Since Kevin Doyles success there has been a lot made of English/Scottish/Scandinavian clubs coming here looking to sign players on the cheap.
Its really a wonder that it didn't happen much earlier as eircom League players have had a pretty good success rate abroad in the past while. Funnily enough a lot of the English players who had success here and return home dont do too well when they return home.
In Scotland Gary Dempsey, Richie Foran, Noel Hunt and Richie Byrne have done well too and are now regulars in their teams. Kevin Doyle, Brian Barry-Murphy, Damien Delaney ,Shaun Maher and Gareth O'Connor are all flying in England. Shane Long and Conor Synnott have yet to make an impact but theres planty of time. Chris Adamson amongst others has done ok since returning to England too.
Des Byrne, Darren Kelly, Colin Hawkins and Seamus Kelly didn't have the best of times in England although Darren Kelly would probably have had the worst time. Rod Squad members Willo McDonagh and Brian Shelley did fairly well over there before coming home.
In contrast very few of the players returning to England , who despite having had a successful time here do well. Dave Morrison, Ashley Bayes, Alex Nesovic to name but a few.
There may well be more player that I missed out, but the general gist is that EL players rarely fail in England.
I wouldn't classify playing for League 2 side a success we'd want to boast about.
the style of play in the eL in last say 3-4 years has changed completely as little obvious long ball play by top sides which is probably helping the relative european success.
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