GUST apply for first division licence

[sullanefc]

If Limerick disappears, do you just throw your lot behind Limerick & Pike Rovers, or PRLimerick FC? If you do, fine, but that does not appeal to me

Apt name IMO.

[gufcfan]

They can't give GUsT a licence as then there will still be the 3 club thing

Of course they can. They gave Mervue and Devon licences with a club from the county already competing in the league.

What is needs is strong leadership from FAI to say lads, 1 club, that's it. No one is aski g Salthill or Mervue to throw away their identity, ideally they should keep their sides up to Junior Legie level, but all feed into 1 Galway club run by a board of people for Salthill, Mervue, GUST and the District League.

Mervue and Devon will never join forces, nor will Galway & DL clubs allow themselves be feeder clubs to teams they compete against at junior and juvenile level.

No one is talking about them giving up their underage structures, just create a separate legal entity run by the 4 bodies mentioned.

Not a bloody chance.

I'd rather say good luck and thanks to the idea of GUST FC representing ALL of Galway, than be forced into a sham alliance, which would be nothing but a façade.

[WoodquayBoy]

What everyone at Wednesday's meeting said was the desire for a separate legal entity, don't know if you are completely missing the point on that - without a separate entity GUST will just disappear, it is main demand of GUST. The desire is to have 1 club representing Galway, the only way to do that is as suggested above

[gufcfan]

What everyone at Wednesday's meeting said was the desire for a separate legal entity, don't know if you are completely missing the point on that - without a separate entity GUST will just disappear, it is main demand of GUST. The desire is to have 1 club representing Galway, the only way to do that is as suggested above

I disagree completely. An "alliance" between GUST and one of Devon/Mervue would alienate every other club in Galway.

[WoodquayBoy]

Do you have difficulty reading or did I and everyone who spoke on Wednwsday not make it clear? It is an alliance with every club that is wanted, not with just Devon and/or Mervue. The reason they were sspecifically mentioned is because they are already in the league, the ideal situation is they keep their structures up to and including junior level, but the step above would see their players, and those from every club, represent a unifies Galway team

[gufcfan]

Do you have difficulty reading or did I and everyone who spoke on Wednwsday not make it clear? It is an alliance with every club that is wanted, not with just Devon and/or Mervue. The reason they were sspecifically mentioned is because they are already in the league, the ideal situation is they keep their structures up to and including junior level, but the step above would see their players, and those from every club, represent a unifies Galway team

First of all, I wasn't there on Wednesday. Second, saying you are including clubs doesn't make it reality. They will see it for what it is, local rivals of theirs, Devon or Mervue... annexing GUST.

I'm not deliberately picking a fight with anyone, I'm just calling it as I see it and saying what I feel about it.

[passerrby]

I have to say I think the fai are doing the right thing maybe a little late but it would not have helped football in Galway to give three licences in the county. They are forcing the hands a little but that is needed , I also think that the club that does not join this merger will disappear sooner or later out of Loi.. Unfortunately I think the team that does join up with Galway will be absorbed and it too will disappear. Only my opinion.

[gufcfan]

I have to say I think the fai are doing the right thing maybe a little late but it would not have helped football in Galway to give three licences in the county. They are forcing the hands a little but that is needed , I also think that the club that does not join this merger will disappear sooner or later out of Loi.. Unfortunately I think the team that does join up with Galway will be absorbed and it too will disappear. Only my opinion.

The "merger" can't work in the long-run. It just alienates the rest of Galway football. The FAI trying to clean up the mess is fair enough, but that doesn't mean that how they are trying to do it has any basis in reality.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but five idiots make a licensing committee apparently.

[bluewhitearmy]

I have to say I think the fai are doing the right thing maybe a little late but it would not have helped football in Galway to give three licences in the county. They are forcing the hands a little but that is needed , I also think that the club that does not join this merger will disappear sooner or later out of Loi.. Unfortunately I think the team that does join up with Galway will be absorbed and it too will disappear. Only my opinion.

This is LOI the chances are that all of them will disappear sooner or later.

[passerrby]

I agree the irony is that for this to be successful Galway must totally absorb either mervue of salt hill ,again only my opinion but gust are doing the right think in the way they are trying to save their team but it will be at the expense of one of the other teams

[marinobohs]

The "merger" can't work in the long-run. It just alienates the rest of Galway football. The FAI trying to clean up the mess is fair enough, but that doesn't mean that how they are trying to do it has any basis in reality.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but five idiots make a licensing committee apparently.

This is the LOI Gufcf, nothing has any basis in reality. And, for the record,it only takes one idiot to make a licencing committee - the other four are there for the expences (should that be franchising committee ?)

[gufcfan]

I agree the irony is that for this to be successful Galway must totally absorb either mervue of salt hill

And that will never happen. What is being suggested right now is that Mervue or Devon would swallow up GUST and that Galway United fans and the whole of Galway football would row in behind a parish team, because GUST would never have any say in any decisions. Tbh, I wouldn't even care if they did. I would never support such a thing.

I'm not trying to impose my will on anybody and God knows, nobody would mourn the loss of my support, but the whole thing makes we want to puke.

[bennocelt]

The offer has been made to GUST by the 2 clubs because the FAI insist on a team with Galway in the name WILL play in Terryland this year. I know this because this is what someone from both Salthill and Mervue told me, not GUST. GUST is Galway United in everything but name, so it has the backing of a lot of the LOI public of Galway. The FAI know this and don't want to lose those fans. GUST also have more appeal to sponsors as an entity with a county-wide appeal, not the localised one of the other 2 clubs. The FAI know this also.
The Galway District League, which owns Terryland, has been told a team will play there this year. The FAI is using the situation to solve the 3-club problem, and about time, but it must be done properly, and that means bringing on board the LOI fans it will lose otherwise. The offers to GuST were made at behest of FAI. The pull the strings, from the league down to club grants, so Salthill andervue's bone throwing, while welcome, is not some altruistic offer

Jesus GUST should then grow some balls and stand upto the FAI or then wait a year and apply, rather than try and destroy two teams that have a RIGHT to be in the league. As another poster said - piggybacking on the hard work of others, terrible stuff from GUST

[ahmcd]

Tbh, I don't know why you need a team with Galway in the name. The only team in Dublin with Dublin in its name is UCD and I don't think many people call them by there full name.

[WoodquayBoy]

Totally agree Bennocelt on standing up to the FAI. It's shameful when, for example, some FAI suits ride into town for the League Cup final, demand that the home club pony up for a meal for them and then tell the winners if the players want winners medals, they can pay for them themselves. Or tell a club they will get 'x' amount from the FAI Cup final, and then all of a sudden discover the cost of staging the game has increased and so the club's cut has been slashed. How'd that standing up to the FAI work out for ye by the way?

[Dunny]

Any news from the meeting with the FAI last night?

[gufct]

The FAI should be watching Sky Sports 1 tonight 9,000 full house in the pouring rain for Connacht who havent won in 14 games. While back at the ranch egos and petty politics sells Galway Soccer down the Swanee.Only one solution but no one brave enough to try for it.

One Community based club seperate entity With reps of all three Parties running it.

[Guitd]

The FAI should be watching Sky Sports 1 tonight 9,000 full house in the pouring rain for Connacht who havent won in 14 games. While back at the ranch egos and petty politics sells Galway Soccer down the Swanee.Only one solution but no one brave enough to try for it.

One Community based club seperate entity With reps of all three Parties running it.

Don't think that will ever happen down here Fai don't have the balls !,they prefer to have 2 parish teams playing in two fields with a fence round in front of 50 people ?shows their ambition

[Schumi]

The only team in Dublin with Dublin in its name is UCD and I don't think many people call them by there full name.

Plenty of people call us UCD Dublin.

[Terry]

It seems to be a Good Night one and all from all the Galway United FC supporters. Will the last person out turn off the lights and pull the door closed behind them.

From my own perspective, I have enjoyed the the past 26 years following GUFC around the country and on a very rare occasion abroad. I have made friends that will be forever part of my family (mad enough as they all are!). I have meet characters up and down the country that know what its like to enjoy the game and not the TV in the pub, getting out and meeting players that represent football clubs that we love and hate but will always, in our own eyes, represent real Irish football, grassroots football, football that we dream our own kids could play some day.

Maybe some day, a club called Galway United will arise out of the ashes, and again I will make the journey up to Terryland but for now Connaught Rugby has won over all else in this house. 5 new supporters were generated last night from my house in what was a very entertaining night in the showgrounds (never thought I here myself calling "The Showgrounds" my home clubs grounds !!!!!!), amazingly there were more GUFC jackets in attendance than would be seen in football grounds around the city. The conversion has been completed it seems, by technicality.