From RTE : Limerick to go bust

**see's it** · 08/11/2006, 3:43 PM

live 95 is a waste of time there only interested in rugby you'd get more from tom ryan on the local station

**Nempton** · 08/11/2006, 4:13 PM

live 95 is a waste of time there only interested in rugby you'd get more from tom ryan on the local station

All local media outlets should be contacted because you want to raise as much profile about this as possible. Enough said!

Nempton mate you know aswell as I do a meeting would be counter-productive due to a lack of people turning up

Whats counter productive is that attitude. You have an opportunity to gather momentum behind the Supporters Club. You should be using the local media's coverage on the club to announce a meeting, not just for members but for the general public. Also the supporters club should be issuing an official letter to the local media highlighting and addressing a number of concerns that the public should be made aware of. You should not be sitting on your hands on this. I'm in London and I'm contacting people, but your in the thick of it. You and the Supporters Club should be proactive. We need to see action from you guys. Don't be afraid to ask for help either (If I can do anything just let me know) but the Supporters Club should be taking point on this.

**the only 1** · 08/11/2006, 4:18 PM

lads face the facts limerick is goin downhill for years there are better run clubs in junior football fairview and pike for example didnt limerick not run to pike a couple of years ago plus them to clubs have better pitches can ye explain how them to clubs are better equipped financelly than limerick?

**smellyfeet** · 08/11/2006, 4:30 PM

Just on the topic of Junior clubs v Limerick FC.
Most Junior clubs in Limerick have there own Grounds.
That alone makes them a better CLUB than Limerick FC.
Most have school boy/girl teams also something that Limerick don't.
Alot have PROPER changing rooms and some with bars.

Lets be reallistic here lads, None of Limericks players have been pred at Limerick FC and won't in the future it seems, all from Junior clubs.

**Goals4fun** · 08/11/2006, 4:35 PM

how bad would it be if limerick fc did not exist ?

**smellyfeet** · 08/11/2006, 4:43 PM

Originally Posted by Goals4fun

how bad would it be if limerick fc did not exist ?

TBH it would be a great shame. The limerick area deff needs a team in the EL.

**LFC in Exile** · 08/11/2006, 5:35 PM

Two things. First, can those who believe LFC is a laughing stock, would like the club to go bust, think it is a disgrace etc etc ad nauseum please p1ss off. Your opinions are noted. Thanks for them. But they contribute nothing in the context of trying to save/deal with the decline of the club. All those who said it was a matter of time - thanks, you were right, you told us so. Happy. Now get lost unless you have somethign constructive to add.

Second, some of us have very short memories. The low point of the club in the last few years was going to Bray with a keeper for striker, calling around junior clubs begging for a loan of corner flags or playing in front of 50 miserable souls in a ground borrowed from Pike. These all happened in the previous administration, and whatever about personal views of DD it is incontrovertible that without his intervention we would have no club now. We have a side that is competitive (when at full strength in the division). We dwell on what happens in our club - similar happens in other eL clubs all the time but we think we're special.

Anyway, what to do now. I think DD's position is very understandable. I think the club is not going bust in the sense that it can't pay its way but rather that without a lease we cannot develop the ground which means on-field attempts at promotion are pointless and so with two years left on a lease it is clear that the club has no future without it. The actions of the priest in all this are disgraceful - but whats new there.

I think it is as important as ever now that fans of the club get together and discuss these developments - IN A POSITIVE WAY! There may be a need for a Supporters Trust rather than a supporters club. Such a meeting should be held at a weekend so that non-Limerick based fans can attend. It also gives more scope for attendance etc. IMO there is no alternative backer - who in their right mind would go anywhere near the club without the lease? Ideas? thoughts? A 400 club like Rovers? Can we get someone from Rovers to come to our meeting to discuss how it could be set up etc?

**LFC in Exile** · 08/11/2006, 5:38 PM

Originally Posted by smellyfeet

Just on the topic of Junior clubs v Limerick FC.
Most Junior clubs in Limerick have there own Grounds.
That alone makes them a better CLUB than Limerick FC.
Most have school boy/girl teams also something that Limerick don't.
Alot have PROPER changing rooms and some with bars.

Lets be reallistic here lads, None of Limericks players have been pred at Limerick FC and won't in the future it seems, all from Junior clubs.

Who cares. We wish we had a clubhouse. We wish we had a schoolboys team. We wish we had our own grounds. We don't. We have to deal with reality. Whether the junior scene is better run than LFC or whether it isn't is completely irrelevant. I have my view of junor football in the city. Others have their's - it adds nothing to the current concerns. Can we leave it there.

**LFC in Exile** · 08/11/2006, 5:42 PM

Originally Posted by Goals4fun

how bad would it be if limerick fc did not exist ?

Obviously by asking the question it means nothing to you. But the club means a lot to a small group of very dedicated fans. It also is an important aspect of the lives of a lot of fathers and sons and families who attend matches week in and week out. The potential of a club like LFC to drastically improve how the city is seen in the rest of ireland is immense. Can you imagine having the Munster rugby team and a top competitive football side in the city? We are a long long way away from that - but mark my words if the club folds the city will regret it.

**PinBallWizard** · 08/11/2006, 5:48 PM

Originally Posted by LFC in Exile

First, can those who believe LFC is a laughing stock, would like the club to go bust, think it is a disgrace etc etc ad nauseum please p1ss off. Your opinions are noted. Thanks for them. But they contribute nothing in the context of trying to save/deal with the decline of the club. All those who said it was a matter of time - thanks, you were right, you told us so. Happy. Now get lost unless you have somethign constructive to add.

So...there is no democracy to be allowed in your world? People are entitled to their opinions and it is hard not to be critical or smug when the club has been denegrated so badly by so few. You have no right to tell people to p1ss off from remarking on this issue.

Originally Posted by LFC in Exile

Second, some of us have very short memories. The low point of the club in the last few years was going to Bray with a keeper for striker, calling around junior clubs begging for a loan of corner flags or playing in front of 50 miserable souls in a ground borrowed from Pike. These all happened in the previous administration, and whatever about personal views of DD it is incontrovertible that without his intervention we would have no club now. Anyway, what to do now. I think DD's position is very understandable. .

He's running away and getting away with it by making the whole priest issue his scapegoat. He made false promise after false promise-where did the three cars go that I paid money to have a chance of winning go?-. Yes he did save the club and deserves credit for it, but he deserves far more in the way of a good horse-whipping for the way he treated it, its supporters and the media ever since. Please, don't refer to the 'previous administration' when it is anything but....investigate a little deeper and see who is actually running the club and advising Mr Drew.

**John83** · 08/11/2006, 6:14 PM

Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

So...there is no democracy to be allowed in your world? People are entitled to their opinions and it is hard not to be critical or smug when the club has been denegrated so badly by so few.

Er, that's not what democracy means. I think you're referring to free speach... which means exactly what the forum mod and ultimately Dahamsta want it to on here. Anyway, just my �0.02, but the people who want to point and laugh can do so in the eL subforum version of this thread.

I've read someone suggest that this is a ploy to put pressure on certain people regards the lease. Anyone care to comment on that?

**LFC in Exile** · 08/11/2006, 9:21 PM

Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

So...there is no democracy to be allowed in your world? People are entitled to their opinions and it is hard not to be critical or smug when the club has been denegrated so badly by so few. You have no right to tell people to p1ss off from remarking on this issue.

Leaving aside the democracy/free speech difficulty, I absolutely 100% accept that anyone has a right to express their opinion and I'll back that to the hilt no matter how inane and wrong their opinion. The point I was making was that the harping about how the club is a shambles etc etc is an exaggeration and is also irrelevant. Your view on why things got to where they are depends on when you start the clock - when Grace took over, when Joe got the lease, when MOS appointed a commercial director or when DD first burst into a dressing room. That is a lovely but academic argument - we are where we are. Some on here obviously care about the club and want to work on a future for it. Schadenfreude is not welcome in the current situation.

**LFC in Exile** · 08/11/2006, 9:27 PM

Originally Posted by John83

I've read someone suggest that this is a ploy to put pressure on certain people regards the lease. Anyone care to comment on that?

I wouldn't be surprised but at this stage the existing lease is running out and the club have no alternative potential ground. Also, it is easy to see a situation where the threat to pull the plug is a credible one. And I'm not sure we can take the chance.

The situation we need to avoid is one similar to three seasons ago when we were touch and go regarding a licence and players, who rightly were concerned about the club moved on and we were left scrambling for players two weeks before the start of the season. If the club has a huge question mark hanging over it will Purcell, Kelliher, Heffernan, Barrett, Lester etc hang around? Or would another club take the chance to sign up a handy free agent?

**lim abroad** · 08/11/2006, 10:47 PM

i for one would be sad to see the club fold and will back any initiative that supporters might have to save it

**joeSoap** · 08/11/2006, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by LFC in Exile

Schadenfreude

Sweet Jesus

**LFC in Exile** · 09/11/2006, 7:48 AM

Originally Posted by joeSoap

Sweet Jesus

There isn't a better word for it.

**lfc at heart** · 09/11/2006, 9:21 AM

Ive just wasted my time reading 3 pages of complete bull**** and I still dont know were and when this supporters meeting is on, you people are a joke, organise something and stop talking ****** please

**Lim till i die** · 09/11/2006, 9:24 AM

Originally Posted by lfc at heart

Ive just wasted my time reading 3 pages of complete bull**** and I still dont know were and when this supporters meeting is on, you people are a joke, organise something and stop talking ****** please

See other Thread the one with the big sign next to it and EMERGENCY MEETING IN BLOCK CAPITALS

A time and date can't be set until we get confirmation from people wanting to attend

It'll have to be within the next ten days though

(See Nempton, I've taken your point and am being alightly pro-active

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**smellyfeet** · 09/11/2006, 9:26 AM

Originally Posted by LFC in Exile

Who cares. We wish we had a clubhouse. We wish we had a schoolboys team. We wish we had our own grounds. We don't. We have to deal with reality. Whether the junior scene is better run than LFC or whether it isn't is completely irrelevant. I have my view of junor football in the city. Others have their's - it adds nothing to the current concerns. Can we leave it there.

Don't get me wrong, i don't like to see Limerick FC in the state it is in at the moment, i was just stating a point. It would be the worst thing ever to happen in Limerick sport if Limerick FC were to go out of business as they are in the league for so long now...I think that Limerick have been through so much in the last 10 years that it would be unimaginable for them to fold now.
I know alot of the players that play for Limerick and it would be a shame for them aswell not to be able to represent their home town in the national league....Hopefully something can be done to SAVE LIMERICK FC.

**Lim till i die** · 09/11/2006, 9:27 AM

Originally Posted by smellyfeet

Don't get me wrong, i don't like to see Limerick FC in the state it is in at the moment, i was just stating a point. It would be the worst thing ever to happen in Limerick sport if Limerick FC were to go out of business as they are in the league for so long now...I think that Limerick have been through so much in the last 10 years that it would be unimaginable for them to fold now.
I know alot of the players that play for Limerick and it would be a shame for them aswell not to be able to represent their home town in the national league....Hopefully something can be done to SAVE LIMERICK FC.

You'll be at our meeting aswell so??

And you'll bring a couple of mates??