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Colchester United sign striker Mooney

12:09pm Thursday 5th August 2010 in


Colchester United have completed the signing of Reading striker David Mooney on a six-month loan deal.

The 25-year-old Dubliner has joined the U’s until January and is contention to start at Exeter City this weekend.

Mooney joined Reading in July 2008 from Cork City, having previously played for Shamrock Rovers and Longford Town in Ireland.

He has already played on loan at Stockport County, Norwich City and Charlton Athletic, where last season he made 20 league starts and scored five goals.

Indeed, Mooney scored for the Addicks in last season’s League One play-off semi-final against Swindon Town.

Colchester boss John Ward said: “I’m very pleased with the way Reading have handled it and the fact that David has been very keen to come to us.

“He’s in the mould of Steven Gillespie.

“He’s not a big striker like Kayode (Odejayi) or Clive Platt but he will lead the line.

“He’ll bring other people into play and he has a record of scoring goals.”

For all of the latest U’s news, see the Daily Gazette.

Comments(8)

crazy comments says...
3:58pm Thu 5 Aug 10

Lets hope he gets lots of mooney goals.

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RB, Lexden says...
4:06pm Thu 5 Aug 10

Robbie Cowling and John Ward have done very well to bring in a good striker at such short notice and they deserve credit for doing this.This gives us a much better chance on Saturday and for the weeks ahead.
I wish them,the U's and their fans - especially those who follow the team around the country -all the very best for the new season.Up the U's.

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Surb says...
6:49pm Thu 5 Aug 10

Well done RC and JW, for bringing in a striker we needed him. Can anyone tell me if JW likes the following players... Hackney, Vincent, Elito, Fox??? Just want to know if we will be seeing them play next season? Also is JW a long ball guy? Up the U's

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crazy comments says...
7:17pm Thu 5 Aug 10

Jamie Cureton has joined Exeter on non contract terms for the moment but is expexted to play against us on Saturday. The reason that has happened is because their finances at Exeter are very tight much like ourselves. What happens if he shines and scores against us? Him being a free agent means he can still be signed up by any other club.

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Graham1978cu says...
8:35pm Thu 5 Aug 10

Surb wrote:
Well done RC and JW, for bringing in a striker we needed him. Can anyone tell me if JW likes the following players... Hackney, Vincent, Elito, Fox??? Just want to know if we will be seeing them play next season? Also is JW a long ball guy? Up the U's
Fox signed for Norwich two months ago.

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Surb says...
9:32pm Thu 5 Aug 10

Graham1978cu wrote:
Surb wrote:
Well done RC and JW, for bringing in a striker we needed him. Can anyone tell me if JW likes the following players... Hackney, Vincent, Elito, Fox??? Just want to know if we will be seeing them play next season? Also is JW a long ball guy? Up the U's
Fox signed for Norwich two months ago.
Oh yeah I remember that now, remember having a debate with a mate of mine about how Norwich were not allowed to snap up anyone from colchester for a year or two and then they take Fox... should of taken Perkins. Well in that case no fox... what does that mean for our centre midfield?

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colchester canary says...
11:03am Fri 6 Aug 10

a great signing when he was at norwich he would run through brick walls always working hard and can finish to

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Layer Road Exile says...
8:00pm Fri 6 Aug 10

"He's in the mould of Steven Gillespie" I thought we were looking for a goalscorer?

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