Ryan McLaughlin has signed for Pats. Former Northern Ireland international last with Morcambe in League One
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Ryan McLaughlin has signed for Pats. Former Northern Ireland international last with Morcambe in League One
Looks a decent signing even if we are overloaded at RB & short at LB.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
You'd wonder if it means Sam Curtis could be on his way before the end of August. Either way he'll be gone at the end of the season once he turns 18 in December so he’s got a maximum of 11 league games + whatever games in the cup until he leavesQuote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
Dean O'Shea joined Treaty,3rd signing of the day for them.......
Charles Mutawe signs for us from Athlone Town. Never heard of him before!
Fabrice Hartman back to Sligo until next June,looked a good player earlier in the season….
He would have to be heading to the continent if he is as he isn’t 18 until December. My hope is that an agreement is put in place for him to see out the season here if he signs for another club.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
David Parkhouse continues to fall further.
Just signed for Irish Championship side H&W Welders
Re: Curtis, none of the other options at RB are up to it, imo. If you have identified McLaughlin as a good replacement for Curtis then this gives him plenty of time to bed in, which is especially important seeing as he has been out of competitive action for so long. In the meantime it is not as if Brockbank hasn't seen plenty of minutes this year, for one reason or another.
Re: Parkhouse, I presume that he knows Paul Kee fairly well so that might explain the move. If he was willing to travel then perhaps there were better landing spots out there for him.
He is but injured a lot. Like most of the rest of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Brockbank has played in 6 of the 25 league games this season, starting 4.Quote:
Originally Posted by cláirseach
Why just choose the league games? He started all four European games and had a role to play in ending that run, as he did last year. I should have added an 'etc. after Brockbank however, as unfortunately Lewis has also played at right back this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
I like the idea of bringing McLaughlin in, he's there if you need him this year it helps get him up to speed for replacing SC next season and, as I was initially replying to, despite having lots of options on paper for RB, there are none outside of Curtis who can perform to an acceptable level imo.
Emmanuel Adegboyega close to joining Norwich City…..
Ok then, adding in the two European games (not 4, don’t know where you got that from), he's played in 8 of the clubs 28 league, cup and European games this season, starting 6 of them. Whatever way you spin it that wouldn’t be classed as 'plenty of minutes this season' in my book. I agree he had a role in ending the European run, he was poor in Luxembourg and got absolutely roasted in the return leg and was correctly taken off at half time. Also having been at every game this season, I can tell you that Noah Lewis has never played at right back for pats.Quote:
Originally Posted by cláirseach
I agree with everything in your last paragraph.
Good move for him, he looked class most times I’ve seen him play. Apparently Motherwell are in for Conor Keeley also, that’d be a distasteful for Drogheda trying to replace both centre halves in the situation that they’re in at the moment in the league fighting off CorkQuote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Yeah, no bother, had wildly overestimated the minutes played in my head.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Such a rapid decline. When he joined Derry on loan from Sheffield Utd he was fantastic, when we signed him back permanently I thought we had a guaranteed goal scorer. Oh so wrong (hardly for the first time). His career trajectory since pretty alarming. He is now a barber in the town and playing at an extremely poor level. Hard to pinpoint how this has come about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
I think most (if not all)Pats fans would agree that Brockbank isn’t up to it. I’d expect him to go at the end of the season. Same goes for Lewis. Im far from convinced by Norman either. Probably makes sense to sign a replacement for Sam now. Sam will possible continue in the middle, with Joe Redmond, with the new guy slotting in at right back. Sjoberg has been unfortunate with injury, he looked decent to me when he played. Certainly better than Brockbank or Lewis. We can only speculate as to the difference Redmond and Grivosti would have made if they’d not been injured. I personally think we’d be closer to Rovers, and maybe even still in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Is David a relation to Stephen Parkhouse DCWA?Quote:
Originally Posted by DCWA
Uncle & Newphew iirc.
Shrewsbury Town are interested in Max Mata and Nando Pijnaker
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/sh...ly-capped-duo/
Nearly a done deal for Mata according to Neil O’Riordan….Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Really intrigued to hear what the details coming out this deal will be. Says in the piece he has 18 months left on his contract. You'd have to imagine that the max Shewsbury would be paying for a player like this would be similar-ish to Cheltenham's record fee of 85K for Keena.
Fair play to Sligo for investing in him and having him on the long term deal hopefully for them it's something well over 100k because losing yet another goal scorer without having time to replace them for a second time this season will have fans tearing their hair out. They will need the money though knowing any European related windfalls are years away.
If they could hurry up and get it done before Friday night I’d be grateful ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
FWIW Shrewburys record fee is £383,000. I doubt that will factor in to things much but it would seem that Shrewsbury have a bit more financial power than Cheltenham so from sligos point of view hopefully it's a bit north of 100k. Especially since they are drifting closer to a relegation battle and getting out of that will be made much more difficult if they lose their top scorer.Quote:
Originally Posted by yurt
Link to the record article for anyone interested https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...eadmore-target
Keith Cowan departs Harps.
Is Katlego Mashigo still at the club?Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
No. Announced he left last week. Tried hard but wasn't at the level requiredQuote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
Daryl Horgan returns to Dundalk.
Most of these lads have release clauses and that’s what is paid. Keenas was something like 110-120.Quote:
Originally Posted by yurt
Wow wasnt expecting this at all!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yossarian
You were not alone sir, don't think anyone local was, yes there were links, but Statsport led owners made it clear they were running things on a strict budget, so this is a big surprise, and a very welcome one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
I think he can easily play in the middle, no 10 role or so.
Quite a bit of turnover in the summer for Harps. Off the top of my head, and maybe missing one or two outgoings;Quote:
Originally Posted by thebronze14
Incomings:
Max Hutchison (Larne)
Matty Makinson (Colne FC)
Scott Wara (Leek Town)
Daniel Stokoe (Cheshunt FC)
Tony McNamee (Bonagee United)
Patrick Ferry (Ballinamallard)
Rory Kelly (Buncrana Hearts)
Jamie Watson (Cape Breton University)
BJ Banda (Larne)
Stephen Doherty (Dergview)
Outs:
Keith Cowan (Dergview)
Katlego Mashigo (released)
Filip Da Silva (released, signed for some club in Cyprus)
Cian Lynch (released)
Daniel Okwute (loan cancelled, since signed for Kerry)
Oisín Farrell (released)
Michael Harris (Institute)
Fun signing from Dundalk, good to have some more higher profile names in the league. I do wonder how much Horgan has left though, his level seems to have dropped right off in the last couple of seasons. Was looking him up out of curiosity a couple of weeks ago and think it's something like 2 seasons since he's gotten a goal or assist in the league. Might just be he hasn't quite got the pace he used to have which restricted him at the level he was playing.
Seems to have dropped off a cliff, according to the stats. Wycombe loaned him out to Stevanage in League Two in January for the rest of his contract. 14 appearances but just 243 minutes on the pitch with no goals or assists. He's only 31 next week which is relatively young to be winding down his career. If he could get back to his former levels he'd be a brilliant signing for Dundalk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
Kevin Doherty has become the latest manager to turn down the Cork job
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...362531638.html
Bit of a mad one that,Usher not a popular owner down there so far anyway….
we're an absolute shambles. if you dont laugh at this point you'll cry.
Doherty would only leave that Drogheda job if got brilliant money from Cork, had a transfer window to sign players which they don't now and alot of flexibility in terms travel down from Dublin since he has a young family and a long term job with An Post
Smacks of Cork making a terrible attempt to wound their biggest rivals to 8th place safety by a half hearted poach of their manager