eircom League Journey Men

**onephillyhughes** · 01/12/2007, 6:44 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Paul Doolin's league career reads something like this : Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers, Derry City, Shelbourne, Portadown, Derry City, Shamrock Rovers, Portadown, Shelbourne, UCD as a player.

So far as a manager his career is UCD, Drogheda United.

Add the town to that list as a player

**showgies** · 01/12/2007, 7:30 PM

Dermot Keely has to be the most travelled manager. Hands Up who hasn't being managed by Keely?

**Terry** · 01/12/2007, 7:35 PM

Us thank God !!!!

**niallsparky** · 01/12/2007, 7:51 PM

Us too.

Keely managed teams:

UCD
Shamrock Rovers
Sligo Rovers
Longford Town
Dundalk
Finn Harps
Athlone Town
Home Farm Everton
Shelbourne
Kildare County
Derry City
Dublin City
Shelbourne

**CollegeTillIDie** · 01/12/2007, 8:38 PM

Originally Posted by niallsparky

Us too.

Keely managed teams:

UCD
Shamrock Rovers
Sligo Rovers
Longford Town
Dundalk
Finn Harps
Athlone Town
Home Farm Everton
Shelbourne
Kildare County
Derry City
Dublin City
Shelbourne

He also played for St. Patrick's Athletic which almost gives Dermo links to all the surviving Dublin clubs.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 01/12/2007, 8:40 PM

Originally Posted by onephillyhughes

Add the town to that list as a player

Well thanks for that but Doolin was a consistently good player throughout his career, his final season as a player for UCD he was fabulous!

**pineapple stu** · 01/12/2007, 8:45 PM

Technically, in his final season as a player for UCD, he was an unused sub three times.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 01/12/2007, 8:59 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Technically, in his final season as a player for UCD, he was an unused sub three times.

Well as he didn't play the final season was the previous one !

**pineapple stu** · 01/12/2007, 9:02 PM

He played one mid-season friendly anyway.

Billy Brennan didn't play this season; does that make him not a player?

**sligoman** · 01/12/2007, 9:08 PM

What constitutes a journeyman exactly, how many clubs like? Would Eric Lavine/Wesley Charles qualify?

**Paddyfield** · 01/12/2007, 9:28 PM

Originally Posted by red bellied

Paul McGee which LOI clubs hasnt he played for? Must of played for his home town club Sligo Rovers on at least four different occasions. As far as I now he has played for Harps, Derry, Galway, Athlone, Shams, Dundalk and Waterford, possibly up the north as well. In England OPR, Burnley and Preston and also I remember Ski been on the now defunct Superchannel playing in the Dutch league many moons ago.

Class player in his day. He actually had three stints with Galway United.

He was also player/manager In a space of four months (c. 1989) his name went into the history books for the wrong reasons as he manged Galway United to a 9 - 1 defeat in the Brandywell and dubsequently a 6 - 0 defeat to Derry in Terryland. Two decades later, those statistics are his legacy as they were our biggest away and home defeats ever. Neverhteless, Ski is our all time top scorer ever.

His next job as a manager came this year at Limerick 37.

He has lived in Galway since the 80's and he was actually training a local junior team in Knocknacarra this week.

**BobtheDrog** · 01/12/2007, 9:48 PM

Mark Leech has played for UCD, Drogs, Bohs, Shels and now on his way to galway, not bad for a 23 year old

**Dodge** · 01/12/2007, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

What constitutes a journeyman exactly

I class journeyman as someone who sin't that good and kinda just foats around clubs. A player like Doolin moves onto the better deal. Mercenary is probably a a better word

**Risteard** · 01/12/2007, 10:52 PM

It's a Dub thing.
I'd imagine Jodi Byrne is up there.
When I was taken to Bishopstown, he always seemed to be playing. I got so dizzy it took me weeks to realise he was actually in a City jersey at one stage.

**Snoop Drog** · 02/12/2007, 5:33 AM

Originally Posted by TheBoss

I remember seeing Brendan Markey's career.

Bohemian FC
Millwall FC
Dundalk FC
Bohemian FC
Shamrock Rovers FC
Waterford United FC
Newry Town FC
Bohemian FC
Dublin City FC
Glenavon FC
Dundalk FC
Athlone Town AFC
Monaghan United FC
St. Patrick's Athletic FC
Kildare County FC
Dublin City FC

He is still only 31.

That's pretty incredible

**gufcfan** · 02/12/2007, 8:11 AM

Originally Posted by red bellied

I remember Ski been on the now defunct Superchannel playing in the Dutch league many moons ago.

Superchannel?

Please explain... no idea what that is....

**CollegeTillIDie** · 02/12/2007, 8:13 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

He played one mid-season friendly anyway.

Billy Brennan didn't play this season; does that make him not a player?

You're talking first team here. Tommy Dunne played loads of games for the Under 21's never made a first team appearance. I don't consider him to have played for UCD in the Eircom League of Ireland Premier Division same difference !...

**CollegeTillIDie** · 02/12/2007, 8:50 AM

Originally Posted by gufcfan

Superchannel?

Please explain... no idea what that is....

Ok back in the mid-late 1980's there were a number of channels available to cable subscribers which no longer exist. These included Screensport, Lifestyle, and Super Channel. Super used to show programmes which had been shown on terrestrial television 5-10 years before as well as a handful of original shows. One of their original shows was continental football weekly roundups. Akin to what we see now on Setanta things like a Dutch show, a German show etc. A number of mergers occurred between the above name channels and I believe Rupert Murdoch bought one or two of them when he was turning his fledgling SKY channels into BSKYB or British Sky Broadcasting. I believe that purchasing one or two of the channels which showed sports, was the origin of SKYSPORTS channels.

**MojoPin** · 02/12/2007, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Neish

Alex Nesovic

Harps, Dundalk, Shels, Bohs, for definiate. Didn't he play for Derry too?

cobh too

**red bellied** · 02/12/2007, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

Class player in his day. He actually had three stints with Galway United.

He was also player/manager In a space of four months (c. 1989) his name went into the history books for the wrong reasons as he manged Galway United to a 9 - 1 defeat in the Brandywell and dubsequently a 6 - 0 defeat to Derry in Terryland. Two decades later, those statistics are his legacy as they were our biggest away and home defeats ever. Neverhteless, Ski is our all time top scorer ever.

His next job as a manager came this year at Limerick 37.

He has lived in Galway since the 80's and he was actually training a local junior team in Knocknacarra this week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGee

This link has Mc Gee down as an incredible seven different spells with Sligo Rovers. Not sure if this is correct though. As well as winning a cup final with Harps he actually finished his career with them cut short through injury. The injury wasnt actually football related think it was a car crash that finished his playing days.