QuoteWhy should your club suffer because of FAI ineptitude and the FORAS/Quintas ultimatum? If CCFC are awarded a Premier licence, we, LOI fans nationwide, should boycott Cork City matches.Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
Jebus, you are spot on. Every single word is spot on. I'm so disgusted by the fact that this has even gone this far and when the decision is made later, when it goes in favour of Cork, i will be contemplating a life without LoI football.
They always cheat, they always lie
**** Delaney and the FAI
Why should your club suffer because of FAI ineptitude and the FORAS/Quintas ultimatum? If CCFC are awarded a Premier licence, we, LOI fans nationwide, should boycott Cork City matches.
I know this is off the wall lunatic thinking but there is a chance that the FAI were just fobbing off the consortium and perhaps when the Committee doesn't award a Premier Licence they just put the blame on them as an "independent body". If the takeover falls through they still can award FORAS their licence. I have to say I am well aware that that's more a hope than an expectation. I just can't believe that clubs like us have been given so much grief by the FAI even this year when we've actually turned a very small profit I believe and they appear to be just content to nod through Cork's licence.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
I think what Hairy Bowsie might be getting at is that there might come a stage where you just have to say football on this island (possibly worldwide) is just not worth it any more. What's the point of supporting your club in a league that I would view as corrupt, or at least corruptable? We still do it but football, and a lot of other sports too, sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that love is endless and limitless when it really isn't and starts taking it's lifeblood (the supporters) for granted.
On that I'm sure the FAI will grant a Premier Licence to Cork secure in the knowledge that a lot of fans won't walk away no matter how much of a nonsense the LoI becomes. I'm not one of them, I'm pretty sick of football and the only thing keeping me interested is Limerick FC, and like I say I don't think I'm someone who has limitless love for this game and these leagues in particular
How can the league retain even a shred of credibility with this ongoing farce? If Cork get the Premier licence it'll be ridiculous and even if they don't Bray are already behind the 8 ball before the season even kicks off.
I wish FORAS well in the future and Cork need strong representation in the league heading into the future but securing Corks future can't come at the expense of the rest of the league and particularly teams who have meticulously kept within budget year after year despite having limited revenue streams.
Most of the clubs in the LOI are far from squeaky clean and Galway United have most definitely made mistakes in the past but from that we tried to cut our cloth over recent times.
An absolute blizzard of cash(in relative terms) has passed through Cork City over the past number of years yet its still in a massive hole. The FAI have been quick enough to act in the past against other clubs now they must show that they aren't running a league with different rules for different teams
I hear ya Jebus, looking forward to the start of the League myself, but this shambles with Cork definitely leaves a sick taste in my mouth. Why the hell did the FAI let this drag on for the last few months - a joke and an insult to all fans.
This is another point. I'm far from Galway's biggest fan but at least when they overspent two seasons ago they corrected it mid-season to stay within the licence's financial requirements
Cork just seem to flounce about and the FAI refuse to punish them, even a points deduction would be nonsense. I mean I was reading that rag the Indo today and saw a headline like 'Cork faces extinction with 3pm deadline in the courts today' and just thought how often I'd seen a similar headline in the past year regarding Cork City FC. That's from someone with an idea of what's going on, can't imagine what a barstooler would think of it
Can anyone explain why RTE News and other sources have said that if there is no premier license there won't be a Cork team in the league? What happened to the FORAS D1 option or is that off the table now?
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/mns/2...arthyj_av.html
Missed this yesterday, and lots of hard questions unasked. Scaremongering at its worst, but it's business after all.
A couple of notable moments that should be of extreme concern to Cork City fans - our governing body is the F.A.I., not the FA as Mr. McCarthy seems to think it is. As a student of psychology this slip seems rather worrying. You have been warned :-)
Last edited by weecountyman; 22/02/2010 at 7:03 PM. Reason: grammar
Its RTE ,they take their Irish football news from the BBC and someone from the BBC made a error..the others have stupidly followed RTE.
If the consortium pulls out ,Foras still have the backup plan sorted
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
Again you're pretty spot on. Why are people struggling to see the bigger picture here?
They always cheat, they always lie
**** Delaney and the FAI
Bray had a representitive in the court today .
Not only will they get a license but they will also play in Europe.
What can Bray or any other club do ?
Of course they will,all ready sorted.
You & I know that the clubs won't come together for any reason. That's why the League of Ireland is in the mess it is.Every club looking out for their own corner. Always has been & always will be.
I presume you're taking the michael. The only time most League of Ireland get a good crowd is when Cork City are playing them. We kept Shels going for years.
This League has no credibility. That went out the window long ago and as you say most of the clubs can't talk.
RTE couldn't even get the day of the week right.
Ignore that. There will be a Cork team in the League next year. Either City in the Premier or FORAS in the 1st Div
I'll pass on your concern.
Last edited by dahamsta; 22/02/2010 at 8:18 PM. Reason: Use Multi-Quote please.
"To Fudge or Not to Fudge" by J Delaney.
By far the biggest catchment area of any club and your crowds are still outdone by others on ocassion.
Jamie Duffy covers more ground than Roadrunner ever did
Who apart from Rovers & thats only since they moved back to Tallagh ?
"To Fudge or Not to Fudge" by J Delaney.
hopefully its Cork thats wound up.
"We've had a lot of good times, but you don't know how good they are until you have the bad ones" Tony Adams
Anybody know what time the licence decision will be anounced?
Can't we all just get along?
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Well so what if we are. It won't improve the standard in Limerick will it ? If we are playing in the 1st Div next year at least ye will get a decent crowd. This has been going on for so long now I don't think we even care down here anymore. It should have been sorted out long ago.
As far as I know the meeting was due to start at 7pm so it could take all night.
Last edited by dahamsta; 22/02/2010 at 8:21 PM. Reason: Use Multi-Quote
"To Fudge or Not to Fudge" by J Delaney.
For me, it's not about Cork as such it's just the whole idea of even handed treatment from the powers that be. If it were Bohs I'd be similarly annoyed but they seem to have complied with that they had to, one way or another. I've said it more than once but even this year we were geting unbelievable threats from the FAI if we didn't pay a few bills by the 29th January. I believe the sum total was less than €3k. It stinks. And I'm sure we weren't the only ones
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
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