Irish Abroad 2007/2008

[Stuttgart88]

Irish Abroad for Tuesday, 11 December 2007: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/dateDetails.xquery?seasonID=137&date=2007-12-11
Ipswich have won every home game Jonathan Walters has scored in
Likewise Alan Lee, Ipswich have won every home game in which he has scoredThey've won every single home game except for one 0-0 draw. So they've won every home game ANYBODY has scored in! :)

[OwlsFan]

Can't wait for Crafty's take on the penalty that led to Alan Lee's goal! Looked a shocker of a decision on TV.

Another goal for Walters - very cool finish, well taken goal.


Crafty?

I see your boy Garvan was back in the hub of things for Ipswich.

[CraftyToePoke]

a shocker indeed Stutts, every week I watch linos pretend they cant see the CB pulling the shirt off the striker, while simultaneously trying to mount and hump him, and when one finally grows a pair and makes a call......... this is what he goes and does.

the card has been rescinded today, hope he's proud of that one.

as for the game, i wasnt there, lcfc dont exactly inspire midweek travelling just now. but it seems Garvan was busy, lots of shooting from distance for him which is good to hear. Sheehan was restored to the line up, this time in midfield, and he is mentioned as having delivered some quality balls. Hayes also got 20 mins on the left near the end.

Lee, Walters and Garvan for ipswich with Clarke getting on as injury time sub.

OS report here http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/MatchReport/0,,10274,00.html

[CraftyToePoke]

a little help here please boyos,

leicester u18s played tonight, with an O'Brien in goal, an O'Neill and a Burns and a Billy Kee also involved, now the leicester OS doesnt profile its players anymore, and id like to know how many, if any of these players are ours.

any site which does that? or whats the best way of going about it?

report here; http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~1189306,00.html

also an Arron Doran for blackburn

[cheifo]

Doran of Blackburn is apparantly an excellant prospect.

[tetsujin1979]

a little help here please boyos,

leicester u18s played tonight, with an O'Brien in goal, an O'Neill and a Burns and a Billy Kee also involved, now the leicester OS doesnt profile its players anymore, and id like to know how many, if any of these players are ours.
O'Brien is Kevin O'Brien, can't find anything out about him
The "O'Neill" is Luke O'Neill, but I can't find anything out about him either.
"Burns" is Robbie Burns, and I can't find anything about him either.
I got their full names from the Blackburn review of the game: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/AcademyNews/0,,10303~1189521,00.html

From reading this thread - http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t41498-0.html - it looks like Billy Kee is a local lad

You can tell he's from 'Sorrel, just by looking at him.


any site which does that? or whats the best way of going about it?
Don't know of any site that lists academy players, other than the official site of the club involved.

The only real way is to start googling the players name, add in "+Ireland" or "+Irish" and see if he shows up. Adding in "site:fai.ie" can help as well, this restricts searches to the FAI's website. If the player has ever been in an international squad at any level, then his name will show up in the search.

Like I did above, you can read the opposing team's review of a game for player names as well.


also an Arron Doran for blackburn
Aaron Doran is Irish: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/AcademyProfiles/0,,10303~1081682,00.html

A lad called Conor Kavanagh came on for Blackburn as well, he's played for the U-16's: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/AcademyProfiles/0,,10303~889576,00.html

There's two lads called O'Connor playing for Blackburn as well, both their profiles list them as English, but that doesn't mean they don't qualify:
Callum O'Connor: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/AcademyProfiles/0,,10303~1081689,00.html
Michael O'Connor: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/AcademyProfiles/0,,10303~889594,00.html (looks disturbingly like Alan Smith)

[tetsujin1979]

Ian Daly and Donal McDermott started for Man City's Academy side as they beat Millwall's Academy 5-1 in the FA Youth Cup. Both scored, with Daly's goal coming from the penalty spot. He also missed an earlier penalty. Millwall had a lad called Pat (or Patrick) O'Connor in defence, but I can't find anything out about him.

Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pagegid={DBD12D53-8346-431D-A04F-5D0F8664DE80}&newsid=515039
Millwall review: http://www.millwallfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10367~1189589,00.html

[DmanDmythDledge]

Chris McCann scored for Burnely today and then got sent off two minutes later! Hunt, Morrisson, Tabb, Folan and Garvan also on the scoresheet.

[eirebhoy]

Shaun Scannell scores the winner for Palace.

[eirebhoy]

A couple of pics of Scannell celebrating his first senior goal. He's 17 but looks even younger in these photos.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/83/scannell1yx5.jpg
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6985/scannell2nq4.jpg

I see a few sites have him down as Sean now so I'll go with that from now on. ;)


ALL the talk may be about John Bostock, but it is arguably another Palace youngster who has made the bigger impression in recent weeks.

First year scholar Sean Scannell helped turn the game in the Eagles' favour at Loftus Road last week, and he was equally effective in stretching the Barnsley back-line when he emerged as a 55th minute substitute on Saturday.

The youngster - who has notched 12 goals for the under-18s this term, including the winner in the midweek FA Youth Cup victory - was presented with two half-chances at Oakwell, only for his composure to desert him on both occasions.

But if his snatched shots belied his tender years, Scannell's impressive maturity off the pitch spoke of an old head on young shoulders.
more... (http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=250080&command=displayContent&sourceNode=251365&contentPK=19238819&folderPk=115712&pNodeId=251366)

[Stuttgart88]

Way to go Seanie boy. I saw his name come up as "Shaun" on Sky's Gillette Soccer Saturday and thought it looked wrong. He's been discussed on foot.ie and fai.ie as "Sean". Clinton's assist too from what I read.

[tetsujin1979]

Today Fm gave a list of Irish scorers in the Championship, but missed out on Scannell. I sent in a text to notify them and it got read out right at the end of the fans phone in!

[tetsujin1979]

Irish Abroad for Saturday, 15 December 2007: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/dateDetails.xquery?seasonID=137&date=2007-12-15
Palace have not lost a game in which Clinton Morrison has scored this season
Congratulations to Sean Scannell on his first of his career
Graham Barrett has 5 goals in his last 9 games
Noel Hunt has 9 goals in 18 games for Dundee United, although 3 of those were in the same game
Willo Flood gets his first of the season

Irish Abroad for Sunday, 16 December 2007: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/dateDetails.xquery?seasonID=137&date=2007-12-16
John O'Shea continues his record of coming off the bench in every away game
Aiden McGeady has 7 bookings this season, 5 of those away from home.

[brine3]

He's the head off of Steven Pienaar.

Hopefully he'll turn out to be as good as well.

[tetsujin1979]

Man City's reserves played the Thai national side on sunday, with Garry Breen, Paul Marshall and Karl Moore all getting introduced at half time. Michael Daly also came off the bench in the second half.

Review on City's website here: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pagegid={DBD12D53-8346-431D-A04F-5D0F8664DE80}&newsid=516030

[Paddy Garcia]

Today Fm gave a list of Irish scorers in the Championship, but missed out on Scannell. I sent in a text to notify them and it got read out right at the end of the fans phone in!

Can you please text Palace. They have him as English on their website (also have the spelling as both Shaun & Sean!)

[Stuttgart88]

From BBC gossip section:

Leicester are planning a £1.5m swoop for Plymouth star David Norris. (Daily Mirror)

[eirebhoy]

Aiden McGeady has 7 bookings this season, 5 of those away from home.
His booking yesterday was very strange. He got fouled and got up off the ground to confront the Inverness player. Both players had a few words for each other but they didn't touch each other and McGeady was booked. He'll now miss the next Rangers game because bans don't come into affect for 14 days.

[theworm2345]

Leicester are planning a £1.5m swoop for Plymouth star David Norris...
Who is English...born in Peterborough, and no note of him for Ireland
EDIT: My apologies...I never knew
http://www.plymouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=78749

[Stuttgart88]

Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce is set to sign Ipswich winger Jonathan Walters, despite selling the player when he was Bolton manager. (The Sun)

Leicester manager Ian Holloway hopes to beat Derby and Norwich to the signature of Sunderland midfielder Graham Kavanagh. (Daily Star)

[dr_peepee]

Just had a browse of the paper in the canteen at work so not quite sure if i've got the whole story...There's a young dude O'Hara at Spurs (debut Saturday, had an assist) apparently at the centre of a tug of war between us and England according to the back of the Star (Or Sun). What it said was that he's keen to play for us but the FAI failed to act on a tip to approach him when he was on loan at Millwall last year....

Anyone know anything about him...

[eirebhoy]

Aparantly he changed the game for Spurs when he came on at the weekend.

[dr_peepee]

Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce is set to sign Ipswich winger Jonathan Walters, despite selling the player when he was Bolton manager. (The Sun)

Could be trying to make a new Kevin Davies!!!....

[dr_peepee]

But according to TeamTalk...... the Toon gaffer said: "I had Jonathan with me at Bolton Wanderers and I'm delighted that he's doing so well with Ipswich. But he's not someone I'm looking to bring here."

[dr_peepee]

Steven Hunt linked with a january move to sunderland acording to the times, a couple of obscure websites and message boards.

[tetsujin1979]

Just had a browse of the paper in the canteen at work so not quite sure if i've got the whole story...There's a young dude O'Hara at Spurs (debut Saturday, had an assist) apparently at the centre of a tug of war between us and England according to the back of the Star (Or Sun). What it said was that he's keen to play for us but the FAI failed to act on a tip to approach him when he was on loan at Millwall last year....

Anyone know anything about him...
According to his wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_O'Hara - he's played for England at u-16, u-17, and u-18, so I don't think he's been too keen to play for us.
He wasn't on loan at Millwall last year, he was there this year, until the end of November - http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=43198 - he was on loan at Chesterfield last season.
If I had to guess, it's a case of a paper not refusing ink.

[theworm2345]

Steven Reid made his first start in 16 months for Blackburn today...oddly enough it was at right back

[eirebhoy]

Steven Reid made his first start in 16 months for Blackburn today...oddly enough it was at right back
He started against Wigan on Saturday too.

[tetsujin1979]

Reid was at fault for the last Arsenal goal, played him onside. Souness played him at right full for a while as well, if I recall correctly.

[drummerboy]

O’Hara played a great ball to Malbranque for Spurs 2nd goal.

[Stuttgart88]

Reid was at fault for the last Arsenal goal, played him onside. Souness played him at right full for a while as well, if I recall correctly.That's right. He was arguably at fault for the same reason for the first goal too. In all I thought he did well enough. Not being in synch with the 2 CBs regarding holding the defensive line for through balls isn't a requirement of a midfielder though, so I'm not bothered. It's probably at least 2 years since he has played full back.

[irishfan86]

Steven Hunt linked with a january move to sunderland acording to the times, a couple of obscure websites and message boards.

I wouldn't call SKY Sports obscure....:p

That would be an interesting move...I could definitely see Roy being a Hunt fan.

[Stuttgart88]

Hunt denies it though (Independent)

Steve Bruce interested in Jonathan Walters.

David Norris staying put (both The Sun).

[Stuttgart88]

Sorry worm!

Sunderland's Graham Kavanagh and David Connolly are targets for Norwich and Leicester. (Telegraph)

[dr_peepee]

According to his wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_O'Hara - he's played for England at u-16, u-17, and u-18, so I don't think he's been too keen to play for us.
He wasn't on loan at Millwall last year, he was there this year, until the end of November - http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=43198 - he was on loan at Chesterfield last season.
If I had to guess, it's a case of a paper not refusing ink.

I'd say you're right.. The article said he had caps for England but he was looking to capitalise on his wicklow born grandparents or something. But the tabloid did say that the FAI failed to act on a tip of his desire to switch to us, which I would believe.... The Suns normally full of ****.... But even a broken clock is right twice a day!!!

[Stuttgart88]

Everton boss David Moyes is planning a £3m move for Reading midfield man Stephen Hunt in the January transfer window. (Daily Mirror)

[eirebhoy]

Just saw Scannell's goal this morning. Not a bad finish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPylqduJ20Y

[kennedmc]

I hope Hunt does move to Everton.......it would be a far better move than Sundlerland. Ideally he should stay at Reading although the wages there are small in comparison to what they may get elsewhere.

I'm still not convinced Keane knows what he is doing despite have alot of money to spend.

Also its cringeworthy that some Irish players are moving to Sunderland just the fact its KEane - O'Donovan would have see more game time at Fulham......

[ofjames]

must be irish:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11711_3000139,00.html

[the doc]

Another great performance from Sean St Ledger for Preston North End against Southampton.

The Preston fans are calling him the "new Mark Lawrenson" high praise indeed!

[cheifo]

Stokes should have been celebrating grtting the winner for Sunderland again but made a terrible decision not to square ball for him to tap in.
St Ledger had one wonderful run upfield box to box against Burnley.Def seems to have something about him.

[tetsujin1979]

Darron Gibson's loan at Wolves extended until the end of the season: http://www.wolves.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10307~1198428,00.html

[tetsujin1979]

Irish Abroad for Saturday, 22nd December 2007: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/dateDetails.xquery?seasonID=137&date=2007-12-22
Reading have won every home game in which Stephen Hunt has scored, but have yet to win away from home when he has found the net
Blackpool continue their trend of winning every home game Wes Hoolahan scores in
Paddy McCarthy plays his first game since September
Colchester lose for the first time in a game Mark Yeates has scored in
Eddie Nolan has lost every away game he's started on loan at Hartlepool, curiously he's won every home game he's started
Alan O'Brien hasn't started a game for Hibs since August, but has been introduced in every away game he's been a substitute for
Dundee lost their first home game in which Noel Hunt scored
There's been a lot of talk about Jamie McCarthy, but does anyone know much about Andy Jackson at St Johnstone? He's been a fairly regular scorer for them this season

Irish Abroad for Sunday, 23rd December 2007: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/dateDetails.xquery?seasonID=137&date=2007-12-23
Damien Duff makes his comeback
Aberdeen haven't lost a home game Richie Byrne has started in, their draw with Rangers today was the first game they didn't win. Richie has also yet to be substituted in any match he's started

Apologies for the lateness of the update, my computer picked up a virus over the weekend and it took me until yesterday to get it sorted.

[tetsujin1979]

Saw this on Fulham's website: http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2007/December/InjuryUpdate.aspx

Michael Timlin had surgery for a wrist fracture which required a bone graft. He is currently doing fitness work but has to avoid any contact or damage. We’re looking at a four to five week period before he can take part in training again.

[eirebhoy]

Willo Flood played right back for Dundee Utd yesterday. I don't know if he's being playing regularly in that position. He got forward quite a lot and did well.

[tetsujin1979]

Eddie Nolan has had his loan at Hartlepool extended for another month: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10303~1198714,00.html

[tetsujin1979]

Irish Abroad for Wednesday, December 26th: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/dateDetails.xquery?seasonID=137&date=2007-12-26
Steve Finnan starts his first game in a month
Joey O'Brien plays his first football in 2 months
John O'Shea starts his first away league game of the season
Liam Lawrence becomes the fourth Irish player this season to notch a hat trick, and the second midfielder
Sean Scannell starts his first game
Crystal Palace continue their trend of winning every away game where Clinton Morrison scores
Sean Thornton starts for the first time in more than a month
John Thompson was an unused substitute against his former team Nottingham Forest, he hasn't played since September and has been an unused substitute 11 times

Irish Abroad for Thursday, 27th December 2007: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/dateDetails.xquery?seasonID=137&date=2007-12-27
Steven Reid started his first game that he didn't lose
Stephen Ireland made his comeback from suspension

[tetsujin1979]

Wes Hoolahan linked with Sheffield United: http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_3008211,00.html

[cheifo]

If someone had said to you five years ago that the Irish player playing most consistently with his club*in 07/08 would be Lee Carsley you would have thought:"Jaysus no, what about all our young fellas?"
Its a funny old game.

*Slight exaggeration I know taking into account Robbie and big Richards form but you know what I mean.

[tetsujin1979]

*Slight exaggeration I know taking into account Robbie and big Richards form but you know what I mean.
Given that at the time, young Robbie was warming the bench for Leeds, and Richard couldn't decide if pints with his family or training with City was better for his career, I'd say it's not much of an exaggeration!