terrible news for Cork and the fans.
Coughlan should be hung, drawn and quartered.
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terrible news for Cork and the fans.
Coughlan should be hung, drawn and quartered.
Im literally stunned to say the least but in the long run it seems the right decision.. it did no harm to limerick at all when you think about it..
How can any club coming out of examership be allowed to purchase players like Faz, O'Donnell etc. It's total madness for this to be allowed happen. Coughlan spoke about cutting his cloth, if he was a business man as it's claimed he would have got all the facts first before setting out any business plan and then cut his cloth. The other side could be that he presented one face to the examiner but once in the door done the opposite! What happened to the other consortium that was bidding against him is there any chance of them reviving their bid. The dogs on the street in Cork have been saying for ages that this was going to happen because of TC many had business dealings with him or new him, at the time I thought it was a smear against the man, but was it!!
It's a real shame because at the club there has been some excellant volenteers that were let go or told leave who gave tons of time to City yet the club sought volenteers to help out!!!
Not only sign them, but outbid other clubs for them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Dreadful news.
it's very hard to get your head around. to me the only conceivable explanation for the spending and wages is that tom coughlan actually believed cork city could become a money making venture through champions league football etc. nothing else explains the club's behaviour...in the words of that guy at the end of The Bridge on the River Kwai: 'Madness, madness!'
Dundalk had both players as good as signed when Cork came on the scene waving a cheque and offer a considerably higher wage to both players. Any wonder they are where they are.
The automatic relegation of any club that enters examinership, as well as being a punishment and deterrent it would also act as a safety mechanism for the clubs themselves. I doubt if Cork would be in this position had they been relegated.
Cork? Nope Sligo beat them in a replay at the Showgrounds!Quote:
Originally Posted by SMorgan
What about ST holders? Will they get anything back?
back from who?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
Even if they were listed as creditors, they'd be down the list, and revenue are top of that list
Good show there, very sad stuff indeed.
Why the hell wouldnt they take the money out of the man's bank account when he offered it???:confused:
Is it true that Cork was paying 500 euro goal bonus and something just as mad for clean sheets? ( not them clean sheets as in linen :) )
I believe that is true Lep. At least up until they entered examinership last year. POssibly it was renegotiated in January.
Who the hell were they paying a 500 euro goal bonus to? The keeper?:confused:
Its safe to say its a sad day for anyone on this forum. Most, bar the odd gob****e, are true fans of this league and news like this is obviously very very bad.
Yer man Coughlan should be banned from the city, more for his own safety than anything else, if i was a Cork fan I'd bloody shoot him
Oh stop the bloody dramatics. Cork didn't cut their cloth to suit and got what they deserved. Doesn't mean everyone is glad to see them go but rules are rules and have to be adhered too. The fact that it seems like this may happen makes this the most important day in recent league history. When you pick yourself up off the floor and stop sobbing you might realise that.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Midget Gem
I'm glad you pointed that out, you wouldn't believe the lenghty post i'd written about the wonders of Search Bio powder. I'd have made a right fool of myself :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
But there was nothing the true fans could do about it. The examiner appointed coughlan and coughlan paid completely unrealistic wages. I feel sorry for the fans, because they couldn't really have done anything about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
I never said anything to the contrary but it's still CCFC and they still need to be punished, they can't play that "it wasn't us" card that Rovers fans do.