2025 Arrivals and Departures

**Shearer** · 30/07/2025, 6:48 AM

Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract

An important lesson on how not to communicate for Kerry FC here. The vagueness of the statement has caused the tweet to go viral (over 1.6 million views) and it’s been picked up by massive amounts of racists that are giving the two players, as well as the club disgusting abuse online. What the two lads allegedly did is a disgrace right enough but it could’ve been handled so much better by Kerry

Agree on this.

They should have posted a "normal" release. What they posted was idiotic and driven by emotion and, as you said, has only drawn more attention due to the vagueness of it.

Not dissimilar to the statement earlier in the year where they called the FAI bullies, in that they've let emotions overtake logic.

**outspoken** · 30/07/2025, 9:38 AM

Originally Posted by Shearer

Agree on this.

They should have posted a "normal" release. What they posted was idiotic and driven by emotion and, as you said, has only drawn more attention due to the vagueness of it.

Not dissimilar to the statement earlier in the year where they called the FAI bullies, in that they've let emotions overtake logic.

Fully agree, some utterly bizare press releases in recent times.

**nigel-harps1954** · 30/07/2025, 9:45 AM

Completely bizarre statement by Kerry. Really shot themselves in the foot with a complete lack of professionalism too.

**sbgawa** · 30/07/2025, 3:12 PM

Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract

An important lesson on how not to communicate for Kerry FC here. The vagueness of the statement has caused the tweet to go viral (over 1.6 million views) and it’s been picked up by massive amounts of racists that are giving the two players, as well as the club disgusting abuse online. What the two lads allegedly did is a disgrace right enough but it could’ve been handled so much better by Kerry

Hard to disagree with your point about giving racists oxegen they dont need, its a pity one of them wasnt white to kill that angle but in a way i admire Kerry for making an issue of it, these guys deserve to be hammered for that sort of behaviour rather than be let just slip away and join another club somewhere else and carry on as normal.
Assuming thay are guilty which Kerry must be pretty sure of or they are going to have some legal bill after 1.6 million views.......jeez 3 million views just checked

**Shearer** · 30/07/2025, 3:50 PM

Originally Posted by sbgawa

in a way i admire Kerry for making an issue of it, these guys deserve to be hammered for that sort of behaviour rather than be let just slip away and join another club somewhere else and carry on as normal.

Football is a small world and bad news will likely catch up on those lads wherever they go without being smeared though. I'm not excusing their actions at all for what it's worth.

Joe Gorman was released by Harps in normal fashion after a drunk driving charge. I'm sure plenty of us are in the know about releases in our clubs which had more layers to them but clubs said the bare minimum.

**total hoofball** · 30/07/2025, 4:59 PM

I guess 95% statements from LOI clubs announcing that a player is leaving/released contains no details on the background of their departure, I've no doubt there have been other LOI players released by clubs over the years due to juicy controversial circumstances that would go viral on social media but the clubs wisely kept quiet with a boring one liner that the player has left club and nobody bats an eyelid

Saying that if the Kerry players did what is being claimed I'm not feeling much sympathy either