Why The Silence?

**Knappagh Red** · 22/08/2008, 4:40 PM

sligo1, you remind me of the people who are always complaining about the government but never vote in an election, if it all bothers you so much why don't you do something about it?

**neutrino** · 22/08/2008, 5:03 PM

the club should make use of the website to publish weekly updates. information is and always has been the key to supporter views and opinions. the more information given the better for everyone. the blurb that sligo rovers is owned by the people of sligo seems to be only true on paper. while certain confidential aspects cant and shouldnt be released, there is piles of information that should be readily available to the public.

if the going 130k into the red is the clubs business then why bother asking supporters for help. there is always a perception that if you ask questions your looking to cause trouble. give people more info and there'll automatically be less questions and speculation. lay the cards on the table to all supporters who ask questions - if supporters know all there is to know they'll be happy with that and get in behind the club. but alot of supporters who give over money do so and never hear updates ; be it club400, a syndicate or whatever. i dont think wanting information is a ludicrous thing to ask for and deserving of being told to be quiet and give your money.

as for attending the meeting. it's always held on a tuesday- which is a hard night for anybody to go. hold it on a saturday or something - personally i'm away from sligo and would need to take a tuesday off to make a meeting and then get back for work wednesday.that's just not feasible for me and i would think alot of people with genuine interest in attending have the same problem.

But I do know anybody doing work on behalf of the club deserves enormous credit and there just isnt enough time in the day to get everything the way it could be. I also heard that the club are looking into regular communications in the form of email newsletters but again I would think time is proving difficult to find for something like that too. Everyone is trying their best and people asking questions is not an attempt to undermine that.

**sligo1** · 22/08/2008, 6:28 PM

Crucial statement from Sligo Rovers AFC Aug 22, 10:41 am

Sligo Rovers Statement

"Despite a doubling of efforts in the sale of the €1,000 syndicate tickets, Sligo Rovers have so far only managed to gather €44,000 of their targeted €130,000.

The club is now appealing to all the people of Sligo and beyond to come along to fill The Showgrounds for our next two home games against Drogheda United on August 30th and Bohemians on September 5th.

We are also asking all those who normally pay the €15 entry fee, season ticket holders, committee members, stewards, press, and anyone who comes to the next two home games to make a €20 voluntary contribution to the club (this excludes, OAPs, students and children). In a welcome show of support by the manager and players, they have agreed to return their free passes for the remainder of the season."

For further information, please contact Club Media Officer, Dermot Brannigan on 087 6172295.

So in the space of 10 days,the Club has raised another 11,000 euro and I'm sure some of this is from fundraisers.

So we have now pushed the date out to the 5th September-what happened the bit about the Club Folding if the 130,000 wasn't raised by the 31st August.

It's not really much of a Press Release is it-it took 10 days to come out with this and it will be out of date by the time the majority of people see it next week.
It doesnt answer any of the questions that were put on the forum-all it does it my opinion is create more questions which will still go unanswered.

It appears from the above Press Release that the Club doesn't have any plans or ideas for the Club whether we reach the 130,000 or not.
Sure lets extend the date and hit the people again who are already supporting us already.

So Knappagh Red,you are on your second card and I really mean it when I say very Well Done.

So what is this money you have helped raise for?-we were told if the Club didnt raise the 130,000 by the 31st August,Sligo Rovers would fold-that obviously isnt the case.

The Syndicate last year was specifically for new players in the Transfer window and their wages-what players were bought and where did the difference go?

"if it all bothers you so much why don't you do something about it?"

So Knappagh Red, if you were me,tell me what you think I should do?

Sell Sligo Rovers to me

**brianw82** · 22/08/2008, 6:49 PM

I also heard that the club are looking into regular communications in the form of email newsletters but again I would think time is proving difficult to find for something like that too.

I get email newsletters from anything and everything. John Joe's corner shop has one. Why not Rovers?

Regarding the €20 contribution, is this supposed to be given WITH the €15 on the gate or instead of it?

The Syndicate last year was specifically for new players in the Transfer window and their wages-what players were bought and where did the difference go?

I'd imagine that, in the unlikely event of there being leftovers from that money, that it was used to pay other players' wages.
Players that came in the summer window last year were Ventre, Mark Boyd and Matthew Gordon. Only Ventre remains.

**sligo1** · 22/08/2008, 9:10 PM

Hi Brian,

When I read it first I actually thought they wanted you to pay 20 euro instead of 15 euro.It's not very well written and I can easily see your take on it.I hope it doesn't have the opposite effect and put people off coming to the games if they think the Club are looking for 35 euro.

The 2 players the Club signed after the Syndicate was completed were actually James Meredith and Mathew Gordon.They were signed on short time contracts which were described at the time by Paul Cook "as sort of a trial...we can look at them before we committ ourselves..."
To the best of my knowledge,there were no transfer fees involved but I am open to correction-either way they didn't cost 60,000 euro.

I have no doubt in the world that the balance of the money, which I'd say was quite considerable, was used by the Club to pay day to day expenses.

The point I am trying to make is that the money raised by the Syndicate was to be used specifically for new players.We were told at the time that any money not used was to be held seperately and only used on new players in the future-a sort of a war chest for Paul Cook.At no point did anybody from the Club come out and say,listen we're not buying any players-we need the money for the Club.

What would have happened if there was no Syndicate-what would have the Club done then?

It seems Sligo Rovers limp on from year to year with no plan of action.

Guess what-its Groundhog Day all over again and again and again.

**deecay** · 22/08/2008, 9:18 PM

Hi Sligo1,im deecay

**sligo1** · 22/08/2008, 9:21 PM

Well Deecay,

What's your take on all things Sligo Rovers?

**deecay** · 22/08/2008, 9:24 PM

If I get started il just start arguing/talking ****e and then banned so il keep my opinions to myself on this thead

**sligo1** · 22/08/2008, 9:32 PM

I dont think you could do any worse than what we have heard from our Committee but then again we haven't heard anything so anything you say will be a bonus.

**Rovers1** · 22/08/2008, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by sligo1

I dont think you could do any worse than what we have heard from our Committee but then again we haven't heard anything so anything you say will be a bonus.

Hi sligo1,
may i ask you what you have done to help save SRFC?

im not being sarcastic or ignorant, just curious?

**sligoman** · 22/08/2008, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Press Release, July 15th 2008

it is a matter of FACT that if Sligo Rovers Football Club do not raise substantial funds by the end of August 2008, the club will no longer exist in football.

Originally Posted by Press Release, 22nd August 2008

Sligo Rovers have so far only managed to gather €44,000

The club is now appealing to all the people of Sligo and beyond to come along to fill The Showgrounds for our next two home games against Drogheda United on August 30th and Bohemians on September 5th.

September 5th?

Does that mean we've been lied to again? Surely not

.

**Jeebus** · 23/08/2008, 3:33 AM

Originally Posted by sligo1

So Rory,by the time Dermotts press release hits the local press next week,it will be seriously out of date plus it will be a full 2 weeks since the last one.

As a member of Sligo Rovers Website Committee,would it be an idea to get the Press release off Dermott and put it up on the site for everybody to see?

In relation to the Club's website,how come its not kept up to date? or do I also need to join some other Committee to find that out as well?

In relation to joining the Trust,as I said the 2 members of the Trust dont even know what's going on(one has gone AWOL since he joined the Committee and the other is fighting a losing battle) so I dont think that is the awnser either.

I thought one of the principles of the Trust was accountability and that there is no hiding.As Alan said,"you know where your money is going".

So Rory,will you put Dermotts Press Release up on the website and out of curiousity did you make the meeting on Tuesday night and if you did,I hope you voted for change.

I've been reading your posts sligo1 for a while now, and i must say you are annoying the tits of me. You persistently ask the same questions again and again. Dermot Brannigan posted his mobile number very early on in either this thread or another you were writing in, yet you keep going on and on. Are you not man enough to phone him and ask him the questions you ask on here??

RoryH is right saying that this is not the place to ask some (most) of your questions..... do you think that by putting answers up here it will benefit our club??

Fair play, you obviously love the club like the rest of us but like i said Dermot B has posted his mobile no. for you to contact him directly... are you big enough to phone him instead of hiding behind a username on a public message board??

You have been registered long enough on this board to know that the rovers website isnt the most up to date on a good day. It is maintained voluntary, im sure they would be glad of your assistance on its up keep if you were willing to offer.

I am not a member of the Trust, as most of you know im involved it the DSC. I love my club, being followiing them over 25 years. I agree with the trust quote that "your money is accountable for". For years we used to send money down to the club and didnt have a clue what it was used for. When we re-established the DSC back in 2005 we made an agreement that from then on any money we raised would go to specific causes, not just given to the club to pay off phone bills etc. We made it clear to the club that this was our intentions.

The tunnel at the showgrounds, including the installing of it, was covered by the DSC. We had a race night here in Dublin last night, from that we are buying 5 syndicate tickets. Like I said, all monies are accountable for.

Sligo1, i have over the years wondered the same as you at times about our club. At the end of the day the MC are voluntary, they have given up their own time to run the club, yet again and again constantly knocked. I agree that the info is very slow to come into the public domain, i often here more from my old fella at home before it is public knowledge. But I love my club, and i say fair fcuks to the people on the MC that have put so much of their own time into running our club. It is time for us to be run properly, a professional club should be run by professionals, but until we can get that we are going to have to make do with what we have.

So again Sligo1, are you big enough to phone D Brannigan with your questions or will you hide behind your username???

See ye all in McDowells for pre match pints on Sunday.

Rant over,

Jeebus out!

**DonalE** · 23/08/2008, 10:51 AM

You were up late

**sligo1** · 23/08/2008, 11:21 AM

Hi Sligoman,

I was wondering when somebody would spot that-I'm sure it's a genuine mistake and not a Conspiracy theory

**sligo1** · 23/08/2008, 11:49 AM

Hi sligo1,
may i ask you what you have done to help save SRFC?

im not being sarcastic or ignorant, just curious?

Hi Rovers1,

"Help save Sligo Rovers from Who or What?"

Sligo Rovers FC will still be around at the end of this year and the end of next year and in 10 years time-what form it will be in will be another thing.

Up until this year I have supported Sligo Rovers by regularly going to the games since 1977,bought any amount of programmes,helped make flags for some of the bigger occasions,bought tickets for any of the draws going bought and sold the Lotto and indirectly supported the Club by going to various Club functions,after matches race nights etc.
This year I have gone to 3 games,bought 3 programmes,bought some lotto tickets and bet on 2 races in Cahenys.

There are loads of guys like me who have done all this.

There are guys like Red Arrow who are so passionate about Sligo Rovers that they would do anything for them no matter what.I would even go as far as to say that it is the dependable guys like Red Arrow who fundraise through thick and thin that has the Club where it is now.If they maybe said "Stop" a while back,then the Club would mabye have embraced change a lot sooner.

There are guys like Redzer who over the years have been 110% behind the Club and Current Committee and are now slowly begining to change their opinions because they see the same mistakes made by the same people year in year out.

All of the above including you love Sligo Rovers to bits but that shouldn't stop us from asking questions or looking for change.

This year I said enough is enough and I thought things were going to change.

I thought,

an EGM,vote taken,vote carried,5 Business People brought on board,Current Management Committee reduced to 5,an Independant Chairman appointed and Bob's your Uncle-off we go...

But no this is Sligo Rovers we are talking about-while I have no doubt in the world change will happen,I cant see it happening this year.

Sorry for rambling on Rovers 1 but to answer your question I haven't really done much for Sligo Rovers this year but if you can tell me what they need saving from,I might be able to help.

**brianw82** · 23/08/2008, 1:40 PM

So again Sligo1, are you big enough to phone D Brannigan with your questions or will you hide behind your username???

Yet again, you are silent on this point.

if you can tell me what they need saving from,I might be able to help.

Ring Dermot Brannigan and I'm sure he can answer this for you.

**Knappagh Red** · 23/08/2008, 5:25 PM

[QUOTE=sligo1;1005140."

So Knappagh Red, if you were me,tell me what you think I should do?

Sell Sligo Rovers to me[/QUOTE]

This reminds me of a friend of mine who went for a job interview in Dublin, the interviewer took a pen from his top pocket and said "see this pen, sell it to me"

If you were not sold on Rovers then you wouldn't be on this board, if you became a member most of the questions you posed regarding finance were answered by V. Nally at the meeting. If you feel that you want to help out come to a trust meeting or contact the club