What two players picked up their first bookings of the season? Who made his 100th career appearance?
All this & more in the latest round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...93671187470827
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What two players picked up their first bookings of the season? Who made his 100th career appearance?
All this & more in the latest round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...93671187470827
Not a great day for the Irish players in the PL yesterday.
Coleman had a tough day against Arnautovic by all accounts, hopefully not a sign of things to come for our WC qualifiers. He should have won a penalty though after being fouled by Pieters. James McCarthy's groin injury flared up again so he only lasted 26 minutes, although he did provide an assist for Lukaku in that time. They seem to be missing him big time, the amount of goals they're conceding is ridiculous. Cleverley replaced him, Gibson an unused sub. Whelan played the full ninety, Walters just the last twelve and Wilson didn't make it off the bench.
Clark had another rocky outing at Carrow Road, he gave the ball away in the lead up to the first goal with a weak header. Richards and co were even worse after that though. He had another shaky moment in the second half when he got caught in possession but he did make an excellent, if completely desperate, recovery tackle. Neither himself or, particularly, Richardson covered themselves in glory for the second goal, which was nicely assisted by Hoolahan with an accurate cross. Villa really are a collective shambles, has there been a worse PL team since Derby's record breaking season? Brady played the ninety, didn't feature that heavily in the highlights. Big win for Norwich, twenty points at the half way stage would be bang on target you'd imagine.
Long seemed to play very well in the first half against West Ham, had a lovely assist and Southampton really should have been out of sight by half time.
Arter started and O'Kane came on after an hour at The Emirates.
Stephen Ward started his first league game of the season, Paddy Madden made his 100th start for Scunthorpe, and Jeff Hendrick scored his 25th goal for Derby in the last round up of 2015: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...30929276068943
One last blog before 2016 - a look back at 2015: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...12604259758715
I'll have the December appearance stats and the 2015/16 appearance data to date posted in the next day or two
Four goals from Alan Judge and Adam Rooney meant they were the top scoring Irish players in December, read more in the compiled appearance stats for December: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...41903050944598
Robbie Keane's 19 goals since July 1st makes him the top scorer so far in 2015/16, but not the top penalty scorer. More in the round up for the season to date: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...69906754337113
Ease the pain of the return to work with our first round up of 2016, including Jay O'Shea's fifth goal of the season in his 150th appearance for Chesterfield, and Darragh Lenihan's first league appearance of 2015/16: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...73620797710022
Being linked with a move to Derby in the Mail.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo..._campaign=1490Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Can see some truth in this as he has been a standout for our U21s and for Oxford this season.
Been on the bench recently from what I've seen, but did manage a goal at the weekend.
A bit more here-Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Leeds United have been linked with a move for Aberdeen goalkeeper Danny Rogers by The Sun. The 21 year old’s contract with the SPL club expires in the summer, and subsequently the youngster will be available on a free transfer at the end of the season.
Lucan United (who Liverpool signed Masterson from) have posted on facebook that he's in the squad for their FA Cup game tonight against Exeter: https://www.facebook.com/10531227617...type=1&theaterQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
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Ex Lucan United. Conor Masterson has been included in the Liverpool squad to face Exeter this evening in the FA Cup.
Kick off. 8pm
James Talbot traveled with the Sunderland squad today, and warmed up with the other goalkeepers
St Pats' midfielder Darragh Markey scored in a trial game for Celtic against St Johnstone yesterday: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-34350418.html
Conor Masterson's debut in the Liverpool matchday squad, 40 goals in England for Jay O'Shea, Aiden O'Brien's 50th appearance for Millwall & more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...38074313484242
Congratulations to Ireland U21 and Falkirk goalkeeper Danny Rogers on winning the Ladbrokes Championship Player of the Month for December: http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/decem...e-for-falkirk/
Marcus Agyei-Tabi
I find it a bit irritating that this guy is still listed and profiled on the FAI website. How hard can it be to keep it reasonably up to date - one of our Mods would even do a better job!
Long, Walters & McClean all on the score sheet in the PL this evening.
Walters https://streamable.com/xytvQuote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
McClean https://streamable.com/0n48
Long http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3m...-01-2016_sport
Darren Potter and Jonathan Walters mark 200 starts for their respective clubs, Shane Long's 15th goal for the Saints and more Irish players in one Premier League game than any other so far this season in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...66407496577024
And Chris McCann scored for Wigan on Tuesday night ;)
http://www.skysports.com/watch/video...-sheffield-utd
How cool would it be if this guy
https://twitter.com/OUFCOfficial/sta...47535131013121
And this guy ended up playing beside each other for Ireland
http://www.stevenagefc.com/news/arti...s-2829702.aspx
(Disclaimer - No idea whether the Oxford lad is Irish, am awaiting a tweet from him to confirm!)
U17 goalkeeper Thomas McDermott is playing for Spurs in the 2016 Copa Chivas in Mexico at the moment.
He's only played in one of their three games so far, a 2-0 loss to Pachua of Mexico - http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news...ch-two-160116/ - and they have one game remaining on Tuesday against Club Deportivo Universidad Católica from Chile
Billy Clark's 50th start for Oldham, Darragh Lenihan's first league start of the season and first appearances for their new clubs for Darren O'Dea, Keith Keane and John O'Sullivan all in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...65000209387457
Ciaran Clark's first goal of the season, Kevin Dawson's return after a year and a first appearance in the matchday squad for Shane McLoughlin in the mid week round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...69073737315126
60 goals in England and Scotland for Wes Hoolahan, a debut goal on loan for Conor Wilkinson, 100 appearances in England for Kevin Long and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...81347463005741
Ian Lawlor and Paddy Madden in the Football League Team of the Week: http://www.football-league.co.uk/new...k-2920114.aspx
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZkkospWAAEwyE1.png
Shamrock Rovers youngster Aaron Dobbs gone to Celtic for a trial according to Paul McGrath on twitter: https://twitter.com/Paulmcgrath5/sta...69814964359168
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Good luck to @Aaron9dobbs on his trial with CELTIC FC, I've already recommended Aaron to a few pals across the water, so here's hoping :)
200 appearances for Jeff Hendrick and Graham Carey in England and Scotland, returns to their respective sides for Joey O'Brien and Joe Rafferty and more in the weekend roundup: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...09482919318583
Anthony Stokes scores on his 50th Hibs appearance, Michael Timlin's third career red card and the first goal of goalkeeper Barry Roche's career in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...06843077499875
Aiden McGeady's first league start of the season, Samir Carruthers' 100th career appearance and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...51544237342638
Any word on Brian Lenihan? Doesn't even seem to be getting a run in Hulls u21 side.
Only just back fit according to the manager: http://www.hullcitytigers.com/news/a...a-2940107.aspxQuote:
Originally Posted by Jd2793
Quote:
Journalist: We saw young Josh Tymon play last weekend and he is now away with the England U17s. Do you have any more youngsters coming through with him?
Steve Bruce: No, unfortunately not at the moment. Brian Lenihan has just got himself fit after a horrific 18 months with injury and once he’s up to speed he’ll probably go out on loan. The same with Greg Luer, with what we’ve got and with what we’ve brought in, he needs to go out and play somewhere when the loan window opens.
Sunderland businessman gauging interest ahead of application for Charlie Hurley statue: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/l...#ixzz3zf8cloa2
Fiacre Kelleher captaining Celtic in the UEFA Youth League, live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7uJaSb6DR0
Curtis Fleming to join the coaching staff at Hartlepool as head coach: http://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/ne...h-2954007.aspx
Three Irish Premier League goalscorers for the second time this season - the first time that's happened since 2011/12, Ryan Sweeney's first career goal and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...11272901266681
Shane Duffy's fifth career goal, on his 50th appearance for Blackburn, while Anthony Stokes and Seamus Conneely both made landmark 50 starts and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...09248056987799
Three Irish goalscorers in one game for the second time this season (the first that's happened since 2012/13), Leon Best's return from injury, and Simon Cox's 50th appearance for Reading in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...90447593756575
What was the other time Tets? And what were the two games in 2012/13?