Robbie Martin gone to Longford

[The Pie Man]

full details on www.longfordtownfc.com

any thoughts ???

[pineapple stu]

Arse. We've lost far too many forwards. That said, last season wasn't Robibe's best by any distance - five goals in the league, of which four were penalties. Good player, but I don't think he was ever the same after injuries. Think this move was coming for a long time though - heard rumblings even before it was mentioned on the board here. Hopefully this means Andy Myler will be coming back though!

[CollegeTillIDie]

Andy Myler would be a most welcome addition to the ranks... hope it's true.


Stephen Cashin , Liam Tiernan and Darren O'Brien II have all signed for Kilkenny City as well as an Under 21 Centre-half whose name I forget.

[John83]

In the Montrose after the last game of the season:

Me: So Robbie, who's leaving?
Robbie J Martin: Well, not me for a start.

:rolleyes:

[thegit]

i don't think Martin is a centre forward anyway anytime i've seen him play he was better as a left winger....

[max power]

thats fine we need a left winger.

[Roo69]

Are you's worried about the new season ? Lost a lot of quality and not really replaced it...... how do ya think ya will do ?

[Schumi]

I think we're reasonably OK other than up front. We really need another experienced striker though.

[pineapple stu]

Lost a lot of quality and not really replaced it
Not really... (Cue ear-bashings from some players for me now!!) We've lost...

Anto Murphy (St Pat's)
Aidan Lynch
Neil Gallagher* (both Dundalk)
Liam Tiernan (released)
Brian Gannon (Monaghan United)
Mick O'Donnell (Dublin City)
Willie Doyle (Shamrock Rovers)
Damien Dupuy (Switzerland)
Robbie Martin (Longford)
Séamus Long* (Rovers)

So of that - Aidan Lynch only played about ten games last year before going out on loan again. A good player, I still think, but seeing as he didn't feature much last season, his loss won't hit us much. Gally only played League Cup - I would hope if (when) Darren Quigley goes to England, we can get Gally back. Would be a more than adequate replacement. Liam Tiernan's an U-21 with only one or two games, ditto Séamus Long. Damo and Willie Doyle scored one goal from 35 games between them up front last year, while Robbie Martin only scored two league goals that weren't penalties.

Anto Murphy is a bit of a loss, but again only scored three goals or something last season. Newguy and Micko are disappointing, can't argue with that, but we've signed Darragh Ryan and Alan Cawley, who should be adequate replacements. If Gary Dicker goes, we have Stephen Hurley and Ronan Finn to step up.

We've kept all our best players - Quigley, McNally, Kenna, Al Mahon, Tony Mac, Podge (!), etc.

Our first XI is still quite good -
Quigley
Mahon
Ryan/McEniff
Kenna
McNally
McDonnell
Dicker
Hurley
Cawley
Podge
Paul Byrne

With on the bench - Hussey, Ryan/McEniff, Shortall, Finn, Conan Byrne.

Add in players from our U-21 winning team - Kelly, Brophy, Last, Matthews, etc. - and the squad is comparable to last year, maybe a bit weaker in depth. And the general feeling is we underachieved last year. Given how poor Waterford, Pat's and Dublin City are/were for a start, we should be OK this year again.

[Poor Student]

Are you's worried about the new season ? Lost a lot of quality and not really replaced it...... how do ya think ya will do ?

Yes and no. I'm particularly disappointed in losing Martin, Anto Murphy, Dupuy and Gannon and I agree they haven't really been replaced but that's the UCD way isn't it? You hope that more good kids will be produced by the squad. We have kept the nucleus of our team so I hope we can stay injury/suspension free.

Ronon Finn is my one to watch this year. Sadly last year's one in Paul Byrne had an injury hit season.:o

Pineapple, you're putting Paul Byrne in your starting lineup, do you know for a fact he's fit and still around?

[pineapple stu]

Pineapple, you're putting Paul Byrne in your starting lineup, do you know for a fact he's fit and still around?
thegit noted on another thread that he's still around and is about a month from full fitness. He seems to be in the know, so I'm happy to go with that. Though Robbie Mac was also a month from full fitness several times...

[Poor Student]

Ah, didn't see that. Glad to hear.:D

[CollegeTillIDie]

In the Montrose after the last game of the season:

Me: So Robbie, who's leaving?
Robbie J Martin: Well, not me for a start.

:rolleyes:

Maybe he didn't leave voluntarily!:confused:

[De Town]

With on the bench - Hussey.
As in Jimmy Hussey?:confused:

[CollegeTillIDie]

Yes Jimmy played in our first pre-season friendly V Monaghan

[De Town]

Yes Jimmy played in our first pre-season friendly V Monaghan
He's my best friend's bro. Sound man. He was on our books but goes to College in UCD so obviously playing for you now.

[pineapple stu]

Just to clarify the Robbie Martin deal - Longford did pay an undisclosed sum to sign him.

[CollegeTillIDie]

pineapple stu

I heard that the fee was well into five figures from a former match day employee of the club.

[Longfordian]

A five figure sum but not 'well into' five figures if you see what I mean

[CollegeTillIDie]

Well it's more than €14,000 and less than €20,000

[bluemovie]

Who are UCD likely to have up front this year then? McWalter, Sammon, Byrne? You seem to have a potentially excellent midfield with Cawley back to add to McDonnell, Dicker and Hurley, but very little up front.

Off-topic, but as an aside, any fond memories of Lloyd Colfer?? I'm trying to get to grips with having almost an entirely unheard of new squad.

[pineapple stu]

Two Byrnes (Conan and Paul; the latter has four goals in nine games for us and is a quality player if he can only get fit) and Ciarán Quinn, who signed from Monaghan. Which doesn't say too much, but he's not done too badly so far.

Lloyd Colfer played about two games for us (his full appearance stats are downloadable from www.stigonline.com in Excel format), so no real memories of him, good or bad, other than the strange name. Search for "Colfer" in the UCD section and you'll find a strange song about him. Other than that, a non-entity really.

[John83]

Lloyd Colfer played about two games for us (his full appearance stats are downloadable from www.stigonline.com (http://www.stigonline.com) in Excel format)
That file is at the bottom of this page (http://stigonline.com/ucd.htm).


... so no real memories of him, good or bad, other than the strange name. Search for "Colfer" in the UCD section and you'll find a strange song about him. Other than that, a non-entity really.
A strange song? The only thing I remember about him was the suggestion that nothing sensible rhymes with Colfer. Similar problems have arisen in relation to Kevin Grogan and many other players, but Colfer probably resulted in more cringe-inducing "songs" than the rest of them put together.


Ask and you shall receive:

Colfer, Colfer is to football what Tiger Woods is to golfer,
I saw him the other they and said "hey Colfer, nice goal for the U-21s"
He looked at me and said "Can't talk now, I have to buy some buns".

Colfer! Colfer! He digs under the ground like a goafer,
When defenders see him coming they say "Oh no! It's Colfer".

Lloyd, Lloyd! He never gets annoyed!
Lloyd, Lloyd! He kicked the ball so hard it died!
Lloyd, Lloyd! He makes defenders want to commit suicide!

And so forth.

Right, giz a go...i'm not bad at this....

OK, to the tune of Flipper...

"They call him Colfer, Colfer, Colfer the Striker,
Name sounds like he, is from Trinity,
Doesn't play cricket but his second name sounds like Golfer,
Lloyd Colfer please, score for UCD"

Ask and you shall receive:

Colfer, Colfer is to football what Tiger Woods is to golfer,
I saw him the other they and said "hey Colfer, nice goal for the U-21s"
He looked at me and said "Can't talk now, I have to buy some buns".

[bluemovie]

Thanks for that. That's a great resource to have (the excel sheet, not the awful songs). I'd love if we had the same, but don't think anyone has ever kept the details together. Some names there I didn't know played for UCD.

Incidentally, Colfer is a reasonably common name in the south-east. We might work something out with the colfer/golfer rhyme.:) Three pre-season goals for us. Looks one of the better newbies.

[Longfordian]

Well it's more than €14,000 and less than €20,000

Incorrect. More than €9,999 maybe ;) . Still, doesn't really matter. A fair price really

[Student Mullet]

Incorrect. More than €9,999 maybe ;) .Would it be less that €10,001?

[CollegeTillIDie]

Would it be less that €10,001?

Well I insist that my source said a figure over €15,000 and less than €18,000

[Longfordian]

Well my source is impeccable I'm afraid, couldn't be a better one at our end ;) and it's definitely 10k. As they say in Bohs, FACT. :)

[CollegeTillIDie]

Well my source is impeccable I'm afraid, couldn't be a better one at our end ;) and it's definitely 10k. As they say in Bohs, FACT. :)

Well fair enough, my source would have been more in the know some time ago.

[pineapple stu]

Seeing as we have "closer to twenty than ten" from a club official though, we've got two sources who could hardly be better at either end...

Either way, a good bit of business for a forward who scored two league goals not from penalties last season. Good player, but never the same he was before he got injured I think.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Well pineapple stu

Looks like my source was correct after all !

[pineapple stu]

Meant to come back to this ages ago...

CITD - our source has apologised and said "I meant to say"...and a figure rather closer to our Longford friend's FACT. In fact, the same figure as it.