Exactly. Coughlan needs to come up with the money to pay or sell up and hand over to someone who can. The FAI can't issue him with a licence if payments are outstanding, remember aswell that this is the safety net date, everything was meant to be paid by November 30th.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
On an aside, the FORAS fund for players and staff, launched in September is still open.
What's coming in in January that'll make things ok?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
http://dynimg.rte.ie/0002691e-390.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Kevin Long transfer fee, which is what TNB will say to the FAI Id imagine and assk them to fudgeQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Tom's been asked to go into the Celebrity Big Brother house.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
According to the star (page 67) this morning Roddy resigned from his position with Floriana by fax yesterday.
Who's your man that Roddy used to bring around with him as an investor to sweeten deals?
Corkery? I wonder if he's been dangled in front of Tom.
This is like a bad nightmare except now I've started laughing.
What time do the dancing bears arrive ?:D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by tippex
Right after Georgie signs his contract :(Quote:
Originally Posted by marinobohs
Then someone is telling porkies. According to my buddy, who works with a Floriana player, Roddy was offered new improved terms for his contract (adding on 2 more years) only on Friday, was delighted and needed to go home to talk it over with his wife, but he committed to staying to the years end at least, told the players even on Sunday before the game that he was happy and that the Cork rumours were just that "I can't take a p#ss in Dundalk even without going for the job".Quote:
Originally Posted by tippex
No fax landed yesterday from the Rodmeister but the players were told he might not come back. Bit sad to say the least!
What a stand up gent.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecountyman
With ethics like that he should run for the Dail.
Or run a bank.
Roddy "Steps down"
http://www.eleven-a-side.com/corkcity/news.asp?n=37773
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
In fairness I've heard only good things about how he's built up the confidence of the players and won over the supporters, but it's sad that he runs when he's on a winning/unbeaten streak! I know it's good to go out on a high, but not when the club are about to face the top two sides within 10 days!!!
Maybe it'll be a new movie, costumes provided by Louis Copeland, screenplay by Damo Richardson. Roddy Collins stars in "The Runaway Coach"
A tragi-comic-melodrama that is fun for all the family - The Northside People
Were Floriana in any danger of being relegated this season?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Betting Man
Shockingly not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Réiteoir
Roddy seems to have occasionally written manager's notes. Here's one of them, complete with suitably heroic Roddy pose.
Dan Connor: I've had enough
Cork keeper to join exodus as wages go unpaid
By Aidan Fitzmaurice
Wednesday December 16 2009
CRISIS CLUB Cork City edged closer to the brink this week with the news that the club's few remaining players were not paid.
And now most of those six players are trying to find alternative employment, on the basis that their contracts with City are effectively null and void.
Experienced keeper Dan Connor says he cannot see himself playing for the club again as long as controversial owner Tom Coughlan remains at the helm -- Connor today launching a stinging attack on Coughlan and his stewardship of the club over the last 18 months.
Beleaguered Cork supporters have witnessed an alarming exodus of talent in recent seasons (see panel), with 14 players joining British clubs from City in the past four years. Most recent was the sale of teenage defender Kevin Long to Premier League side Burnley for a reported €150,000.
But more are bound to leave, as long-serving midfielder and Ireland international Joe Gamble, who only last month expressed his desire to stay with Cork and see out his career at Turner's Cross, is this week on trial with League One side Hartlepool United. The Monkey Hangers, as Hartlepool are sometimes known, are hoping to get clearance to play Gamble as a trialist in a reserve game against Sunderland today.
Gamble would command a fee of around €150,000 if sold on the transfer market, but due to breaches of his contract such as non-payment of wages, it's likely that Gamble will be seen as a free agent and allowed to join Hartlepool, or any other club, for no fee.
Debts
That leaves Dan Connor, Dan Murray, Danny Murphy, Billy Dennehy, Stephen O'Donnell and Paul Deasy as the only players left under contract at a club which has no manager, no squad, no training facility and massive debts, with owner Coughlan due in Dublin tomorrow to answer disrepute charges from the FAI.
But Connor, who only joined Cork from Drogheda United 12 months ago on a two-year deal, has already made up his mind and insists he will not be at the club if Coughlan is allowed remain in charge -- though the prospect of Cork being denied a licence and kicked out of football is a very live one.
"I honestly could not work with that man again. There is a complete absence of trust now between the players and the club," Connor said today.
"I would quit senior football and play in the Leinster Senior League before I would go through another season like this and work under the conditions that we had in Cork for the last year.
"Paul Doolin said when he left the manager's job a few weeks ago that it just was not worth the hassle and he was right. Sometimes you have to say enough is enough. If the owner doesn't have the money to run the club, why did he take over in the first place, or why didn't he let go a few months ago if he had the chance?
"This club has been a disaster and a shambles. For the last few months it's been embarrassing.
"We had the problem with getting the bus to Dublin, problems with wages, issues at the training ground, no showers after training as the power was cut when the bill wasn't paid. We've had enough," added Connor, who won a league title with Drogheda United and also played for Waterford United, after a spell in England with Peterborough United.
Connor has not been paid by City in more than four weeks -- and even then he was only paid a portion of the wages he was due for the month.
The remaining contracted City players were due to be paid yesterday but they were informed the previous day that there would be no wages, which deeply angered the City squad. Cork asked the players to delay their wage commitments until next month, when Cork are due a payment from Burnley relating to the sale of player Kevin Long, but Connor says he has no faith left in the club.
"We've had broken promises, we have been lied to and it's very, very hard to take. We are coming up to Christmas, I have a family to support, but I haven't been paid at all in a month and it's a while since I was paid my full monthly wages.
"Just now we were told that a donor's cheque had bounced, so there was no money there for us.
"Footballers are aware of what's going on. But we can't accept being lied to. The club can't just promise that you will be paid, and then send you a text at 8pm the night before your wages are due saying, 'We don't have the money so we can't pay you'. People's livelihoods are at stake here," he added angrily.
Battling
Derry City and Cork City spent the latter part of last season battling it out for third place in the league and the Europa League place that follows, but now it's certain that Derry, who finished fourth, will not even be in the Premier Division next season, if they are allowed back in to senior football at all, while at this point in time, it's hard to see Cork City FC being awarded a licence for the 2010 season.
Former player Gareth Farrelly has contacted the FAI's club licensing department to alert them to the fact that Cork reneged on a promise to pay him a some of €36,000 that he was owed, while former manager Alan Mathews is pursuing Cork through the courts with an unfair dismissal case which could cost the club €300,000.
That leaves the players from Cork and Derry in limbo, unable to find a club in Ireland due to cut-backs, so a move abroad appears to be the only real option for most. Some Scottish and lower-league English clubs have offered trials, but so far the only players to secure moves are Bohemians keeper Brian Murphy (to Ipswich) and Cork defender Kevin Long (to Burnley).
Connor, 28, had a trial with Exeter City in the summer but that failed to result in a contract. The Dubliner may have to look outside of Ireland for work.
"I don't know what my next move is," he said. "Going abroad might be an option, but going on trial is hard for a keeper. You play in a trial game and get nothing to do, so you can't impress."
- Aidan Fitzmaurice
Evening Herald
Trick is to laugh at other clubs, and cry for your own.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
In my experiences anyway
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"Just now we were told that a donor's cheque had bounced, so there was no money there for us.
Even the cheque from the sperm bank has bounced, bad times indeed.:D
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/..._corkcity.html
I feel for you... I really do