Cork City Foras Co-Op Football Club

nvidic wrote: Shedite wrote: 9fingers wrote: Shedite wrote: Also, the vote for the sale of the club to Preston owners is happening 28th October Sale for €1. Absolute madness, I’m not surprised theirs dissent in the camp  Yeah it's a tricky one. The board do a trojan amount of work, and the volunteers do a huge amount of fundraising just to keep things above board, I love keeping it in the club, but then again I'm a lazy bastard who doesn't get involved in the fundraising. So if selling to Preston secures us financially, and relieves a lot of the work, who am I to tell them "no, keep doing the work" Surely Bohs should be the model of what ye aim for? Fan owned, a few paid staff members to keep it ticking over help of the board and volunteers. Seems absolutely bonkers to sell up because people don't want to do the work, Preston only be using it as a factory for young talent and a loaning ground for poor English talent.

Yeah Bohs seem to have it fairly sorted, and it reminds me of what City used to look like 5 years ago. City lost the run of itself with some signings that didn't work out and poor budgeting. I think asking volunteers to do finance and governance roles unless they have a proper background in it is tough too. Bohs seem to match the roles to the volunteers better than City did.

pre Madonna wrote: Shedite wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Shedite wrote: DublinScouse1916 wrote: Why does the city of Cork seen incapable of maintaining a football club for a decent period of time? All had different stories/reasons. 35 years in the league now, we're not disappearing this year either. It's not 35 years. It died in 2010. I actually think that the attempts to pretend otherwise were a part of the problem.  Whatever, I support a team called Cork City that play out of Turners Cross and have won 3 league titles in my lifetime. Have done so my entire life. Clubs change owners all the time. I know others like to sl*g us about it, but it doesn't really change how I feel about the team. I think it changed everything,  deep down, but many tried to pretend otherwise. Everything felt different. It was a commendable effort and still probably the best option in the circumstances, but definitely not the same as before. Going to watch Cork City Foras Co-op was different. Team names are important in football, look how Hull City fans reacted to the 'tigers thing. I also think that there hasn't been the same level of capability on the board for a while, not in comparison to the start. The pool of people willing to do it has always been small, which goes back to point about it not being a football city. It does show what a great job Jackie Lennox did for so long, but times have changed from then too.

Yeah the pool got smaller and smaller, every time they got a new board member it seemed to get more junior, to the point the lads being asked to prepare accounts were just lads who'd done leaving cert accounting. It was a failure on the rest of us really not to give them a dig out. I know there's a few there (the legal team Shane and Sean), who've been using their professional skills to help out the club for free, really you need everyone in the club to be doing that for it to work. 

GoneToShowgies wrote: Shedite wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Shedite wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Shedite wrote: DublinScouse1916 wrote: Why does the city of Cork seen incapable of maintaining a football club for a decent period of time? All had different stories/reasons. 35 years in the league now, we're not disappearing this year either. It's not 35 years. It died in 2010. I actually think that the attempts to pretend otherwise were a part of the problem.  Whatever, I support a team called Cork City that play out of Turners Cross and have won 3 league titles in my lifetime. Have done so my entire life. Clubs change owners all the time. I know others like to sl*g us about it, but it doesn't really change how I feel about the team. I think it changed everything,  deep down, but many tried to pretend otherwise. Everything felt different. It was a commendable effort and still probably the best option in the circumstances, but definitely not the same as before. Going to watch Cork City Foras Co-op was different. Team names are important in football, look how Hull City fans reacted to the 'tigers thing. I also think that there hasn't been the same level of capability on the board for a while, not in comparison to the start. The pool of people willing to do it has always been small, which goes back to point about it not being a football city. It does show what a great job Jackie Lennox did for so long, but times have changed from then too. Yeah the pool got smaller and smaller, every time they got a new board member it seemed to get more junior, to the point the lads being asked to prepare accounts were just lads who'd done leaving cert accounting. It was a failure on the rest of us really not to give them a dig out. I know there's a few there (the legal team Shane and Sean), who've been using their professional skills to help out the club for free, really you need everyone in the club to be doing that for it to work.  Are you for fcuking real. A serious lack of unprofessionalism. There are junior league clubs who wouldn'tdo that.

Sorry, they were obviously signed off by chartered accountants, but the day to day bookkeeping was being done by volunteers, not a "Finance Department" or whatever you'd expect of a proper club.

I'm fairly close to LOI and would you not agree that a lot of clubs Cork definitely being one are paying very big wages to players that haven't made it in UK. I dont mean irish players but english who coaches like Fenn are buying off agent and English coaches recommendations. These players cost huge money. Wages plus accommodation plus cars in some circumstances. LOI cannot sustain that anytime but especially now. Spending being done without looking at overall impact.

Edited by ProudAndLoud - 08 Oct 2020 at 6:33pm

ProudAndLoud wrote: I'm fairly close to LOI and would you not agree that a lot of clubs Cork definitely being one are paying very big wages to players that haven't made it in UK. I dont mean irish players but english who coaches like Fenn are buying off agent and English coaches recommendations. These players cost huge money. Wages plus accommodation plus cars in some circumstances. LOI cannot sustain that anytime but especially now. Spending being done without looking at overall impact.

pre Madonna wrote: Is the interest from the Preston fella genuine?

Shoco wrote: any craic in this thread?

The Craic died in 2018

Our player recruitment has been terrible for years now, struggling to think of a player signed over the past 3 seasons who has made a genuine impact on the pitch. If only our problems were consigned to recruitment.