This Duff €2.5k a week stuff is hilarious.
Shams are as boring as you can get on the pitch, but never cease to entertain with their off-the-pitch enterainment
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This Duff €2.5k a week stuff is hilarious.
Shams are as boring as you can get on the pitch, but never cease to entertain with their off-the-pitch enterainment
Fenlon has denied this: http://www.the42.ie/shamrock-rovers-...00927-Jul2015/
I for one remain hugely indignant about the 2.5k wage though, it's a disgrace.
Nothing denied really. Just that focus is elsewhere for now. As for 'huge negativity around the league at the moment' which a Rovers European run would lift...? Apart from rumblings at Bray, the normal football stuff of a manager not working out at Sligo; surely there is much more positive than negative happening. Is the negativity around the league that Shamrock Rovers are not dominating? Grounds are improving, slowly, but with the Bohs developments, Markets Field, 3 clubs pushing average attendances above 3000 and others stable even with on field troubles. Good geographical spread of Premier league teams. It may be in some sort of context of other seasons but where is huge negativity? Group stage of the Champions League - now that would give the league a lift and a big shot in the arm :p
https://mobile.twitter.com/CorkCityF...69199077289984
Beattie to sign for us?
Edit: http://www.corkcityfc.ie/home/2015/07/06/beattie-signs-for-city/
Surely Cork have enough players of moderate ability. Beattie is unlikely to add any extra class or guile to what is already thereQuote:
Originally Posted by patrickccfc
What merchandise sales? And, as I said, before everything you've read about his supposed pay and whatever else is made up. If Rovers sign Duff, the money will come from members' funds in all likelihood.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Fahey, like Duff, is on whatever you want to believe he's on.Quote:
Originally Posted by paykanti
To be fair, one of the other papers had a better quote where he said some good results from any of the clubs would lift the league. He's not suggesting it would take a run from Rovers for people to take notice. Not sure what he means by the negativity either, all I can think of is Bray and maybe Limerick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
I actually saw Duff play when I was visiting a mate in Sydney. Game was on tv and he played a blinder. Definitely set one up and won a peno. Can't remember who Melbourne were playing but he was a cut above everybody else.
Fair enough! Maybe he was generalising about LoI teams going on a decent run. At the moment UCD are the shining light which is a surprise to many and makes a mockery of the form guide. This weeks will say a lot abut the league considering that all bar Dundalk got reasonable draws. Dont think Limerick can be considered a negative story, somone will get relegated but over a thousand people at a Lims game is far from negative. Bray is a mess currently but as a Watford supporter in English club following, they were promoted with 4 managers in one season. Unless Fenlon knows something we dont its still a relatively quiet season in off field affairs. I do think that Fenlon thinks that the league needs Rovers doing the business to maximise credibility! In his ideal world Bohs and Rovers slugging it out would be of greater positive impact on the leagues rep than Dundalk and Cork etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
He's a workhorse so Caulfield will love him. Our best player this season I thought all the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Billy Dennehy did not travel to Iceland, and is "being allowed to explore his options". We'll be lucky to finish 4th without him, clearly our best player.
just heard this now and its very disappointing. Easily our best player and will have a huge impact for the rest of the season. If, as Caulfield says, it has nothing to do with the bust up with Sully, then I'd love to hear what the reasons for this areQuote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Send him up the road to us.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
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Originally Posted by patrickccfc
God I must be missing something - one of our few threats alright - but any pace he had is gone and goes missing in the big games.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Not ideal but if he wants to explore other options on the eve of the biggest game financially for the club in about a decade then its hard to be sad that he is leaving.
he goes missing in the big games but still scores and gets assists almost every game. He has what 9 league goals? 15 assists? Got the assist from a free again the other night?Quote:
Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid
Not very professional of him assuming it was his choice. If he has a move lined up to g back to England it should still be expected that he travel. If its a fall out with players or manager will it effect little brother I wonder. Not that i'd want the wheels to come off for our closest challengers or anything!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Anthony O Donnell has gone back to Cobh.
Evan Galvin has signed for the Blues.
So far we've released close to ten players and signing 4/5 from what I've heard.
Signing 29 players in preseason was completely pointless.
You wouldn't say he was our best player Thursday night anyway - hardly touched the ball. He has 8 league goals (3 pens) - I'm not knocking his record by the way but in no way is he head and shoulders above others in the team. Granted his set piece delivery will need to be replaced.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Send him back our way if you like. Croly should never have let him leave in the first place.
hardly touched the ball and created our best chance - that led to a goal. get ready for a lot of 0-0 draws.Quote:
Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid
https://medium.com/@McLaughlinGavin/...n-adbd59149204Quote:
Speaking on Monday afternoon, Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny was reluctant to comment on speculation linking the club with a move for St Patrick’s Athletic striker Ciaran Kilduff.
The 26-year-old has endured a frustrating season at Richmond Park, scoring three times and making just nine starts for the Saints. His last appearance came in the 1–0 defeat to Bray Wanderers in May.
The former Shamrock Rovers and Cork City striker wasn’t part of the Pat’s squad for their Europa League game with Skonto Riga in Latvia last week, intensifying talk about a move to Oriel Park.
Kenny is a known admirer of Kilduff, and the player is keen on a move to the champions, but the fact that he is under contract with Liam Buckley’s side until the end of the season is a stumbling block. Dundalk would have to pay a fee to get him released from his current deal.
Reports over the weekend suggested that Kilduff was on his way to bottom of the table Limerick on a loan deal but that has yet to materialise.
“I can’t really comment on it,” said Kenny. “He is a player we have been linked with but he’s currently with another club so we’ll just have to wait and see on that.”
Kenny has been searching for a striker for some time but he said he wasn’t unduly worried if he didn’t add to his squad.
“We’re not getting hung up on it and we won’t be looking at it as a negative,” he said. “If we can improve, then we will but we’re flying at the minute and we have good options.”
One of the options being considered by Kenny is utilising John Mountney as a centre forward. The Mayo man came off the bench to lead the line in the recent wins over Sligo, Limerick and Drogheda and Kenny said he had the tools required to play in that position.
“We’ve tried John there in a couple of training games and he can definitely play up front. He’s very quick, very strong and has a great shot off either foot in and around the box.”
Kenny also said that he had no injury concerns ahead of the trip to Galway on Tuesday night. A win would put the champions nine points clear at the top of the table.
“We have shown a determination to win games and we need to keep doing that,” said Kenny.
“You see Shamrock Rovers with Keith Fahey, Stephen McPhail and now Damien Duff and Cork City with all their former internationals, they have very strong squads, so for us to retain the title we need to keep clearing some huge hurdles.”
You are carrying on as if he is Messi now- again I'm not disputing his record. He has a great delivery and good dead ball but his general play and application leave a lot to be desired. It will be interesting to see if results dis-improve as you say they will.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
you don't think he will enable Rovers to sell more jerseys?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Get some micro brewery to do a Duff beer, he can borrow Hooperman's cape and sell the stuff while he is injured on a commission to pay his wage.
Probably, but shirt sales are negligible in this league. He'd want to be increasing sales tenfold for it even to be a consideration. The only revenue streams that matter in the league are ticket sales and sponsorship, and I'm not sure any player would have a huge effect on the latter either. I'm prepared to be proven wrong though.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Dean Kelly is signing for us from Bohs according to The Mirror. This would apparently then clear the way for us to sell Gary Shaw to Shamrock Rovers or one of the other interested teams. The Mirror says another top 3 LOI team and at least one Championship club are interested.
Are you having a laugh about Shaw going to England or joining a top 3 team?
Why would Bohs best forward join Longford?
No that's what the paper says. There's been a fair bit of talk about clubs being in for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Also, is he any addition?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunny Kelly
Kelly is ok as Premier Division strikers go from what I've seen of him over the years. If we keep Shaw then Kelly, Shaw and O'Sullivan will give us options up front with Kaleem Simon as a prospect to be developed. If we're swapping Kelly for Shaw I'm not sure it's much of an upgrade.
Yeah, seemingly there's no shortage of clubs after a striker who hasn't scored in 16 games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
He works hard though
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Originally Posted by hollocaine
I like Shaw, he has a Conor Sammon quality in the fact he is quite gd with his back to goal & gets through a lot of work, it depends if you only judge a striker on his goals? A player can get 15+ goals a season but often be a passenger the rest of the time so the team is basically playing with 10 men. Players of Shaw's ilk can help improve the whole sides levels without looking too flashy
Having said all that I think Shaw's limit is a mid level LOI side
Signing Kelly would put Longford in a strong position to reel in the 9/10 point gap to a fifth place finish and the associated jackpot prize moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Not if we sell shaw tho. If we keep the SOS and sign Kelly then it's certainly going to be worth a few extra points to us but hopefully the additions don't stop there. Could do with some cover at the back and maybe even another winger given our current injury situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Darren Mansaram worked his socks off, didnt score many, and was a passanger and had a Conor Sammon quailty about him - he was the worst likeable player ever at Dundalk. A striker is all about goals imo and thats the only way to rate them. Maybe your point stands for a target man type but you would still expet them to chip in with the goals. Most Dundalk fans are judging McMillan on his strike rate and he really does work his socks off, running the channels and creating space for the attacking midfielders but a 15-20 goals a season is what is wanted and needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunny Kelly
I think he was taking the pee!Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
You have to think about the overall team & not just the one player, you could swap McMillan out for someone like Ciaran Kilduff who is a better goal scorer but the team could be worse off as you are not winning the ball back up as high up the pitch or he doesnt create the space for you midfielders to run off him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Dundalk are a great example of fitting a team together that plays to everyones strengths, as most of that side bar Towell, had just been mid level LOI players before the start of last season
Bar 6 months at Cork, Kilduff couldn't really be seen as a goal scorer. If Dundalk had a top striker they'd probably have won every game so far. Testament to their strength that McMillan isn't more of a hindrance.
FWIW, Shaw is a very good player too IMO. Himself and Kelly could work well together.
Bohs look to have problems up front too now. Strange one
Kilduff supposed to be on his way to Dundalk. Would have thought a bad move for him as Kenny rarely changes up his starting 11 and McMillan is doing well as the front man as it stands.
Rumours still floating around here about new faces coming in. They need to be in and available for Saturday or it really is a waste them coming in.
is that long since Gary Shaw scored?? That is some drought!Quote:
Originally Posted by hollocaine