Club in Tatters?

Originally Posted by sligored

i have been at 90% of rovers games this year and foy, moore , feeney and curran have not played . they have appeared a few times i do agree , though. and no wages

But you're saying "A" team players are good enough to take their place?

Originally Posted by Risteard

Personally, don't see why semi-pro is such a disaster lads. Works for the other Rovers.

That's easy when you're based in Dublin though, not many would want to play part-time in Sligo.

Originally Posted by sligoman

But you're saying "A" team players are good enough to take their place?

no . we should bring in highly paid players so that we can secure our possible inter toto place.
i am not saying a team players are for the long term good but they must be given a chance at this stage.
Sligoman, which of these 4 players ie foy curran moore and feeney do you feel that we can sustain on full time wages?
its easy to have a go at the mc but you have to appreciate our financial difficulties .

Originally Posted by sligored

Sligoman, which of these 4 players ie foy curran moore and feeney do you feel that we can sustain on full time wages?

Well Foy and Moore are gone now so no point in talking about them. In fairness to Curran and Feeney, I'd imagine they're not on that high of wages and they can generally do a job for us when needed, imo.

I do agree that some players were a waste keeping in the past(the likes of Foy, Moore, Kevin Julian). The club was basically throwing money down the drain with these guys. Not blaming the MC, it's in the past and nothing can be done about it now anyway.

i would love to see steve or gary making the rovers first team but they are not up to playing full time football- we gave them every opportunity but we must now try ross mc loughlin , david rooney etc and see if they can cut it at this grade. its a cruel game but we cant afford to be charitable

i wish someone would change this thread title because we are not a club in tatters - merely a club who took a small chance that did not work out but are now trying to find our feet in mid table obscurity

Originally Posted by sligored

no . we should bring in highly paid players so that we can secure our possible inter toto place.

The Intertoto is being scrapped after this year

The day of relying on people going through the turnstiles is long gone. There is no point in our chairman moaning every week about low attendances. Every year the amount of money it takes to run our club depends less and less on attendances the MC should know this by now and look at other ways of income

Originally Posted by Red Army

The day of relying on people going through the turnstiles is long gone. There is no point in our chairman moaning every week about low attendances. Every year the amount of money it takes to run our club depends less and less on attendances the MC should know this by now and look at other ways of income

Please expand on "other ways of income"

Originally Posted by clubman

Please expand on "other ways of income"

a better membership scheme would be a start.

and a proper player sponsorship package.

Get real guys. If people dont show up for matchs & support the team, why would sponsors give money to sponsor the team? Business will only spend money if they can get a return. If 400 people or less pay in to a game where is the great exposure for a sponsor. To claim that the MC are "moaning" because they implore people to come to matchs is ridiculous. Give the volunteers who try & perform the impossible financial balancing act a break & do something constructive for the cause yourself!

Originally Posted by clubman

Please expand on "other ways of income"

please expand on club in tatters

if you have been a fan as long as you say you will know that we have been in much worse circumstances than at present

we are in mid table - we have good players and average crowd of 2000 people

you must have a different concept of tatters

stop this nonsense clubman - a real rovers fan would not be so negative - poor johnny chadda would turn in his grave reading this b*ll****

I have to agree with sligored.

Take a look at the resources Rovers have at our disposal, and how our nearest neighbours - Galway, Harps and Athlone (who have at least as good a tradition and historical record of success) are doing. Meanwhile, we look to be in with a very good shout of a third consecutive season in the top half of the Premier.

Clubman's comments presumably reflect genuine concerns, and maybe the spectacular nature of phrases like "club in tatters" represent an attempt to shock people into getting off their backsides, but there's also a danger such an evaluation could encourage waverers to believe the club's not worth bothering with.

Rovers' stubborn tradition and relative success over the decades has been largely helped by the attitude of followers and committees (sorry, very uncool of me to suggest a committee ever did anything right) who refused to let the spirit die just because other clubs had better resources.

I think Clubman's overdoing it with the title "Club in tatters". We've gone through worse than this in the past.

clubman is very close to the bone here. this is the worst situation the club has being in in its history. i am not scare mongering but it will be a minor miracle if we survive this latest very serious crisis. the clu has being losing thousands since the beginning of the season and also carried a huge loss in from last season. right now we need a huge response to any suggested fund raiser that the club might bring out in the next few weeks. its ironic in one sense cause we have got some very good players and can finish high up in the league but if we have to offload players then we will struggle. its a catch 22 situation because we can only begin to get bigger gates if we go on a winning run. however being out of the cup is a huge loss. however this is the reality. what to do? well i think the club should tell the sligo public how serious the matter is . there are people out there who don not know. there are people out there who do not care.i think once and for all the whole matter of the club and trustee nad can anything be done with the showgrounds to generate an income. there is a huge area of land just lying idle which over the years something should have being done with. questions who are the trustees? who heads the trustee group? why have these people buried there heads in the sand over the years. i have heard the usual spin over the years that sligo rovers is a community club and i can live with that but for gods sake let us generate an income from the ground to benefit the club. im not in any way saying sell the ground but is it not better to have something on it doing something for the club than lying idle and an eye sore. i suppose the times that are in it now (recession) are not condusive to developement but why not have total tranparency on this matter once and for all. there are some very good people at the club. also some very frustrated people (and good people) have stepped down and taken a back seat because of this ongoing "trust" situation. what good is a football ground without a football team. also who are the developement committe. in last years figures something like k55 was paid over from the club to this committe. i dont see much developement going on. thes figures were never explained properly in the accounts. i belive that there is hughe accountability
required here. i can go on and on. i wont say any more cause i am very frustrated

If we can get a good winning streak going we can hope for good ticket sales. And need to think of fund raisers. get your thinking caps on people .

Originally Posted by clubman

We will be lucky to survive the drop this season but with us reverting
back to part-time next season the dreaded drop is imminent.
First Division football is all we have to look forward to.

thanks for the uplifting post clubman.

dsagree with the "going down this season" though, we are a better side than at least 5 teams in this league.

and part-time football is not the be-all-end-all.

Originally Posted by Rovers1

thanks for the uplifting post clubman.

dsagree with the "going down this season" though, we are a better side than at least 5 teams in this league.

and part-time football is not the be-all-end-all.

"Sometimes you can't see the wood from the trees"
I suppose whoever was the first to mutter those 'encourageing' words they too were frowned upon??
Love is a very strong word yet it has all but four letters.
When we really love someone or something it's very difficult to spot the blemishes.
Truth is also a very strong word and yet it's a word people have more tendency to shy away from. The truth always hurts. The only way to face the truth is head on. No matter what way you try to dress it up the truth will always be the truth.
On a sunny day somepeople use sunglasses. Just because they darken out the sun doesn't mean the sun has gone away. When the sun goes down the sunglasses will only make it darker. It's down to each individual to know when it's time to take off the sunglasses.
I've take mine off .... when will you take yours off?

Yes Rovers1, when will those sunglasses be coming off?

Originally Posted by sligoman

Yes Rovers1, when will those sunglasses be coming off?

do you think our club is in tatters? , sligoman.