Time for this guy to have his own thread. Second league start today for Lincoln City at 17 years of age, having been rested midweek in league cup. Promising stuff
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Time for this guy to have his own thread. Second league start today for Lincoln City at 17 years of age, having been rested midweek in league cup. Promising stuff
Another good outing by the sounds of it, at left back. Subbed after 66 minutes. The Imps make it two wins from two, great start. Lincoln play Liverpool this week, plenty of Irish on show hopefully
Hopefully get a first look at this lad tonight if he gets the start, the Lincoln v Liverpool game is live on Sky. Hopefully Scully will also be involved and maybe an outside chance of Elbouzedi or Kelleher also.
Returns to the Lincoln bench today for the first time this season I believe?!
Disappeared completely after summer trials at Southampton and Chelsea. Did have an injury but didn’t seem to be that long term. Information scant. Anyone with insight? Did well with our 19s last week
Gone to Drogheda on loan for season.
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2022/01/...division-club/
Not a bad move for him at this point. Don't understand what he was doing going on trials at Chelsea and Southampton. Concentrating at breaking through at Lincoln should have been the focus.
I'd say Lincoln themselves were happy with it and probably encouraged it a bit for the chance of making a profit off someone that probably cost them peanuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Exgrad
Drogheda could be a good move for him as he links back up with Daire Doyle who coached him when he was younger.
Maybe Lincoln were happy with it, but who was advising Roughan? Breaking through at League 1 and then a couple of failed trials at premier league clubs for some reason. Anyway, best of luck to him this season it does sound like a good move.
Lincoln don’t have an u23 side, so the theory was that he had moved beyond u18s and if they weren’t gonna give him game time in L1 then he would stagnate (which is pretty much what has happened)
Great point, didn’t think about it this way. Hopefully he can get regular game time with Drogheda and get his career back on track.
With all the promising youngsters in the LOI, it is the most excited I’ve been about a LOI season starting ever. Keep tying the most promising youngsters on a medium to long term professional contract with reasonable release fees embedded. Provides the youngster with a solid financial platform for a few years and can complete education so can fall back on something if he doesn’t make it. The clubs can finally have a solid bargaining chip for interested clubs who now span all across Europe and are not afraid to pay much better fees than UK based clubs. It only takes one sizeable fee to secure that clubs future and justify the multiple longer term professional contracts. And can offer the loan option for a season of further development through leaving cert, just like James and Udinese, so the club can benefit from the players talent. Quite frankly, if LOI do it right, Brexit could be the best thing that ever happened the LOI. Time to decrease our dependence on UK.
I’m looking forward to the start of LOI next month
It will be interesting to see how Sean does next season with Lincoln after getting some solid LOI football under his belt. If he does well, it would certainly encourage more youngsters to temporarily return to the LOI and get important senior experience under their belt. The different timing of the schedule give them a fantastic run in through July/august if things aren’t happening for them come the January transfer window. It seems like an underutilized pathway, I know Hodge and a few others had tried it with varying results. Good for our youngsters and good for the LOI.
Lincoln have recalled Roughan from his loan along with the other lad Drogheda had too. Hopefully he can impress Mark Kennedy whose the new manager and get back into the first team.
I think he's been doing okay at Drogheda hasn't he? So it's with a view to involving him there as opposed to recalling him to get actual games elsewhere...Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
Yeah he was starting at Drogheda. New manager probably wants to see how they get on in pre season. Roughan could have a chance of being involved with the first team or might end up getting another loan within the UK.
Back in favour at Lincoln starting on left side with one assist from a great cross. Hopefully he will continue to start, fans impressed
Be great if mark Kennedy could be successful there especially with the 4 irish lads involved. Kennedy turned into quite the left wing back at the latter end of his career
Signs a new contract until 2025
A little surprised to see him re-sign with Lincoln. Though wouldn't be surprised if we saw him playing more at CB now he's staying. Was talking about recently how he wanted to play more at CB and that last season understood Lincoln had a settled back three so was hard to get minutes there.
Possibly if his agent was shopping the lad around to clubs but they were looking at him for LB or LWB so decided to remain at Lincoln to play CB.
Opened the scoring at Notts County. Made-in-Ireland goal from a corner taken by Danny Mandriou and flicked on by Paudie O'Connor: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66368442
Sean Roughan scores for Lincoln, at home to Charlton.
Roughan with the third for Lincoln. Another one getting valuable experience in league one with over 50 appearances now. Good to see him back in the team at left-wing back after being dropped to the bench for the last couple. Surprised that Kennedy was sacked. Sounds like his football was too cautious for the fans liking.
Getting rave reviews from the fans after helping Lincoln to their third consecutive clean sheet. Playing centrally as part of a back three with nearly 70 games under his belt at just 20 years of age. Decent experience for a young centre half.
https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/t...y-town.136978/
His last appearance was his 100th senior appearance, 85 for Lincoln and 15 for Drogheda United. Impressive for a lad who only turns 21 in a few weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by MancIrishWolf
Gas that the starting LB for the U21s plays CB at club level and the starting CB plays LB at club level.
It would be good to see at least one of them emerge as a left back longer term. Unfortunately I can see them both spending most of their careers at centre back, players who play both centre back and a full back position more often than not seem to end up as centre backs for some reason.
I think it’s just a case of managers preferring that young defenders breaking through make their mistakes in wide positions— even if it’s not what their final position will be. Sometimes you see it with central midfielders too — in the 4-4-2 era, they’d often play early stage career matches out wide.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
Bayern are well known for it. Alaba always gets brought up when talking about defenders adapting to playing in midfield but Alaba was a midfielder that Bayern turned into a defender. Same with Lahm, and Ryan Johansson played RB for them too.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishfan86
Think Roughan had just joined the club that summer but being left footed and someone that started his career as a winger they thought he'd fit in at LB when their first choice LB was injured.. Similar with Alex Murphy. CB is his preferred position but Galway played him at LB when breaking into the team.
Just turned 21, Roughan is a left-footed defender who has already made 92 appearances for Lincoln City. A very complimentary piece about him in 'The Real EFL' yesterday.
Opinion: This Lincoln City Player Is The Most Underrated In League One - The Real EFL
100 appearances for Lincoln at age 21, despite a loan spell at Drogheda and being out of favour for long periods under two former managers of The Imps.
Sean Roughan Becomes Imps’ Centurion | The Stacey West
Do you see him as someone who could step up to championship next season? Do you think centre half rather than left full will be his position?Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
Started out at left full out of necessity but centre back is his preferred long term position. Unless another team feel they can get more out of him at left full but he prefers centre back. Originally started playing as a left winger which has helped him play full back.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
I definitely see him as a left full in terms of his Ireland prospects. Even if he becomes a centre back long term at club level.
Yeah said the same about Lawal and Murphy. That we should be focusing on playing these guys in positions that benefit us (LB and CM) even if their club teams see them as CBs.
The problem is clubs will move players to positions they are short or struggling in, and more often than not centre back is one of those positions. Whereas we're the opposite, we have the centre backs and are trying to find players for full back and midfield. Players do play different positions for club and country (Denis Irwin I suppose the most famous Irish example) so I think we will just need to accept that the likes of Roughan and Murphy will be developed as left sided centre backs but that shouldn't force us to play them in those positions if it doesn't suit us to.
His Wikipedia seems to imply that he's 5 foot 9 which means he's fine for the left of a back 3 but not ideal for left of a central 2... Is that accurate?
Good player but don't see him as one who'll make the grade at senior international level. Possibly a squad player but there's another 6 or 7 players ahead of him at centre back.
He was good for the U21s at left back in Turkey last week so he could step up soon for us in that position. Couldnt do a worse job than Robbie Brady at the momentQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Has signed for Huddersfield on a three year contract.
11th in League One to 10th in League One. If he can keep up this rate year on year, he'll be a Premiership player by 2060.
To be fair to him, there's probably more potential upside in Huddersfield than in Lincoln. But I'd have hoped there might have been some Championship interest all the same.
It seems significant that Lincoln are also going to lose their captain, Paudie O'Connor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler