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kdjaC
27/09/2007, 8:31 PM
Can you sign unattached players now?


Think you can but not sure.


kdjac
pineapple stu
27/09/2007, 8:32 PM
Pretty sure you can sign them any time. Also amateurs.
Mr A
27/09/2007, 8:32 PM
Yes you can. I think there's about a month at the end of the season when you can't.
Poor Student
27/09/2007, 8:33 PM
They have to have been unattached from before the window closed to be able to play though, don't they?
Mr A
27/09/2007, 8:37 PM
Yes. Or, in some cases, sacked in the meantime.
GreenStar
27/09/2007, 10:55 PM
But can't have played for two clubs in the same season already
harps1954
28/09/2007, 8:40 AM
No you can't sign any players. There's an eircom League rule preventing clubs from signing any players after 31st August - unattached or otherwise. The reason for this is to prevent clubs competing for honours adding to their panels in the run-in to the end of the season. All goes back to a play-off fixture a number of years ago where Dundalk signed three or four players.
stann
28/09/2007, 12:46 PM
The reason for this is to prevent clubs competing for honours adding to their panels in the run-in to the end of the season. All goes back to a play-off fixture a number of years ago where Dundalk signed three or four players.

Yes some of us are still a bit sore over that down this way. I'll get you one of these days Eddie May you ****! :D
CollegeTillIDie
30/09/2007, 8:48 AM
I think amateurs can be signed any time.
Terry
30/09/2007, 9:50 AM
UNattached players (ones with no contract obligations) can be signed at anytime.
MariborKev
30/09/2007, 12:42 PM
No you can't sign any players. There's an eircom League rule preventing clubs from signing any players after 31st August - unattached or otherwise. The reason for this is to prevent clubs competing for honours adding to their panels in the run-in to the end of the season. All goes back to a play-off fixture a number of years ago where Dundalk signed three or four players.

Correct.
Tenderloins
01/10/2007, 9:21 AM
Can a dispensation be granted for a Goalkeeper?
For the Relegation play off against Dublin City, Rovers had signed John Ryan(?) the ex Bray Keeper due to an injury crisis.
harps1954
01/10/2007, 10:20 AM
Can a dispensation be granted for a Goalkeeper?
For the Relegation play off against Dublin City, Rovers had signed John Ryan(?) the ex Bray Keeper due to an injury crisis.


It was John Walsh - ex-Bray and ex-Finn Harps.

Yes, dispensation can be granted for a goalkeeper in exceptational circumstances. However, the keeper can't be signed from another LOI club or can't require international clearance. So basically, the keeper would have to be signed from Junior football. John Walsh was actually taken out of retirement when signed by Shamrock Rovers.