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GuisaSaigon
19/12/2006, 12:16 PM
Looks like Jim Crawford wont be coming to Terryland after all. The Indo is reporting that he is set to take over as Shelbourne boss http://www.unison.ie/sportsdesk/stories.php3?ca=12&si=1743892
After Raf going back to Shligo, Barry Ryan staying with Pats and Harps playing hard ball with Gethins it would be nice to hear some good news on the transfer front.
Conor H
19/12/2006, 12:23 PM
So far we've lost our 3 best players of last year.
Gough
Gethins
Cretaro.
We're then lead to believe Lester will be joining us....it's going to be a long xmas.:o
ShamTalk
19/12/2006, 12:47 PM
I thought that some new signings were to be announced last week? This had been mentioned even prior to the confirmation that we were promoted to the Premier League.
So far it has been all players released, players not signing new contracts (owing to work commitments), retirements (Alan Gough) and speculation of imminent departures (Gethins and Raf).
As last contributor pointed out, we could be doing with some positive news, while appreciating there is still plenty of time aead of the new season.
Trainee
19/12/2006, 12:56 PM
Two reasons no signings yet:
1. No tranfer forms available yet
2. Tony is finding it hard with 1 or 2 players: getting them to relocate to Galway is a major problem
Hpefully we will have our 1st signing this week
We have 11 players signed plus John Lester .John Russel is stalling same as last year so we need at least 6/8 new players but we are still in a better position than Longford or Sligo.
The only reason there were no signings announced was that the new standard contract has not been printed by the FAI if they had been Lester would have been announced on Thursday. Barry Ryan wasnt able to agree terms and Rafs has just built a new house in tubbercurry which was a mjor factor in his move back.
We were linked with Stephen O'Flynn, Steve williams and Dean Delaney over the last few days so Tony is very busy and were back at full training on the 21st January so there is plenty of time to get the quality players Tony is looking for!!!!!
Tir Oilean
19/12/2006, 2:36 PM
Transfer Talk...... or lack of it!!!!! Typical FAI that contract was finalised awhile back by Fran Gavin...now he's in his new post and they still dont have it printed!!! Email it to us we'll do it ourselves! Only signing is an apparently unfit first division player? yoiks we'll want to improve this big time.. We also need at least one big name to attract the crowds
in just over the last week we got promoted to the p.l and was announced we are going full time,are they not positive enough bits of news for you???????????some people have short memories.im still buzzing from lasts weeks news and dont mind if it takes awhile to get some new players in.
We have to get the players in now! No point and sitting back feeling great after everything that has happened over the past week, and when we do go searching everyone we wanted has joined someone else? We need to be signing/pre-contract the players ASAP or our only signing will be players that no on else wants. We have to be professional about everything now if we want to survive.
There is no one sitting back Terry at GUFC upto 200 season tickets sold and Tony scouring the country for players plus new sales manager in place.
We have to reach our target of 1,000 season tickets sales befor 31st january and its up to everyone you included to make sure we do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gilberto_eire
19/12/2006, 5:57 PM
i believe theres more then 200 sold at this stage i saw a figure somewhere on here a few days back which was a very precise number like 256 or something along those lines. i popped into the ground yesterday for mine and the secratery said she has been told by this person and that person that ''ive sold this many etc...'' but she was'nt gonna count them till she had them in her hand. we appear to be sticking to our side of the ''bargain'' (1000 season tickets) lets hope tony sticks to his(quality players) which i have no doubt he will. My only concern to date isnt lack of signings its the lack of RE-SIGNING to date!.
sligoman
19/12/2006, 9:43 PM
we are still in a better position than Longford or Sligo.Do ya mind me asking...how do you figure that one out?:confused: O'Grady, Burns and McTiernan are our only major losses but now we've gained Raf so that helps a bit.
I think he ment geographically sligoman
There is no one sitting back Terry at GUFC upto 200 season tickets sold and Tony scouring the country for players plus new sales manager in place.
I wasnt saying there was, I was saying that it is something that must not happen, as eamo1's post was giving the impression of there was no rush and we can all relax for the winter break!
We have to reach our target of 1,000 season tickets sales befor 31st january and its up to everyone you included to make sure we do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know its not much but Ive got 3 people to buy season tickets for next season, none of them ever having bought one before!
Well done Terry if all our hard core supporters sold between 5/10 tickets each we would exceed the figure of 1,000 we have set ourselves.
MyTown
20/12/2006, 8:47 AM
So far I've sold 3, but only one of those is a NEW sale, i.e. the other 2 are renewals. I've got 3 more promised for the weekend, but like the girl in the office, I'm not counting them 'till I have cash in hand.
IMO it's from now to the weekend and the fortnight before the season starts that will be the critical period. Very few will sell between times.
gilberto_eire
20/12/2006, 9:53 AM
i was in GPO last night, pretty sure gethins was in there, would'nt be 100% sure cause i was pretty hammered but if it was'nt him man he looked the spit. anyway point been if it was him it can only be a good sign!.
on another point bout conor i dont think it would be the end of the world if he didnt sign as he poses little aerial threat and i feel he didnt shine against the big teams and was wasteful at times. id love to see him join dont get me wrong but in my opinion would'nt be the end of the world if an alternative was found..... anyone agree?
GUISAUltra
20/12/2006, 12:47 PM
conor gethins was unbelievable last year, he scored 9 goals and he would have scored at least 5 more goals had it not been for the incompetence of the eircom league officials. he mightn't be the biggest fella in the world but thats not his game, nobody criticised zola saying he posed no aerial threat.
i think conor has great pace, makes some incredible runs, works like a trojan and scores some incredible goals. the 2 lobs against athlone and kilkenny come to mind. most centre halfs dont know whether to follow him or pass him onto the next defender. thats exactly what you need as a striker, indecision amongst opposition defenders.
i think he must be a top target but i can't see us paying the money harps want
i think he must be a top target but i can't see us paying the money harps want
Ah go on. Ya will, ya will, ya will.
Sure ye've oodles of money to spend :)
we have a budget €670,000 and will not be breaking that.
that people here are quick to focus on things not being done as opposed to things already accomplished,like events of last week etc.of course i realise we need to start buying players,our squad is thin and we need quality and quantity.
i also think we should sacrifice getting a defender so we can buy conor,i realise hes only one player but when we were in the p.l under don o.riordan a few years ago we had no really good striker.i think it was billy who ended up being our top scorer 2 seasons ina row while still being a centre back,we dominated games but couldnt score coz had no striker.and when we did have good strikers we were near the top-when eric was in form(10 goals before january) and stephen grant was with us.
ive got 2 people to buy season tickets and will get 2 more in the next few weeks,3 of those will be new season ticket holders.
galwayhoop
20/12/2006, 2:56 PM
we have a budget €670,000 and will not be breaking that.
is that for transfer and wage? i thought the budget was €1.1m?
Thats the playing Budget to include any transfers. Transfer fees between el clubs are very rare since the bosman ruling.
MyTown
20/12/2006, 3:48 PM
Transfer fees between el clubs are very rare since the bosman ruling.
Didn't we get >£30k+ when Herro went to Cork? & >€20k when Alan Murphy went to the Brandywell? They're both post Bosman. Can't recall if we got anything for Bobby Ryan's move to Bohs?
Marks was 10 years ago and Murphs was under 23 . The amount of players out of Contract means its easy to pick up players for free.
I think we got €11000 for bobby but I could be wrong, considering Im just after around 15 pints !!!! FREEDOM !!!!!!!!
galwayhoop
20/12/2006, 3:55 PM
Thats the playing Budget to include any transfers. Transfer fees between el clubs are very rare since the bosman ruling.
are harps not looking for €30k for conor g. transfer fees may not be the norm but they are paid and was only wondering if it came from same budget
inthestand99
20/12/2006, 3:57 PM
10,000 for Bobby and took quite a long time to actually get it.
if you look at derry paying €22000 for murphs, I have to say that gethins is a bargin at 30g's
Ceirtlis
20/12/2006, 4:30 PM
I think we would need someone with a real physical presense to play up front with Gethins as the team have a tendancy to start hitting long balls up field and Gethins although game is not strong enough to compete with most of the centre halves in the league.
GUISAUltra
20/12/2006, 4:53 PM
A big tall strong player would be ideal to play with conor as he could make himself a nuisance for the defence and knock more balls down to conor which will help us create more chances and inevitability score more goals
harps1954
20/12/2006, 7:13 PM
Don't know how true this is, but I heard in Donegal today that Harps turned down an offer from Shamrock Rovers for Conor Gethins in the last week also - apparently the offer from Rovers was a lot higher to that of Galway's. As I said, I don't know how true this is, but if it is, it is good to see that Harps are trying to hold onto Gethins. Apparently, Paul Hegarty who was appointed Harps boss today is a big fan of Gethins and they both live in the same town (Lifford).
ShamTalk
20/12/2006, 8:41 PM
A big tall strong player would be ideal to play with conor as he could make himself a nuisance for the defence and knock more balls down to conor which will help us create more chances and inevitability score more goals
Bring back David O'Dowd! I have not seen a more commited / enthusiastic and determined player (striker) play for Galway in the last couple of years.
He worked tirelssly leading the line, getting flick on, putting defenders under pressure and was out first line of defence. His performance against Finn Harps was outstanding. And to his credit, he also chipped in with his faie share of goals.
He is a player we will miss.
(Some contributors will, no doubt, have a go at me for looking back as opposed to looking forward, but I just feel that O'Dowd will be a huge loss. On last season performances would you choose Murphy or O'Dowd?)
I don't think D O'D could reach anything close to the levels of performance - potentially - that Murph could reach in the Premier.
GuisaSaigon
21/12/2006, 10:11 AM
Heard on the radio that Jim Crawford has turned down the Shels job, saying it was the hardest decision of his career. Maybe he is on his way here, a Shels exodus could now be on the cards.
I don't think Crawford would do a great job for us to be honest.
GuisaSaigon
21/12/2006, 12:00 PM
I don't think Crawford would do a great job for us to be honest.
I know he's getting on a bit and I havent seen him play in a while , but his experience could be valuable.
GUISAUltra
21/12/2006, 12:32 PM
(Some contributors will, no doubt, have a go at me for looking back as opposed to looking forward, but I just feel that O'Dowd will be a huge loss. On last season performances would you choose Murphy or O'Dowd?)
On last seasons performances and contributions dave would have to be picked ahead of murphs as he did trojan work and chipped in with a good few goals and i'm disappointed that he has gone cos he honestly gave everything he could, anytime he was called on.
The problem is we have to look at this season as opposed to last season as ya said and i feel murphs has the ability to improve a lot more. I think that when ya combine both premier league and full time football we will see the real murphs next year. HOPEFULLY:)
eamo1
22/12/2006, 12:18 AM
might be training with the club when it starts in january with a view to a deal being done.hes back from aus recently.also heard of a former utd player might be making a return to galway,didnt get a name though-please let it be bobby ryan:) .
Conor H
22/12/2006, 10:22 PM
We've all heard alot of rumours about Stephen O Flynn possibly joining UTD.
According to a Derry fan on their forum the deal is done and he'll be moving to Galway Saturday.
Great signing if true.
Great singing if true.
Can't beat the ould singing.
It'd be good for ye if ye signed O'Flynn as well....
... Irritating pedantry aside, Merry Xmas GUFC, and Good Luck in the Premier. :)
Student Mullet
23/12/2006, 1:37 AM
I've not read through everything here so sorry if this's been answered but is Micko coming up with yee?
I've not read through everything here so sorry if this's been answered but is Micko coming up with yee?
I don't think he has signed a new contract yet, and I'm not sure he's been offered one.
Don't you just hate it when you have to scan a whole bunch of internet forums at 8.30 in the morinng to make sure you didn't post anything too stupid after a few pints the night before? D'oh!
GuisaSaigon
23/12/2006, 1:44 PM
The Star has reported today that Stephen O' Flynn will sign for United from Derry today after he completes a medical they qoute O Flynn saying "it will be a different challenge being the underdog rather than the favourite but I cant wait"
http://www.derrycityfc.net/playerprofile.php?player=18
Thats another excellent signing well done Tony
galwaygirl
23/12/2006, 3:42 PM
The Star has reported today that Stephen O' Flynn will sign for United from Derry today after he completes a medical they qoute O Flynn saying "it will be a different challenge being the underdog rather than the favourite but I cant wait"
http://www.derrycityfc.net/playerprofile.php?player=18
So, is it official? great signing Tony if it's true
inthestand99
23/12/2006, 4:05 PM
I'ts official. He passed his medical this am. and is now a GUFC player.
corbyeire
23/12/2006, 4:17 PM
excellent!
galwaygirl
23/12/2006, 4:18 PM
I'ts official. He passed his medical this am. and is now a GUFC player.
great stuff, happy days
GUISAUltra
23/12/2006, 5:34 PM
so far we've signed 2 very good players so hopefully its a sign of things to come. hopefully we can make a few more top additions to the squad. lester and o flynn should compliment each other well as o flynn is a big strong player who is good in the air and lester is more than capable of picking out his head at every opportunity
what game plan tony is going to have for next season.most if not all premier league clubs though rely alot on set pices as a source of goals.i just hope we play alot on the ground too.but great signings,well done tony and put your feet up now for a few days for a well earned break.
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