Ireland's Cameroon born u17 striker Carel Tiofack linked with a move to Arsenal in this morning's papers. According to The Sun (yes, I know) Wenger watched him personally recently.
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Ireland's Cameroon born u17 striker Carel Tiofack linked with a move to Arsenal in this morning's papers. According to The Sun (yes, I know) Wenger watched him personally recently.
Graham Cummins made his debut for Preston tonight playing the full 90 minutes in a 1-0 win over Hartlepool, only their second win in eight. Rhys Murphy came off the bench in the 67th minute and was then replaced in the 89th...no apparent injury.
Andy Keogh got his first goal for Millwall tonight as well, as I recall from the Soccer Special commentary it was a tap in from close range following a corner.
Graham Cummins got his first goal in English football today for Preston.
Breaking news -Niall Quinn is leaving Sunderland, no immediate reason given.
Just got this from RTE.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2012/0220/quinnn.html
First sentence.Quote:
Originally Posted by gastric
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to concentrate on his family and business interests outside football.
Quinn always said it was going to be a five year project. He actually stayed 6 years. Done a remarkable job and is worshipped in Sunderland. Wouldn't it be fantastic if he took over the running of the FAI. Now there's a thought.
Joe,Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Look at the time of the post and the time of the edit. I just updated the post when I found more info!
:cool:, Relax, just being a pedant on a Monday morning. He's off to concentrate on QSat, good luck to him.Quote:
Originally Posted by gastric
Brentford - Carlisle just finished, very enjoyable match which Brentford won 4-0.
Jon Douglas was the only Irishman for Brentford and was playing in central midfield, perhaps a bit more defensively but got forward quite a bit. Thought he had an excellent game, broke up a fair few attacks coming through the middle and showed good composure and awareness going forward.
For Carlisle, Paddy Madden was given his first ever league start in England as he was deployed as a lone centre forward aided by two wingers (and in the second half they switched to 4-4-2). Didn't see much of him as he was effectively isolated, but showed a couple of decent sparks of activity. James Berrett was listed as being on the right side of a three man midfield at the start but was pretty much playing in the center of the pitch. Don't think he had a great match, Carlisle lacked creativity going forward and were overrun in the midfield. Finally, Peter Murphy played at centre half for Carlisle, in spite of the scoreline he didn't play particularly badly (some shocking goalkeeping from Carlisle's Adam Collin), but wasn't great either and was partially at fault for the first goal when he was beaten in the air by Harlee Dean to head in to an empty net (which shouldn't have been empty). Oh yes and Graham Kavanagh is Carlisle's assistant manager and was on TV a bit as well.
That is true devotion to the cause.
Coincidentally, the day that Dominic Foley has a random article written about him
http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2012...dominic-foley/
he goes and signs for Limerick FC
http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/fo...t-3025982.html
Goal for Michael Cummins (Gateshead against York), Odubade takes a low hard corner to Cummins about 16 yards out, takes a touch, and blasts it past the York keeper. 1-0 Gateshead in the 2nd minute. Alan O'Brien also starting for Gateshead.
EDIT: Odubade and Cummins connect againt for Gateshead's second. Odubade whips a cross in from the right, Cummins, arriving at the backpost, gets up and puts the bullet header past Ingham in the York goal.
First senior goal for Matt Doherty for Hibs as well tonight.
Tommy Coyne's son Bradley Coyne with a goal for Forfar in a 4-1 loss to Arbroath, not even sure he'd be eligible though as Coyne may have qualified through his grandparents (though Coyne may have gotten his passport early enough that he would qualify).
Everton have signed Sam Kelly from Norwich City. He's a brother of Danny Kelly who played for us a few years ago. Not sure where his allegiances lie.
http://evertonyouths.wordpress.com/2...omwich-albion/
Mark Connolly has gone on loan from Bolton to Maccesfield Town
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17153385
Short interview with Connolly on Macclesfield's site: http://www.mtfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...622626,00.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
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Starting in defence today away to Oxford
Just a couple of small notes from the weekend...
Paddy Madden with a first goal in England for Carlisle
Gary Doherty with his first goal in over two years for Wycombe
Adam Barton had his ankle pretty much destroyed in a challenge against Walsall, apparently had surgery today.
Rhys Murphy scored a penalty, conceded by former u17 player Sean Tse, for Preston reserves in a behind closed doors game against Man City in a game that will probably be remembered as Carlos Tevez's first appearance in a Man City jersey since refusing to get warmed up against Bayern
Preston review: http://www.pnefc.net/page/Reserves/0...627306,00.html
Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Match-rep...entral-Lge-Cup
former poster Tuff Paddy posted on the ybig forum that he'd bet that James McCarthy has more Premier League minutes under his belt in the last 2 years than pretty much every other player on the field on Wednesday night, so I decided to take that bet
I examined the Irish Abroad database, run the numbers and used the following restrictions:
Only games from 1st March 2010 until 29th February 2012 were counted - i.e. a timespan of 2 years, as stated in the original post from Tuff Paddy
Only players from the Ireland - Czech Republic game were included - no injured, suspended or omitted players were involved
Only minutes played in Premier League games count - no European, FA Cup, or League Cup appearances
Games are assumed to finish at 90 minutes, injury time is not counted, so if a player is not substituted, then they played 90 minutes, and if they are substituted then the gametime for that player for that game was the time they were substituted on
Similarly, if a player is introduced from the bench, the time from that minute to the 90th minute is the game time for that player in that game, e.g. introduced on 70 minutes = 20 minutes gametime
with that in mind, here are the final results:
I would have thought Whelan would have been ahead of FoleyCode:Player Minutes
Stephen Ward 5090
James McCarthy 4672
Jonathan Walters 4395
Kevin Foley 4241
Glenn Whelan 3673
John O'Shea 3654
Damien Duff 3438
Seamus Coleman 3156
Stephen Hunt 2563
Shay Given 2454
Shane Long 1480
Robbie Keane 1075
Keith Andrews 851
James McClean 763
Simon Cox 559
Shane Duffy 181
Darren O'Dea 0
Sean St. Ledger 0
Aiden McGeady 0
Paul Green 0
David Forde 0
Stephen Henderson 0
For the record, Richard Dunne would be far and away the most minutes had he played, with 5941 minutes since 1st March 2010.
As always, this is open to correction
Fair play, Tets! What would we do without you?
Decent match between two promotion chasing sides in League Two, Southend vs Crawley, ended 0-0.
Michael Timlin the only Irish starter for Southend, started in central midfield. Was relatively solid in midfield, not the most impetus to go forward but kept things tidy in midfield.
Kane Ferdinand came on around 75 minutes for Southend after they were already down to 10 men (this after having been in trouble with boss Paul Sturrock for breaching the team's discipline rules). Southend quickly went down to 9 men after Liam Dickinson went down injured and they had made all of their subs, so he wasn't able to do much.
For Crawley, Rene Gilmartin started in goal, not sure he had a save to make all match.
Scott Davies started in midfield for them, his first appearance in Crawley for quite some time (I thought they had actually let him go when he went to Aldershot...was just a loan). I thought he did very well, as expected his right foot caused Southend some problems both from set plays and he provided a fair bit of creativity in midfield for them. Had a good low effort from maybe 25-30 yards out saved I think it was late in the first half. I remember he was banging in the goals for Aldershot a few years ago when he was on loan from Reading and thinking he'd go much farther, but so far that hasn't happened.
Billy Clarke the final Irish player in the match, started up front for Crawley. Watched him last week against Shrewsbury and he was very lively and causing the Shrewsbury defence problems throughout, though Crawley lost 2-1 that night. He was similarly active tonight but his finishing really let him down tonight. The ball fell to him alone in the box around midway through the second half. With only the keeper and defender Chris Barker on the line to beat (from about 8 yards, unchallenged), he hit it just to the side of him, though Barker stuck out a hand to stop it from going in...red card. Clarke stepped up and took the penalty, pretty poorly relatively hard and basically down the middle, which Cameron Belford kept out. Clarke would have two more good chances, a looping header that just went wide of the post and a shot late on that he skewed wide.
Alan Lee with a hugely important winner for Huddersfield against Jeff Stelling's favourite team tonight. 6 goals this season now, which is about treble his tally from last year.
Jamie Devitt sparked some ugly scenes at Valley Parade after Accrington scored tonight, celebrating in front of the home fans, and bench.
He posted this on twitter after the game
first this: https://twitter.com/#!/jamiedevitt20...80016415739904
and then afterwards https://twitter.com/#!/jamiedevitt20...86333427646464Quote:
Apologies4way i reacted after the goal tonight nobody knows what went on at bradford wit me and i was gettn so much stick behind me #sorryyy
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Also people who bring family into it shud be ashamed i have massive respect for bradford fans well most of the fans anyway #badgamebytheway
It's hard to take him seriously after he got relegated three times in the same season.
Mason and murray on scoresheet tonight. 2 excellent young players who hopefully will offer us something fun at senior level
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Originally Posted by liamoo11
It was good too as Lawrence played a full game for Cardiff. Murray looks to be one to keep a close eye on.
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Graham Cummins got the first for Preston tonight on 12 mins. Tranmere have since levelled matters. That's Cummins' second league goal for Preston.
Alex Pearce scored for Reading v Doncaster
Just waiting for the Ireland call up now. Since he's good in England he must be good enough for the Irish squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
all updates on the Irish Abroad twitter feed this weekend will be as Gaelige: https://twitter.com/irish_abroad
because I can
Aston Villa reserves will be playing at Manchester United reserves on Thursday so I think it should be live on MUTV. Villa reserves have won their last 5 matches and have only conceded one goal in those 5.
Peterborough United 3 Reading 1
I went to this earlier with the prospect of a few Irish lads on view and a bit of nice weather combining to get me back to London Road for the first time in a while and witnessed a full blooded and really enjoyable game. For a nice change, it was very well refereed, no bookings despite a game played aggressively, but in a good spirit also with heavy but well timed challenges in the middle throughout, and good football also.
For Peterborough, Kearns was on the bench but didn't feature and ex B squad player Lee Frecklington played on the left of a narrow four man midfield, he played o.k., didn't stand out creatively but neither did he do anything obviously wrong. His best period was in the second half where his grafting, tracking, closing down and several blocks as his side soaked 20+ minutes of sustained intense pressure was admirable.
The real interest was in Reading who started with Pearce, Harte and Hunt on the field and Tabb on the bench and it was Hunt who showed a cool head to open the scoring in this match, first on the scene after the keeper had blocked with his feet, he turned and shot across goal into the net as players chased to cover. This was his only sight of goal on the 90 and he took his chance, the rest of his evening was spent being a nuisance and difficult to mark, while trying to feed off the efforts of his strike partner Jason Roberts, but he didn't carry a goal threat again.
Pearce played CB and had good moments, cool in his distribution and did have passages where he looked a bit of quality, mopping up and picking a nice pass, however, two of Peterborough's goals were from set piece deliveries, one was a shot into the roof of the net after a ball hadn't been cleared, the other a header from a corner/free by the main target striker right in front of the goal. Not saying either was purely his fault though.
To Ian Harte, all game long, Peterborough targeted him on the deck and over his head, down the right side, all game long his side backed him up with numbers quickly. He misplaced a couple of defensive headers badly, but his left foot never gave the ball away, whether picking a pass along the ground, or being forced long into a channel, he always securely found a shirt and his set piece delivery, one ballooned effort apart was excellent without yielding a goal, he also clipped two lovely first time passes into his strikers in the box from open play. Little flashes of real quality. Then, late in the game, as his side chased an equalizer which looked like it must be close as his side had owned the ball for over 20 minutes, there was a long clearence up field which Harte was the last man back for. He had a huge head start, so much, I remember thinking the striker may not even chase it, but he did, and as he gained on Harte the crowd began to rise to their feet. It happened right opposite where I was sitting and although an impressive burst of pace, it was difficult to see how any defender would come out second here. Then he not only caught Harte, but overtook him, left him for dead and finished past the keeper to kill the game.
Afterward, Harte's body language said it all, but he spoke to the other defenders a fair bit as the Peterborough celebrations went on and they seemed to be apologizing as much as he was for leaving him exposed.
Samir Carruthers on the bench for villa today.
best of luck to the lad, he started with Arsenal as an academy playerQuote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Hogan Ephraim, on loan from QPR, grabs a cheeky goal for Bristol City today.
Congratulations to John Sheridan and Chesterfield on winning the Johnstone's Paint Trophy today. A rare positive though as they're still rock bottom of League One.
Watched Luton vs York today...wasn't paying that close attention and was going between that and Shamrock Rovers - Bohs but Keith Keane and Lanre Oyebanjo both played the full match. Keith Keane was in the middle of a three man midfield and didn't make much of an impact, at least in the parts when I was paying attention. Oyebanjo was on the right hand of a three man midfield (didn't know he could play outside of defence) and I thought did pretty well including a great effort that came back off the post. Towards the end he did seem to move back to his usual position of full back. Still surprised he has never made the jump to the Football League.
Was in Skibereen for the weekend on a stag, and we hired a mini bus to take us around a few of the surrounding villages for a pub crawl. Got talking to the driver at one point and she told me her nephew is U17 player Stephen McCarthy and he's been over for trials with Wolves
That lad signed for sunderland a few days ago he is a striker/wide player. His dad is mick mccarthy who was a savage Gaa player but was unfortunately killed in a traffic accident. Best of luck to the ladQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
sorry, it was Sunderland, not Wolves. Not sure why I said Wolves. The two days straight drinking in the People's Republic may or may not have had something to do with it.
There was a report in the Examiner last Friday about him signing for Sunderland too: http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...hy-188930.html
Just spotted that Jon Daly's brace for Dundee United over the weekend has moved him to the top of the SPL scoring charts and he is now on 17 goals for the season, one ahead of "£6million" striker Gary Hooper.