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

**harry crumb** · 15/02/2010, 8:57 PM

Well if we come to agreement with our creditors, then, yes.

**CSFShels** · 15/02/2010, 9:04 PM

Originally Posted by harry crumb

Well if we come to agreement with our creditors, then, yes.

Even though its after the licencing deadline? And a special 1 has been drafted up just for yous? You're having a laugh.

**higgins** · 15/02/2010, 9:05 PM

Originally Posted by harry crumb

Well if we come to agreement with our creditors, then, yes.

well that would contradict what they have done to other clubs in the past??

I don't care which way they do it but atleast have one set of rules for everyone, no?

**weecountyman** · 15/02/2010, 9:07 PM

Originally Posted by Rory H

That link isn't working, I can't find the facebook page either. And I've never seen these stories anywhere else apart from when you post them.

You've obviously not been following the saga or trying hard enough RoryH!!! See below! Just stuck these in to show I haven't been dreaming or nightmaring or whatever. Strange to think I thought Roddy was cool when I was a kid in Oriel, still, it was probably the aromatic scents from the brewery :-)

Originally Posted by sheao

It is in another thread, but Roddy according to today's star wnats to bring Glen Crowe and Liam Kearney to City .

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=99144

Originally Posted by Mayo Red

I really thought things couldn't get any worse in this soap opera, but then Coughlan goes an appoints this shameless chancer!!

I echo the sentiments of fbtn above about this mess.

Seems like Floriana have a good case for compo too and are determined to hold out for it!

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/1223/corkcity.html

Floriana are on facebook on 3 different pages, afaik, one is locked to invitees only (the club release to supporters via that, the other two are open. A few other posters on here would know at least one, more than a few Shamrock Rovers supporters are on it.

**The Lilywhites** · 15/02/2010, 9:07 PM

Originally Posted by harry crumb

Well if we come to agreement with our creditors, then, yes.

Unbelievable.

**harry crumb** · 15/02/2010, 9:12 PM

Originally Posted by CSFShels

Even though its after the licencing deadline? And a special 1 has been drafted up just for yous? You're having a laugh.

These are special circumstances no?

**CSFShels** · 15/02/2010, 9:15 PM

Originally Posted by harry crumb

These are special circumstances no?

What is special about these circumstances? You've messed around for the last 12 months, paying no1, messing everyone around, now your idiot ex-owner has realised yous arent getting a licence with him owning the club, so now hes selling up, he couldn't do it in time for licencing, his tough luck. If your club had tried to run itself as a business in the previous 12 months, there wouldn't be such a mad rush today.

**Nesta99** · 15/02/2010, 9:16 PM

Originally Posted by harry crumb

Looks to me like a happy ending to a terrible day for us City supporters.

I take it that the week delay means that a Premier License will be granted to the new owners.

Soon enough we will be able to talk about actual football for a change.

Maybe, but leaves a bitter taste for others!
Current owner has managed to secure the funds from the sale of an asset, this will pay one creditor to allow the transfer of all other debts to prospective owners. So for all the messing, and total disregard for everything, Coghlan gets an out on his terms and may receive payment for his trouble. I would have liked to see a fairer outcome.
Add to this the contempt that the FAI and the ILC have shown for their own rules and processes, their lack of even handedness when dealing with clubs, extended deadline after deadline to accommodate a club that allegedly is being dragged before the CAS, what are the thinking? All this to prevent imo what would be a temporary change to the geographic spread of the premier division.
This almost blackmail sounding 'condition' for a premier license or the takeover bid will be pulled doesnt sit too easy either. There is plenty of mileage in this fiasco yet.
Happy ending? dunno bout that!

**harry crumb** · 15/02/2010, 9:20 PM

Special circumstances is that the club is subject to a takeover by a consortium including a fans Co-op.

**paudie** · 15/02/2010, 9:23 PM

The obvious decision was for the FAI to deny CCIFL a licence and give FORAS a Div 1 licence. They have fudged on the basis that the Revenue and other football creditors have a better chance of being paid this way. Basically the new consortium have forced the FAI's hand by saying they are only interested in a Prem Div licence.

At the very least if City get a Prem licence next we should have a substantial points deduction.

**SkStu** · 15/02/2010, 9:25 PM

Originally Posted by harry crumb

Special circumstances is that the club is subject to a takeover by a consortium including a fans Co-op.

and so the revisionism starts... shameful that theres even one CCFC fan on here with the neck to even try to start justifying this f*cking sham.

**naoise kennedy** · 15/02/2010, 9:25 PM

bray granted premier licence...

**yiddo** · 15/02/2010, 9:29 PM

http://www.corkcityforasco-op.com

**Doomofman** · 15/02/2010, 9:31 PM

Is the team seriously gonna be called Cork City Foras Co-op?

**SkStu** · 15/02/2010, 9:31 PM

i thougth it was corkcityfiasco-op.com

**kid creole** · 15/02/2010, 9:32 PM

Im dumbfounded

**Scrufil** · 15/02/2010, 9:35 PM

Okay so next year if your club is having trouble with getting a licence you and 5 mates ring the club and offer to take it over for say �5. The club says to the licence committee we are 'in take-over talks' so the date has to be extended due to this 'special circumstance'. If one of your mates has to pay a parking fine around the same time all the better - say that this was incurred during your duty to the football club and until wages come into his account please can they delay the decision further.

This might sound like fantasy but it is the precedent just set out by the FAI.

**dong** · 15/02/2010, 9:42 PM

Originally Posted by Scrufil

Okay so next year if your club is having trouble with getting a licence you and 5 mates ring the club and offer to take it over for say €5. The club says to the licence committee we are 'in take-over talks' so the date has to be extended due to this 'special circumstance'. If one of your mates has to pay a parking fine around the same time all the better - say that this was incurred during your duty to the football club and until wages come into his account please can they delay the decision further.

This might sound like fantasy but it is the precedent just set out by the FAI.

In a nutshell...
F ucking joke. This whole thing would make you sick.

**dong** · 15/02/2010, 9:46 PM

And FORAS have shown their true colours too. Full of pompous,condescending talk and hot air when really they are dirty little sluts, willing to hop into bed with any Tom, Dick or Harry.

**srfc1928** · 15/02/2010, 9:49 PM

So sick of this.
Ive been following the LOI for 25 years, but this is rock bottom stuff.
This really does prove that there is one set of rules for certain 'big' clubs and another set for the rest of us.
Its hard enough to watch match officials consistently give biased decisions towards these clubs or turn a blind eye when theyve done wrong on the pitch. But the administrators are worse.
These inconsistencies and bias on and off the pitch really does make you think why bother.
In my ignorance, this is the first time Ive realised the LOI has no future.