I've had Rovers vs Pats on my laptop & Burnley vs Preston on TV (easy to spot Mrs Stuttgart is out!). I've been having a look at SLS. As I type he's just had a yellow card and scored an OG in space of 90 seconds! In fairness, the OG was by getting his head to the ball to prevent a likely goal, but having got there he might have put it wide.
He looks a bit like John Terry with the spiky hair and his style is like a slightly more aggressive Gary Breen. He runs & holds his hands in exactly the same way as Breen.
I thought he started slowly, losing his man and occasionally his position, but by and large he looks OK, quite athletic & not bad for a young lad.
Having said that, Paddy McCarthy is considerably ahead of him from what I've seen tonight, down mainly to having just over a year's more experience probably. From what I've seen, I can see no reason on merit for St. Ledger to be selected ahead of McCarthy. Although SLS looks agile, McCarthy is more aggressive and looks stronger. Admittedly, the guy SLS was marking was enormous (Noel-Williams I think, sound was turned down).
Separately, James O'Connor did OK, got a good goal, and looks to me to have far more presence than Liam Miller. Not sure he's good enough or big enough for international football though. Micahel Duff of Norn Iron is a solid, no nonsense player and young Karl Lafferty from Belfast has just come on.
As I type Burnley have just gone 3-2 up, and it looked like St Ledger may have been fouled in the build up. At the moment, I'd describe him very much as ''work in progress''.
PS: James O'Connor awarded MoTM and dedicated the award to George O'Callaghan, who has shingles & viral meningitis. Following a trial at Ipswich too. What is it with shingles, viruses, Ipswich & Irish footballers?
