Richie Ryan

[Charlie Darwin]

Former Sligo Rovers captain made his first start and played the whole game as Dundee United beat Celtic 1-0.

http://www.skysports.com/football/match_report/0,,11065_3504487,00.html

[DannyInvincible]

Too late for the Euros? :p

[Eminence Grise]

Well, you can't overlook form like that!:D

[tricky_colour]

He was the top rated player on sky sports.
He certainly seems to be a player on the up.
He is a defensive midfielder, and Trap can certainly never have too many of those!!

[gastric]

So the next big thing of about 10 years ago, finally finds form! Thank goodness.

[geysir]

In the few games I saw Rovers play on tv, he looked a very good player. No reason why he shouldn't play to a similar standard with Dundee Utd.

[dong]

He was the top rated player on sky sports.
He certainly seems to be a player on the up.
He is a defensive midfielder, and Trap can certainly never have too many of those!!

He's actually not a defensive midfielder.

[tricky_colour]

He's actually not a defensive midfielder.

Well wikipedia needs correcting then!!


Richie Ryan
Personal information
Full name Richard Ryan
Date of birth 6 January 1985 (age 27)
Place of birth Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Defensive Midfielder

[Jofspring]

Good passer of the ball, can play defensively or in attack. Been a top, if not the top, LOI player the last two years.

[tetsujin1979]

Well wikipedia needs correcting then!!

then do it yourself!

[Charlie Darwin]

I'd have described Ryan as more in the Paul Scholes mould, a player who links up play and keeps things ticking over. I suppose anybody who doesn't burst forward every five seconds like Steven Gerrard is considered a 'defensive' player in some quarters.

[tetsujin1979]

won the NASL Play of the Week with a cracking free kick: http://www.ottawafuryfc.com/news/detail/uuid/xucib19j6p4g1re942xljvg2w/ryans-goal-named-nasl-play-of-the-week#.VC5jahbuqaB

[tetsujin1979]

signed a new contract with Ottawa this week: http://www.ottawafuryfc.com/news/detail/uuid/hklxv47h2uu169eygv1t816e/in-ryan-we-trust#.VEeQzhYnkZA

[dong]

Bizarrely, The boy "Ryan Richter" plays on the same team.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Richter

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Bruce Grobbelaar pushing his International credentials in a recent Q&A!

[Crosby87]

Many on here cannot wait until Dick Ryan joins Long Cox in Eire's starting lineup vs Alba.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

https://twitter.com/EmeraldExiles/status/545648064573505537

Might be moving to Peterhead on a short term loan deal.

[Charlie Darwin]

Jaysus.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Interesting interview with Richie Ryan & Colin Falvey.

http://www.the42.ie/richie-ryan-colin-falvey-ottawa-fury-irish-football-2234889-Jul2015/


RR: I’m lucky that I have a partner who’s open-minded with what I do and she’s willing to travel wherever I go – that made it a lot easier. Growing up in Ireland, every kid wants to go to the UK which – after seeing different things over the last few years that I’ve been playing – I think Ireland needs to get away from that mentality.


The UK is just a big fish bowl. Young kids go there and they’re just another number. And especially for technical players, there’s so much more out there. You can play in Holland, Germany where you’re going to develop your strong points. Young technical players in the UK will probably get overlooked in favour of more powerful players who won’t be as good technically but who can do a bleep test for longer, y’know?”






RR: I don’t mean to be disrespectful to Martin O’Neill, but you might as well have Trapattoni there. I don’t think there’s been any great difference in performances or the way we play.



RR: I think there’s more pressure on managers in Scotland because they build it up a lot more & the games are on Sky or BT or wherever. There’s a lot more people watching the league on TV – not many in the stadiums, to be honest. There’s only been a couple of managers that it hasn’t worked out for.


Pat Fenlon took over at Hibs but they were already in the ****. People will say ‘Pat Fenlon ****ed Hibs’. Hibs were already ****ed. Terry Butcher took over after and he proper ****ed them. He took them down to the First Division even though he was going to be the saviour after what he’d done at Inverness and it didn’t happen.”

“For me, the Scottish league and the Irish league – there’s not a huge difference. If you put the top four or five teams in Ireland up against Ross County, St Mirren, Kilmarnock – they’d easily hold their own. If you put Dundalk up against any of those teams right now, they’d beat them – with the style of football and the players they have. And I think you have a lot of players choosing to stay at Dundalk or Shamrock Rovers now rather than going and playing for the likes of Ross County because the money in Scotland has dried up because of what happened with Rangers. Scottish football is probably built a little bit on the Old Firm.”

[seanfhear]

^^^^^^^^ quite interesting and nice to see a Sports person give some interesting observations.