Best of luck to the new Cork City and congrats to FORAS on a job well done.
Best of luck to the new Cork City and congrats to FORAS on a job well done.
You would have to imagine that certain players who would have been playing for us in the Premier full time will have little choice but ti play part time/amatuer for us at least until June. They won't have a whole lot of optionsQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Captain Killer I say!
Like the FAI's version of the Leinster Hurling championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
Galway and Sligo are special invitees!
Why? The other clubs are either cheats or not good enough!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
Best of luck to Foras. I think they have gotten a lucky escape as if they had of gone in with the consortium it would have ended very badly in a year or two with no plan b.
Where does this all leave Roddy Collins?
I assume that the club that'll be formed by FORAS will be a new entity and Collins won't necessarily be the new Manager. Is this correct?
Roddy can take a running jump right behind his bum chum Tommy
Correct. Different company no
existing contracts need to be enforced.
The great news is there is little chance Roddy will still have a job. There isn't a chance of anybody wanted him around in the first instance and secondly given he was reportedly on 500 Euro a week thats a quarter the planned weekly budget. Notwithstanding his contract wasn't binding. No doubt he'll leave a trail of debts and unpaid bills. No doubt he's a mouthpiece in influencing the seeking of a high court injunction. I wouldn't wish him on my worst enemy.
177 pages of LoI gold.
Roddy to go back to Malta? :p
Isn't he still technically under contract with them?Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
Until tomorrow when CCFC is wound up, which seems inevitable now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doomofman
No I meant with Floriana...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
Yep. Just suspended from what I remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doomofman
Laughing their ******es off in Floriana tonight. Roddy for Kilkenny Gaelic Football team. 'It's a big club etc. etc.'
Why is everyone so happy with the ILC? So far I cannot see any official statement stating which league Bray are playing in next year. Why was this not sorted tonight? They could decide to give this to any first Division club who has a Premier licence.
All the best to the FORAS club!
The Munster bit is shocking, but the Ulster bit isn't when you think about it. AFAIK, there was never an Ulster team in the LOI until Harps joined in the 70s. Then once a 2nd tier was introduced, again there was no Ulster team in the Premier until Derry got promoted a few years later, and most seasons since they have been the only Ulster team in the top flight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
So over the history of the LOI, the top division has more often than not had no Ulster teams. At the end of the day, only 3 counties in Ulster fall within the FAI's jurisdiction, and all of them have small, primarily rural populations. If anything, Ulster is punching well above its weight by having any teams at all in the LOI.
Munster is a very different matter though.
It's not their job to decide who takes Cork's place though, I think. All they do is decide if a club gets a license of not, and they've surprised a lot of people by rejecting Cork.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrufil
It's Bray's place due to them being the highest finishers on the field. Unless they give us the place for just generally being class. Could live with that.
That decision has nothing to do with the ILC. They just award licences, and they have awared a Premier licence to Bray, and several other 1st div clubs. The FAI have to decide who replaces Cork City in the Premier. Hard to see how that could be anyone other than Bray, given they were the club to miss out on the Premier in the play off final.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrufil
I agree it would have been preferable if it had been announced tonight, but to be fair, it's a different institution making that call, they couldn't make it until the ILC made theirs, and that didn't happen until late evening tonight, so it's not unreasonable that it can't happen til the morning,
hahaha thanks made me lol :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
I think I should get the premier division place because I'm great. In fact I should get two in case one goes bust.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Thats up to the FAI. Has nothing to do with the ILC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrufil
I wonder if Rovers fans felt the same all those years that they wandered around Dublin like wild horses. If you were one of those Rovers fans you would know how some of the fans in Cork felt. There is great credit due to the Cork people who tried to keep Cork City alive & tried to get a fair deal for all those people who tonight are left with nothing but unpaid debts & those who tomorrow will probably lose their livelyhood because of the folly of one man.I did not agree with their attempts but they have my utmost respect for trying to do the right thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Hoop
Right decision by the ILC and the bets move for Cork Whatever FC in the long run I feel
Yes, job well done. In business, and politics, you get what you want by asking for twice that. It's a pity that's how it has to be, but if you don't play the game, you don't get what you want. Think about that the next time a political party or a business comes out with an outrageous list of demands. I blame the Star.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Hoop
(Obviously. I blame everything on the Star. Can you imagine the idyllic pastures Irish football would be without that rag?)
adam /goes to sleep with images of homer j prancing around a meadow of flushing toilets
Website and Facebook pages setup, Nice Logo I have to say.
http://www.corkcityforasco-op.com/
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Co....3605382527..1
Delighted to be a Premier Division, terrified to think of our points haul at the end of the season! We could do a few physical and experienced players. We have a good, young squad, but they're too light to compete in the Premier and after seeing Bohs put 7 past us last week, and knowing that we'll be working off the smallest budget in the Premier again, I can't help but fear the worst, while obviosuly hoping for the best. Our first competitive game is in 3 days in the Leinster Cup.
Good luck to the new Cork City, the fans are the ones who have been there through it all and hopefully a couple of years in the First Division will see the making of a better club.
Very MLS-ish..Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
Please don't call a football team a Co-op for the love of God
I know you all would like to keep it Cork City FC but it's really quite, actually it's very, lame to call it Foras Co-op just to keep the FC initials
Cork 84?Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
Cork's Merry Shower of Dancing Giraffes FC would be better than Cork City Foras Co-op to be honest
Welcome to D1 CCFC FC, your 1st game will be against us!
That is some big clubs now in D1........if Cork can start the season well along with us,Shels and Waterford I can see D1 having bigger average Att than the premier!
What will happen to this years Setanta cup I wonder?
Hello Europe! :D It's been too long...
Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade, but isn't there an appeals process that takes place within 3 days? If it's the case that they do appeal then suddenly it's game on again, and the winding up order will only take place if there is no money to meet the bills, which still hasn't been ruled out. Or maybe this whole thing has frazzled my brain!
Woke up to a mail this morning from Malta, the news broke late last night and there won't be any reaction until later on, but the club will be "cautious" in issuing any release or anything related to Roddy. He's still under contract but suspended and will be in the CAS. I don't think anyone will want him back, which is a shame as he'd managed to do a more than decent job getting the players going.
I think we can safely say there is no way back and we, as followers of the local game, can take only a passing interest in what happens in the High Court this afternoon.
PS :- How about somebody starting up a new thread to deal with the implications of all this? 178 pages of posts is mental.
I would, but I am too shy!!
Roddy Collins on Radio1 at 8.30
edit: It's with Des Cahill and will be very interesting as to who is to blame, and if this counts as a relegation on his record, and if he'll return to Malta.
I know I'll be slated for saying this, but I still feel sorry for the man. Having a general lack of cop on has cost him a chance to be a hero in Malta, but instead he thought he was cleverer than the average fox. It's sad, yet I keep smiling.
Except yourselves and Cork aren't really the same clubs as previously though, are ye?Quote:
Originally Posted by Candystripe
Sure we can brush that under the carpet as well.
Everything is great. Well done to all involved on a job well done!:eek:
What about Cork City teams still in competition like their youth team. Are they affected?
It may have been a week late, but well done to the ILC for finally making the right decision for the good of the LoI. Will take a few seasons for Foras to be serious challengers, but no doubt it's only a matter of time before they will be playing in the Premier Division. Said in the Star on Saturday that Damien Richardson will be the new manager?
Roddy looked for a meeting with FORAS but they never wanted to meet him, according to the man. He's clearing out the house, ringing around clubs to get players jobs and he feels responsible for bringing players into it. Amazing how his memory seems to be so suspect.