Hopefully not it's great entertainment watching them implode every season
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I think the thing with the Brennans was Fenlon could, for lack of a better word, control them once he left was when things started to turn. This year overall I think there was a better bunch of players character wise than year gone by the only really bad attitude players I can think of were the Brennans post Fenlon. Some will say Danny North but I don't think he had an attitude problem i think his problem was he just couldn't get fit.
On a sad note Maccer retired today, a truely classy footballer who was a joy to watch. You could see the difference when he played. He'll be hard to replace.
Wow - you say that Rovers were worse in previous seasons?
Here is the Rovers line-up for the first league game this season
There are significant questions marks about at least 4 of the starting line-up in terms of attitude and discipline.Quote:
Shamrock Rovers: Barry Murphy, Simon Madden, Gavin Brennan, David O'Connor, Maxime Blanchard, Gary Mc Cabe (C) (Gary Shaw 78), Killian Brennan, Dean Clarke (Patrick Cregg 73), Brandon Miele, Michael Drennan, Danny North.
I'm really curious as to why you excuse Danny North for not getting his weight and fitness to a standard that a pub player would be embarrassed about.
I think it's obvious with the clear out that's already happened that the model club is hwading in the right direction. New season beckons here we go again great stuff blitw
Agree on maccer . Dissapointed he is retiring , he could have done a job in midfield until his mid forties against half of the premier league
I agree also with ezeikiel on danny north. No excuse for not being fit..
When a club signs and then tolerates a player who can't be bothered getting fit, it sets a very bad example. Danny North is the type of player that this league doesn't need.
who would you have as the fourth? Gavin, Killian, North, and...? It's not really an excuse for him i just think he was more unlucky with injuries than not wanting to get fit, i.e. i don't think he was a bad influence in the dressing room like the others may have been.
Yeah well if you take the team as they were under Fenlon as he brought them all in/kept them on definitely anyway. In seasons gone by we've had 4 or so players that no matter the manager would be bad characters to have but when we had Fenlon I think there weren't any real stand out bad characters. Not that I'm saying its Bradleys fault that these players turned like they did just I think he was willing to put up with less than Fenlon was and was trying to steer the team in a different direction that didn't suit those players and they didn't like that, which personally I agree with.
Hopefully dundalk will do their transfer business early so all the rest of us can see what's left : )
Jimmy Keohane signs for City from Sligo. I don't know anything about him.
Paul Corry to Rovers
Paul Corry could be a good signing for Rovers, if he has fully recovered from the serious cruciate ligament injury which has kept him out of football since Sept 2015. If Corry can realise his obvious his potential he would be bucking a recent trend at Rovers
In today's Indo Daniel McDonnell again namechecks Gary Rogers, Darren Meenan, Ryan Connolly and Roberto Lopez as possible Rovers signing.
These would all improve Rovers, but unless more higher quality signing are made, are unlikely to push them to be title contenders