Irish Team in 7 Years Time - Prediction

With over a month to kill before the new season starts, I thought a little distraction was called for.

I recently read a prediction for the English international team in future years, and it looked pretty strong. Can we predict our future team with any degree of accuracy (& I don’t mean come September 07)?

Come the world cup in 2014 (7 years hence) who are we likely to be fielding? Notoriously difficult this kind of thing & probably do well to predict one or two. But I do recall that Duff & a few others were clearly earmarked from an early age.

Here is my selection (suggest limit to 2 subs or it will get out of hand):

Randolph

O’Halloran
Gaughan
O’Dea
E Nolan

K Tracey
McCarthy
Garvan
McGeady

Doyle
Dixon

2 Subs
Gibson
McShane


One point for each player in the squad in 2014. If any of the Mods are still around it will be interesting to look back & see if our 2007 experts can make any accurate predictions.

McShane will be captain of Ireland and Barcelona by then! ;) Amazing to think he'll probably be retiring in 2020. :D I haven't been as excited about a player coming through in a long time.

I'd be fairly certain the 2 Reids and Robbie Keane will still be in the team by then

Doyle

O Halloran
Nolan
O Dea
McShane

Garvan
Gleeson
Gibson
Tracey

Doyle
Stokes

Subs
Rooney
Keogh
Carsley:p

Who is Gauaghan Paddy?

Great to see O'halloran name being mentioned in the 2 lists. From Cobh point of view! This is my one:

Henderson/Doyle(keepers dont age lads) e.g Neville Southall, Dave Seaman
O'Halloran
McShane
O'Dea
Kelly

S.Reid
Ireland
Potter
Duff

Stokes
Doyle

Subs:
Keane
O'Shea (by now Cafu like!!!)

Adam Rooney up top, Gravan midfield.
There my two big hopes; and maybe jamie mccarthy, haven't seen him but the hearsy is good

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Originally Posted by bellavistaman

O'Shea (by now Cafu like!!!)

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I'd sooner compare JOS to tofu than cafu

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Originally Posted by cheifo

Doyle

Who is Gauaghan Paddy?

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Laurence Gaughan is a young centre half at Liverpool, of whom great things are expected. He is a "footballing" centre back who can pass & therefore play more in the continental style. Still a youth, he is a wild card bet... but will be about 24 in 2014.

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Originally Posted by bellavistaman

Great to see O'halloran name being mentioned in the 2 lists. From Cobh point of view! This is my one:

Henderson/Doyle(keepers dont age lads) e.g Neville Southall, Dave Seaman
O'Halloran
McShane
O'Dea
Kelly

S.Reid
Ireland
Potter
Duff

Stokes
Doyle

Subs:
Keane
O'Shea (by now Cafu like!!!)

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unless you're talking about another Duff, Damien Duff will be 35 in 7 years time....he's barely mobile now.

Given

O'Halloran
Dunne
McShane
Kelly

A. Reid
S.Reid
Potter
McGeady

Dixon
Keane (Aldridge at 1994!!)

Subs

Rooney
Keogh
Connolly (Venerable A.C Milan Skipper)

I remember similar threads to this a few years back.
It might be interesting to drag one of them up.

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=31175
http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=29895
similar threads

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Originally Posted by gustavo

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=31175
http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=29895
similar threads

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Jaysus I'm good. I predicted the inclusion of S Ireland and McShane as regulars in their correct positions a year before they even got a cap (Most people hadn't even heard of Ireland back then and McShane was only starting his loan period at Brighton). Now if J O'Brien can get fit next season that's likely to be a third (we've a year to go). I'm like Mystic Meg with balls. NeilMcD check that out and choke on it.

I give up on Elliot though. He won't be a mainstay of our forward line. A good season though and he could get himself a place on the bench though I'd be surprised if he displaced Long or Stokes. Depends whether Keane decides to keep him or not which is probably unlikely if he's trying to buy Nugent.

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Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

At the rate we're going . . . in seven years we'll be in one of the lower rank pools for all qualifying tournaments. That's the sad truth.

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That's miles from the truth.

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Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

OK . . . let's meet back here in 2014. Did you actually see the San Marino match?

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We have a more talented group of youngsters now than we've ever had IMO. I think we'll easily have the players to be one of the best European teams in another 2-3 years on paper but probably will struggle to reach our potential with Stan or another similar FAI appointed muppet in charge.

It's impossible to predict what we'll be like in 7 years though. Pure guesswork.

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Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

OK . . . let's meet back here in 2014. Did you actually see the San Marino match?

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did you see any of the 4 games that followed it?

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

did you see any of the 4 games that followed it?

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alot peopel have selective viewing dont want to see teams do well prefer to moan about past failures.

tuff_paddy usen't be like this though, he used to be one of the few motivational and hopeful ones like eirebhoy....

Tuff Paddy doesn't have the time to type more than 2 sentences these days. ;)

youngirish - Very accurate prediction!

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Originally Posted by youngirish

Jaysus I'm good. I predicted the inclusion of S Ireland and McShane as regulars in their correct positions a year before they even got a cap (Most people hadn't even heard of Ireland back then and McShane was only playing for Brighton). Now if J O'Brien can get fit next season that's likely to be a third (we've a year to go). I'm like Mystic Meg with balls. NeilMcD check that out and choke on it.

I give up on Elliot though. He won't be a mainstay of our forward line. A good season though and he could get himself a place on the bench though I'd be surprised if he displaced Long or Stokes. Depends whether Keane decides to keep him or not which is probably unlikely if he's trying to buy Nugent.

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YOu must be sore from ****ing yourself all weekend.