Things almost at an end

**SodacakeFC** · 15/09/2003, 2:52 PM

He makes a good point Joe

**joeSoap** · 15/09/2003, 3:40 PM

he sure does...

**Bluebeard** · 16/09/2003, 12:21 PM

I think that it would be a very bad thing for the League of Ireland and the FAI if you did go under. A few other Blues I was talknig with are of the same opinion.

Like a number of people, I'm hoping to see Limerick get promoted before too long, and look forward to slagging you all off on the boards here befoer and after Derby games with you. But there is no-one here laughing at your fate. Unlike, for example, Kilkenny City, you are not a team that is struggling to get either local talent or local support. You have a good long tradition, and the league would be a much poorer place without you.

**LFC in Exile** · 17/09/2003, 8:42 AM

Then send us all your doubloons.

We feel the same way too Bluebeard. Pity our committee don't share those sentiments.

**JohnD** · 17/09/2003, 11:37 AM

Hi Guys was at the committee meeting with Deise last night and things are even more gloomier than I previously would have thought possible. Whilst I am refrained from broadcasting (rules of Committee and understandable ) the gory details, I can tell ye however that were are in serious danger of not playing football next season.

Major Points:

1..The Players will play on for the forseeable future without expenses.

2.. Travel is accounted for by Cars until end of year

3..Club insurance needs to be paid. Currently this is not possible.

4..Meetings will have to take place with Corporation re Markets Field urgently before end of season as a decision will have to be made for new one ie are we in the league or not.

5.. It looks unlikely that we will be in Pike next year barring some sort of Market's Field iniitative wherby they will let us there pending the development of the Markets Field

Sorry to be the Harbringer of Doom but there you go

**KEVIN 2** · 17/09/2003, 12:09 PM

any news on where we will be playing our home games next year? will it be Pike or what?

**SodacakeFC** · 17/09/2003, 1:04 PM

What were the concrete plans the committee has for getting out of the current situation.

It all fine and good to say players will be out of pocket but this while laudable on the side of the players is another inditement of the people running the club.

The committee have to be able to offer concrete proposals for improvement and not a vague sniff of talks with th corporation about Markets Field. (smacks of dream team)

This situation now makes the pulbic meeting more vital than ever the real stakeholders in the club are the supporters. If the corporation are ever going to be swayed then they must see that there is political capital to be made and that can only be demonstrated by a public meeting.

This committee is doomed and they are hanging on for no benefit to anyone do they want to take the club with them.

The old cry of there are no concrete proposals/alternatives being put forward has been used as a screen long enough and now is the moment to see if Limerick FC can survive.

Call the meeting see who comes and then move forward

**4tothefloor** · 18/09/2003, 10:38 AM

Why don't ye just call the meeting ASAP? Get politicians involved, get it in the news. Surely Willie O'Dea and all the local media will take the story up.

**SodacakeFC** · 18/09/2003, 11:08 AM

A chance to get their mugs in the paper they will gobble it up

**paudie** · 18/09/2003, 1:16 PM

What's the story with the Markets field?

From the posts I gather its owned by the Corporation. Is soccer still played there and what condition is the stand etc?

[To the home of my childhood away....]

**joeSoap** · 18/09/2003, 2:21 PM

Its a greyhound track which was leased by Bord na gCon, who are moving out the county to pastures new. There was a fine soccer pitch in the middle of it, but this hasn't been used since the early nineties when local junior soccer was played on it. The place used to be jammed (8000 plus) for home games back in the early eighties when we were at our peak, but sadly we then moved out to, what we were told by an equally inept committee as todays one, a fine new stadium with vast potential. This involved our gates dropping to three figure attendances, the beginning of the slippery slope we're now on, and provided a perfectly good excuse for tosspots who really didn't want to travel out of the city to watch LOI football to stay at home..."ahh, its not the same since they left the markets field" and all that bull.Basically what happened then was, we were run by a local priest who was on the payroll of a local figue "known to the authorities" shall we say. He, in turn contrived to use his muscle to boot us out of this ground, 'cos he wanted it for "Parole Celtic". We then had to rent from the local scummy junior council, and most recently from a decent well run junior club.
The only good point about the current status of the markets field is that its protected by a preservation order, and must be kept a 'green area'. I warn against blind and foolish optimism of a return there, because , quite frankly, the current regime seem hardly capable of tying their own shoelaces, let alone orchestrate such a coup.

**gael353** · 18/09/2003, 3:35 PM

markets field is owned by bord na gcon they bought it some years ago for 300 thousand pounds as well as the old telecom building for nearly one million pounds. Shur we'd love to own both and build our own san siro but shur. i replied to your pm Joe.