Cork City denied a licence; club to be wound up; FORAS to enter First Division

**dahamsta** · 22/02/2010, 10:10 PM

Best of luck to the new Cork City and congrats to FORAS on a job well done.

**El-Pietro** · 22/02/2010, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Cork would also have access to a decent pool of players though.

You would have to imagine that certain players who would have been playing for us in the Premier full time will have little choice but ti play part time/amatuer for us at least until June. They won't have a whole lot of options

Captain Killer I say!

**paudie** · 22/02/2010, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

The Premier League will be a Leinster / Connacht affair as there will be no clubs from Ulster or Munster in it. Shocking really.

Like the FAI's version of the Leinster Hurling championship.

Galway and Sligo are special invitees!

**Louth4sam** · 22/02/2010, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

The Premier League will be a Leinster / Connacht affair as there will be no clubs from Ulster or Munster in it. Shocking really.

Why? The other clubs are either cheats or not good enough!

Best of luck to Foras. I think they have gotten a lucky escape as if they had of gone in with the consortium it would have ended very badly in a year or two with no plan b.

**SMorgan** · 22/02/2010, 10:24 PM

Where does this all leave Roddy Collins?

I assume that the club that'll be formed by FORAS will be a new entity and Collins won't necessarily be the new Manager. Is this correct?

**El-Pietro** · 22/02/2010, 10:26 PM

Roddy can take a running jump right behind his bum chum Tommy

**Longfordian** · 22/02/2010, 10:26 PM

Correct. Different company no
existing contracts need to be enforced.

**Mad Moose** · 22/02/2010, 10:28 PM

The great news is there is little chance Roddy will still have a job. There isn't a chance of anybody wanted him around in the first instance and secondly given he was reportedly on 500 Euro a week thats a quarter the planned weekly budget. Notwithstanding his contract wasn't binding. No doubt he'll leave a trail of debts and unpaid bills. No doubt he's a mouthpiece in influencing the seeking of a high court injunction. I wouldn't wish him on my worst enemy.

177 pages of LoI gold.

**sligoman** · 22/02/2010, 10:33 PM

Roddy to go back to Malta?

**Doomofman** · 22/02/2010, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Roddy to go back to Malta?

Isn't he still technically under contract with them?

**Hairy Bowsie** · 22/02/2010, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by Doomofman

Isn't he still technically under contract with them?

Until tomorrow when CCFC is wound up, which seems inevitable now.

**Doomofman** · 22/02/2010, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie

Until tomorrow when CCFC is wound up, which seems inevitable now.

No I meant with Floriana...

**sligoman** · 22/02/2010, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Doomofman

Isn't he still technically under contract with them?

Yep. Just suspended from what I remember.

**avvenalaf** · 22/02/2010, 10:50 PM

Laughing their ******es off in Floriana tonight. Roddy for Kilkenny Gaelic Football team. 'It's a big club etc. etc.'

**Scrufil** · 22/02/2010, 10:52 PM

Why is everyone so happy with the ILC? So far I cannot see any official statement stating which league Bray are playing in next year. Why was this not sorted tonight? They could decide to give this to any first Division club who has a Premier licence.

**Dunny** · 22/02/2010, 10:55 PM

All the best to the FORAS club!

**Nedser** · 22/02/2010, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

The Premier League will be a Leinster / Connacht affair as there will be no clubs from Ulster or Munster in it. Shocking really.

The Munster bit is shocking, but the Ulster bit isn't when you think about it. AFAIK, there was never an Ulster team in the LOI until Harps joined in the 70s. Then once a 2nd tier was introduced, again there was no Ulster team in the Premier until Derry got promoted a few years later, and most seasons since they have been the only Ulster team in the top flight.

So over the history of the LOI, the top division has more often than not had no Ulster teams. At the end of the day, only 3 counties in Ulster fall within the FAI's jurisdiction, and all of them have small, primarily rural populations. If anything, Ulster is punching well above its weight by having any teams at all in the LOI.

Munster is a very different matter though.

**osarusan** · 22/02/2010, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by Scrufil

Why is everyone so happy with the ILC? So far I cannot see any official statement stating which league Bray are playing in next year. Why was this not sorted tonight? They could decide to give this to any first Division club who has a Premier licence.

It's not their job to decide who takes Cork's place though, I think. All they do is decide if a club gets a license of not, and they've surprised a lot of people by rejecting Cork.

**Longfordian** · 22/02/2010, 11:01 PM

It's Bray's place due to them being the highest finishers on the field. Unless they give us the place for just generally being class. Could live with that.

**Nedser** · 22/02/2010, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Scrufil

Why is everyone so happy with the ILC? So far I cannot see any official statement stating which league Bray are playing in next year. Why was this not sorted tonight? They could decide to give this to any first Division club who has a Premier licence.

That decision has nothing to do with the ILC. They just award licences, and they have awared a Premier licence to Bray, and several other 1st div clubs. The FAI have to decide who replaces Cork City in the Premier. Hard to see how that could be anyone other than Bray, given they were the club to miss out on the Premier in the play off final.

I agree it would have been preferable if it had been announced tonight, but to be fair, it's a different institution making that call, they couldn't make it until the ILC made theirs, and that didn't happen until late evening tonight, so it's not unreasonable that it can't happen til the morning,