{"id":3927,"date":"2022-01-01T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2022-01-01T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T20:05:57","slug":"welcome-michael-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Michael Smith!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ballyclare Comrades is pleased to announce the signing of experienced Irish League forward, Michael Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old joins the Comrades from Dundela after spending the past 4 seasons with Danske Bank Premiership side, Carrick Rangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to be here,&#8221; said Michael Smith. &#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to getting on the pitch and playing games and hopefully bringing the goals to push us up the table. After speaking with Paul, I didn\u2019t want to go anywhere else.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re delighted to get a player of Michael\u2019s quality over the line,&#8221; said Paul Harbinson. &#8220;I know a lot of clubs were interested in him so for him to choose to come here is fantastic for us. I\u2019ve known him for a few years and know he is a great professional who will add a real goal threat to our ranks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael will wear the number 9 shirt for the Comrades. Want to show support for Michael? You can sponsor him for \u00a320 for this season and you will get your name\/business listed beside Michael on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/sponsor-a-player\/\">Sponsor A Player<\/a>\u00a0page, as well as a photo opportunity with him. <a href=\"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/product\/michael-smith\/\">You can sponsor Michael here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballyclare Comrades is pleased to announce the signing of experienced Irish League forward, Michael Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}