Ryan Connolly -Derby County has been unlucky to do his Cruciate.
http://www.dcfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...127357,00.html
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Ryan Connolly -Derby County has been unlucky to do his Cruciate.
http://www.dcfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...127357,00.html
U19 cap Richie Towell on the bench for Celtic tonight
Barry Maguire on the bench for Utrecht in the same game.
Update on John Joe O' Toole's progress on TeamTalk, Colchester section today. He seems to be on track and other reports indicate he will be back early 2011.
Sorry if this has been brought up on another thread, but does anybody know anything about Chinedu Vine? He's a Nigeran born youngster(Irish passport holder) who was recently picked up by Portsmouth from Home Farm. On other threads we've talked about how the kids of immigrants from Poland, Nigeria, Lithuania etc...might play for their parent's country, just like dozens in Britain have played for Ireland and I"m just wondering if he might declare for us because he's supposed to be a talented striker and we don't get them that often. More below
http://www.brila-fm.net/index.php?op...d=2352&catid=1
Ciaran Clarke 20 Aston Villa, his father is from just outside Letterkenny in Co Donegal, his grandmother lives just outside the town in manor, played last weekend, I know he was captain off Englands under 19 team but certainly a fantastic prospect that we should be going after. Time to let Kilbane and McShane go out to pasture. They are not the future for Irish footbal, If they are its time to pack things up.
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Originally Posted by irishfan86
thanks lads, sent a PM to each of youQuote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
Westwood, Keogh, Bell and Doyle start for Coventry, Green and Irish-eligible teenage forward(?) Conor Doyle start for Derby. Game starting soon on SKY.
Irish Abroad for Saturday, 21st August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-21
Steven Reid came on for the last 8 minutes of a game, and still found time to be booked
Ipswich's seven man bench had 4 Irish players - Brian Murphy, Shane O'Connor, Colin Healy and Conor Hourihane. However, only O'Connor made an appearance.
The three bookings in the same game was the most since Brentford played Hartlepool in May
Thanks to irishfan86 for the Spartak Moscow result
Irish Abroad for Sunday, 22nd August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-22
Adam Rooney scored his first goals of the season, and his first goals in the SPL since February 2009
Irish Abroad for Monday, 23rd August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-23
Shay Given was an unused sub for two consecutive league games for the first time since September 2007
Incidentally, the game with the most bookings is Leeds VS Sunderland on 13th September 2006, with 5 bookings - Paul Butler, Jonathan Douglas, Gary Kelly, Graham Kavanagh and Liam Miller all shown the yellow card
irishfan86 and TheBoss have agreed to track Aiden McGeady's and Cillian Sheridan's progress for the site this season, is there any interest in tracking some of the other Irish players playing outside England and Scotland - Dominic Foley, Anto Flood, etc?
I don't have the time to do it as well as everything else, so if I can get one volunteer per player that would be fine
full credit will be given for each player monitored
Carling Cup on tonight in England. Plenty of Irish in action but of most note in context of the Armenia game is probably that McShane was substituted on 22 minutes and St Ledger was substituted at half time, suggesting both got injuries of some degree. Defenders are rarely taken off that early. O'Dea was subbed on 60 minutes for Ipswich but it looks like it was part of a double substitution so was probably tactical or match fitness related.
I'll let Tets deliver the full details!
Treacy banged in what sounds like a cracking winner for Preston.
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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
We can only hope.
http://www.pnefc.net/page/NewsDetail...133836,00.htmlQuote:
Half-time saw Keith's Republic of Ireland teammate Sean St. Ledger make way for youngster Bailey Wright who was making his second first team appearance for the Whites with his other coming in the previous round against Stockport County two weeks ago. But Ferguson insisted this was simply a procaution for Saturday - not wanting his prized asset to be any worse for wear come the showdown against the Blades at Brammall Lane. The gaffer added: "Sean is a complete procaution - he will be ok for Saturday. We thought we would give it five minutes but he has said look I don't want to risk it and we made the decision between us.
There are a trio of Irishmen in Scandinavia that have only been mentioned on here a few times by one guy awhile back.
Pat Walker who played for Bohs and the u21s is the manager of Tippeligaen (top league in Norway, though they're surely relegated) side Sandefjord while his two (Sweden-born) sons, Kevin and Robert, play for AIK (Allsvenskan -- top league in Sweden -- champions last year) and Jönköpings Södra (second tier in Sweden), respectively.
As already mentioned, Anto Flood is with Örebro in Sweden until the end of the season. He's been an unused sub in 4 league games since joining late July/early August.
Has anyone heard of a Japanese player called Robert Cullen? I'm came across him a while ago through Wikipedia and thought the name stood out as particularly bizarre given he had international honours for Japan's under-20 side. Turned out, he was born in Ibaraki to a Japanese mother and a father from Northern Ireland, so presumably he'd be eligible to play for us. Not that I'm necessarily suggesting we should be going after him as he is now playing with Roasso Kumamoto in the J. League Division 2, but I just thought it was a rather interesting one. He played with the highly-esteemed (in Asian football, at least) Júbilo Iwata of the J. League Division 1 up until this season.
Edit: Just to add that Cullen won the J. League Rookie of the Year in 2005.
I'm not certain he'd actually be eligible to play for us. Presumably, his nationality was dependent on residence. Therefore, he would not qualify automatically under article 15 of FIFA's current statutes. I assume article 17 would be of relevance:Quote:
Originally Posted by SaucyJack
Seeing as he's only 15/16, I suspect he doesn't satisfy any of those criteria, which would lead me to believe he isn't eligible to play for us despite being an Irish national.Quote:
Acquisition of a new nationality
Any Player who refers to art. 15 par. 1 to assume a new nationality and who has not played international football in accordance with art. 15 par. 2 shall be eligible to play for the new representative team only if he fulfi ls one of the following conditions:
(a) He was born on the territory of the relevant Association;
(b) His biological mother or biological father was born on the territory of the relevant Association;
(c) His grandmother or grandfather was born on the territory of the relevant Association;
(d) He has lived continuously for at least five years after reaching the age of 18 on the territory of the relevant Association.
Conor Sammon (ex-UCD, ex-Derry City) got a hat-trick against Ayr Utd. in the Co-operative Insurance Cup.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ps/8941349.stm
Jon Daly scores for Dundee in the Europa League against AEK Athens but they go down 2-1 on aggregate.
Anto Flood came on with 2 mins to go in Örebro's match with Helsingborg today. They said on the TV that it was his third appearance for the club so you can scratch my previous post.
Full details delivered:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Tuesday 24th: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-24
Wednesday 25th: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-25
Been up the walls with work and a wedding yesterday. I've been updating the site regularly, but I can't find time to write up the summaries
Did you forget to add Sheridans game last sunday ?
All the stats you sent me had the month set to September, and one was for November, so I didn't add them.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
I never add a game before it has been played. Who did they play last week?
I re-sent it to you.
Thanks, but you're still entering the month as "9", August is the 8th month.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
I've changed the form slightly for the next set of games, you select the month from a drop down box, rather than entering it manually
I typed:
'22' in the first box
'08' in the second
'2010' in the third
??
hmmm, that's odd, it's being sent with the month set as 9. I'll investigate
<EDIT>
think I have it fixed now, stupid zero-based month system (i.e. 0=january, 1=february, 2=march, etc)
Sorry about that Boss, my bad
Irish Abroad for Saturday, 28th August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-28
Kevin Doyle picked up his first booking of the season
Mark O'Brien made his first appearance, as an unused sub for Derby
Ben Burgess scored his first goal of the season
Irish Abroad for Sunday, 29th August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-29
Daryl Murphy scored a penalty on his first start for Celtic
Cillian Sheridan scored his first goal for CSKA Sofia
Seamus Coleman made his first appearance of the season for Everton as a second half substitute
I've added back in the links section - http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Links - and as promised TheBoss and irishfan86 are listed as contributors
There's no games for the Premiership, SPL and Championship clubs this month, so I'll compile the August stats tomorrow, and archive off the stats for last season
By default, I don't include clubs outside those 3 leagues, so should I include Sheridan and McGeady in the monthly stats?
Tets gets an honourable reference in today’s Indo, but with a “must try harder” footnote :)
Anoraks of a particular persuasion can chart the progress of any Irish-qualified individuals on the various rungs of the UK football ladder. But they missed the man with the cliche-inducing surname, and a distinctly Irish complexion.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...o-2319399.html
damned with faint praise!
For the record, I added Green, and his record from last season, as soon as he was called up
I didn't hear any member of the 4th estate calling for his inclusion at any stage?
Irish Abroad Statistics for August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats
David Norris won 5 games to reflect Ipswich's strong start to the Championship season, scoring 4 goals to also top the goalscorers table with Adam Rooney, and picking up 4 bookings along the way
Ipswich won 2 and drew 1 of these games, while Inverness Caledonian Thistle won both games that Rooney scored in
Damien Duff drew 3 games in August
Darren Randolph is the unfortunate owner of the most losses in August, although this does include 2 losses in the Europa League preliminary rounds
Thanks to these extra European games, Randolph is also joint top of the most starts table, with 6, along with Paddy McCarthy, Wes Hoolahan, Marc Wilson and David Norris
Of these only Randolph, Norris and Wilson completed 90 minutes in every game.
Along with starting the most games, Wes Hoolahan was the most substituted player in August, the Norwich winger was withdrawn from the action 4 times
Conversely Ronan Murray was the most introduced substitute. The Ipswich Town player came off the bench 4 times
Unsurprisingly, two goalkeepers top the most unused substitute table, Shay Given and Saul Deeney both remained on the bench 5 times
I've added in some facebook and twitter (they're the latest thing!) buttons to attract more attention to the site using social networking
Damien Delaney played for Ipswich reserves yesterday http://www.itfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...148029,00.html
Following Padraig Amond's transfer to Portugal, and Barry Maguire's recent declaration that he wants to play for Ireland, I'm looking for a volunteer to track both player's progress in the Portuguese and Dutch leagues respectively, for the Irish Abroad site, similar to what irishfan86 and The Boss are doing for me with McGeady and Sheridan.
It takes about 5 minutes, and involves filling out a short form on the site about the game itself, and if the player in question played or not.
If nobody volunteers by the end of the day, I'll offer it to ybig.ie
Hogan Ephraim scores for QPR.
penalties for both Shane Long and Ian Harte for Reading.
assists for Anthony Stokes and Daryl Murphy for Celtics goals today.
Was there anything more about him declaring for Ireland? He's played U17 and U19 football for England, but has yet to be called into the U21 squadQuote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
I spoke to him yesterday after the game and he basically said that at the moment he isn't thinking too much about his international career, he just signed a one-year contract extension at QPR and under Warnock he looks a much, much better player.
His mother is Irish and he qualifies for Nigeria through his Dad and obviously played for England at youth level. He said if he can keep up his good form and QPR keep winning he will see what happens with regards international football.
threw this together this afternoon: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/GameDayStats
If anyone's watching New York Red Bulls v Colorado Rapids on Setanta right now, Wicklow man Danny Earls was an unused sub. He was a regular starter until recently losing his form and dropping to the bench.