Showing posts with label Crusaders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crusaders. Show all posts

6 March 2016

Danny Hale

Name:
Born: 1 July 1941, Waterfoot
Height:
Weight:
Position: Forward

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 3 Amateur Caps (1960-1963)
Club Honours: (with Glentoran) Irish Intermediate Cup Winner 1961/62; (with Crusaders) Ulster Cup Winner 1963/64; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1964/65(with Dundalk) League of Ireland Champion 1966/67; League of Ireland Shield 1966/67; Top Four Cup Winner 1966/67(with Derry) Irish Cup Runner-Up 1970/71.
Awards: Irish League Topscorer 1968/69; League of Ireland Topscorer 1966/67 (joint); Dundalk Player of the Year 1966/67.

Club Career:
Teams
Seasons
Signed
Fee
League
FA Cup
FL Cup
Europe
Other
St Malachy's
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cranburn Stars
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Lisnagarvey Strollers
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cliftonville
59/60-60/61
-
Amateur
*/ 19
-
-
-
-
Glentoran
61/62
-
Amateur
8(0)/  3
1(0)/2
-
-
3(0)/1
Crusaders
62/63-65/66
c/s-62
Amateur
*/138
-
-
-
-
Dundalk
66/67-67/68
c/s-66
-
41(1)/ 22
7(0)/4
18(0)/12
2(0)/1
12(0)/4
Derry City
67/68-70/71
-
-
*/103
-
-
-
-
Ards
71/72
c/s-71
-
/  6
-
/ 2
-
/3
TOTALS
-
£-
/291
/6
/14
2(0)/1
/8
* all games

Biography:
To follow.

Dundalk Who's Who

Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
24-09-1960 England A L 2-3 
28-09-1963 England H W 2-1
25-09-1965 England H L 0-2

Summary: 3/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 2.

31 January 2016

Player Transfers January 2016

2014/15 - 2015/16 -2016/17
Club Appearances - Transfers (summer 2015 - January 2016) - Cups, Ups & Downs -

Northern Ireland players on the move...

Permanent Transfers
Rory Patterson (FC United to Derry City) BBC
Jonny Steele (ex-Minnesota United to Ottawa Fury) FuryFC
Philip Lowry (Derry City to Portadown) BBC
Shane Ferguson (Newcastle United to Millwall) BBC
Michael McLellan (H&W Welders to Linfield) BBC
Chris Johns (Bangor to Coleraine) CFC
Colin Nixon (Bangor to Larne) LFC
Ryan Brobbel (Whitby to TNS) Shropshire Star 

Loan Deals
Jeff Hughes (Cambridge to Tranmere) BBC
Ivan Sproule (Linfield to Ballinamallard) BBC
Robbie McDaid (Leeds to Lincoln) IrishFA
Luke Conlan (Burnley to Morecambe) Lancashire Evening Post
Chris Hegarty (Linfield to Dungannon) LFC
Lee Hodson (MK Dons to Kilmarnock) BBC

Pre-Contracts
Michael Gault (Portadown to Crusaders) BBC

Released
Jamie Sendles-White (Hamilton Academical) AcciesFC

31 August 2014

Walter McFarland

Name: Walter McFarland
Born: 1945
Died: 15 August 2014
Height:
Weight:

Position: Half-Back / Defender

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Amateur Caps (1968).
Club Honours: (with Crusaders) Irish League Champion 1972/73, 1975/76; Irish Cup Winner 1966/67, 1967/68; Ulster Cup Winner 1963/64, Carlsberg Cup Winner 1973/74; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1964/65, 1968/69, 1973/74.

Club Career:
Teams
Seasons
Signed
Fee
League
FA.Cup
Europe
Other
Crusaders
62/63-75/76
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Amateur
-
-
-
-
Ballyclare.Comrades
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-
-
-
-
-
-
TOTALS
-
£-
-
-
-
-

Biography:
Walter McFarland will be best remembered as a Crusaders player from 1962-1976, skippering them to the Irish League title in 1973 and featuring in a host of other successes.

He later joined the Seaview coaching staff and was also manager of Ballyclare Comrades.

After leaving football behind, McFarland earned successes on the judo mat, becoming World Masters Champion in 2001.

More details to follow.

Newtownabbey Hall of Fame
BBC report on death
Crusaders Tribute

Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
16-03-1968 Scotland A W 2-0 
11-05-1968 Wales... H L 0-1

Summary: 2/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 1

6 August 2011

Nathan Hanley

Name: Nathan Hanley
Born: 18 July 1990, Carrickfergus
Height: 5.09 ft
Weight: 11.02 st
Position: Midfielder / Left-Back

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: Under-21, Under-19, Under-17, 1 Under-16 Schoolboy Cap (2006).
Club Honours: (with Linfield) IFA Premiership Champion 2011/12 ...; (with Crusaders) NIFL Premiership Champion 2014/15; Irish League Cup Runner-Up 2013/14.

Club Career:
Teams
Seasons
Signed
Fee
League
FA Cup
FL Cup
Europe
Other
St Andrews BC
-
-
Youth
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-
-
-
-
Linfield
-
-
Youth
0 (0)/0
-
-
-
-
Hull City
-
-06
Youth
0 (0)/0
-
-
-
-
Ballymena United
10/11
c/s-10
Free
/3
-
-
-
-
Linfield
10/11-12/13
Jan-11
-
13 (4)/3
-
1(0)/0
2(0)/0
3(0)/0
Crusaders
13/14-14/15
-13
Free
14(16)/3
-
-
-
-
Ballymena United
15/16
-15
-
14 (-)/1
-
-
-
-
Carrick Rangers
16/17- date
Jul-16
-
-
-
-
-
-
TOTALS
-
£-
-
-
-
-
-

Biography:
Nathan Hanley won youth caps and played reserve team football with Hull City before being released in 2010. He joined Ballymena United where his impressive performances earned the attentions of Belfast's "Big Two". He joined Linfield, were he had played as a youth, shortly before the January 2011 transfer window closed and won his first Under-21 cap at the end of that season.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
31-05-2011 Faroe Islands A D 0-0 ECQ
still active

1 March 2011

Jim Burke

Name: James Burke
Born: 4 November 1939, Belfast
Position: Left-Half

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Amateur Cap (1965); Junior, Youth.

Club Career:
Teams
Seasons
Signed
Fee
League
FA Cup
FL Cup
Europe
Other
Lower Shankill BC
-
Youth
-
-
-
-
-
Cliftonville
58/59
-
Amateur
*2/ 0
-
-
-
-
Minorca
-
-
Amateur
(Northern Amateur League)
Carrick Rangers
-
-
Amateur
(Irish League B Division)
Distillery
62/63-65/66
-
Amateur
*95/17
-
-
-
-
Dundalk
66/67-67/68
c/s-66
-
32/ 1
4/1
17/0
2(0)/0
14/1
Crusaders
68/69
c/s-68
-
*29/ 0
-
-
0(1)/0
-
Larne
68/69
-
-
*10/ 0
-
-
-
-
Ards
69/70-70/71
-
-
*83/22
-
-
1(0)/0
-
Carrick Rangers
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-
-
(Irish League B Division)
Corinthian Casuals
-
-
-
(Isthmian League)
TOTALS
-
£-
351/40
-
-
3(1)/0
-
* all domestic games

Biography:
To follow.

Dundalk Who's Who

Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
25-09-1965 England H L 0-2

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Who was Northern Ireland's Greatest World Cup Player & Team? (select up to eleven players)

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