Previous EL takeover attempts

**Tenderloins** · 24/04/2006, 2:42 PM

In light of Ollie canceling dinner with Mister Di Stefano, what other big money takeover rumours of EL clubs have there been over the years?
Rovers and Brookes Mileson is obiviously one any others?

**NY Hoop** · 24/04/2006, 2:54 PM

Brendan O'Carroll turning up with a pen and paper to take over Rovers last year

Idiot journos believing a rumour about Aldo taking us over the same time and printing it!

KOH

**Tenderloins** · 24/04/2006, 3:13 PM

Forgot about O'Carroll and that webchat he had too!

**Dodge** · 24/04/2006, 3:17 PM

Roddy Doyle was apparently part of a consortium that tired to buy Pats durng the early 90s. He talked about it during a Fantasy Football episode. A certain builder with a fat ex employee friemd tried to buy us recently buthius valuation was 1/10th of the grounds market value alone...

**NY Hoop** · 24/04/2006, 4:08 PM

The same Roddy Doyle who when asked why he "supported" chelsea on fantasy football replied "Cos the league of Ireland is ****e"

******

KOH

**OneRedArmy** · 24/04/2006, 6:04 PM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

The same Roddy Doyle who when asked why he "supported" chelsea on fantasy football replied "Cos the league of Ireland is ****e"

******

KOH

Total tangent, but that reminded me of a quote from the Chairman of the Leinster Rugby Supporters Club in yesterdays Tribune, who claimed to have turned his back on domestic football to follow rugby(having allegedly followed Drums and Home Farm, being from Drumcondra) because of the bad behaviour of the fans of certain English teams who visited for friendlies in the
70s ...........

I sometimes wonder if domestic football will ever grow when you are dealing with a general populace who not only eschew local football but at the same time manage to invent preposterous reasons or excuses to self-justify their actions.

**Cosmo** · 24/04/2006, 6:10 PM

Roddy Collins attempting to take over Drogheda about 4 or 5 years ago!!

Weren't we lucky

**joema** · 24/04/2006, 6:10 PM

Brendan O' Carroll made an attempt to buy Kilkenny City a few years back aswell

**Dj Duffer** · 24/04/2006, 7:21 PM

Rumour has it Pat Dolan tried to buy Cobh!! Only a rumour id say though because i think its impossible for someone to buy cobh as the community owns it or something like that!

**CharlesThompson** · 24/04/2006, 7:45 PM

Did Johnny Giles and Eamon Dunphy try to buy Rovers in the 70's?

**Dr.Nightdub** · 24/04/2006, 8:06 PM

Originally Posted by Tenderloins

Rovers and Brookes Mileson is obiviously one any others?

Don't forget Pats and Brooks Mileson as well, though he only got as far as generally sniffing around.

**TonyD** · 24/04/2006, 8:11 PM

Don't think they tried to buy Rovers, did they ? Giles was manager and Dunphy his assistant in the late 70's (For the benefit of our younger readers.) Louis Kilcoyne, who I think is Giles brother-in-law, would have been owner at the time. I believe he later went on to make quite a bit of money in "property speculation"

**Risteard** · 24/04/2006, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

A certain builder with a fat ex employee friemd tried to buy us recently buthius valuation was 1/10th of the grounds market value alone...

Ditto for City i believe.

**pineapple stu** · 24/04/2006, 10:14 PM

Budweiser tried to buy out UCD back in the 80s, I think - or at least get more involved than they currently are. There was a plan for a stand on the hill with a Budweiser logo or in Bud colours or something.

**MariborKev** · 24/04/2006, 10:50 PM

Whilst not strictly "big money" an interesting tale on the subject

When a new board was elected for Derry City after our entry into the LOI, senior nationalist politicians in the North were contacted by members of British Intelligence. Apparently they were worried that the new board was a "republican coup" and the possible impact of the such an event

**hamish** · 24/04/2006, 11:15 PM

Anyone remember some Lord living in Limerick who wanted to take over the club in the 60s or 70s???

**Student Mullet** · 24/04/2006, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Budweiser tried to buy out UCD back in the 80s, I think - or at least get more involved than they currently are. There was a plan for a stand on the hill with a Budweiser logo or in Bud colours or something.

They never tried to buy the club (how would that even work?). They were launching Bud into the Irish market at the time an wanted to put sponsorship into UCD in a stupidly americanized (yes, I used a 'z') kind of way.

**Schumi** · 25/04/2006, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Student Mullet

They never tried to buy the club (how would that even work?). They were launching Bud into the Irish market at the time an wanted to put sponsorship into UCD in a stupidly americanized (yes, I used a 'z') kind of way.

Didn't they want to re-name Belfield Park as Budweiser Park or something as well?

**hamish** · 25/04/2006, 12:04 PM

I remember now who that Lord was who had an interest in Limerick FC - Lord Petersham.

**harpskid** · 25/04/2006, 6:11 PM

Consortium tried to take Harps to Letterkenny back in 1996.

Headed by Geoff Carr from TNT Worldwide Express, back by Jimmy Harte (then Chairman) and of course Dermott Keely