Limerick not paid their players again, balloting for strike tomorrow.

Could have a situation next weekend where one in five teams are on strike and two out of five games won't be going ahead. (Bray v Cork & Limerick v Waterford)

Completely farcical and makes a mockery of the league, the FAI and the licensing.

Hard to see what they can do to sanction us, banning the Mulvey and O'Connor's from having anything to do with LOI would be a good start.

What an absolute mess the league is in. The licensing shown up for the farce it is.

If the FAI hand out a license to the club it should be the equivalent of them acting as guarantors should the club renage on any of the terms that meant the club got the license in the first place.

Until a system like that is in place then the FAI will continue to hand out a license to any club that come looking for one and have notions of throwing money around and not be caught out. 

If the FAI start acting as guarantors  only then will we see the true financial reflections of clubs as the FAI will immediately get strict on the licensing system. 

Merged your thread in with this one as effectively same idea, a few mins apart

Farcical isn't even the word, beyond that now 

f**kin hell 

And what happens if Limerick then get kicked out 

1) Fine them money, sure the club has no money.

2) Dock them points, sure the club's finishing last anyway and probably have no players to fulfil a fixture anyway.

3) Throw them out of the league, club will probably fold anyway in the next couple of weeks.

Would be great to see, but would the top four clubs be up for it. FAI need the national league so the national team can compete in competitions, two clubs striking doesn't bother them because they'll just replace them but if all clubs strike and threaten to not compete the FAI will have to actually take notice and do something.

As one lad said to me whose been going to games since the early 80s, "If Limerick become a glorified junior team why would anyone pay  €15 to watch them when they can go down the road to their local club and watch the same players for free now". 

Apart from Bohs (opening game), Cork and Rovers no game has broken 1,000 fans and the Cork and Rovers game only broke the 1,000 mark because of away fans. Some fans didnt bother this year because of off the field sh*t and funds have dried up as the owner wants out (health problems and his family more or less making him retire imo as his own company was put into voluntary liquidation back in May) and from constantly over spending as he's sunk over €6 million into Limerick since 2010 so that bubble was always gonna burst without being top four.

I thought they were doing better than that , shame.

Think the 8-0 and 6-0 batterings from Dundalk and Derry killed off any casual support and the off the field stuff with the social media lad who works with the club, the people who own the markets field and few volunteers had falling out with the club just meant it's been a sh*t show even before the sh*t really hit the fan. 

Fans were complaining about the lack of signings before Christmas and the weird price increase they done and one lad texted the club to say it's now gonna cost him €50 plus to bring his family and in a polite way was more or less told to f**k off and don't bother showing up and he was  also replying back to other comments using sarcastic memes while posting with club's official Facebook/Twitter page.

Would say that went down well with the support. 

Went down juat as well as the sacking of a club legend and servent of x amount of years because he had the cheek to demand money he was owed.

Hopefully the club can survive this shambles. 

Take over the club themselves/ rule the Mulvey's unfit to run the club and suspend them - they're the big issue here.

Pun intended ?

 

 

His stuttering, mumbling interview with the excellent Joanne Cantwell was dreadfully damning, pass-the-buck stuff.

 

Feel very angry for the players involved and for the fans whose money tried to sustain the clubs they support and the volunteers who give time and their own money and all.

 

Shamblolic stuff and the letter I seen on Twitter from last year signed by Mulvey about his plans for the Carlisle Grounds is desperate stuff.

And will they take over Limerick too? And what happens if Athlone go to the wall next month or Sligo, will they take over all four clubs? The LOI is a basket case and there's not much you can do to punish clubs that literally have nothing whether, clubs living week to week more or less. Bray will probably go bust (imo it's what the owners probably want so they can do a deal with the council for the land) and doubt there owners will be back ever again and Limerick will be amateur next year in the style of Wexford.

You'd hope that with the talks of a new company being created to run the league so it's not being done fully by the FAI that people are in the background now trying to put stuff into place to prevent stuff like this from happening again or if it does happen again putting penalties in place for clubs like any club that fails to pay its players will only be granted a licence the following season on amateur terms. That's about the only punishment imo because in a league with no money and so few clubs that you can't afford to lose anyone there's not much punishments to dish out.

We'll they could take them over/render them unfit and have the precious people who ran the club back in there. These are the same people who caused trouble at Pats 

Better to target the people than the club. 

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There is obviously many factors at play but there should be no reason at all we couldn't run a club like Cork do and be able to compete in the top half of the league if we got our sh*t together. Football is huge in Limerick and a successful team will bring that bandwagon in and we could hopefully convert them to long term fans.

 

But the way this season has gone I don't know what to think anymore. One disappointment after another. Even if we do manage to stay up in the relegation playoff, we wont get a licence for next year and back to the first division again.

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Says it all really.

 

There'll be 800 there next home match.

 

Did Shams win?

Who were they playing Tuesday night ?

You thought ?

 

But you know everything.

 

So easily rankled. Thanks for your kind comments though.

You're welcome, keep it up we're all depending on you.

 

 

 

We sold out the council ground the last time a club from this city played champions league football.

League of Ireland club in bumper EPL crowd shocker

Rovers had 10k for a friendly against Madrid.

What’s your point ?

So you agree that your biggest crowd in ten years was at a high profile friendly and that it dwarfs your average crowd just like pats the other night? I'll consider your sad point closed so.

No Loi club is in a position to mock others  

 

The understatement of the century .

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Must have been too good to be true or did JD need a pay rise 

FFS link fail. Was supposed to be an article about the FAI creating a 300k fund for financially struggling LOI clubs

So basically every club outside of the European places 

Edit: So basically FAI announced a fund was to be set up to the tune of 300k split between themselves and the PFAI, without even consulting the PFAI 

“Delaney & FAI in being shower of ****s shocker”

Where's Maxi when you need 

And do what? The FAI would probably just nominate the Leinster Senior league as the new national league to get around the rule of international teams needing a national league.

There's talks of a new company being set up to run the league, a way to take 100% control away from the FAI and get the clubs more involved so hopefully something positive comes from that and it's not just the FAI creating a "company" to stick FAI men into and claim it's "independent" like the whole licence farce.

We all know thats exactly what it will be 

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I don't know the numbers but I'd the number of 14/15/16 year old lads travelling back and forth to England for trails and then signing is possibly zero so in Iceland they've got develop their own players and hope the best 18/19 year olds get picked up by European clubs and then those that don't leave at 18/19 get to develop in iceland and hopefully get picked up at 21/22.

Here the FAI just rely on English clubs because you've got vast amounts of Irish players leaving as teenagers that surely one or two might make it or a lad who qualifies for Ireland chooses us because he's not good enough for England.

Belgium is a country that is half the size of Ireland but has nearly 3 times the population and the work they do at underage to make sure players don't slip through the cracks puts Ireland to shame. At every age group they have an A and B team, where the best of the best play for the A team but only players born in the last couple of months in the year can play for the B team as they've noticed that most players born towards the end of the year don't develop as fast as those born in January or February so have a team just for late developers.

Studying and then at least attempting to implement the practices that have been shown to have borne fruit in other small footballing nations would appear to be a no-brainer.

Sadlier and Kenny think we should get the government involved.

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