Transfer rumours

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Originally Posted by Sonic

By training in LOngford that will mean the team will all be friom the midlands area so. Cant see that prospect inticing many dublin based players of any quality. Its a long stay in division one so:(:(

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Plenty of decent players in the Midlands/West region if you look hard enough. I'm sure we'll still have a contingent of Dubs too, Vinny has been out and about the Dublin area by all accounts! Longford isn't that bad a drive these days with the motorway. The emphasis is gong to be on players who want to play for the club and if they want to play then one or two nights training in Longford during the week isnt that big a deal. Training wont be solely in Longford just more than previous years

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Originally Posted by Longfordian

Plenty of decent players in the Midlands/West region if you look hard enough. I'm sure we'll still have a contingent of Dubs too, Vinny has been out and about the Dublin area by all accounts! Longford isn't that bad a drive these days with the motorway. The emphasis is gong to be on players who want to play for the club and if they want to play then one or two nights training in Longford during the week isnt that big a deal. Training wont be solely in Longford just more than previous years

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Yeah but in fairness the quality players from the Dublin area we would want to attract all have jobs and the last thing they want to be doing is queuing on the M50 to get to longford. And dont mean to be negative but surely if there was quality enough in this area of the country we would have found it by now!

one minute its give local a chance and the next its what about Dublin players....... make up your mind !!!

They've been training in Lucan for the last while anyway, it nearly takes as long to get there as to go the rest of the way. We're going to be looking at younger lads anyway as they're cheaper than the old pros and hungrier too.Plenty of players want the chance to step up and maybe if they impress move to a bigger club. We never really did an awful lot of searching in these areas until now and there's people involved now such as Des Cawley with more contacts in the region than was previously the case. There's no harm in looking at these players and I'd say there'll be a good few looked at in pre-season. It's important for the club in the long term that we have a Longford identity, it's always been one of people's biggest criticisms in the past that the club was practically a Dublin club who played games in Longford. That wont be the case this year, there'll be a lot more of a presence of players and management in Longford, with Aaron or Vinny going to underage games, being around the town a lot more etc.

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Originally Posted by max power

one minute its give local a chance and the next its what about Dublin players....... make up your mind !!!

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Ecuse mate I never once complained about the number of Dublin players in the team. Thats the rest of the towns excuse for not getting out to Flancare. I suggest if you have a team of locals they still wouldnt bother their backsides to come out. They just dont want to support anything successful in our local community so why bother!

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Originally Posted by Sonic

Ecuse mate I never once complained about the number of Dublin players in the team. Thats the rest of the towns excuse for not getting out to Flancare. I suggest if you have a team of locals they still wouldnt bother their backsides to come out. They just dont want to support anything successful in our local community so why bother!

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Sorry that wasn't directed at you in general. But over the last few seasons people here have complained about lack of locals and local talent in the club.

But yet they want success. Perhaps they should wake up to the fact that a team of locals wouldn't be good enough for the top division and maybe also the 1st division.

Only time will tell

I don't think that happened on here so much, although it is one of the many excuses given by barstoolers for not attending.

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Originally Posted by Maz

I heard today Adrian Murphy could be signing, anyone know anything about this? I thought he had given up football in general

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Don't think he has ever even contacted. As far as I'm aware, he's going to play with Slashers this year and has no interest in playing soccer.

Rumour that ye have signed Damien Rushe ahead of us. Any truth in it?

Sounds possible all right. Aaron's keeping his cards relatively close to his chest until they're back in training. I remember seeing Rushe a few times when he played against us. He's decent enough from what I can recall, a little small though.

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Originally Posted by Longfordian

Sounds possible all right. Aaron's keeping his cards relatively close to his chest until they're back in training. I remember seeing Rushe a few times when he played against us. He's decent enough from what I can recall, a little small though.

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Apparently back training this week and as for Rushie being small what is in his heart will make up for that. He only wants to be a winner.

I do remember that about him alright, I seem to recall he and Dean Fitzgerald possibly scrapping/handbags at one stage. Bit of a size difference there!

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Originally Posted by Battery Rover

Apparently back training this week and as for Rushie being small what is in his heart will make up for that. He only wants to be a winner.

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We're back in training? Just Vinny and Daire doing laps? ;) There must be some news forthcoming about signings then?

Might as well say now if he has signed for yourselves supporters here will be gutted we didnt manage to get him. Hopefully it is just a rumour

Rushie is a legend

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Originally Posted by Rocky77

We're back in training? Just Vinny and Daire doing laps? ;) There must be some news forthcoming about signings then?

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Apparently he's keen to announce a whole load together rather than in ones and twos. He's busy organising pre-season games so we must have some coming in anyway!

Well a team is always a useful thing to have in any match — pre-season or otherwise!

Any news on Deego and/or Sulli?

Theyre making us sweat anyway that is for sure:D

Dunno if the full squad is back training yet the players considering
signing were due to do a bit of training over there last week

It looks like Gary Murphy wont be back with us, if he remains with the county :(

I think some announcement on signings should be made soon, as always the supporters are kept in the dark!

He has told people he prefers the association variety of football before so I'd say unless he was guaranteed to be involved in the championship squad, he may well be back. He has been made an offer anyway, I know that much. As has Paul Kelly who is also being courted by the GAA. If they don't take them that's their choice I guess. Squad details are set to be announced soon according to the website. Whether that's squads for the friendlies or for the season I don't know but it should give some indication as to arrivals. There'll probably be more friendlies to be announced yet