Reece Grego-Cox (F free agent b.1996)

[tetsujin1979]

U19 player on the bench for QPR today

[tetsujin1979]

Signed a two and a half year contract just a few weeks ago, and playing with the u21s despite being 18: http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/reece-grego-cox-qpr-professional-contract-2150218.aspx

[Crosby87]

Poor Shane Long has to avoid another teammate in the prematch line.

[tricky_colour]

Poor Shane Long has to avoid another teammate in the prematch line.

Good job Cox married a Grego rather than a Long :D

[Deckydee]

U19 player on the bench for QPR today

Also on the bench again Sunderland

http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/qpr-michael-doughty-reece-grego-cox-2258578.aspx

[Olé Olé]

Dion Fanning was saying on the Second Captains podcast on Thursday that there's a decent affinity between QPR and the Irish community in London due to Loftus Road's location up around the Shepherd's Bush and Kilburn area which would be Irish community strongholds.

Of course we have Grego-Cox (that article states he's a QPR fan) and Michael Harriman (seems to have been with QPR since a youngster) as 2nd or 3rd generation Irishmen there, not to mention the Gallen's that are still heavily involved with the club.

[RiffRaff]

They had a good representation of strikers in the Irish squad during the 70's with Givens, McGee and Walsh. I lived in Queens Park during the 80's and there was a huge number of Irish pubs. Not so sure its like that now, but not many areas of Britain are

[Deckydee]

I am a lifelong QPR fan and I have visiting Loftus Road twice a season for as long as I can remember. Over the years I dont think I have actually met an English QPR fan ;)

I'll do a copy/paste of what I posted on another site. This is the Irish contingent at QPR:

Reece Grego Cox

Michael Harriman (on loan at Luton) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harriman

Frankie Sutherland (on loan at AFC Wimbledon) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Sutherland

Jake Mulraney - http://balls.ie/football/qpr-sign-promising-irish-youngster-jake-mulraney/

Ryan Manning - http://balls.ie/football/18-year-old-ryan-manning-set-for-qpr-move/

Nathan Corkery - http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/nathan-corkery-qpr-republic-of-ireland-under-18s-2120219.aspx

Olamide Shodipo - https://twitter.com/RobBrennan82/status/496918432110354432

Jamie Sendles-White - Plays for Norn Iron but qualifies for the ROI via his mum I believe

As Olé Olé mentioned, its a lot to do with Joe Gallen too. Nice interview with him here: http://www.indyrs.co.uk/2013/04/steve-gallen-westside-story/

[Crosby87]

I thought Corkery was when one was accused of leaving vomit as a tip?

[Paddy Garcia]

Over the years I dont think I have actually met an English QPR fan ;)
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Kevin Gallen? ..... and a player too!

[Deckydee]

Kevin Gallen? ..... and a player too!

That can be argued....see my post on this threat :)

http://foot.ie/threads/117761-Owen-Coyle/page5

[TrapAPony]

One to watch. Listed as a sub v Tottenham. Fingers crossed he gets on.

[TrapAPony]

Gets his Premier League debut with 2 minutes to go. :)

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Ah yes. He's been the recipient of some very lofty praise from Gallen recently.

http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/13646/ireland-u19-squad-ready-for-azeri-friendlies/

Was wondering why he didn't link up with the squad for the Azerbaijan games - he was training with the QPR first team.

Ryan Manning also spent time training with the senior team recently. Hopefully he isn't far behind being named in a (club) squad.

[samhaydenjr]

Wow - an Irish underage striker making his Premier League debut at the age of 18. This could be huge. But he's born in England? OK - we must get our best surveillance team to tail him everywhere he goes and if anybody from the FA gets within 100 yards of him: Take. Them. Out. Or better still, in three weeks' time, he meets up with the u-19s for the game in Germany - after that game the FAI grabs him, puts him on a plane back to Dublin and, two minutes from the end of the Poland game, they chuck him on to the pitch and call it a substitution.

[Deckydee]

Fans write on him:

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/38112/a-genuine-striking-hope-for-the-future-%E2%80%93-column

[TrapAPony]

Makes the bench today v Liverpool

[Stuttgart88]

I thought that was Carpenter?

[samhaydenjr]

With QPR's woes piling up (relegation; the inevitable departure of Austin, Vargas and others; a potential fine of $58m and a possible transfer embargo - http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32742194) could it all work out in Grego-Cox's favour? With a pathway opening up to the first team, should O'Neill and Keane start watching him very closely in order to determine whether and when to move him up to the full National Squad? Or will he end up toiling away at a basket case of a club? And what happens if Chris Ramsey gives him more game-time in the final two games of the season and he bangs in a goal or two? Could he possibly become another dual-national we want to see getting his debut against Gibraltar?

[TrapAPony]

Brought on as a half-time sub against Newcastle

[tetsujin1979]

Performance was praised by Merson on Soccer Saturday

[samhaydenjr]

With QPR's woes piling up (relegation; the inevitable departure of Austin, Vargas and others; a potential fine of $58m and a possible transfer embargo - http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32742194) could it all work out in Grego-Cox's favour? With a pathway opening up to the first team, should O'Neill and Keane start watching him very closely in order to determine whether and when to move him up to the full National Squad? Or will he end up toiling away at a basket case of a club? And what happens if Chris Ramsey gives him more game-time in the final two games of the season and he bangs in a goal or two? Could he possibly become another dual-national we want to see getting his debut against Gibraltar?

OK so he didn't score a hat-trick, but he did play 45 minutes today and, as tets noted, got some praise from Paul Merson. So he does seem to be progressing pretty quickly. (In fact you could probably see a parallel between where Grego-Cox is now and where Jack Grealish was about eight months ago). And Les Ferdinand seems to hint that QPR are going to move away from a policy of buying expensive players to developing and promoting young talent internally at http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32769012 :


"Realistically we can't afford to go out and pay £20m, £30m, £15m on players. We have to start regrouping and producing a crop of players who can play for this club."

So with Grego-Cox likely to be an early beneficiary of this policy, I definitely think we should watch him very closely next season.

[Deckydee]

I am a lifelong QPR fan and I have visiting Loftus Road twice a season for as long as I can remember. Over the years I dont think I have actually met an English QPR fan ;)

I'll do a copy/paste of what I posted on another site. This is the Irish contingent at QPR:

Reece Grego Cox

Michael Harriman (on loan at Luton) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harriman

Frankie Sutherland (on loan at AFC Wimbledon) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Sutherland

Jake Mulraney - http://balls.ie/football/qpr-sign-promising-irish-youngster-jake-mulraney/

Ryan Manning - http://balls.ie/football/18-year-old-ryan-manning-set-for-qpr-move/

Nathan Corkery - http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/nathan-corkery-qpr-republic-of-ireland-under-18s-2120219.aspx

Olamide Shodipo - https://twitter.com/RobBrennan82/status/496918432110354432

Jamie Sendles-White - Plays for Norn Iron but qualifies for the ROI via his mum I believe

As Olé Olé mentioned, its a lot to do with Joe Gallen too. Nice interview with him here: http://www.indyrs.co.uk/2013/04/steve-gallen-westside-story/


Hi,

Just an update on their contracts:

Reece Grego Cox - Existing Contract - http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/reece-grego-cox-qpr-professional-contract-2150218.aspx - Signed until Summer 2017

Michael Harriman - Deal Offered - http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/darnell-furlong-new-contract-qpr-players-offered-deals-2457399.aspx

Frankie Sutherland - Deal Offered - Same Link

Jake Mulraney - Deal Extended for a year - Same Link

Jamie Sendles-White - Released - Same Link

Ryan Manning - Existing Contract - http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/qpr-deal-a-major-break-for-galway-youngster-manning-305396.html - Signed until Summer 2017

Nathan Corkery - Signed first professional contract - https://twitter.com/NathanCorkery/status/599277874080837632

Olamide Shodipo - Signed first professional contract - http://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/qpr-youngster-furlong-signs-new-contract

[tetsujin1979]

Was wondering how Shodipo qualified, according to Rob Brennan on twitter, he was born in the Mater: https://twitter.com/RobBrennan82/status/496918432110354432

[Deckydee]

Just found out the Ben Pattie is eligible as well. Dear oh dear , its hard to keep track of them all ;)

http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/240913-young-striker-signs-1073935.aspx

[Stuttgart88]

He's a Plastic Pattie.

[Deckydee]

He's a Plastic Pattie.

2267

:p

[CraftyToePoke]

In relation to the list above, Chris Ramsey has been given the QPR job full time despite relegation and Les Ferdinand in the same piece saying it is time the club focused on developing its youth players. There should be chances there for some of our lads so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32797812

[samhaydenjr]

In relation to the list above, Chris Ramsey has been given the QPR job full time despite relegation and Les Ferdinand in the same piece saying it is time the club focused on developing its youth players. There should be chances there for some of our lads so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32797812

I think this is very good news as Ramsey and Ferdinand seem committed to building a squad from within and with so many big players likely to leave over the summer, it ought to give a few of our youngsters the chance to break into the first team. Indeed, if three or four Irish youth players establish themselves next season in the Championship as a result of this change of focus away from expensive signings, QPR's relegation this year could turn out to be one of the most positive events for the Irish National team in recent years and could add significant depth to our squad in time for the next qualifying campaign.

[DeLorean]

I like your positivity, you must be the anti-towk.

Antitowkwise if you will.

[Stuttgart88]

Kwot?

[tricky_colour]

I thought that was Carpenter?

No there was no carpenter on the bench, I checked ;)

[samhaydenjr]

I like your positivity, you must be the anti-towk.

Antitowkwise if you will.

Ah, TOWK's alright, he just gets a little worked up at times, and sometimes a couple of people here seem to wind him up, which has led to tets having to intervene - I didn't even get to give my views on the recent developments on what is being laughably referred to in the media and by some commenters as "The Jack Grealish Saga". But TOWK does want Ireland to succeed, as I'm sure everybody here does.

As regards being positive, I do think there is plenty of reason to be optimistic about the near and medium term future of the national team - we already have a reasonably decent team which has been added to over the past year with the recruitment of McGoldrick and Christie and the ascent of Harry Arter. And there have been numerous young players who have started to put themselves in a position where they could be considered for the senior team within the next year or so - Grealish being the obvious one but also think of Hoban and Murray at Watford; Duffy and Darragh Lenihan at Blackburn; Sean Scannell experiencing a renaissance at Huddersfield; Williams, Carruthers and maybe Browne coming up from League One; Sean Kavanagh establishing himself at relegated Fulham; and now Grego-Cox breaking through at QPR, with the possibility that others might join him. Plus there are a number of youth players who will hopefully make the step-up to the senior teams at their respective clubs quite soon - Jack Byrne, Alex O'Hanlon, Noe Baba, etc. - and others not far behind, like Masterson and Kinsella. So there's a reasonable chance that we could be quite competitive within a few years.

[DeLorean]

Ah, TOWK's alright, he just gets a little worked up at times, and sometimes a couple of people here seem to wind him up, which has led to tets having to intervene - I didn't even get to give my views on the recent developments on what is being laughably referred to in the media and by some commenters as "The Jack Grealish Saga". But TOWK does want Ireland to succeed, as I'm sure everybody here does.

I'm sure he does, although it's debatable whether he actually wants all of our players to succeed. I was jokingly referring to his, overly dramatic, reactions to teams with a few fringe Irish players not gaining promotion. I don't think people like winding him up either, but feel compelled to pull him on his inaccuracies or loose 'facts' and general, unfounded, self-congratulatory ways. It is to the detriment of the forum though and he's clearly not going to change his ways, so maybe some of us should. Easier said than done at times. Anyway, I shouldn't bring him up for no reason, so my bad.

I agree with your positivity with regards Ireland's potential. A lot of our capped players look to be on a bit of an upward curve also.

-Westwood's career has steadied and is going from strength to strength
-Given first choice at Villa
-Clark had reestablished himself as first choice for Villa also, before his injury, and days like last Saturday should ensure he's reinstated when he returns
-O'Shea fresh from a motm performance at The Emirates and PL survival
-Our three W's still doing their thing at Stoke
-Coleman & McCarthy becoming an integral part of Everton's team
-Long getting more game time at Southampton and taking his chance
-Hoolahan heading for Wembley and hopefully a PL return
-Murphy the Championship top scorer
-And what about this Grego-Cox guy (lame attempt to keep thread on topic!)

...to name a few.

[TrapAPony]

Starting against Leicester. Well done to him.

[samhaydenjr]

Starting against Leicester. Well done to him.

Tough game to make your first Premier League start in. But still, breaking into the first team at the age of 18 is an excellent achievement and a good sign of things to come from Grego-Cox. More and more it's looking like he could be the one to watch next season, from an Irish point of view.

[gastric]

Tough game to make your first Premier League start in. But still, breaking into the first team at the age of 18 is an excellent achievement and a good sign of things to come from Grego-Cox. More and more it's looking like he could be the one to watch next season, from an Irish point of view.

Call him up Trap!

[samhaydenjr]

Call him up Trap!

LOL! I know we like to use that joke at every opportunity but I do hope MON is monitoring his progress closely and working out potential scenarios for putting him in the squad, should he have a breakout season in 2015/16 - if we qualify for Euro 2016, should he play in pre-tournament friendlies? If we don't, do we give him a runout in any summer games the FAI lines up next year, with a view to preparing him for a role in World Cup qualifying? And while I know that we'll likely never fill the Robbie-shaped hole up front that's surely going to open up soon, and that we do still have some decent striking options, it would be great if we had a forward who could be expected to score 25-30 international goals over his career. Now with Kane firmly established for England and no real sign of Bamford switching allegiance, Grego-Cox looks like the most likely to fill that role.

[Deckydee]

Nice Article on him here: http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/38754/in-love-with-the-game-again--interview

Mentions Paul Doolin in there too

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

DeLorean, I don't need to change anything. I am not doing anything wrong. It is not my fault that people can't behave themselves when I post something that they don't agree with.

Good luck to Grego-Cox. Poor enough at the weekend by all accounts though.

[tetsujin1979]

If you two want to continue this discussion, take it to your inboxes

[samhaydenjr]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33767901

Bobby Zamora gone to Brighton - If Charlie Austin is picked up by somebody over the next few weeks, Reece should be given the opportunity to impress in the first team fairly quickly as, beyond Austin, QPR's strike force looks fairly ordinary, on paper at least

[Deckydee]

Hi,

Just an update on their contracts:

Reece Grego Cox - Existing Contract - http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/reece-grego-cox-qpr-professional-contract-2150218.aspx - Signed until Summer 2017

Michael Harriman - Deal Offered - http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/darnell-furlong-new-contract-qpr-players-offered-deals-2457399.aspx

Frankie Sutherland - Deal Offered - Same Link

Jake Mulraney - Deal Extended for a year - Same Link

Jamie Sendles-White - Released - Same Link

Ryan Manning - Existing Contract - http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/qpr-deal-a-major-break-for-galway-youngster-manning-305396.html - Signed until Summer 2017

Nathan Corkery - Signed first professional contract - https://twitter.com/NathanCorkery/status/599277874080837632

Olamide Shodipo - Signed first professional contract - http://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/qpr-youngster-furlong-signs-new-contract

One more for the list:

http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/leo-donnellan-republic-of-ireland-czech-republic-qpr-2821927.aspx

[Olé Olé]

One more for the list:

http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/leo-donnellan-republic-of-ireland-czech-republic-qpr-2821927.aspx

Shaun Donnellan of WBA's father is Leo too. Is this another son of his I wonder? Can't see anything online.

[tetsujin1979]

on the bench for QPR today against Burnley (Ward starting again) first time he's been involved with the first team squad since a start in the league cup in August

[Deckydee]

Update on Olamide Shodipo:

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/qpr-manager-jimmy-floyd-hasselbaink-11638478:

With opportunities from Tjaronn Chery, Nedum Onuoha and Ben Gladwin, Hasslebaink was also pleased with the impact 19-year-old Olamide Shodipo had on the game. Shodipo, who has spent the last three years at Loftus Road, has been awarded significant time on the pitch this pre-season.Hasslebaink explained: “We want to bring players through from the youth if they are good enough.

[Charlie Darwin]

Rob Brennan, an Irish journalist from London and QPR fan, reckons Shodipo will go a long way:

@RobBrennan82 (https://twitter.com/RobBrennan82) Jul 19 (https://twitter.com/RobBrennan82/status/755493315462791168) This boy @MideSho (https://twitter.com/MideSho) is going to replace McGeady in the Ireland squad. Expect Keano to be at Loftus Rd in Aug. #COYBIG (https://twitter.com/hashtag/COYBIG?src=hash)

[gastric]

Can you stop creating a feeling of excitement and optimism on here. How many times in the past have we build up our hopes up to have them dashed. Too many for me! Not a criticism Charlie, just tired of having my optimism continually dashed.

[Charlie Darwin]

Can stop you creating a feeling of excitement and optimism on here. How many times in the past have we build our hopes up to have them dashed. Too many for me! Not a criticism Charlie, just tired of having my optimism dashed.
I'm going to follow you around now building up your hopes.

[Deckydee]

Not going out on loan, that says something. http://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/football-wls-qpr-hasselbaink-olamide-shodipo-loan