Cork are at about 450 members AFAIK, down from a peak of 850ish.
Cork are at about 450 members AFAIK, down from a peak of 850ish.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
It's hard to sustain interest in membership when there's no immediate disaster looming.
Little things can help, for examplebers are voting in our 3rd kit for next year, priorities for euro tickets etc to try to keep people engaged.
So, the Saudis are taking over. Initial immediate investment of €500,000 is reported. Game changer.
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That sort of money would be a game changer for Galway, but I'm not convinced it'll guarantee them any sort of success. The European money is such that if the Saudis are serious about challenging for the Premier Division title at some stage then they're going to have to up that sum by quite a bit.
500k is the same investment gone into Shels, good sum of cash for a first division club but only one club can go up automatically with UCD looking strong bet for that spot this season
With the headline rte articles I was under the impression millions we're been invested but maybe that will come if they get promoted by 2019 or 2020?
First step has to be to get into the premier division, will 500k achieve that this year with the gap to UCD?
Waterford, Dundalk, Shels and now Galway all receiving outside investment (Rovers too to an extent but that was from someone they had an previous relationship with). What is going on?
Have these Saudi investors have a track record in investing in football? I take the view that each case should be assessed on its own circumstances.
There are fan ownership fundamentalists who decry any foreign ownership. However, there are many successful examples of clubs in smaller leagues that are foreign owned.
I found it disapointing that Galway Co-op had only 107 members eligible to vote ?
https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/201...galway-united/
So does the Co-op, but thats all they can get to sign up.
Galway is in the mist of a GAA revival of sorts, with the hurlers getting gates of over 30,000 for a match recently against Kilkenny. Also the Gaelic Footballers coming good with the batch of young players and are tripling there gates from 2 years ago.
Connacht is also virtually a Galway supported team and their marketing team are extremely good, with huge financial backing from the IRFU and local businesses also. Most of their matches are sell outs nowadays as they can attract teams with big names into the city through the current competitive set-ups.
Galway is not a "soccer" supporting county, except for the normal Irish bandwagoning, and the only way to attract these bandwagon brigades is for a huge financial contribution from our new overlords......I mean investors !
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