Alternative Starting XI?

[tetsujin1979]

Given that it's the off season, try this teaser on for size

Below is a list of all the players Trapattoni has selected as a starting player for one or more of the qualifiers.
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to name a starting XI, without using any one of those players.
Show your workings, and there will be penalties for bad penmanship


Shay Given

Steven Finnan
John O'Shea
Richard Dunne
Paul Mc Shane
Stephen Kelly
Sean St Ledger
Kevin Kilbane

Steven Reid
Stephen Hunt
Glen Whelan
Aidan McGeady
Darron Gibson
Damien Duff
Keith Andrews
Andrew Keogh

Kevin Doyle
Robbie Keane
Caleb Folan

[pineapple stu]

Good question! Going to go for experience in mine cos I don't pay much attention to the youngester; pretty sure all these are still playing

Dean Kiely
Stephen Carr
Ian Harte
Gary Breen :)
Graham Coughlan (bit stuck here)
Mark Kennedy
Andy Reid
Gary Dicker :cool:
Wes Hoolihan
David Connolly
Clinton Morrison

Subs -
Keith Fahey
Wayne Henderson
Shane Long
Stephen McPhail
And whoever's good in the LoI this season and isn't visiting Belfield as a result. :(

[gspain]

Kieran Westwood

Kevin Foley
Alex Bruce
Andy O'Brien
Darren O'Dea

Chris McCann
Stephen Ireland
Andy Reid
Liam Lawrence

Shane Long
Noel Hunt

subs
Rory Delap
Keith Fahey
James McCarthy

[pineapple stu]

Andy O'Brien
Stephen Ireland
Rory Delap

Oh yeah...

[irishultra]

1.Brian Murphy

2.Kevin Foley
3.Delaney(LOL what happened to him anyway, he just vanished)
4.O'Dea
5.Marc Wilson


6.McCann
8.A Reid
10.Fahey

7.Jay O'Shea

11.Hoolahan

9.Dominic Foley

[John83]

Until Fahey popped up towards the end, I was thinking that gspain had made a team excluding all of the choices of Trapattoni and Pineapple Stu.

[pineapple stu]

And Andy Reid. ;)

[John83]

Oops.

[irishultra]

Here we actually do have some fairly good options in midfield(Whelan, Fahey, Reid, McCann, McCarthy(? bit young) Andrews, Andy Reid, Gibson) And 6 of them are born in Ireland, not bad for a country of less than 5 million.

[SunderlandBohs]

1.Westwood

2.Foley
3.J.O'Brien
5.Bruce
6.Wilson

11.Fahey
7.Lawerence
4.McCann
8.A.Reid

9.Best
10.Hunt

Subs.
12.Long
13.B.Murphy
14.McCarthy
15.O'Dea
16.O'Toole
17.Ward
18.Walters

[gustavo]

Given that it's the off season, try this teaser on for size

Below is a list of all the players Trapattoni has selected as a starting player for one or more of the qualifiers.
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to name a starting XI, without using any one of those players.
Show your workings, and there will be penalties for bad penmanship


Shay Given

Steven Finnan
John O'Shea
Richard Dunne
Paul Mc Shane
Stephen Kelly
Sean St Ledger
Kevin Kilbane

Steven Reid
Stephen Hunt
Glen Whelan
Aidan McGeady
Darron Gibson
Damien Duff
Keith Andrews
Andrew Keogh

Kevin Doyle
Robbie Keane
Caleb Folan



Westwood
Foley O'Brien O'Dea Harte


Ireland :D Garvan McCarthy Fahey

Morrison Hunt N

[irishfan86]

Note that I have excluded those who have turned down call-ups.

-------------Westwood-----------
Foley--P.McCarthy---O'Dea----Ward
Lawrence--McCann--J.McCarthy--A.Reid
----------Long------Morrison---------

[rambler14]

Note that I have excluded those who have turned down call-ups.

-------------Westwood-----------
Foley--P.McCarthy---O'Dea----Ward
Lawrence--McCann--J.McCarthy--A.Reid
----------Long------Morrison---------

Lawrence and Foley started against Nigeria!:p

[irishfan86]

Lawrence and Foley started against Nigeria!:p

Tets asked us to name an alternative XI who have not been started in qualifiers....;)

[Wexford Delboy]

Lawrence and Foley started against Nigeria!:p
friendlys dont count

[Colbert Report]

Given that it's the off season, try this teaser on for size

Below is a list of all the players Trapattoni has selected as a starting player for one or more of the qualifiers.
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to name a starting XI, without using any one of those players.
Show your workings, and there will be penalties for bad penmanship


Shay Given

Steven Finnan
John O'Shea
Richard Dunne
Paul Mc Shane
Stephen Kelly
Sean St Ledger
Kevin Kilbane

Steven Reid
Stephen Hunt
Glen Whelan
Aidan McGeady
Darron Gibson
Damien Duff
Keith Andrews
Andrew Keogh

Kevin Doyle
Robbie Keane
Caleb Folan


GK Dean Kiely
LB Ian Harte
CB Andy O'Brien
CB Alan O'Brien
RB Stephen Carr

RM That blonde fella that used to play for Newcastle, plenty of speed but now he's up in Scotland. Alan something.
CM Stephen Ireland
CM Andy Reid
LM Jonathan Walters (Norwich I think?)

ST Cillian Sheridan
ST Clinton Morrison

[Colbert Report]

Westwood
Foley O'Brien O'Dea Harte


Ireland :D Garvan McCarthy Fahey

Morrison Hunt N

Noel Hunt scored against Italy!

[irishfan86]

CB Alan O'Brien

RM That blonde fella that used to play for Newcastle, plenty of speed but now he's up in Scotland. Alan something.

Alan O'Brien is that blonde fella, I think you may be thinking of Joey O'Brien for CB?

[Colbert Report]

Alan O'Brien is that blonde fella, I think you may be thinking of Joey O'Brien for CB?

You've got it buddy, the young lad from Bolton. Alan O'Brien is the winger, not the centre half.

[Crosby87]

James McCarthy
Terry Dixon

Roy Keane as new manager

[irishfan86]

James McCarthy
Terry Dixon

Roy Keane as new manager

Based on what I've seen of Roy Keane, it would be Staunton all over again.

We'd have a new lineup every game, and he would never settle on a starting XI.

Squad atmosphere? Not a ****ing chance.

[Wangball]

GK - P Kenny

RB - E Nolan
LB - D Delaney
CB - P McCarthy
CB - D O'Dea

CM - JJ O'Toole
CM - O Garvan
CM - C McCann

FW - S Scannell
FW - C Morrison
FW - A Treacy

[richieos]

Gk Kiely

RB Foley
LB Ward
CB P. McCarthy
CB O'Dea

RM Lawrence
CM Garvan
CM McCann
LM Scannell

CF Long
CF N.Hunt