told you to close the gate. The problem is that the majority of Rovers supporters know the problem but are unwilling to identify it. The ostrich syndrome, putting one's head in the sand doesn't always work you know.
