Council suspend staff

[Fingalstan]

According to the Fingal Indo yesterday a Fingal County Council Staff member has been suspended pending an investigation into why Sporting Fingal collapsed. The article goes on to say that the players are taking action to have their contracts honoured by the council.

Unfortunately not able toput a link up as I'm not a registered member on the Fingal Indo Website. Interesting article though.

[Spudulika]

This was going to happen sooner or later, the cowards at the top of the council are looking for a scapegoat and I think we know who they found. I hope the players take the council for what they're owed, serves them right for playing games with peoples careers.

edit: Just to clarify, the heads of the council in the short time before everything went bang were extolling the virtues of the club and using it to form links (check out the Chambers publication at the end of 2010) and it's still a mystery as to what went on to cause them to suddenly turn tail.

[Dodge]

Sounds interesting alright.

Was it a staff member or a council member (ie a politician)?

[Spudulika]

I think it's a staff member. One who was also with the club. A council member couldn't have been hit as it was the unelected heads of the council who pulled the plug, so the elected ones got off scot free.

[born2bwild]

Don't want a scapegoat. Just want the club back. Still, if the people really responsible are to be exposed that's good. I mean who in God's name signed Ken Oman and hired a new Commercial manager a week or so before it all ground to a halt??????? It beggars belief that someone in a position to make pivotal financial decisions such as those was unaware of the approaching edge of the cliff. It is insane beyond words. Can anything be learned from Fingal County Council's enquiries?

[Nesta99]

Can anything be learned from Fingal County Council's enquiries?

Nothing that is not already in the Sporting Fingal thread from a few years ago!

[The Lep]

I think it's a staff member. One who was also with the club. A council member couldn't have been hit as it was the unelected heads of the council who pulled the plug, so the elected ones got off scot free.

They were all council members in some capacity and one or two councillors with one now a TD .

[Rasputin]

An investigation?
Everyone involved in the league new they were just Dublin City mark 2.

[Dodge]

No, there was far more at stake in the Fingal debacle

[Spudulika]

An investigation?
Everyone involved in the league new they were just Dublin City mark 2.

Not a bit of it. They were a very different type of animal and one that, until the week before they shut their doors, were given the green light by the council and thumbs up by the heads of administration. This effort at backside covering is very strange.

[Rasputin]

No, there was far more at stake in the Fingal debacle

Im making the point in regaurds to hair brained football manager enthusiasts bankrolling unsustainable ventures.
It has been done before and ive no doubt it will be done again with those genius's who administer the game.

[pineapple stu]

Everyone knows both clubs were unsustainable. The point though is that Seery was just a daydreamer wasting his personal cash. It's possible there was much more to the Sporting Fingal case - planning fiascos, corporation/politician/construction magnate back-scratching, or that kind of stuff. (That's not to say that's what did happen obviously, before the site gets sued for libel...)

[Rasputin]

It's possible there was much more to the Sporting Fingal case - planning fiascos, corporation/politician/construction magnate back-scratching, or that kind of stuff. (That's not to say that's what did happen obviously, before the site gets sued for libel...)

True that.

[drummerboy]

I think I'm right in saying that the person who was overseeing this little experiment retired recently from FCC

[Spudulika]

Not quite, the whole thing boiled down to the main person (who is being scapegoated) didn't default on the month's wages and from what was left from the kitty paid up. The council flipped the lid because they figured they'd just close down the company and walk away - however......football doesn't exist in the real world and contracted players are a bit different to some poor Joe and Josette working on a factory floor. So by panicking and going back on their word, the council left themselves open to a hammering, of course they need someone to blame, so they picked one. It's all a little sad as the club was not going to go bang, had gotten everything in order, but those who administrate did just that.

[D.24saint]

somebody has to answer for the farce if they stuck to their original plan the club had a bright future, a lot of people on here complain about too many clubs being from Dublin but until Fingal came along the north of the county had largely been untouched by LOI, instead they took the easy route and just spend spend spend its a shame because it had potential to make a difference to young footballers in north dublin.

[Spudulika]

D.24 Saint - no matter what comes out of this football is worse off for losing the club, it was, as you rightly state, in an area that hadn't had LOI football (apart from the odd tenant in Morton) and it was working, the amount of communty work going on was great and it just needed time. Everything was slotting into place but the Council panicked (I still blame election backside covering though some would disagree and say it was general ineptitude by the Council administration or worse that they bottled it). What's sad is that the people who were looking after the club just let it close without telling their side of the story. Then again, it's better to have bad news and misery and deflect attention away from those who pulled the plaug than have the truth out.

[Ezeikial]

D.24 Saint - no matter what comes out of this football is worse off for losing the club, it was, as you rightly state, in an area that hadn't had LOI football (apart from the odd tenant in Morton) and it was working, the amount of communty work going on was great and it just needed time. Everything was slotting into place but the Council panicked (I still blame election backside covering though some would disagree and say it was general ineptitude by the Council administration or worse that they bottled it). What's sad is that the people who were looking after the club just let it close without telling their side of the story. Then again, it's better to have bad news and misery and deflect attention away from those who pulled the plaug than have the truth out.

I agree - football is always worse off when a club is lost, but are you serious when you say "everything was slotting into place"? The spending on the player budget was always unsustainable - that was the problem from day one.

[The Lep]

It wasnt a problem from day one as the money was there then ,and the wages wasnt much diffrent from Sligo,bohs, rovers etc.

[Ezeikial]

It wasnt a problem from day one as the money was there then ,and the wages wasnt much diffrent from Sligo,bohs, rovers etc.

This has been done to death. You know exactly what I mean - The money may have been there on day one, but the club budget could not be sustained without enormous benefactor support. Please do not the Bohs model as one to follow.