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**Pablo** · 03/05/2006, 11:29 AM

Christ who ate all the pies like!

i thought those days were gone................

**Raheny Red** · 03/05/2006, 1:01 PM

Has anyone got any pics of him

**A face** · 03/05/2006, 1:22 PM

Lads, give him a break. He got enough doing last night to be fair. At least he knows now.

**wws** · 03/05/2006, 1:27 PM

how did he play though?

he's fat, he's round but he can actually play - better than most

**A face** · 03/05/2006, 1:34 PM

Originally Posted by wws

how did he play though?

he's fat, he's round but he can actually play - better than most

He had a though job last night to be fair.

**Krstic** · 03/05/2006, 1:37 PM

When Sligo played at the brandywell in the League this season, he was their best player. Shockingly over weight for a Senior Footballer, but it doesn't say much for the rest of the Sligo team when this guy out performs them.

**joema** · 03/05/2006, 1:43 PM

Hes a class player - scored a cracker for Monaghan against Kilkenny City last year. He was with Forrest with Andy Reid - they were told to get trimmer or go home - Reid worked hard and is now an Irish international and a Premiership player. Foy went the other way - probobly has a bad attitude

**Krstic** · 03/05/2006, 1:47 PM

I'd say Andy Reid wouldn't be that much lighter than Foy

**monutdfc** · 03/05/2006, 1:49 PM

Keith Foy was the great white hope of Irish football a few years ago. Played for Ireland at all underage levels, was in Kerr's U-16 Euro-winning sides scoring in the final, broke into the Nottingham Forest first team and was a regular. Then he got injured, lost a lot of fitness and struggled badly with his weight. He was on stand-by for Ian Harte before the last World Cup when Harte had an injury scare.
Forest lost patience with his fitness/weight problems and released him. He went to Doncaster Rovers where he won promotion, but his fitness problems persisted and he came home. Played for St Pats but they let him go and Dublin City picked him up when they were promoted. Roddy let him go when he bombed out practically the whole squad when he took over from Gill. He signed for us and our Player of the Year last season. Technically one of the most gifted players in the league. Scored 2 wonder-goals for us last season - chipped the Kildare 'keeper from the half-way line and scored a volley from a corner kick in Galway. Obviously, he still struggles with his weight he can be caught out for speed, but rarely.

**monutdfc** · 03/05/2006, 1:52 PM

Choose Season 2005 here and you can get a profile:
http://www.monaghanunited.ie/index.p...pper&Itemid=49

**Fivesilver** · 03/05/2006, 2:04 PM

As far as I know, we got him on a free from Monaghan.
From what I've seen this season, he's on the way back. His approach to the game is better, he's playing well, now if he could only lose at least a stone . . .
I don't know what Connor is doing for him in terms of lifestyle and a personal fitness regimen. I reckon, though, that by the end of the season, he could turn out to be the biggest bargain anyone's got hold of this year. He had the potential to go places like the likes of the aforementioned Reid or Liam Miller, but fcuked it up. He now has a chance to give himself some sort of atonement - it's too late to think about the big time again, but compared to how he was, if he keeps going the way he is, and gets back in shape, there will be few better players in the league.
You can be totally blinkered, and say 'look at the big fat b@stard, he must be useless', or you can actually watch him play - against Cork, how many times was he beaten? Several times players tried to push it by him and chase, but his reading of the game is excellent.
As I say, by November a lot of teams could be sitting up and taking notice - from his start to the season, some already are.

**razor** · 03/05/2006, 2:06 PM

Looked to have a nice left foot but was struggling for pace against Roy in the 1st half.

**monutdfc** · 03/05/2006, 2:08 PM

Originally Posted by Fivesilver

As far as I know, we got him on a free from Monaghan.

Of course you got him on a free from Monaghan - we don't do contracts longer than a season (like most First Division clubs I'll wager).

**pete** · 03/05/2006, 2:15 PM

Originally Posted by joema

HHe was with Forrest with Andy Reid - they were told to get trimmer or go home...

Slimfast Buddies!

**Red4Eva** · 03/05/2006, 3:28 PM

Originally Posted by Krstic

it doesn't say much for the rest of the Sligo team when this guy out performs them.

jeez we're not doing that bad are we

**joema** · 03/05/2006, 4:10 PM

Originally Posted by razor

Looked to have a nice left foot but was struggling for pace against Roy in the 1st half.

In fairness, Roy O Donovan is probobly the fastest player in the league

**Breifne** · 03/05/2006, 4:25 PM

Originally Posted by monutdfc

Keith Foy was the great white hope of Irish football a few years ago. Played for Ireland at all underage levels, was in Kerr's U-16 Euro-winning sides scoring in the final,

Dublin City picked him up when they were promoted. Roddy let him go when he bombed out practically the whole squad when he took over from Gill.

The only player let go that bugs me, the sweetest left foot i've seen in the league, was talking to him before the game between City and Sligo in Dalymount few weeks ago, he was in good form, and looked like he was enjoying his football, you might remember he almost single handedly carved open a defence to set a team mate up for a goal in a 1-0 win recently, (can't remember the opposition).

He is a great player, and for such a big lad doesn't lack much. Unfortunately his crutch is his weight, and i don't think he will ever sort that out, if the lure of Nottingham Forest or Ireland U-21 or senior can't sort it out, i don't think any team in this league will (in its current guise).

If he could sort that out, i reckon he would make any squad in the league on the left hand side of midfield, i'd take him over Bobby Ryan, JP Kelly, Morrison, Killian Brennan any time. Class act.

**OneRedArmy** · 03/05/2006, 5:06 PM

The skillful player with the weight problem, right up there with the "big man with the good feet" in footballing cliches.

Sounds like a monumental waste of talent to me.

As was said above, he was one of Sligo's better players in the Brandywell.

But on a plus point, gives hope to all us pie-munchers with a sweet left foot that the dream isn't over