Breaking news Michael O'Sullivan resigns - club may fold

**eoinh** · 24/06/2003, 3:31 PM

i really do hope limerick survive. football needs limerick to be a success. it would be a diasaster if one of our largest ciitys wasnt represented in the LOI

**LFC in Exile** · 24/06/2003, 4:01 PM

Originally posted by gael353
is it just me but haven't i been going on about the markets field for the last two and a half yeas and i get constently shot down on this for doing so?? im sorry but im patting myself on the back for this one. but who is buying it?? and will all of it ie the car park be bought as well???

Trev,

At the risk of sounding small time or defeatist, the Markets Filed is a beaten docket. There is no money to run the club beyond July 11th and now we're talking about the Markets Field. There is no money to pay wages - how are we going to buy a ground?

Will the car park be bought as well? If there was someone coming in to buy this for the club the Michael O'S would have known about it and would not have resigned.

I think as well as selling tickets beforehand we (SC) should also get cracking on a poster spree. Things like - its not or never - get off your arse and support the club. Maybe in a nicer way.

**Estar** · 24/06/2003, 5:54 PM

Get the Local media behind you, tell them Limerick Fc is about to die, go and support them at their next match, they might never get a chance again

Don't give up lads, their is still hope

**ramsie** · 24/06/2003, 10:05 PM

Kerry League would be a nice team to replace ye

**tiktok** · 24/06/2003, 10:24 PM

ramsie, c'mon boy, get real, this isn't a laughing matter.

lads i think you should post this on EL general to get ideas and support from the rest of the forum, brainstorming on this type of thing often generates ideas. lots of the lads who post are involved with other clubs and see the workings.

Estar is right, get 95fm behind you, get a sympathetic voice in the limerick leader in on the story too.

three weeks is longer than it sounds if you've got the willingness to get your hands dirty. i genuinely wish you all the best.

**LFC in Exile** · 25/06/2003, 10:09 AM

Originally posted by ramsie
Kerry League would be a nice team to replace ye

Touche Ramsie. Touche.

**joeSoap** · 25/06/2003, 10:56 AM

This was posted on the el messageboard last nite
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an idea for limerick
June 24 2003 at 9:11 PM pb (no login)
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every year a loi club hits the wall, it was us a few years ago but we for the first time for years have a financial statement that has us in the black (gufc)
drogs last year now the lims. The idea is based on the Meitheil idea the catholic church had some years back so they could get all the communities together to pay for new communities churches and refurbishments on old ones. If we eircom fans started with limerick and had a
pooling of resources into a central fund, the pledges could be posted on this message board, The supporters in Limerick could set up a supporters trust and for this one we could direct it straight to limerick. The supporters in lims then could buy a share in the club and start getting things back on track (its a hard slog though believe me) after this the fund should continue annually and the supporters of each club should set up a committee to administer the fund.
its being done in the Uk and it has worked. Supporters are always talking but sometimes we need to do constructive things
what do you think?
To date the Galway United Supporters Trust has donated over �30000 euro to our club over 18 months and all the members steward the games, man the gates, promote the games and provide travel to away games.
if we acted together each club represented we could do a lot more
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**deise deserter** · 25/06/2003, 12:51 PM

Great idea - we brought the idea of a suporters' trust to the commercial manager at the start of the season. WE worked out that we would have enough each week to pay the pitch rental. The club had no work to do to get the money, yet they still shot the idea down.

We're coming up against a brick wall here guys.

**tiktok** · 26/06/2003, 1:42 AM

from www.eleven-a-side.com, it says you're not in debt, that could turn out to be the biggest plus in attracting an investor. what's your average home attendance, is there enough interest to increase it????

Limerick league status under threat

The National League status of First Division Limerick FC appears to be in serious trouble after the club asked players and staff to waive payment of wages for the next three weeks in an attempt to find a new investor for the Shannonside club.

Players and staff have agreed to the temporary rescinding of wages, but there may be no way out of this current predicament for one of the league�s most famous clubs.

Limerick have been in the league for almost 70 years, winning the outright title twice, as Limerick in 1959/60 and Limerick United in 1979/80.

The club was subsequently renamed to Limerick City in 1983 and again, to Limerick FC, in 1992.

In recent years they have been languishing in the First Division, and although they did manage to win the 2002 League Cup with victory over Derry City in the final, success has been thin on the ground in recent years.

The club parted company with manager Noel O�Connor, who was appointed Cork City assistant, in the close-season, but Mike Kerley took over and, after a slow start, led the club to fifth in the table, just two points off the play-off places.

But that relative success has masked serious trouble at the club.

Michael O�Sullivan stepped town as the club�s chairman earlier this week, and he warned that unless new investors were found, and greater numbers of supporters turned out at the Pike Rovers Sports Ground, the club faced a bleak future.

He was quoted in the Irish Sun as saying: "We�re not in debt but we have no reserves and are going to struggle to meet out commitments unless money comes in over the next three weeks.

"We have been struggling to get more than 200 people at our games and if the city wants senior football then it must turn up in greater numbers than that. We need a response from the business community as well.

"We can get to the Cobh match but if nothing has happened by then, a public meeting will be called to decide our future."

**gspain** · 27/06/2003, 8:37 AM

Sorry also to see Michael go

**A face** · 27/06/2003, 2:35 PM

Originally posted by ramsie
Kerry League would be a nice team to replace ye

Ramise ..... there was piece in the Echo not so very long ago appealing to the Cobh public to get behind their team.

Very short memory there my friend .... very fcuking short. ****.

Shut up unless you can offer something useful. There is not one club in the league that is a million miles away from this scenario.