WATCH: 'We have a team to win the league' - Bradley says Coleraine's push for honours remains intact

Coleraine striker Eoin Bradley is confident the Bannsiders’ big title ambitions are still very much on track – despite their talisman boss’s departure to full-time football in Scotland.

As speculation grows over a successor to Oran Kearney, now manager of Scottish Premiership side, St Mirren, Bradley says the players will keep their focus – and push for the Danske Bank Premiership title which just eluded them last season.

Speaking on our BetMcLean Football Show, now available to view on Cool FM’s Facebook Page, the 34-year-old believes the team are more than capable of winning.

And he says that challenge is certainly not being derailed by Kearney leaving.

"We have the team to win the league,” he said.

“It's just a matter of keeping everybody focussed and working as hard as when Oran was there. It'll be interesting in the next couple of weeks to see who is appointed, but we should look forward to that because it's a new era."

On this season's title race being much more open, Bradley said:

“There's ourselves, Crusaders, Linfield, Glenavon and Cliftonville.

“But then Ballymena have strengthened as well and Glentoran gave us a very difficult game at the Oval. I don't think it'll be like last year where two teams pulled away.

“Come the end of the year, I think we'll have 4 or 5 teams vying away after Christmas."

With a number of names being bandied around as Kearney’s replacement – Dungannon Swifts boss Rodney McAree being the current favourite, Bradley says his former manager will be a hard act to follow.

"It's hard to know because I've only ever worked with Gary Hamilton and Oran and they're both very similar,” he said.

“Oran's best quality is that he's a good man manager and he's very organised."

Also guesting on this week’s show which is also available as a podcast (iTunes) is Glenavon midfielder Sammy Clingan.