FORAS should start thinking about getting a Cork based side into the A Championship for next year ar eagla na heagla. Not abandoning CCFC in the process but having a contingency plan if Coughlan gets the club destroyed. If this was the happen then we'd want a healthy Cork side back in the PD asap.
FORAS are organising a protest before the game tomorrow night against Sligo .
What kind of a protest? Because at this stage, unless it's a boycott, it's futile.
we dont like oo tom boy! go away like or il busht oor face!!
Well it would go someway to highlighting that fans are not happy, to all Citys support base and also to the media, local and national.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
It will hopefully highlight to local business, sponsors and the general public that FORAS take an interest in the welfare of the playing staff and non-playing staff (who have not been paid for weeks now.)
I was going to stay away from the game tomorrow night but i will go now, in solidarity for people at the club who need and depend on a wage for their families etc. and this protest is a good vehicle for fans like me to do that. Express my dissatisfaction for the clubs board but still enable them to pay their staff.
Good plan by FORAS, I think the 10 minute thing is a great touch.
What do you mean by "the 10 minute thing is a great touch"?Whats gonna happen tomorrow night,might i assume a 10 minute protest before the game starts?
Best of luck with it but can't see much point. Anybody who has even a passing interest in LoI football cannot but be aware of the mess CCFC is in and know that their fans are "not happy".Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
The protests would have been better off before the start of the season when it was obvious to most what was in store with Coughlan at the helm again. Maybe you did have them, if you did then they obviously worked a treat.
This is the first step.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey4ireland
There was quite a few fair points and collateral damage in that clear up.
Anyway, protest went very well, while it's a tiny crowd, more people stayed outside than went in. Factor in some of those inside were freebies, press, the two schoolboy teams for half time and it was a success.
Also quite a few ex-players were quite public in standing alongside the protestors.
Extratime reckons 200 were there for kick off. What's the full crowd?Quote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
Official attendance is 1,377.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
That's a far better result than I initially thought, we heard around 500 had gone through the turnstile before the protest crowd.
I'd take their crowd estimates with a large pinch of salt but it's probably not more than 100% or so off the correct figure.
I remember a few weeks back, TNB put out an appeal target, asking for 5,000 at your remaining home games which would be needed to keep the club afloat (or something along those lines?)Quote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
Just curious if anyone has kept tabs on the actual attendances as against the targets?
Would be interesting to see a running table on that?
Good to hear - who are the ex players youre talking about?Quote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
They stayed on the other side of the road rather than standing with the protest itself so I dont know if they want it too public but they didnt go into the game until after the protest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cosmo
There were 3 Legends that I saw anyway
yeah i was talking to 2 of them while handing out flyers
both in favour of the 10 min protest
[QUOTE=micls;1241261]They stayed on the other side of the road rather than standing with the protest itself so I dont know if they want it too public but they didnt go into the game until after the protest.
After his speech on Mns I would safely hazard a guess that Dave Barry was one of them!
[QUOTE=Martinho II;1241462]I actually didn't see Dave there last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
don't get drawn into revealing by the process of elimination ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by micls