letter in today's City Tribune from an angry Utd fan.

[MyTown]

Lads, We're going round in circles .

Agreed. Moderators, please?

To the chaps who keep referring to me as someone who purports to be a supporter I'm getting fed up with that to be honest - in my first post on this forum I gave my reasons as to why I am a supporter of GUFC - 28 years a spporter and counting - just because I chose to complain through the media doesn't change that. So please change that particular record.
Lads, I respect 99.9% of your opinions and the work that ye do but I am entitled to mine.

You were welcomed to the Forum. You've been given a fair hearing. Your opinions are just as valid as anybody elses.

But please understand it is both patronising and insulting to suggest that those of us who support the club in as positive a way we can are blinkered.

You repeatedly lean on your record of 28 years travelling up the Dyke Road. Some of us have a record of support just as long and believe it or not two seasons longer if the Legue Cup campaign of Autumn 1976 counts. The players whose names you posted yesterday from east of the river and the general Mervue / Ballybane catchment area were idolised by many of us and cheered to the rafters in good days and bad - and Lord knows it's been mostly bad. But, again, that is the essence of what being a supporter is.

Some of us have had major disagreements with senior members of the Board and Management Committees of Galway United over things that we feel very strongly about over the years. We've won some and we've lost some.

The particular issue that sparked your outrage (ticketing for Sunderland, does everyone remember how this started?) was very hotly debated within the club, but it is a credit to those within the club that greatly opposing views were honestly and openly debated, and once the prevailing view became club policy, everybody who was a party to the decision rowed in behind it.

With all due respect, that's not blinkered support, that's democratic support, with a high value placed on confidentiality, for the longer term good of soccer in the city and county.

Hope to see you and the Lads on Friday night - Come on United.

[Paddyfield]

.... I respect 99.9% of your opinions and the work that ye do but I am entitled to mine....

I think you should revise that figure of 99.9%

[Terry]

So, have we all come to an agreement that this thread is run its coarse and can be closed?

[corbyeire]

i made my views clear on this before - but one thing i will say - is that only a small fraction of fans post here - or on other sites

the responses here are from a computer user based sample - not the entire gufc supporter base

on this site i have mentioned the maroon mist before - and people are entitled to that

but i dont want my support questioned either if i dare question the club

ill be honest with you - the amount of times ive said on here about the free therapy up in terryland - i go up there with me mates sometimes to give out, rant and rave - you think i shouldnt do that?

there is an ovewhellming sense online not to say anything about what the club is doing

it is fantastic what has been achieved by volunteers etc. - im not trying to knock that

but you just cant have a singular ethos in relation to support

im sure others have opinions on the matter - but the barrage against any questioning of GUFC - seems to prevent that

[corbyeire]

yea terry close it up

[GuisaSaigon]

Yes Terry, shut it down. This has gone on long enough.

[Paddyfield]

Yes Terry, shut it down. This has gone on long enough.

I don't meat to go off topic but there is rain promised later so don't water the garden tonight.

[MyTown]

but the barrage against any questioning of GUFC - seems to prevent that

Couln't disagree with you more Corby

1. This debate did not start from "a computer based sample" but in the local media, in the most successful provincial newspaper in Ireland.

2. My OPINION - and that's all it is - is that Mr. Cahill's expression of his opinions but mostly, the MANNER in which he chose to air them were two exocets aimed at the heart of Terryland and he had a direct hit on both occasions. So who's trying to stifle his right to express those views or your either?

Maroon mist? I think that's most unfair - 5 minutes on this Forum should show you that all football supporters "enjoy" a good moan and regard the "therapy" available from Terryland to be the cheapest on the market.

But there are times when it all comes together in the best possible way - and those are the times I look forward to.

Oh and yea Terry go right ahead...............

[Mr A]

i made my views clear on this before - but one thing i will say - is that only a small fraction of fans post here - or on other sites

the responses here are from a computer user based sample - not the entire gufc supporter base

on this site i have mentioned the maroon mist before - and people are entitled to that

but i dont want my support questioned either if i dare question the club

ill be honest with you - the amount of times ive said on here about the free therapy up in terryland - i go up there with me mates sometimes to give out, rant and rave - you think i shouldnt do that?

there is an ovewhellming sense online not to say anything about what the club is doing

it is fantastic what has been achieved by volunteers etc. - im not trying to knock that

but you just cant have a singular ethos in relation to support

im sure others have opinions on the matter - but the barrage against any questioning of GUFC - seems to prevent that

Well Said.

However, attacking a football club in public, especially in the case that it is in a newspaper and were many people feel some of the points were unfair, is always likely to draw criticism from other supporters.

Everyone has a right to their opinion- including those who question others choice of how to vent their grievances.

[Terry]

ok closing the thread

If someone feels they want to defend anything else they can write up a post and PM it to me, I will then add it in.

P.S. John, your welcome to Foot.ie