Stephen Bradley is effectively a talent manager this season. Take Aidomo Emakhu and Richie Towell. Two players at the opposite ends of their careers, both emerged last season as key figures in Shamrock Rovers’s next great leap.
Emakhu cannot break into the team while Towell has been a peripheral midfield option in the early part of this campaign despite Rovers sitting fourth in the table with three wins and two defeats from seven matches. This is nowhere near a crisis situation for Bradley, even considering the need to bring Ireland international Jack Byrne off the bench to salvage a draw at home to Sligo Rovers before the international break.
The three-in-a-row title chasers are the only fully professional outfit in the league, with a squad built to reach the Europa Conference League group stages, but they still need to figure out how to juggle players who might eventually demand more minutes.
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- April 1, 2022
