Squad announced: https://twitter.com/FAIreland/status...56033677897729
https://twitter.com/FAIreland/status...56361143963648Quote:
Westwood, Forde, Randolph, Coleman, O'Shea, O'Dea, Kelly, McShane, Ward, Duffy, Clark, Delaney, Andrews, McCarthy, (More to follow)...
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(Cont)... Fahey, Meyler, Whelan, Clifford, Keogh, McGeady, McClane, Brady, Hoolahan, Doyle, Cox, Walters #COYBIG
Hoolahan, Duffy and Clifford are the big surprises. McClean has changed the spelling of his name in a futile bid to trick Trapattoni into thinking he's a new recruit. No Shane Long?
Long has a hamstring strain according to Newstalk
I don't understand the Clifford call up. When did he last play 1st team football?
Surely Hendrick would be a better option? At least Paul Green didn't get in I suppose...
Not much change there really. Quite disappointed. It looks like Clifford is getting called up because again its someone that Trap has seen before, as oppossed to someone who is currently doing well like hendrick or even mccann.
O'Dea can do a job against the likes of the faroes and at a stretch kazakhstan at home, but please he should be nowhere near the team when we play sweden/austra or germany away. Same goes for Ward.
He really is turning over a new leaf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Clifford, Delaney, McShane, Keogh should be nowhere near the squad.
Be nice to see Weso start and inject some of this "personality" that Trap is always banging on about into the team.
Who, Trap or Mclean?!?! ; )Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
What are the reasons for Keane's absence?
not much point bringing him all the way from L.A for a friendly? Might have something to do with the MLS playoffs tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Yeah he will presumably be in the middle of the playoffs.
No St Ledger? Thought he'd be back.
Are you feeling better Sean? Did he not txt you?
Clifford made 3 appearances on loan at Portsmouth this season but the deal was only short-term.
Would do him more good there than back at Chelsea to play for their u21's?
Amazing Hoolahan has only 1 cap and that his last appearance is a 20 minute spell 4 years ago!
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Originally Posted by Park_Lane
ah fair enough then, I gather O'Dea at the bottom of the table will have no such prospects?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
On the rest I'm a bit concerned about the Hoolahan selection, it appears to be little more than a pandering gesture to his dissenters which is never a positive message to send out. Trap has said for years that Hoolahan didn't fit in his system, Tardelli said just last month that he was too old. Would he have U-turned on this if he wasn't under pressure for his job?
Clifford is a profile call up IMO, he'll be leaving Chelsea at the end of the season and since they rate him as a prospect for the future they're trying to raise the caliber of club looking to take him by making him an international.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
On O'Dea you're talking through your backside. O'Dea is slow, he's poor against quick players. It was a mistake to play him against the likes of Reus, although do note that Klose was ineffectual in the air against us and were Clark instead of O'Dea there that may have not been the case. Austria and Sweden don't have that kind of pace in their attack, Sweden in fact have quite a slow attack and I'd reckon O'Dea is very well suited against them and Zlatan in particular. O'Dea can dominate the best of players in the air which bar Dunne our other CBs can not, if you're weak in the air against Zlat the game is over.
Did we have many quicker centre halves to play ahead of O'Dea against Germany?
Be nice to seeQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
----------------------WW
Coleman-----Duffy-----------Clark-----O'Shea
-------------------McCarthy
------------Hooly-----------Meyler
Brady--------------------------------McClean
---------------------Doyle(C)
We really need to get new lads on the pitch, its vital that a few of the younger ones make the step up and soon.
We are really weak at CB at the moment. If one of Duffy or Clark can perform well it would be brilliant. O'Shea is not the man to fill Dunnes boots.
Sometimes I think Murfinator is a plant. He wants us to accept the international team as one in decline, and leave well alone, as the rugby is going down that path, the thought of soccer now becoming more popular again through better performances and results impacts(or badly affects) on that agenda. :D
O'dea is more than slow and cumbersome, and is like a juggernaut turning on a six pence, and if you think that is acceptable for a 2nd/3rd seed European team then you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
What's Richard Dunne's excuse then?Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea