Cork City Foras Co-Op Football Club

adineen98 wrote: AnCearrbhach wrote: I will definitely vote no to any deal selling more than 49% We should be working to improve the model as opposed to just abandoning it altogether. FORAS has been too much of a secret society for too long. I would hope we can move more towards a direct democracy model with trustees being more involved in the key decisions being taken. Barely gone ten years of fan ownership and lads are willing to give up when Bohs have managed it for 130 years  That’s discounting the fact that selling at our lowest point in 7 years is absolutely shocking business and only suits the vultures. This reminds me of the GUST vote to sell to some unnamed saudis. Time to get our act together and get back to building a club we can be proud of. In an ideal world, I'd love to see the fans stay in control, but right now, I'm very much fearing for the club's future and I just want to see the club safe.

ShamtheRam wrote: adineen98 wrote: ShamtheRam wrote: adineen98 wrote: Unfortunately, recent events have shown that fan ownership can fail if the right people aren't in charge. Current BOM deserve a serious amount of credit for their handling of the situation. On the pitch, well deserved win for Dundalk, we were very poor. Huge match on Friday. But are many of the current BOM not the very people who over spent and threw money around like confetti? No, the vast majority of the current board were elected last January. Sorry now but they were elected last January and oversaw a year of splurging on private planes to and from European games, not to mention including in their budget a run in Europe? Just last week I see they all have suits for every home game courtesy of Suits Cork...theres no way that lad sponsored in excess of 30 free suits, i'd imagine there was a cost involved there for City aswell. I'd be marking that off straight away as an unnecessary purchase and something they can go without. Even more so considering 24 hours previous they were hours from going out of business? I'm also aware of the way they approached some of the long term sponsors of the club in the last 6 months and I can see exactly why those sponsors are now no longer involved with the club. From everything I've been made aware the last few weeks, that board are as much to blame as anyone else in all this.

ShamtheRam wrote: From the outside looking in. I think a BOM with only 6 people on it at a football is asking for trouble. Thats a hell of a lot of work and responsibility to fall on such a small numbers shoulders.

They've been begging people to get involved, folks either won't because of (a) the click that formed with the last board or (b) the time commitment requested from potential bom members

PanteirA wrote: Good performance last night? Badly needed 3 points

Battling performance at least. Bad injury to the keeper, City players sounded a little upset by the FH players reactions, sounds like it was the extra kick the City players needed to go on and win it. 

[QUOTE=Reillers88]What was the craic with the disallowed goal? [/QUOTE

right decision was made eventually but why the f**k did it take 3 odd minutes to overturn. Ref and linesman incurred the wrath of both sets of fans...if he hadn't have been injured the goal would likely have stood which isn't right. Glad to hear Bossin is out of hospital.. game totally changed after as it gave cork a kick up the backside and deflated us. Got the crowd more involved too. That Dalling lad looks good

Shedite wrote: I see City are looking to sell naming rights to the stadium. How many stadiums in LOI have gone this route? Longford and Drogheda are the two that spring to mind. Any idea why others haven't tried?

Jackal wrote: Shedite wrote: I see City are looking to sell naming rights to the stadium. How many stadiums in LOI have gone this route? Longford and Drogheda are the two that spring to mind. Any idea why others haven't tried? We don't own the ground so can we do it?

We can put whatever we want on the tickets, over the PA, on the Program etc. If the MFA are having their MSL games there it can still be Turners Cross.

Reillers88 wrote: Anyone know what the craic is with the club shop? Is it all online now after the fire in Douglas??

Yeah, at the Foras AGM sounded like they were able to make good sales without a physical shop so not sure they'll go back to the Douglas shop when it reopens. Sounds like they'll take out popup locations at times like Christmas.