UCD�s Quigley begins trial for Spanish side

**GavinZac** · 24/12/2006, 5:32 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

This if it happens , should be the way all future EL players should be looking to move

great attitude

**pineapple stu** · 24/12/2006, 7:46 PM

We've a two page thread berating a player for staying in Division One, but now that someone suggests the best way to move on from the league, people get upset?

The eL is not and never will be the pinnacle of football. It's not indicative of any sort of bad attitude to accept that fact. You can talk about players moving on without having some sort of inferiority complex.

**pineapple stu** · 25/12/2006, 7:16 PM

In fairness, I don't think six months at the team bottom of the Spanish Second Division would give you money enough to buy a house in Ireland!

**pineapple stu** · 26/12/2006, 4:51 PM

With average gates of 2,500 and Spanish ticket prices very low, I doubt he'll make a huge amount of money, to be honest. I would imagine there's a huge difference between Spanish First and Second Divisions, and this crowd are effectively Third Division. It'd be purely a shop window move (if he gets it).

**BohsFans** · 26/12/2006, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

purely a shop window

yeah that's some shop window!

**GavinZac** · 27/12/2006, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

It'd be purely a shop window move (if he gets it).

Yeah, I bet Roy O'Donovan wishes he was in a pathetic team on a remote island hundreds of miles from the mainland in a league only marginally better supported on average than the eircom league. That'd get everyone interested.

**pineapple stu** · 27/12/2006, 12:08 PM

Fortunately he's not in the shop window to the team he's (potentially) moving to. He's in a shop window to former and recent Euroean finalists, recently relegated La Liga teams and Real Madrid B. He's in a league with average attendances three or four times the eL, and your point about distance is just bizarre - sure clubs would never think about travelling a couple of hundred miles to see a player? Or even to play against him? Or even - perish the thought - his team might travel to the bigger clubs for what we call "away games"?!

**CollegeTillIDie** · 31/12/2006, 4:47 PM

stu

Any developments on the Dazza for Canaries story?

**DmanDmythDledge** · 31/12/2006, 4:49 PM

Apparantly it never happened.

**pineapple stu** · 05/01/2007, 5:03 PM

Yeah, in today's Star it says he was at Falkirk when the trial was offered, so he couldn't go. However, Falkirk are unlikely to buy him, so he's going to Spain shortly to have his trial. They say they it's possible they'll sort something during the transfer window. Stockport are supposedly still interested.

Also, the paper confirms that Pat Kavanagh has signed for Birmingham and that the world is round.