What should Cork City be doing?

**eoinh** · 12/06/2002, 12:26 PM

Originally posted by niamh
Some really excellant suggestions...makes you wonder why no one listened to supporters before. At least it might make people realise that the fans do have the best interests of the club at heart.

yeah a lot of good suggestions. sometimes though you get the feeling that the management at nl clubs seem to think that their supporters are morons.

clubs really have to learn to become part of the community, the way many gaa clubs have done.

**Colm** · 12/06/2002, 2:05 PM

Originally posted by eoinh
nl clubs seem to think that their supporters are morons.

Yeah, thats the impresson I get aswell.
They should, at least, take the time to just listen to the suggestions of the hardcore supporters. Many of us have some good, intelligent ideas which would benefit the club.
What many directors, chairmen etc fail to realise is that very often the supporters have the clubs best interests at heart more than they do.

**Troy.McClure** · 12/06/2002, 2:09 PM

One thing thats SO easy, almost every kid can do it, is to give the squad set numbers (like in every other league on the planet + Shels & Pats) and print the players names on the shirts. This makes it much easier for a newcommer to a match to get to know the players by face and name which creats a bigger bond between the supporters and the players and it looks so much more profesional. It would be great to see kids (young and older) with WOODS 7 written on their City shirts which intern raises the profile of the club & its players. When you only get the option of seeing players 1 to 16 line out every week, it looks like a sunday league team (although areguments could be made for that).

**Colm** · 12/06/2002, 2:22 PM

Good point Troy. It is unprofessional not to have squad numbers, its like a schoolboy or amatuer team. Kids (and big kids!) cant get a players name on the back of their jersey because your never sure what number a player is going to wear. Even if a player usually has a certain number somebody else will wear that number if the player is injured/suspended or dropped.
Putting players names on the shirts is just one of the many small and simple things that the club could and should be doing.

**dahamsta** · 12/06/2002, 2:24 PM

A dumb question, no doubt, but do other clubs do this? (I think it's a great idea, I'm just curious.)

adam

**Colm** · 12/06/2002, 2:30 PM

Yeah, Shels and Pats do it (maybe Bohs?) and it looks much better and more professional. Its easy to do all it costs is the price of putting a name on the back of about 20 jerseys. It would probabley only cost less than a tenor per jersey so their hardly going to break the bank.

**The Biz** · 12/06/2002, 3:08 PM

There has been some excellent ideas and responses on this. Thanks for you feedback.

Myself and the rest of the group working on this project would like to be able to meet up with a group of you to get your insights 'first hand'.

Adam may be able to facilitate setting up the meeting?

We will definitley be including much of what you have suggested in our report to CCFC. It would be very helpful if we could get to discuss your ideas with you so that we could expand on them and do them them justice in our report.

What do you think?

Neil · 12/06/2002, 3:14 PM

There is a C.C.I.S.A. meeting on Monday week (I think?) That might be an oppurtunity for people to get together?

**pete** · 12/06/2002, 3:45 PM

I don't particularily like the squad numbers like a lot of diehards but theres no doubt since the Sky era it looks more professional for some reason. It would also mean we not have to answer stupid questions from one game a season wonders about who the no.10 is that everybody calling skippy.

My motto for the club/board would be 'speculate to acumulate'. Doesn't mean club has to go broke trying to improve things but some moderate investment in basic promotion would be a good start.

**A face** · 12/06/2002, 6:40 PM

Originally posted by The Biz
There has been some excellent ideas and responses on this. Thanks for you feedback.

Myself and the rest of the group working on this project would like to be able to meet up with a group of you to get your insights 'first hand'.

Adam may be able to facilitate setting up the meeting?

We will definitley be including much of what you have suggested in our report to CCFC. It would be very helpful if we could get to discuss your ideas with you so that we could expand on them and do them them justice in our report.

What do you think?

I dont think you are getting everyones ideas, you should wait till the season starts and then everyone will be back on here.

**Casegrande** · 13/06/2002, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by A face
you should wait till the season starts and then everyone will be back on here.

A lot has to be/should be done BEFORE the season starts (and that is only three weeks away). The CCISA meeting sounds like a good time to get a few people together, inluding 'The Biz', and we can start putting some stuff down on paper.