FAI Meeting

**football boy** · 28/11/2006, 9:14 PM

Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

Maybe there was nothing they could have done about it, but they certainly could have done more to protect a club as big as Shamrock Rovers. Yeah Yeah Yeah...I can hear the sympathy for Rovers coming already....but they deserved their association and leagues support and never got it. Help with re-location etc...the same will be the case with Limerick. The FAI and EL have a responsibility to do more to help its member clubs...something it sadly has never done in the past.

We all know Kilcoyne owned it, so yeah, as you put it, end of !! Surely then stipulations can be put into leases to guarantee the tenure of that lease is used for footballing purposes only, irrespective of whose name its in. There are ways to secure futures-you simply have to want to secure them first of all. I don't think Drew gives a rats ass abot the future of Limerick FC now. He saw it as an egotrip that he could make money out of 2 1/2 years ago...now the cold light of day has slapped him and he now knows that EL football isn't a cash cow like Munster rugby, so he wants to run Good luck to him I say...thanks for trying, but now run off and stick to the curry sauce, or tiles, or whatever it is you're actually good at.

you're realy a sour person.what did he do to you

**4tothefloor** · 29/11/2006, 4:04 PM

Originally Posted by football boy

you're realy a sour person.what did he do to you

Maybe he had a dodgy curry?

**LFC in Exile** · 30/11/2006, 6:17 PM

Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

Maybe there was nothing they could have done about it, but they certainly could have done more to protect a club as big as Shamrock Rovers.

Like what? They had no money - it was pre-Charlton etc. They certainly had no money to spend on alternative grounds for one club.

Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

We all know Kilcoyne owned it, so yeah, as you put it, end of !! Surely then stipulations can be put into leases to guarantee the tenure of that lease is used for footballing purposes only, irrespective of whose name its in.

Leases are agreements between two parties - nothing to do with FAi unless they are one of thse parties. The people who are parties to the lease - they decide what goes in to it. If one of them wants to put this stipulation in then it is a case of negtiation. The FAI have no role.

Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

Good luck to him I say...thanks for trying, but now run off and stick to the curry sauce, or tiles, or whatever it is you're actually good at.

Fair enough - if that's what you think but could you please suggest an alternative source of funds or investment for the club?

**PinBallWizard** · 30/11/2006, 9:10 PM

For someone as sanctimonious as you are LFC in Exile, you don't come up with a lot of solutions yourself. My opinions on Danny Drew are based upon experiences I've personally witnessed at matches, coupled with business dealings I have had with the Drew family outside of football.

I do believe he is a spoofer...I do believe that he is self-centred, and I do believe that the investment he has shown to Limerick FC over the past two years will stop now that he realises theres not going to be an easy pot of gold in it for him.

All I was saying re the Rovers situation is that the FAI could have done more to help them. Regardless of it being pre-Charlton or not. Incidently it wasn't pre-Charlton-Kilcoyne sold Miltown in December 1987, a time when Ireland had just qualified for their first ever major championships under Jack Charlton!!

As regards alternative resources for the club, I have about as many ideas as the next man. A trust, proper lobbying of the right people, who knows. What I do THINK is that this Drew character is going to turn out to be possibly the worst thing that has ever happened to Limerick FC. But that's just mu opinion....

**joeSoap** · 01/12/2006, 9:25 AM

Let's keep it to opinions here...no attacking the poster.

**NY Hoop** · 01/12/2006, 11:23 AM

Milltown was sold in December 1988. The FAI did nothing then for us just as they are doing nothing now.

This was proven when they elected the scum Lucifer to be President. Can you imagine this happening in any other country? The guy who killled off the biggest club being elected to President of the Football Association?

Anyway good luck with any meeting with the FAI. They have a remarkable skill in saying a lot while meaning nothing.

KOH

**LFC in Exile** · 01/12/2006, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by PinBallWizard

For someone as sanctimonious as you are LFC in Exile, you don't come up with a lot of solutions yourself. My opinions on Danny Drew are based upon experiences I've personally witnessed at matches, coupled with business dealings I have had with the Drew family outside of football.

I don't come up with solutions because I don't think there are any options. Whatever your opinions of DD we are in a situation where there is no obvious alternative investor/chairman. If I wanted DD out (as you seem to do) then I'd need to have something better in mind. I think a supporters trust is a great idea nad would be a better situation - but lets get realistic here, we can't even organise a SC meeting - how could a trust be organised?

If DD walks in the morning where is the club? It is beside the point what you think of him - if you want the club to continue then either we live with DD or we get real in terms of alternatives.

On the other one - when I said pre-Charlton I meant it was pre-money bags FAI. I absolutely agree that the FAI was and probably still is incompetent but I don't understand why you are arguing that the FAI should not get the lease and at the same time saying that DD is so bad. I am not (consciously) being sanctimonious - but thats in the eye of the beholder - I am genuinely trying to understand what your arguments are.

**joeSoap** · 01/12/2006, 11:40 AM

From the Rovers website:

Tragedy was to strike in 1987 when, just as the season was coming to an end, the news leaked out that the Kilcoynes had sold the Milltown ground for property development. Fury erupted amongst the Hoops faithful who boycotted the alternative venue of Tolka Park and the club was brought to its knees. In 1988 the Kilcoynes sold out to a consortium of interested fans led by John McNamara but efforts to buy back Milltown failed and the ground was lost forever. In 1990, McNamara pulled off a coup by securing the Royal Dublin Showgrounds as a venue for Rovers to play in but that particular era came to an end in 1996.

400 fans at €40 a week....sounds workable. Obviously a lot of responsible people needed to do this, but surely, surely they're out there.