The FAI will receive the largest portion, with €2.7 million going to the football governing bod
http://www.the42.ie/sport-ireland-ga...76023-Jul2016/
We are the SR the SRFC.......
Part time Finn Harps too :)
Hooray, more junkets, ehh I mean fact finding missions for our gallant blazers.
Delaney - "Yes the fact finding mission was indeed a success. We now know for sure that others leagues are far better run by their National Associations."
Reporter - " So Mr Delaney, will you be now spending that grant money on the LOI to bridge the gap?"
Delaney - "Erm, what money?"
Come on now, the man can only do so much.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...ey-410263.htmlOriginally Posted by Irish Examiner
A man can have no greater love than give 90 minutes for his friends.
I know Finn Harps are still waiting on monies for the stadium from the Government and FAI to actually get the new stadium finished after such a massive amount of work a few years back
We are the SR the SRFC.......
Part time Finn Harps too :)
Has there been any new progress on the new stadium up there ForzaHoop ?
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Not sure where to post this
http://www.fai.ie/domestic/news/fai-...y-league-clubs
Discuss... Sits back with popcorn.
A few of things come to mind.
The FAI are going to give up to 5 grand to clubs to get some smart arsed consultant to come in and write 20 pages of waffle about "community links" and "digital marketing".
The five grand would be better used if clubs well allowed to buy new portaloos, preferably ones clean of cholera and the like.
Clubs should already have strategic plans in place of course, though I dare say the objective of most plans is that clubs don't go bust.
Clubs like Athlone shouldn't get the 5k, it will only help keep those creatures running the club at the helm for longer when clear change is needed. If they go bust we are f*cked for next season with no big gate game.
ger - I would have thought a lot of these reports should be largely generic?
Like a football club is a football club; there should be a lot of similarities across all 20 clubs. Take a starting point of lots of things a club should do, and for club-specific reports, just delete what's already been done.
A problem is I don't know if we know what a good 5-year strategic plan actually is. I'd say it should include plans for increasing non-matchday income, reducing debt (and associated repayments, which is a waste of cash-flow) and improving facilities partly with a view to reducing non-essential expenditure (like training ground hire costs, when a full facility could include training venues)
Before the report starts, other leagues in similar-sized countries should be investigated to see what they're doing that we're not.
You could look at community stuff, etc, as well, but I think that's somewhat secondary to the above.
That's obviously hugely generic, but I wouldn't have thought you'd be looking at 20 reports each being prepared from scratch.
Last edited by pineapple stu; 30/07/2016 at 2:38 PM.
True (and Waterford)
Though isn't that more a "What happened?" report rather than a "What will happen?" report?
Strategic plans make a lot of sense for some clubs, those with money to invest.
Cork and Dundalk come to mind. Will they use the large rewards from Europe to improve infrastructure and put in place plans for long term success.
Other clubs, those who haven't a pot to p1ss in, have little use for a strategic plan. Anything they would want to do takes money and labour. Those clubs can't afford to do anything other than survive day to day. Unless the FAI wants to help them, of course.
Well, true. But even smaller clubs could look at more grant outlets for improved facilities, jobbridge-type schemes to bring more people on board or extra fundraising suggestions. I don't know if it'd breach confidentiality to say "x club are doing this - works well for them. Why don't ye try it?" Even if it's just a case of ensuring clubs are exploring all the options available to them, it'd be a start.
Obviously agree the FAI need to be doing more to help clubs of course.
€5k will easily cover the cost of a report for Rovers - allthe Consultant needs to do is ask the Rovers Board to write up a report of what Rovers has done for the last 5 years and then add a single line at the end stating "... Do the opposite of all of the above .."
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