agreed thought it was much better jersey than centenary effort.Originally Posted by drelihan
agreed thought it was much better jersey than centenary effort.
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
From what I understand, there will be a new jersey launched in the coming week or so. I never buy jerseys anymore, only bought the centenary one to have for keeps sake, so not really pushed what it looks like as long as it's not a total abomination. I'm much more interested in nice training and leisure wear, not sure if there will be any of that released or not..
My days of being able to pull off a jersey are well behind me! But my young lads love them.
Any player news? I'm hopeful we can retain our core squad but the lack of news at this time of year is always causes some nerves.
Baffled as to why we've bought Halwax off you today, when Connor should be the first choice, and young Darragh Foley did OK in his First Division games, but Healy must believe in packing the squad with keepers?
He was very vulnerable to clangers in his first few months but became solid by the end before he was dropped. You could get either version of him at Kerry tbh.
I'm concerned about ourselves now when I see most the other clubs making a lot of signings. I'd say our lads are holding to see if they get better offers. Can't blame them. I just hope we're not starting with mostly newbies again who need most of the season to gel together, like what happened this season
We always get nervous this time of year but this year seems particularly quiet 😔
He was the most improved keeper in the division come the summer, kept us in so many games. If he gets good coaching he should be a solid addition.
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Looks like Eric Yoro is going to Treaty....it's updated in FAI connect
Won't be missed. Though it would be typical if he suddenly started playing class for them
I did enjoy his runs even they were a bit risky.
I would have thought he was a banker to return. I would be slightly concerned about an exodus and rebuild....
Those mazy runs worked once in his life and that was against Treaty when we were 4-0 down. Every other time he put the head down and lost the ball. I won't miss that bit of stress
I saw someone mention online that Osaze Irhue has re-signed for next season.
To be honest, I've been slow to criticize the club online for their lack of online squad updates in the past. But the silence since seasons end about almost everything simply isn't good enough. We're less than 2 weeks out from Christmas and season tickets have only just been advertised for the first time a week ago. Nothing about players who are coming or going. Nothing about the supposed new jersey that's coming out.
I understand there's very few people running the show, and almost everything the club does on the social media side of things is done by volunteers, so it's not easy. But we played our last game of the season 2 months ago and it's been pretty much silence since.
I saw that post. Unless they have inside info then it looks like they are just going by FAI connect!!!
Tbh Im not surprised by the silence from the club. The only reaction to the towns FB page is that a certain town fan who shall remain nameless was giving out stink about the lack of town fans at dinner dance. He rightly got stick for what he posted. The price to pay for a dinner dance is a disgrace. Also with the price of living crisis ppl have bills to pay. Also fans are disillusioned with the way volunteers have being treated in the past. I was speaking to ex town player Stephen Brennan on the train back from Mullingar to Longford yesterday and the way his parents were treated was awful. They refuse to go to town matches now. They were long attending volunteers of the club. So club has a lot of making up to do!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
I remember they announced 3 lads Christmas day last year, then 1 or 2 after. Then silence till the week before the season, even tho it was no secret because FAI Connect told the whole story long before then. That can't be the case again this time. There doesn't need to be big sweeping statements, just a quick post saying who has arrived is plenty
It's incredibly frustrating that every single year Christmas comes around and there appears to be a last minute scramble to get jerseys etc out - Then again, I've absolutely no idea what is involved in getting all that together, id imagine we sell very few jerseys compared to other clubs so we are probably very low down the list of priorities for Macron or whoever. Still, even stuff like mugs, scarfs, hats etc should be out there at this time of year. Again, is there an issue in maybe having to buy this kind of stuff in bulk and a fear we won't sell enough to cover costs? I've no idea.
On the social media stuff, as someone who has helped the club in the past, I'd love nothing more than to see the club being innovative and leading the way in terms of fresh and exciting content and in fairness to Hendo and Wayne they've always made it clear the social media team are welcome to come up to training and create content anytime but the small team of lads we have all have busy jobs, families and live miles away from where we train and in the current financial climate it's difficult to justify driving up and down to Dublin of a Tuesday evening for example.
On the player announcements, we can't post news that we don't have. I don't know anything more than anyone here knows about who is staying or going. No idea if the plan is to do a bulk Christmas announcement or if we simply haven't signed anyone.
Anyway, another Christmas stressing about next season, enjoy it all.
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