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Ex rovers Liam scales scores for Celtic

Whats long term these days? 3 years?

Gary Deegan re-signs for Drogheda.

My player of the season last season. Great news.

That's what has been said. O'Donnell is bringing the Dundalk team of 2016-17 back together again. Benson is still a top quality player, Barrett was very good for us last season, Mountney was a right back before he got injured, decent but exposed at times. Would prefer to keep Barrett at least, Benson we have a replacement for in McCormack who has real potential, wouldn't be massively fussed about Mountney either way. One thing to note is that all 3 players missed decent chunks of the season with injuries m.

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Oh dear.

Why did Ronnie Corbett playing golf pop into my head?

My fear is that we have switched to O'Neills this year, and they might do something similar with the Candystripes.

Really? If I was a Bohs fan I wouldn’t be impressed with that at all. Horrible. Not a fan of clubs messing with their traditional shirt too much. Like when Pats did away with the white sleeves a few seasons back. Made it look like a Shels jersey (shudder !)

Derry sign the Dundalk squad, Dundalk sign the Pats squad, we sign the Drogheda squad, Drogheda sign the Shels squad, Shels sign the Harps squad. Rovers resigned nearly all of their players from last year. We're basically going to get the same squads as last year but with different clubs.

Didn't like it personally, reminded of an old fashioned jumper design wise but that's some good sales.

Tommy Lonergan - Great name

Invokes images of a 1950's footballer. Was there a player in Patrick's history named Lonergan?

Dundalk mightn't have had the best season but the players Derry have poached are fairly quality. Shane McEleney, kavanagh would say they will have quite the squad by the time the season starts. If Derry aren't in a title fight will be a disaster for them

To be fair I thought most of the kits O'Neills have made for Bohemians the past few seasons have been decent.

Those are fair comments. For me it is a definite no. I am not fussed about it having to be red and black strips but that design is a no for me and I don't like using that older crest either much prefer the circular one be it the as Gaelige or as Bearla versions of recent seasons.

Yeah I can't see anyone properly challenging Rovers next season. I think all of Derry, Pats, Dundalk and anyone else would take 2nd place if you offered it to them now. Derry do seem to be forming a very strong squad though, especially if they sign Georgie Kelly too. You'd imagine in the 2023 season they will be able to give Rovers a real challenge. I think Brandon Kavanagh will be a great player if he gets games.

Right now, I'd still expect rovers to win, but Derry to keep them honest and be on the periphery if they stumble. Maybe fight was slightly strong. Shams just having that settled squad but Higgins has started the right way. Brought local talent home as a spine of the squad and he's clearly building a squad that I can't see anyone other than shams matching. If Georgie Kelly comes in the first XI and bench is already looking very good and it's still December

I think Kavanagh will be a very good player too but he will not be a replacement for Finn. Finn was already replaced in midfield 2 years ago. The replacement for Finn will be a rwb not an attacking midfielder/playmaker

hopefully we continue to fly under the radar with 90% of last season squad signed up, we would have comfortably finished second, if we didn't decide to give up playing football for a few months at the end of the season.

Forgot about Cotter, he was some signing. Do we know what contract he is on? Derry have some squad, any team with the likes of McCelaney and Duffy not to mention Patching will pose a threat to any side, suspect Derry fans are underplaying their chances here :)