In goal I think we actually have plenty of options. Westwood, Forde, and Randoph are all playing regularly at a decent level, and Shay remains a viable option if we're ever stuck.
For me the real challenge is to build a team around our best players. Coleman, Wilson, Gibson, McCarthy, McGeady & Brady will hopefully be the core of the team in the next number of years, so it will be a case of of working out a system to accommodate them and getting a couple more reliable options to make us a solid unit. Obviously he will have to do without Gibson for a while.
Glenn Whelan got a lot of stick when Trap gave him his chance. He was never any more than a journeyman pro, but regardless of what the naysayers would say he was very important to us during the Trap years. The challenge O'Neill will face will be finding guys like that to plug the gaps. The good news is that he has been brilliant at that down through the years.
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