O’Loughlin says O’Connell loss a massive blow to Banner
The 26 year-old Wolfe Tones player has been forced to leave due to a shortage of engineering work locally and O’Loughlin admits it he is a huge loss to a squad that is largely made up of young and inexperienced players.
“We only have about half a dozen experienced players and you definitely need all of them to bring the new guys on. It’s a massive blow that a player like Brian is no longer going to be with us. The circumstances were that Brian had very little work last year and he got an opportunity to go to Australia for a couple of months in October. He came back in mid-December and we met to have a chat about it. Unfortunately he had little appetite to stay around, so he decided to head back to a place where he has work.”
