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    Absolutely delighted for Galway, amazing achievement to get promoted the first season back and good to see Tommy Dunne being the man to do it with them

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    Well done Galway. A promotion earned on the pitch this time.

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    Congrats to Galway FC!
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    Congrats Galway. A dream first year back in the LOI.

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    Quote Originally Posted by patrickccfc View Post
    Absolutely delighted for Galway, amazing achievement to get promoted the first season back and good to see Tommy Dunne being the man to do it with them
    Agree with every word of this. Tommy ended up on something of a sour note at CCFC, but he's a decent man and still learning as a manager.
    He'll never be forgotten for taking the helm at City when he did, and for winning us the First Division title in such dramatic circumstances from a spot where we had been double-digit points behind Shels.
    Plenty of City fans remember his positives for the club, though others insist on harping on about the negatives.

    Anyway, this is a famous night for Galway, Big congrats to them, and looking forward to the trip there already!
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    Well done Galway. Most of our lads seem to think Galway were the best side they played this year. They had a really good Mervue side from last year as a good nucleus and with a few good additions they've really progressed as the season has gone on.
    Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.

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    Tight and tense game till Shanahan's goal just before h-t, that was the big moment of the contest. During the last 20m of game Galway missed 5 at least good chances. Did not hear a crowd figure given out, the PA was ropey all night, but that twitter figure; 3k looks accurate to me. Great to get into the top division and well deserved by a likeable bunch of players.
    Noticed at the end of the game Colm Horgan celebrating with his parents and family including Daryl; not a bad sporting week in that household at all.
    Not nice for the relegated clubs, hope a few new teams join the 1st division or maybe 2 promotion places guaranteed out of it. However it is not all bad there, nice style of soccer played and the referring was better than the prem division.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Olander View Post
    If he's working as an officer trying to develop local players in Sligo then he's got a tough job on his hands
    Trying to start up a bit of rivalry again now ye are back up? Great to see Galway FC get into the Premier Division for the first time, handy trip and points. Good to see them get promoted on the pitch too, rather than with a DVD like Galway United did.

    Dunne is a spoofer though, hard to pick between him and Cousins as to who will be sacked first next season.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sligoman View Post
    Trying to start up a bit of rivalry again now ye are back up? Great to see Galway FC get into the Premier Division for the first time, handy trip and points. Good to see them get promoted on the pitch too, rather than with a DVD like Galway United did.

    Dunne is a spoofer though, hard to pick between him and Cousins as to who will be sacked first next season.
    What are you ****ing on about you looper? Imagine being that much of a weirdo. Horrendous windup attempt

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    Quote Originally Posted by sligoman View Post
    Trying to start up a bit of rivalry again now ye are back up? Great to see Galway FC get into the Premier Division for the first time, handy trip and points. Good to see them get promoted on the pitch too, rather than with a DVD like Galway United did.

    Dunne is a spoofer though, hard to pick between him and Cousins as to who will be sacked first next season.
    Have you seen Galway play this year?

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    UCD were shocking last night - 2-0 down and they take off a winger and put on a defender. Absolutely bizarre. Dunne had us playing lovely stuff, on the ground, a real joy to watch. Ended the season with 9 wins in 11 games (drawing the other 2) - he has been a great manager for us, looking forward to seeing what we can do against the top sides.

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    Dunne a spoofer? We played the best football I have seen since back in the early 90's. If we keep the core of our team and tempt a few lads to come home, we'll have a decent season next year. We're under no illusions for what lays ahead next season. There is a huge gap between the 2 leagues quality wise and our aim will be simply avoiding relegation, but we'll fear no one.

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    Dunne is a spoofer in fairness.

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    First off - congrats Galway. Better team over the two legs by a distance. I think ye've done your penance for the DVD crimes and hope ye do well in the Premier.

    That said, ye will need to improve. As with the first leg, one of the poorest teams I've seen all season. Basic ball retention was awful at times. I don't know how Galway stand with regards signing other players - are ye particularly limited by local players? Or could ye sign a few experienced LoI heads and convince them to move? - but without improvement, that team will be in the play-offs in 12 months' time (assuming Bray field a team of five-year-olds and people paying for the fun of a place on an LoI team). But I'm sure ye will improve.

    Dunne is a spoofer alright. Prior history at UCD and Cork will tell you that.

    Thought the ref was poor - and I don't usually give out about refs. But this guy had no concept of the advantage rule whatsoever. Was ridiculous at times. The best was when he called back a two-on-two attack for Galway to give them a free on the half-way line. Farcical stuff like that all night.

    But WoodquayBoy's post above only touched on the briefest bit of the worst part of last night. Yes, 2-0 down, ye took off a winger and put on a defender - and then went 4-2-4, hoofed the ball up front for the rest of the night, thereby bypassing our two best players.

    But worse - on 47 minutes, with the tie still not entirely over, we took off our only starting forward. Why on 47 minutes? Why not half time? What was to be gained from those two minutes? Was the sub not ready? I don't know.

    But it got better - we then stuck a ****ing centre half up front! For 40+ minutes, chasing our Premier Division survival, we take off a forward and stick a centre half up front, while our best player (Benson) is practically playing in centre half.

    And more! We then went 3-4-3, with the centre-half flanked by a midfielder and a winger up front! With a ****ing forward on the bench having been subbed off!

    Or maybe it was 3-5-2, with a centre-back and a midfielder up front and two wingers playing at being wing backs. I just don't know. And God knows what the players thought.

    I have never seen anything like that before. Needless to say, the centre half won a few headers and did little else aside.

    Could have been 5 or 6 in the end; obviously we had to chase the game, which left holes at the back, and after the second, heads were gone entirely. Only some poor finishing by Galway let us off the hook in the end.

    In the end, we were relegated by a point. You could look back at Athlone's equaliser in September - the rest of a goalkeeping fumble - and blame that. Or you could look at Bray signing four players in the transfer window and then not paying them, while we turned down players asking to sign back because our budget was spent and blame that.

    But any team who takes off a forward to put a bloody centre half up front for 40+ minutes in the most vital game in the club's history in years has no business being in the Premier.

    Best of luck to Galway next season. Been through the wringer, and great to see ye on the rise again. Will see Mr A and Ash and - are there any other First Division fans? - next season. We'll be the ones with pitchforks and fire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Olander View Post
    What are you ****ing on about you looper? Imagine being that much of a weirdo. Horrendous windup attempt
    Such bad a windup that you respond using choice language and calling sligoman a looper and weirdo...caught hook line and sinker

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