Jason Sherlock

dcarroll

Whatever happened to him, does he still play?

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He played for Shamrock Rovers for a while.

Think he only plays the GAA now, for Dublin and Na Fianna I think.

KdjaCL

Had dual contract with GAA and Rovers , told Rovers he was injured played a celeb game for some charity and GAA match week after, contract was cancelled my "mutual consent" soon after.

Miss him be damn sure if Rovers created a chance and he got he would miss, very consistent player

kdjac

dceire

Yea I saw a picture of him playing for Dublin in today’s paper so he must still play for them. I haven’t seen or heard of him in years not that I’m complaining

Slash/ED

He still seems popular with the Dublin GAA crowd, probably because he's the only player have of them have actually heard of.

The Rooster

quality post Slash. Or maybe just ignorant.

The facts are that Jason played a big part in Dublin winning an All Ireland football final in 1995, as an 18/19 year old in his first year with the team (he'd probably been Dublin's best player the year before when they won the Leinster minor title). As a youngster he had excelled at soccer, gaelic and basketball. Despite his small stature he actually represented his country at basketball.

As with so many young lads Jason's ambition was to make it as a pro soccer player. He was playing league of Ireland with UCD and had trials with a number of English clubs, notably Liverpool. No firm contract offers but Rovers were interested so he signed with them.

For a few years he tried to mix gaelic and soccer, but as they are both so different, he didnt help his form in either. Eventually he decided he had to give up one or the other, and he decided to stick with the gaelic.

After about a year of playing only gaelic, his form improved dramatically. He became one of the best forwards in Dublin club football, and in the last two years he's probably produced his best form for Dublin of his career. He got an All Star nomination last year, which I think was his first one since 1995. And he's at least another 2 or 3 years left in him at intercounty level. His strengths are his intelligence, workrate, courage and football ability. His biggest weakness is the lack of power in his kicks for long distance points. And being one of the more hyped up GAA players of his generation he used to get too much praise for his good performance and still gets too much criticism when things dont go his way.

Lex Luthor

I saw him on Henry St last week outside the Ilac Centre with a suit & a clipboard.
He was either doing surveys or selling insurance.....

Slash/ED

The Rooster wrote:

quality post Slash. Or maybe just ignorant.

The facts are that Jason played a big part in Dublin winning an All Ireland football final in 1995, as an 18/19 year old in his first year with the team (he'd probably been Dublin's best player the year before when they won the Leinster minor title). As a youngster he had excelled at soccer, gaelic and basketball. Despite his small stature he actually represented his country at basketball.

As with so many young lads Jason's ambition was to make it as a pro soccer player. He was playing league of Ireland with UCD and had trials with a number of English clubs, notably Liverpool. No firm contract offers but Rovers were interested so he signed with them.

For a few years he tried to mix gaelic and soccer, but as they are both so different, he didnt help his form in either. Eventually he decided he had to give up one or the other, and he decided to stick with the gaelic.

After about a year of playing only gaelic, his form improved dramatically. He became one of the best forwards in Dublin club football, and in the last two years he's probably produced his best form for Dublin of his career. He got an All Star nomination last year, which I think was his first one since 1995. And he's at least another 2 or 3 years left in him at intercounty level. His strengths are his intelligence, workrate, courage and football ability. His biggest weakness is the lack of power in his kicks for long distance points. And being one of the more hyped up GAA players of his generation he used to get too much praise for his good performance and still gets too much criticism when things dont go his way.

I never once said anything about him or his quality as a GAA footballer.

BolBill

Great post Rooster (as usual), but you could have said one of his weaknesses is when he tries to point from distance he ends up kicking the ball so high straight up that there is snow on it when comes down

p.pete

Lex Luthor wrote:

I saw him on Henry St last week outside the Ilac Centre with a suit & a clipboard.
He was either doing surveys or selling insurance.....

He was working for Musgrave in Balymun when I left there about 15 months ago but I guess he's moved up in the world