I'd imagine, it's definitely possible if he impresses enough in training that they keep him with the seniorsQuote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
I'd imagine, it's definitely possible if he impresses enough in training that they keep him with the seniorsQuote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
Yes, I only seen that hes training with the seniors from your previous post after I wrote that. Encouraging that they are taking a look at himQuote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
I'm up to my knees in a work thing this evening so I don't have time to fully go back through the regs, but I'm 99.999999% certain that that doesn't apply in this case. The three year wait thing only applies where a player was under 21 years old when he was capped, and where he was capped in a competitive game. Cannon has turned 21 and these are friendlies. There are countless recent examples of players jumping between nations with less than a three year gap and playing senior friendlies for both, especially between the US and Mexico.Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
Congratulations to the happy couple.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
Including one D Rice...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
Awwww were you trying to have a go at me? Do you mean Kennys first two games of his managerial career in charge of Longford? Because thats the only equivalence to O'Shea here. Unfortunately I dont remember his first games at Longford, but I do remember him getting Longford into Europe which I think we'd all agree is pretty impressive! If O'Shea can learn and adapt from his first 2 games he might be lucky enough to get a job managing someone like Longford too, because right now no one is touching him as is proven by his willingness to continue in a caretaker role rather than getting a full time job somewhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snapshot
FWIW the regulations changed after Deccers defected. At his point, it was simply 1 competitive international of any type was enough to tie a player. They subsequently changed and since then, as far as I know, there hasn't been any hard cases where someone switched having already received X international caps at age Y where we can actually see the new rules in effect. So I wouldn't be too confident to the actual implications - but it's certainly possible this involves a 3 year wait...Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Come on, RLP. Tets intervened there to help keep the peace so the rest of us don't have to read petty squabbling. Don't crow, it's just trolling for a reaction. Make your points and move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
I thought I did make my points, but fair enough I'll stop :)Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
Ah, thats nice for them. Congrats to the happy couple.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
(Sorry, couldn’t resist ;):D)
Obviously great togetherness in the squadQuote:
Originally Posted by TonyD
Andy Moran will be training with the seniors too before going to play with the 21s
Just to give the definitive answer to this because I didn't have time yesterday. 9.2 Section C only applies where:Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
the player:
i) was fielded in a match in an official competition at “A”
international level in any kind of football for his current
association;
and
iii) at the time of being fielded for his last match in an official
competition in any kind of football for his current association,
he had not turned 21 years old;
i) doesn't apply because these are friendlies and iii) doesn't apply because Cannon has already turned 21 (though this is not really important anyway in this case because i) isn't applicable for these games).
So, Cannon can play either or both games and switch to England in the next window if he wants to. He will only be cap tied to Ireland once he plays a competitive game. Because he has already turned 21 he doesn't have to play three competitive games to be cap tied, a single competitive cap will do it.
Incidentally, I think Cannon is underrated by Irish supporters. We haven't paid too much attention to him because we haven't known whether he'll commit to us or not (and we still don't). But he's known for being a really strong trainer and hard worker, as well as a good player. if we end up with him alongside Ferguson, Idah and in the shorter term Szmodics, we'll be looking in really great shape up front. And of course there are others too.
Brady, Coleman, Stevens, Doherty and O'Dowda in the squad. They'll be 33, 36, 34, 33 and 29 respectively when the next campaign's in full swing. Four are injury prone and the other started about half-a-dozen games in the PL. It was left up to O'Shea whether he called up Duffy or not and of course he calls him up despite the fact he has a drink driving conviction hanging over him while in O'Brien you have a player with a similar profile on the upswing who's coming off a goal against PSG in a French Cup Final. I have no doubt he'd have McClean in the squad as well if he hadn't retired. Couple all of this with the fact O'Shea showed the exact same tactical, strategic and in-game limitations as Kenny in the previous two friendlies and I'm not looking forward to his appointment as permanent manager. It's an absolutely mindboggling squad in certain ways. I know lads like Roughan, Garcia-MacNulty, Lawal and Moran aren't the finished article but after over fifteen years of repeating the same mistakes in the past not gently disposing of players who [should've] aged out in terms of consideration, at some point you've got to start throwing lads in at the deep end. Just look at the tune Michael O'Neill is getting out of the young lads with NI. I watched the Romania game and they played some great stuff with boys who are further down the rung than Roughan and Garcia-MacNulty. I'm shouting against the wind here but succeeding Kenny as an International manager is not the right first step for O'Shea. He needs to do something at club level - any level - first. And that's not putting the cones out with poor performing teams like Reading and Birmingham.
I wonder would this many players be out injured if Ireland had qualified for the Euros this summer...
We can talk about the quality of player available to us and the lack of a manager until the cows come home but the reality is if the players arent committed to the cause then we are going nowhere fast even if we had the Man City squad at our disposal.
I'm actually surprised as many have agreed to turn up as have. A lot would have been on the beach for last few weeks. Speaks well that so many have agreed to turn up for completely meaningless games when we don't even have a manager building for future. I thought Joe Lapria might get cap number 2 and 3 in these gamesQuote:
Originally Posted by CSAD
Saw a comment elsewhere online that O'Shea and Harrington share an agent (Stephen Hunt). Could explain it, or also be completely irrelevant. Was it Stan that was rumoured to have called up certain players because of a link to a particular agent?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
I'm pretty sure Jason Byrne and Brian Kerr had the same agent when he was called up
He got one minute at the end of a friendly against Poland, and moved to Cardiff soon after.
A few players that Staunton capped had strong links with Pat Devlin, who was involved in the Ireland setup with Staunton at the time. Alan O'Brien in particular, who subsequently got a transfer to Hibs off the back of winning a few Ireland caps and proved to be nowhere near good enough for Hibs, never mind the Ireland team, which had a lot of good players in it at that time.
Was Byrne not also the best striker in the LoI at the time, with a great scoring record and experience playing the likes of Juve for a dominant and fully pro Shels team? It was hardly the weirdest cap in the world, especially if Kerr had any romantic notions about promoting the league. I doubt Cardiff gave him a contract on the back of a minute for Ireland. Coincidences are inevitable in a community the size of Irish football, so I'm inclined to dismiss connections like that unless they come with an otherwise inexplicable decision.
On second thought, Byrne moved to Cardiff in 2007. The minute he got from Kerr was in April 2004. Grassy knoll territory.
Crowe got a cap the previous year though. Between 03 and 04 they scored 84 league goals between them. I wouldn't get overly conspiratorial about a friendly cap apiece tbh