Murphy will stay on next year, he deserves a chance to manage us with an actual budget. This year our squad was almost entirely amateur with most of the team playing for literally nothing. We played mostly academy players with a few inexperienced players from others clubs like Mark Hannon etc.
Three or four good signings towards the end of the season have strengthened us, but we'll need a few proper additions on top of what we have if we're going to contest the title next season. There is talk of us being interested in 1 or 2 Sligo players already.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
UCD proved to be much more organised defensively when we played them in Oriel after the change of manager albeit a week later we did score 5 against them. Pat's werent prolific consistantly in the league so far and with a new manager trying to bed in new ideas it was a potential banana skin. Even after shipping heavy defeats when Dundalk were due to play UCD under new management nothing was taken for granted with the new manager lift a team can get. Same opinion was there for the Cork game that they will be working that bit harder for the visit to Oriel and they nearly picked up a point. UCD actually cause a bit of a scare when a good chance was pulled across the goal and wide before we put the game to bed. Its why bookies are wealthy folk, they have an almost psychic reading of the game and where great prices to us average punter the bookie always comes out on top. LoI in particular can throw some completely odd results up at any time and why i'd be inclined to take the whole rigging of games with a pinch of salt for example.
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