Goalkeepers League of Ireland 2017/2018

Airtiricty League Goalkeepers Player listing order is based on clean sheets this season in the Airtricty League Premier Division 2016/17.
Data shows overall player stats starting from 2007/8 - 2017

Player	Club	Age	Games Played	Total Clean Sheets	Total Minutes Played	Clean Sheets 2016/2017
Mark McNulty	Cork City	37	282	113	25,275	16
Gary Rogers	Dundalk FC	36	340	138	30,485	18
Ger Doherty	Derry City	36	335	132	29,273	13
Brendan Clarke	Limerick FC	37	238	98	21,107	9
Peter Cherrie	Bray Wanderers	34	294	91	26,340	6
Tomer Chencinski	Shamrock Rovers	32	121	31	10,731	8
Barry Murphy	St. Patrick Ath	32	192	81	16,827	2
Shane Supple	Bohemians FC	30	88	22	7,855	9
Michael Schlingermann	Sligo Rovers	26	160	41	14,288	7
Ciaran Gallagher	Finn Harps	25	192	53	17,049	4
Conor Winn	Galway Utd	25	111	21	9,921	1
Conor O’Mally	St Patrick Ath	23	69	23	6,240	3
Stephen McGuinness	Drogheda Utd	22	101	30	8,890	7
Shaun Patton	Sligo Rovers	22	27	9	2,282	3

Data includes European Games and Games Played in other countries outside Ireland.

Players currently unassigned for 2017/18 PFAI listing & contracts expired:
Peter Cherrie
Ciaran Gallagher
Stephen McGuinness
Connor Winn
Eric Grimes
Kevin Horgan
Shaun Patton
Lukasz Skowron
Lee Steacy
Paul Skinner
Jack Menton
Colin McCabe
Connor Gleeson
Jamie Quinn
Aaron Shanahan

Keepers Resigned with Clubs

Gabriel Sava / Gary Rogers - Dundalk
Mark McNulty - Cork
Dean Delaney - Shels
Shane Supple - Bohs
Michael Kelly / Jack Brady - Longford Town
Ger Doherty - Derry City
Freddie Hall - Limerick
Matthew Connor - Waterford
M. Schlingermann / Edward McGinty - Sligo
Tomer Chencinski - Shamrock Rovers

Clubs without Keepers

Bray Wanderers / Finn Harps / Athlone Town / Drogheda Utd / Cabinteely / St Patrick's Ath

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Originally Posted by GC13

Keepers Resigned with Clubs

Gabriel Sava / Gary Rogers - Dundalk
Mark McNulty - Cork
Dean Delaney - Shels
Shane Supple - Bohs
Michael Kelly / Jack Brady - Longford Town
Ger Doherty - Derry City
Freddie Hall - Limerick
Matthew Connor - Waterford
M. Schlingermann / Edward McGinty - Sligo
Tomer Chencinski - Shamrock Rovers

Clubs without Keepers

Bray Wanderers / Finn Harps / Athlone Town / Drogheda Utd / Cabinteely / St Patrick's Ath

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Brendan Clarke is signed for next year.

Charlie Burns gone back to England so if Winn is on the PFAI list, we don’t have a keeper. I expect us to move to bring Horgan back from Shams. And hope we do as well, 1 clean sheet for us in league all season

Tomer keeping eight clean sheets is the stat that amazes me.

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Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy

Charlie Burns gone back to England so if Winn is on the PFAI list, we don’t have a keeper. I expect us to move to bring Horgan back from Shams. And hope we do as well, 1 clean sheet for us in league all season

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Kevin Horgan would benefit his development through playing regularly, no doubt he is an upcoming young keeper however sitting on the bench at Rovers wont do a whole lot for his progression. A move back to Galway is a win for the club and the player all round. No offence or disrespect to Connor Winn but for a big lad he doesn't dominate his six yard box, tends to parry shots instead of catching (good shot stopper). Galway's achilles heal was too many draws and lack of clean sheets that led to the clubs relegation.

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Sixth highest in the league last season

Brendan Clarke is 32.

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Originally Posted by Shearer

Brendan Clarke is 32.

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My apologies and to Brendan for the mistake his DOB is 17/09/1985 indeed making him 32yrs young

Colin McCabe highly rated young keeper (ex Celtic) signs to Bohs for 2018
Chris Bennion comes in as GK coach with the Dalymount Club

Rumour Cabinteely will announce signing of new keeper this evening

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Originally Posted by GC13

Rumour Cabinteely will announce signing of new keeper this evening

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The oracle that is the Airtricity League Banter Page have announced breaking news that several clubs will be announcing players over the next two weeks.

Incredible stuff.

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

The oracle that is the Airtricity League Banter Page have announced breaking news that several clubs will be announcing players over the next two weeks.

Incredible stuff.

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Of course rumours from the banter page will always be put out - Cabo have signed a young established LOI premier league keeper although not announced yet, was signed last Saturday and has a history with Pat Devlin at Bray

Lee Stacey was associated with Cabo but Shels was always his destination, can only presume he will be backup to Dean Delaney

Stephen McGuinness teams up with Pat Devlin again this time with Cabinteely - few people surprised that he has chosen to stay in the first division - good signing for Cabo may have to do with him living in Wicklow

Kevin Horgan renews with Shamrock Rovers interesting decision as appears Tomer C will be first choice again this season, full time football may be the lure and a long term future

Niall Corbett signs for Waterford - 6yrs at UCD coming through the ranks of the U19 - First Div GK of the year 2017

Brian Maher signs for St. Patrick's Ath the youngster is highly rated and will develop further at Pats having previous first team squad experience at the club last season

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Originally Posted by GC13

Brian Maher signs for St. Patrick's Ath the youngster is highly rated and will develop further at Pats having previous first team squad experience at the club last season

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piece about him in the irish sun today!

Brian Murphy remains at Richmond Park Inchicore, great signing for another season at Pat's, was unlucky with the shoulder injury last season and I feel it cost Pat's dearly. A fully fit Murphy is a major asset to the club!

Still a few of last seasons LOI keepers appear to be unassigned, any information/corrections out there are very welcome?
Peter Cherrie
Ciaran Gallagher
Connor Winn
Eric Grimes
Shaun Patton
Lukasz Skowron
Paul Skinner (retired??????)
Jack Menton
Connor Gleeson
Jamie Quinn
Aaron Shanahan

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Originally Posted by GC13

Still a few of last seasons LOI keepers appear to be unassigned, any information/corrections out there are very welcome?
Peter Cherrie
Ciaran Gallagher
Connor Winn
Eric Grimes
Shaun Patton
Lukasz Skowron
Paul Skinner (retired??????)
Jack Menton
Connor Gleeson
Jamie Quinn
Aaron Shanahan

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paul skinner confirmed as retired. seen it on twitter somewhere!

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Originally Posted by GC13

Brian Murphy remains at Richmond Park Inchicore, great signing for another season at Pat's, was unlucky with the shoulder injury last season and I feel it cost Pat's dearly. A fully fit Murphy is a major asset to the club!

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Barry Murphy! Brian Murphy plays for Cardiff City :)

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Originally Posted by Martinho II

paul skinner confirmed as retired. seen it on twitter somewhere!

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I never saw it anywhere, he said his goodbyes to Longford on there but never announced retirement as far as I could see anyway. Wouldn’t surprise me if he rocked up at a fD club yet

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Barry Murphy! Brian Murphy plays for Cardiff City :)

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True apologies Barry and thanks for the clarification! I reckon a look at the stats for that

Brian Murphy - 140 Games Played (of which 68 were in LOI - 2 x Champions L Quals)
Barry Murphy - 192 Games Played (all LOI - 2 x Champions L Quals & 2 x Europa L Quals)

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Originally Posted by outspoken

I never saw it anywhere, he said his goodbyes to Longford on there but never announced retirement as far as I could see anyway. Wouldn’t surprise me if he rocked up at a fD club yet

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Paul Skinner played for the PFA team tonight v Home Farm so appears to be available

Paul Skinner signs for Drogheda Utd / Ciaran Gallagher remains at Finn Harps, another two good keepers - the standard of goalkeepers in the first division this season will be high when you reflect on the keepers there this season

Paul Skinner and high standard don’t belong in the same sentence

Galway United have signed Tadhg Ryan from Huddersfield Town.

Peter Cherrie (Bray Wanderers to Cork City); Eric Donnelly (St Patrick's Athletic to Bray Wanderers); Danny Bolger (St Patrick's Carlow to Wexford).

Conor Winn (Galway Utd) on trial with Bray Wanderers.