Town 2025

[MoydowMonty]

I hope to God Doran stays, our player of the year imo. But I can just see Cork City coming down and swooping in for lads who will do a job in the first division, just like they did 2 years ago, and just like Dundalk did this year. And Doran would certainly do a job for them. I assume he's from Wexford, maybe they'd trmpt him back for a 2nd stint. Hope I'm just talking sh1te. He's some player though, not just his goal contributions, he works his arse off

[LTFC]

Doran was really good last night, getting into pockets of space, retaining possession and creating opportunities. Would love to keep him for next season.
While I dont have any clue how we are off the field, Wayne should be manager unless he decides to leave so he would be asking now about budgets for 2026 to try and keep lads.

[Martinho II]

For my first game of the season it was some win. That squad we have seems to have come on in leaps and bounds since last season. Very impressed with young OBrien. Our defending was superb in the second half. Great to be back!

[Longfordian]

Wayne Groves confirmed as manager for next season. Well deserved extension.

[drelihan]

Wayne Groves confirmed as manager for next season. Well deserved extension.

I have a lot of respect for Wayne. I don't know him personally but its hard not to respect his backstory -> https://www.thesun.ie/sport/14680459/dublin-football-league-of-ireland-longford-town-wayne-groves/ (sorry the story is in that rag).

Also, the smartest thing in the world would have been to walk away when Hendo left, but he has stuck around and developed a lot of young players in the last two years.

[drelihan]

I hope to God Doran stays, our player of the year imo. But I can just see Cork City coming down and swooping in for lads who will do a job in the first division, just like they did 2 years ago, and just like Dundalk did this year. And Doran would certainly do a job for them. I assume he's from Wexford, maybe they'd trmpt him back for a 2nd stint. Hope I'm just talking sh1te. He's some player though, not just his goal contributions, he works his arse off

Hard to see Doran not getting snapped up! He is a serious talent - some engine on him.

[MoydowMonty]

He has had his critics, including myself, but facts are we've improved over last season and comfortably away from 10th place. So yep, he deserves another lash at it. First thing he should do now is give Doran an 8 year contract.

He mentioned about getting the club back to the premier division, certainly talking a big game there

[LTFC]

After the highs of last week we are into final stretch with 4 games left, startiing with Bray tonight.
These are 4 tough games to finish with, Bray, Treaty, Cobh and Athlone with Cobh the only home game. I would like to finish 1 place higher but I think 8th is best we can hope for.

[Longfordian]

Another great result. Finishing strong, hopefully a good sign for next year.

[LTFC]

That is some going, following up last weeks win with another tonight! Fantastic.

[outspoken]

Worked really hard again tonight, out fought them in the tackle and some heroic blocks when needed. Moore and O'Brien have been sensational finds and Doran is on a different level right now, we need to keep that holy Trinity intact for next season.

[De Town]

I've unfortunately missed the last two games (maybe should stay away more often if results keep going like they have) but while I haven't seen much of O'Brien, I couldn't agree more about Sean Moore. What a pick up he's been since the summer window. A cracking wee player. Goes without saying that Doran is going to be very tough to hold on to, but here's hoping that Groves' re-signing early doors can get us ahead of a few other teams who might be sniffing around one or two of our lads.

[MoydowMonty]

Terrific again last night.

I've been the first to say the playoff run is dead...but now the gap is 6 points to Treaty with 3 games left. We play Treaty next, beat them and it looks a lot less impossible than it did a few weeks ago. Treaty also play Wexford the final day while we play Athlone. Still doubt it'll happen, but still being in it with 3 games left is some going

[MoydowMonty]

Halwax was playing for the 21s at the weekend. Between that and Moore having the nod ahead of him the last few games I'm 95% sure he'll be gone in the winter. Wonder did something happen behind the scenes, it has that air about it. Cuz he had become solid throughout the season before suddenly being dropped

[outspoken]

Halwax was playing for the 21s at the weekend. Between that and Moore having the nod ahead of him the last few games I'm 95% sure he'll be gone in the winter. Wonder did something happen behind the scenes, it has that air about it. Cuz he had become solid throughout the season before suddenly being dropped

I wonder has he told Groves he's moving on next season, makes no sense otherwise, although Moore had his best game on Friday.

[MoydowMonty]

Wouldn't surprise me if that's what it is. Get Moore bedded in now rather than later. If so then good on Grovesy for doing that, dead right

[Martinho II]

Meant to say earlier these Moore signings that we made in summer are they related at all?

[MoydowMonty]

Gonna guess they aren't. Been a while since we've had a decent pair of brothers at the club. Don't think we've had one as good since the Manley's. The Adeyamos (one in particular) didn't hit the same heights

[Martinho II]

Its showin my age a bit but the best pair of bros I ever seen play for us was Vinny and Paul Perth. Vinny is self explanatory Paul I rated highly but age ruined his career early. Both were midfielders. After that would be Leo and Mark Devlin two locals one a midfielder and one a winger! In recent times the two Roches played for us too but they did nothing much at all!

[outspoken]

The two cronins as well

[Longfordian]

Robbie and John Martin. Robbie was injured a lot but did score the winner in the 2007 cup semi final. John was a good player and a good coach by all accounts.

[De Town]

Collie and Emmanuel James.

[Martinho II]

Robbie and John Martin. Robbie was injured a lot but did score the winner in the 2007 cup semi final. John was a good player and a good coach by all accounts.

And a very good CEO as well no wonder the FAI want JM!

[Martinho II]

Collie and Emmanuel James.

No way are they brothers. Colin James was from late noughties early 2010s era

[Longfordian]

There's one rather obvious indicator that they're not.

[MoydowMonty]

Hahaaaaaa.
Colm ended up being a waste of a decent player because of his antics, pity about that.

We also had the Verdon brothers too, I'll always be annoyed over Sam leaving and the club saying absolutely nothing

[outspoken]

Hahaaaaaa.
Colm ended up being a waste of a decent player because of his antics, pity about that.

We also had the Verdon brothers too, I'll always be annoyed over Sam leaving and the club saying absolutely nothing

Think it was a rather acrimonious parting of ways in the end.

[outspoken]

There's one rather obvious indicator that they're not.

Howling

[MoydowMonty]

Doesn't matter the circumstances. The man was captain, scored several big goals over the years and was general liked by fans. Even if it's only 1 sentence saying he's gone, that's at least something, but they didn't even bother with that.

Was just thinking how crucial that 2-2 with Wexford is now. Didn't seem to matter at the time as it didn't look like playoffs were doable. If we had held on there, that 5th spot would seem so much more achievable. As it stands our goal difference could be what kills us there

[outspoken]

Doesn't matter the circumstances. The man was captain, scored several big goals over the years and was general liked by fans. Even if it's only 1 sentence saying he's gone, that's at least something, but they didn't even bother with that.

Was just thinking how crucial that 2-2 with Wexford is now. Didn't seem to matter at the time as it didn't look like playoffs were doable. If we had held on there, that 5th spot would seem so much more achievable. As it stands our goal difference could be what kills us there

Fully agree that's an area the club need to improve on, too many players coming and going and fans none the wiser.

[Longfordian]

Another cracking win, rode our luck but the second goal was a great move. Really strong end to the season.

[MoydowMonty]

The play off race is on again. Need Treaty to not win and us to beat Cobh. That would set up a big showdown on the final week

[LTFC]

Another fantastic win! I think its a great achievement, heading to last home game of the season and still with something to play for. Really deserve a crowd on Friday.

[outspoken]

Sean Moore deservedly called up to Irish 19s but will now miss Friday. Rule really needs to be changed on that

[Longfordian]

Sean Moore has been called up for Ireland u19s. Great for him but means we lose him for the Cobh game. Big loss on his current form.

Edit: outspoken beat me to it!

[LTFC]

Last home game of the season....or maybe not. Not many times we have won 4 league games on the spin, big ask tomorrow but we should be well up for it.

[MoydowMonty]

Ic we're lucky it won't be the last home game of the season just yet...but it's asking a lot to pull that off. I'd love to bring it to the final day and make it really interesting. Should be a good game tomorrow, it has suddenly become a must win for Cobh as well.

[MoydowMonty]

Gutted that Bray couldn't do us a favour and keep our hopes alive till the final day. But another really good win to finish off at home for the year. If you told me we'd get 4 wins in a row against Bray, Dundalk, Teeaty and Cobh I'd have laughed you out of the room. Credit to the lads

[Longfordian]

Great finish to the season. Great to see young lads gaining experience and thriving by the end of the campaign. In an ideal world we'd keep hold of the good ones but as always the finances will dictate.

[MoydowMonty]

Some will leave, but it just depends on how many. Every year since the relegation it feels like we lost a lot of our core squad members in the winter windows. I hope this strong end to the season can sway some of the big names to stay

[Martinho II]

Yeah a very strong end to the season. As always finances will dictate but if we keep majority of squad together we should be Playoff contenders for 2026! Great atmosphere in Section O!