Irish Premiership: How will clubs reflect on this season?
Larne deservedly lifted this season's Irish Premiership after an impressive campaign.The Inver Reds finished 22 points behind champions Linfield last season and despite plenty of changes and setbacks off the pitch, the side managed to slip under the radar at the start of this season, began strongly, and never looked back.Defensively, Larne have shown once again that they are hard to break down with new signing Matt Ridley, who picked up the Football Writers' Player of the Year, a standout player and goalkeeper Rohan Ferguson registering 21 clean sheets and playing every minute of the 38-game Premiership campaign. "We dug in, it was a far from straight forward season," said boss Gary Haveron."We were written off by so many people, and I don't think too many people gave us much of a look in and that maybe worked in our favour as we were able to get on with our work."A concern in the summer will be that key striker Andy Ryan is now out of contract.Haveron will be keen to have the Scot stay as they aim to defend their title and bring the Irish Cup back to Inver Park for the first time.
