Euro 2016 Play-Offs - November 13th and 16th

Squad Watch

G	Rob Elliot	Started	Clean Sheet
G	David Forde	Started
G	Keiren Westwood	Started
G	Darren Randolph	Unused Sub
G	Shay Given	Not in Squad	Injured
D	Ciaran Clark	Started	Clean Sheet
D	Richard Keogh	Started
D	Seamus Coleman	Started
D	Cyrus Christie	Started
D	Shane Duffy	Started
D	Stephen Ward	Sub (77)
D	Alex Pearce	Unused Sub
D	Marc Wilson	Unused Sub
D	John O'Shea	Not in Squad	Injured
D	Paul McShane	Not in Squad	Injured
D	Greg Cunningham	Not in Squad	Injured
M	David Meyler	Started	Assist
M	Robbie Brady	Started
M	James McCarthy	Started
M	Paul Green	Started
M	James McClean	Started
M	Anthony Pilkington	Started
M	Wes Hoolahan	Started
M	Glenn Whelan	Started
M	Harry Arter	Started(78)
M	Jeff Hendrick	Started(65)
M	Darron Gibson	Unused Sub
M	Alan Judge	Not in Squad	Injured
M	Eunan O'Kane	Not in Squad	Out of Favour
M	Aiden McGeady	Not in Squad	Out of Favour
F	Daryl Murphy	Started	Goals(3)
F	Adam Rooney	Started	Goal
F	Jonathan Walters	Started
F	Simon Cox	Unused Sub
F	Anthony Stokes	Sunday 15:30
F	Robbie Keane	No Game
F	Kevin Doyle	No Game
F	Shane Long	Not in Squad	Injured
F	David McGoldrick	Not in Squad	Injured

In-Form Moneyball First XI
Elliot; Coleman, Keogh, Clark, Ward; Brady, McCarthy, Meyler, McClean; Hoolahan; Murphy

McGeady needs a change of scenery.

Chaps, I heard on the radio yesterday that Guinness is filtered in part through a sheep's bladder and so there is a little sheep juice in every pint....so vegans won't drink it. So the company is making a non sheep bladder filtered version acceptable to vegans.
What i don't get is....are there that many vegans who are healthy lifestyle people but still drink alcohol, making it worth while to go through all the trouble? And isn't it kinda gross that it gets filtered through a dead sheep's bladder in the first place?

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Originally Posted by Crosby87

McGeady needs a change of scenery.

Chaps, I heard on the radio yesterday that Guinness is filtered in part through a sheep's bladder and so there is a little sheep juice in every pint....so vegans won't drink it. So the company is making a non sheep bladder filtered version acceptable to vegans.
What i don't get is....are there that many vegans who are healthy lifestyle people but still drink alcohol, making it worth while to go through all the trouble? And isn't it kinda gross that it gets filtered through a dead sheep's bladder in the first place?

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I think that explains clearly why McGeady has never been consistently able to deliver that final ball !

Deulofeu's through ball for Lukaku's equaliser today was sublime actually. Easy to see why McGeady is struggling to get back in with Mirallas and Lennon having to settle for places on the bench themselves. Looks like he definitely needs a move.

Looks like O'Shea is out of the playoffs - failure to recover from injury

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Originally Posted by Crosby87

Chaps, I heard on the radio yesterday that Guinness is filtered in part through a sheep's bladder and so there is a little sheep juice in every pint.

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Close, but it's isinglass, a gelatin derived from fish bladders. http://www.irishtimes.com/business/a...ness-1.2415449

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Originally Posted by Crosby87

And isn't it kinda gross that it gets filtered through a dead sheep's bladder in the first place?

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I'm reliably informed that many beers taste like they've been filtered through a live sheep's bladder.

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Originally Posted by Eminence Grise

Close, but it's isinglass, a gelatin derived from fish bladders. http://www.irishtimes.com/business/a...ness-1.2415449



I'm reliably informed that many beers taste like they've been filtered through a live sheep's bladder.

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Most beers use this in the fermentation process I'm led to believe.

Now back (somewhat) to the subject, I'd like to see McGeady start. i know he's not playing but I think he could do damage. McAteer couldb't buy a game for Blackburn when he scored V Holland. McGeady also created our only real chance V Poland. Something McClean failed to do during the whole game

Squad Reduced to 30, Given, Cunningham, Green, O’Kane, McGoldrick, Cox, Stokes, Pilkington and Rooney gone from the provisional squad.

G	Rob Elliot	Started	Clean Sheet
G	David Forde	Started
G	Keiren Westwood	Started
G	Darren Randolph	Unused Sub
D	Ciaran Clark	Started	Clean Sheet
D	Richard Keogh	Started
D	Seamus Coleman	Started
D	Cyrus Christie	Started
D	Shane Duffy	Started
D	Stephen Ward	Sub (77)
D	Alex Pearce	Unused Sub
D	Marc Wilson	Unused Sub
D	John O'Shea	Not in Squad	Injured
D	Paul McShane	Not in Squad	Injured
M	David Meyler	Started	Assist
M	Robbie Brady	Started
M	James McCarthy	Started
M	James McClean	Started
M	Wes Hoolahan	Started
M	Glenn Whelan	Started
M	Harry Arter	Started(78)
M	Jeff Hendrick	Started(65)
M	Darron Gibson	Unused Sub
M	Alan Judge	Not in Squad	Injured
M	Aiden McGeady	Not in Squad	Out of Favour
F	Daryl Murphy	Started	Goals(3)
F	Jonathan Walters	Started
F	Robbie Keane	No Game
F	Kevin Doyle	No Game
F	Shane Long	Not in Squad	Injured

In-Form Moneyball First XI
Elliot; Coleman, Keogh, Clark, Ward; Brady, McCarthy, Meyler, McClean; Hoolahan; Murphy

Elliot, O'Shea, McShane, Judge and Long all being assessed by their clubs before joining up.

Do you think Shane is a Long shot?

McCLaren wants Elliott out of Irish squad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-play-off.html

How did the Bosnian squad do this weekend: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...16945871453389

Very gloomy for a wet Monday morning but I can't seem to get a 2-0 defeat out of my head for Friday. The good news is I think I'm wrong far more often than I'm right with these things.

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Originally Posted by DeLorean

Very gloomy for a wet Monday morning but I can't seem to get a 2-0 defeat out of my head for Friday. The good news is I think I'm wrong far more often than I'm right with these things.

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so it could be 3-0 then? :)

cant help feeling that without oshea, walters and probably long out it could be quite a difficult night Friday. am clinging to the hope that first legs are generally cagey tight affairs and that will be to our benefit

Haha it could yeah. I'd say whether it's 2-0 or 3-0 we're as good as out either way though. I'm normally more optimistic but then again I'm normally disappointed!

Anyone else think Doyle should start this one upfront by himself?

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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Anyone else think Doyle should start this one upfront by himself?

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didn't see much of his season in the US but if his form was anyway decent id say he would be our best option up front alone. MON will probably go with murphy though. his hat-trick at the weekend has come at just the right time for us

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Originally Posted by jbyrne

didn't see much of his season in the US but if his form was anyway decent id say he would be our best option up front alone. MON will probably go with murphy though. his hat-trick at the weekend has come at just the right time for us

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yeah i expect it to be murphy. MON seems to rate him. worrying lack of pace in the side... i'm thinking

randolph
coleman keogh clark wilson
mccarthy whelan
hendrick hoolahan brady
muprhy

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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Anyone else think Doyle should start this one upfront by himself?

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Maybe he would be lonely(Only kidding) I Long for Long. So Long as its not So Long !

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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Anyone else think Doyle should start this one upfront by himself?

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I presume the loan striker option is the way to go? Just thinking that we had a hell of a run playing 4-4-2 away from home for some reason. As daft and regressive as it probably sounds, would it be worth a considering given our options? I just think with the loan striker, very little is likely to stick and we'll be inviting pressure back onto ourselves constantly. There's the obvious problem of getting overrun in midfield playing 4-4-2, where they seem to have some quality, but obviously Murphy would be expected to help out defensively and it would come naturally to Hendrick who wouldn't be your more orthodox wide player.


--------------Goalkeeper---------------
--Coleman - Keogh - Clark - Wilson--
Hendrick - McCarthy - Whelan - Brady
-----------Murphy-Keane---------------


I'm kind of assuming he'll start Whelan over Gibson and that Long won't be fit enough to start. It would be brilliant if he could give us twenty minutes from the bench though and McClean could carry out the Stephen Hunt role. Save Wessi for the home leg I think or if we really need a goal late on (i.e. we're losing 2-0 or worse).

It's very hard to know what Doyle would offer at this stage. If we do go with the loan striker obviously he's a better option than Keane. I'm not a massive Murphy fan (for us) but it's easier to gauge the level he's at right now, and it's probably a higher level than Doyle on all known evidence. Unquestionably Doyle was a better player at his pomp but that seems a long time ago now, albeit he's still marginally younger than Murphy!