SSE Airtricity League Transfers 2017

[osarusan]

PunditArena announcing that Horgan is signing for Preston.

RTE tweeting it also.

[El-Pietro]

Preston have announced it officially.

[ybig]

I was surprised to see Rovers let go of Rob Cornwall - he signed for Bohs last week. Whenever I saw Cornwall I always thought he was their best CB after Webster.

Any idea why he was let go, Rovers fans? Did i just happen to see him when he had a rare good game?

He was very poor at Rovers. Their defence was over the place with Cornwall in the team.

[sbgawa]

He was very poor at Rovers. Their defence was over the place with Cornwall in the team.

Don't think he was "very poor" but if we are going to try to close the gap on Cork and Dundalk we have to improve the defence and at best he was only "ok".

[nigel-harps1954]

Harps in:

Harry Doherty (Cockhill Celtic)

20 year old former Charlton & Brighton goalkeeper.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Why are there separate pages for "Transfers 2016" and "Transfers 2017"?

[nigel-harps1954]

2016 page was last seasons transfers. Sticky hasn't been changed yet.

[ForzaHoop]

Have Harps signed this lad

http://www.cockhillcelticfc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=627:harry-to-complete-move-to-charlton-athletic-fc&Itemid=93

[gufc2000]

Galway United In:
Gavin Holohan (Cork City)
http://galwayunitedfc.ie/gavan-holohan-signs/

[nigel-harps1954]

Good signing for Galway.

[bluewhitearmy]

We are in real trouble again next season.

[Pablo Escobar]

We are in real trouble again next season.

Why? The lack of signings or quality of them?

[bluewhitearmy]

Both. We have made 3 signings the best of them was in a position we were already strong I dont know much about David O'Connor but not hearing great things and the fact we have had Turner already and the happiest fans about that signing are Cork fans says it all. Russell has a very good budget too which makes it a lot worse he either has no idea how to get players in or is afraid to spend the money.There is nothing in this country of any quality left and we still need a left back a centre mid a winger a striker at the very least.

[Jofspring]

Who's signed up/still signed up with UCD? Because the way we are going I wouldn't be surprised if we are trying to pick up a few more UCD players

[NewGuy]

Both. We have made 3 signings the best of them was in a position we were already strong I dont know much about David O'Connor but not hearing great things and the fact we have had Turner already and the happiest fans about that signing are Cork fans says it all. Russell has a very good budget too which makes it a lot worse he either has no idea how to get players in or is afraid to spend the money.There is nothing in this country of any quality left and we still need a left back a centre mid a winger a striker at the very least.

Don't understand that negativity to be honest. DOC a very good addition - good on the ball, very quick. Turner was excellent for ye in 2015 was he not? Who have ye missed out on that you would have liked to have signed?

[pineapple stu]

Well ye've got Doc anyway.

There's few enough Martin Russell students left at this stage.

I think we've released the outsiders - Byrne, Waters, Brady. Boyle has retired. I've heard Bohs are sniffing around a few, and I've heard most are staying on - so lots of completely contradictory rumours, as is standard at this time of year

[nigel-harps1954]

Well ye've got Doc anyway.

There's few enough Martin Russell students left at this stage.

I think we've released the outsiders - Byrne, Waters, Brady. Boyle has retired. I've heard Bohs are sniffing around a few, and I've heard most are staying on - so lots of completely contradictory rumours, as is standard at this time of year

Isn't Boyle only in his mid 20's yet? Injury forcing retirement or something?

Waters is a strange one. He looked like he'd be one of the leagues big stars a couple of years ago. Did he not really impress at UCD?

[pineapple stu]

Boyle is 25. Been injured a lot over the years though!

Waters did ok; maybe not as well as expected. But we're a strange club when it comes to outsiders, and I reckon Devo moving on won't help that.

[bluewhitearmy]

I'd take Marty Waters no problem but then Martin doesn't sign players he hasn't worked with already it seems.

[nigel-harps1954]

Wouldn't mind seeing Waters at Harps, unlikely to happen though.

Shame about Boyle. Loyal sort of a fella over the last few years at UCD. Decent player too.

[Pablo Escobar]

Both. We have made 3 signings the best of them was in a position we were already strong I dont know much about David O'Connor but not hearing great things and the fact we have had Turner already and the happiest fans about that signing are Cork fans says it all. Russell has a very good budget too which makes it a lot worse he either has no idea how to get players in or is afraid to spend the money.There is nothing in this country of any quality left and we still need a left back a centre mid a winger a striker at the very least.
I don't know why our fans are so happy about Turner going. He was never given a chance with us. He probably made a handful of substitute appearances and maybe a start at the beginning of the season. He's clearly a good guy to have around the squad and his record with Limerick the previous season was very good. Our noisy fans were never known for their football knowledge anyway. I wouldn't beep too unhappy with that signing.

[bluewhitearmy]

I don't know why our fans are so happy about Turner going. He was never given a chance with us. He probably made a handful of substitute appearances and maybe a start at the beginning of the season. He's clearly a good guy to have around the squad and his record with Limerick the previous season was very good. Our noisy fans were never known for their football knowledge anyway. I wouldn't beep too unhappy with that signing.

If you consider 6 or 7 good games in a season very good then I suppose it was. Turner has the potential to be very good he has all the physical tools and has a great delivery but he hasn't delivered nearly enough in his time with us. While Cork fans may not have seen enough of him to judge we have seen loads of him and I have spoken to no-one that is too enthusiastic about his return. I'm personally not as upset about him coming back as others I am willing to see if he can get back to how he was in the run in during our near escape but if we get the Turner from before then it just isn't any improvement on what we had last year.

[Pablo Escobar]

If you consider 6 or 7 good games in a season very good then I suppose it was. Turner has the potential to be very good he has all the physical tools and has a great delivery but he hasn't delivered nearly enough in his time with us. While Cork fans may not have seen enough of him to judge we have seen loads of him and I have spoken to no-one that is too enthusiastic about his return. I'm personally not as upset about him coming back as others I am willing to see if he can get back to how he was in the run in during our near escape but if we get the Turner from before then it just isn't any improvement on what we had last year.
Wasn't it 9/10 goals he got for you from the wing? That's a serious return, provided I've got it right.....

[bluewhitearmy]

Wasn't it 9/10 goals he got for you from the wing? That's a serious return, provided I've got it right.....

I'm not sure on exact numbers but like I say all his production came in 6/7 games thats not enough to be excited about.No denying he was great for a spell at the end of his last season with us but also can't be denied he was nowhere near those levels for the majority of his time with us before that. A year without playing won't help either.

[Charlie Darwin]

I dont know much about David O'Connor but not hearing great things
You're being judged by a different standard now. O'Connor is better than any defender Limerick have had for the last few years. The only one with the potential to be better is Paudie O'Connor but your fans don't seem to rate him either for some mad reason. It seems like Limerick fans are expecting to be competing with Dundalk for players.

[Charlie Darwin]

Wouldn't mind seeing Waters at Harps, unlikely to happen though.

Shame about Boyle. Loyal sort of a fella over the last few years at UCD. Decent player too.
Waters won't leave Dublin afaik and he won't play for Bohs so he'll be at Shels, Cabo or Longford realistically. Which is a shame because he's a Premier Division player, but can't blame a lad for not wanting to play for the Bozos.

That said, Croly and Long both being at Bohs might change his mind. And he'd be right to change his mind because it's a short career and he shouldn't be wasting it below his level.


If you consider 6 or 7 good games in a season very good then I suppose it was. Turner has the potential to be very good he has all the physical tools and has a great delivery but he hasn't delivered nearly enough in his time with us. While Cork fans may not have seen enough of him to judge we have seen loads of him and I have spoken to no-one that is too enthusiastic about his return. I'm personally not as upset about him coming back as others I am willing to see if he can get back to how he was in the run in during our near escape but if we get the Turner from before then it just isn't any improvement on what we had last year.
Turner was immense during Limerick's push to stay in the Premier last time. He's a quality player and you'd imagine a year in that Cork environment would have pushed him up a level, but you saw him a lot more than me for Limerick so I can't really comment.

[seand]

Boyle is 25. Been injured a lot over the years though!

Waters did ok; maybe not as well as expected. But we're a strange club when it comes to outsiders, and I reckon Devo moving on won't help that.

Boyle has missed 3 league games in the last 4 seasons, so whatever injury history he has seems to be well behind him, hopefully.

[sadloserkid]

On Turner, in mitigation, I would say that nobody played well in the first half of that relegation season, If he can be 75% as effective as he was in the run in he'll do fine. It's the lack of signings that has me nervous.

Like, living in Cork I see a fair few of their games, I'm comfortable enough on some level with us not signing the likes of Danny Morrissey and Holohan. Having too many average players has been a big part of the Cork problem the last few seasons. They're decent players at best but they're not team changers and there are other comparable players around.

The problem for me isn't that Limerick fans expect to compete with Dundalk (bar the odd crackpot), it's that somebody in the club (and it can only be our benign dictator) seems to believe this. Handing the manager of a newly promoted team the brief to go out and sign a team of players who'll challenge for Europe/the title/the Superbowl/global domination is unrealistic. If, and I stress IF as I'm about as far from the pulse as is possible, we're passing over B and C list players while looking longingly at the Daryl Horgans and Christy Fagans of this world we are sleepwalking into a situation where we will be just as exposed as we were the season we got relegated (but with the added bonus of having two actual goalkeepers to call upon rather than a blind, crippled puppet built from twine, plasticine and false hope).

Ambition is great but you still have to walk before you can run, you can't skip to the end.

[Lim till i die]

The only one with the potential to be better is Paudie O'Connor but your fans don't seem to rate him either for some mad reason.

For my own part I don't rate Paudie because he has the touch and poise of a hi-ace van. As a nuts and bolts league of Ireland jaysus there's the ball kick it really hard the other way centre half he is fine and mediocre. For Martin Russell's purposes he is actually damaging.


seems like Limerick fans are expecting to be competing with Dundalk for players.

Only coco the chairman expects this.



Turner was immense during Limerick's push to stay in the Premier last time. He's a quality player and you'd imagine a year in that Cork environment would have pushed him up a level, but you saw him a lot more than me for Limerick so I can't really comment.

Dear Lord!

Would you have him starting at shamrock??

As I said somewhere else Turner played probably fifty games for us and was poison in forty of them.

[Bray Head]

Waters won't leave Dublin afaik and he won't play for Bohs so he'll be at Shels, Cabo or Longford realistically. Which is a shame because he's a Premier Division player, but can't blame a lad for not wanting to play for the Bozos.

That said, Croly and Long both being at Bohs might change his mind. And he'd be right to change his mind because it's a short career and he shouldn't be wasting it below his level.

t.
He's a Rovers fan from what I heard so that's why he won't go to Bohs. He had a chance to go back to Bray last year but turned it down. The longer he stays out of the Premier the harder it will be to get back.

[vinnie]

He's a Rovers fan from what I heard so that's why he won't go to Bohs. He had a chance to go back to Bray last year but turned it down. The longer he stays out of the Premier the harder it will be to get back.

I'd put money on him following Devo to Cabinteely

[Darklordsbane]

That said, Croly and Long both being at Bohs

Please explain does this mean Trevor Croly and Keith long are sharing the managers role, or is one the director of football or coach, or maybe there is another Croly which you are referring to

[pineapple stu]

Boyle has missed 3 league games in the last 4 seasons, so whatever injury history he has seems to be well behind him, hopefully.
Tomás Boyle, not Andy Boyle.

[gormacha]

That said, Croly and Long both being at Bohs

Please explain does this mean Trevor Croly and Keith long are sharing the managers role, or is one the director of football or coach, or maybe there is another Croly which you are referring to

I think I read that Croly is coach/assistant manager, with Long the boss. Open to correction.

[bluewhitearmy]

Don't understand that negativity to be honest. DOC a very good addition - good on the ball, very quick. Turner was excellent for ye in 2015 was he not? Who have ye missed out on that you would have liked to have signed?

Just saw this now. I haven't been negative about DOC I don't know enough about him to have an opinion seemed fine the times I did see him I just pointed out others don't think much of him but that means little tbh. Like I have said since Turner was brilliant for a spell of games that year yes but not before that if we can get that level more consistently it would be a great signing.Its not so much who we have missed out on more who Russell hasn't even bothered to go after. At the end of last season we needed 3 or 4 quality signings to push on a bit, we still need 3 or 4 quality signings.


You're being judged by a different standard now. O'Connor is better than any defender Limerick have had for the last few years. The only one with the potential to be better is Paudie O'Connor but your fans don't seem to rate him either for some mad reason. It seems like Limerick fans are expecting to be competing with Dundalk for players.

Every fan from other teams seems to make this mistake but Robbie Williams is our best defender by a country mile. I can't see DOC being better than him and I know Paudie isn't and that is no dig on Paudie at all.I don't think there are many Limerick fans that don't rate him either really.

[Charlie Darwin]

Dear Lord!

Would you have him starting at shamrock??
No, but if we'd just been promoted I wouldn't turn my nose up at him.

[Charlie Darwin]

Every fan from other teams seems to make this mistake but Robbie Williams is our best defender by a country mile. I can't see DOC being better than him and I know Paudie isn't and that is no dig on Paudie at all.I don't think there are many Limerick fans that don't rate him either really.
If Williams is your best defender then you're in serious trouble. He'll be torn apart by any decent attacker next season.

[Lim till i die]

Oh, I get it. You're on a wind up.

Fairplay. :good:

[Charlie Darwin]

Yep, complete wind-up. Imagine thinking Turner is good at football.

[Ezeikial]

Jeez I'm confused

Does this mean Williams is a Messi-like footballing god or just an over-weight excuse of a footballer?

[bluewhitearmy]

Jeez I'm confused

Does this mean Williams is a Messi-like footballing god or just an over-weight excuse of a footballer?

Could just mean that Robbie is a very good defender despite looks, hardly surprising considering the level he has played at most of his career.But yano your Messi think is good too.

[Lim till i die]

Jeez I'm confused

Does this mean Williams is a Messi-like footballing god or just an over-weight excuse of a footballer?

He's both. Think USA 94 era Maradonna.

[Lim till i die]

Imagine thinking Turner is good at football.

A couple of seasons watching him would cure you. :good:

[patrickccfc]

A couple of seasons watching him would cure you. :good:

The way he sits on that subs bench..

[sulywaterfordfc]

The Star are reporting today Blues are close to signing Mikey Drennan

Heard yesterday Mark O Sullivan has been down talking to the club this week also

[bluewhitearmy]

The Star are reporting today Blues are close to signing Mikey Drennan

Heard yesterday Mark O Sullivan has been down talking to the club this week also

Didn't Drennan say in a recent interview that he isn't ready to go back playing LOI yet and will look again in July.

[KeepersBall]

Has Ryan Swan gone to Exeter yet ?

[nigel-harps1954]

http://www.finnharps.com/fhfc/?p=4089

Finn Harps in:

Jonny Bonner (Wexford Youths)

[sbgawa]

http://www.finnharps.com/fhfc/?p=4089

Finn Harps in:

Jonny Bonner (Wexford Youths)


Does he win the prize for the longest distance traveled within the country for a transfer : )
Hope his girlfriend is'nt from Wexford.

[nigel-harps1954]

Does he win the prize for the longest distance traveled within the country for a transfer : )
Hope his girlfriend is'nt from Wexford.

He's from Donegal. Also, Danny Morrissey signed from Cork, a further distance