Kevin Doyle And Shane Long Played The Last 10 Minutes As 2 Forwards For Reading Last Night Against Leicester
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Kevin Doyle And Shane Long Played The Last 10 Minutes As 2 Forwards For Reading Last Night Against Leicester
Doyle is doing well Shane Long is a handy player andQuote:
Originally Posted by B1977
only with coaching could be very good.
Long only ever played about ten minutes for us.
and looked very good in that time.
Never should have happened tbh
Pity the club let it happen again
Remember Damien Delaney going for a small price aswell a few years back
If we got proper money for those players we'd be in a good position
Cant let it happen again
Keeps happening though no matter what lies we're told
Robbed .... !! :mad:
subtle a face
maybe wud have been better without the bold fonts on the letters :)
What does this stand for? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
Rebels Once Boasted Brian Employed Dolan. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Not bad... At least you didn't, eh Peadar? :)
Shane Long and Kevin Doyle both scored for Reading today in a a 2 - all draw at Derby.
They both scored tonight two good headers against Derby.
Final score from Pride Park
Derby County 2 Cork City 2:(
Its brilliant hearing both lads are doing so well at Reading , Especially Doyler . What a player ,He is a great loss to Eircom League
Robbed !! :mad:
I watched the game and the introduction of Shane changed the game.
Doyle was the lone striker with fellow Irish man, Stephen Hunt playing in support. With the score at 2-1. Reading were finding it hard to break Derby down. Shane Long came on for winger, Bobby Convey, in the 70th minute and within seconds his pace proved too much for Andrew Davies. The late lunge from Davies saw him recieve his second yellow card and subsequently, his marching orders.
Derby's numerical disadvantage saw them unable to mount an attack as they clung on to their slender lead. Relentless pressure from Reading finally yielded a goal when Long rose higher than everyone and headed home from close range on 88 minutes.
He had a chance to snatch all three points moments later, from an identical position, but headed over.
At 18 years of age, he has a lot to learn, but Shane Long is in good company with Kevin Doyle and could very well be the future of Irish goalscoring.
What was the story with Shane Long? Did he have a clause in his contract akin to Doyle's? Or did Cork just accept a bid.?
I interviewed him soon after he made his debut for Cork and he seemed delighted to be there and was just concerned about breaking into the Cork first team. A few weeks later and he was off to Reading.
Long was on the U21 team for City and that team did very well, Long was banging them home for fun at one stage. Dolan obviously saw this and pimped him off, after playing only ten minutes for Citys first team.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOwl
Dolan is a snake in the grass and the people who defend him are exponentially worse, this cannot be understated. The people that enable these pimps to behave the way they do are doing untold damage.
Long's contract was nearly up and on Dolan's advice was refusing to sign a new one. Which meant City had to let him go then, or risk losing him for nothing.
What was the fee again?something like €50,000 wasnt it?
Long €40kQuote:
Originally Posted by daveh
Doyle €117k
AFAIK.
No .... more like ....Quote:
Originally Posted by De Town
Long €39k
Doyle €78k
Dolan is a parasite !!
No Doyle was £78k,so €117k is about rightQuote:
Originally Posted by A face
Ah right ... that was it so ... Still peanuts though !!Quote:
Originally Posted by daveh
A credit to Wexford and Tipperary, both of them.;) :D
Serves you lot right for taking both of those players under our noses by Wallace and Fat telling both players that there was no youth set up at Waterford.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
I guess what comes around goes around.
Screwed all the way. :D
You're back to calling him "Fat" now again I see since you've realised he was only using your pathetic little club to get a nice big cheque and had no interest whatsoever in your fortunes?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
"We were far superior to Waterford tonight"!:D
Reading have tried to give their fans a it of background information on Shane Long, which can be seen here, on the Official Reading FC Website.
Can you post it up .... not registered !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Use CorkCityFC as user and password,not sure if its all lower case but try both and 1 will work
Ah .. no joy ... 'CorkCityFC' and 'corkcityfc' for both username and passwordQuote:
Originally Posted by daveh
was that the bit just before he used "we" to refer to Waterford? Or was it "us" he called them. Poor confused manQuote:
Originally Posted by Colm
I think it was the bit where he was just trying to wind us all up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Éanna
Surprised he found his way "home" that night such was his confusion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Éanna
And sure as usual Razor they all got very wound up. Absolutely hilarious though!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by razor
well twas good enough to make my signature for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colm
any comment on the 2nd piece of my previous post?
It's free to register and only takes a few minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
You'd be correct in this respect but for every 1 or 2 that make it, how many come back or rot in reserve team football across the water because of such serpents.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommy
you'd think that they'd do a bit of research .. pat dolan is named once again as cork city manager .. ****s sake like
Dolan was the manager when he made those comments and when Long made his debut for Ireland U19's.Quote:
Originally Posted by optimus
It was great to see my own name in the programme and see Cork City alongside big clubs like Roma, Inter, Milan and Juventus."
He hit the post with a diving header after coming on against Italy for his Irish u19s debut. City boss Pat Dolan told corkcityfc.ie, "Shane playing is fantastic news and a great honour for him. It's a reward for his hard work.
"It's a fabulous achivement for everyone associated with Shane, especially his family and his former club St Michael's in Tipperary."
He has played with Reading winger Jonathan Hayes each time he has appeared for the Irish u19s. He played for the Ireland international amateur team in two games