Public Meeting

[JohnD]

It Does not look like it will happen until the end of this month or at least early next according to Club sources today

[sadloserkid]

Another outrageous about turn. Was there any reason why they couldn't be bothered this time JohnD?

I try to be fair about things like this but the club really are playing the supporters for fools. Their refusal to give a date and stick to it is nothing short of ignorant. And they wonder why people are so reluctant to get involved???

Try making yourselves more approachable!

[Nempton]

Im nearly ready to put my fist through the monitor, they are unbelieveable. November 19th, they hold a meeting to decide what to do about the Club Licence, two weeks before the deadline of November 31st. They supposedly acknowledge their faults (one been that they should have held that meeting earlier in the year) and told those of us who were at the meeting that there would be change. I've tried to be supportive even though at times they have been nothing short of incompetent but this really is taking the biscuit. They are nothing but an ad hoc committee whose only goal was to keep things going until the next meeting. We were to decide what legal status Limerick would adapt and would also have had to elect a new committee (preferably candidates that would be capable and competent). That next meeting was suppose to be held before the start of the new year. I've spoken to some of the players and they are not going to put up with the same crap as last year. They know another meeting is due and they want to see changes that were discussed implemented. One of them even told me he didn't realise that there so many apparent members on the committee. Another season of empty promises will not be tolerated by the players and certainly not by the supporters. Like I said earlier they are nothing but an ad hoc committee, they have said about themselves that they just got together to keep things going. The Supporters Club have carried out duties for the club. I know that their primary focus is on the Limerick FC supporter, but they have done the jobs that the committee have failed to do. They should have the same level of input as the committee into club affairs after all what they have accomplished in the past few months has dwarfed the efforts of the committee (the only exception probably is the plans the committee submitted for the Markets Field, great initiative shown but not followed up). For me there would be no problem if their attitude wasn't so flippant, why could they not give John D a reason for the delay in the meeting? If they said we need more time to sort things out I don't think there would be a problem provided that they gave a future date for the meeting. As for the idea that a commercial manager should be taken on full-time is ridiculous. If they couldn't manage to pay the players last season how will they manage to pay a commercial manager? If they can demonstrate the ability to afford, as well as pay the players, having such a manager in place then well and good. Such a position would have to be advertised in the papers, it would be illegal if it wasn't. A short list of candidates would have to be drawn up and then interviewed. The interviewers would have to make sure that they would be no conflict of interests i.e. Michael O'Sullivan could not interview J.P. for the position. I learnt from Gael353 today that the implementation of the Club Licence is been delayed by two years, I hope that the ad hoc committee don't think that they have received a stay of execution, or that the next meeting can be held two weeks before the deadline, two years from now. A call for change has been put out, not by the supporters but by the committee at that November 19th meeting. Either way things will have to come to head before the new season start, forced or otherwise. I have never felt the need to come out so strongly against the committee before now but I feel their actions or rather lack of has left me with no choice.