question to every club supporter.

[Pablo]

what with big sponsership deals, and reasonably healthy merchandise and crowds i'd be suprised if we were running at a loss

[yur man]

havent we got a big debt that they are clearing?

if thats true, does anybody know how big it is?

[tippman]

Kilkenny have all the purties, yet no fans, a crap team and not much hope of that changing in the future. Kilkenny is GAA\farmer country, the general public have absolutely no interest in watching LoI football. If there was ever an example of 'Pi$$ing against the wind', it's Kilkenny "City"...

Limerick don't even have an away kit FFS

[padjoe]

so would reports saying that kilkenny city are the only ones who stayed in the black a load bull? can you please clarify what the problems at bohs are i never fully understood.

[NY Hoop]

can you please clarify what the problems at bohs are i never fully understood.[/QUOTE]

Dreadful support for one. Believe Galway are getting their finances in order.

As for cork well doing well at the moment and think they can win the league friday but dolan is well known for tying players down to huge contracts so the good times have to keep coming.

As for Rovers well if you dont consider the €8m blown on the stadium so far

KOH

[Lim till i die]

Limerick don't even have an away kit FFS

Quite a nice White one actually as it turns out you mite want to purchase one what with us being ur local eircom league club...tosser

Back on topic can anyone explain how Cork are in the red i thought Nissan were payin out huge money

[jfogarty]

Easy: we can't. Hence letting go big-earners like Bird and Ndo (with others to follow during the close season e.g. Karim, Jimmy Lee Jones, Chris Adamson), putting a form of wage cap in place, cutting back on the number of free match tickets given out, laying off some of the office staff and negotiating a schedule with the Revenue for paying off the accumulated back taxes in instalments. On the other side, setting up a monthly bond draw, running forecast coupons, race nights, nights out at the greyhounds.

In other words, living in the real world, not financial cloud cuckoo land.

Hopefully we will get a 3 year+ sponsorship deal in the coming weeks. This and the ongoing fundraising schemes will bring greater stability to the club
With the over rated big money earners gone and players like Doyle, Fahy, Quigo,Foley,OKeefe and Caffrey with more to come Im looking forward to next season

Hopefully every side will survive over the winter

[padjoe]

has anyone else got anything to add to this or any other financial situation at any club.

[Passive]

The idiots guide to the financial situation at Rovers:

Take the entire third world debt, add in what Elton John spends on flowers, multiply that by the money Oily Byrne spends on lawyers, add that to the accumaltive cost of Liz Taylor's wedding receptions, together with George Best's bar tab and David Beckham's hair dresser bill and that would give you a rough outline of what we owe.

Of course, we'll be grand when we get to Tallaght

[CollegeTillIDie]

The idiots guide to the financial situation at Rovers:

Take the entire third world debt, add in what Elton John spends on flowers, multiply that by the money Oily Byrne spends on lawyers, add that to the accumaltive cost of Liz Taylor's wedding receptions, together with George Best's bar tab and David Beckham's hair dresser bill and that would give you a rough outline of what we owe.

Of course, we'll be grand when we get to Tallaght

Not wishing to slag Rovers at all but the facts are almost as above.

One big advantge and some other differences other clubs have over Rovers and Dublin City

1/ Perimeter advertising: Every club that either owns their own ground or rents from a rugby club etc has access to this source of revenue... ROvers do not

2/ Gate receipts: Every club that owns its ground keeps the gate receipts and pays some of its bills with the takings. Rovers have to hand over a chunk of this to St.Patrick's Athletic, for renting the stadium of light, and then get to do the above. Financially Rovers have one hand tied behind their back and are limping on match days.
Tallaght will remove these handicaps

[pete]

Clubs that were in europe probably won't get their money from uefa til may-june 2005 so maybe if cork city had that cash now they'd be around even.

[max power]

i know that we have been very static on the whole marketing and sponsorship side of things. but next season we will do better and hopfully with europe and the setanta cup we can make a profit, fingers crossed.

[mypost]

The idiots guide to the financial situation at Rovers:

Take the entire third world debt, add in what Elton John spends on flowers, multiply that by the money Oily Byrne spends on lawyers, add that to the accumaltive cost of Liz Taylor's wedding receptions, together with George Best's bar tab and David Beckham's hair dresser bill and that would give you a rough outline of what we owe.

I think it's safe to say that us and Limerick, (the two clubs who don't have their own ground, and the clubs who initially received no licence) are high up in the lost money this season stakes.

In fact if we at Rovers have saved any money at all this season, or last season, or the season before that, or..., it's a miracle.