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That would make the squad something like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Given
Westwood
O'Shea
Clark
Coleman
Dunne
St Ledger
S Kelly
O'Dea
Wilson
Gibson
Whelan
Green
Lawrence
Treacy
Duff
McCarthy
Keane
Walters
Doyle
Long
Best
Wait until you see the uproar for Stokes/Fahey/McGeady getting dropped, no-one is ever happy despite the fact you can only start 11 players. Get over it lads, you're not the manager so your indignation is wasted.
Mcgeady in pre-season, Trap doesn't rate the SPL and I cant think of any logical reason why Fahey isn't picked
Fahey has being starting lately for Birmingham and saved our asses against Armenia, so it's an odd choice to exclude him and include the likes of Green who has been poor for Derby of late.
ah, Birmingham playing on Sunday as well, might be the same reason for demoting Stokes
Fahey instead of Green (fckin hell, still?!) and Ward in as a defender and i would be realtively happy with that squad, truth be told. Performance is still everything however.
Manager P W D L %W %D %L
Staunton 17 6 6 5 35.29 35.29 29.41
Trapattoni 28 10 11 7 35.71 39.29 25.00
Where's Foley?
Mentioned somewhere he's injured but he appears to be available for Wolves tonight...
Can anyone confirm that the Wales match is viewed as a friendly as opposed to a competative game that would ultimately tie McCarthy to Ireland. Not that I envisage him ever changing sides. Just curious.
Apologies if this is discussed elsewhere already.
As long as Green doesn't play that squad looks fine. Fahey should be ahead of him. Not too bad though.
:rolleyes: We can't discuss team/squad selections and offer opinions with others? I didn't realise, I'll go cancel my foot.ie membership.Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Now thats a bit better. I take it Fahey and Stokes have been excluded due to playing on Sunday.
Thank you Trap! I thought you would never do it!
Looks like Trap's looking at McCarthy as a wide midfielder rather than central.
McCarthy? But he already had...;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia
Agreed. Fahey ain't no world-beater but he's surely a Green-beater. Healthy enough looking squad anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapAPony
Common sense has prevailed.
I was referring to the indignation in this and another thread calling for Traps head fo omitting McCarthy. Surely you can see the difference between that and normal discussion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yard of Pace
Good to see, futile if he doesn't get game time though.
People used to say similar stuff about Roy Keane. He wasn't Messi but his mere presence on the pitch and continuously doing the simple stuff brilliantly meant that he was missed when not there. I'm not sure a modern pundit would appreciate Roy Keane. Not flash enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by elroy
[QUOTE=Stuttgart88;1447629]I'm not sure a modern pundit would appreciate Roy Keane. Not flash enough.
Like he retired so long ago that its a whole different generation of pundits Stutts. ;)
Just glad he picked Jamie. Let's focus on that bit of good news.
Unfortunately, you can't invent your own tournaments to tie a player to your football association. It's a friendly and only FIFA / UEFA approved competitions count towards international eligibility.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scooby Doo
I wouldn't worry too much to be honest. As far as I'm aware, it would be unprecedented for McCarthy to change his allegiance now that he has been fully capped for Ireland. After everything he went through in Scotland, I'd consider if extremely unlikely that he would swap back to the Scots over being left out of one squad (but subsequently included, yay!).
i think we all know who to thank for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Serb
me, Noely's Guitar, Trapapony and Paul.
No problem lads.
That other thread attracted 71 replies. If the OP felt that way than he's entitled to post it. If it was complete rubbish no one would reply. Personally, I enjoy a bit of that anyway, even if I didn't agree that Trap should be sacked purely over McCarthy. It's nice to see any kind of discussion here when so often it's just clicking into the Jay O'Shea thread to find out he might be going on loan to Stevenage Borough.Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Yous will lose lustre if he you can't get him a game too...Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
self praise is no recommendationQuote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Got to hand it to Trap. He was on a hiding to nothing if he had gone down the Andy Reid road with McCarthy. Thankfully he has done the right thing and brought him into the squad. He should see some playing time now.
As one who had a go at Trap on the 'untenable' thread, I have got to acknowledge the fact that he has now called up McCarthy. My fear was that he would just use players to try and qualify for Euro 2012 without blooding new players as part of creating transition in the team. From his actions and comments over the last week, it looks likely that Clarke, Coleman and McCarthy will get some time on the pitch which will be exciting and positive. Some could argue as to his motivation and purpose in doing this, but even if he has been pressured to do this, it's still a welcome development.
Whats the betting Martinez will pull McCarthy out of the squad for next week.
what's the betting people will blame Trapattoni for not knowing McCarthy was going to be pulled out of the squad ahead of the announcement?
tets you need to do something about that boner for trap.
Are you suggesting he would still want to be manager in 2014?Quote:
Originally Posted by gastric
Considering that both Tardelli and Brady say that they have/had no influence on Trap once he has his mind made up, it would be the height of delusion to think that Trap in any way bowed to pressure to draft McCarthy into the squad. When the facts of McCarthy's recovery from injury were made known to Trap, he included him in the final squad because he rates McCarthy highly.
Trap is probably one of the most single minded managers in the game.
Reminds of the Brian Moore comment about Packie way back when, still makes me laugh thinking about it.Quote:
tets you need to do something about that boner for trap.
when the irish lads on teh way into the ground told him his name was pronounced -> bo-ner as opposed to bon-ner :D
And i didnt even think irish lads would know that word back in the god fearing, cb beating haze of the 80s.
This is relevant. Twente player switches from Morocco to Belgium after representing the former in a friendly international (fittingly against Northern Ireland).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ca/9387721.stm
Not really CD, i think everyone already knew that, unless its a competitive game it doesn't tie one(taiwan in a country accent) to a country.
It actually is pronounced Boner by a lot of people in Donegal and even spelt like that sometimes as well as Bonar.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Jimmy Magee usually pronounces it Boner. In Irish it's Ó Cnáimhsí which literally, as far as I can see, means Boner...ie someone who bones ;)
gerrrrup Packie ya dirtbird ya!
Ya around glenties south west/killybegs that area they do say boner. But its two ns, I have seen it with just one before.
Just pointing out that it has happened and does happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
So when people call me Boner (which has been my nickname for awhile now), it is actually a testament to my goalkeeping ability (or its ironic due to my lack of goalkeeping ability)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82