I'd say they never even thought of the LOI and just assumed it was somewhere in the middle of 'their' season
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I don't know what eL players would deserve a B cap until i see the type of UK based players that would be picked. Given the player resources available i would think have to be picking League One & lower SPL types...
Suggested Squad
GK:Doyle (Birmingham), B. Ryan (St. Pats), Stack (Reading)
DF: Geary (Sheff United), McCarthy (Leicester City), Clarke (Sunderland) Foley (Luton), St.Ledger (Preston), McShane (West Brom), Thompson (N. Forest)
MF: O'Donovan (Cork), Gamble (Cork), Hoolahan (???), Deery (Derry), Potter (Wolves), Whelan (Sheff Wed), Stephen Hunt (Reading), McPhail (Cardiff), Flood (Cardiff), Thornton (Doncaster)
FW: Mark Yeates (Spurs), J. Byrne (Shels), Ward (Bohs), Daryl Murphy (Sunderland)
Would put Shane Supple in before Stack meself and maybe Shane Long from Reading, John Paul Kelly from Bohs.
No there's not way better keepers than Ryan, and Kelly is rubbish. So he can do a stepover, whoop-de-fookin-woo. Too small and totally ineffectual in any game I've seen. Stands out for a poor Bohs side but thats not hard. If its a development side, fair enough but if its a true B team, Kelly wouldn't get near it.
Grand, you've seen him more than I have. I've seen him 5 times and he's been terrible every time.
I think Quigley should be there instead of Ryan. Not saying he's better than Ryan but he has bigger future prospects. Ryan will never figure for Ireland in the future. Quigley has a small possibility.
Would have Barry Molloy in there and Barry Murphy the Rovers Keeper. Molloy has been far and wide the best midfielder in the league this season and based on any time i've seen Murphy (who i think is the LOI's best keeper) he has been brilliant. Last nite was another great performance from him!!
Is Ciaran Martyn from Northern Ireland?
He's from Sligo iirc.
He should be in the squad then. Then again maybe the management think he'd be a bit too tired to play what with all of Derry's games recently.
Devine is good, but there needs to be a younger EL keeper in the squad.
Gary Dicker of UCD should be given a chance as well