Pre Season Gallery / Greg Moorhouse on Trial (10 Viewers)
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torchomatic
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Fair enough.
ccfcway
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BlueElephant
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Can't see they would've demanded a huge fee for him - maybe 100k tops. Typical undisclosed so we'll never know!
Skybluefaz
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Could have just been that Robins has been impressed with JP and Devon KE and decided there was no need to take him
Grendel
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Doubt that. Thomas is gone. This guy would have been on a very low deal.
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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I think those three players stalling is exactly what's holding up any further transfer activity.
"Moorhouse revealed Coventry were keen to sign him but the move broke down as the clubs were unable to agree a deal."
Gazolba
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Well it turns out he WAS offered a contract, so your assumptions were completely wrong!
But Glenavon said it was a free, then when he was offered a contract they said hang on we now want a fee! Hence we miss out
RoboCCFC90
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Very much so
Gazolba
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From Sligo Rovers FC website:
Moorhouse makes move to Rovers
Sligo Rovers can confirm the signing of striker Greg Moorhouse on a contract until the end of the current SSE Airtricity Premier Division.
Rovers have signed the 23-year-old after a fine season in the NIFL with 10 league goals with Glenavon, as well as nine assists, with 16 goals in all competitions.
He recently returned from a trial spell at Coventry City and was in demand following his return to Ireland, but the Bit o' Red have won the race for his signature after agreeing a deal with his club.
Moorhouse began his career with Lourdes Celtic and St Joseph's Boys, before shining with Crumlin United, including the winner against Finn Harps in an FA Cup tie last year.
That persuaded Glenavan to sign the striker and following a breakthrough year in the North, he joins Gerard Lyttle's men.
Moorhouse said: "I'm really excited. Hopefully we can start pushing up the table. That's why I'm here
"It was a good season with Glenavon last year. I started off well. I had a little injury as I fractured my metertasal. I came back straight into the team and scored a lot of goals.
"The season didn't end too well as we missed out on Europe but I still consider it a good season looking back on it all.
"Hopefully I can come in and score some goals. I had a look at it, I was here on Saturday night for the Dundalk game. The signs were good. The result was deserved. There is a lot of fresh faces coming in and we can pull together and get some results."
Moorhouse revealed Coventry were keen to sign him but the move broke down as the clubs were unable to agree a deal.
He said the time spent with Coventry has given him a taste for full-time football: "I loved it. I went over there for two weeks of pre-season with the option of a third week in Spain if they liked me.
"The two weeks went well, then the trip to Spain went well and in the fourth week it came about that Coventry wanted to offer me a contract. They told me to head home and get more stuff and say goodbye to my family.
"They tried to get in touch with Glenavon to sort out a deal and that fell through. It did alert a lot of clubs then. I really enjoyed it over there. I enjoyed training two times a day and going to the gym and the constant environment of football time football. I think I already learned a lot from the four weeks with Coventry."
The striker was at The Showgrounds on Saturday to witness the 1-1 draw with Dundalk and will come into contention for this Saturday's game with St Patrick's Athletic in Sligo.
"The crowd pushed the team on last Saturday. The lads did well. I can see why our home form has been good because the fans are brilliant.
"I played for St Pat's at schoolboy level. Hopefully I'll be involved on Saturday. It looks like it'll be a six-pointer and that would get us level if we win. We can go out and get the result."
Moorhouse makes move to Rovers
Sligo Rovers can confirm the signing of striker Greg Moorhouse on a contract until the end of the current SSE Airtricity Premier Division.
Rovers have signed the 23-year-old after a fine season in the NIFL with 10 league goals with Glenavon, as well as nine assists, with 16 goals in all competitions.
He recently returned from a trial spell at Coventry City and was in demand following his return to Ireland, but the Bit o' Red have won the race for his signature after agreeing a deal with his club.
Moorhouse began his career with Lourdes Celtic and St Joseph's Boys, before shining with Crumlin United, including the winner against Finn Harps in an FA Cup tie last year.
That persuaded Glenavan to sign the striker and following a breakthrough year in the North, he joins Gerard Lyttle's men.
Moorhouse said: "I'm really excited. Hopefully we can start pushing up the table. That's why I'm here
"It was a good season with Glenavon last year. I started off well. I had a little injury as I fractured my metertasal. I came back straight into the team and scored a lot of goals.
"The season didn't end too well as we missed out on Europe but I still consider it a good season looking back on it all.
"Hopefully I can come in and score some goals. I had a look at it, I was here on Saturday night for the Dundalk game. The signs were good. The result was deserved. There is a lot of fresh faces coming in and we can pull together and get some results."
Moorhouse revealed Coventry were keen to sign him but the move broke down as the clubs were unable to agree a deal.
He said the time spent with Coventry has given him a taste for full-time football: "I loved it. I went over there for two weeks of pre-season with the option of a third week in Spain if they liked me.
"The two weeks went well, then the trip to Spain went well and in the fourth week it came about that Coventry wanted to offer me a contract. They told me to head home and get more stuff and say goodbye to my family.
"They tried to get in touch with Glenavon to sort out a deal and that fell through. It did alert a lot of clubs then. I really enjoyed it over there. I enjoyed training two times a day and going to the gym and the constant environment of football time football. I think I already learned a lot from the four weeks with Coventry."
The striker was at The Showgrounds on Saturday to witness the 1-1 draw with Dundalk and will come into contention for this Saturday's game with St Patrick's Athletic in Sligo.
"The crowd pushed the team on last Saturday. The lads did well. I can see why our home form has been good because the fans are brilliant.
"I played for St Pat's at schoolboy level. Hopefully I'll be involved on Saturday. It looks like it'll be a six-pointer and that would get us level if we win. We can go out and get the result."
Nick
Administrator
Unless we didn't want to?
covcity4life
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Hmmm how mich did he go for then if a deal needes to be done with glenavern?
Dav
Member
Registered just to confirm that this is definitely what happened. Coventry weren't happy Glenavon went back on their word and wouldn't have paid even £100 for him.
There's no way we paid more than €5k IMO. Money is tight as it is at every LOI club not playing in Europe. I can count on one hand the number of transfer fees we have paid in my lifetime.
Bit surprised we only signed him until November. There's only 10 league games left over here.
Good luck this season lads.
Dav
Member
We play March - November over here. The majority of teams are part time. We're one of the few full time teams although a lot of our performances this season would suggest otherwise..
Our weekly wage budget was around the €20k mark to start the season so Moorhouse is probably on €500 - €700 per week if I were to guess. We were desperate enough to pay a fee for potentially just 10 games from him though so it could be more than that.
Dav
Member
Wouldn't mind that season, you miss out all the bad weather
Are you pushing to win something or stay up?
Stay up. We are currently 10th in a 12 team league with 3 teams going down this season.
Summer seasons are nice but I do miss the winter games when I'm watching football on TV at Christmas. We switched to Summer in 2003. It has helped our clubs in Europe too since we often go up against teams still in pre-season.
mark82
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Hopefully to us. Just got a decent feeling about the lad. Was actually a bit gutted when he didn't sign even though I'd not heard of him a couple of weeks ago.
Nick
Administrator
the Irish season has finished, he isn't in the list who have re-signed either so far and isn't on their site:
Sligo Rovers FC First Team | Sligo Rovers Football Club
Callan-McFadden and McCabe among eight signed up | Sligo Rovers Football Club
Saying that, I don't think he did too much for them.
Sligo Rovers FC First Team | Sligo Rovers Football Club
Callan-McFadden and McCabe among eight signed up | Sligo Rovers Football Club
Saying that, I don't think he did too much for them.
no_loyalty
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Does this mean we could sign him asap, if we want to?
Nick
Administrator
I am not sure on how it works, as he has played for another club after our window has closed and then become a free agent. Then again it's Ireland, so no idea
Liquid Gold
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I think because its international then he can sign today if Robins wants him. I'd go for it, he sounded good pre season and could provide the pace we need on the other side to Jones needed to open up some sticky defences.I am not sure on how it works, as he has played for another club after our window has closed and then become a free agent. Then again it's Ireland, so no idea
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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If we got him in (hypothetically), we'd need to offload Kwame at the very least.
skybluesam66
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10 apeparances 0 goals for sligo
just what we need!!
just what we need!!
fernandopartridge
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Funny that, he was another cracker we'd missed out on who would guarantee us a hatful of goals according to the experts here
sw88
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skybluesam66
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to be fair who are the flops ?
defence are solid
Midfield Kelly and Doyle no issues
the question marks are around Vincenti/ McNulty and Biamou
However I still think come the end of the season we will have at least 2 of them who we would have been happy with
defence are solid
Midfield Kelly and Doyle no issues
the question marks are around Vincenti/ McNulty and Biamou
However I still think come the end of the season we will have at least 2 of them who we would have been happy with