Cork City Future.

[Cosmo]

To claim that any club can crash out of football without the league they're in being damaged is pure nonesense.

Not at all.

the league is on its knees now anyway, in over 20 years following it, i cant see how its ever been in a worse mess - but it doesnt need any certain club

As I said in a years time, nobody will give a f*** about cork folding

[dcfcsteve]

Not at all.

the league is on its knees now anyway, in over 20 years following it, i cant see how its ever been in a worse mess - but it doesnt need any certain club

As I said in a years time, nobody will give a f*** about cork folding

Just like no-one laments the loss of Belfast Celtic still, even after 61 years, and just like the Irish league have never tried to get Derry City back, yeah....?

To be honest, the league was in a worse state in the early-to-mid 1980's in my view. Crowds were abismal - much worse than now, even at supposedly big clubs like Bohs and Pats, clubs were still falling out of the league all the time, grounds were even ****tier than they are now, 2/3 big clubs were actually homeless, our sponsorhsip by a Fried Chicken magnate made us a laughing stock, and a home draw in a European preliminary round fixture was akin to winning the world cup.

In fact - since the league was founded in 1922, there hasn't been a period of more than 3 seasons in a row EVER when the league didn't see some sort of flux in teams (joining, dropping out, changing name etc).

It's obvious we won't agree on this, and it's sad to say that the only way you can be proven wrong is if Cork do go out of business. The fact that so many Cork clubs have sprung up to replace defunct ones shows that having a club from the Republic's second city is considered important by at least Corkonians and the FAI/other clubs. And I suspect a new one would appear within a season or two if Cork City did go.

[don ramo]

geograpical spread will be fine, all fans welcome down here in cobh (yes were still here), we might be in the A league but we dont plan staying here for long,

how is it that city got a premier licence while oweing so much to the taxman, we owe E160K, and couldnt get our licence on this basis, so i have to ask how the f*** city got one,

i honestly dont know if this is true, but if it is im not surprised, the whole of cobh know coughlan is a pure ganster, he turned one of the most succesfull nightclubs in east cork into a hotel (mind you it was a hotel nightclub but he shut the nightclub),

when he took over city he moved there offices to the hotel, and he charges city rent for it, he moved the club shop to his own building in the city and also charges rent,

how this man was given the club astounds me every time i think about it,

any kind of official word on this anyway

[gael353]

while it is bad news that cork find themselves in trouble again, you cant pay 35,000 a week in wages pre examanership and then pay 32,000 post examanership. all that **** about coughlin putting in an assurity of 500,000 was spoof. he bought the club for one euro. cork need to quit, pull out this year and come back with Cork FC next year and will be viable just as long as they dont pay out silly money. not gloating but cork and ourselves are very similar. we both borrow grounds, we both have cities with huge sporting backrounds, corks spend per week is 32,000, limericks would be close to 2,000.as long as we dont own our own ground and dont have to pay out for expensive training facilities and grounds we will not be paying the silly money

[sheao]

We need to raise €500,000 in about 2 weeks in simple terms. Things look bleak at the moment for Cork City fc

[Celdrog]

Is it a foreone conclusion?

And those of you dancing on Cork City's grave could very well be in the same situation in the next couple of years. Very sorry for the Cork lads if its true. Hope another club gets going there soon.

Lets all laugh at ManU or Liverpool hopefully imploding, not one of our own.

[jebus]

Oh well.

Not like the rest of us are going on to bigger and better things anyway.

Makes the FAI stewardship of this league even more of a joke though

[Sunny Jim]

I *hope* that I speak for most LOI fans when I say that I hope CCFC don't go out of business. The league needs a team in Cork, full stop. And all this gloating turns my stomach. There but for the grace.............

[sheao]

To be honest the fans now are going to have to take things into our own hands and save CCFC if we want to sustain a professional club in Cork. It can be done,just look at Drogheda and Shamrock rovers.

[corkharps]

Use what as an excuse?

When he was given control of the club, he obviously had to put a business plan together, ,which must have included the payment of the taxbill of 400k. Otherwise WHY was he allowed to con the fans and creditors that he was capable of trading out of trouble?????? The position of the examiner must be questioned here!

[gael353]

if we want to sustain a professional club in Cork. It can be done,just look at Drogheda and Shamrock rovers.

no chance with the professional set up lads, go back to semi pro and pay small money for players, get rid of anyone asking for big money. are rovers professional? drogs have assembled a a lot of first division players and are bottom. but in the first UCD are running with the cut your cloth and look at them

[Schumi]

Has all of this tax bill been run up since Coughlan took over? If mustn't have paid any tax if it has. He seems to be a complete chancer though so if Cork do survive this, getting rid of him would be a positive. It's hard to see how that sum could be raised though. You have to wonder why he wanted to take over if he couldn't afford the money he was spending.

[Terry-Lander]

I *hope* that I speak for most LOI fans when I say that I hope CCFC don't go out of business. The league needs a team in Cork, full stop. And all this gloating turns my stomach. There but for the grace.............

I agree

[sheao]

no chance with the professional set up lads, go back to semi pro and pay small money for players, get rid of anyone asking for big money. are rovers professional? drogs have assembled a a lot of first division players and are bottom. but in the first UCD are running with the cut your cloth and look at them

The way foward could be taking 2 steps back going part time. Rovers are still part time as far as i know.The debt at City is massive with Alan Mathews owed money from last season. Coughlan has never made things better to be honest from the Arkaga era.

[CSFShels]

To be honest the fans now are going to have to take things into our own hands and save CCFC if we want to sustain a professional club in Cork. It can be done,just look at Drogheda and Shamrock rovers.

Those 2 clubs had the benefit of administration. Cork won't.

[Poor Student]

With the way it has turned out with Coughlan this current Cork entity going bust could be the best option rather than the entity lingering on straddled with debt. With the structure and funds of FORAS there's tentative first steps to setting up a new more sustainable entity in Cork. Thankfully Turners Cross is in the hands of the MFA. With the introduction of the A Championship though it's a long way back to climb up the LOI ladder if you've got to start from scratch.

[eamo1]

Surely they are not gone.
Can a 400 club type thing not be organised?
Who owns Turners Cross??

This is a tragedy if this happens.

[Dunny]

Who owns Turners Cross??

The MFA.

[PartySaint]

Of course the league needs a team like Cork, do you really think its good if we lose a team that gets 3000 every home game to be replaced in the preimer division by someone team like sporting fingal, IMO opinion there only needs to be 3 Dublin teams in the premier and the rest spread around the country(sorry for neglecting the first division before anyone says anything)

Anyway best of luck to the Club and fans hope yous pull threw

[bellavistaman]

We owe tax 100k how did we get hammered so much and they didnt. terrible news for cork as a county, hope they get out of it. FAI are a joke