U21 squad VS Qatar and Andorra

[tetsujin1979]

U21 squad announced for friendly VS Qatar on Friday, and qualifier VS Andorra on Tuesday: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/king-names-squad-for-qatar-and-andorra-games

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND U21s:

Daniel Rogers (Aberdeen - on loan Falkirk)
Eric Grimes (Leeds United)
Thomas Hoban (Watford)
Glen Rea (Brighton - on-loan at Southend)
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers)
Shane Griffin (Reading)
Alan Browne (Preston North End)
Jack Connors (Dagenham)
Dylan Connolly (Ipswich Town)
Sean Kavanagh (Fulham)
Callum O'Dowda (Oxford United)
Reece Grego-Cox (QPR)
Brian Lenihan (Hull City)
Sean Long (Reading)
Conor Wilkinson (Barnsley)
Shamir Goodwin (Crawley Town)
Sean Maguire (Dundalk)
Sam Byrne (Everton)
Josh Cullen (West Ham)
Only two players with Premier League clubs

[Stuttgart88]

Probably just as well from their perspective. How many of the above are starters or at least semi-regular for their clubs? That'd be my main concern.

I saw O'Dowda feature prominently in a FL72 weekend goal review last weekend. Scored and an assist.

[zero]

i guess jack byrne would be included were he not injured.

[Charlie Darwin]

Probably just as well from their perspective. How many of the above are starters or at least semi-regular for their clubs? That'd be my main concern.
From what I can tell, only Rogers, Wilkinson and O'Dowda are starting regularly. Rea made his Southend debut last week, Browne has made a few sub appearances in the league and Cullen has briefly appeared for West Ham.

[TrapAPony]

Jack Byrne is injured but where is Kenny McEvoy, Eoghan O'Connell, Ian Lawlor, Dan Cleary, Alex O'Hanlon etc. Can never understand the FAI picking inferior players for their squads.

[Charlie Darwin]

Lawlor is injured, McEvoy is overage and I don't know if the rest are actually better than those in the squad.

[tetsujin1979]

Lawlor is back in training at Man City. Has a few appearances for the reserves.
The U19s are playing Italy next week, but the squad hasn't been announced yet, some of those could be in it,

A few players have been tweeting that they're in the squad
Connor Ellis (Cork City): https://twitter.com/ConnorEllis09/status/633568957144924164
Thomas Cadman (Brighton): https://twitter.com/Thomascadman6/status/638297642737508352

[Closed Account]

Players born on or after 1 January 1994 are eligible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_national_under-21_football_team#Current_squad

[Charlie Darwin]

Apologies, I probably should have looked that up. Still, I think players like O'Hanlon and McEvoy have reputations because they're at big clubs but that doesn't mean they're the right players to pick. King goes to watch these guys in reserve leagues and whatever so he's seeing them on a more regular basis than any of us.

[SkStu]

Some would say a complete waste of time going to all those reserve/underage games when all he really has to do is give Paul O'Shea a call.

[samhaydenjr]

Sooo....is anyone going to mention the elephant in the room...or not in the room, as it were...or possibly in another room...or maybe not.

[tetsujin1979]

No, still injured

[Closed Account]

From the earlier discussion, appearance wise, this group aren't doing too well this season. Nobody starting in the Premier League or Championship. A few getting appearances in the League Cup. Others still with the U21s of Championship teams. Bleak



Prem





Josh Cullen
Sub(90)
Prem
(West Ham)


Thomas Hoban
Sub
Prem
(Watford)


Champ





Alan Browne
Sub(70)
Champ
(Preston North End)


Darragh Lenihan
Started
Lge Cup
(Blackburn Rovers)


Reece Grego-Cox
Started
Lge Cup
(QPR)


Sean Kavanagh
Sub
Lge Cup
(Fulham)


Dylan Connolly

Started
U21s Champ
(Ipswich Town)


Eric Grimes
Started
U21s Champ
(Leeds United)


Shane Griffin
Started
U21s Champ
(Reading)


Brian Lenihan
Started
U21s Champ
(Hull City)


Sean Long
Started
U21s Champ
(Reading)


Lge 1





Glen Rea
Started
Lge 1
(Brighton - on-loan at Southend)


Conor Wilkinson
Started
Lge 1
(Barnsley)


Lge 2





Callum O'Dowda
Started
Lge 2
(Oxford United)


Jack Connors
Sub
Lge 2
(Dagenham)


Shamir Goodwin
Sub
Lge 2
(Crawley Town)


Sco Champ





Daniel Rogers
Started
Sco Champ
(Aberdeen - on loan Falkirk)


LOI





Sean Maguire
Sub
LOI
(Dundalk)








Rogers




Connors
Hoban

Lenihan
Kavanagh



Cullen

Browne



Connolly

Grego-Cox

O'Dowda




Wilkinson

[Closed Account]

Incidentally, Sam Byrne has pulled out through injury which is unusual for an Everton player. David Unsworth up to no good no doubt!:p

Unsworth had praise for Byrne after he scored a brace on Monday for the U21s
http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2015/09/01/unsworth-hails-clinical-byrne
http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2015/08/31/report-u21s-spurs

Elsewhere, this article says (http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2015/08/31/international-blues)

Elsewhere in the Under-21s squads, Jindrich Stanek (http://www.evertonfc.com/players/j/js/jindrich-stanek) represents Czech Republic, Sam Byrne (http://www.evertonfc.com/players/s/sb/sam-byrne), Harry Charsley (http://www.evertonfc.com/players/h/hc/harry-charsley) and Mateusz Hewelt (http://www.evertonfc.com/players/m/mh/mateusz-hewelt) have been selected by Republic of Ireland
Considering the U19 comp is for players after 1/1/97 and U21 is for 1/1/94 and the 2 players Charsley and Hewelt are both 1996, is there some U20 training group called up that wasn't announced?

[Closed Account]

A 4-1 win v Qatar U23
Ireland: Rogers (Grimes 46), Long, Hoban (D.Lenihan 46), Griffin, Connors, Browne, Cullen (Charsley 61), O’Dowda (B.Lenihan 46), Connolly (Maguire 46), Wilkinson (Fenelon 46), Kavanagh (Grego-Cox 46)
http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/king-pleased-as-ireland-u21s-beat-qatar-u23s

Kavanagh up front? Scored 2

[back of the net]

Just gone 1 up in against Andorra in u21 game....Thomas hoban....12mins

[back of the net]

2up now...Joshua cullen

[tetsujin1979]

Live stream on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-C5jAoa04w
not great quality, but watchable