Ryan Lowe (Preston NE) watched Cannon score a late winner v Mansfield in the Papa Johns Trophy match last night. It will be interesting to see whether Cannon is promoted to the first team bench or goes up the road on loan come January.
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Ryan Lowe (Preston NE) watched Cannon score a late winner v Mansfield in the Papa Johns Trophy match last night. It will be interesting to see whether Cannon is promoted to the first team bench or goes up the road on loan come January.
Liam Higgins? Plays under age for Wales. Anyone know whether he was qualified for us.
Generally not a fan of young players with no senior experience taking Championship loans. Especially strikers. Would rather he found a decent League 1 club as a starting point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
Especially a Championship team struggling to put the ball in the back of the net. 18 goals in 21 games so far this season. They're 23rd in the league for goals scored but only two points off Watford in 4th. Fans could well be on his back before a ball is even kicked given they need someone with experience to help keep them in the hunt for a play off spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
Growing speculation (or websites feeding off each other?) that Cannon could go to Sheffield Wednesday on loan next month. ('The 72' and Football League World, 12 Dec; Yorkshire Live, 13 Dec).
Five goals in five games in the EFL Trophy, against adult opposition, one goal for the senior team in a mini-tournament, seventeen goals before Christmas - has Tom Cannon quietly become one to watch in our search for high quality strikers?
Possibly - I understand that the feeling with Cannon is that he's more physically developed than most young players that come through the academy system, so he should be able to adapt more easily to men's football. He seems to be showing that in his limited opportunities to date.
Hard to get the hopes up too much with a 19 year old who is on the fringes of the first team at a premier league club with just an Irish granny to depend on for that connection. Maybe she makes amazing soda bread.
But sure lookit we'll see.
The rep of Ireland should have used this world cup window to bed in players in a development squad. play against anyone from Latvia to rovers
More options and minutes for the Smallbone and Cannon
I know we would need the agreement of the clubs but why not try it
Better than kenny and Andrews in Qatar imo
Preson NE foiled in their pursuit of Cameron Archer, so turning their attention again to Tom Cannon, according to Deepdale Digest today. Kevin Thelwell, ex-PNE and now Everton Director of Football, quoted as describing Cannon as 'very talented' and having 'an excellent work ethic'. The PNE Chief Scout is ex-Everton midfielder James Wallace, so the right connections are in place. However, Everton are a bit light in the scoring forwards department. Where Cannon spends the rest of the season may depend on where Frank Lampard spends it.
James Wallace played for us underage but turned out then to be ineligible i thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
I was wondering if it was him
He played with another lad from Everton at the time gerard kinsella I think who also turned out to be ineligibleQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Let's hope he does well at Preston. But will this mean an Irish player (? Maguire, ?Parrott) moves out?
Maguire has been suggested, hasn't he?
Maguire is rumoured to have been told he can leave but Riis was sent to see a knee specialist so could stick around a bit if Riis is out long term. Will likely be Cannon and Parrott fighting to partner Ched Evans.
Hopefully only on the football pitch...
Maguire would probably be better off dropping down a division or 2 at this stage, hes just making up the numbers in that Preston squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Hopefully Parrott and Browne can cement Cannons interest in playing for us, but Im also not gonna stress over if he will or wont. I think the frenzie over Mipo has burned me on caring about lads who are dual until we see if they are even good enough. Even looking at Liam Delap now I not sure Id care about whether we get him or not, where as a year ago it seemed like a big deal.
Delap was massively overhyped because he came through at Man City. Some talk that his loan at Stoke might be cancelled - partly because they've let his dad go from the coaching staff but also partly because he hasn't been good enough for the Championship.
It will be interesting to see if he gets anywhere near the England Under 21s, I suspect he might not.
Maybe unfair, but my heart always sinks, slightly, when I hear when of our players might be moving to PNE.
I hope it works out, but let's see.
(I'd like to have worked a munitions-based pun into that comment but I'm worried that the site admin might have a short fuse.)
Not going well for Preston - 3 down inside 30 minutes. Time to get the veterans Brady and Cunningham off the bench? No, Delap and Fernandez. Hope that doesn't set a pattern for the rest of the season.
I suspect they’ve caught a Norwich team on the way up with a new shrewd manager….
Playoffs in the Championship are going to be very interesting this year. Assuming Burnley and Sheffield United are out of sight in terms of the automatic places (Burnley are anyway), Norwich, Boro, West Brom and Watford as all resurgent after manager changes. If it's those four that end up in the playoffs it will be one of the stronger playoffs in recent years. Plenty of Irish interest also, other than Watford.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommy_c12000
Cannon played 81 mins away to Birmingham. Parrott replaced him.
Booked for a really embarrassing dive against Spurs there,hopefully it’s not a feature of his game!
Apart from the dive he worked extremely hard and had some nice moments. Not too many opportunities around the Spurs box in fairness.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Goal for Cannon, his first senior goal I think. Assisted by Browne
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Cannon is played through on goal by Browne and burst in to the box before finding the bottom left corner!
Starting alongside Parrott too, which may well be a first?
Greg Cunningham with an own goal at the other end.
They started together last week too. Watched a bit of itQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Great stuff, Parrott tried to get the ball to take their peno but wasn’t allowed take it. Pity.
It’s an interesting one. Was thinking last week when Cannon was starting ahead of Parrott - that’s it’s weird that we don’t consider them on the same level at all at international level. Parrott is basically a shoo-in for the squad and has 17 full caps, whereas Cannon has never won an u21 cap despite being born in the same year as Parrott and being ahead or equal to him at club level
It does seem a bit strange alright, but then their pathways have been so different. Parrott came through the youth setup in Ireland up to 16 and would have been very visible to the FAI scouts from a young age. Since going to England he has played over 100 senior games, including a very successful loan spell at MK Dons, as well as some less successful loans. He also had the advantage of coming through Kenny's Under 21 team, which gave him a head start at senior level and he came into the senior squad at a time when we were probably at our weakest in at least 25 years and there were plenty of squad places up for grabs.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
Cannon is almost a year younger than Parrott and has played less than 20 senior games. He had no senior profile at all really before this season. He's also English born and developed also, which makes him less visible to us. But he seems to have taken to senior football really well and looks to be outperforming Delap at Preston, which is something given the hype around Delap. He must be in pole position now to be the starting centre forward for the next Under 21 campaign, and you couldn't rule out a senior call up if he delivers for Preston consistently, though it's a much higher bar to get in now than Parrott had to clear a couple of years ago.
Sometimes the most hyped up players don't make the grade and ones that go under the radar end up having the best careers. No idea if that will apply to Cannon or not, but he has made a very strong start in senior football.
Interesting take on their recent performances and overall potential in the links below. Certainly a lot more favourable to Cannon. Have been impressed with what I’ve seen of him - looks direct and strong would cap him sooner rather than later. Concerning about Parrot’s lack of goals - wonder if playing him deeper in an attacking midfield role might suit him.
Parrot: https://www.pne-online.net/forum/ind...436453/page-16
Cannon: https://www.pne-online.net/forum/ind...3437500/page-8
I think what you’ve said is right but Cannon was impressive for Ireland u20s under Crawford against the amateurs. He was feeding off scraps but his quickness of foot and thought were really evident (wrote about it here at the time).Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
As much as I like JJ Kayode, and I do respect his work rate and attitude, the caps he got, and to a lesser extent Collie Whelan’s caps, might have been better going to Tom Cannon and Sinclair Armstrong, if you’re looking at blooding the really high potential guys - and at the very least that should have been apparent when working with him at u20s
What is his link ?
His Wiki only recently mentioned Ireland in any capacity I noticed.
He did turn up for an U20s game about a year ago when others like OkoFlex declined. Not sure how strong his links are but I assume we'll find out if he's with us in the coming weeks when senior and U21 squads announced