Irish youth international and previously West Brom and Inverness, Zack Elbouzedi signs for Waterford
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Irish youth international and previously West Brom and Inverness, Zack Elbouzedi signs for Waterford
Dan Casey and Gary Comerford are a pair of smart signings. Casey is likely to be an automatic choice at centre back and Comerford should challenge Shane Griffin for left back
I think if I was a player in his shoes I'd definitely pick the US option over say league 1 in uk. Playing at the second tier on the US is not bad at all, decent climate too if you join one of the sides in the southern states. No brainier to me, best of luck to him, decent player.Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickccfc
Beatties 6wytier goodbye has City fans in bits. He's a good footballer, but he's 10 times the leager/character you want around. Would run through a wall for you without a second thought. He's become a legend down here, and will be sorely missed.
Caulfield today referred to Comerford as playing left midfield 😳Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Positions mean nothing to Caulfield. He likes players that can play roughly 6 positions. Just ask Jimmy Keohane. He thought he was a central midfielder. He's played centre mid, right back, right wing, no. 10 and even up front that one really weird time.
Bolger was basically on a two-year from last year and Bradley clearly had no intention of letting him go.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Is Griffin that bad? I know he made the mistake in the cup final but anytime I've seen him (which obviously isn't an awful lot) he looks very tidy and has the physicality to mix it with any attacking player. I'd say he's one of the best full-backs in the league but apparently people can't say that anymore!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar
Easily top 20 in the leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Griffin is an absolute liability! He's be grand as a winger but he can't defend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Or top 50 in Tallaght 😎Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
He lost possession on the half way line after getting a lazy pass back from the golden boy Sadlier. Griffin has been unfairly vilified by Cork fans, who seem to ignore that no one followed McEleney's run and McCormacks inability to watch what was going on around him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Nonsense. We were attacking and Griffin lost the ball, again. He did it over and over and has done it all season long. He has left us in those positions all season long. Hence the frustration.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
He wasn't the only one at fault, the run not being tracked was criminal, but to try to blame Sadlier is rubbish.
Teams have targeted Griffin all season, hes an obvious weak link defensively and incredibly frustrating to watch every week.
Granted Griffin did lose the ball in the lead up to the winning goal, but I would also agree McCormack was far too slow to react to McEleney’s run, and Sadlier can’t be blameless either as he almost walked back after giving the pass in the first place.
As for Griffin, harsh to label all the blame on him, didn’t he clear off the line a few minutes after the penalty from Gartland’s header, and that was going in too.
I see Gary Shaw has joined pats.
A thoroughly nice fella and a honest hard-working player who always gave his best when playing for Rovers.
I didn't work out for him at Rovers last year but I'd like to think there would be no negative feeling towards him when we play pats next year.
Not a chance of negative stuff. He was popular player a dtried his heart out. Can't blame him for signing for pats he had to play for someone
Nobody has labeled all the blame on Griff, but the difference is Griff does this sort of thing every game. Its natural for fand to get frustrated at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Apart from the lazy pass bit, this is bang on the money. Morrisey was having his best game of the season before he went off - we were exposed in the aftermath.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Cork are being busy with a few signings already, I think I saw another last night, a local lad getting a pro contract. I think they made a flurry of signings around the same time last year, at that point when they got Barry and McNamee in, I thought they would both have a major impact in their season. The former hardly featured and the latter must have thought it was just a waste of his time going down.
Genuine question for Cork fans, why didn’t McNamee have an impact, I know Barry made a good few mistakes early season and fell off the radar, but he was a quality player going down, and I was thinking of him with Dundalk. However McNamee should really have done better, was it a case of JC not wanting to change his MF set up or playing him out of position or just a case of it didn’t work out for a variety of reasons which ended up with that reported falling out around Sept?
poor Jamie McGrath :(
Defensively, yes, he's been poor. He actually can be very good going forward. He's probably best suited on the left wing. But we had no options at left back at season which meant he was a certainty to be picked every week. Hence, the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I actually like the guy, he seems to have a superb attitude and the potential is clearly there. But maybe that's best deployed further up the field.
I know people have their own theories on McNamee, but playing him in his best position would have displaced Garry Buckley. There's pro's and con's to this, but personally I'd have Garry in there week-in week-out.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
A few whispers of a swap deal between Dundalk and Waterford.
Chevdukhas and Hery, both contracted for 2019, going in either direction.
Surely only way that put happen is player plus cash from Dundalk.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
and i'll be cleaning the queens shag pile tonight :D
Chevdukas injured all season and Hery bombing on.
If that happens it'll be a big transfer fee for heary and chevdukas playing (or not) free of charge for Waterford.
Do dundalk even need him, u can only keep so many top players happy
Can't say I'm too inspired about the signing of Shaw, obviously haven't seen him as much of him as Rovers fans have but I've never been too impressed nor worried when I've seen him play against us. We need strikers though and it's hard for any side to sign one from within the league that will kick you on as it is, so he might be the best under the circumstances and if nothing else a bit more of a presence than Jake Keegan.
Waterford would want to have rocks in their head to let Hery go. Their best performer and one of about 2 or 3 they actually have under contract at the moment.
There is a point in that, but it is more a question of players keeping the manager happyQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Hery apparently does want out of Waterford and has spoken to Caulfield about a move. Which seems bizarre given their history.
That is what I heard too.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Dundalk are looking for a playing who can control the tempo of a game in European matches. O'Donnell is coming to an end of his career and as good as Shields is in the LOI, he is not the player do that in Europe.
Have the whispers about the swap died down now?Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Why are all Waterford's players leaving. 4th in the Prem first year back and seemingly on an upward curve with a good backer. Seems strange.
Definitely strange. Hes not the only one with a fractured relationship with Cauflield I've heard credible rumours about looking for a move to City either. There's a certain big boned defender who also contacted City about a return to Turners Cross. If its true about those players there are probably others looking for a move. Maybe Waterford are waiting to get confirmation from UEFA about whether they will be likely to get a license before they start offering contracts and players are (rightly) impatient?Quote:
Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid
Hery is contracted until the end of 2019. So if he’s going anywhere it’s going to take a fee.
Sure we can just take it out of the Drinan money we're still owed. And I'm not sure we've been paid for Browne either.Quote:
Originally Posted by **FrOsTy**
Being so unsure must play havoc with player budgetingQuote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
You probably shouldn't get on your high horse over the non payment of transfer fees. I believe drawing blood from a stone was said to be easier than getting the compensation that we were owed for Colm Horgan from Cork.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Sure you should know what Waterford Whispers are like by now ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Two ins for us are:
Aaron Dobbs Wexford FC
Adam Evans Shelbourne
Anyone any opinions on these two new signings of ours?
Dobbs is actually from us. Very good for us underage, went to wexford on loan for school reasons I think (?) and seemed to struggle but didn't have much around him in his defence so I'd be happy enough with him if I were you guysQuote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II