If Bohemians did a BATE/Famagusta.....

[SkStu]

debts r bad, mmmkay?

[pineapple stu]

Is Mr A just thanking everyone on this thread?!

[brianw82]

debts r bad, mmmkay?

Not necessarily. If it's a reasonable amount, and the club's finances can handle the repayments, there's no problem with being forever in debt.

However, that's rarely ever the case. The debt just keeps on piling up.

[dcfcsteve]

and an even better questions is...
what happens if bohs fans dont get their heads outta each other's holes??

Isn't that what doing a BATE involves......?

[pineapple stu]

Can I have a button to thank someone for thanking me?

[SkStu]

your work is certainly underappreciated Stu.

[redobit]

Let them fire ahead trying to get to the CL Group Stages, rack up more debt and run themselvs out of business altogether.

The fact that they see their perceived out of their current plight of financial trouble is to plough more money into a black hole should surely ring alarm bells for their supporters.

Exactly, the worst thing that they could do at this stage is throw good money after bad.

When you are sick you got to take your medicine sooner or later.

[Dodge]

Exactly, the worst thing that they could do at this stage is throw good money after bad.

When you are sick you got to take your medicine sooner or later.

What are you a woman? Its been scientifically proven, by MEN, that ignoring pretty much all diseases causes them to go away sooner or later

[Dalymountrower]

Not necessarily. If it's a reasonable amount, and the club's finances can handle the repayments, there's no problem with being forever in debt.

However, that's rarely ever the case. The debt just keeps on piling up.

Whats a sensible post doing in this wind-up thread? We really need to aim for the debt-free/ european success-free model thats a logical consequence of the FAI`s restraint of trade 65% "cap".

Any club trying to emulate Bate would need to hook up with the Russian Mafia for joint money laundering ventures as they did . It didn`t work for Shels though when they cosied up to the Monk and his associates some years ago.

[Longfordian]

Hmm so you're saying Shels were involved in money laundering some years ago?. Interesting theory, not sure I'd put it up here though.

[Dalymountrower]

No not Shelbourne f.c. as is presently constituted, the reference is to a former (now deceased) Director, who formerly had complete control over the club and who engaged in highly questionable activities with individuals known to the Gardai. These activities necessitated an ongoing presence at the time
in the Tolka bars of Special Branch and Criminal Assets Bureau officers.

No suggestion that anyone now associated with the club engaged then or since in those questionable activities.

[SunderlandBohs]

It didn`t work for Shels though when they cosied up to the Monk and his associates some years ago.

Wasn't The Monk mean't to involved with us as well? When Roddy collins was around?

[SkStu]

No not Shelbourne f.c. as is presently constituted, the reference is to a former (now deceased) Director, who formerly had complete control over the club and who engaged in highly questionable activities with individuals known to the Gardai. These activities necessitated an ongoing presence at the time
in the Tolka bars of Special Branch and Criminal Assets Bureau officers.

No suggestion that anyone now associated with the club engaged then or since in those questionable activities.

dont worry, you cant defame the deceased. It was Ollie Byrne, convicted cigarette smuggler.

[Longfordian]

No not Shelbourne f.c. as is presently constituted, the reference is to a former (now deceased) Director, who formerly had complete control over the club and who engaged in highly questionable activities with individuals known to the Gardai. These activities necessitated an ongoing presence at the time
in the Tolka bars of Special Branch and Criminal Assets Bureau officers.

No suggestion that anyone now associated with the club engaged then or since in those questionable activities.

Yeah I had heard stories about how he'd borrowed money from shady characters over the years to be paid back in some vague shape or form in the future. Then when he took ill there were a few looking to know where they stood. So go the stories anyway.

[passerrby]

if ollie shafted some dublins crim then he can only go up in my estimation ..taken from currupt criminals and given to the .........criminally insane.

[irishultra]

if celtic were playing manchester united and bohemians were playing AEK athens at dalymount on the same nigh, which game do ya suppose RTE would show?

[Umberside]

if celtic were playing manchester united and bohemians were playing AEK athens at dalymount on the same nigh, which game do ya suppose RTE would show?

Celtic v Man Utd unless the FAI put pressure on them to show the Bohs game.

[pól-dcfc]

if celtic were playing manchester united and bohemians were playing AEK athens at dalymount on the same nigh, which game do ya suppose RTE would show?

Definitely the Bohs game.

I think they would love to show the Celtic v Manchester United one, but they would be under far to much pressure to have that sort of brass neck.

[BohDiddley]

if celtic were playing manchester united and bohemians were playing AEK athens at dalymount on the same nigh

That'd be some gate all right.

[Umberside]

That'd be some gate all right.

If the match really was played, it would have to move to the RDS or even Lansdowne Road? Bohs would/could get an even bigger gate.