Irish Abroad 2015/16

Less than a month after the Champions League final, the new season for Irish players based in England and Scotland starts tonight with West Ham, Aberdeen and St Johnstone kicking off their Europa League campaigns in the first qualifying round.

Josh Cullen and Joey O’Brien are named in the West Ham squad for the EL, but Darren Randolph misses out for now, since he only officially signed for them on July 1st. The Hammers’ game against Andorran side FC Lusitans will be streamed live on whufc.com for anyone who wants to watch it: http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2...e-on-whufc-com

Graeme Cummins could make his debut for St Johnstone against Alashket of Armenia, with Joe Shaughnessy also expected to feature

Adam Rooney, Jonathan Hayes and Willo Flood have travelled with the rest of the Aberdeen squad to Macedonia for their tie with Shkëndija

The live blog will be running tonight with the lineups, and updates here: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Live

Darren Randolph has been named to start for West Ham. They announced their starting lineup yesterday. Joey O'Brien also starts.

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Darren Randolph has been named to start for West Ham. They announced their starting lineup yesterday. Joey O'Brien also starts.

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I didn't see that, some of the West Ham forums were saying he wasn't eligible. good news that he's starting anyway.

Joe Shaughnessy down to start for St Johnstone in Europa League. Graham Cummins not in the squad.

Short interview with Kyle McFadden talking about trying to find a new club this summer: http://www.shoot.co.uk/category/news...esh-challenge/

Irish teenager Rian O'Sullivan from Kerry signs for Brighton, under John Morling

http://www.northstandchat.com/showth...-Hove-O-Albion

19 year old winger Dean O'Halloran has signed a renewed deal until December 31st 2015.

http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2015/ju...ign-extensions

He already has a full sleeve of tattoos so he must be close to the first team.

This is Dean O'Halloran
http://inpho.ie/cache/inpho/6d/11/fe...O_00730058.jpg

I know. Since that picture was taken he has acquired a full sleeve. Is the upper arm part of the sleeve?

Here is a more recent pic.

http://www.fulhamfc.com/player-profiles/dean-o-halloran

This one slipped under the radar...

http://www.vavel.com/en/football/499...continues.html

Mark Yeates released by Bradford.

Cliff Byrne has retired from football, and will take up a coaching role at Sunderland: https://twitter.com/cliff_byrne/stat...43368749694976

Tom Holland has signed a one-year deal with Swansea.

https://twitter.com/SwansOfficial/st...27942489219073

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-ze...aining-6135651

Graham Cummins got his eyelid caught in a zip.

We will all be keeping a close eye on this to see his explanation!

Greg Cunningham supposedly moving to fellow new boys - Preston.

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol...ail/story.html

Harry Charsley was Everton U18 player of the season for 2014/15 and also scored the U18 goal of the season
Player of the Season: http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2015/0...er-of-the-year
Goal of the Season: http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2015/0...with-goal-gong

Randolph and Cullen both start for West Ham away at Astra.

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Randolph and Cullen both start for West Ham away at Astra.

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it's a massive gamble by Bilic. they need a win, and he's made eleven changes, including those two!
If I didn't know any better, I'd swear he didn't want to qualify for the next round. Of course, it could be he doesn't want players exhausted from travelling before playing Arsenal on Sunday

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

it's a massive gamble by Bilic. they need a win, and he's made eleven changes, including those two!
If I didn't know any better, I'd swear he didn't want to qualify for the next round. Of course, it could be he doesn't want players exhausted from travelling before playing Arsenal on Sunday

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I suspect they've just packed it in.

Good to see rea on the bench tonite for brighton hopefully will see a good bit of action this year

Live blog up and running again for the new season: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Live
All the excitement of watching numbers change on a page!

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Live blog up and running again for the new season: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Live
All the excitement of watching numbers change on a page!

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O'Shea suprisingly left out in favour of Kaboul and Coates. Won't be long before Advocaat realises that both those players are accidents waiting to happen

No Grego-Cox, Manning, B. Lenihan, D. Lenihan or O'Sullivan in match day squads this afternoon.

Still hard for young Irish players to get a look in in the top 2 divisions.

Four Irish players have scored on their debut so far today; they are Conor Wilkinson, Graham Carey, Barry Corr and Padraig Amond.

Four Irish players have scored in the same minute (49). A record, perhaps? They are Damien Delaney, Jay O'Shea, John-Joe O'Toole and Graham Carey.

James Collins has scored for Shrewsbury.

Barry Corr on course for a debut hat-trick for Cambridge.

John Egan scores Gillingham's third against Sheffield United. Egan and (Jay) O'Shea are two players that could still make moves before the end of the window.

Graham Cummins now has 2 goals from 2 games for St. Johnstone without even making a start, after his last minute equalizer this afternoon. Doesn't say a lot about the standard of the SPL.

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Originally Posted by joe_denilson

O'Shea suprisingly left out in favour of Kaboul and Coates. Won't be long before Advocaat realises that both those players are accidents waiting to happen

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Took about 10 minutes.

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Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks

No Grego-Cox, Manning, B. Lenihan, D. Lenihan or O'Sullivan in match day squads this afternoon.

Still hard for young Irish players to get a look in in the top 2 divisions.

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Usual story. Start of the season and managers are still excited with their shiny new signings. Once they realise most of them are rubbish, the younger players will start to get a look in.

An average start to the Fantasy Football season for Martin O'Neill (36 out of a possible 43)
http://i.imgur.com/roE7lxm.png

Should have picked Delaney as captain

Clark is on the Guardian's team of the week and Delaney made Goal's. I guess solid defending doesn't rake in the points.

Clark also made Goal's worst team of the week.

Clark made whoscored.com's team of the week as well

Another player eligible for us last night made his debut for Stevenage. Letterkenny lad Dale Gorman came off the bench for Stevenage in their League Cup game at Portman Road against Ipswich Town.

He's from Letterkenny, just turned 19 at the end of June, son of former Harps, Coleraine and Linfield midfielder Anthony Gorman, but plays currently for Northern Ireland at under-19 level.

good to see rea play full game for brighton. Donal mcdermott scored for rochdale and also started on saturday which is an amazing turn around from where he was at dundalk and aferwards. Lenihan and o sullivan played for blackburn but they went out. Garmston played for gillingham.

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Another player eligible for us last night made his debut for Stevenage. Letterkenny lad Dale Gorman came off the bench for Stevenage in their League Cup game at Portman Road against Ipswich Town.

He's from Letterkenny, just turned 19 at the end of June, son of former Harps, Coleraine and Linfield midfielder Anthony Gorman, but plays currently for Northern Ireland at under-19 level.

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I have a nagging memory of DI posting something about this lad but don't know where.

I've had a root on the web about his father and it appears that his father was playing in the North when Dale would have been born: http://www.footballdatabase.eu/footb....75201.en.html From 93-04 he was playing in the North having been in the LOI previous to that.

That link states that his father's club was Waterford so, if this is correct, is his aul man a Waterford man? In this case, he could have married a Northern Irish woman and/or Dale was born there, hence Dale plays for NI even though he resides (when he's not at Stevenage anyway) in Donegal.

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Originally Posted by Olé Olé

I have a nagging memory of DI posting something about this lad but don't know where.

I've had a root on the web about his father and it appears that his father was playing in the North when Dale would have been born: http://www.footballdatabase.eu/footb....75201.en.html From 93-04 he was playing in the North having been in the LOI previous to that.

That link states that his father's club was Waterford so, if this is correct, is his aul man a Waterford man? In this case, he could have married a Northern Irish woman and/or Dale was born there, hence Dale plays for NI even though he resides (when he's not at Stevenage anyway) in Donegal.

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Not sure where the Waterford link comes in, apparently started his career there, however strange that is because he is born and bred Letterkenny. His brother Gareth also played League of Ireland with Sligo and Galway.

Dale may well have been born in Portadown while Anthony was up playing there, but he was reared in Letterkenny, his father and grandfather both well known in Letterkenny too. Had always thought Anthony kept base in Letterkenny while playing up the North. My suspicion is that Dales mother is from across the border and he qualifies via that.

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Not sure where the Waterford link comes in, apparently started his career there, however strange that is because he is born and bred Letterkenny. His brother Gareth also played League of Ireland with Sligo and Galway.

Dale may well have been born in Portadown while Anthony was up playing there, but he was reared in Letterkenny, his father and grandfather both well known in Letterkenny too. Had always thought Anthony kept base in Letterkenny while playing up the North. My suspicion is that Dales mother is from across the border and he qualifies via that.

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Here we are: http://foot.ie/threads/147164-Eligib...es-Okay/page82

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Originally Posted by cestlavie

Young 15 year old Letterkenny native Dale Gorman has declared for the Northern Irish under 16 team.

His father Anthony Gorman played for the Republic of Ireland Youth team for a couple of years and played most of his football in the Irish League.

Dale Gorman was born in Derry but has lived in Letterkenny all his life. He has played for Donegal Schoolboys at the Kennedy Cup, Galway Cup & Foyle cup at different age groups.

I wish him the best. At the end of he day its a great opportunity/experience for the young lad. I see on the IFA website that he played in the 2 games for the Northern Irish under 16's in Finland last week.

It appears that the Republic coaches thought he was abit on the small side. I would certainly have question marks over the emerging talent programmes. Are we just looking to bring through 6 foot plus lads. Strange.

http://www.irishfa.com/news/item/677...ph-in-finland/

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Someone else posted that he went to school in Letterkenny. So, it appears he qualifies through birth in Derry and the possibility of an NI mother.

I would imagine he'd be good enough for our underage set-up with, for instance, Jack Connors of Dagenham & Redbridge a regular in our under 21 squads for a while.

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good to see rea play full game for brighton. Donal mcdermott scored for rochdale and also started on saturday which is an amazing turn around from where he was at dundalk and aferwards. Lenihan and o sullivan played for blackburn but they went out. Garmston played for gillingham.

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Glen Rea has gone on loan to Southend until January. Played 2 games at CB for Brighton in the League Cup this season.

Quite the Irish contingent at Southend now:
Bolger Rea
Keegan Timlin McLaughlin
Hunt Mooney

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Originally Posted by joe_denilson

Glen Rea has gone on loan to Southend until January. Played 2 games at CB for Brighton in the League Cup this season.

Quite the Irish contingent at Southend now:
Bolger Rea
Keegan Timlin McLaughlin
Hunt Mooney

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Phil Brown must have a soft spot for us. In 2009/2010 (his last season in charge of Hull and second in the PL), he had McShane, S. Hunt, Caleb Folan and Kevin Kilbane all in and around the starting team. Hunt and McShane were regulars and Kilbane got his fair share of games. I could be wrong but I think he signed most of them (EDIT: In fact, he signed all four of them).

On a by note, I was listening to Stephen Hunt co-commentating on Newstalk on Southampton v Norwich. He makes it fun to listen to and provides insights, even if his analysis isn't always incredibly technical. At one point, he was referring to how Russell Martin had been sent off and that clubs tend to fine players and how, because Neil is Scottish as well as Martin, the fine would hurt Martin a lot because "the Scots are fairly tight." He then goes "Did I mention Christophe Berra. Played with him at Wolves. He was injured for the Ireland game. He's very tight, did I mention?" Clearly grinding an axe with an old teammate and spouting a generalisation but it was quite funny at the time, I thought.

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Originally Posted by Olé Olé

Here we are: http://foot.ie/threads/147164-Eligib...es-Okay/page82



Someone else posted that he went to school in Letterkenny. So, it appears he qualifies through birth in Derry and the possibility of an NI mother.

I would imagine he'd be good enough for our underage set-up with, for instance, Jack Connors of Dagenham & Redbridge a regular in our under 21 squads for a while.

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Dale Gorman has Just been called up for Northern Ireland u21 team to play Scotland & Iceland. Some good players in that team. Ryan McLoughlin (Liverpool currently on loan to Aberdeen, Liam Donnelly Fulham currently on loan to Crawley Town & boys like Michail Kennedy who scored recently in the league cup for Charlton. Josh Doherty Watford & Michael Duffy ex Derry City Celtic on loan to Alloa Athletic. I see some of them have played for the full Northern Ireland team in friendlies. Young Patrick McNair is still eligible to play at this level but is with the senior squad.

BTW: Dales mother is from Letterkenny. He was just born in Altnagalvin Hospital in Derry but has never lived in the North. He is Donegal through & through. It looks like his fathers Wiki page was deleted.

https://twitter.com/OfficialIrishFA

Announced on Aug 28th. Sorry my print screen is not working.

Searching around for info on the U17 squad, came across this article about Caoimhin Fowler from a few years ago: http://www.cairnspost.com.au/sport/l...-1226784583323
and this about Ryan Nolan of Inter Milan: http://nosoloefese.es/not/14213/el-j...de-milan-rlm-/

List of all Irish player transfers from Summer 2015 transfer window: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...90965492396984