Colin Healy

Colin Healy is hoping to win a move to Crystal Palace after joining the club on trial.

The former Celtic youngster is a free agent after leaving Sunderland last month.

Healy has not played a senior game since December 2003 after breaking his leg, but he is hoping to impress Eagles boss Iain Dowie during his training stint at Selhurst Park.

Dowie admitted he will make a decision on Healy after seeing him in action in a reserve team clash next week.

"Colin will probably play a game next week, and that will be the acid test for him," said Dowie.

"I'm mindful of the fact that he's been out for more than two years. Colin has to tell us when he's right, and we will play him.

"We are edging closer to that stage. He will have a full week's training, and we will see how he goes in the match.

"After that, we will make a judgement on him. We need to get his fitness levels right up this week."

time to don my nostalgia hat and optimism specs but it would be brilliant if that lad made a full recovery. ive said it here before-he would have been our new roy keane.

Healy & Sadlier both. What a story that'd be.

Healy training with Livingston this week apparently (Indo).

Wonder what will happen now that Lambert has resigned. Did anybody see the clanger that the Livi keeper did on Saturday it was comical.

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Did anybody see the clanger that the Livi keeper did on Saturday it was comical.

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Yeah taht keeper is a joke

According to football ireland in sunday times he (Healy) has already signed for Livi. Hope thats not true

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Yeah taht keeper is a joke

According to football ireland in sunday times he (Healy) has already signed for Livi. Hope thats not true

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According to some reports, he's only training there. With the recent changes in management, I don't know if he will sign for them or not.

I've heard Tony Mowbray wants to give him a trial too

well he'd be an eejit to go to either livi or hibs. Both are poor sides and will not get him anywhere near the level he needs to be if he is to prosper in international football in the future. I can think of very few players capped by ireland in the last 15 years playing at one of the old firm, let alone a smaller spl club. A move to the championship would serve him much better, very few players even manage to get a move to a decent side in england after player at one othe smaller spl clubs and lets face it ,healy is no spring chicken.

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well he'd be an eejit to go to either livi or hibs. Both are poor sides and will not get him anywhere near the level he needs to be if he is to prosper in international football in the future. I can think of very few players capped by ireland in the last 15 years playing at one of the old firm, let alone a smaller spl club. A move to the championship would serve him much better, very few players even manage to get a move to a decent side in england after player at one othe smaller spl clubs and lets face it ,healy is no spring chicken.

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In your opinion;)

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well he'd be an eejit to go to either livi or hibs. Both are poor sides and will not get him anywhere near the level he needs to be if he is to prosper in international football in the future. I can think of very few players capped by ireland in the last 15 years playing at one of the old firm, let alone a smaller spl club. A move to the championship would serve him much better, very few players even manage to get a move to a decent side in england after player at one othe smaller spl clubs and lets face it ,healy is no spring chicken.

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I agree. He looks to be finished anyway as far as Ireland are concerned. If he does recover I'd say he'll fade into obscurity in the lower English divisions or in the SPL which is an absolute w**k of a league.

From the sounds of it why does he bother going on living?:rolleyes:

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well he'd be an eejit to go to either livi or hibs. Both are poor sides and will not get him anywhere near the level he needs to be if he is to prosper in international football in the future. I can think of very few players capped by ireland in the last 15 years playing at one of the old firm, let alone a smaller spl club. A move to the championship would serve him much better, very few players even manage to get a move to a decent side in england after player at one othe smaller spl clubs and lets face it ,healy is no spring chicken.

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i remember some garbage from you before about all players outside the english premier league being useless and having nothing to offer the irish side.

the guy hasnt played in 3 years, i think hibs would be a very good place to re-establish himself as a professional footballer.

celtic in last 15 years: mccarthy, bonner, morris, healey, miller, mcgeady, cascarino.
name one other club with more?

non-old firm: maybury, kernighan, coyne

there have to be others. anyone ele?

as usual livehead, you are talking out of your anglocentered arse

Looks like Healey is on trial with Livi now

Bank of Scotland Premierleague strugglers Livingston will keep Irish international midfielder Colin Healy at the club for a trial period.

Healy, who recently parted company with Sunderland after more than two years on the sidelines, was offered the chance to impress by Livingston boss Paul Lambert last week.

Lambert subsequently resigned as manager, but new man in charge John Robertson has decided to honour the pledge to give the former Celtic man a trial.

Healy, 25, took part in his first training session with the Lions on Thursday and is expected to make an appearance in a reserve game in the coming days.

Taken from www.elevenaside.com

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i remember some garbage from you before about all players outside the english premier league being useless and having nothing to offer the irish side.

the guy hasnt played in 3 years, i think hibs would be a very good place to re-establish himself as a professional footballer.

celtic in last 15 years: mccarthy, bonner, morris, healey, miller, mcgeady, cascarino.
name one other club with more?

non-old firm: maybury, kernighan, coyne

there have to be others. anyone ele?

as usual livehead, you are talking out of your anglocentered arse

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And out of your well researched list, how many exactly were/are up to international standard?
maybury, kernighan, coyne, healey, (you mean healy) miller. None of these are international players. don't get too personal now, the strength of the scottish league was shown today, celtic 8, dunf. 1, its a mickey mouse league and if he wants to play for ireland again, he needs to be aiming higher than that. Although thats the view of my "anglocentered arse". But i find it interesting that people seem to agree with me...

question isnt whether or not they were up to international standard , like it or not they were in our squad at the time.a nation with 4 million people cant disregard players because they are not up to international standard. if we were to truly implement that at the moment we would have a 5-6 man squad.

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question isnt whether or not they were up to international standard , like it or not they were in our squad at the time.a nation with 4 million people cant disregard players because they are not up to international standard. if we were to truly implement that at the moment we would have a 5-6 man squad.

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yeh i agree gustavo, i went slightly off the point with my last post. But the point im trying to make on this thread is that colin healy will not do his international career any favours what so every by joining livi. they are going 2 be in then 2nd tear of scottish football next season, and the players in the 1st tear are poor as it is. it would be a very poor move for someone who was so highly regarded, some people seem to resort to personal insults but they too are missing the point, ya see what i mean, surely he should aim higher than this.

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yeh i agree gustavo, i went slightly off the point with my last post. But the point im trying to make on this thread is that colin healy will not do his international career any favours what so every by joining livi. they are going 2 be in then 2nd tear of scottish football next season, and the players in the 1st tear are poor as it is. it would be a very poor move for someone who was so highly regarded, some people seem to resort to personal insults but they too are missing the point, ya see what i mean, surely he should aim higher than this.

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In fairness after being out of football so long Healy immediate goal can only be getting a regular match.

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yeh i agree gustavo, i went slightly off the point with my last post. But the point im trying to make on this thread is that colin healy will not do his international career any favours what so every by joining livi. they are going 2 be in then 2nd tear of scottish football next season, and the players in the 1st tear are poor as it is. it would be a very poor move for someone who was so highly regarded, some people seem to resort to personal insults but they too are missing the point, ya see what i mean, surely he should aim higher than this.

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I agree with ifk101, any form of football should be Healy's immediate aim, if he returns to the form that got him a senior call up while on loan at Coventry, then he will get a move to a bigger side in a better league.

If Healy breaks into the Livi team and gets regular football I'm sure he'll be snapped up by someone if they get relegated. Relegated teams rarely keep their best players so Healy and Hoolahan won't be playing Scottish division 1 football next season.