QuoteEffervecent post.Originally Posted by Lim till i die
\Unfortunately rather like the current board I don't have the money.
Unlike them I knew that ages ago which is why I never got involved at that level
Effervecent post.
Definition: Volunteering*is generally considered analtruistic*activity and is intended to promote goodness or improve human*quality of life. In return, this activity can produce a feeling of self-worth*and*respect. There is no financial gain involved for the individual.
No money needed.
He couldn't have written it better himself!
Founder, President and Sole Member of the Tipperary Galway United Supporters Club
Hilarious.
Am a bit confused. First MM tells me to put my money where my mouth is.
Now here he is telling me there is no money involved
It's a figure of speech. It meant now is your chance to stop being an armchair politician. Step forward instead of endlessly criticising the volunteering of others.
No club bringing in 1,000 average a game should be in financial trouble in this league. Doesn't stop clubs managing it, mind.
He still lives in Fahan, but he stays down during the week. Did the same when he was at Shams.
Assuming it's not Bettystown, Dublin to Drogheda really isn't that much of a commute. Pizza would have done a similar journey when he was at Harps.
Completely agree and that's also the regular criticism that you hear about the current board - the majority are more suited to being turnstile operators and lotto sellers than being on the board of the football club. The examinership process and all that surrounded it killed the club's ties with most businesses in the area so any hope of getting a board made up of people with business acumen evaporated. Now, it's anyone that's willing to volunteer will be put on the board - no matter how unsuitable they are. Unfortunately, a lot of fans appear to still be under the illusion that we can get another board in. It's not going to happen and either people help the current lot (to help them overcome their shortcomings) or quit complaining. I'd like to see the former.
Ultimately, the current 'board' are paying for the sins of a past administration. I'm sure we'll get a new chair in time but the fundamental problems that have destroyed the club will remain unless more people come together and we can get the correct people into the correct roles.
We're not in financial trouble and I agree, nor should we be.
The people who are/were on the board recently were accountants, financial managers, Louth county council managers, and very experienced business people in lots of diverse industries. Incorrect to say they couldn't run a small thing like a LOI club. The fact that they have successfully kept the club going for 5 years based on thin air for me makes them better 'businessmen' than the guys who nearly killed the club with financial mismanagement -despite being personal millionaires at the time.
I agree with everything else you say above though.
Here's Roddy.............
Say nothin til ya hear more!
Latest word is it's Crolys to turn down. Although Mick Cooke is also due to be spoken to.
Word on the street about the chairman's role is that Mick Toner top man at LSL side Drogheda Town turned it down and that a member if a well known local business family, Fiachra Kierans may step up.
There would be a family history there as his dad was a director of Drogheda FC back in the day.
Posted on the website yesterday http://www.droghedaunited.ie
Following the departure of Damien Richardson last week, we have been conducting interviews with a number of managerial candidates and we are also delighted to say that several people have put themselves forward for the vacant chairman position. We hope to fill both positions within the next week.
That's it. The club has actually been overachieving for the last 4 years, on the field the squads have way out performed what a tiny budget should bring; off the field a small group of volunteers have saved & kept the club going with prudent management.
Its quite an achievement considering the difficulties faced at United Park that the club has kept competetive. Bar the Horgan eh glitch they would have been further on and closer to the heady days under Mick Cooke. A small management committee while doing all right things to keep the club going will suffer attrition due to the thankless task they have. When is Darius going to get his pro licence sorted? It is really holding him back and should be in the Drogs top job by now. If he is leaving for a coaching role elsewhere I really hope that the reason is that the cost and booking of the pro course is included. He is one of a select group of people that would be held in high regard by both Dundalk and Drogheda fans for their contribution to both clubs.
Don't really see where all this 'Darius for manager' is coming from, like he is grand and all don't get me wrong - I'd see him as more of a club man personally - but when you compare what Cooke did .. well there is no comparison really. 2012 was some achievement in fairness. Although he did bomb in Athlone I suppose.
Stopping the rot in 2014 was some achievement too. Has any LOI club ever been as routinely hammered as Drogheda were during the latter stages of the Horgan era.
To turn that aroung so quickly (and before Richardson's self important arrival) was a huge achievement.
Kierans is going to Pats as coach next year
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Good move for both parties.
Big blow for Drogheda
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