Bunn and Pilkington are good additions....Sean Morrison, Mark Noble and Kyle Naughton would also be nice, but maybe I am being greedy
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Bunn and Pilkington are good additions....Sean Morrison, Mark Noble and Kyle Naughton would also be nice, but maybe I am being greedy
OMG! Noble n' Naughton r loike sooooooo 2009!!!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapAPony
Trap's comment is interesting; why would there be any reason to speak to Woy about Pilkington? Of course, the thing is, Pilkington won't be tied to us even if he does feature against Poland and would still be within his rights to switch to the FA were they to later declare a serious interest.
Professional courtesy is the best I can come up withQuote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
Can't see why 'Ingerland' would want him anyway. He's good but not high-profile enough for their media/pundits/fans.
Is that usual for players with dual eligibility? If there's some unwritten duty to professional courtesy, shouldn't Hodgson - if he ever happened to be interested in selecting Pilkington - be the one contacting the FAI seeing as Pilkington has actually played with us in the past?Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
I dunno. They've selected Championship players in recent times. More and more England players tend to be drawn from clubs outside of the top four or five in the Premier League now.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
I, for one, was sh!tting it when I saw Steve Bull warming up to come on against us in Cagliari.
I think Pilk could be the next Ger Crossley. The Germans must be quaking.
I'm delighted that Pilkington is likely to be playing with us. He looks a very good player. It seems like he has decided that he can be a top player with us, have a good chance of appearing in a few tournaments and win 50+ caps, rather than take his chance with England. I'm sure he feels more English, but some of our greats probably dreamt of putting on the three lions growing up and yet became more Irish than the Irish themselves.
I'm really excited by the performances of alot of the Irish players in the premiership and indeed the championship in recent weeks. Coleman, Gibson, McCarthy, Clark, Hoolahan, Long and Pilkington have all been good. Meyler and Brady seem to be playing very well with Hull. Hendrick and Hoban are two of the best young talents in the Championship, and Mark O'Brien is hopefully back to good health, while the great white hope Owen Garvan is doing the business for Palace. It's nice to see Cunningham back from injury as well. We don't have a Messi or Ronaldo in that batch, but i'm confident, we have the makings of a good side over the coming years.
In what sense?Quote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
By the sound of his tone, you're probably right; feeling English and possessing Irish heritage, or even feeling Irish also, needn't be mutually exclusive concepts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bungle
Goal for "Pilks" to put Norwich within a goal in the free-scoring game against Man City. He's proving adept at scoring against good teams.
From BBC: "This afternoon just keeps giving. Anthony Pilkington strikes a free-kick from 22 yards and it finds the goal courtesy of a deflection off Gael Clichy. Game back on."
Pilkington's goal is at 0:20: http://videa.hu/videok/sport/norwich...6TMS87F7o4mCfi
I think Pilky may have had a chance for an equaliser last kick of the game,
woudl have needed a great shot though, and it wasn't.
Pilkington appears in a photo-shoot sporting Ireland attire:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...40182670_n.jpg
Looks pretty happy with his decision.
And very sexy to boot.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...0cSaFQUqgu4s6g
He's got his passport sorted anyway:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BB-briMCQAArCPF.jpg
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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
Pity sean morrison didnt have mossad friends
Alright, I'll pick up the slack seeing as Crosby has apparently missed a trick..
He looks like Sean Bean.