FAO Pat Scully

Originally Posted by balanced view

duggan should be a certainty. will be interesting to know what squad scully will put together.

is he any better then hughes, yellow, colbert, tracy? if so yes if not we dont need him

Mr Gael on the offence can mean only one thing..................big news!

Originally Posted by gael353

is he any better then hughes, yellow, colbert, tracy? if so yes if not we dont need him

ya Duggan is a better central midfielder than all four from what ive seen ..aggressive in the tackle and passes the ball very well.good to get a goal too

Originally Posted by Daydreamer

ya Duggan is a better central midfielder than all four from what ive seen ..

Who was he playing against?

Duggan is absolute quality. Should have played a lot more for us this year.

Good tackler and passer, makes great forward runs and scores goals too.

Easily good enough for top 5 team in the premier.

Originally Posted by gael353

well we are trying to keep it local and hiring in a team from dublin hasnt been our policy for some years now. Bermingham? big lump if yer paying him more them what we could offer then fair play to him cos hes not great. i think also playing in front of a crowd might be an added attraction of playing for limerick over for example...monaghan. Limerick will be going for promotion this comminig season. fair play to monaghan ye kept a squad together for a good run last season but honestly, with those players i can only see you bothering teams like shels, mervue and if there as bad as they were this season, harps.

*pushes a saucer of milk over to gael*

We have moved more to local players over the past season too you will find but considering we have a much smaller population it is not always possible to find enough quality players without going to Dublin. As for paying him more I said I was open for correction on that as I was just going on what I have heard about your budget for the year and ours, simple maths.

As for playing in front of bigger crowds, you are right, that may be an attraction, playing for Scully may also be one and the fact that Limerick seem to be getting things together too, I just dont think he would make a sideways move like that when he was happy here.

As for him not being great, check out the goalscorer league for the first division this year.

As long as we are bothering the teams you mentioned and keeping on the heels of the top 2/3 I will be happy and so should you, last season you were close to catching us and Wexford but it didnt happen so you should be happy if you are bothering us all next year too.

Originally Posted by Magicme

*pushes a saucer of milk over to gael*

We have moved more to local players over the past season too you will find but considering we have a much smaller population it is not always possible to find enough quality players without going to Dublin. As for paying him more I said I was open for correction on that as I was just going on what I have heard about your budget for the year and ours, simple maths.

In short i dont think he makes much a differance to any team, hes simply not good enough for any first division side chasing promotion imo.

Originally Posted by Magicme

As for playing in front of bigger crowds, you are right, that may be an attraction, playing for Scully may also be one and the fact that Limerick seem to be getting things together too, I just dont think he would make a sideways move like that when he was happy here.

sideways is a good term although i wouldnt say our crowds were too hot this year and im by no way slagging yer crowds, what i find hard to take when we;e in monaghan is the small crowd, yet there would be maybe 100 ppl playing 5 a side and not one of them would come and watch the game even when their done

Originally Posted by Magicme

As for him not being great, check out the goalscorer league for the first division this year.

meh, average we had stevo getting tons after only 12 or so games so ill rate him against him

Originally Posted by Monkfish

Who was he playing against?

sligo bohs and Pats

Didnt say he was better than O'Flynn but was countering the fact that you thought he was useless. His goal tally would prove otherwise me thinks.

As for not being good enough for a First Division team chasing promotion, tell that to the Premier league teams who have been chasing his signature.

Totally agree about the crowds thing but there would only be about 70 people playing on the Astros during matches. Its like the Limerick problem with Junior clubs, we have a similar job to do in building bridges which we are working on. The new Astro is helping alot in that regard as we are not stinging them price wise and are very agreeable to times and dates they request as far as possible.

Originally Posted by L37Ultra

When I played against them a few years ago as far as I can remember both Clarke and Duggan were playing that day. And also Collopy.

shane never played for wembley

Originally Posted by gael353

is he any better then hughes, yellow, colbert, tracy? if so yes if not we dont need him

does he have to be better than all 4 for us to have any interest in signing him. hughes is top notch but had a poor season. i think he would def walk into our midfield. I could never see yellow or colbert tracy on the fringes of the cork team which duggan was. according to a few cork supporters i know they were impressed with him and taught he should have played more. anyhow surely with injuries/suspensions it would be a good addition to the squad. I cant see any negatives. contact should have already been made with the player to see if he is interested.

Originally Posted by balanced view

does he have to be better than all 4 for us to have any interest in signing him

in short yes he does. we want to challenge for promotion this comming season and if hes only signing for the sake of signing then whats the point.

Originally Posted by balanced view

hughes is top notch but had a poor season. i think he would def walk into our midfield. I could never see yellow or colbert tracy on the fringes of the cork team which duggan was. according to a few cork supporters i know they were impressed with him and taught he should have played more. anyhow surely with injuries/suspensions it would be a good addition to the squad. I cant see any negatives. contact should have already been made with the player to see if he is interested.

i think with so many players in the market i think it would be in the players interest to contact the club like so many others have allready.

http://www.limerickfc.ie/Home/news/091130squad.html

i thought we had ambitions of promotion every season and surely the manager will know what players he wants in the squad for the next campaign and chase those players accordingly.not the other way around.

i thought we had ambitions of promotion every season and surely the manager will know what players he wants in the squad for the next campaign and chase those players accordingly.not the other way around.

Agreed. If Scully wants the best players Limerick FC can afford that will help push for promotion he is not going to sit around waiting for them to come to him.

Originally Posted by Daydreamer

sligo bohs and Pats

Fair enough, as good a yard stick as they come.

Originally Posted by gael353

in short yes he does. we want to challenge for promotion this comming season and if hes only signing for the sake of signing then whats the point.

i think with so many players in the market i think it would be in the players interest to contact the club like so many others have allready.

http://www.limerickfc.ie/Home/news/091130squad.html

Well as i said in my original post i think he is easily better than the 4 mentioned. He would improve us hugely.

Well if thats the case we will have a smashing squad for next year. if we we are in the position where we do not need to approach players (they have to come to us). looking forward to the new season and optimistic of a promotion push.

Originally Posted by balanced view

Well if thats the case we will have a smashing squad for next year. if we we are in the position where we do not need to approach players (they have to come to us). looking forward to the new season and optimistic of a promotion push.

as you should be, as i am. 95% of all contracted players from all clubs are now out of contract, why should limerick or any club go chasing players? Limerick although not a rich club pay all their players for every week of the season, other clubs do not and if your a player relying on the few quid to pay college fees/mortgage/loans etc who would you wanna sign for? Galway? Cork? or limerick

Duggan is a class player prem standard so he is definitely good enough fr us.
Dont agree at all players should have to come to us we should be out looking for the best available(realistic) players from that 95%.

Originally Posted by gael353

if your a player relying on the few quid to pay college fees/mortgage/loans etc who would you wanna sign for? Galway? Cork? or limerick

Galway or Cork naturally.

Any proof of the rubbish posted above BTW? http://foot.ie/forums/misc.php?do=showrules#rumours

We cut our cloth accordingly at the start of the season and paid our players on time, you teapot.

Cut your cloth accordingly but couldn't afford a place to train?