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Staff from Bruff been let go today apparently things are very bad. I asked the person I talked to would the club be there for the start of the season and was told "wouldn't bank on it" .
Please keep in mind now this is a rumours thread and I am just relaying what I was told in a conversations its not to be taken as fact.
I missed this you guys :D
Whats it been? Three? Four years?
Hope we end up in First Division, Cobh, Cabinteely, way better craic :good:
I have missed it too lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Time will tell what the new season brings.five weeks to kick off.as is, it looks like the first division beckons in 2016.bringing in poor quality cast offs wont cut it,re-signing ex players that couldnt cut it before and a team of mostly under 19's.shane duggan and co must be scratching their heads?
Just listened to mike aherne on 95fm and he said that some admin staff have been laid off by the club this week.he also said that only 50 or so season tickets sold so far?pat o sullivan is looking for help in running the club.you could see things werent going well with the club when they havent signed many top players.mike aherne thinks that theres a possibility of limerick not starting the league in march.its terrible to see this going on before the season starts and moving back to the markets field.limerick should be on a high.maybe its time for a cork city approach and let the supporters take a stake in the club and help out pat o sullivan?
Was listening to it as well it doesn't sound good at all possibility of pulling out of soccer altogether there is no more money from pat o sullivan between rent for markets field players wages the academy don't know how Limerick are suppose to sustain it impossible.
Doesnt look good at the minute.it was always going to be very hard for one man to keep things going.pat o sullivan has put a lot of his money into the club.it would be a pity to see the club go bust before the season starts.could a supporters group like the foras group that saved cork city help in saving the club?
I thought we were kind of led to believe that the academy looked after itself. Almost like a seperate entity?
I can understand the season tickets sales. Absolutely zero was done to entice people to buy them. Every other club has been signing up new players or at the very least re-signing last seasons ones. We have done very very little in that respect meaning no buzz there and nothig to entice you to buy. Did they think the Markets Field would make people want to run out and get them?
I know the Markets Field is just a shell at the moment but surely they could have had an open day for people to come up, go into the stand or across to the popular side and see where they might want to pick up a season ticket for.
If worst case scenario we have to pull out cause of lack of money, what happens the Markets Field? Who will rent it? The GAA have loads of good facilities around. Rugby has some nice little grounds, Thomond Park and now Munster also have a redeveloped Musgrave Park which is far superior to the Markets Field. Where will the LEDP get the income to pay back the loans?
Its baffling how junior clubs like Fairview,Pike,Janesboro all own their own facilities which with a few quid would get them a LOI license and yet the senior club in the city hasn't a pot to **** in.Bewildering.Limerick around just as long.They should own their own ground years ago.If junior clubs can do it why the hell couldn't they.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
Over the years limerick hasnt had the same people running the club unlike the junior clubs who would have people that grew up with the club and their families and people from the community.how many different names has limerick had since it was founded and how many different chairman etc?too many people with self interest and not the long term of the club.pat o sullivan seems to be one of the only geniune guys who wants it too succeed.i dont think they should have ever left rathbane?the burning of the clubhouse years ago set it back a lot.even with the markets field it wont ever be the clubs.a lot of the junior clubs have a clubhouse which provides a place for members and the community to go.limerick dont have that anymore.
what happened to yer clubhouse there that it got burnt down..Quote:
Originally Posted by delboyderis
local vandals decided to burn it down because they had a run in with the bar man/manager.
Im sure Insurance covered that.You have to have a place to call your own otherwise your throwing money down the swanny renting all the time.Makes no sense whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by delboyderis
I'm fairly sure it wasn't insuredQuote:
Originally Posted by faceoff
Ian Turner singed back according to Farcebook
He isnt a bad player.will need more than him to stave off first division football in 2016.
The Turner signing and publicising by the club reads like the club saying "We'll still be around for March 7th but with a team of Ian turners rather than a team of Sami ojis"....alright by me anyway atleast the doomsday scenario now seems to be off the table.
Club statement tonight or tomorrow.
Speaking to a few today and apparently things looking more positive today than they did 2 days I'm told something has happened to help but no idea what yet.
Sounds good. The Blues are back in business🙏Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
I heard from a Portadown fan Ken Oman was training with Portadown but he wants to stay in the LOI and is likely to sign for Limerick.
Anyone ye hear about it?
Hopefully thats what tomorrows statement is confirming.Quote:
Originally Posted by LFC Blue
And here's said statement: http://www.limerickfc.ie/statement-f...-pat-osullivan
Basically saying that there will be a significant reduction in his financial support going forward and that the club will have to live within its means.
Hopefully this will, at the very least, silence the Taylor revisionists, by showing them quite how much he underachieved with the budget at his disposal.
I wouldn't be surprised if Russell got us the same kind of league placing with a fraction of said budget.
Its up to the business community in the region to help out now?the squad wont be great for the new season if no money there though.at least theres a bit of clarity about pat o sullivan and the club.how long will it last when they havent bums on seats at the markets field?i hope it does work but i would be worried with the quality of the team for the new season.
Where to from here is the problem? We need a statement directly from the club and not basically an address from the chairman. The fact Pat has pulled first team funds has been confirmed and that's fair enough. The club now need to let us know what will or has to be done from here and needs to be done ASAP. Further statement surely to follow.
Not sure who can respond from the club as there is no one there.all full time staff are gone. Don't know who is actually running things now.
Also, what has to be done is quite clear from the chairman's statement - the club must live within its means going forward.
That's it really. Player wage expenditure will be a percentage of the club's income, primarily made up of its pathetic gate receipts.
Hopefully, the much vaunted (and much mentioned in the statement) youth system will eventually come to the rescue.
Is Kieran Judge gone?Quote:
Originally Posted by LK37oldskool
Ya I understand living within the means but where do we go as in who is running the club? Money won't just come from gate receipts, so where and how else will funds come in? Do the fans have to get more involved? For example a trust. Are the club going to look for more investors? How is sponsorship this season going. How much is the rent on the Markets Field? What income is needed week to week to keep the first team going?Quote:
Originally Posted by AlanOB
There isn't a single club in the league being run off gate receipts.
AFAIK he's now only voluntary
Heard nothing but we could do with the experience if nothing else.Quote:
Originally Posted by sulywaterfordfc
These are the kind of things we actually need to be told not a list of things Pat has done for the club. Thought it was a very flimsy statement tbh gave no detail at all of what the current situation is and like you have pointed out where it needs to go from here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
He wont do too much for nothing.if at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by LK37oldskool
I leave the country for a few days, come back and turn the internet on, and see that the sky is falling.
Man, it's going to be a rough season ahead. Everything about the current situation with the club is depressing, and I can't see any way out. Limerick looking like a FD-level team more and more, scrapping 500 people into a completed MF.
Pat talking about the same things we kind of know.
He has mentioned some kind of a trust and a group of corporate people possibly getting involved. Now that's the first I've heard of that and it is kind of what everyone wanted to know about. Still all very vague.
They need to park this thing about people wanting a top class team. I think that has been nipped in the bud and no one I have talked to is expecting it.
The genuine fans just want to know the facts about what they need to do from here on or who is running the show from here on.
They can't they have to keep playing down expectations. Although he then goes on to say we need 2 centre halves and a striker and you know if we don't get them a certain element of our support will be screaming that the sky is falling down againQuote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
I wouldn't be puttin a huge amount of trust in the trust.
As for people wanting a top class team, that squad is a half dozen decent players off being anything other than absolute relegation fodder.
Will I still watch them? Course I will I'm a saddo.
Will the good people of Limerick support them? Of course not. Nor should they be expected to.
Jason Hughes supposed to be training with Galway, he's not the best we ever had but a fella like him would add a bit to the squad are Limerick hoping the likes of Hughes don't get any offers from anyone else and play for their hometown club for peanuts or even less, I wonder was he even given the opportunity to play for peanuts!
Up until last week he was still talking to Limerick and had been made more than one offer anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueblood
Mustn't have been a great offer, I don't think Jason would be the kind of fella to go to Galway unless it was his only other option, I think he enjoyed playing for his home town club, doubt Galway are offering him mad money to make it worth his whileQuote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
Word on facebook and twitter is that Sam Oji is staying.