Potentially eligible players thread

[Eirambler]

Conor Gallagher came on as a substitute tonight for England at the Euro Under 21 championships (which England look set to crash out of in the groups). As he turned 21 last month this appearance has made him ineligible to play for Ireland at any level.

Not the biggest story of the weekend but anyway. I wonder if he'll ever break into the England first team.

[seanfhear]

The present situation will hardly be an attractor of quality new players unless its someone with a Saviour Complex !

[Diggs246]

I think the bee rules changed that
? He should be still ok?

[Eirambler]

No, he's ineligible. A competitive appearance at underage level after your 21st birthday ties you now with the new rules.

A bit mad that Gallagher is tied to England while Bazunu is not tied to Ireland despite playing a senior world cup qualifier yesterday, but those are now the rules (not that there's any prospect of Bazunu switching - just mentioning it because he is still eligible for Nigeria).

[Charlie Darwin]

No, he's ineligible. A competitive appearance at underage level after your 21st birthday ties you now with the new rules.

A bit mad that Gallagher is tied to England while Bazunu is not tied to Ireland despite playing a senior world cup qualifier yesterday, but those are now the rules (not that there's any prospect of Bazunu switching - just mentioning it because he is still eligible for Nigeria).

The rules are very difficult to balance but I think they've more or less got this right.

I think the stranger one is that Gallagher is tied to England for an U21 game but Nathan Redmond isn't for a full senior game, albeit a friendly.

[Kingdom]

Mumsie's another one. Ah, the Crystal Maze... Was mumsie ever actually shown? She sounded terribly fearsome...

Brilliant. God bless Richard O'Brien.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV8eZzIR0lA

[SkStu]

I think I’ve posted here before about him but Peter Kioso nabbed two for Northampton Town last night. He’s 21 and his wiki says he’s from Swords but doesn’t seem to have ever featured for us underage. He was on loan with Bolton in the first half of the season where I saw him play in 2 games and he really impressed me. Good attacking right back. His stats are decent and nice to see him stepping up to L1 with apparent ease.

Anyone got any more info on his national status/allegiances? His parents are from DR Congo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kioso

A few more links here - some speculation in the last paragraph of the second link...

https://www.the42.ie/highly-rated-dublin-born-full-back-returns-to-championship-club-5323238-Jan2021/

https://www.thesun.ie/sport/football/5948457/dublin-peter-kioso-manchester-united-luton-town/

[Olé Olé]

18 year old Darragh Burns scored again last night for St Pats. Second in four games. 18 years of age.

Darragh is from Dublin but his father is from the north and Darragh has been involved with them up to 19s.

[Eirambler]

Kioso I think previously mentioned a preference for DR Congo. However, and I'm not meaning to be unduly disrespectful to that country here, from what I know of the place it's not somewhere that is a particularly accessible place to build an international career. Potentially more hassle than it's worth is probably what I'm trying to say. So I wouldn't be surprised if he took an Irish call up if offered one. However he's overage for the 21s now so it would have to be a senior call up and I don't think he has shown enough at a high enough level to get one of those so far. Unless there are an absolute raft of calloffs for the June games.

[CSAD]

I believe he declared for the DRC but had a change of heart in recent times.

[samhaydenjr]

Kioso I think previously mentioned a preference for DR Congo. However, and I'm not meaning to be unduly disrespectful to that country here, from what I know of the place it's not somewhere that is a particularly accessible place to build an international career. Potentially more hassle than it's worth is probably what I'm trying to say. So I wouldn't be surprised if he took an Irish call up if offered one. However he's overage for the 21s now so it would have to be a senior call up and I don't think he has shown enough at a high enough level to get one of those so far. Unless there are an absolute raft of calloffs for the June games.

Far from unprecedented, though - sixteen players called up to their senior squad in the last year were born in Europe - most in France with a couple each in England and Switzerland. Although they would have faced much more competition for places in their birth countries' national teams than Kioso does, so hopefully he will come on board - with Coleman likely in his last campaign, it'd be good to have a talented young full-back coming through

[elatedscum]

Far from unprecedented, though - sixteen players called up to their senior squad in the last year were born in Europe - most in France with a couple each in England and Switzerland. Although they would have faced much more competition for places in their birth countries' national teams than Kioso does, so hopefully he will come on board - with Coleman likely in his last campaign, it'd be good to have a talented young full-back coming through

There’s really not a lot of right backs at all eligible for our underage sides. Ebosele who might be a winger or a right back and Lee O’Connor who might end up a centre midfielder. Andy Lyons at Bohs. Gavin Liam O’Brien also at Bohs. That’s pretty much all I can think of. I’d say it’s the weakest underage position we have overall.

[Eirambler]

Obviously no longer underage, but a similar age to Kioso - McNamara is an Irish right back who has had a great year.

Other than the potential interest in capping Kioso because of his dual eligibility McNamara should be ahead of him for a call up. Which is a bit mad because McNamara was behind O'Connor at Under 21 level less than a year ago.

[Bielsa´s irish]

wouldnt worry about a right back when we need a playmaker.

Anyone could play right back/left back with a bit of grit!!!! It is better to have specialists as fullbacks like Irwin, Beglin, Stevens, Carr, Phelan, etc etc

we still got seamus young doherty the Cyrus, browne can play there and Horgan could play there if teached when to go when to stop

[Bielsa´s irish]

I could try Molumby there, he has some engine and he is very combative, acts and reacts like an uruguayan player. Maybe he was born in Montevideo and his real name is Walter Ostolaza (typicial uruguayan name and surname ...it is a joke)