Getting rave reviews from the fans after helping Lincoln to their third consecutive clean sheet. Playing centrally as part of a back three with nearly 70 games under his belt at just 20 years of age. Decent experience for a young centre half.
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His last appearance was his 100th senior appearance, 85 for Lincoln and 15 for Drogheda United. Impressive for a lad who only turns 21 in a few weeks.Originally Posted by MancIrishWolf
Gas that the starting LB for the U21s plays CB at club level and the starting CB plays LB at club level.
It would be good to see at least one of them emerge as a left back longer term. Unfortunately I can see them both spending most of their careers at centre back, players who play both centre back and a full back position more often than not seem to end up as centre backs for some reason.
I think it’s just a case of managers preferring that young defenders breaking through make their mistakes in wide positions— even if it’s not what their final position will be. Sometimes you see it with central midfielders too — in the 4-4-2 era, they’d often play early stage career matches out wide.
Bayern are well known for it. Alaba always gets brought up when talking about defenders adapting to playing in midfield but Alaba was a midfielder that Bayern turned into a defender. Same with Lahm, and Ryan Johansson played RB for them too.
Think Roughan had just joined the club that summer but being left footed and someone that started his career as a winger they thought he'd fit in at LB when their first choice LB was injured.. Similar with Alex Murphy. CB is his preferred position but Galway played him at LB when breaking into the team.
Just turned 21, Roughan is a left-footed defender who has already made 92 appearances for Lincoln City. A very complimentary piece about him in 'The Real EFL' yesterday.
Opinion: This Lincoln City Player Is The Most Underrated In League One - The Real EFL
100 appearances for Lincoln at age 21, despite a loan spell at Drogheda and being out of favour for long periods under two former managers of The Imps.
Sean Roughan Becomes Imps’ Centurion | The Stacey West
Do you see him as someone who could step up to championship next season? Do you think centre half rather than left full will be his position?
Started out at left full out of necessity but centre back is his preferred long term position. Unless another team feel they can get more out of him at left full but he prefers centre back. Originally started playing as a left winger which has helped him play full back.
I definitely see him as a left full in terms of his Ireland prospects. Even if he becomes a centre back long term at club level.
Yeah said the same about Lawal and Murphy. That we should be focusing on playing these guys in positions that benefit us (LB and CM) even if their club teams see them as CBs.
The problem is clubs will move players to positions they are short or struggling in, and more often than not centre back is one of those positions. Whereas we're the opposite, we have the centre backs and are trying to find players for full back and midfield. Players do play different positions for club and country (Denis Irwin I suppose the most famous Irish example) so I think we will just need to accept that the likes of Roughan and Murphy will be developed as left sided centre backs but that shouldn't force us to play them in those positions if it doesn't suit us to.
His Wikipedia seems to imply that he's 5 foot 9 which means he's fine for the left of a back 3 but not ideal for left of a central 2... Is that accurate?
Good player but don't see him as one who'll make the grade at senior international level. Possibly a squad player but there's another 6 or 7 players ahead of him at centre back.
He was good for the U21s at left back in Turkey last week so he could step up soon for us in that position. Couldnt do a worse job than Robbie Brady at the moment
Its really not that complicated!!!
Has signed for Huddersfield on a three year contract.
11th in League One to 10th in League One. If he can keep up this rate year on year, he'll be a Premiership player by 2060.
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To be fair to him, there's probably more potential upside in Huddersfield than in Lincoln. But I'd have hoped there might have been some Championship interest all the same.
It seems significant that Lincoln are also going to lose their captain, Paudie O'Connor.
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