How can he sign someone on a transfer when the FAI have imposed a transfer embargo on the club? This just gets messier and messier.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecountyman
Edit: By the way, it appears that we've "Kevin Doyled" them.
How can he sign someone on a transfer when the FAI have imposed a transfer embargo on the club? This just gets messier and messier.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecountyman
Edit: By the way, it appears that we've "Kevin Doyled" them.
Quote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
He can sign whoever he likes - but the FAI won't accept any registrations while the embargo is still in force.
Like Roddy himself - any 'signings' are a waste of time & space.
It's not clear what the story is but apparently Sunday is flying, no pun intended, on Sunday to Ireland to meet up with Roddy for pre-season.
I'm shocked at how small the budget is set for this year, I'm not 100% but Roddy complained that the budget in Malta was "only €18,000 a month" on Newstalk. There the cost of living and wage levels are significantly lower, plus travel is non-existent. So it seems a bit odd now. Maybe Diamond Joe Quimby is on board as well in Cork :-)
You submitted a plan to the FAI that said you would pay €12,000 per week in wages.
The FAI sign off on all contracts ?
Why did they let cork go up to €35,000 per week at one stage?
All payments over the table?
The FAI are as much to blame as Cork if they only agreed to 12k in the pre season budget.
What a stupid league
For what it is worth a journo friend relayed to me that Coughlan recently told him the budget would be €500k (presumably €12,500 pw over 40 weeks).Quote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
I have no idea if this is true (TNB probably doesn't either) but have no doubt about the veracity of the conversation.
Anyone else feel like Cork is a lame horse at this stage? Should be taken out of it's misery...
Its been a lame horse for a long time, and it should have been put down months ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doomofman
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...t-2004940.html
A vet with a gun might come in handy now, with two magic bullets.
From the link above - last paragraphGood or bad news for Cork / Coughlan?Quote:
Earlier this week, Alan Mathews withdrew his legal proceedings against the club, a development which means that his case comes back under the remit of licensing. Mathews is listed as an employment creditor dating back to 2008, thus adding to the bill that the Leesiders need to settle if they are to have any chance of remaining in the top flight.
Bad news for Coughlan. I'm happy with it though. Hopefully will force him to sell up based on no licence...or just to **** off.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Doesn't Mathews hate Coughlan? Imagine any move by him is designed to screw TNB over if so.
Presumably they didn't go over 65% until the season started, at which point they had a transfer embargo slapped on them. FAI logic.Quote:
Originally Posted by higgins
So should all junkies:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Doomofman
If we cast our collective minds back to when Roddy went to Floriana, there were many people on here advising their fans that Collins was trouble and shouldn't be touched with a barge pole.
They only have themselves to blame therefore. The stench that follows Collins is so bad that you'd have thought people would have learned to give him a wide berth by now.
The man needs chasing out of Ireland, never mind Irish football.
Yeah def agree, a little hard to feel that sorry for any club that would give him a job - did could have saved themselves an awful lot of money and grief if they only asked any LOI fan
Completely agree, if any Cork City fan had a say in the manner of his appointment then i'm sure we may have escaped the reign of Roddy the Plasterer but it was Coughlans call, birds of a feather....Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
In fact Tom and Shoddy are like Siamese twins about Cork at the moment, seen in the Boardwalk restaurant yesterday lunchtime at a sports awards event and then later at Nemo Rangers complex, possibly sussing out a place to train now we've been locked out of Bishopstown.
It's easy to slam a club for hiring a manager and giving him a second chance. The fact remains that the man, Roddy, is a decent coach and good motivator, he got a mid-table team firing and unfortunately had a personal falling out with one one bad egg in Malta, and after that it seems things weren't completely rosy.
To say Cork fans didn't have a say in appointing the manager is true, but it remains to be seen whether there will be any crowds, any sponsors and any protests against the appointment. It's often that no matter how objectionable a manager is, if he's winning, he's tolerated, if not, then he's out.
Apparently Cork are going to pay compensation to get "their man".
Yep, hates him with a passion. Anything he could do to screw him over I'd say he'd do it, unless he's had a religious experience lately.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Question - would you like him to manage your team?Quote:
Originally Posted by weecountyman
Benno, he played for my team and this year I was certain he was going to take over but instead we got the Galway boss. Now while I do respect Roddy's achievements (relatively) on the field, his recent attitude and behaviour really is disgusting. So when he was first mentioned in relation to Dundalk I thought, hmm, would this be a total disaster (remember we've just had Sean "drop the shorts" Connor) or might he actually do a half decent job. But now, not a chance! You figure someone might mature or cop on after being blacklisted for so long, instead he seems to have made an even bigger victim of himself and more reasons why nobody wants him.
So, long story short :-) when Sean Connor left, I'd have been willing to give him the chance, now, no way in hell!
Good luck with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecountyman