Irish Abroad 2011/2012

[tetsujin1979]

A guy I used to work with has been helping me update the look of the stats site so it doesn't look like something a first year knocked together the night before the assignment was due.
The player details page is the first one to be completed, and you can see the fruits of his labours here: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/PlayerDetails

A similar look and feel will be rolled out to the rest of the pages over the next few weeks.

[Closed Account]

Not a bad 22 starting this weekend.

Given Kenny


Foley Duffy Dunne Wilson
Kelly O'Shea Clark Ward

Pilkington Gibson Ireland McClean
Delap Whelan McCarthy Duff


Cox Walters
Best Hoolahan

[theworm2345]

Aston Villa Reserves 7 Wolves Reserves 1 today

Aaron McCarey played the full match in goal for Wolves, apparently did quite well for Wolves even with the 7 goals, I guess could've ben much worse. Enda Stevens and Derrick Williams both played 90 for Villa in defence, Samir Carruthers also started and was taken off after 71 minutes. Micky Drennan also came on after 81 minutes. Villa did have a pretty strong side out with guys like Bannan, Delfouneso, and a few others with first team experience.

Commentator on the QPR - MK Dons match just said Trap should have a look at Darren Potter, Stephen Gleeson, and Shaun Williams as well :D

[Closed Account]

Hibs linked with Rhys Murphy and Jim Goodwin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16636171.stm

[SkStu]

Owen Garvan nabs a penalty to put Palace up 1-0 at HT against Blackpool.

[gastric]

According to the Daily Mail, Crystal Palace have made a 400,000 offer fro Damien Delaney. Becoming a very Irish defence there.

[Charlie Darwin]

Sean Murray starts for Watford v Tottenham tonight. Mark Yeates on the bench.

[TrapAPony]

Sean Murray starts for Watford v Tottenham tonight. Mark Yeates on the bench.

It's on ESPN for anyone who wants to watch

[Charlie Darwin]

Murray had two good chances, the second one hitting the post - it was actually a great save by Cudicini. Taken off after 70 minutes with cramp and replaced by Yeates. He was probably Watford's best player on the ball but he is quite slow.

[theworm2345]

Murray had two good chances, the second one hitting the post - it was actually a great save by Cudicini. Taken off after 70 minutes with cramp and replaced by Yeates. He was probably Watford's best player on the ball but he is quite slow.
Yep, was very impressed by him. A right footed player on the left side of midfield, certainly did very well defensively whether it was covering for Doyley when he went up or applying pressure in Tottenham's half. Took Watford's set pieces as well. The first chance was a decent strike that Cudicini struggled with, thought he really should've taken the second but it wasn't a bad effort. In spite of that though, I didn't see too much attacking impetus from him, didn't really take on defenders (Walker was marking him) nor do I remember him putting in any crosses from open play. Looked like he was shattered though after about 67 minutes when Yeates replaced him. Agree with you as well doesn't have much pace about him for someone playing on the wing. This was only his third Watford appearance and against a side third in the EPL, so one to watch for I suppose.

[SkStu]

Adam Rooney grabs Birminghams second from close range against Sheffield United. His 5th of the season for Birmingham i believe.

[SkStu]

There could be a fourth round shock on the cards as Clinton Morrison puts Sheffield Wednesday ahead with an impressive lobbed finish for his third goal of the season. Blackpool pay the price for a host of missed first-half chances.

[tetsujin1979]

Adam Rooney grabs Birminghams second from close range against Sheffield United. His 5th of the season for Birmingham i believe.
yep, fifth of the season, only one of them at home
<EDIT>
Just got a second, Birmingam 4-0 up now

[SkStu]

yep, from close in again.

[theworm2345]

John Sheridan's Chesterfield through to Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final...no Irish players though. Pretty dull semifinal 2nd leg as well.

[tetsujin1979]

Monthly stats for January available now on Irish Abroad: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=1
Strangely, no defender was substituted more than once. Very strange
John O'Shea and James McClean, along with Anthony Stokes, top the wins table with four apiece (unsurprisingly). The Sunderland pair were also joint top of the starters table, appearing in the starting XI six times with O'Shea completing 90 minutes in each one. McClean also scored twice, with Sunderland going on to win both games
Stokes was also the clear top scorer in January, with six goals, twice as many as any other player, surprisingly none of these were scored at Celtic Park and Celtic went on to win each game.
James McCarthy had a terrible month, losing four games

[Closed Account]

Probably an oversight, but Stephen Ward doesn't appear on any 25 man Wolves squad lists I've seen reported.
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/134339.html

Edit: It is an oversight obviously, listed here:
http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~2597014,00.html




Aston Villa



Ciaran Clark


Richard Dunne


Robbie Keane.


Shay Given


Stephen Ireland





Everton


Darron Gibson


Seamus Coleman





Fulham


Damien Duff


Stephen Kelly





Newcastle


Leon Best


Robert Elliot





Norwich


Anthony Pilkington


Wes Hoolahan


Marc Tierney





QPR


Brian Murphy


Paddy Kenny





Stoke


Rory Delap


Jon Walters


Glenn Whelan


Marc Wilson





Sunderland


John O’Shea


Kieren Westwood


James McClean


David Meyler





West Brom


Keith Andrews


Simon Cox


Shane Long


Steven Reid





Wigan


Conor Sammon





Wolves



Stephen Hunt



Stephen Ward



Kevin Doyle


Kevin Foley


James McCarthy is also missing but he was under 21 on the 1/1/11

[Olé Olé]

Stephen Folan has stated via his Twitter account that he has been released by Newcastle.

[theworm2345]

Tuesday, February 7th:

Damian Scannell and Daryl McMahon with two of Eastleigh's goals in their 3-2 victory over Havant and Waterlooville...Grenadian Bradley Bubb with the third.

Sam Foley with a goal for Newport County in their 4-0 FA Trophy victory over Carshalton Athletic.

Villa reserves beat Fulham reserves 3-0...Williams, Stevens, Carruthers, and Burke all started with the latter two getting goals in the match (and Stevens assisting on Carruthers'). Drennan replaced Burke in the 77th minute. Sean Kavanagh of Fulham is also Irish and played 90 minutes.
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2603200,00.html

[TheBoss]

Darren Murphy (Stevanage) to Aldershot (Loan)

http://www.theshots.co.uk/PlayerDisplay.ink?skip=14&season=11/12&squadno=41919&seasonl=2011/2012&Playertype=P

[tetsujin1979]

Ireland's Cameroon born u17 striker Carel Tiofack linked with a move to Arsenal in this morning's papers. According to The Sun (yes, I know) Wenger watched him personally recently.

[theworm2345]

Graham Cummins made his debut for Preston tonight playing the full 90 minutes in a 1-0 win over Hartlepool, only their second win in eight. Rhys Murphy came off the bench in the 67th minute and was then replaced in the 89th...no apparent injury.

Andy Keogh got his first goal for Millwall tonight as well, as I recall from the Soccer Special commentary it was a tap in from close range following a corner.

[theworm2345]

Graham Cummins got his first goal in English football today for Preston.

[gastric]

Breaking news -Niall Quinn is leaving Sunderland, no immediate reason given.

Just got this from RTE.


http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2012/0220/quinnn.html

[Closed Account]

no immediate reason given.
First sentence.

to concentrate on his family and business interests outside football.

[drummerboy]

Quinn always said it was going to be a five year project. He actually stayed 6 years. Done a remarkable job and is worshipped in Sunderland. Wouldn't it be fantastic if he took over the running of the FAI. Now there's a thought.

[gastric]

First sentence.

Joe,
Look at the time of the post and the time of the edit. I just updated the post when I found more info!

[Closed Account]

Joe,
Look at the time of the post and the time of the edit. I just updated the post when I found more info!
:cool:, Relax, just being a pedant on a Monday morning. He's off to concentrate on QSat, good luck to him.

[theworm2345]

Brentford - Carlisle just finished, very enjoyable match which Brentford won 4-0.

Jon Douglas was the only Irishman for Brentford and was playing in central midfield, perhaps a bit more defensively but got forward quite a bit. Thought he had an excellent game, broke up a fair few attacks coming through the middle and showed good composure and awareness going forward.

For Carlisle, Paddy Madden was given his first ever league start in England as he was deployed as a lone centre forward aided by two wingers (and in the second half they switched to 4-4-2). Didn't see much of him as he was effectively isolated, but showed a couple of decent sparks of activity. James Berrett was listed as being on the right side of a three man midfield at the start but was pretty much playing in the center of the pitch. Don't think he had a great match, Carlisle lacked creativity going forward and were overrun in the midfield. Finally, Peter Murphy played at centre half for Carlisle, in spite of the scoreline he didn't play particularly badly (some shocking goalkeeping from Carlisle's Adam Collin), but wasn't great either and was partially at fault for the first goal when he was beaten in the air by Harlee Dean to head in to an empty net (which shouldn't have been empty). Oh yes and Graham Kavanagh is Carlisle's assistant manager and was on TV a bit as well.

[Paddy Garcia]

That is true devotion to the cause.

[Closed Account]

Coincidentally, the day that Dominic Foley has a random article written about him
http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2012/02/random-1990s-footballer-tuesday-22-dominic-foley/
he goes and signs for Limerick FC
http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/foley-signing-to-aid-limerick-title-tilt-3025982.html

[theworm2345]

Goal for Michael Cummins (Gateshead against York), Odubade takes a low hard corner to Cummins about 16 yards out, takes a touch, and blasts it past the York keeper. 1-0 Gateshead in the 2nd minute. Alan O'Brien also starting for Gateshead.

EDIT: Odubade and Cummins connect againt for Gateshead's second. Odubade whips a cross in from the right, Cummins, arriving at the backpost, gets up and puts the bullet header past Ingham in the York goal.

First senior goal for Matt Doherty for Hibs as well tonight.

Tommy Coyne's son Bradley Coyne with a goal for Forfar in a 4-1 loss to Arbroath, not even sure he'd be eligible though as Coyne may have qualified through his grandparents (though Coyne may have gotten his passport early enough that he would qualify).

[Closed Account]

Everton have signed Sam Kelly from Norwich City. He's a brother of Danny Kelly who played for us a few years ago. Not sure where his allegiances lie.
http://evertonyouths.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/everton-1-0-west-bromwich-albion/

[Closed Account]

Mark Connolly has gone on loan from Bolton to Maccesfield Town
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17153385

[tetsujin1979]

Mark Connolly has gone on loan from Bolton to Maccesfield Town
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17153385
Short interview with Connolly on Macclesfield's site: http://www.mtfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10393~2622626,00.html

<EDIT>

Starting in defence today away to Oxford

[theworm2345]

Just a couple of small notes from the weekend...

Paddy Madden with a first goal in England for Carlisle

Gary Doherty with his first goal in over two years for Wycombe

Adam Barton had his ankle pretty much destroyed in a challenge against Walsall, apparently had surgery today.

[tetsujin1979]

Rhys Murphy scored a penalty, conceded by former u17 player Sean Tse, for Preston reserves in a behind closed doors game against Man City in a game that will probably be remembered as Carlos Tevez's first appearance in a Man City jersey since refusing to get warmed up against Bayern
Preston review: http://www.pnefc.net/page/Reserves/0,,10362~2627306,00.html
Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Match-reports/2012/February/City-EDS-v-Preston-NE-reserves-Central-Lge-Cup

[tetsujin1979]

former poster Tuff Paddy posted on the ybig forum that he'd bet that James McCarthy has more Premier League minutes under his belt in the last 2 years than pretty much every other player on the field on Wednesday night, so I decided to take that bet

I examined the Irish Abroad database, run the numbers and used the following restrictions:
Only games from 1st March 2010 until 29th February 2012 were counted - i.e. a timespan of 2 years, as stated in the original post from Tuff Paddy
Only players from the Ireland - Czech Republic game were included - no injured, suspended or omitted players were involved
Only minutes played in Premier League games count - no European, FA Cup, or League Cup appearances
Games are assumed to finish at 90 minutes, injury time is not counted, so if a player is not substituted, then they played 90 minutes, and if they are substituted then the gametime for that player for that game was the time they were substituted on
Similarly, if a player is introduced from the bench, the time from that minute to the 90th minute is the game time for that player in that game, e.g. introduced on 70 minutes = 20 minutes gametime

with that in mind, here are the final results:

Player Minutes
Stephen Ward 5090
James McCarthy 4672
Jonathan Walters 4395
Kevin Foley 4241
Glenn Whelan 3673
John O'Shea 3654
Damien Duff 3438
Seamus Coleman 3156
Stephen Hunt 2563
Shay Given 2454
Shane Long 1480
Robbie Keane 1075
Keith Andrews 851
James McClean 763
Simon Cox 559
Shane Duffy 181
Darren O'Dea 0
Sean St. Ledger 0
Aiden McGeady 0
Paul Green 0
David Forde 0
Stephen Henderson 0

I would have thought Whelan would have been ahead of Foley

For the record, Richard Dunne would be far and away the most minutes had he played, with 5941 minutes since 1st March 2010.

As always, this is open to correction

[Eminence Grise]

Fair play, Tets! What would we do without you?

[theworm2345]

Decent match between two promotion chasing sides in League Two, Southend vs Crawley, ended 0-0.

Michael Timlin the only Irish starter for Southend, started in central midfield. Was relatively solid in midfield, not the most impetus to go forward but kept things tidy in midfield.

Kane Ferdinand came on around 75 minutes for Southend after they were already down to 10 men (this after having been in trouble with boss Paul Sturrock for breaching the team's discipline rules). Southend quickly went down to 9 men after Liam Dickinson went down injured and they had made all of their subs, so he wasn't able to do much.

For Crawley, Rene Gilmartin started in goal, not sure he had a save to make all match.

Scott Davies started in midfield for them, his first appearance in Crawley for quite some time (I thought they had actually let him go when he went to Aldershot...was just a loan). I thought he did very well, as expected his right foot caused Southend some problems both from set plays and he provided a fair bit of creativity in midfield for them. Had a good low effort from maybe 25-30 yards out saved I think it was late in the first half. I remember he was banging in the goals for Aldershot a few years ago when he was on loan from Reading and thinking he'd go much farther, but so far that hasn't happened.

Billy Clarke the final Irish player in the match, started up front for Crawley. Watched him last week against Shrewsbury and he was very lively and causing the Shrewsbury defence problems throughout, though Crawley lost 2-1 that night. He was similarly active tonight but his finishing really let him down tonight. The ball fell to him alone in the box around midway through the second half. With only the keeper and defender Chris Barker on the line to beat (from about 8 yards, unchallenged), he hit it just to the side of him, though Barker stuck out a hand to stop it from going in...red card. Clarke stepped up and took the penalty, pretty poorly relatively hard and basically down the middle, which Cameron Belford kept out. Clarke would have two more good chances, a looping header that just went wide of the post and a shot late on that he skewed wide.

[Yard of Pace]

Alan Lee with a hugely important winner for Huddersfield against Jeff Stelling's favourite team tonight. 6 goals this season now, which is about treble his tally from last year.

[tetsujin1979]

Jamie Devitt sparked some ugly scenes at Valley Parade after Accrington scored tonight, celebrating in front of the home fans, and bench.
He posted this on twitter after the game
first this: https://twitter.com/#!/jamiedevitt20/statuses/177180016415739904

Apologies4way i reacted after the goal tonight nobody knows what went on at bradford wit me and i was gettn so much stick behind me #sorryyy (https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23sorryyy)
and then afterwards https://twitter.com/#!/jamiedevitt20/statuses/177186333427646464

Also people who bring family into it shud be ashamed i have massive respect for bradford fans well most of the fans anyway #badgamebytheway (https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23badgamebytheway)

[Charlie Darwin]

It's hard to take him seriously after he got relegated three times in the same season.

[liamoo11]

Mason and murray on scoresheet tonight. 2 excellent young players who hopefully will offer us something fun at senior level

[gastric]

Mason and murray on scoresheet tonight. 2 excellent young players who hopefully will offer us something fun at senior level


It was good too as Lawrence played a full game for Cardiff. Murray looks to be one to keep a close eye on.
.

[Olé Olé]

Graham Cummins got the first for Preston tonight on 12 mins. Tranmere have since levelled matters. That's Cummins' second league goal for Preston.

[TrapAPony]

Alex Pearce scored for Reading v Doncaster

[nigel-harps1954]

Graham Cummins got the first for Preston tonight on 12 mins. Tranmere have since levelled matters. That's Cummins' second league goal for Preston.

Just waiting for the Ireland call up now. Since he's good in England he must be good enough for the Irish squad.

[tetsujin1979]

all updates on the Irish Abroad twitter feed this weekend will be as Gaelige: https://twitter.com/irish_abroad
because I can

[theworm2345]

Aston Villa reserves will be playing at Manchester United reserves on Thursday so I think it should be live on MUTV. Villa reserves have won their last 5 matches and have only conceded one goal in those 5.