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Someone reach out to the FAI. :D
you can contact the FAI on info@fai.ie about himQuote:
Originally Posted by Raheen
how did the north get Liam Coyle and we didn't? Think he's good enough to at the very least be in Kenny's squad...
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Originally Posted by Raheen
I honestly don't think that shower need another comedian.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Not quite the right thread but I see a Jamie Egan from Cabo called in to the Welsh u17 team.
Isn’t this guy potentially one of ours??
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Goal! West Bromwich Albion 4, Preston North End 1. Josh Ginnelly (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lukas Nmecha.
Don't think he was ever invoked. Any chance you thinking of Rafferty who they signed in Jan and used be at liverpool?Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
And young Ireland is in with their 15s again this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Lad on the bench for Burnley today called Anthony Driscoll-Glennon. 19 year old left. One would be more confident of his eligibility if he weren't from Liverpool where the lads with Irish names these days are generally a generation too far out.
No Irish connection that I can find. He played with Liverpool youth set up since he was 6 years old. Also comes from the same area and played in same team as Trent Alexander Arnold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
Was on the bench for them todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Raheen
Redmond included in the England squad today. Guess that reduces the chance from 5% down to 0.5%. Always looked unlikely but theoretically, if he isn't capped, the door is still open... Southgate probably just trying to cap him to be safe: Sterling, Sancho, Rashford, Alli and Lingaard all in that squad. Can't see him ever player ahead of those guys - add Hudson-Odoi too. Rhian Brewster in another year. England are absolutely stacked with young wide-attacking talent...
Im actually happy that this has happened. We need players who really want to play for us. give me a Richard Keogh over a Curtis Davis and a Jonny Walters over a Patrick Bamford every day until the day I dieQuote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
There is no point in pursuing half hearted players . They need to want to do it .Quote:
Originally Posted by Diggs246
Make 1 verified contact and if the player gets back to us = good one way or another .
FAI response to questions should then always be that the player has been approached and has not gotten back to us / declined .
We have to have some Self Respect .
100% Correct. Report for duty or goodbye.Quote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
If England had done that, they wouldn't have gotten Declan Rice. They worked on his agent, they worked on his club, they asked John Terry to get involved - then they went for the presentation at St George's Park by Southgate where they promised him the world - that he would be straight into the first team, that he was considered as the most likely young candidate to captain the side etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
It took the Ivory Coast a few years to convince Zaha: " Ivory Coast, even though I told them no, they still had the belief in me and still wanted me because they knew what I could do for the team." "The country and the fans love me already, and I haven't even done anything. I may not get the red carpet, it may not have the same Nike deals as when you play for England, but I'm going to be playing, I’m going to be loved and that’s all I want. Nothing else."
Some dual national players are absolutely dead set one way or anther but plenty feel a level of affiliation for two places and the association or the manager have got to do their best to make the case for Ireland. Obviously Ireland and England is particularly contentious because of 700 years etc etc but take Anselmo Garcia McNulty. Spanish father, Irish mother. Brought up in Spain but has all his mother's family in Ireland and visits Ireland. Speaks Spanish and English. The likes of Ryan Johansson and Tom Gaston are similar. I used to live in Berlin and if I had a kid there, I'd want him playing for Ireland but i would totally understand if he felt both Irish and German. And when you're somehow in the middle, it's rarely a black and white decision.
The Declan Rice situation was a little different because of all the things he had said over the past couple of years about his commitment, so people naturally felt betrayed but in the abstract, a dual-national player sitting on the fence is an understandable response... You obviously want passionate and committed players but it's also your job to make yourself an attractive team to play football for and to convey that fact as best as you possibly can and unless they've given you a no, you can assume that they are at least partly interested...
RE: England and Rice that's their way of doing business. Working agents etc that's not us. Our players play for their country not Nike.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
RE: Zaha he made his international debut twice both times against Sweden
He has turned up for the ivory coast 9 times in 3 and half years.
We cannot offer the Financial Incentives England can , nor the chances of appearing at tournaments . They pretty much qualify every time these days .
Our players have to want to play for us . There is no point in demeaning ourselves .
I wonder does Zaha regret that decision now? He'd be a regular squad member for England this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
He quite possibly does, but only in hindsight. At the time (November 2016) switching his allegiance was probably the right decision. He'd been playing regularly in the Premier League since the last of his two caps - one in 2012 and one in 2013 - and it looked like he wasn't going to get a call up in the future. Looking at England's 2018 World Cup Squad he possibly would have started ahead of Lingard, but it's tough to argue that he would be a regular starter. In their current squad, it's hard to argue against him starting ahead of Sterling or Sancho, so he'd probably still be a substitute. Would he rather have that, or his nine caps and two goals for the Ivory Coast?Quote:
Originally Posted by IsMiseSean
Armstrong Okoflex named on the bench for Celtic today
England flag next to his name on flashscore.
Sydney FC midfielder Brandon O'Neill has been called into the Australian squad for the first time - Three uncapped Hyundai A-League players in Caltex Socceroos squad to face Korea Republic
According to some reports on twitter, both his parents are Irish. He's just turned 25, his wikipedia page states he has two caps for Australia U23s.
We've never called up an Aussie Irish have we ?
There was a bit of noise about a Rooney (?) lad from Hyde Rd originally playing there a while back too
not at senior level, but Perth born Shane Lowry has underage caps. He changed his allegiance to Australia in 2009, but has never earned a senior cap for them.
The Australia thing could be a real issue in the next decade or so.
Dropped already ...Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
I've zero interest in Redmond playing for us. But I'm wondering is Southgate an incredible cynical operator calling up a guy he has no intention of playing
That would be an accurate assessment of the situation.
The way England behaved regarding Rice and Grealish and McGuane was very disappointing and disingenuous. The way they made plays for Obafemi and Connell were also disappointing. Not to mention Okoflex...
The way they behave with their U15s now is equally misleading. Capping literally hundreds of players at that age group to try tie as many down to them in the future.
There was a time when England were willing to pick who they thought were the best and stick to their guns. Nowadays, they engage in very obvious attempts to hoard as many players as possible, using Nike, agents and clubs as tools to exert pressure on very young players
Obafemi said there was never any contact from England, and I doubt Southgate is calling him up to ward of Ireland since Redmond has never had any intention of playing for us anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
The Premier League has essentially become an international league based in England, so it's hardly surprising that the set up behind the England national team is pursuing their own interests with a renewed fervour. They're just doing what they should be doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
Re: Redmond, No thanks!
Ya. I think that these 'Redmond to Ireland' stories were always something that his agent came up with every now and again to remind the English camp about his client...exactly as Mark Noble used to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Redmond would take one England cap over 40 for Ireland, I think that's very clear now. Whatever his mammy must think.
Also, Southgate has been a bit more proactive than anyone expected him to be. You'd wonder if Rice could have got the Moldova cap and never contemplated what could have been for England. Those are the noises re Connell atm.
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Fly
Andy Robertson attended the same primary school as Aiden McGeady did before him. The similarities don't end there as Robertson has a grandparent from the Northwest of Ireland, Leitrim specifically: https://www.oceanfm.ie/2019/06/02/li...y-connections/
St Ninians (Robertson and McGeady's school) is actually our local school just down the road from us. Very strong Irish connection throughout the school, I wonder if we could be doing more to get lads from there and the other Catholic denominational schools in the west of Scotland involved in our setup, or is it just too controversial to be doing that outside of Ireland?
You will know more than me but are we at the point where it's just third generation that we can attract? And at that, third generation will be more difficult to attract. It would be slightly more incendiary but our resources for such an exercise would be better spent up the North, perhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
Things have gone quiet on Mikey Johnston although someone brings it up on YBIG every so often.
https://twitter.com/mikeyjohnston10/...858420227?s=19
Although Johnston looks very well wrapped up in a tri-colour.
I know the connection between Celtic and Ireland is strong but it's amazing to think that the tri-colour is still such an important symbol for the club. This lad is a Scottish under 21 international and he's strolling around with an Irish flag on his back and very few eyelids were probably batted in the stadium.
Johnston wasn't named in the Scottish squad and he has a tricolour on him for his Twitter handle pic. But I would guess he will stay with ScotlandQuote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé