Quotehow relilable is this source????Originally Posted by Shiba
Heard from a source within the club that Cooke and commitee at loggerheads and that Cooke leaving at end of season.
Till d End!
how relilable is this source????
Too reliable for my liking.Most things he has told has come to pass
Till d End!
lets just hope for once hes wrong
Sounds familiar
are you implying that the commitee could be at fault!!!!
cooke leaving rovers ?
i heard similar talk during week. now lets get things clear here. firstly unless some investor or the business community come on board (now) for next season the club is on a slippery slope to financial ruin. i have said it before it takes e1m to run a club in the premier divison of the l..O.I therfore that means a bigger squod and a good manager. we have a very good manager and a squod that are giving 100%. the manager is getting frustrated cause he needs finance to bring the club forward. the committe are doing their best but they are limited to the amount of finance that they can bring in. the general public (especially in sligo town (im from the town) are not supporting sligo rovers in numbers) we need 2500 people at every home game and more to have some sort of chance of competing. paul cooke is as good as you will get the trouble is he is beginning to see the club and all its limitiations as damaging his cv. sean connors saw the same thing but he is not as nice a guy as cooke nor as good a manager. we are at a crisis if we want to keep the manager we need to gurantee him support and finance to bring the club forward. this is almost like looking for a miracle but miracles can happen if a number of things take place. we need to restructure the club we need to bring in immediate finance . we need to start fundraising immediately for next season. we need to find a way so that the 13 acres of land in the showgrounds can generate some form of an income. i could go on and on. we need fresh new blood (no disrespect to the present committe) we need enthusiastic people with business acumen. we need people that will die for the club to come forward to start raising finance. we need those that will die for the club to tread in high places where finance is accesible. we ned leaders and more leaders. i am supportinf rovers all my life i have done my bit and will continue to do so but i dont have the financial clout that is nesessary but i am always willing to help and have done so. lets return to the 60000 raised by the syndicate and measure it against the last month we have forked out 4 weeks wages E15000 per week and got e 6500 return from ucd game. do the math and see what is nesessary to keep the club afloat. also i believe that 18 clubs of the 22 competing voted for a return to winter football. the fai/league are doing nothing constructive to support the clubs . the statement that numbers are up by 15% is b********. drogheda who are at the top are getting ave 2000 at games. these are the facts. the idea of clubs being supported by selling there grounds as collateral is a load of cods wollop. rovers and many other long established clubs (st pats example) have played there football on long established ground should be shown as a shining example . clubs with a great tradition but seemingly there is no room at the top tables for romance and tradition. if this is so the game here is on its last legs as the incompetency of those who are running it will bring it down. i know i am going on and on (my apologies) but i also know ther are others out there who feel the same way as i do. i also know that sentiment is but a part of the emotional make up of everybody but if we dont have a passion for something the life is not worth living. there are those of us who have a passion for sligo rovers (we are but a small band ) there are some who would love to see rovers fold (they are few but they exist). the biggest problem in modern society is that people do not want to come out of their comfort zone. we as a nation have lost our hunger in many ways we have lost the way of how to enjoy the simple things in life (ie live football) we prefer to support teams across the pond. this drives me crazy. we can experience the passion on our own doorstep yet we refuse to recognise it. this will come back to haunt us. we have one last chance now to move the bit o red forward and keep the cookie monster. its up to the people of sligo and the business community.
great post.
I hope to god cookie doesn't leave. Investment is vital as are attendances!
good post red arrow.
no businesses will be reading this forum though, maybe its time we as supporters start something, a campaign of sort, and approach the business ourselves. organise some sort of booklet thing to show what sligo rovers means to the people of sligo, and what advantages they would have in investing in the club?
No it doesn't. This decade, UCD have reached nine Cup quarters, four Cup semis, two Cup Finals, been promoted, qualified for Europe through the league, finished top half last season, and all on a budget of E500k. Work smarter, not harder, and all that. More money won't do any harm but a club can also improve through better use of its money. Don't really know the ins and outs of other clubs, but the fact that we can compete as much as has been noted on one of the smallest budgets in the league shows me that there's plenty of room for improvement at other clubs.
Also, paragraphs and capitals, PLEASE!! That post was almost impossible to read.
So offer something similar. Is there not a college in Sligo (genuinely don't know)? Our scholarship scheme isn't necessarily unique to us.
well, as im only 18, i doubt ther'd be much space on the MC for me.
but it'd be great if a good supporter went forward for it, or a coulpe of supporters. someone who's been at the showgrounds a long time and followed rovers all over the country and knows what its like to be a fan.
what about getting sponsershp for the name of the stadum? e.g The(company name)showgrounds
The league is f uck ed if there isn't a return to winter football. The FAI don't seem to have any idea the effect of competing with the GAA is having on provincial clubs. To give you an example, Finn Harps recently played Cobh in the game of the year at Finn Park. They had a 'bumper' crowd of 2000. The following day, there was 6500 at the GAA county final across the road from Finn Park. How many of our supporters are actually playing GAA matches when our home games are on? We are losing our country support and the crowds we have had this year would be amongst the highest in the country for summer soccer.
However, Stu is right - you can run a club properly on affordable levels and I personally feel that the present MC is determined not to go the boom/bust road again and I'm happy to go with that, picking up the odd cup here and there and laughing at Bohs.
Paul Cooke said when he came that he believed in keeping contracts so I expect he will do that. Any rumble out there is merely to signal to Pats that he could be bought out of his contract. McDonnell is a dead man walking but Fenlon looks like the man for there.
yeah he'd be good. he's done alot for rovers through the years! we need more people like him though, he himself cant help raise sufficent money to run the club.
and i wouldnt like the sound of 'the Tohers showgrounds' for example.
Something has got to be done. The amount of business's in town and not many of them probably know Rovers even exist as a sponsorship/investment opportunity. As has been said, we need the likes of Vincent Nally on the board. I think Michael Toolan has brought the club as far as he can as chairman and we need some fresh blood on board.
We should be looking at a good fundraiser too, only short-term I know but it's still something. Like, when the season is over, some concert with all Sligo musicians or something. Tabby, Dervish, Westlife[headline act] etc. with most of the proceeds going to the club. These are simple, but probably worthwhile, things the club should be arranging because if Cook goes, all the good work done in the last while will be undone, we're back at square one again.
If it affects you that much, stick with you're own forum where everything is typed perfectly.
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
does all the money we get on the gate just go straight back into paying the wages every week?
who'd be interested in going to some sort of dinner dance style evening when the seasons over, like the night after the bray game, get it well advertised, have raffles and an auction or something on the night, something that the fans can go to and have a bit of craic with the players and people involved with the club
Yea, lets have an auld knees up hit the razz, enjoy ourselves for the night, make much needed revenue for the club and then we've done our bit. Hand the money over to the auld fogies on the committee and let them get on with the daunting task of running a senior football club.
Let's get real here. Members of the management committee are only supporters like ourselves. Supporters that have gone the extra yard to help the club they love with a passion. As already been said in this thread the call went out prior to the AGM for new people to get involved on the committee - FACT. How many put their names forward - one - FACT.
It's all very well playing the blame game and pointing the finger at the people that have stepped forward to work in the interest of the club when the rest just sit back and wait for them to make mistakes. Running a senior football club successfully takes more than a love for the club. Football is now a business and no business is run by a group of volunteers. SRFC has to be dragged into the 21st centuary. The club needs new direction, new leadership, new hope. People coming on here pointing the finger at the present group of people that have been brave enough to take the poison challace should really think before they make wild statements regarding the running of our club.
Ideas are plentiful but will they work? Talk of people like Westlife doing a 'free' concert for the love of the Rovers when these guys have more interest in the GAA is not worth the paper the idea is written on. One 'big' fundraiser is not going to solve the longterm problem of Sligo Rovers. The club needs a huge shake-up. A public meeting needs to be called and before a word is spoken stock would need to be taken of whose present. People with a vision and the will and ability to carry it through would need to be making themselves available. If they are not out there then the best we can do is what we have. Talk is very cheap. Everyone has a plan not everyone can make the plan work.
If you read it again you'll see I said it was only a "short-term" idea.
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
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