Cheers,Originally Posted by outspoken
Cheers,
Evan McLaughlin signed for Waterford
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Where was he beforehand Joey B?
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
He was with Cork City. Good player who scored against us a couple of times last year and got 2 in Cork's semi final win over St Pats. Waterford also announced yesterday they signed John Mahon who was with Sligo Rovers most of his career. Fans are happy with the signings so far as they are signing players from within the league.
Waterford doing what Sligo did last year, signing lads from within the league who have a bit of proving to do and keeping away from UK/Fleetwood as much as possible. And I'd expect it to pay off for them. The more they sign the more I feel like they'll be fine
Dylan Hand moves to Wexford
Have found some info on this guy actually! 23 goals for our U17s last season, as we almost won the league (Pat's denying us with a 96th minute winner on the last day). And actually I see he played as a sub against Dundalk for the first team, and made the bench a couple of other times. So I'd be surprised if he was involved in the first team for ye yet, but he could be a new Colm Whelan on the way. (Which of course will mean very different things for our two clubs!)
Norman Garbett signed back for Dundalk? He must be some player in training considering he's played 600 minutes in 18 months.
He's a talent that has just been unlucky (hopefully) with injuries. Only cameos really, but Looked at handful in the Premier and in some games took Dundalk to another level in 1st. Has had one poor game that I can remember, Athlone away, but with the wind that day, no one played well.
The New Zealand National team sent physios over to him at some point to help his recovery.
Happy to roll the dice again. Only a young fella.
Athlone Town signings so far:
Brendan Clarke
Oisin Hand
Brian McManus
Evan O’Connor
Aaron Maloney (Loan)
Thomas Considine
Also hired a new assistant manager today David Elebert, who on Shels backroom team apparently.
Well that sounds very promising! I heard Barry Murphy hyping him up as one of his players to watch during the last loi central of the season too.
Max Murphy Bray to Wexford, strange move, have Wexford come into a few quid ?
Bowler, It's only the fifth of January, but that could be the most astute comment of the season!
He's not Premier quality, especially physically, so I'm not surprised he'll probably just bounce around clubs at that level.
Last edited by RealJohn91; 05/01/2026 at 8:57 PM.
Thanks for the info PS. One to watch I think.
Looks a decent player - hopefully he comes good in the next couple of seasons.
We'll need him to come good this season if we don't sign a few players soon.
Yea - a lot of teams seem to be struggling getting players in
I wonder is cost of living and housing a factor ?
Absolutely. Our players tend to live together in shared housing unless they've been abroad and earned a bit previously. Id imagine most league one and even league two players in England can actually afford a mortgage? Hard to compete with that.
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