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Correct decision taken by GUST. Hope all members and supporters stick with the Trust now and support their fundraising efforts. Due to the lack of a proper Connacht Senior League it is not going to be easy, but it is going to be difficult for the two Galway City clubs as well. I will miss having no League of Ireland club to support this year as it is a League that I have great fondness for, for many many years.
Yeah, agree with this. Right decision IMO. GUST must get loads of supporters out to watch the u19s play to keep things going. I hope they give the FAI no excuse not to accept their license application next year. Best of luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
have heard announcement tomorrow that Salthill Devon have decided to move to Terryland for the coming season calling thenselves SD galway fc now and might change their colour to maroon ,who do the think they are fooling ?
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Originally Posted by Guitd
How can you be sure it wont work?
I think it might. As the season goes on, you may see more Galway Utd Supporters attending games due to withdrawal symptoms from no Live Football. I'm not saying the hardcore GUST type supporter. More the casual Galway Fan who likes LOI and just wants to see a game in Terryland.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
Exactly my thoughts, it's a great move by Salthill to be fair. Not good for GUST but it's exactly what Salthill needed. They will draw in a few fans and possibly see their attendances rise to about 300-400 a game anyway come mid till end of the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
They'll still always be Salthill though. Hopefully it helps improve their crowds and I'm delighted that there will be games in Terryland next season I have to say.
Mervue should throw a spanner in the works and move back too. They already have the maroon sorted ha.
It's Claret actually [/pedantic]Quote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
Rumour going around galway that FAI are paying salthill's rent for Terryland. Relationship between Salthill officials and a certain FAI official are obviously good but hardly fair on other clubs in and out of the league.
Maybe subsidising the rent to make sure a LOI plays in Terryland?Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
Is there any place for GUST, Cobh, Carlow, Tralee and maybe a few reserve teams to form an interim league for the season? Something is surely better than nothing?
its more than likely a contra between hosting emerging talent in drom in return for Terryland which is probably fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
I dont think the salthill committee realize themselves yet the reasons behind the sham plan that could find them out on a limb looking as if they sold their soul to keep up with the jones, they will need all the breaks they can get. Cork and Shels were the only real crowd pullers last season and there gone up
We should bring 100 to Terryland. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by geezer
Was at a game in Drom last year, the attendance was something like 83 and 76 of that was Limerick fans!! I remember there was 7 Salthill fans there anyway.
Not sure if the GUST weren't wrong not to take some scrap of an agreement with one or the other sides to be awkward.
Once they're out I reckon they'll find it pretty hard to get in, reading between the lines there's a bigger picture at play in Galway, geezer seems to have a fair idea. :ball:
I don't think they're trying to fool anybody, just taking advantage of the vacum that now exists in senior football in Galway and trying to improve their own lot as a club. They can't be knocked for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
I think it will work to some degree, only time will show how much. Even if they did hit crowds of say 350 that's pretty much a tenfold increase on what they've had at times. Sign a few players, even move up a place or two in the table, they could build some momentum. And the elephant in the room that I've not seen anybody address is why GUST think the FAI will be looking for a third Galway club in twelve months. Could be harder to get back in than they realise.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Can't see this happening without the backing and support of the FAI/league and that's clearly not there at the moment. Of course if this 16 team league being mooted does come to pass and Mervue or Salthill were to sneak in by finishing 4th this season (not beyond the realms of possibility either, outside of Limerick, Waterford and probably Longford there's not much to compete with) GUST's future could become even bleaker cos there'd hardly be room for even two Galway clubs in that scenario.Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
Do you have any idea what it takes to run a league do you think the fai would even allow it, really is a foolish ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by legendz
is i witnessed grown men in tears last night at a meeting after 37 years in the league , i wouldnt wish it on any club. A sinister plan that uses successful amateur clubs to canabalise each other to save meddlers in the background is coming to light and left a committee and an open floor, 116 to zero vote, break a link that shredded a thousand diehard loi fans hearts in the west of ireland. The people are not fools
For all those people who have been dancing on our grave we havent gone away despite the best efforts of the people who are supposed to care about Irish Football. http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/arti...alog_multiline
Seriously don't think anyone has been dancing on your graves and it is kind of in your heads. A few people have asked questions and pointed out what they think are possible flaws in GUST's plans but I can't remember seeing any comments about the delight of GUFC's demise and GUST failed attempt at applying for the LOI.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
You were perfect and everyone else let you down.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
Get a grip ffs. No one is dancing anywhere outside your head.
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Originally Posted by ger121
It will definitely help their attendances but when United were struggling in Division 1 we were only getting about 500-600 on average. Obviously a lot of these were hardcore who won't go to see Salthill so I'd say they'll be doing well to get over 250 on average for the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
This is the real problem that they have, not that they don't have support but they don't have any hardcore who would be willing to do the stewarding and all the match day set up that's required for them playing their games in Terryland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Then funding the week to week running costs of the team, particularly if they've decided to start paying their players.
I think this idea will struggle to work without the support of GUST but the FAI seem happy to let them go with it anyway.
Obviously it takes a lot to run a league. In the north an interim league was ran once in the midst of changes to structure. Regards the FAI, what reasons would they have not to allow it. These clubs have gotten involved in the U19 league. They shouldn't be just discarded.Quote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
Lots of things happen in the North. I'm not sure that they're necessarily a template to aspire to though.Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
The cost, the administration involved and the fact that they couldn't give a tuppeny toss about the league in general and Cobh/Tralee/whomever in particular. These are not good reasons IMO but they don't think like I do (mores the pity).Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
I'm sure they'll be allowed to stay in the U19 league. I agree with you 100% that there should be a provision made for them to compete at senior level also but the FAI are being their usual scummy selves on this one. Quite frankly their attitude is that they have a European Championship to prepare for and they don't need the headache of more little clubs with aspirations to better themselves bothering them.Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
Just to add to my post from yesterday. What happens if the old Galway Utd apply for a license next year? Is that likely? Would the FAI allow it? What will GUST do then? Would there be 4 license applications from Galway next year?Quote:
Originally Posted by sullanefc
I was wondering that myself. There is a chance that the former board of Galway United will also apply for a license to try and screw over GUST but it's hard to see how they'll achieve it given the debts they've placed on the club and without no support.Quote:
Originally Posted by sullanefc
All the clubs in Galway have been warned when the 16 team premier league comes in( looks like 2014 0r 2015) that there will only be only team from Galway in the the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by sullanefc
"Salthill Devon and Galway United are set to unite as one team in the Airtricity First Division next season after it emerged today that Galway United officials have agreed a deal with Salthill Devon to reform as ‘SD Galway FC.’ "
god help STD FC . GUST lucky escape from more madness,Quote:
Originally Posted by Sean South
I'm confused - the old bankrupt GUFC has merged with Salthill Devon?
I think the bankrupt GUFC directors have left GUFC and joined the board of SD? That really should be against league rules.
If they amalgamate too that ends any chance of GUST ever buying back the name Galway Utd FC......or does it?
But why would Salthill invite that lot in anyway? I think this is just a website putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5. There's no mention of this anywhere else.
2 things that make me think there is more to this:
1. GUST asked a director of Galway utd last season if he could help find a Galway utd player a job, instead he got some Salthill players jobs.
2. When GUFC withdrew from the league Rumor was that GUFC offered the name Galway Utd Fc to Salthill for a €1
see the Galway advertiser facebook pageQuote:
Originally Posted by Trainee
So if Mervue and the artist formally known as Salthill Devon manage both somehow to get promoted one of them won't be allowed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trainee
Even by LOI standards this is getting weird.
And yet people still say the EPL is the best league in the world.
its a complete soap opera in Galway now, everyone is talking about it and unfortunately laughing from the terraces of the Sportsground not Terryland
I'm confused: why use different spellings for the same word? Also, it's pronounced ee-pee-ell, not eople, so that's not even a phonetic spelling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
With regard to an interim league, I don't think that would work, or be allowed by the FAI, but surely they can't stop the outcast clubs (Tralee, Cobh, Carlow, maybe Castlebar, GUST) from holding some fundraising friendlies against each other, to show they have the potential to attract a fan base, and can organise getting a crowd in and out of a ground safely?
True, there should be nothing to stop those teams starting some sort of friendly competition between them.Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987