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    What's the story with the area around the pitch at Oriel? One side is the main stand obviously, and some other seating, much less deep. There is some room (8-10 metres?) behind the goal near the away end. The other end seems shallow enough, but just from the picture I googled now, there seems to be some kind of green area behind it.

    The main limitation I suppose is the very shallow stand across from the main stand. But if the main stand was extended as far as it could go in both directions, or at least as far as say the 18-yard boxes, what would that do? Roughly double it in size?

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    Quote Originally Posted by osarusan View Post
    What's the story with the area around the pitch at Oriel? One side is the main stand obviously, and some other seating, much less deep. There is some room (8-10 metres?) behind the goal near the away end. The other end seems shallow enough, but just from the picture I googled now, there seems to be some kind of green area behind it.

    The main limitation I suppose is the very shallow stand across from the main stand. But if the main stand was extended as far as it could go in both directions, or at least as far as say the 18-yard boxes, what would that do? Roughly double it in size?
    The green area is outside the perimeter wall and is an unused laneway owned by Iarnrod Eireann. It would be ideal if the club could purchase 'Joes Field' the other side of the laneway and the lane itself. The railway's need for it is gone since the bottling plant at Macardle Moore closed. If the chance arose to get Hiney Park back then it could be connected to Joes Field and would be a nice big parcel of land to have. To expand properly the YDC side the YDC would either need to be incorporated in to a new build or be demolished and start fully from scratch. There is plenty of space to extend the main stand the length of the pitch (this was originally phase one of 3 when build in the 60s). To do a decent job behind the town goal the additional land would need to be acquired. Behind the Carrick Rd goal there is plenty of space for an away stand or c1000 capacity while sill leaving acces to the YDC.

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    Tone down the rhetoric and nonsense in this thread please, or I'll toss the rest of it.

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    Dundalk add another €500k to their wage bill with the appointment of Mark Devlin as new Chiel Executive

    https://www.dundalkfc.com/dundalk-fc...ief-executive/

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    He'd wanna be augmenting his CEO role with scoring 20 goals a season to justify a wage like that!! (Hope you're joking!)
    Is Dundalks wage bill still 1.8m this year?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buller View Post
    Is Dundalks wage bill still 1.8m this year?
    Who cares when the owners are gazillionaires?

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    Has to be at least that but its pin money to Peak6.
    Interesting bringing in an expensive CEO , he's not been brought in to shake down the odd sponsor for another 10k or so.
    Maybe there are plans afoot to do something in Oriel.

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    Well Mike Treacy's comments on the new CEO's previous experience with a new stadium build has a few of us cautiously optimistic about possible development but I won't be holding my breath for any major news in the near future.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Treacy
    Crucially, Mark, demonstrated a number of key attributes that are important to us as we seek to take the business to new heights – amongst them, modernising club operations, increasing and engaging with the fan base and was heavily involved in the planning of the new Brentford Community Stadium
    Mon the Town!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArFella View Post
    Well Mike Treacy's comments on the new CEO's previous experience with a new stadium build has a few of us cautiously optimistic about possible development but I won't be holding my breath for any major news in the near future.
    Yeah I saw that bit, promising...


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    Has to be at least that but its pin money to Peak6.
    It may be small money, but they're looking to make a return on investment, so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to upgrade fan facilities. (unfortunately)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezeikial View Post
    Dundalk add another €500k to their wage bill with the appointment of Mark Devlin as new Chiel Executive

    https://www.dundalkfc.com/dundalk-fc...ief-executive/
    An extra zero in there maybe, but he must be on decent money - he'll be expected to show measurable results though. It'll be interesting to see just what he can do at what is still a small club in a tiny league (relative to where he's coming from)

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    Looks like a step in the right direction for Dundalk although this might be a bit of a concern for local youngsters dreams of being the next Duffy, Hoban or Benson!

    https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/201...restructuring/

    Brentford closed their academy entirely to sign premier league academy castoffs almost 3 years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breifne View Post
    Looks like a step in the right direction for Dundalk although this might be a bit of a concern for local youngsters dreams of being the next Duffy, Hoban or Benson!

    https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/201...restructuring/

    Brentford closed their academy entirely to sign premier league academy castoffs almost 3 years ago.
    Brentford certainly displayed some creative thinking in adopting a different strategy to other clubs. The jury is still out on the level of success.

    The academy system in the UK hardly compares with our fledgling under age national league structures here

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breifne View Post
    Looks like a step in the right direction for Dundalk although this might be a bit of a concern for local youngsters dreams of being the next Duffy, Hoban or Benson!

    https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/201...restructuring/

    Brentford closed their academy entirely to sign premier league academy castoffs almost 3 years ago.
    Our U-15 squad has 4 from Dundalk and everyone else is from Dublin. The talents just not in Dundalk.

    The GAA have decided to change U-16 games in Louth from Monday night to Sunday mornings (clashing with soccer season now) so Id say the talent pool will be even less now

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    Local paper ran a story today, its linked with Indo so it might surface there tomorrow, it seems Stats Sports are being linked with making an offer to buy DFC from P6.

    Although now based in Newry, they were co-founded by one or two Dundalk men.

    Then again plenty of rumours going around, this could be another one but interesting its being run by a paper with quotes from SS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oriel View Post
    Local paper ran a story today, its linked with Indo so it might surface there tomorrow, it seems Stats Sports are being linked with making an offer to buy DFC from P6.

    Although now based in Newry, they were co-founded by one or two Dundalk men.

    Then again plenty of rumours going around, this could be another one but interesting its being run by a paper with quotes from SS.
    Can't see anything coming of this. Peak6 won't just hand it over and I'd imagine Bill would be painful to negotiate with. Any potential buyers will walk away.

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    It would be hard to imagine ayone as difficult as Gerry Matthews back 2011/12, there was no rhyme or reason to talks with progress often made only for it to be binned on a whim after the meeting. If P6 want out Bill wont be allowed scupper a reasonable offer especially if they just want to cut their self caused losses. If they are looking for some of those losses to be covered by a sale price well its a whole different game and I think that be some major trick pulled by p6 if they mange it. What is far more plausible is that they will go back to the basics of their original plan. Greater off field effort will be made in youth teams and building the business side of thigs, playing budget will be cut but should still be competitive if the manager can put together a fairly new squad that mix it up. Average a couple of rounds in Europe, group stages if via champions pathway occasionally. Id like to think Statsports would have a far better connect with the club and an idea how things works and that agents are leeches not nice friendly advisors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mcgonigle View Post
    Can't see anything coming of this. Peak6 won't just hand it over and I'd imagine Bill would be painful to negotiate with. Any potential buyers will walk away.
    Wouldn't expect anyone to take it on for free or for P6 to sell it for nothing either, its a good opportunity for the right owner / investor.
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    Maybe the sale price will have dropped after tonight !
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    Quote Originally Posted by oriel View Post
    Wouldn't expect anyone to take it on for free or for P6 to sell it for nothing either, its a good opportunity for the right owner / investor.
    What price exactly do you think Dundalk are worth? We have one senior player signed for next season, no manager and no Europe and we play in the worst ground in the country.

    When peak6 took over we had a full squad, European football and almost €3m in the bank. They have squandered all that and worse, all the goodwill and a lot of experienced volunteers. They should be begging someone to take over to fix their mess.

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    DFC will have 850K incoming next season from UEFA, and will carry prob 10.0 coefficient a long as they make europe in the next 2-3 years, I think the club owns the YDC and the buildings around but not the actual pitch / ground, if that makes sense.

    Not sure what's left in the club accounts, but you are correct that when p6 took over it was around 3m, some mess indeed !

    No idea on a sale price, would depend if any debt / tax etc needs to be paid, whatever any price, p6 should at the very least leave the 850k due from uefa with the club, make it up to a round 1m, and pxxx off !!
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