PICKING over the bones of an incredibly frustrating – and ultimately, failure – of a season should be right at the top of the agenda for Galway United as work gets underway almost immediately on planning for 2023.

John Caulfield, the United manager, is expected to meet with the club’s financial backers, Brian and Luke Comer, in the coming days to see what kind of budget is available for next season, as he enters into the final year of a contract extension awarded before the play-off semi-final loss to Bray Wanderers at the end of the 2021 season.

The club’s weekly board meeting is believed to have passed without incident on Tuesday night, though the club seems to be adopting some kind of misguided omerta this season, across many levels: phone calls and text messages to club officials about the meeting on Wednesday morning went unanswered at the time of going to press.

It wasn’t the first time the club adopted the sound of silence during the year: Shane Doherty, who picked up a horrendous head injury in training, left the club during the season without as much as the decency of a public ‘thank you’ from the club; while Mark Russell, signed as a replacement for Alex Murphy, also left the club having made on paltry five-minute appearance as a substitute, with no answer given by the manager when asked about that in late July.

One club official on Friday night did pour cold water on any suggestions that the manager’s position was under threat, and Caulfield said after the game the process of talking to the current squad would begin this week.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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