Oh yeah, with all due respect to Barraclough winning the league, Mick Cooke has done an astonishing job this year
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Oh yeah, with all due respect to Barraclough winning the league, Mick Cooke has done an astonishing job this year
Throwing in a couple of names not mentioned before.
Rogers (Sligo)
Madden (Derry)
McMillan (Bohs)
McGuinness (Sligo)
Boco (Sligo)
Cawley (Sligo)
Bolger (Pats)
Finn (Rovers)
McLaughlin (Derry)
Quigley (Sligo)
North (Sligo)
Bench;
Sava (Drogs)
Peers (Sligo)
Foran (Dundalk)
Russell (Pats)
Walters (Bray)
Corry (UCD)
Twigg (Rovers)
One player who always does well when I see him is Grecian from Derry but I heard he was on Two grand a week.
There's a joke about double contracts in there somewhere.
Or behind the bar, man.
Seems like Alan Cawley is as bad at selecting his Team of the Year as he was as a player. It bugs me when people pick a team of the year and play with 3 strikers just because they can't decide which one not to include, no club in the league plays with 3 strikers. Sure why not play two right backs and even two keepers.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/irish/2012/1024/342920-alan-cawleys-airtricity-league-blog/
Rodgers
O'Brien
McGuinness
Peers
Gaynor
Finn
Carroll
Ventre
McDaid
Quigley
O'Brien
The better teams in the league are all playing 433/451.
Last year's PFAI team had four strikes (Kavanagh, Quigley, Doyle and Zayed). Think they nominally called Kavanagh a midfielder. This year for example most here have picked Sean O'Connor in their teams. He could be a midfielder or an attacker and if he receives votes in both, you'd like to think the PFAI would combine them and shoe horn him in somewhere
Even with Cawley's team Fabio has played wide right more than he's played upfront. Quigley spent the first haf of the season playing wide or in midfield with north on his own up front
Don't think its a huge deal
Not true.
quigley spent he first half of the season suspended and injured or dropped to the bench. The times he did play with North he played as a striker albeit behind North but a striker none the less.
If he played wide it was only for very short spells during one or two games.
---------------Rogers(Sligo)---------------
O'Brien (Pats)-----McMillan(Bohs)-----McGuinness(Sligo)-----Danny Murphy(Cork City)
Gavin Brennan(Drogs)-----Ventre(Sligo)-----Finn(Rovers)-----O'Connor(UCD)----O'Connor(St. Pats)
----------------Quigley(Sligo)-------------------------
Quigley was suspened for the first six games of the season and when he came back he found it hard to break into what was now a winning team. He was on the bench a lot making substitute apperaences. He only got a real chance and a meaningful run in the team when North got injured (which he took very well in fairness). If North hadn't got injured it's likely he wouldnt have got a real chance at all.
PFAI Player/team of the year
Prem Div team - Rogers; O’Brien, McGuinness, Peers, Bermingham; O’Connor, Finn, Chambers, McLaughlin; Quigley, North
PFAI Player of the Year Nominees - Ronan Finn (Shamrock Rovers), Jason McGuinness (Sligo), Sean O’Connor (St Pat’s), Mark Quigley (Sligo)
Young Player of the Year Nominees - David Cawley (Sligo), Chris Forrester (St Pat’s) and Sean Maguire (Waterford)