The Derry City thread - Derry sign first four players

**dcfcsteve** · 28/08/2009, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Absolutely sanction them. But Cork showed this year that it doesn't necessarily make any impact.

(BTW, on MariborKev's point, I wonder where all the Derry fans are who suggested that it was common policy to not pay transfer fees for six months, or where dcfcsteve is who noted that Derry weren't fussed with such trifling amounts as E30k...? Interesting to hear from them today (for all the good it'll do))

I'm here honey !! Glad to hear you're missing me....

Now where did I describe E30K as a trifling sum ?

**pineapple stu** · 28/08/2009, 12:19 PM

Nobody'd ever miss you, steve.

However, here you are describing E30k as a "relatively minor sum", and here you belittle the amount, saying that one of your draw sellers would bring it in himself. He'd want to get cracking...

(If those links don't work, go to the post beforehand. Quirk of foot.ie means I can't link certain posts...)

**Umberside** · 28/08/2009, 12:28 PM

Good luck Derry and fair play to keeping things in order longer than the rest of us. We've been on the verge extinction twice in a year, but from what I can remember Derry haven't had serious problems since 2001, which in a league like this, is remarkable.

**dcfcsteve** · 28/08/2009, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Nobody'd ever miss you, steve.

Didn't stop you demanding my presence today though !

It can be our little secret Stu.....

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

However, here you are describing E30k as a "relatively minor sum", and here you belittle the amount, saying that one of your draw sellers would bring it in himself. He'd want to get cracking...

(If those links don't work, go to the post beforehand. Quirk of foot.ie means I can't link certain posts...)

The links don't work, I can't see any way to check posts prior to those, and as I'm catching a train in 90mins I'm not going to trawl back.

The Dream Drsaw did raise something like �100k for the club (other can clarify the actual sum).

Given our club's monthly outgongs have apparently been almost three times that E30k sum, at approx 3% of our entire annual outgoings I think it wouldn be fair to describe it as a relatively small sum. That doesn't mean it was to be sniffed at - no sum is for Irish football - but we've had bigger financial fish to lose sleep over for the last 6 months.

Though such sums do indeed all add up.

**pineapple stu** · 28/08/2009, 12:42 PM

At least you negated the need for the links to work by putting it in your post again.

In the thread in question, you more or less poo-pooed my suggestion that this outcome was inevitable. That's all.

**dcfcsteve** · 28/08/2009, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

At least you negated the need for the links to work by putting it in your post again.

In the thread in question, you more or less poo-pooed my suggestion that this outcome was inevitable. That's all.

I do like winding you UCD kids up Stu.....

Copy and paste it over then so I can see it, as I suspect you're liberally interpreting something I said.

**pineapple stu** · 28/08/2009, 12:48 PM

Last post on this, cos the info is there for you -

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I'd feel sorry for you if you weren't overspending massively yourselves this season.

Define "massively"....?

Owing a few clubs what are relatively minor sums in Irish football does not equate to "massively".

and

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

€30k is not a "massive" sum of money in Irish football

The last is interesting, as you sniff at an amount you say today is not to be sniffed at.

**Rovers1** · 28/08/2009, 12:49 PM

Wa-ter you on about?

**Flexy** · 28/08/2009, 2:09 PM

Steve any reason why the board have been very quiet about this statement from Peter Hutton,

**marinobohs** · 28/08/2009, 2:14 PM

Dundalk now Derry... the bad news keeps in this League coming. Not surprised that given the economic collapse in the country that clubs are in trouble budget wise to be honest. at least it is positive that the derry fans are no longer moaning about clubs buying Leagues with money they don't have. the high moral ground just got a little less high

**Umberside** · 28/08/2009, 2:17 PM

Originally Posted by marinobohs

Dundalk now Derry... the bad news keeps in this League coming.

Though there's been very little in the papers surrounding this. The good thing is the clubs are sorting this out before it gets even worse than it could possibly become.

**MariborKev** · 28/08/2009, 2:18 PM

Umberside, it was released after the print deadlines.

**Umberside** · 28/08/2009, 2:20 PM

Originally Posted by MariborKev

Umberside, it was released after the print deadlines.

Oh, that explains it

God I'm really stupid.

**Dunny** · 28/08/2009, 2:20 PM

It was also in the papers about us.

**Umberside** · 28/08/2009, 2:21 PM

Originally Posted by Dunny

It was also in the papers about us.

Nowhere as near as much as us though.

**marinobohs** · 28/08/2009, 2:21 PM

Originally Posted by Umberside

Though there's been very little in the papers surrounding this. The good thing is the clubs are sorting this out before it gets even worse than it could possibly become.

Yep hopefully the "Premiership" will keep our soccer loving journos busy for the foreseeable future. It would be nice though to go a week or two just concentrating on matters ON the pitch

(perhaps that is the niche market the League can be sold on - never a dull moment in the LOI, more fun off the pitch than on it)

**Dunny** · 28/08/2009, 2:22 PM

Originally Posted by Umberside

Nowhere as near as much as us though.

Well obviously...

**Umberside** · 28/08/2009, 2:28 PM

Originally Posted by Dunny

Well obviously...

Not sure how it's so obvious Dunny. It's been pretty bad in both situations.

**Dunny** · 28/08/2009, 2:30 PM

Our players have taken a 15% pay cut. Your club nearly went to the wall. Court date's etc. It's kind of obvious why there was more coverage of Cork's situation rather than ours or Derry's. No?

**Umberside** · 28/08/2009, 2:39 PM

Originally Posted by Dunny

Our players have taken a 15% pay cut. Your club nearly went to the wall. Court date's etc. It's kind of obvious why there was more coverage of Cork's situation rather than ours or Derry's. No?

It might be our own making. I've never heard the chairman of Dundalk talk about the situation to RT� or receive death threats and the like from fans. It's fair to say that down here we over-react.