Wales squad for Ireland match

Danny Coyne (Burnley), Paul Jones (QPR), Darren Ward (Sunderland)

Gareth Bale (Southampton), Danny Collins (Sunderland), James Collins (West Ham United), Richard Duffy (Portsmouth - on loan at Swansea City), Steve Evans (Wrexham), Danny Gabbidon (West Ham United), Craig Morgan (Peterborough United), Lewin Nyatanga (Derby County - on loan at Barnsley), Sam Ricketts (Hull City)

Andrew Crofts (Gillingham), Arron Davies (Yeovil Town), Simon Davies (Fulham), David Edwards (Shrewsbury Town), Carl Fletcher (Crystal Palace), Joe Ledley (Cardiff City), Carl Robinson (Toronto)

Craig Bellamy (Liverpool), David Cotterill (Wigan Athletic), Jermaine Easter (Wycombe Wanderers), Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), Chris Llewelyn (Wrexham), Paul Parry (Cardiff City).

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Gabbidon is a doubt as he hasn't played in 2 months. As bad as we are currently, count ourselves lucky we don't have to look to Milton Keynes, Wycombe, Wrexham, etc. for players.

Bellamy and Giggs are class players with Bale having the potential to get there in the near future if he keeps his head straight. S Davies is your standard premiership player but other than that there should be nothing for Stan to worry about. Actually scrap that last comment we imploded against Cyprus so there goes that theory...!!!

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Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

Bellamy and Giggs are class players with Bale having the potential to get there in the near future if he keeps his head straight. S Davies is your standard premiership player but other than that there should be nothing for Stan to worry about. Actually scrap that last comment we imploded against Cyprus so there goes that theory...!!!

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We beat Cyprus 5-0. Ireland always have been a different team away from home so I'd be looking at our home form for this match.

Last time we played Cyprus at home it was 3-0 not 5-0

Basically half of this squad are playing with league 1 or league 2 teams at least we don not have to contend with any players at that standard we should be able to walk this but with Stan........................

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Originally Posted by zenokelly

Basically half of this squad are playing with league 1 or league 2 teams at least we don not have to contend with any players at that standard we should be able to walk this but with Stan........................

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Presumably they will be the half of that squad that wont be playing against us.

They'll have 3 or 4 players playing in the premiership, the rest from the lower divisions.

Looking at that squad we should thump 'em - no excuses.

koumas, earnshaw, delaney are conspicuous by their absence, injuries i guess. very hard to pick a team, or formation, from that squad. maybe;
coyne(b-rate championship at best)
duffy(destitute man's steve finnan), some collins(not bad), gabbidon(low on confidence/form), bale(could screw us with a late free-kick)
davies(enjoying a renaissance under the alias of stephen hunt) robinson(a trier) giggs(will have to be up for it, not thinking of a treble) fletcher(not much going for him)
cotterill(20, wigan paid 2m for him in august, but then again they also paid 2m for kilbane) bellamy(shouldnt get the ammo to do anything...)

overall... expect stan to sing their praises

I never realised Wales squad was so thin. Their really plunging the depths with some of them fellas.

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Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

koumas, earnshaw, delaney are conspicuous by their absence, injuries i guess. very hard to pick a team, or formation, from that squad. maybe;
coyne(b-rate championship at best)
duffy(destitute man's steve finnan), some collins(not bad), gabbidon(low on confidence/form), bale(could screw us with a late free-kick)
davies(enjoying a renaissance under the alias of stephen hunt) robinson(a trier) giggs(will he mysteriously injure his hamstring?) fletcher(limited)

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They'll probably beneift form having a professional manager and pick 2 forwards as well.

We really should have nothing to fear, keep giggs and bellamy quiet and we should be fine. Toshack said yday that he rates Gabbidon a major doubt for the game, so at the back they should be not up to standard at all, any of our top 4 strikers should be cleaning up. Slovakia make bits of them in cardiff, no reason why we shouldnt do the same.

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Slovakia make bits of them in cardiff, no reason why we shouldnt do the same.

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Steve Staunton.

Notwithstanding their squad being thin gruel at best ...I have an awful, awful feeling about this game. A competent manager can make a world of difference.
They have one and we don't.

When is our squad named?

A team of mostly average Premiership players against a team of mostly average Championship players. Seen it in the FA Cup often enough. The latter raise their game and if the former don't do similarly, then a so-called "shock" happens.

It would be a tough game no matter who was in charge of us. The Stan factor makes it even closer.

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Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

overall... expect stan to sing their praises

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I don't see how he can - don't forget, it's a big step-up for Championship players. Also, the game is in March! That's a great month for us. :D

Well if they play like they did last March we'll all be happy. :)

If we cannot beat Wales with players like Given, Dunne, Finnan, Duff, Keane and Doyle within our ranks then questions need to be asked. Not being disrespectul to Wales (I believe it will be a tough encounter and they'll be up for it) but the class I mention from above should have enough about them to make sure we get the 3 points.

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

A team of mostly average Premiership players against a team of mostly average Championship players. Seen it in the FA Cup often enough. The latter raise their game and if the former don't do similarly, then a so-called "shock" happens.

It would be a tough game no matter who was in charge of us. The Stan factor makes it even closer.

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A Very good point