Irish Abroad 2022/23

[tetsujin1979]

Update on this. The Twitter changes have been postponed, with details to follow.
Without reading the quotes or replies, would you like to guess how "enthusiastic" developers are about the changes?
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[tetsujin1979]

I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick and Philip Flanagan of The Bottomless Pit of Football to review the notable transfers and loans for Irish players in the January 2023 transfer window, following the group draw, we look ahead to the 2025 UEFA Under 21 Championship qualifying campaign, and after Vera Pauw names her first squad in the World Cup year, we wonder who, of the new call ups, is most likely to make the final squad in July?

acast: https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-53-transfers-qualifiers-and-the-world-cup-build-up-b
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4K35H4tLYNAVaxKHY7FVDI?si=0d5670b982d849e2
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-53-transfers-qualifiers-and-the-world-cup/id1626813727?i=1000600633803
Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2 lyaXNoLWZvb3RiYWxsLWZhbnM/episode/NjNmMzhmYWM1ZDRlMTMwMDExY2EwMGVh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjYvrjyvqT9AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg

[tetsujin1979]

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[tetsujin1979]

Jon Gallagher's fifth goal for Austin FC, Eiran Cashin's 50th start for Derby County, Emmanuel Osadebe's first appearance in seven months, and more in the weekend round up
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=6225583349171983419

[Eirambler]

I'm guessing probably not an all-time record or anything, but the 10 Irish players that featured in the Derby v Cheltenham game tonight must be the highest in an English league game for a while.

[tetsujin1979]

I'm guessing probably not an all-time record or anything, but the 10 Irish players that featured in the Derby v Cheltenham game tonight must be the highest in an English league game for a while.
It's the most Irish players to appear in one game since a Championship game between Leeds and Sunderland in September 2006!
Gary Kelly, Paul Butler, and Jonathan Douglas started for Leeds
Kenny Cunningham, Liam Miller, Graham Kavanagh, Daryl Murphy, and David Connolly started for Sunderland, and Liam Lawrence and Stephen Elliott came off the bench for the Black Cats


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_1/5330158.stm

[Demesne Lad]

Christie (Hull, 7.20 rating) and McNally (Coventry, 7.70, most interceptions of any player in the league) included in the Sky Championship Team of the Month for February.

[tetsujin1979]

Lee O'Connor's 100th start for Tranmere Rovers, Alan Browne's 300th appearance in the Championship, Aiden O'Brien's 350th career appearance, and more in the midweek round up
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=5876201949499550591

[Demesne Lad]

The League 1 Team of the Season so far (based on Who Scored ratings each week) includes David McGoldrick and Eiran Cashin.

[Demesne Lad]

Looks like Wigan will be relegated, having been deducted 3 points for late payment of players. Will Keane and James McClean are out of contract this summer and could move elsewhere as free transfers, but Anthony Scully (23) has another couple of years on his contract and Jamie McGrath (25) one more.

[tetsujin1979]

In the third in the series of programming tutorials based on appearance data for Republic of Ireland players, I explain how to show that
1) The Ireland team against Scotland in September 2022 was the youngest to start a competitive game since a qualifier against Cyprus in November 1980
2) Stephen Kenny has given 15 players their debuts - the same number as Brian Kerr
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[tetsujin1979]

sort of a follow up to the video, how do you calculate the average age of a team?
https://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=3714566146423481703

[tetsujin1979]

I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick and Philip Flanagan of The Bottomless Pit of Football to discuss the friendly against Latvia and qualifier against France and what both results and performances mean for the qualification Euro 2024 campaign
acast: https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-54-tired-of-holding-our-hands-up
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5nAfmu6X9WK5VmxH1P5szC?si=a0da4c69a14c4497
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-54-tired-of-holding-our-hands-up/id1626813727?i=1000607699997
Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2 lyaXNoLWZvb3RiYWxsLWZhbnM/episode/NjQyZWI0M2RjNmVmM2MwMDExN2FkZjg4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj4tPWsqpX-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg

[tetsujin1979]

Give yourself a pat on the back if you recognise the sample in the podcast episode

[Demesne Lad]

An Irish spine to the Derby team in their formation: Cashin, Knight, McGoldrick, Collins. Hourihane there too. Finn Azaz on the bench for Plymouth, Omochere likewise for Fleetwood.

[Eirambler]

Harrogate v Doncaster making for an interesting hashtag on your twitter page today Tets!

[tetsujin1979]

Harrogate v Doncaster making for an interesting hashtag on your twitter page today Tets!

Enjoy it while it lasts. Who knows what's going to happen with twitter in the near future.

[tetsujin1979]

I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick to review the Republic of Ireland's women's friendlies against the US in Austin and Missouri, discuss the group draw for the UEFA Under 17 Championship, and announce our initiative to encourage fans of the women's team to update the wikipedia page for each member of the squad before the World Cup kicks off in July
acast: https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-55-from-austin-to-missouri
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/365uFwG3d8FLeASCVtQI9M?si=d7a41ffb37d24932
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-55-from-austin-to-missouri/id1626813727?i=1000610133726
Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2 lyaXNoLWZvb3RiYWxsLWZhbnM/episode/NjQ0MmRmZTI3MzAxMDQwMDExZGQxZmY0?sa=X&ved=0CAYQkfYCahcKEwjwz9Oijbz-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

[tetsujin1979]

What does the initiative announced on the podcast entail?
Well, we had discussed amongst ourselves what to do in the build up to the first appearance by the Girls In Green at this summer's FIFA Women's World Cup, and, having read of other similar initiatives to improve the quality of women's articles in certain fields (science, art, history, etc) we thought this would be an excellent opportunity for a collective effort by fans of the team to make as much information as possible available before the tournament kicks off in July.So, what does this entail?
For the next eleven weeks, we're going to ask fans to focus on a single position within the squad, read through the articles for the players in that posistion, and either correct any mistakes you notice, or add something to it. This can be as little as correcting a spolling mistake (like that one!), or adding a line about their debut to their career history, to adding their international record.
We're starting this week with the goalkeepers named by Vera Pauw in the squad to face the United States recently - Courtney Brosnan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Brosnan), Grace Moloney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Moloney), Megan Walsh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Walsh_(footballer)), and Sophie Whitehouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Whitehouse) - as well as recent callups Naoisha McAloon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoisha_McAloon), Katie Keane, and Eve Badana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Badana).
Read the linked articles for each player, see if you notice anything that is incorrect, or if you know anything that can be added, feel free to do so.

[Demesne Lad]

England/Ireland qualified midfielder Stan Flaherty (21) has been released by QPR. Previously with Arsenal and Newcastle, he scored 7 and had 3 assists in 24 PL2 appearances.

[tetsujin1979]

Twitter are making massive changes to their API* this weekend, so how will it affect the live updates from the Irish Abroad twitter account and the live updates?
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=7548289066218317471

*API is an industry term that stands for Application Programming Interface, it's the methods made available by a company (Twitter, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc) to use their services, e.g. to post an update, or image, or video, or read user information

[tetsujin1979]

Twitter are making massive changes to their API* this weekend, so how will it affect the live updates from the Irish Abroad twitter account and the live updates?
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=7548289066218317471

*API is an industry term that stands for Application Programming Interface, it's the methods made available by a company (Twitter, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc) to use their services, e.g. to post an update, or image, or video, or read user information
The changes didn't go through on Twitter last weekend, as had been announced by them, so as things stand everything is working as normal. No idea if/when the changes will happen now.

[Demesne Lad]

Sheffield Wednesday have released 5 of their U-21s and 5 of their U-18s, but Manchester-born left-back Cian Flannery (18), who is eligible for Ireland, has been offered a professional contract. (Yorkshire Live).

[SkStu]

This was posted over in the LOI forum. A great article and analysis of transfers from the League of Ireland to League One.

https://analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2023/05/03/the-irish-market-brexit-england-and-europe/

[tetsujin1979]

What does the initiative announced on the podcast entail?
Well, we had discussed amongst ourselves what to do in the build up to the first appearance by the Girls In Green at this summer's FIFA Women's World Cup, and, having read of other similar initiatives to improve the quality of women's articles in certain fields (science, art, history, etc) we thought this would be an excellent opportunity for a collective effort by fans of the team to make as much information as possible available before the tournament kicks off in July.So, what does this entail?
For the next eleven weeks, we're going to ask fans to focus on a single position within the squad, read through the articles for the players in that posistion, and either correct any mistakes you notice, or add something to it. This can be as little as correcting a spolling mistake (like that one!), or adding a line about their debut to their career history, to adding their international record.
We're starting this week with the goalkeepers named by Vera Pauw in the squad to face the United States recently - Courtney Brosnan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Brosnan), Grace Moloney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Moloney), Megan Walsh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Walsh_(footballer)), and Sophie Whitehouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Whitehouse) - as well as recent callups Naoisha McAloon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoisha_McAloon), Katie Keane, and Eve Badana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Badana).
Read the linked articles for each player, see if you notice anything that is incorrect, or if you know anything that can be added, feel free to do so.
Been adding the appearances and goals by year table to the various player articles for the last few weeks, and found something odd. Claire O'Riordan's profile page on fai.ie says she has 17 caps, but I've found 18 games where she made an appearance.
Added them all to the "Talk" section on her wiki page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Claire_O%27Riordan

[tetsujin1979]

Continuing the theme of "missing caps from player profiles", it looks like Katie McCabe's two goals against Wales in a challenge game in 2016 are not included in her profile on fai.ie
Not a big deal, but it looks like caps were awarded to her, and the rest of the squad, for those two games, so why not recognise the goals?

Also, Megan Connolly is listed with 38 caps on fai.ie but has appeared in 41 games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Megan_Connolly_(footballer)#International_Cap s

[Demesne Lad]

Former Ireland U-21, Scunthorpe Utd and Derry City centre-back Cliff Byrne has joined up again with Grant McCann, as McCann's Asst. Manager at Doncaster Rovers. Byrne was Asst. Manager to McCann for 18 months at Hull City (2019-2021), but the pair were sacked when new owners Acun Medya Group arrived. (Hull Live)

[Demesne Lad]

Players released so far by EFL clubs include Olamide Shodipo and Conor Masterson (QPR), Daryl Horgan (Wycombe Wanderers), Ryan Delaney and Dan Crowley (Morecambe). (East Anglian Times, 15 May).

[pineapple stu]

Masterson has already agreed a move to Gillingham, where he was on loan the last two seasons.

They're fourth tier - they looked odds on for relegation this season when scoring 7 goals in the first half of the season, but their second half was promotion form.

[Demesne Lad]

Ciaran Gilligan, 21 year-old midfielder, has been retained by Burton Albion, according to their website.

[Demesne Lad]

Gary Waddock (61) has left his post as Asst Manager to Cambridge Utd boss Mark Bonner, after three years (Cambridge Utd website, today). Waddock's playing career included 531 senior club appearances and 21 Ireland caps; he was born in northwest London, but on St Patrick's Day, so I assume his allegiance was never in question.

[Yard of Pace]

Danny Grant let go by Huddersfield Town after spending the season on loan at Harrogate (I think)

[Demesne Lad]

Sean O'Brien (21, CF/Attacking Midfield) seems to be England/Ireland eligible. Once of Millwall, he was signed in Sept 2022 by Forest Green Rovers, but played only a total of 230 mins in League 1/EFL Trophy games for them, plus 96 mins while on loan in the National League North. Following FGR's relegation, O'Brien has been released.

[tetsujin1979]

First round of stats from the 2022/23 season, and it's not good
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[tetsujin1979]

The appearance stats are better in the Championship, which suggests that's where our level is now
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[pineapple stu]

Oh that's interesting; I'd wondered about that.

If you aggregate them, our representation in the top two divisions has dropped significantly over time, and it's only in the last three years that there's any sort of shoots in the second tier. So probably fair to say we've fewer professional players to pick from than ever before (excluding the LoI, one of the points of which of course is to give our players a professional outlet)?

[Eirambler]

I think what those charts show very well is that the first part of our recovery is complete, with Championship players and goals back to the level they were consistently at from 2009 to 2019. This is good news.

The next step is to start to see a recovery in numbers in the Premier League, where I think we have now reached the absolute baseline before things start to pick up again. A few stats that I think are correct from the season just passed:

- Lowest number of EPL players/appearances ever
- Lowest number of EPL goals/goalscorers ever
- zero established EPL players under 30
- The first time ever a full round of games took place without a single Irish starter (a few caveats to that one as Coleman and Ferguson were both out injured, Bazunu had just been dropped having played most games to that point and Collins did come on as a sub in that round of games).

I think we'll start to see a gradual upturn in terms of the Premier League numbers from next season. Ferguson, Cullen and Egan should all be regulars, possibly Collins too. Doherty may well come back to the league at a mid to lower ranked team and be a regular starter there, Coleman will likely be a squad player at Everton and hopefully there will be a few more as well, there are a good few other possibles at this point. I don't think we'll ever see the numbers we saw 20 or 30 years ago, because the nature of the league has changed and a lot of Irish players that would have been solid bottom half of the table pros 15 or 20 years ago are Championship players now because of the extra money in the Premier League for international signings. But within a few years I think we'll be back to having 10 to 12 players appearances in the league most weeks, which is probably as much as we can expect for a country our size.

[Demesne Lad]

Article in the Yorkshire Post, with an Irish emphasis, especially on graduates Seán McLoughlin and Conor McCarthy:

Why Hull City's Sean McLoughlin and Barnsley FC's Conor McCarthy have a lot more in common than their birthplace of Cork | Yorkshire Post (https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/why-hull-citys-sean-mcloughlin-and-barnsley-fcs-conor-mccarthy-have-a-lot-more-in-common-than-their-birthplace-of-cork-4167761)

[tetsujin1979]

Ease back into work after the long weekend with episode 56 of the podcast. We're discussing the squad announced by Stephen Kenny to face Greece and Gibralatar, and reviewing the U17 campaign at the European Championships in Hungary
acast: https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-56-is-a-draw-a-bad-result
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-56-is-a-draw-a-bad-result/id1626813727?i=1000615708937
Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2 lyaXNoLWZvb3RiYWxsLWZhbnM/episode/NjQ3Y2YyODMzODYzYmQwMDExMjUzMjgw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjA_ZuEy67_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cmxmJVSM9weQolGmLZhlP?si=33ca2c1f82224fc9

[samhaydenjr]

First round of stats from the 2022/23 season, and it's not good
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If we add in the 463 minutes clocked up by Ebosele and Abankwah as "Premier-League Equivalent", does that bring us over the 10,000? Also, it would give us 15 players making appearances in Big Five Leagues, which would at least match 2018/19 (Conor Noss's Bundesliga appearances in 2021/22 would bring that season to 16)

[tetsujin1979]

If we add in the 463 minutes clocked up by Ebosele and Abankwah as "Premier-League Equivalent", does that bring us over the 10,000? Also, it would give us 15 players making appearances in Big Five Leagues, which would at least match 2018/19 (Conor Noss's Bundesliga appearances in 2021/22 would bring that season to 16)
Unfortunately no, it'd be around 9700 minutes. If you include Doherty in La Liga, it's 16 players in the big five leagues.

[tetsujin1979]

Gavan Holohan in the FA Cup Fans Team of the Season
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[tetsujin1979]

I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick and Philip Flanagan of The Bottomless Pit of Football to discuss the highs and lows for Irish players during the 2022/23 season. In the past 12 months, we've seen record lows for players numbers in the Premier League, players emerged across European leagues, and one player was the highest highlight

acast (https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-57-202223-the-highs-and-lows)
iTunes (https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-57-2022-23-the-highs-and-lows/id1626813727?i=1000618347385)
Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2 lyaXNoLWZvb3RiYWxsLWZhbnM/episode/NjQ5OTc5NTdjMzE0NDUwMDExYWU5MjJh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiAkdqq-OD_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BwDzhxDwB8rwnNVhAd5hV?si=e57a88ffde9a47a6)

(note this episode was recorded before the two qualifiers against Greece and Gibraltar)

[tetsujin1979]

Myself, Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick, and Philip Flanagan of The Bottomless Pit of Football are joined by James Carew of pogmogoal to discuss the loss in Greece and victory against Gibraltar. After the discussion in our previous episode on what a draw would mean for our qualification hopes, not to mind Stephen Kenny's time in charge of the national side, what does the result in Athens mean for the manager, and did the response against Gibraltar change anything?

We discuss the final 23 players, as well as those who missed out, after Vera Pauw had to make the most difficult decisions of her career when selecting the squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup - the countdown to Australia is almost complete!

And what statement is going to come back and haunt our guest??
acast (https://shows.acast.com/irish-football-fans/episodes/episode-58-hanging-by-a-thread)
iTunes (https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-58-hanging-by-a-thread/id1626813727?i=1000619250926)
Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2 lyaXNoLWZvb3RiYWxsLWZhbnM/episode/NjQ5ZjU0NmJkYmIyZTIwMDExYzhlZmFl?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwig7_65hPX_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CfZeULyI59DvATpsZ46Tq)

[tetsujin1979]

All automated updates are ending on my Twitter account. Elon's burned down a service that had little or no issues for more than 12 years in less than eight months
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[CraftyToePoke]

All automated updates are ending on my Twitter account. Elon's burned down a service that had little or no issues for more than 12 years in less than eight months
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I'm not on Twitter but have been unable to view shared tweets via other platforms for days now, which was always fine before. Maybe that's part of this sorry mess also. Meta are launching Threads I hear which looks a lot like Twitter & does the things Twitter used to, going to be interesting.

[JR89]

A shame to see it go Tets. Was the best page on Twitter and especially liked the updates post international windows with players stats for the games played.

Kenny's Kids is alright but that Tracker Page has went to the dogs since Tim stopped doing it.

[tetsujin1979]

I'm not on Twitter but have been unable to view shared tweets via other platforms for days now, which was always fine before. Maybe that's part of this sorry mess also. Meta are launching Threads I hear which looks a lot like Twitter & does the things Twitter used to, going to be interesting.
not being able to see embedded tweets is part of the recent changes. Elon says it's a "temporary" measure, but we'll see.
The launch of Threads is being held back in the EU due to privacy concerns: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/05/meta-delays-eu-launch-of-twitter-rival-threads-amid-uncertainty-over-personal-data-use


A shame to see it go Tets. Was the best page on Twitter and especially liked the updates post international windows with players stats for the games played.

Kenny's Kids is alright but that Tracker Page has went to the dogs since Tim stopped doing it.
Thanks, I really appreciate that. I'll still posts the stats on twitter, but everything else is done.
RepTracker was sold to the guys who run BlogIrish a while ago, the guy who created it has nothing to do with it anymore

[nigel-harps1954]

RepTracker was sold to the guys who run BlogIrish a while ago, the guy who created it has nothing to do with it anymore

Seems to run about 15 twitter accounts, each one just reposting the other and "looking for followers please" repeatedly. Sad what's become of it.

[pixiehead]

We have enough for a Fantasy Premier League team again. I think we had enough at the start of the season last year but it dropped off as the season progressed.
https://i.ibb.co/kG2n5ht/Image-004.png
Some more additions may get added as the season progresses:
Azaz
Greenwood
Furlong
Moran
Adaramola
Phillips
Cannon
Parrott
Fraser
and some may get removed
Arter
Hendrick
Rea etc