2017 UEFA Under-19 Championships

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Originally Posted by gastric

FFS Sam, can you keep your optimism to yourself. A pessimistic and negative attitude is what is expected of all good Irish fans if you read some of the posts on this site !

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Sorry about that...let's see if I can do it: Wow, we're playing terrible this campaign and our six-point lead over Austria is merely a mirage that will disappear when Glenn Whelan returns from injury and our incompetent management team drops Wes Hoolahan, who is our only player capable of passing a ball - how about that for starters?

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Originally Posted by samhaydenjr

Sorry about that...let's see if I can do it: Wow, we're playing terrible this campaign and our six-point lead over Austria is merely a mirage that will disappear when Glenn Whelan returns from injury and our incompetent management team drops Wes Hoolahan, who is our only player capable of passing a ball - how about that for starters?

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Fantastic. The utter despair and frankness you display is what we want to read on here, it's good to feel constantly depressed!:D

Elite round draw made on Tuesday: http://www.uefa.com/under19/news/newsid=2429071.html

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Group 7 (23–28 March): Sweden, Italy, Republic of Ireland, Belgium*
The seven group winners will join hosts Georgia in the finals from 2 to 15 July.

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Belgium will host the group

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Elite round draw made on Tuesday: http://www.uefa.com/under19/news/newsid=2429071.html

Belgium will host the group

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Seriously? Sweden, Italy and Belgium? Something fishy about that

To be fair when you see how they decide the coefficients for the elite stage, there's nothing fishy at all. We were just very unlucky.

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Originally Posted by Kingdom

To be fair when you see how they decide the coefficients for the elite stage, there's nothing fishy at all. We were just very unlucky.

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I'm not talking about the quality of the group per se - I'm noting how awfully familiar it looks...

Mohan names Ireland U19 squad for La Manga tournament

http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/mohan-names-ireland-u19-squad-for-la-manga-tournament

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Originally Posted by FAI

REPUBLIC of Ireland U19 Head Coach Tom Mohan has named his squad for an invitational tournament in La Manga next week.




3rd Feb 2017

The Irish will face Norway, Portugal and Slovakia in three games which will provide useful preparation for the UEFA U19 Championships Elite Qualifying Round in March.
Mohan's side travel to Belgium for the Elite Phase next month to meet the hosts, Italy and Sweden with only one spot available for the finals in Georgia this summer.
"This is another good opportunity for us to get the players together and help our preparations for the UEFA Elite Phase in March," said Mohan.
"A couple of players were unavailable due to club commitments but we've brought in some players who've done well recently and it's a chance to stake their claim for involvement in the Elite Phase.
"We held a home-based assessment game against the ETB squad prior to Christmas and some of those players have earned their place in this squad. We have watched them in pre-season games and it will be good to bring them in with the other players.
"The games we'll play will all be good tests and the tournament format will also be very beneficial ahead of what's a testing Elite Phase. This is a good group of players and we're looking forward to working with them in Spain."

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND U19 SQUAD:

Caoimhin Kelleher (Liverpool)
Lee McCarron (Finn Harps)
Corey O'Keefe (Birmingham City)
Canice Carroll (Oxford Utd)
Conor Masterson (Liverpool)
Conor Kane (Drogheda Utd)
Barry Cotter (Limerick)
Darragh Leahy (Coventry City)
Tyreke Wilson (Manchester City)
JJ Lunney (St Patrick's Athletic)
Jayson Molumby (Brighton)
Trevor Clarke (Shamrock Rovers)
Dan McKenna (Wolves)
Conor Levingston (Wolves)
Steven Kinsella (Dundalk)
Anthony Scully (West Ham)
Zachary Elbouzedi (WBA)
Dan Mandroiu (Brighton)
Michael O'Connor (Shamrock Rovers)
Ronan Hale (Birmingham City)
Josh Barrett (Reading )

FIXTURES

La Manga Invitational Tournament
Friday, February 10
Republic of Ireland v Norway, La Manga Club, Murcia (12.00pm Irish)
Sunday, February 12
Republic of Ireland v Portugal, La Manga Club, Murcia (12.00pm Irish)
Tuesday, February 14
Republic of Ireland v Slovakia, La Manga Club, Murcia (12.00pm Irish)

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THere's a live stream of today's game against Norway here: http://sumo.tv2.no/sport/fotball/tre...howPlayer=true
It's geo-locked to Norway, but there are ways and means around this
Norway 1-0 up after a few minutes played

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

THere's a live stream of today's game against Norway here: http://sumo.tv2.no/sport/fotball/tre...howPlayer=true
It's geo-locked to Norway, but there are ways and means around this
Norway 1-0 up after a few minutes played

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Finished 2-1 to Norway with Steven Kinsella on the scoresheet: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/match/5550...356?tab=report

Good goal by Ronan Hale in the win over Portugal.

http://www.the42.ie/ronan-hale-irela...36267-Feb2017/

Elite round kicks off this week against Italy on Thursday, but the squad still hasn't been announced.

Dan McKenna tweeted that he's meeting up with the squad: https://twitter.com/Dan_McKenna1/sta...37980051214336

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Off to meet up with Ireland now and hopefully qualify for the Euros- 3 tough games out in Belgium but looking forward to them

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And Coventry announced that Darragh Leahy is in the squad: http://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/darragh-leahy-international-call-up-republic-of-ireland-3629907.aspx

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Coventry City's Under-23s defender Darragh Leahy has been called up to the Republic of Ireland Under-19 squad for their upcoming fixtures.

The Republic of Ireland will travel to Belgium, to take place in the UEFA European Under-19 Elite Round from March 18th-29th.

The 18-year old will travel with the squad tomorrow afternoon, with games against Sweden, Italy and host's Belgium.

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squad announced: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/mohan...und-qualifiers

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Republic of Ireland Under 19 Squad

Goalkeepers: Caoimhin Kelleher (Liverpool), Mark Travers (Bournemouth)


Defenders: Corey O'Keefe (Birmingham City), Canice Carroll (Oxford United), Darragh Leahy (Coventry City), Conor Masterson (Liverpool), Declan Rice (West Ham United), Conor Kane (Drogheda United), Tyreke Wilson (Manchester City)


Midfielders: Zack Elbouzedi (West Bromwich Albion), Jayson Molumby, Daniel Mandroiu (Brighton & Hove Albion), Conor Levingston (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Stephen Mallon (Sheffield United), Daniel McKenna (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Trevor Clarke (Shamrock Rovers)

Forwards: Michael O'Connor (Shamrock Rovers), Ronan Hale (Birmingham City)

Fixtures

Thursday, 23 March: Republic of Ireland v Italy, FC VW Hamme, Belgium, KO 18:00

Saturday, 25 March: Republic of Ireland v Sweden, Freethiel, Beveren, Belgium, KO 13:00

Tuesday, 28 March: Republic of Ireland v Belgium, Freethiel, Beveren, Belgium, KO 18:00

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Only two strikers? That's disappointing.

Has Josh Barrett switched seems strange he would not make it and mcdonagh on loan from forest is a striker playing league football wood have thought he would be in.o Connor from Southampton seems a strange miss as well. Pity Ronan at wolves is injured

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Originally Posted by liamoo11

Has Josh Barrett switched seems strange he would not make it and mcdonagh on loan from forest is a striker playing league football wood have thought he would be in.o Connor from Southampton seems a strange miss as well. Pity Ronan at wolves is injured

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Hope not. Was he likely to switch ?

Strange alright, played for Reading's U23 team yesterday as a late second half substitute

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Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

Hope not. Was he likely to switch ?

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Has a cryptic posting on his twitter for the 16th March about been true to yourself no matter what. What nonsense by the way. Hopefully it's not the case

F*uckin hippy dippy meme crap eh ? A few good belts of a hurley might settle him wha' ? :)

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Originally Posted by liamoo11

Has Josh Barrett switched seems strange he would not make it and mcdonagh on loan from forest is a striker playing league football wood have thought he would be in.o Connor from Southampton seems a strange miss as well. Pity Ronan at wolves is injured

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O'Connor played for Southampton U18's against Brighton recently but came off in the second half, and didn't play their next game against Leicester
No mention of an injury in the match reports, but he might be unavailable

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Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

F*uckin hippy dippy meme crap eh ? A few good belts of a hurley might settle him wha' ? :)

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Ha ha ... I havent heard that in a while :cool:

live text commentary of the opening game against Italy on uefa.com here: http://www.uefa.com/under19/season=2...308/index.html