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Originally Posted by Jack B
Sobowele from Waterford would a great replacement if sticking with wing backs, great for attacking from deep giving pace & energy, unfortunately though only has a marginal more interest in defending than Cotter.
I wasn't particularly a fan of Atakayi or Cotter individually last season but the Pats side was so much better in the second half of the season with the injection of their pace
From the small sample size of them beating Pats in the cup I liked the look of quite a few Waterford players but they seem to have done a good job on holding on to most of them. We have a right back on trial that played against Drogheda anyway but I know nothing of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunny Kelly
Agree on the latter point, Atakayi in particular doesn't look anything special in general play but he's quick and actually has a great knack of popping up in dangerous areas. None of his goals were particularly pretty but he got 5 in something like 10.5 games worth of minutes, so think he'll still be a handy player next season.
sobowale is a lot worse than cotter imo. leaves a lot to be desired in his positioning and defensive stuff. hes a great ball carrier though but again once you need him to deliver the ball hes worse than cotter.
Sobowale was very poor at Harps. Didn't see a huge amount of game time, but was fairly well off the pace and wasn't kept on as we got promoted.
Handy enough in that wing back role for Waterford with pace and power, but lacks that bit of extra quality on the ball that would be needed for a side like Pats.
Jake Mulraney confirmed at Pats. He’s an out and out winger so I guess we’re moving away from the wing-back set up. Makes sense as we adopted that to work with Cotter’s strengths and weaknesses.
We had a good second half to the season and I’d expect the starting 11 will be much the same with the exception of Mulraney for Cotter and Kreita for O’Reilly. Quite a few that were just outside the first 11 have moved on (Barrett, King, Coughlan, Owalabi and Bermo) so there’s still a few new faces needed in addition to Lonergan.
One thing that would worry me about Mulraney is his goalscoring record , which for an attacking player seems poor .Quote:
Originally Posted by patsdad
I reckon we could do with another defender coming in and maybe another forward player.
where has coughlan gone?Quote:
Originally Posted by patsdad
Dunno if he’s signed anywhere but he wasn’t offered a new contract at Pats. Didn’t really feature in 2022.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jd2793
Bit of a fruit cake apparently. He has potential to be a decent player but spent most of last season injured or warming the bench.Quote:
Originally Posted by patsdad
It's a fair point but playing at a higher standard is different. when I look at Hoooooobans or burkes scoring rate in the UK compared to loi its a different leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by Glen Of Aherlow
Town have signed Ross Fay from Pats, and Jack Harrington from Dundalk. 19 and 18 respectively. We'll have a very young squad.
Cotter looked really exciting when he first joined Rovers. Brought us the pace and energy we lacked. Had a similar impact as he did last season with Pats. Got exposed in his second season though and we have better options now, particularly with Farrugia looking healthy. I wasn't sure he'd ever get a run of games but he looked excellent in the last 20 or so of last season and it was his longest run of games since joining the club.
As said above Cotter is an athlete with a bag of tricks but an occasional liability on and off the field by the sounds of it. I think he would have ended up costing Pats. To get 20k for him is grand. Interesting to hear we rejected a larger bid from Pats though. Can't have happened that often here.
Decent player at 19s level, hope he does well in the first division. He was captain of the league winning 19s team but never got a pro contract offer from pats or a first team appearance, making the bench on a number of occasions was as close as he got. He has an eye for goal from centre mid and scored in a good few of the 19s games I was at last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Rumoured to be moving to England, think his partner is EnglishQuote:
Originally Posted by Jd2793
Where's King gone? Always liked him.Quote:
Originally Posted by patsdad
Nowhere yet, rumoured to be going back to scotlandQuote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Emmanuel Adegboyega signs for Drogheda Utd from Dundalk.
Barry Baggley signs for Waterford on a season long loan from Fleetwood Town. He's a midfielder from Belfast who's been capped at u 21 level for Northern Ireland and has a handful of starts for Fleetwood.
Colm Horgan has signed for Galway
Cork have signed a midfielder that was playing in the top flight in Sweden & Norway last season, I feel like these are the level we should be targetting players from, not the Estonia leagues or in Sligo's case this year the bottom half of the Swedish 2nd tier.
LOI sides maybe below the top sides in Scandinavia, but should be no worse than a bottom half of those leagues.
It often seems like to me as a league we are excited by any foreigner without asking the level they are coming from