Waterford FC Thread

Great news

Curious as to how a very similar profile of buyer keeps coming forward.

While Forrest wouldn't have had the same ownership experience of the other two lads, here we have another owner of an English League One club coming over, who also has a son who'll be getting involved in the business. I see the boy has also had some incidents with the authorities in England and Holland but hopefully he's learned his lesson.

I wish the guy well, but everyone wished Power and Forrest well also. The likes of Sligo Town (a well run fan-owned club) must be totally bemused when they see what goes on in the likes of Waterford.

You're right about the success of Sligo in generating a GAA type involvement from the local community.

I think Sligo raise about €400k a year via fundraising. They have a massive fundraising draw, supporters can buy a share in the club, and if you can become a member of something (like a GAA club) you'll probably feel more involved and inclined to support it a bit more - both financially and as a volunteer.

You can't become a member of Waterford FC, but you can pay in to see them play. There's a big difference between the two.

A Waterford FC fan will be wondering now about motives of their latest new owner. They might also be concerned that he's been investigated by trading standards in the UK and charged in relation to alleged fraud and money-laundering activities.

Wouldn't it have been nice if we had a new owner who wasn't heading to court on charges of setting up a business with the intent to defraud :D

anyone wanting to buy a league of ireland club is a dodgy character in my book so tis expected

Home draw; great, getting Dundalk; not so great. None of the remaining league fixtures are crucial from here on in, only to keep the pot simmering until the play-offs so no reason why they should go all-out in the FAI Cup.

I think that's the manager contacting anyone who might be interested.

Hopefully his legs haven't gone and he can get match fit in time to have a positive impact. Not a good sign when Bolton offered him a coaching role rather than a footballing role, and he's only played once this calendar year.

Very frustrating night.

The ref was an absolute disgrace, the manager didn't help his team at all and I have no idea how Yassine is always starting. Himself & Griffin are just bang average and a problem in midfield when teams just knock it around them.

2 points dropped, fucked away, even with the ref being an utter, utter, disgrace and the team being on its knees desperate for reinforcements we still should have won is the most annoying thing.

Apologies yes, meant to type were bang average, though in Yassines case I would actually stand by simply is bang average.

Really physical test given by Wexford and they definitely deserved a draw even if we missed 4/5 very good chances throughout, their equaliser was also coming for about 10 minutes before they scored and they just seemed to grow by the encouragement from seeing the Waterford lads start to wilt.

Wassims miss was terrible, but I gave him a bit of a break because he was bollixed at that point too and stretching, no excuse for missing it but I find it hard to give him too hard a time given the effort he expended battling all night

We didn't throw it away. We battled back with 10 men to equalise and then the referee made a disgraceful decision to give Cork a penalty to win the game. Nobody seems to know what the penalty was given for.