Why hasn't mick doyle been called into the squad..
Staunton is a joke..calls Jay Tabb and some lad of Luton in the squad and leaves Coventry's skipper like a tick..!!
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Why hasn't mick doyle been called into the squad..
Staunton is a joke..calls Jay Tabb and some lad of Luton in the squad and leaves Coventry's skipper like a tick..!!
Foley plays at the back and Doyle does not so thats not a comparison and Jay Tabb is an attacking player who can also play wide in midfield. As far as I know Doyle is a central midfielder so its Andy Reid Alan Quinn and Lee Carsley who are there ahead of him.
I think Doyle is a left sided midfielder....
He was about 2 or 3 years ago but afaik he's playing regularly in the centre for some time now.Quote:
Originally Posted by dr_peepee
Central midfielder. Keeps Tabb out of the team usually. Should be in the squad
He's both.
Neil's right. Tabb was called up to replace Kevin Doyle, Kevin Foley was in for Carr I think.
Having a pop at Staunton for basics such as persisting with the notion that Kilbane can play central midfield is fair game in my opinion, but for not picking Michael Doyle is harsh.
Michael Doyle has captained Sheffield United to the FA Cup semi-finals today, participating in a 2-0 victory over Charlton.
Why hasn't he been called up? O'Neill is a joke!
Is that the longest time between posts in foot.ie history?
He was a tick, though, he was right there.
Where is obwon these days? What were his other contributions?
And Neil McD? Married with kids now I reckon and following rugby.
IDK but it always amazes me that there are so many posters who never comment in the International section. Its the main attraction!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
I see a lot of myself in eirebhoy. Looking through his forum posts, I have the same kind of opinions and enthusiasm about Irish football.
No, know him and still going to Ireland & Bohs games pretty regularly, still in the Dublin area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Yeah and what Paul said, a YBIG regular.
Neil is [I]going[I] to games doesnt gave time to post....
He is over on ybig.
Ya idk talked a lot of sense.
And also know Mick Doyle's uncle, who I hope Mick is nothing like...
An Irish International who shall remain unnamed was socialising with one of my mates - I can verify through Facebook that they are friends - and my mate asked him why Simon Cox was starting ahead of Shane Long (this was a couple of years ago). With a deadly straight face, he shook his head and said that Trapattoni thought that Cox was Long and nobody, not even Tardelli, could convince him otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
Ah come on towk
I wish it wasn't true.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
You aren't half gullible.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Trapattoni is an old man. Cox and Long are/were strikers playing at the same club. Same age. Both good looking lads. You put it past him?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
He banished Marc Wilson from the squad because he thought he was someone else.
Trust me. I had the same reaction as you but my mate has a good head on his shoulders (unlike me) and he said he was really serious.
TbF to TWOK heard similar stories via my pal's FAI contact re. Trapp being 'prematurely senile' which we would usually dismiss, so the tone of his story rings true.
How do you explain him playing both players in the same game, was he drunk and reckoned he was seeing double?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
The way it was explained was that Trapattoni thought Cox was starting every week for West Brom and scoring goals and Long was the squad player at West Brom who often times wasn't even making the bench.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
He thought Marc Wilson was Keith Treacy and vice-versa.
There were a few other gems but the Cox and Long anecdote was the only really interesting thing that he parted with.
Right, and when they both turned up for training and Cox was clearly not the guy playing every week, what did he do? And when Cox moved to Forest, did Trapattoni still think he was started for West Brom every week? Or, possibly, maybe he got them mixed up every now and then but when it came to picking his team he knew who he wanted. Managers mix up players' names all the time - Bobby Robson was famous for it - but they're also pretty good at judging the game when the players are right in front of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Charlie, there were 23-30 players called up in the average squad. He didn't know who half of them were playing for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
For instance, unnamed player. *Hint* Not Given, Dunne, O'Shea, Duff or Keane; or Granny ruler.
You forgot to answer my questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Not a link I'd have made myself, if I'm honest :)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
How would he know which one is the one playing every week from seeing them in training? As for the Forest move, IDK. I believe the timeframe I was told about this was 2nd half of 2011 or first half of 2012. I think Cox was still at West Brom at this point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
True, I put this down to the highly insular nature of many L.O.I. fans T.W.O.K. They are the keepers of the flame and it's their flame. No one else's.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
I imagine he'd be able to tell them apart once he saw them in training and said to himself "this Cox fella hasn't won a header all day" or "this Long fella has won a lot of headers today". It's the little details that give these things away.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Are you prepared, in any shape or form, to accept that maybe you and your mate is being had on?
Not in a million years, but if anybody was going to run with self delusion on such a grandiose scale, it would be TOWK.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Trap once confused TOWK with Piers Morgan.
geysir, I know you don't like me but you don't have to keep making such cynical and stupid comments. There is honestly no need for it whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
I don't know the player in question but my mate is good friends with him and his family going back to secondary school. We may have been had but I don't know why the player in question would make such a statement to my friend if it wasn't true. My friend was adamant that he was serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I'm going to ask him about it again actually.
Can you ask him if Trap has ever ate in Crackbird? I heard that he wandered in there looking for a steak sandwich and nobody, not even Tardelli, could convince him it was a chicken place. :beer:
....... I'll get right on top of that, Crosby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
Anybody who knows football players knows they like to wind people up - it's part of the culture of football. At least the ones that don't take themselves too seriously do anyway. Cases of confused identity aren't uncommon in football, but not on the scale your friend is suggesting. If what you're suggesting is true, Trap is the greatest manager of all time, able to put out a time consisting in part of players he doesn't even know and still make it to a major finals. The suspension of disbelief that requires is staggering.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
He might have wound me up because I would have just been a random fan (and it's easy to wind me up) but my mate is actually really close with him and I don't know why he would lie to me. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I would find it hard to believe but slapstick things have happened with Wilson, Treacy, Walters, Andy Reid and Kelly so it's not by any means a wild stretch of the imagination.
I never exaggerated. Trapattoni did know all the key players. It was the fringe players whose identities he had trouble remembering.
Because it's funny! People around here wind each other up all the time and most of us don't know one another.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Look, I have no doubt that Trap does mix people up - in fact, he has done it in public as you've said. Again, look up Bobby Robson and all the mix-ups that he's been involved in. Even when he was far from old age, he was confusing his own players. Some of the stories attributed to him are probably exaggerated too, but there's a grain of truth there too. Nevertheless, Robson was a great coach who could instantly tell whether a player was doing the job or not, and he's not going to confuse two very different players like Cox and Long on the pitch, regardless of whether he confuses their names or mixes one up with the other on a particular DVD.
I don't think the player was on a wind-up (a) because of the close friendship and (b) my mate says he is the dryest sh*te this side of the Sahara.