I see Colin healy scored for Ipswitch He is starting alot of games of late gettin good reviews surly he should be gettin a look in the squad ahead of green
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I see Colin healy scored for Ipswitch He is starting alot of games of late gettin good reviews surly he should be gettin a look in the squad ahead of green
I think Paul Jewell made Healy captain. Saw the highlights and he was certainly involved a lot, scoring a nice goal. Great to see him rise again from the bad luck with injuries he had in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by hudhastings
I'm always sceptical of posts suggesting a Championship player on a run of form be called up. But he's a similar type of player to Green and playing well so it's not a wild suggestion. It won't happen though, and I'm not sure it'd change the big picture much. I never thought I'd ever miss Keith Andrews so much!Quote:
Originally Posted by hudhastings
Watching Arsenal v Barcelona made me weep. The standard of midfield play was stunning and we are in the dark ages by comparison. Even England have a 21st century midfielder with technique to die for now!
Does anyone go to watch barnet? How has johnny dunleavy been doing?
5 unused sub appearances and one 10 minute appearance from the bench: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Play...playerID=58179Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
They always had, he just didn't want to play for them ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
KK? good one kingdom.
surely mick musn't be too happy with that?Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Tets i searched googled for irish players abroad, and i never found your site, usualy google ups its own sites to the top for matching searches(a couple of sites ive done this was the case anyway) but i did find a few who i reckon were taking your players and stats off of you.
you could use Talends Data Profiler to look for patterns on those stats tets.
probably not, but the loan has been extended according to this: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/180220...nned-bees.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
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Teenage defender John Dunleavy has extended his loan deal from Wolves but is likely to have to make do with a place on the bench again.
yeah, I need to improve the metadata tags to get better search results.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
I know the database section on thefreekick.com - http://www.thefreekick.com/blog/about-tfk-irish-soccer-database/ - use the stats, but they acknowledge the site as a source
Might do, bit busy with work stuff at the moment. CheersQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Paul scholesQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
I think as a joke though it sounds better to use kilbane :D Cos he didnt want to play for them and he is a midfield maestro at lowly huddersfield :D
Tets eurorivas.net was another. Cheers for that, i was trying to find out stuff, his agent is a mate of mine and i was wondering if he was telling me the truth.
there was about 6 sites i think. We didnt need to do anything with Metatags(actually i think googles trawler doesnt use them anymore) it was just a google pages site so it automatically came up on top after a few searches.
Is darren dennehy on loan at barnet? Does the site tell you whose the parent club?
He really is, words to remember the next time someone trues to convince you they could do better than playerX in the ChampionshipQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Thanks, I'll have a look at that. I don't mind any other site using it as a resource, as long as it's creditedQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Nope, he signed for Barnet last summer: http://www.barnetfc.com/page/LatestN...090374,00.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Saints land Gunners goalkeeper
Southampton manager Nigel Adkins has signed goalkeeper James Shea on a month-long loan deal from Arsenal.
Shea's arrival at St Mary's comes as a result of injury to Bartosz Bialkowski, who has picked up a knock in training and is being assessed.
The 19-year-old goes straight into Adkins' squad for Saturday's trip to Rochdale.
Shea is rated highly at the Emirates Stadium and recently penned a contract extension with Arsene Wenger's side.
Although he can represent both England and the Republic of Ireland, the talented youngster is yet to play international football although his qualities have been recognised by Fabio Capello, who last year drafted him into the Three Lions' training preparations
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...759996,00.html
Anyone know if this keeper is any good.............surely has potential if he's signed with Arsenal and has already been called up to training camps with England!!!!!!!!
Get in there trap and give him a cap, just to secure his services for the future (incase he turns out to be a good one)....
Easy there now, Abbeyvale, easy, remember Terry Dixon? Joe Lapira? lets not sully the honour of wearing that shirt. Anyway, Trap is not that man, he is as likley to cap this lad at present as he is to recall Packie Bonner going on his dealings with young James McCarthy, you are right though, it would be nice if he chose us, and he is at a good club at present, definitely call him to an underage squad and make him part of things that way.Quote:
Anyone know if this keeper is any good.............surely has potential if he's signed with Arsenal and has already been called up to training camps with England!!!!!!!!
Get in there trap and give him a cap, just to secure his services for the future (incase he turns out to be a good one)....
Great to see Doyle getting a game again at Birmingham.
Goals at the weekend by Darrren Ambrose, Noel Hunt and Wes Holohan. From all reports the Ambrose goal was a cracker, something he is capable of doing quite regularly.
Never even knew Ambrose qualified for us..................I think he is a decent player and would prefer him over Green any dayQuote:
Originally Posted by gastric
Goal here around 12 seconds in. Some goal too.Quote:
Originally Posted by gastric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF178...layer_embedded
Supposedly the paperwork is done and he is now technically ours!Quote:
Originally Posted by abbeyvale
Forgot to post this yesterday. Preview of Orient-Arsenal + interview with Stephen Dawson (lad from Dublin)
Leyton Orient's captain, Stephen Dawson, says the Arsenal players will not 'fancy the 50-50s' at the Matchroom Stadium
Stephen Dawson The Leyton Orient captain, Stephen Dawson, is confident his side can be a match for Arsenal in the FA Cup fifth round. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images
Arsenal beware: on Leyton Orient's challenging pitch, Stephen Dawson and his crew plan to rough up the Premier League aristocrats when they walk out at the Matchroom Stadium for the FA Cup fifth-round tie this afternoon.
"I don't think it will be like the Emirates, it's not the flattest you'll ever see," says Dawson, the Orient captain, of a surface that had to be completely relaid in 2008. "It will help us. They've got the Carling Cup final next week and Barcelona at the Camp Nou [in the Champions League next month], they don't want to be doing a 50-50 challenge at Brisbane Road.
"We're not just going to stand around and admire how they play. Whoever I mark, be it Cesc Fábregas or Alexandre Song or Jack Wilshere, whoever they put out, you want to put one over on them and beat them. That's the main thing. Whether it involves a tackle or not, that's part of football isn't it?
"Against Ipswich [in the Carling Cup] and Huddersfield and Leeds [in the FA Cup] Arsenal got put under pressure and I don't think they really liked it. It's not about kicking them around, it's about getting in their faces – we're going to be right on top of them."
Arsène Wenger's team travel across London with extra zip after Wednesday evening's memorable 2-1 Champions League comeback win over Barcelona. Yet Irishman Dawson, 25, only sees the potential advantage in taking on a team who are also second in the Premier League and still chasing an unlikely quadruple.
Two years ago, the midfielder was relegated to the Conference with Mansfield Town before being released, so his rosy view of life now is understandable. He says: "I know they are professionals [but] there are an awful lot of internationals who might have the mentality, 'OK, let's just get through the game'."
Helping Dawson and his colleagues in their quest to pull off one of the great FA Cup shocks will be 70 or so of his family and friends, plus a factory full of Cadbury employees in his native Dublin, where his father, Brendan, works.
"He worked 15 hours a day for the last 20-odd years and brought us up very well. I shouldn't say this, but my Mum would have one or two drinks in the pub and my dad would have to look after us, so he would give us a football.
"To say he's proud about this game is an understatement. He'd been a window fitter, but he's working for Cadbury now and has probably got around 3,000 workers there all watching the game as well. More Cadbury people will be Leyton Orient fans on Sunday. More than the usual Tuesday night crowd in the stadium."
Orient pull in around 4,500 for home games and, this season, they have seen their club, owned by Barry Hearn, go on a run that has featured the attractive football favoured by Russell Slade, the manager. They have lost only once in 20 games and have moved up the League One table to be within three points of the play‑off positions.
This sequence featured an FA Cup second-round replay against Droylsden that the club website correctly described as "one of the most bizarre [games] you'll ever see". Dawson says: "There was about eight minutes left, with us 2-0 down – and with 10 men as well. But we managed to get two goals and it ended 8-2 [in extra time, with both teams reduced to nine men by the finish]. They were thinking: 'What's going on here?' It was one of those games."
Dagenham, Norwich and Swansea are the three other scalps taken by Orient in their FA Cup run, but making Arsenal number five appears particularly unlikely. Even if Wenger rests one or all of Fábregas, Samir Nasri, Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott and Wilshere, a stellar queue of reserves, headed by Andrey Arshavin, Tomas Rosicky and Nicklas Bendtner, can step in.
Dawson's hero when he was growing up in Dublin was Roy Keane and he recalls the Manchester United captain's tussle with Patrick Vieira at Highbury in February 2005. "Vieira picked on [Gary] Neville and Keane, who was a foot shorter than Vieira, had a go at him. That's what I grew up on," he says. "Roy Keane is an absolute idol. I managed to train with the Irish team and I wasn't scared of that, I was scared of meeting Roy. He shook my hand, but if you gave away the ball he'd go mad at you."
Whatever the result, those travelling friends and family face a short trip to Dawson's post-game party. "I live in the corner flat that overlooks the ground, you can see the pitch up to the penalty spot," he says of the property owned by Hearn. "There'll be a few drinks."
There could be more in Nevada. Leyton Orient's best FA Cup run was in 1978, when they reached the semi-finals, at which point Sunday's opponents beat them 3-0 at Stamford Bridge. But if they manage even a draw against Arsenal, Hearn has promised to take Dawson and his team‑mates to Las Vegas for a celebration to remember.
Thanks for that, I thought he was excellent yesterday against Arsenal, he was at Leicester City, he turned down a one year extension there for a two year deal at Mansfield a few years back, I think Mansfield offered first team oportunities and even a better contract at the time as Leicester were skint, but they did want to keep him and Levein said he would have played games, first team ones had he stayed, could have had a different career path maybe.
Still, nice read.
Noel Hunt grabs Readings opener against Milwall tonight.
assist from Shane Long.Quote:
Noel Hunt fires in a goal from just inside the area to the bottom right corner of the goal. Reading 1-0 Millwall.
Brendan Moloney to sign a new contract at Forest, despite spending most of his time on the bench or in the reserves. Jim Gannon wants Jay O'Shea to remain longer at Port Vale.
Plenty of Irish interest in the Emirates tonight
Wilson RB
Whelan CM
Delap LM
Walters CF
Walters playing more on the left, sort of a 4-5-1Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Can't find the link but in the preview Wenger said something like "This will be a tough game, Stoke have very good players like Jon Walters (and a few others)".
Whelan was getting high praise from the Stoke fans after the match, was supposedly outstanding (I only saw the first half).
second game in a row all 4 have started, first time that's happened this seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Great to see, I think we know what we have in the other three, but Wilson is the one with improvement still in him, and Stoke is a club he should be able to get in the 11 of if he is to have the career we hope he will. A decent side but, one he should hopefully become a mainstay of, I was concerned he hadnt played a bit more to be honest but hopeully this is the start of it for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
25 year old Marc Tierney is currently playing left back on the Norwich team. His brother Paul Tierney has previously represented us at U21 level. Might be worth looking into if we ever have a crisis at left back.
I see Joe Mason of Plymouth earned * his side a penalty at the weekend which in turn secured the three points.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot..._2/9401907.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mason
* I say earned, I mean of course, felt the faintest of touches and hit the deck as though he had been sniped. With all the money troubles at Plymouth he is likely to get chances to develop his game if good enough, and even more likely to be sold if he does start to turn heads. Probably not a bad thing as that club look like spiralling a la Luton.
Just to update this : Kevin Doyle stated in an interview that fellow Wolves player Richard Stearman has an Irish grandparent and is keen to play for Ireland.
Irish Abroad statistics for February 2011: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=2
Graham Stack's return to the Hibernian side seem him top the wins table, with fellow player Richie Towell. Similarly Darren Randolph and loanee Gavin Gunning of Motherwell won 4 games, with Paddy Kenny, Stephen Carr and John O'Shea completing the win table
Gunning also received the most bookings, the Blackburn player was shown the yellow card 4 times
Reading's Ian Harte and Shane Long drew the most games, with 4
Sheffield United's Michael Doyle lost the most games in the second month - 5
Darren Randolph, Sean St Ledger, Damien Delaney, Michael Doyle, Paul Keegan, Mark Kennedy and Shane Long all started 7 games
Of these, Randolph, Delaney, St Ledger and Kennedy completed 90 minutes in each game
Leon Best was substituted 5 times, he has yet to complete 90 minutes this season for Newcastle
Michael Collins and Sean Scannell were both introduced 5 times in February
Rene Gilmartin was the most unused substitute player, staying on the bench no less than 7 times. Of the outfield players, Darren O'Dea and Conor Doyle were the most unused players
Shane Long and Adam Rooney shared the top spot in the goals scored table, with 4.
Alex McCarthy played well for Reading tonight, making a great save from Osman. He does not seem to have played any underage football and would be a good young addition. Anyone know anything about his eligibility? It would be good to get one McCarthy on board!
I believe he saved a penalty at the weekend as well...was looking for his eligiblity and couldn't find anything, though he has played for the England u21s. He's been second fiddle to the injured Federici this year but McDermott may have a headache on his hands when he comes back.Quote:
Originally Posted by gastric
According to today's tabloids, Doncaster want Joe Murphy on a free at the end of the season. Would be a good move as Scunny look odds on to go down. Ipswich want Simon Cox on loan with a view to make the move permanent. Lastly The Daily Record claims McGeady might join Zenit St Petersburg on the lowly salary of 120k a week. Poor Aiden!
on loan Ipswich Keeper Ian Mclaughlin has made his debut for Stockport county during the week
Brady and Matt Dortherty on target for there clubs reserve team
Wolves also had Nathan Rooney and Anthony Forde ..both in our youth set up.
Man utd had Sean Mc Ginty on the bench
Left back Shane O'Connor made his come back for ipswich in a reserve game they won 4 - 0 mid week
Richie Towell got an og yesterday and Sean Murray made the bench for Watford. Murray has a big future from the comments I have read on Watford forums.