The Derry City thread - Derry sign first four players

[micls]

Kildare's implosion leaves a spot to fill in the League, one which Salthill Devon are entitled to first call on...if rules was rules of course and this is the FAI after all.......

Does that not automatically go to Salthill, with a spot in the premier division the one that need to be filled?

The premier spot is being filled by Galway who avoided the playoff, which leaves one less team in Division 1, even including Salthill.

Premier-10:
Bohs
Rovers
Cork City
Dundalk
Sligo
St Pats
Galway
Drogheda
UCD
Bray/Fingal

First-Currently 11:
Bray/Fingal
Shels
Waterford
Monaghan
Wexford
Limerick
Athlone
Mervue
Salthill
Harps
Longford.

Leaving 1 spot free in Div 1-luckily for Derry.

[blue til i die]

Jesus, this league is confusing! forgot UCD existed there for a minute!

[pól-dcfc]

This is a mental day. Press conference underway now. Probably won't get any clips from it before I start work at six - another day of checking the laptop at the end of the bar.

[christo]

Leaving 1 spot free in Div 1-luckily for Derry.

Why Derry though, what about Tralee and all of them? Can't surely just be Derry's spot

[micls]

Why Derry though, what about Tralee and all of them? Can't surely just be Derry's spot

Im sure they can all apply for it, but Id be shocked if anyone but derry gets it

[culloty82]

Certainly no-one's questioning the current Derry City side's place in the First Division, but if a new entity was formed, what's the difference between them and Cobh's demotion last year?

[Candystripe]

I wonder will the F.A.I. pay Swifts the £30k from the €80k prize monies withheld from Europe and 4th place?

[Philly]

I'm happy for the Derry fans in here.

On the downside,though, two trips to Derry per season is going to be a huge cost to many First Division clubs who are already struggling to pay match-day expenses.

[pól-dcfc]

Im sure they can all apply for it, but Id be shocked if anyone but derry gets it

Paul Diamond said on Radio Foyle that we would "hopefully" get the spot. The way he said hopefully, sounded like he meant definitely.

Delaney speaking now. "Road map to get Derry back is worked out". Basically confirming First Division - "An aspiration that Derry will be there"

Down to Wellvan to decide what they do. Wellvan now split from the club completely. Delaney urged them to pay off their debts (paraphrased).

Delaney: "Future extremely positive"

[micls]

Paul Diamond said on Radio Foyle that we would "hopefully" get the spot. The way he said hopefully, sounded like he meant definitely.

Delaney speaking now. "Road map to get Derry back is worked out". Basically confirming First Division - "An aspiration that Derry will be there"

Down to Wellvan to decide what they do. Wellvan now split from the club completely. Delaney urged them to pay off their debts (paraphrased).

Technically Delaney cant say ye have it as the process is independent but realistically its yeres.

[John83]

Jesus, this league is confusing! forgot UCD existed there for a minute!

It's our someone-else's-problem field. Mainly, we use it to hide the ducks.

[thischarmingman]

Can someone clarify/have a good guess on what basis we keep the name?

[micls]

Can someone clarify/have a good guess on what basis we keep the name?

Id imagine Wellvan are 'selling' it to the new company.

[jinxy lilywhite]

I'm happy for the Derry fans in here.

On the downside,though, two trips to Derry per season is going to be a huge cost to many First Division clubs who are already struggling to pay match-day expenses.

On the upside Philly Derry have massive travelling support and if the Derry side is competitive and winning, Derry Supporters will follow their side in numbers so in 1st you actually have a side that has decent away support. I imagine the 1st has lacked any good away support since Dundalk got promoted last season


Derry City will rise again like the phoenix from the ashes and hopefully it will be sooner rather than later

[thischarmingman]

I'd tend to agree with Pol, well pleased about having a club for next year but as someone on our forum wrote today:

It now seems that the winding up of Wellvan will be the final, inevitable conclusion to a catastrophic period of mismanagement.

With it goes the hope of all the local suppliers who dealt with Derry City. The very fabric of the community they claimed to come from. They've been shafted. So have Dungannon Swifts, maybe Linfield. Players, management, office staff, the taxman, **** knows who else.

I'd say any form of respect will be very thin on the ground for years to come.

[Magicme]

I'm happy for the Derry fans in here.

On the downside,though, two trips to Derry per season is going to be a huge cost to many First Division clubs who are already struggling to pay match-day expenses.

As Jinxy said the away fans they will bring will compensate and as it is we go to Finn Harps once or twice a year and its not that far from there, so its pretty much the same costs. Rather it than travelling to Cobh.

[the-blue-harp]

yea hopefully there in finn park twice next year. nice gate!

[Greenforever]

I reckon Derry will be back competing with Rovers for the premier division title within 3 years and will probably be one of the financially soundest clubs by then, with a complete clean start, come the start of next seaon Id imagine the club will have a huge amount of goodwill just like Rovers got this year and all the negatives are likely to be quickly forgotten.

[Kildareman]

And this isnt a fudge???

Derry are over their heads in debt. What to do? Get the board to resign, go into administration, say sorry to their staff and other creditors and restart all shiney and new in the First Division.
Now what about the punishment for cheating. The players seem to be the only ones punished.
All Derry get is LOI football avoiding the A league and a clean bill of health.

Fudge?? What fudge??

[SkStu]

do they not get a points deduction for going into administration??