Irish Abroad 2020/21

[tetsujin1979]

Festy Ebosele, Ola Ibrahim, and Alex Gilbert all make their career debuts, Armstrong Okoflex and Mipo Odubeko's first appearance for their respective senior clubs, Darren Randolph's 50th appearance for West Ham, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=7730969429298063001

[tetsujin1979]

Pierce Sweeney's 200th appearance for Exeter, Mark Connolly and Cian Bolger reach 300 career appearances, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=1115030408258293562

[Trequartista20]

What happened to Kenny's Kids? All those followers, talk of an exciting new platform, and yet no tweets since St. Stephen's day and now a warning message when you go to the account.

[tetsujin1979]

Mark McGuinness' first senior goal, Scott Hogan's tenth goal for Birmingham, David McGoldrick's 25th goal for Sheffield United, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=6449593735912583390

[tetsujin1979]

Joe Mason ends his goal drought with a hat trick, Dan Crowley and Jaze Kabia make their first appearances for their new clubs, Padraig Amond reaches 350 League Two appearances, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=6435404933430573827

[tetsujin1979]

Roy O'Donovan's 50th goal in the A-League, Ryan Manning starts a game for the 100th time, Michael Harriman's 300th career appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=7550231784816899213

[tetsujin1979]

January transfer window summary for Ireland players
21 Transfers
1️4 Loans
5 Contract extensions
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=4501645588246762328

[tetsujin1979]

Jeff Hendrick's first booking of the season, Aiden McGeady's 30th goal for Sunderland, Keiren Westwood's 500th career appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=6958499906194083433

[tetsujin1979]

Sam Foley's first appearance for new club Motherwell, John Egan's first assist in more than two years, Ciaran Clark's 100th start for Newcastle, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=2438829425657010061

[tetsujin1979]

Jeff Hendrick's first red card in four years, Olamide Shodipo's 10th goal of the season, Aaron Connolly's 50th career appearance, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=3537178105662006058

[Trequartista20]

Thanks for all your work, it's a very useful resource.

[tetsujin1979]

David McGoldrick's 100th appearance for Sheffield United, Ronan Curtis' 100th appearance in League One, Anthony Forde's 300th career appearance, Alan Judge's 400th career appearance, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=2760330080065366204

[tetsujin1979]

Greg Cunningham's first goal in three years, Thomas O'Connor's 50th appearance for Gillingham, Tommie Hoban's 100th career start, and (very little!) more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=2060255236269611932

[tetsujin1979]

(forgot to post this on Friday)
Ian Lawlor's first booking since December 2017, Anthony Scully's fifth goal in the Football League Trophy, Seamus Coleman's 350th appearance in English football, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=493932232539461156

[tetsujin1979]

Conor Grant's first career start, two players reach their 50th career start, Alan Sheehan's first booking since April 2019, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=8237374775394119586

[Demesne Lad]

Cyrus Christie the only Republic of Ireland player named in the whoscored.com Championship Team of the Month for February (Sky Sports).

[tetsujin1979]

Seamus Conneely's 250th appearance for Accrington Stanley, Joe Mason's 300th career appearance, Alan Sheehan's 450th career appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=1544275228901586344

[Demesne Lad]

Sean McLoughlin (ex-Cork City) has been given a new 3 year contract, despite making only one League One appearance so far this season, as an 89th-minute substitute against Wimbledon. (Yorkshire Post 4/03/21).

[Olé Olé]

Sean McLoughlin (ex-Cork City) has been given a new 3 year contract, despite making only one League One appearance so far this season, as an 89th-minute substitute against Wimbledon. (Yorkshire Post 4/03/21).
What's happened there? I've kept an eye on him all year but to little avail. He seemed to make an impact on Scotland and have a few good games in the Championship.

[tetsujin1979]

James McCarthy's first start in a month, Warren O'Hora's first goal for MK Dons, six Ireland players start for an English club side for the first time since 2010, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=8688151204276859045

[Demesne Lad]

He did start in 6 Football League Trophy games. " .. We feel has a very bright future at this football club and we're really pleased to see another talented young player commit his long-term future to Hull City,” (Grant McCann).

[tetsujin1979]

Padraig Amond's first goal in three months, Ryan Sweeney's first red card in 18 months, eight Irish players start in the same game for the first time since 2010, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=1982604290378689961

[tetsujin1979]

With the qualifying campaign for the World Cup in 2022 about to start, I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick and Philip Flanagan of The Bottomless Pit of Football to discuss the players we'd like to see Stephen Kenny call up for the first two qualifiers against Serbia and Luxembourg, and the friendly against Qatar. What difference will new coach Anthony Barry make to the preparations and tactics for the games, and who will play against Wales in the U21s friendly?
https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-26-a-serbian-episode

[tetsujin1979]

The podcast has been added to Spotify, you can subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/4lwsHDfzHKDdt2LKbvUkCA?si=uG8iLMyqSbixxP5qoqEVrA

[tetsujin1979]

Troy Parrott scores his first goal in senior football, Ciaran Clark overtakes Dean Kiely as the Irish player with the 29th most Premier League appearances, Darragh Lenihan's 200th appearance for Blackburn Rovers, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=315470721289021550

[tetsujin1979]

Louis Watson's first career start, Emmanuel Osadebe's first goal for Walsall, Alan Browne's first red card since October 2017, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=5616159755124193616

[tetsujin1979]

Conor McCarthy's 50th start for St Mirren, Ciaran Clark's 250th career start, Conor Hourihane's 400th career start, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=6682828923889842623

[Demesne Lad]

Mipo Odubeko scored twice in the West Ham U-18s 5-0 win away to Norwich U-18s in the FA Youth Cup 4th Round on Monday afternoon.

[tetsujin1979]

Eleven games into Stephen Kenny's reign as Ireland manager and not only are still waiting the first win, 98th ranked Luxembourg have become the lowest ranked side to defeat the Boys in Green at home, in either a competitive or friendly international. I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick and Philip Flanagan of The Bottomless Pit of Football to discuss the second worst loss in Irish football in our lifetimes, the loss in Belgrade, the draw with Qatar and where we can go from here
https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-27-not-as-bad-as-cyprus

(https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-27-not-as-bad-as-cyprus)https://open.spotify.com/episode/5lxdISPeyth3PXuiQIkTzI?si=nOvTNYtCRBePCfi1OSLC3A

[tetsujin1979]

Andrew Omobamidele's first start for Norwich City, Stephen Ward's 400th start in English football, Callum Robinson's fifth Premier League goal, Jimmy Keohane's first yellow card since 2019, and more in an extended Easter round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=5940452618103565467

[tetsujin1979]

Can I ask any of you on Twitter to tap like on my suggestion for the name of Dublin Bus' new recovery truck?
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[seanfhear]

Tell us more.

[tetsujin1979]

The link is there for me?
Try this if you can't see it - https://twitter.com/irish_abroad/status/1380585987399647234

[tetsujin1979]

Anthony O'Connor scored his fifth goal in League Two, Simon Coxy scored his fifth goal for Western Sydney Wanderers FC, Callum Robinson scored his fifth Premier League goal of the season, and more in the weekend round up, brought to you by the number 5! http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=4987772265224810515

[tetsujin1979]

Conor Shaughnessy's first career goal, Ryan Sweeney's first goal since January, Anthony Scully's 15th goal of the season, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=6769410515412591414

[tetsujin1979]

Three Ireland teenagers in an English league matchday squad for the first time since 2012, Marcus Harness' 50th appearance of the season, Ciaran Clark's 200th Premier League appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=7992322435931884254

[Demesne Lad]

FLW (www.Footballleagueworld.com) wondering today what next for Olamide Shodipo of QPR, who has been on loan at Oxford Utd. Stats: 9 goals + 2 assists from 23 starts + 15 sub appearances.

[Demesne Lad]

Greg Cunningham (30) signed new 2 -year contract at Preston NE (Lancashire Post, 27 April). Cardiff City never really worked out for him.

[tetsujin1979]

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[Demesne Lad]

Preston NE have retained all 5 of their Irish senior players for the coming season (Lancs Live 13 May).

[Demesne Lad]

Harry Arter unsure of his future at Nottingham Forest (FLW, 13 May). Thinks Chris Hughton doesn't rate him too much, but admits nothing has been said. Maybe Harry would be a good loan deal for a club such as Derby, or Stoke?

[tetsujin1979]

Andy Keogh scores four times in one game, Tommie Hoban and James McCarthy make their 50th starts for their respective clubs, John Egan's 300th career appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=5762010255705477083

[tetsujin1979]

Graham Carey's Bulgarian Cup win, Liam McAlinden scores in consecutive games for the first time since August 2019, Seamus Coleman's 350th Everton appearance, and (a little) more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=8819063478895015352

[tetsujin1979]

Labour TD for Dublin Bay North and tour guide for the Dublin Football Walking Tour Aodhán Ó Ríordáin joins myself, Mark Kennedy from Hawkeye Sidekick and Philip Flanagan from The Bottomless Pit of Football for a wide ranging discussion on the history of football in Ireland, and we name the players we want to see Stephen Kenny pick for the end of season training camp in Spain before facing Andorra and Hungary

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LrkoypQbcuiOSTexrO93Q
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=8880160400785836853

[tetsujin1979]

A thread on Irish player appearances in the 2020/21 Premier League season -*https://twitter.com/irish_abroad/status/1397160546869338115?s=19

[tetsujin1979]

I'm joined again by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick to discuss Stephen Kenny's 27 man squad to face Andorra and Hungary in two end of season friendlies, and his U21 counterpart Jim Crawford's 26 man squad who will line up opposite Switzerland, Australia, and Denmark, as well as going through the (few) highs and (many, many) lows for Irish players in the recently concluded 2020/21 season in England and Scotland: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=2081335603893134703

[tetsujin1979]

Jack Clarke, Robbie Brady, Kian Flanagan, Stephen Henderson, James McCarthy, Eunan O'Kane, Darragh O'Connor, Kameron Ledwidge, Thomas O'Connor, and Andrew Lonergan all released by their respective clubs: https://www.premierleague.com/news/2163099/

[Demesne Lad]

Rob Elliot(35) given 2-year contract at Watford (The Mag, 3 June).

[tetsujin1979]

In the final episode of the international season, I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick to review the friendlies against Andorra and Hungary, Troy Parrot's first strikes at international level, and what the performances of the three new caps could mean for the three World Cup qualifiers in September.
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=2986520574432251579