Getting Promoted without results on the Pitch

My 31 years of support for Galway Rovers / United (most of them as a season ticket holder) means I can be spared any lectures about barstooling etc. so just bear with me for a second while I indulge my life long loyalty to Arsenal and try to link something from the Gunners distant past with Galway Uniteds more recent past!

The link below tells the story of how Arsenal were “promoted” to the then First Division (now Premier League) although they finished 5th. in the old second division that season.

http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?t...article=469735

Now if we can build on our “promotion” the way Arsenal built on theirs, sustained success wouldn’t be too far away.:)

(As far as I can remember Tir Oilean was a Spurs supporter in his youth - so I'll dedicate this thread to him:p)

Dont know where you got that info My Town but I've never supported Spurs or any other club other than Galway United. Probably due to the fact that I went to Terryland while I was still in womb!!! :) Good research My Town! But I do hope we get a League title a bit sooner than Arsenal in their current situation!

The two chairmen were probably freemasons.

Still as I said somewhere at the start of the season that I would be happy in a way with us ending 3rd from bottom and next season kick on .

Same here Claret but you could be hanged around here for saying it.

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Originally Posted by Tir Oilean

Dont know where you got that info My Town but I've never supported Spurs or any other club other than Galway United. Probably due to the fact that I went to Terryland while I was still in womb!!! :) Good research My Town! But I do hope we get a League title a bit sooner than Arsenal in their current situation!

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Apologies Tir Oilean. I really should start paying attention to these pre-senile dementia warnings :o

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Originally Posted by red bellied

The two chairmen were probably freemasons.

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Doubt it RB. Names such as Kennedy and Norris have strong Irish links and would have been too Gaelic to be let near a masonic lodge IMO

:ball:There has been a lot of discussion since the decision to go full time. Will we this?, will we that?. But lads the bottom line is.....and dont get me wrong ,I want to see us as far up the table as anybody else! THE MINIMUM WE NEED IS TO FINISH ABOVE THE BOTTOM TWO. I'm sure like everybody else I will consider this season a success if we are in the Premier in 2008.

agree. I think people forget how many season we have actually struggled in 1st divisions and re elections and bottom end of tables. Some guys come on here and talk about the good old days and legends ffs 85-86 we made a good run of it with a brilliant team , 94 in glenina was good but the rest to be fair has been fairly rubbish yet expectations are daft. It must be somethimg to do with people either having rose tinted glasses or the real reason, they werent there for most of the bad times and came back for the odd good cup run or unbeaten run and disappeard again. Now there back again claiming they never missed a game and rhyming off the legends. Now dont get me wrong they are very welcome but jesus they dont half spout some ****e about legends and glory days. We have never won a league and that IMO is the only competition that matters. There was many seasons we didnt even have any season tickets you couldnt buy them because the club wouldnt pay the printer for them. The season ticket was resurrected again by supporters hand making, laminating and cutting them at home with a scissors. The fact that we are professional for all of 3 months does not mean we should be within an asses roar of mid table and I for one will gladly settle for 3rd bottom and slowly draw on my bags of patience gathered by watching united over the years to steadily, 1 place at a time by season if we have to, reach the summit and pray within the next 5-7 years we reach the holy grail, the title. Then we finally can talk of legends. Then when i depart this life i can get someone to sneak over the wall in Terryland and put my ashes around a stadium where real legends won leagues and played competitively in europe content that my 50 years or so wasnt all in vain

cmon united

Excellent post geezer.

It's about time someone spoke some sense on here.

For the past few years we've been languishing in Division 1 without any real prospect of promotion. We got promoted from 3rd place in that Division and haven't added many players to the squad, yet we're above 3 of last season's Premier Division clubs, 2 points behind the season's league favourites and only 4 points off the top half!
It's disappointing when we concede late at home to drop points but the fact is most of the Premier Division teams are better and more experienced than we are.
For the first time as long as I can remember there doesn't seem to be any doubt about the future of the club. There is even talk of signing players in the transfer window and not just lads playing with Limerick and Athlone!

This season was always going to be a battle but the team have done brilliantly and every time we've suffered a setback they've responded.

It's not exciting stuff being not challenging for trophies but looking at the list of honours that has not happened very often!

If at the end of the season United finish 10th it will have been a great season and one on which we can build on.

I would like to say well done to Gezzer and JC , top posts as the lads looked like they have had a look at the bigger pitcure then told it as they see it ........

Couldnt agree more lads.Its just so frustrating to see some of the posts on here when the club is heading in the right direction.

well said lads, excellent posts.

gents im not questioning loyalty or commitment here - but it has to be said it would be very boring in here unless there are opposing views going round

the giving out rightly or wrongly generates banter

thats the solace i take when stuck in terrland in the ****ing rain - with 300 other souls 1-0 down to monaghan

we'd have nothing to talk about otherwise

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Originally Posted by corbyeire

...thats the solace i take when stuck in terrland in the ****ing rain - with 300 other souls 1-0 down to monaghan...

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Ahhhhhhhhhh, the good old days of semi professional players and loads of spaces in the car park. It seems like only last year.

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The good old days ,
Well I have to admit the worst day I remember in my time in Terryland was a good few years back now we were playing limerick (won 2-1 i think ) it was before we had the stand and it was chucking it down I hid by the side of a floodlight trying somehow to keep dry which was impossible . Now i did wonder what the hell am I doing here with the other 150 lost souls .

Hummm I am already eyeing up my seat in the new stand , ahh yes the good times .