GUST apply for first division licence

**PartySaint** · 13/12/2011, 12:58 PM

So is there a possibility of 4 Galway clubs now or will Galway United just fold?

**Mr A** · 13/12/2011, 1:00 PM

Presumably they won't get a license and will then fold.

**passerrby** · 13/12/2011, 1:45 PM

Only surmising but I suspect the gust wil get a licence if. One of the other clubs Salthill or mervue don't apply , can't see the league allowing any more than two teams in Galway

**WoodquayBoy** · 13/12/2011, 2:04 PM

The directors of Galway United have, on the evidenec of the year just gone, no interest in running a club in the LOI. Therefore I would imagine they will wind up the operating company, and the club will fold, which is when GUST will move to buy the name if that is how these things are done

**Dodge** · 13/12/2011, 2:24 PM

Galway United (ye know, the old one) have withdrawn their 2012 license application

**culloty82** · 13/12/2011, 3:11 PM

So will GUST be able to buy the legal rights to the name "Galway United FC" straight away, or will they have to go under a name such as GUST FC for a season?

**pineapple stu** · 13/12/2011, 3:40 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Galway United (ye know, the old one) have withdrawn their 2012 license application

And yet they're still planning on applying for 2013!

I was just thinking this was the most blood-free coup ever in the LoI, but maybe not...

**Mr A** · 13/12/2011, 3:44 PM

I love the implication that somehow GUST, who have run the whole show for them for a year and provided massive help previous to that are somehow the bad guys in this, rather than the idiots who ran the club into the ground.

It's almost as if there is some sort of delusional person involved whose public pronouncements have little connection to reality and a tendency towards not telling the truth.

**Redzer** · 13/12/2011, 4:36 PM

Just what the league needs, a 4th team from Galway

What about the season tickets ye were selling for Galway United FC? Where do these supporters go?

**passerrby** · 13/12/2011, 5:31 PM

Originally Posted by Redzer

Just what the league needs, a 4th team from Galway

What about the season tickets ye were selling for Galway United FC? Where do these supporters go?

I just hope they do a better job on there dvd

**Guitd** · 13/12/2011, 5:36 PM

Originally Posted by passerrby

I just hope they do a better job on there dvd

omg think that record has been played out

**passerrby** · 13/12/2011, 5:41 PM

the finest tunes are played at funerals and besides ya gotta laugh

**bluemovie** · 13/12/2011, 5:48 PM

Originally Posted by Mr A

I love the implication that somehow GUST, who have run the whole show for them for a year and provided massive help previous to that are somehow the bad guys in this, rather than the idiots who ran the club into the ground.

It's almost as if there is some sort of delusional person involved whose public pronouncements have little connection to reality and a tendency towards not telling the truth.

I hear Ewan McGregor has already signed up for the sequel!

**corkery** · 13/12/2011, 7:26 PM

Since Galway United have not gone bust, is it possible that ye'll never get the GUFC name. Like Belfast Celtic?

**pineapple stu** · 13/12/2011, 7:38 PM

If they're not going to apply for a licence, they'll go bust fairly quickly. They've a million of debts; someone will call that in.

**Mr Maroon** · 13/12/2011, 7:40 PM

Originally Posted by Redzer

What about the season tickets ye were selling for Galway United FC? Where do these supporters go?

GUST will be contacting everyone who purchased tickets to inform them of the options open to them.

**legendz** · 13/12/2011, 8:36 PM

I'd like to wish GUST all the best anyways. They've been backing the club recently, if they are choosing a new route, good luck to them. GUST are Galway United, the club goes with them. Hat's off to Cork as well for the way they went about their business. Like will look back well on them.

**MagicMon** · 13/12/2011, 9:11 PM

So extinct LOI teams since 2000:

St Francis
Dublin City
Kilkenny City
Kildare County
Sporting Fingal
Cork City mkI
Derry City mkI
Galway United mkI
Limerick mkI

Have I missed any out? And there are at least half a dozen that nearly went.

Will this mean that Limerick are first in the queue if Bohs don't get a Premier Licence?