Is Rodgers in the top 6 loI keepers? Not convinced by him at all, maybe no 4-6 range.
If Pats can get R Finn in, it might help the fans to get over Fahy leaving for his home club. The Pats right back/winger can expect plenty of diagonal balls from McGuinness next season. Another player of the year winner at the club anyway. Also agree that Oman is a more stylish player to watch.
Ronan Finn to Limerick, Ronan Finn to Limerick!!
It's hard to think of a player whose stock has fallen as much as Finn in the space of a year. 12 months ago, many Rovers fans couldn't have imagined living without him. Now he's - with all due respect to Limerick - not exactly fighting off offers.
If we let the opportunity to sign Finn slip it will be disappointing. How's Towell getting on at Cardiff
If Oman is a better footballer than McGuinness that might just make McGuinness the worst footballer of all time.
All the talk about best keepers in the league is rubbish in my opinion. There's no really good goalkeepers in the league. Rogers is up there with Murphy, Doherty, McNulty and Barry Ryan as the best of a bad bunch. They're all prone to howlers every game or two and lacking in different attributes, but generally solid in other areas.
Any top goalkeeper in our league would have been snapped up in England already.
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I have to say in the last two seasons I can't remember Barry Ryan having any howlers. He has been a massive thorn in the side of a lot of teams and picked up a lot of points for us with important saves. It's a pity he is coming to the end of his career.
Ronan Finn would be a quality addition but I'd still be very pessimistic about that one being pulled off. Could get the ball rolling though when it comes to future signings.
Much as I'd like them to be accurate now that he's moved on, some of the appraisals of Rogers seem to have been plucked directly from the orifices of people who haven't seen an awful lot of him playing. Sure, it'd be great to believe that the signing won't strengthen Dundalk further, but you won't get many takers for that idea among Rovers supporters who watched him regularly over three seasons.
In no order I think Murphy, Clarke and Rogers are the top 3. McNulty and Ryan just below that. Some good prospects (ie I haven't enough to rate them) in O'Donnell, McGuinness and Coulter. Everyone else is average or worse
There's certainly no Brian Murphy or Alan Mannus there
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Talking about keepers. What was the actually story with Cherrie. Was he released or did he opt to go himself?
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