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pity, similar issues in Galway only there's nowhere else to play. Does LFC own the land in Bruff?
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Jackman Park is one of the worst pitches I've seen, and that's taking into account the state of the Markets Field this season.
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Apparently Limerick players have been told there's no wages and the entire squad is free to leave. 
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Originally posted by adineen98 adineen98 wrote:

Apparently Limerick players have been told there's no wages and the entire squad is free to leave. 
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Players deserve huge credit for playing the way they did last night after being told about the clubs situation. The first half was the best we have played since we won the First Division and we could easily have had put the game to bed.

Where the club goes from here is anyone's guess. In terms of playing quality we don't have a bad team and I would fancy us staying up if we get through this. Clarke is a quality goalkeeper and Wearen, Clifford, Duggan and Maguire are all fine footballers as well. I suppose the next few days and week will tell a lot.
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Mays wages to be paid by Tuesday evening apprantly but club will be slashing budgets by going part time sooner than fans thought. There's 3 games this month until the transfer window opens and can see quite a few lads leaving, probably have contracts cancelled by mutual agreement to free up money if they can find new clubs.

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Originally posted by limerick lad limerick lad wrote:

Players deserve huge credit for playing the way they did last night after being told about the clubs situation. The first half was the best we have played since we won the First Division and we could easily have had put the game to bed.

Where the club goes from here is anyone's guess. In terms of playing quality we don't have a bad team and I would fancy us staying up if we get through this. Clarke is a quality goalkeeper and Wearen, Clifford, Duggan and Maguire are all fine footballers as well. I suppose the next few days and week will tell a lot.
 
Oddly enough you might see individual performances improve in the games coming up to the transfer window. Players will be looking to impress other clubs to get a contract somewhere else. After the transfer window the wheels could come off big time tho.
 
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Originally posted by GoneToShowgies GoneToShowgies wrote:

Oddly enough you might see individual performances improve in the games coming up to the transfer window. Players will be looking to impress other clubs to get a contract somewhere else. After the transfer window the wheels could come off big time tho.
 
The pearls of leaning only a sugar daddy.

At the same time though will players want to put in the effort, risk picking up an injury and ruining their chances of getting a move. I'm sure there's a few lads there that already have the wheels in motion for moves away while others I can't see any clubs looking at them.

Hopefully the club can sort something out and keep most of the players, luckily enough the youngsters like Fitzgerald, O'Sullivan and Waslh - O'Loughlin have really impressed since being promoted to the first team and Brouder hasn't been too bad but needs an experienced head to play alongside him.
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Supposedly PFAI are down today to meet with the management and players. Hopefully something can be sorted to keep the club going for the rest of the season and the team can be competitive as well.
 
We love to brand ourselves as a sporting city but the support for the senior football team here is awful. Limerick, or any other club in the league for that matter, can't be depending on one person to keep everything above water.
 
 
 
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Originally posted by limerick lad limerick lad wrote:

Supposedly PFAI are down today to meet with the management and players. Hopefully something can be sorted to keep the club going for the rest of the season and the team can be competitive as well.
 
We love to brand ourselves as a sporting city but the support for the senior football team here is awful. Limerick, or any other club in the league for that matter, can't be depending on one person to keep everything above water.
 
 
 
Some positive criticism here ... but that's a kop out. Supporting a team is one of the revenue streams, there are other ways that ordinary fans can contribute to the running of the club. The trouble is that the desire to get your hands dirty and make the extra needed cash needed isn't there when you have only been sucking of the sugar daddies tittie for the last while.
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It's far from a kop out. Ordinary fans already contribute by volunteering on match day and also set up a trust last year which bought some training wear for the first team.

This opinion that everyone just relied on one man's money is wrong. A good bit of the core support helped in other ways as well.


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Originally posted by GoneToShowgies GoneToShowgies wrote:

 
Some positive criticism here ... but that's a kop out. Supporting a team is one of the revenue streams, there are other ways that ordinary fans can contribute to the running of the club. The trouble is that the desire to get your hands dirty and make the extra needed cash needed isn't there when you have only been sucking of the sugar daddies tittie for the last while.

Our the fact it was such a closed shop and if weren't part of the 3 man brain trust or a yes man then they don't want your opinion or advice and would just fin you off.

Plenty of lads had approached the club with looking to get involved in small ways that ordinary fans could to help raise some monies to help out with costs but unless you had big money to invest POS didn't want anything to do with you. Lads wanted to help out with stuff like raising money to help cover the underage, parents from the underage wanted to even hold fundraisers for the kids or people wanted to go out to schools to try to get more kids into matches etc etc but were always fobbed off.

He turned down money from businesses looking to sponsor the club because  in his opinion the money they were offering was not enough. One example was a local business who offered x amount to put their name on the Jersey when the club hadn't got a sponsor and told them no because the money in his opinon wasn't enough and could just put his own business on the Jersey instead. 
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Originally posted by limerick lad limerick lad wrote:

It's far from a kop out. Ordinary fans already contribute by volunteering on match day and also set up a trust last year which bought some training wear for the first team.

This opinion that everyone just relied on one man's money is wrong. A good bit of the core support helped in other ways as well.



Lots of people have helped out and have walked away after being burnt. For all the good he's tried to do, POS is the architect of his own problems. Either he's surrounded himself with people who don't know what they'r doing or these people do actually know what they'r doing but he doesn't listen. He's had offers to take the club off his hands this season but has shot them all down because he's looking for €2M to sell the club. There was even an investment partner that came in last season and done a runner when he saw how the club was operated.

Hopefully the trust can make a shout for more fans to get involved with them with a view of tryin to have a say in how the club is run but I don't think the trust has any interest in having an involvement in the day to day running of the club. Whoever comes in to replace POS, hopefully embraces fan involvement because there is people with good ideas and good intentions to help the club but the current administration have no interest. 

Mate of mine studied business management with a link to sports, as part of a project he had to do he done it using Limerick as he's a fan of the club. Wouldn't have costed the club anything and possibly could have made the club money and if not would have still brought positives for the club. This was two years ago and he's still waiting to hear back from them and he was even involved with the club as a volunteer up until this season so wasn t like they just forgot to contact him as he was at every match as a match night volunteer.
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Originally posted by Tribesman91 Tribesman91 wrote:

pity, similar issues in Galway only there's nowhere else to play. Does LFC own the land in Bruff?

Land in Bruff belongs to the O'Sullivan family so has nothing to do with the club, plan was the club would lease it from the family as a training. Will never happen as for starters Bruff is about a half hour drive outside the city on a regional road and the land contains a 19tj century listed building so building works will take years to happen.

If rent for Markets field is a problem then they'll possibly encounter the same at Jackman for poorer facilities (don't think Jackman even has proper toilets). With the club more or less gonna be relegated and possibly be in the first Divison for the foreseeable future they should look at developing Hogan Park as a home ground/training base alongside the local schoolboy league in the city who haven't got a permanent home either. The ground would come rent free, it's already being used by the senior team for training and academy teams for training and matches. Only problem is the ground needs a lot more than a lick of paint so getting grant money to help with works could take some time.
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Originally posted by J89 J89 wrote:

Originally posted by limerick lad limerick lad wrote:

It's far from a kop out. Ordinary fans already contribute by volunteering on match day and also set up a trust last year which bought some training wear for the first team.

This opinion that everyone just relied on one man's money is wrong. A good bit of the core support helped in other ways as well.



Lots of people have helped out and have walked away after being burnt. For all the good he's tried to do, POS is the architect of his own problems. Either he's surrounded himself with people who don't know what they'r doing or these people do actually know what they'r doing but he doesn't listen. He's had offers to take the club off his hands this season but has shot them all down because he's looking for €2M to sell the club. There was even an investment partner that came in last season and done a runner when he saw how the club was operated.

Hopefully the trust can make a shout for more fans to get involved with them with a view of tryin to have a say in how the club is run but I don't think the trust has any interest in having an involvement in the day to day running of the club. Whoever comes in to replace POS, hopefully embraces fan involvement because there is people with good ideas and good intentions to help the club but the current administration have no interest. 

Mate of mine studied business management with a link to sports, as part of a project he had to do he done it using Limerick as he's a fan of the club. Wouldn't have costed the club anything and possibly could have made the club money and if not would have still brought positives for the club. This was two years ago and he's still waiting to hear back from them and he was even involved with the club as a volunteer up until this season so wasn t like they just forgot to contact him as he was at every match as a match night volunteer.

I have heard a similar figure myself but to be honest i'm not sure what to make of it. Is that including part of the business park as well as that fee for the club alone just doesn't make sense. However, nothing in LOI would shock me so very well could be true.

Yeah without doubt poor decisions have been made and there does seem to be a lot of resentment from past employees of the club so that tells something in itself. However, I still have to give the man huge praise for what he did for the club. I'm only 24 and have seen us play in Pike Field, Hogan Park, Jackman and Thomond Park before we came back to the Markets Field. There was constant upheaval and club didn't seem to have any real direction until he came in. He saved the club in 09 and brought us back to the Premier League after nearly two decades out which was huge for us all.

I definitely agree with the need for the club to embrace more fan involvement and working with your pal would definitely have been a positive so that definitely needs to be looked at. 


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I'd credit most of that to Pat Scully, fair enough without the money probably would have taken longer to get promoted to premier but Scully seemed to install a sense of professionalism into the team. Paddy Purcell rates him highly and think its been the biggest mistake in the POS reign to sack him after 2012 and that's when things seemed to go downhill with Stuart f**king Taylor, Russell coming in with a reduced budget which led to relegation and then the manager merry go round of 17/18.
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When Limerick missed their wage payments last month, they issued players a list of five dates they would be paid on until the end of the season as some sort of reassurance. The first date was July 6th. Players went to Derry without any wages lodged today.
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Tough defeat to take. The lads played very well in the first half and possibly should have had another goal before the break but Pats really pushed on in the second half and we couldn't push them back. Conan Byrne is a right pain as well, not the first time i have seen him turn a game against us.

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