Sale of Tolka

**Schumi** · 20/06/2007, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub

As far as I'm concerned, he can call it a director's loan, he can call it a charitable donation from the Garret Kelleher Foundation for the Advancement of St. Pats, he can call it whatever the hell he wants that's legal once we get the use of it.

I'm also not an accountant but if he calls it a director's loan, can he not look for it to be repaid at some point in the future? Even if it's a Bertie-esque loan, he'd still be able to ask for his money back, surely.

**dublinred** · 20/06/2007, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

I don't know one fan who doesn't think Richmond Park is a proper football ground with charachter. its not fancy but it has something Tolka will never have.

Other grounds like this include United Park, The Showgrounds, St Mels, Dalymount

Don't know about the long term future of Richmond but Mels is gone , United park and dalymount are going soon but thankfully due to a bit of hindsight in the sixties the showgrounds was put in trust and will there forever and can never be sold or borrowed against.

**Dodge** · 20/06/2007, 11:26 AM

AFAIK it won't be in as Directors loan.

If anyway seen the the make up of our new board, its packed with corporate analysts, accountants, solicitors and other financial boffins. I'm sure they'll find a way of making everything beneficial to everyone

**Bald Student** · 20/06/2007, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

Propped up by my Tax Euro's ye spongers!

Have the Bohs cleared the revenue debt yet? Otherwise you'll have to put that claim on hold.

**TonyD** · 20/06/2007, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Drumrock Robourne.

Shambourne

**TonyD** · 20/06/2007, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

which leaves the best run club in the Premier Division last season UCD.
The only Dublin club that lived within it's budget CONSISTENTLY

Well done you. (Shame they don't award points for how well your books are kept)

**sonofstan** · 20/06/2007, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

a way of making everything beneficial to everyone

that's pretty much like 'everything louder than everything else' isn't it?

**Schumi** · 20/06/2007, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by TonyD

Well done you. (Shame they don't award points for how well your books are kept)

They do. Just ask Galway.

**John83** · 20/06/2007, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by TonyD

Well done you. (Shame they don't award points for how well your books are kept)

They did last year. We came second, remember?

EDIT: Schumi, you joke-thieving ********!

**Jerry The Saint** · 20/06/2007, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by John83

They did last year. We came second, remember?

EDIT: Schumi, you joke-thieving ********!

To be fair, John Delaney came up with that joke long before either of you two.

**John83** · 20/06/2007, 1:15 PM

Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

To be fair, John Delaney came up with that joke long before either of you two.

True. To paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff, in Soviet Ireland, Football Association mocks you.

**Jerry The Saint** · 20/06/2007, 1:19 PM

Originally Posted by John83

True. To paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff, in Soviet Ireland, Football Association mocks you.

What a country!

**DecBoh** · 20/06/2007, 2:33 PM

Originally Posted by Bald Student

Have the Bohs cleared the revenue debt yet? Otherwise you'll have to put that claim on hold.

Not fully but we are continuing to meet our agreed payment schedule to Revenue

**passerrby** · 20/06/2007, 2:39 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

If anyway seen the the make up of our new board, its packed with corporate analysts, accountants, solicitors and other financial boffins. I'm sure they'll find a way of making everything beneficial to everyone

so was enron

**John83** · 20/06/2007, 2:39 PM

Originally Posted by passerrby

so was enron

And when Pats take over the ESB, I might get worried.

**Dodge** · 20/06/2007, 2:46 PM

You can't keep any secrets in this league!

**passerrby** · 20/06/2007, 2:53 PM

Originally Posted by John83

And when Pats take over the ESB, I might get worried.

well you could generate a lot of heat from manure

**Dodge** · 20/06/2007, 3:02 PM

Tried that. Doens't work. Setanta are trying it at the moment

**pineapple stu** · 20/06/2007, 6:11 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

If anyway seen the the make up of our new board, its packed with corporate analysts, accountants, solicitors and other financial boffins. I'm sure they'll find a way of making everything beneficial to everyone

How much are these people getting paid, by the way? Are they full time?

Your comment that your backer has loads of money sounds an awful lot like Drogs fans' comments about their backers, who are now talking publicly about the wells drying up.

Pat's do have the advantage that the money is being put in as share capital and not as directors' loans (Drogs) or sale of ground (Shels), but I'm just naturally cynical about a property developer taking over a club, promising to turn it into a European force, buying a load of property immediately around the ground (I think?) and losing a million a year. The league has been here before.

**Saint MacDara** · 20/06/2007, 7:15 PM

You're right to be cynical about property developers as alot of them are hawks but Kelleher aint one of them.Everyone agrees that the league needs investment so we cant treat every single investor as a villain.I suppose it all comes down to trust and he and the board seem genuine.
It's a pity we call cant have a state funded university to finance our beloved clubs but that's the way thngs are!