Promotion/Relegation Playoff 2008

the Mervue Utd complex is pretty big, with about 5 full size soccer pitches, cages and astroturf.
over 15000 players have gone thru their books over 40 years but its still a massive massive task for them. They dont suffer fools gladly and will be managed carefully, unlike the "ESTABLISHED" LOI clubs theys still use the same printers, bus companies and suppliers over 40 years so that goodwill cant be underestimated. Some weekends they hire up to 10 buses to fulfil fixtures for all their different teams.

I guess that makes Kildare's plans to enter a team in the A Championship next year a little premature... :o

Congrats to Mervue. Nice to see the bottom of the first division opening up finally. Some incentive for the lesser lights to do something other than just wallow at the foot of the table.

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Originally Posted by sadloserkid

Nice to see the bottom of the first division opening up finally. Some incentive for the lesser lights to do something other than just wallow at the foot of the table.

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Didn't seem to provide too much incentive to some of the players

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Originally Posted by Terry

Mervue will be making a go of it alright next season in the first division, so, bye bye cousins !!!!!! hahahahahaha

Apparently Mervue have been given a grant of something like €300,000 to get there own grounds up to first division standards but if it doesnt work out they will have terryland to play in. There home games will be on saturdays with the hope that the FAI will sort out the fixtures so that they dont play at home the same weekend as GUFC so the pitch in terryland doesnt get destroyed by its over use.

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If Mervue are smart they'll try to cut a deal and groundshare with GUFC and shift some of the Galway District League games out of Terryland to Fahys Field in exchange.
€300,000 even €1,000,000 won't buy a lot of ground developments if you're starting from where they are at. so they should try to build the place up over a couple of years rather than trying to go mad and running out of cash. I also think that they'll struggle to get much more government money in the current climate especially since there's already Terryland Park, Salthill Devon, and probably the new GUFC Athenry set-up all getting funding or having been funded already by the state. they should ground share, at least for a few seasons to see how it goes.... a team doing well in a shared ground is a lot more appealing to fans than a skint team doing badly in a nice ground (we should know!)
I wish them all the best and I'll get along to a few games next season

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Originally Posted by frog-gufc

should be terryland, they have as much right to play there as galway utd
considering its owned by the galway fa

congrats to mervue btw

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I'm sure the Galway & District League will be only too happy to take at least 2 grand a game from Mervue, as that was the rate they were charging GUFC when they were in the first division. The can't be seen to favour one club over another.

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Originally Posted by oldyouth

Those apartments in the background look very close to the pitch. Do they have enough room all around the complex to develop properly?

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there not as close as they look, still though great view for nx season for whoever lives there,plenty of room the other side for some sort of a stand terrace etc

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Originally Posted by frog-gufc

there not as close as they look, still though great view for nx season for whoever lives there,plenty of room the other side for some sort of a stand terrace etc

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Thats not an apartment block its Mervue's VIP boxes:D

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Originally Posted by holidaysong

If Drogheda go under than I'm sure they will.. Realisitcally though, it could be the end of KCFC if they aren't in the first division next year.

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My thinking too, on both counts.

Makes you wonder if the A League needs to be looked at again if a club relegated into it could go out of existence as a result (a possibility noted in the main forum by someone talking to a Kildare director). Kildare's season will now start in June or so, which is just nonsense.

Still, well done to Mervue. Hopefully this will provide an incentive to other clubs to try take the step up and, ultimately, improve the standard of the league.

Will Mervue get a licence?

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Will Mervue get a licence?

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Yes once they agree a deal to rent Terryland Park from the Galway FA alongside Galway United.

The league timetable will have to take this into account.

Like they did with Shels and Rovers this year?

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Like they did with Shels and Rovers this year?

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Exactly

Watch the goals here



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0js7osfAdcs


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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Kildare's season will now start in June or so, which is just nonsense.

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Yeah, absolute nonsense that their season starts at the same time as the vast vast mojority of clubs in Europe!.
I know, I know, it is a nonsense regarding our own season but really, Summer soccer? No thanks

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Originally Posted by Mr Maroon

Exactly

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I assume you got the sarcasm?

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I assume you got the sarcasm?

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Yes.


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fair play to mervue.. if they do go up its a new ground im lookin forward to goin to... we played them five and a half years ago in the eircom under 21 final and they gave us a good game too...

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Originally Posted by frog-gufc

there not as close as they look, still though great view for nx season for whoever lives there

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Are Mervue trying to appeal to the prawn sandwich brigade already? 'Pimms on the balcony darling, while we watch those funny chaps running around':D

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Originally Posted by oldyouth

Are Mervue trying to appeal to the prawn sandwich brigade already? 'Pimms on the balcony darling, while we watch those funny chaps running around':D

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not really. link

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Originally Posted by galwayhoop

not really. link

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It mentions Walter Macken flats. Does that mean there is a chance of there being a Walter Macken end? That would be totally cool.

More like buckfast on the the balcony!