FAI Invites First Division Expressions of Interest

**Charlie Darwin** · 21/08/2013, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

Sean South is a total WUM, don't feed the troll.

Ah, give him a break. Sure all they're doing is trying to do is make a difference in their community and resurrect the real and sustained interest in football in Galway city. It's not as if they're they're doing something really vital and effective like making snide comments on the internet.

**bluewhitearmy** · 22/08/2013, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Ah, give him a break. Sure all they're doing is trying to do is make a difference in their community and resurrect the real and sustained interest in football in Galway city. It's not as if they're they're doing something really vital and effective like making snide comments on the internet.

They have done and in other places about the FAI and now they are surprised the FAI wont let em have their way. I said it last year the way some from GUST were talking about the FAI and Big John would not go un-noticed.

**Charlie Darwin** · 22/08/2013, 12:19 AM

If the FAI have been reading foot.ie they really haven't shown any evidence of it.

**Spudulika** · 22/08/2013, 6:08 AM

They pick and choose CD, good ideas = baaad, snide comments = let's hold it against the posters.

We should all pick badges of clubs we don't like, pretend to support them and slag the living daylights out of the FAI and see what happens. Just a thought.

**redron** · 22/08/2013, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

We should all pick badges of clubs we don't like, pretend to support them and slag the living daylights out of the FAI and see what happens. Just a thought.

a la Sean South...

**sadloserkid** · 22/08/2013, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by redron

a la Sean South...

To be fair he was picking a badge that the GUST hate rather than the one he loathes himself.

**JC_GUFC** · 22/08/2013, 3:19 PM

Just in relation to the issue of the name.

The proposed club is NOT a merger of SD, Mervue and GUST. It is supposed to be a new entity representing Galway in the League of Ireland. The most obvious name to call this new entity is Galway United but apparently this isn't acceptable to some of those involved in negotiations.

Personally I wouldn't have an issue supporting a team called Galway Rovers, Galway Harps, Galway Ramblers or Grasshopper Galway and I doubt too many others would either but the structure of the club has to be one where there is transparency and the supporters have a say in what happens, though not necessarily a casting vote.

The current potential structure seems doomed to failure. There is self-interest in everything proposed whereas GUST just want a proper senior football team to support and for that team to be representative of and inclusive of al strands of Galway football.

Thankfully it seems more and more posters on here are becoming aware of the situation.

**Terry** · 22/08/2013, 5:35 PM

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

To be fair he was picking a badge that the GUST hate rather than the one he loathes himself.

If he was talking about me, then he would be wrong. I'm a season ticket holder for both Mervue and Salthill. I have played in the past for Salthill. I am NOT a member of GUST but I am a Galway United fan and I would believe that what GUST want is the correct decision for future Galway football player in general.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 22/08/2013, 6:35 PM

Originally Posted by JC_GUFC

Just in relation to the issue of the name.

The proposed club is NOT a merger of SD, Mervue and GUST. It is supposed to be a new entity representing Galway in the League of Ireland. The most obvious name to call this new entity is Galway United but apparently this isn't acceptable to some of those involved in negotiations.

Personally I wouldn't have an issue supporting a team called Galway Rovers, Galway Harps, Galway Ramblers or Grasshopper Galway and I doubt too many others would either but the structure of the club has to be one where there is transparency and the supporters have a say in what happens, though not necessarily a casting vote.

The current potential structure seems doomed to failure. There is self-interest in everything proposed whereas GUST just want a proper senior football team to support and for that team to be representative of and inclusive of al strands of Galway football.

Thankfully it seems more and more posters on here are becoming aware of the situation.

How would you feel if they decide the name of the team was to be Mervue Devon though? (This is the FAI we're talking about)

**Terry** · 22/08/2013, 8:51 PM

Its not the mervue and salthill football clubs that are involved in this amalgamation, but the chairmen of those clubs. Once the new club is up and running, they will be stepping down from their current posts and taking up there positions as the new clubs directors.

**Charlie Darwin** · 22/08/2013, 9:43 PM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

How would you feel if they decide the name of the team was to be Mervue Devon though? (This is the FAI we're talking about)

Mervon has a nice ring to it.

**Guitd** · 22/08/2013, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Mervon has a nice ring to it.

Yes but that's where people outside of galway don't understand the plan for the new set up ,,,mervue and salthill are just a piece of the jigsaw ,,, the other 43 junior clubs in the galway league are represented buy the Galway FA who own terryland (Deacy Park) and want to have a say ,,as well as GUST and independent rep.

**Sean South** · 22/08/2013, 10:10 PM

This new Galway club if it ever comes about should be set up as a co-op with one man vote, and elect a board every year something like Sligo Rovers. Supporters having a central role in the running of their club is the only way forward. By the sound of things it's just jobs for the boys and similar set up as GUFC before they died. Far too much politics in Galway football at the moment with no vision.

**osarusan** · 22/08/2013, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Terry

If he was talking about me, then he would be wrong.

Sean South, i would say.

**sadloserkid** · 25/08/2013, 6:39 PM

I was referencing noted Limerick supporter Sean South. I hope he'll forgive me.

**outspoken** · 26/08/2013, 11:04 AM

Great article by Daniel McDonnell in one of today's papers on the whole GUST situation. He reckons they could pull the plug at a meeting tonight as they are getting no where closer to a deal

**marinobohs** · 26/08/2013, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by Terry

It doesn't matter what the club is called as even with the u19 team from last season it was the FAI that made them call the team that, as there was a different name on the team from the outset. I would agree that it is now looking unlikely that GUST will ever be allowed near any league under the FAI grasp,as there is constant road blocks being put up rather than taken down. Any new club that does emerge next season out of Galway will be 100% run by the chairman of the league of Ireland.

Come on United (Manchester that is!).

........ For the benefit of those who forgot why GUFC died