Quotegood statement. Well done John FallonOriginally Posted by Gaillimh Al
good statement. Well done John Fallon
Gold star for you Lim til I die you were paying attention! I can understand him wanying to vet his anger but he didnt exactly cover himself in glory on MNS. No supporter would have put up with the style of football we were playing in the past season or so. Its consigned to the history books now.I thought the spiel was always that the club budget last season was €1.2 million with 600k of that being the playing budget
"Are those my feet" Fr Jack Hackett
Great article. It only confirms what we already knew, this is the right board to have at the helm of our football club. Well done JF you have the unanimous support of the supporters of Galway United.
"Are those my feet" Fr Jack Hackett
Don't be so quick with the unanimous support bit.... has anyone heard from 'gufct (i back TC 100%)' lately???
Don't be so quick with the unanimous support bit.... has anyone heard from 'gufct (i back TC 100%)' lately???
I'll let gufct post for himself. From knowing him over the years (and I've had many disagreements with him) I'd say I don't know anyone who is as loyal or as hardworking (in a voluntary capacity) for the club INCLUDING the Chairman.
Maybe he's not as eloquent for the learned football experts here as the Chairman has been in recent days. But a few more gufcts (who can back up forum posts with real action) would serve the club better IMHO.
From my knowledge of him he is consistent in his loyalty. So I'd expect him to be backing the new manager 100% while he is the manager, rather than constantly undermining him in his role.
People have argued that a board or a site like this has little influence over the direction a club takes. Don't be too sure. And to the vast, vast majority who are delirious with joy at the sacking of Tony Cousins, I'd say congratulations, you've got your wish. Now is there any chance of you helping the club to stop the rot and turn the corner for the remainder of the season? We have enough supporters of other clubs wetting themselves at our current plight. So can we please start now by getting behind Billy Clery and the playing staff and ensure that Paul Doolin & Co have something to think about on Friday night?
Less Whining
Less Moaning
What are YOU doing to make it better?
Think GUFCt is in States....according to his last post. On the budget TC forgot to mention the 60K extra made available to him in the transfer window. His financial recollections make him a prime candidate for TaoiseachDon't be so quick with the unanimous support bit.... has anyone heard from 'gufct (i back TC 100%)' lately???
If YOU are not part of the solution,
YOU ARE part of the problem
Was wondering about him as well, but believe he is abroad? Didn;t see him Saturday anywayDon't be so quick with the unanimous support bit.... has anyone heard from 'gufct (i back TC 100%)' lately???
I agree with a lot of this post. I think it is stretching things a bit to say this forum has influenced the club, but I can't back that up so I am open to correction.
I do believe we will see a MASSIVE crowd in Terryland next Tuesday for the Longford cup match. Billy, G and Lal back at the club - you're going to see passion from the team, its up to us, the fans, to match it on the terraces
"Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins."
"Homer Simpson, smiling politely."
Are you insinuating that perhaps posters who saw him for the spoofer he was sooner than others are causing the club lasting damage???? Can't agree with you there.
The problem I had with Cousins was the style of football (or lack of it), constant sh1te talk and bad results.
I expect that those 3 things should improve almost immediately (well two of them will straight away). Personally I don't think that Billy is the man for the job long term, perhaps he will prove himself to be, but he will get my immediate support.
Billy has proven himself a risk taker in his short managerial career and I hope this continues, he is not afraid to go 3 at the back in search of a result. It would be great for it to work out for him but either way I expect we will see a vast improvement over the next few games. It might be bad timing for him though as the next two league fixtures will be very tough.
And to the vast, vast majority who are delirious with joy at the sacking of Tony Cousins, I'd say congratulations, you've got your wish. Now is there any chance of you helping the club to stop the rot and turn the corner for the remainder of the season?
I agree with everything you say about GUFCT. I'm glad TC is gone as I don't believe he was getting the best from a team that he was largely responsible for buying / assembling. However you should be careful of generalisations such as that highlighted above. You have no idea of what I or others have done and continue to do for the club. It's because I want to see the club succeed that I am not sorry that TC has departed.
If YOU are not part of the solution,
YOU ARE part of the problem
Indeed spouting it so much that you have got the figures wrong. The commonly reported budget for 2007 was €1.2 million which was the budget all told. It is reported to be around €1.5 million this year. And its very likely Tony Cousins is being economical with the truth. He has said after alot of matches that we didnt deserve to lose games when it was clear to everyone that we did.
I reckon it'll be game for die hards only especially as it clashes with Liverpool Arsenal
Depends on how many contracts he wants to sign!!!
WHO?
If YOU are not part of the solution,
YOU ARE part of the problem
There's no byline - but could the writer be Eamonn Sweeney?
from the Sindo:
Independent.ie
Galway top fantasy table
Pity poor Tony Cousins, sacked last week after just four games by Galway United, Ireland's leading fantasy football club.
It's only a few months since Galway were named as one of the big eircom League clubs seeking to join an All-Ireland League. With no hint of shame or irony, United met with Cork City, St Pat's, Derry City, Bohemians and Drogheda United to discuss the possibility of jumping to a 32-county competition. And all this from a club who wouldn't even be in the Premier League had they not been promoted on the basis of off the field criteria after finishing behind Dundalk the previous season.
Galway's notion of themselves as members of a big six belies both the fact that there hasn't been a decent team at Terryland in a decade and a half (in fact Cousins' achievement in keeping them in the Premier last year was as good as anyone's managed with these serial underachievers) and the fact that Shamrock Rovers and Sligo Rovers, to name just two, are far more credible participants in any future cross border set-up. Even a small town club like Longford Town have contributed far more to the league in recent times than Galway.
Up to last week the Tribesmen's fantasising was a mere irritation. But that was before Cousins paid the price for a poor, but infinitely retrievable, start to the season.
Cousins then revealed that he'd been expected to produce big six football on the same kind of budget as First Division strugglers Athlone Town. Pat Dolan observed last week that even Sporting Fingal provide their manager with more money than was available to the former Shamrock Rovers striker.
The bottom line is that Cousins has paid the price for Galway's pretence of being a big club. By sacking the manager they can pretend that the club has ambitions to compete with the big boys, other evidence notwithstanding. It's the kind of cheap and shoddy behaviour which brings the league into disrepute.
Hopefully the genuine big guns of Irish soccer will see the Cousins sacking as a demonstration of what Galway United are really about. The disgust expressed by Pat Dolan and Pat Fenlon last week suggests this might just happen. About time too.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...e-1339659.html
More sad journalistic skills from someone who probably hasnt seen 2 minutes of what GUFC supporters have had to suffer for not only 4 matches but over 12 months. They really havent a clue. Yes, united should have got rid of him at the end of last season, but they decided to give him a chance that united must start this season in the same fashion that they ended the last. Did they? NO! They were even worse than anyone could have even imagined.
As what is been reported in Galway, the players were getting sick after their first training session without cousins, they were so far away from being match fit ! The first question the players put to Clery was " Can we now play football ?". Says it all for me.
Very annoying that all these outsiders(including Dolan etc) think they know more about what GUFC is about than those who support and work for the Club.
Does the fact that 99.99% of GUFC fans didn't shed a tear for TC's departure hint that they may just be wrong in all their assumptions and accusations?
TC's regime in Terryland was incredibly soft and people with little or no idea about UTD should keep their worthless opinions to themselves.
What that spanner,who wrote the latest GUFC-bashing article,calls delusion we call ambition.
Also Cousins was made well aware what his budget would be when he took the job so his complaining about is nonsensical.He also chose to leave out the part where the Directors coughed up E60K for him in July.
GUFC have become resented in some quarters for taking the bull by the horns and doing everything we can to make it into Ireland's Top 6.
www.galwayunitedfc.net -----New GUFC fans forum and Gust Website.
Europe's Big Club.
"Cause Galway are MASSIVE"-RW Rover on 24/8/07 00:29am
Good to hear that Galway have a core support of at least 10,000 fans - I only wish that Waterford could get as much a following in the city and county even when we were recently more successful...
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
it never ceases to amaze me how certain members of the Irish media only write about Irish soccer when there is an oppertunity to slag it off. When was the last time the Sunday Independent devoted as much space to a match report.
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