Players Meeting?

[prince20]

Just read in the paper this morning that Drogheda have arranged a number of high profile pre season friendlies. The first game they are playing is against Iceland.
The following two games are against Tesco and Dunnes

[Drogman.]

Are you serious here ?
OK I'll go through the points...

1) You owe players 300k. You have about 100k of this. Surely you can offer the other 200k over two seasons. Supporters trust and fundraising can easily get the 100k a year with some effort. You raised over 100k in the space of a few weeks.
You can easily do this... you're fooling nobody.

2) Yes he deserves his money. Drogheda signed the contract so that's that. Or else try to sack him if what he done was against the contract.

3) I take it each player is down as a creditor and you have to have all creditors with an agreement. You can't simply lump them together and take a vote.

Higgins, it's easy to comment like that and come up with a plan, but unless you know the exact details then please don't try and tell me things that I'm fully aware of already.

There are a number of factors why the club are trying to come out of this with as little debt as possible.

1) As mentioned already, the money for next season will be required to fund the club. Without this the club simply cannot function under the licence requirements.

2) The country is going through crazy economic times. The money that was there in previous years will simply not be there next season. Sponsorship money will be down, gate money will be down etc..

3) There will already be some debts to be paid off over the year IE. PRSI etc. So if this is the only money due then it'll be a success.

4) The people of the town have gone to the bone as regards giving money. More fundraising efforts, I don't think, will generate the same amount of money given over the past 2 months.

[higgins]

1) As mentioned already, the money for next season will be required to fund the club. Without this the club simply cannot function under the licence requirements.

I'm afraid that's not a good enough reason.
If you can't pay the extra 200k over two seasons then try for 3 seasons or 4 or 5 or whatever the players will accept.

You raised 200k in 2 months was it ?
No reason why over a number of years you can't raise 200k.

It's disgusting the way you were attempting to go about things. Asking people who signed a contract in good faith and held up their end of the deal to accept 30% of money owed so you could be debt free next season.

You should be made pay every cent of that money or else start next season in the A League,,, in my opinion.

[Celdrog]

I'm afraid that's not a good enough reason.
If you can't pay the extra 200k over two seasons then try for 3 seasons or 4 or 5 or whatever the players will accept.

We made the players an offer. They accepted.

What part of that are you struggling with?

Get over it

[BulmersKid]

Asking people who signed a contract in good faith

I don't think good faith has anything to do with signing contracts. It has all to do what will be paid each week.

And anyway, contracts can always be renegotiated depending on the circumstances of both sides.

[White Horse]

We made the players an offer. They accepted.

What part of that are you struggling with?

Get over it

There seems to be a growing sentiment to punish Drogheda United for the sins of their directors.

Personally, I have no sympathy with the directors and they should be barred from being directors of any company.

However, I want to see the club survive as it has been a long hard slog to establish top flight football in Drogheda. The town is one of the largest growing provincial urban areas with great potential as a hotbed for football.

We are all football supporters on this forum and football needs a club in Drogheda.

[LK37oldskool]

I agree in principle with you that the Drogs should survive,we need reprsentation from all over the country but i would hate to see ye be allowed stay in the premier league.At the very least ye should be relegated to Div1,otherwise its setting a bad precedent.

[SMorgan]

If Drogheda are allowed to remain in the Premier Division then their Directors would have made mugs of the whole system. They owe just under €1m they go into examinership and they come out oweing zilch and the punishment, a 10 league point deduction. They'll be laughing all the way towards running up more debts.

Absolute minimum must be relegation.

[HarpoJoyce]

We made the players an offer. They accepted.

What part of that are you struggling with?

Get over it

Drogheda Utd.'s payments to her Creditors.

[Drogman.]

Lads, as a supporter of the Drogs and the LOI, I do feel that if we're let stay in the Premier Div then the system will be laughed at.

To be honest, even if we pass all other criteria, finance *cough*, youth setup etc for a Premier licence, then we'll fail completley on the ground.

Utd Park isn't up to scratch and I fully expect that the club will begin life in the First Div once Examinership is overcome.

As regards the Directors, I fully expect them to not get involved in the clubs affairs once we've come through examinership. If they do, then war will break out as there are still a lot of unanswered questions to what has happened over the past few months. The only problem is that there hasn't been anyone showing an interest in being chairman or whatever. So that is another hurdle to get over.

I don't hold them responsible for the stadium issue falling on its a*se, but I do hold them responsible for not having a backup plan in the event of the stadium falling through. Simply not good enough considering the amount of money invested.