Championship

BAILIE BRINGS IN YOUTHFUL QUARTET

07 Aug 2020
football
© PressEye Jake Corbett celebrates scoring in the Steel & Sons Cup final
Ards have announced no fewer than four signings as John Bailie continues to shape his squad ahead of the new season.
 
Bailie has moved to bring youthful quartet Jake Corbett, Jamie Glover, Ruairi O'Hare and Sean Green to the Bangor Fuels Arena on a mixture of permanent and loan deals.
 
Corbett is a loanee from Linfield. The 19-year-old midfielder broke into the Blues' first team squad last April but would have been regularly scene in the Swifts for whom he bagged 25 goals last term, including two in the Steel & Sons Cup final win over Newington on Christmas Day.
 
Another 19-year-old, O'Hare also arrives from Linfield. The centre-back was another member of the Steel Cup winning squad, having worked his way through the Academy ranks at the club.
 
Glover, 19, returns to Northern Ireland after a spell playing for City of Liverpool FC in the Northern Premier League. The left-back was formerly with HW Welders and Glentoran before his trip across the Irish Sea.
 
Green, at 21 the oldest of the four new arrivals, was most recently with Lisburn Distillery having joined at the end of January but due to the lack of playing opportunities only made one appearance for the Whites. Prior to that the striker clocked up 21 appearances in the Championship for PSNI.