A lot of clubs would like to have an average of 3,600 especially taken into account that only one stand was in use for half the season which had a capacity of just over 3,000.In fact most league games were sold out!Originally Posted by redarmyfaction
The Lep, your nonchalance is identical to the fans of several LOI clubs who have imploded before you. I respect Fingal's community ethos and work but your model appears to be built on quick sand. Your revenue streams will not increase enough by being in the Premier to meet your outlays. See Dublin City the year they went bust. If Gannon's money tap is turned off then it seems Fingal will have to slash costs rapidly or implode spectacularly.This is funny
nope my moneys on GUFC followed by Sligo ,Bohs and then spingal in that order.
Sounds familiar:
One club that was doomed to fail was Dublin City, which, while trying to style itself on the Dublin GAA brand, was unable to attract more than 100 spectators at its matches. On some nights, players wryly noted, there were more bums sitting on the benches than in the stands. Having established the club in 2001, Ronan Seery was losing €20,000 a week and in July of this year wound up the club leaving debts of €1.5 million. Being a big League of Ireland club is hard enough, but being a small one is near-impossible.
The League of Ireland’s first and last Commissioner, Roy Dooney, sums up the attitude of many club owners: “Clubs are constantly looking for a quick and easy solution. They are constantly looking for something that will deliver them a crowd of 10,000 per match. It is all short term. There is no doubt these fellas love their clubs and they love what they are doing – they wouldn’t do it otherwise. Take Ronan Seery in Dublin City – Ronan is a nice fella but that club was like some sort of extension of a PlayStation game. You are the manager of a scabby little club a mile from Tolka Park and Dalymount Park, your biggest neighbours. You have a crappy little stadium and okay, you have the great idea to call yourselves the Vikings and play in the Dublin county colours, but you just go nowhere... and yet the fellas, they love it. Another chairman I heard had more or less frittered away all his money into the club. He sold his wife’s car and took a second mortgage on his home just to pay a player’s wages. It is just mad.”
Kom Igen, FCK...
Its funny cos its the same posts by the same heads thats been posted across the boards for the last 2 years or so.
Sporting Fingal and Dublin City are miles apart in their set up. The worse that will happen is that we go part time and maybe stagnate in the first division as a result but there will be a Sporting Fingal footy club to support in the league.
The link said we made a loss last year and we wernt the only club to do so and seeing that we are full time and the crowds we got last year i would have been suprised if we had made a profit. Its no big deal at the moment and something to work on. Not many league clubs made a profit last year so i aint worried.
Whats funny also is that there are more threads about off the field goings on than those about the actual football
They got 3/4 of a million from one guy last year and could only come third in the First Division? That's incredible.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
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Whatever about other clubs and their losses, Fingal's lack of revenue streams and assests leaves them hugely vulnerable. Take Gannon's three quarters of a million away and you're looking at an astronomical loss for a 1st Division club.Its funny cos its the same posts by the same heads thats been posted across the boards for the last 2 years or so.
Sporting Fingal and Dublin City are miles apart in their set up. The worse that will happen is that we go part time and maybe stagnate in the first division as a result but there will be a Sporting Fingal footy club to support in the league.
The link said we made a loss last year and we wernt the only club to do so and seeing that we are full time and the crowds we got last year i would have been suprised if we had made a profit. Its no big deal at the moment and something to work on. Not many league clubs made a profit last year so i aint worried.
Whats funny also is that there are more threads about off the field goings on than those about the actual football
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Does John O'Brien - Senior Executive Office of Fingal County Council / Secretary of Sporting Fingal- post here as a SF supporter.
While goggling him I found this:
http://www.fingalcoco.ie/minutes/mee....aspx?id=37816The following motion in the name of Councillor C. Daly, was proposed by Councillor C. Daly, seconded by Councillor R. Coppinger:
“That the Manager would outline a comprehensive report explaining the relationship between the Council and Sporting Fingal in terms of what the 26% shareholding means in terms of rights and responsibilities, with particular reference to the financing of the club, who are the other owners and what work is done for the club by Council staff.”
A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,
Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:
From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge
Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"
Ambrose Bierce
And get promoted and win the cup and into Europe - so everything they were looking for really!
Have about we don't think the worst and lets presume SF will thrive, and survive as a community club?
Jeez, I though i was bad for assuming the worst until you check out this gaff. lol
[QUOTE=Celdrog;1333073]I think we said that fairly frequently in 2005/6/7.
In essence, Fingal survive on one man putting money in (as well as the taxpayer). If(When) Gannon stops they are gone. Happened us, except we didn't go totally as we have a half reasonable support base. Good luck to Fingal if they can establish this in the next 2 years by visiting a few schools.[/QUOTE]
The club have set themselves up as a community club, they have a massive presence in schools and have also set up a community arm to the club in a community trust which is doing some unreal work with vulnerable groups in the community.
club was only founded in 07 so you should put your ability to see into the future to better use i reckon! 1250 in morton on friday and 90% were paying customers, only freebies were the usual vips and club delegates etc!
I think he's talking about Drogheda fans saying that back in 05-07.
The reality is the league has seen this situation so many times before (clubs spending hundreds of thousands more than they actually have), and it always always ends up badly.
The Lep may well be whistling past the graveyard RE Fingals future OR he may have read the long running saga on Foot.ie which predicted all kinds of doom for Bohs last year - bankruptcy, relegation stripped of title etc all widely touted here and all a complete load of B------x.
Cant blame fingal fans for not giving up just yet
Yeah, sure Bohs are grand financially now. No problems there at all any more.
Not gone broke
Not relegated
Not stripped of title
Not barred from European competition
Not losing most/all players
Not homeless
Will settle for that and I'm sure Sporting Fingal would settle next year for bohs current position
Not not screwed.
Fingal don't have any assets to sell
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
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