Saw the highlights on MOTD. Danny Murphy gave him a positive mention in his analysis.
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MON could call him up to replace Cunningham. If he wanted to have an excuse. That way it doesnt look like a mistake not calling him up in the first place
5-minute runout against Moldova, perhaps?
Lost possession for Newcastle's first goal on Saturday and was visibly a bit shook up after it. Fair play to Joe Hart though, who made an effort to console him.
https://www.dreamteamfc.com/c/wp-con...42&quality=100
West Ham fans react on Twitter to Bilic subbing Rice after his error.
http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/08/27...wcastl/page/1/
Two ways of looking at that I suppose, but I'd be inclined to assume he was protecting him rather than punishing him.
He's played very well tonight in a West Ham back line that's generally lacked cohesion. He's headed a lot of crosses out, Spurs's second goal got a nick off him but it was unlucky rather than an error.
WHat BS? He was out of the side for ages, that's hardly protecting him :rolleyes:
Unlike you DeL has a tendency to look for the good in people.
Will he be as successful as you as a result? No!
Will he go to as many Ireland games as you? No.
Will he be accepted into the inner-sanctum over on YBIG? God no!
He also could never pull off a manbag just like you, but God man, he's a positive soul and I won't stand here while you cast aspersions on him.
Aren't we discussing Declan Rice?
Not anymore. We're discussing your debasement of DeLorean's stellar reputation, which is far more important.
Rice was hardly a nailed on starter anyway. He seemed to benefit from Winston Reid missing a couple of matches but Reid returned for the match following Rice's mistake anyway and Bilic changed the system. Rice may well have been dropped regardless of the error so I still wouldn't see it as a punishment, but clearly it wasn't going to help his chances of retaining his place.
PL2 Player of the Month for October: https://www.premierleague.com/news/511477
Could be a fairly poisonous chalice but Declan gets the start today for West Ham. Looks like he's part of the 3 in a 3-5-2 to play Man City.
At least it shows Moyes rates him anyway.
Copping crap now and Moyes seemed to use his age as one excuse for losing.
I watched most of the game and actually thought he played quite well.
Must have another look at the second goal for City but I think Moyes attributes blame in his post-match interview to Rice for not tracking Silva. He did say that Rice did "very well" and I've seen the West Ham forums where the general consensus is positive.
My comments were based on the West Ham twitter replies to fans who seemed to blame Rice for Silva's goal. Definitely an ongoing learning experience for him
Andrews wants Rice in the senior international side
Also mentions Ampadu playing for Wales
Getting rave reviews for his performance at Wembley tonight. He also picked up a man of the match award (although I'm not sure who selected the particular one he's referring to) - https://twitter.com/_DeclanRice/stat...51878691753985
nice to ser cullen start with rice today
burke is playing as well there seems to be suggestion that burke and cullen were called back to decide if they will sell them in this window. tink oxford was supposed to come back as well from germany but no sign of him today always thought he looked a talent
West Ham starlet relives pain of Chelsea rejection: http://www.football365.com/news/west...lsea-rejection
https://twitter.com/timshires/status...6%7Ctwterm%5E1
Took a kick in the face and lost a couple of teeth. Apparently he was mad to come back on even after that.
Oxford likely to stay in Germany permanently. Mochengladbach and RB Leipzig have bids in. Similar position to Rice so you'd have to imagine his emergence has done it for Oxford.
Rice played very well going forward but looked a bit ungamely at times when defending at left full.
England sniffing around - https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/...ss-466314.html
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I would be confident he will stay with us, seems level headed and honest
on Off The Ball last night it was mentioned that Rice corrected a journalist from the London Evening Standard who said something (somewhat sarcastically) "Rice, it's a very Irish name", to which Rice replied "well, yeah, I'm Irish" and that he was looking forward to getting back in with the squad in March
The ironic thing is that it is a very Irish name.
Was Pat Rice one that got away....back in the day he was quite a player for Arsenal . Well a good full back .
Players didn’t seem to have the choice in those days mind .
Born in Belfast, grew up in London. Not sure which side of the tracks he's from in Belfast though.
It's funny that some of us are a bit insecure about Rice. Even the headlines in Irish newspapers are grim and erring on the side that he could switch ("Rice wanted by both Ireland and England"- The Irish Mirror, "Ireland face battle with England"- The Indo, "England may snatch Declan Rice from Ireland"- The Times).
A lot of this is borne out of the Grealish episode. That's all quite funny because Rice happily accepted the first chance to come into our senior set-up (unlike Grealish). Also, he seems to be far, far, far more grounded than Grealish was (and Grealish has gone on to prove this subsequent to the episode).
I'm not as worried about Rice as, in retrospect, I should have been about Grealish. I think we have a cracking young lad and cracking young footballer on our hands. And there doesn't seem to be any hints that he has the same kind of influencers that Greailsh when his father and agent were feeding headlines to the papers.
The Grealish episode will be a cautionary tale i'd imagine. He thought the grass was greener and ended up swapping a Euros for a Toulon tournament