I guess he believes defending is optional. Southampton awful. Manning awful. Smallbone poor.
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I guess he believes defending is optional. Southampton awful. Manning awful. Smallbone poor.
After over 200 games in the Championship Manning finally wins promotion to the Premier League at 28. Over 40 appearances for Southampton this season across all competitions, but a lot of them off the bench, so it will be interesting to see if he's kept around for the Premier League or if Southampton decide to leave him behind.
Can see them keeping him around as a squad player.
Not even on the bench today. Hard to see him getting many minutes unless Charlie Taylor gets injured. Would do well to get a move back down to a Championship team to keep playing.
He's waited so long to get to the Premier League, you'd think he'd want to give it a go until Christmas at least, even as a squad player. I'd say he'd be as likely to get minutes further forward as he would at left back.
Is he injured right now or this level is a bit too far for him?
Just don't rate him. Walker Peters is seen as first choice LB or LWB and they brought in Charlie Taylor from Burnley who has started both EFL games. Even captained them in one of those games.Quote:
Originally Posted by pateen
Pretty sure I saw him in Shannon airport last Sunday week ( late flight to London ) if that is of any interest to anybody !Quote:
Originally Posted by pateen
He is a small fella ( if that was him )
Crossing his fingers for an injury crisis at Southampton I would guess. You couldn't play him at left back in the Premier League, he'd get torn apart. He could fill in on the left wing in an emergency, but he's not that fast so is unlikely to be Premier League standard there either. He might go out on loan in January and then try to get back in the Southampton team next season after they inevitably get relegated.Quote:
Originally Posted by pateen
Starts against Arsenal.
Watching a bit of this with a close eye on Manning. He's looked solid so far. On paper he's playing on the left wing but he's hardly made it into the Arsenal half so far.
The way Southampton are attempting to play is suicidal.
By my count he's only the fifth Connacht man to play in the Premier League, so he has beaten the odds by making it to that level coming from the west of Ireland.
It's strange that he can play left back, and we're desperate for left backs, and he's playing for a Premier League team, but yet he (probably correctly) isn't in the Ireland squad.
Aaron Connolly, who are the other three?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
Greg Cunningham is one anyway
Greg Cunningham and David Forde are two that spring to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by MeathDrog
I did think Forde but did he play PL?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Thought Aaron Conolly was from West London
Manning, Cunningham, Connolly, Alex Murphy and Rory Ginty were the five I was thinking of. Forde never played in the Premier League.
All born in or close to Galway City as far as I know. Don't think anyone from Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo or Roscommon has ever played in the Premier League.
Sligo is probably a bit surprising given the interest in football there. I'd say it would be close to impossible to be born in somewhere like Mayo or rural Connemara, grow up there and make it to the Premier League.
A minority sport, too sparse a population, limited facilities, and a low chance of ever getting enough contact hours to have a chance to make it at a high level.
Pre Premier League era, Eamonn Deacy won a league and European Cup with Aston Villa in the early '80's