Alright I was just being pedantic to back up BohDiddley's point. I'm pointing out the worse case scenario. Would you be happy to support a team that looked like that and called themselves Ireland?
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Alright I was just being pedantic to back up BohDiddley's point. I'm pointing out the worse case scenario. Would you be happy to support a team that looked like that and called themselves Ireland?
If a third div English player can get into the Ireland team on the basis of his religion, then the team doesn't represent the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Even if it is a throwaway comment, which is most likely, and he gets in on a strict interpretation of the rules, his own attitude highlights the absurdity of the setup.
not neccessesarily but i think you're ignoring the reality of how EL clubs would react to thier season being suspended for a jaunt for our interanional side or how they would react to losing players for a meaningless U23 tournament.Quote:
Originally Posted by ifk101
Yeah, like that wasn't going to happen anyway :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by boovidge
Ah the same way any other club reacts when a player is called up i would have thought, actually no ... probably a better reaction than the 'I is a cat-oh-lick in'i' sentiment anyway. I'd say most clubs would be genuinely proud that a play was called up. I know that when Joe Gamble was called up everyone at our club was delighted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenforever
So if he had played for Scotland instead he would have got the same amount of abuse?Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
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Originally Posted by BohDiddley
Spot on - but let's be honest here - I bet the only Irish soccer supporters he has met where probably Ole Ole ******* in Celtic tops and this is very much how they see the Irish team.
The issue is a psychological disorder at the very heart of the Ireland senior soccer set up and the majority of supporters who follow "the boys in green".
Joe's trip to the US was for 2 recognized International games, the games in Protugal are not Internationals, and I doubt if any of the fringe players will be used once the absentees turn up for Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
I am more than happy to see EL players called up on merit, but dont see much point if they are merely to make up the numbers and not get a look in whne it comes to the matches, in the meantime there clubs are weakened or looking for postponments.
Mike Bassett - "Let's hear it for the England B team"
Tune in to 5:50
came by this info the other day
Westwood has sized up the England set up and although not impossible he would recieve a call up to it, as the Peterborough United keeper just has, he has tactically selected Ireland, citing Kielys less than settled club career of late as an oppertunity for him to take the nr2 spot. he already deems himself higher up than our third choice keepers in the pecking order.
he isnt, and doesnt see himself as Irish in any way, its a career driven decision, and it seems he has been told he will play a part in Thursdays game, so we are about to be represented by this guy.
he is being regularly scouted over the last ten weeks by both west brom and watford and carlisle are preparing for the possibility of losing him.
should they do so (and heres the sickner) one of his potential replacements is Conrad Logan, an Irish keeper on loan to stockport from leicester, a real live Irishman!! another one overlooked.
how accurate all this will prove to be, time will tell.