New regulations on homegrown talent in premier league

[Charlie Darwin]

I do read the Independent online

Boo-urns.

Apart from Fahey and Coleman, the only other player I know of to come out of the Eircom League (or whatever they're calling it this month) and make an impact in England was Tadgh Purcell, and that's only because my father is a lifelong Darlington supporter.

Doyle, Long and Meyler all secured their moves after impressing at Cork City, Stephen Ward was at Bohs and Stephen Quinn has also played in the Premier League (the English one ) following a very brief period at Pat's. Noel Hunt also started out at Rovers if I'm not mistaken.

[Colbert Report]

Boo-urns.


Doyle, Long and Meyler all secured their moves after impressing at Cork City, Stephen Ward was at Bohs and Stephen Quinn has also played in the Premier League (the English one ) following a very brief period at Pat's. Noel Hunt also started out at Rovers if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, sorry, I meant to write "to come out of the LOI this past year". Obviously I'm well aware of Doyle, Long, Meyler, Ward, etc.

[SkStu]

Faheys gone nearly 2 years. Deegans done well for Coventry too.

I find your original post pretty ignorant but im sure thats the reaction you were looking for. Why Dublin United or Dublin Celtic by the way? Why not Bohs/Rovers/Pats/Shels?

[Colbert Report]

Faheys gone nearly 2 years. Deegans done well for Coventry too.

I find your original post pretty ignorant but im sure thats the reaction you were looking for. Why Dublin United or Dublin Celtic by the way? Why not Bohs/Rovers/Pats/Shels?

Nothing against any of the clubs in Dublin like the ones you mention but I doubt any of them would ever muster the resources necessary to compete in Europe at a serious level. The only way we'll see serious interest in domestic football in Ireland is if there is one big club, based in Dublin and playing out of Aviva, in the English Premier League or in a European Super League, which is less than ten years away if you believe one Arsene Wenger.

[Charlie Darwin]

Dunno about that. There are plenty of leagues around Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Norway) of similar size to us that punch above their weight in Europe. An all-Ireland league would certainly be helpful but any notions of joining the English league are a bit mad.

[SkStu]

Nothing against any of the clubs in Dublin like the ones you mention but I doubt any of them would ever muster the resources necessary to compete in Europe at a serious level. The only way we'll see serious interest in domestic football in Ireland is if there is one big club, based in Dublin and playing out of Aviva, in the English Premier League or in a European Super League, which is less than ten years away if you believe one Arsene Wenger.

stuff of nightmares...

id rather a real team with real history like Bohs competing at the highest level they can attain (whatever that may be) ahead of some Oireland Franchise FC crap.

[ifk101]

I mean absolutely NO disrespect to fans of the Irish domestic game, good on you for supporting your local teams and I genuinely hope that one day the beautiful game takes off in my homeland.

Must try harder.....

Nothing would give me greater pride than to see a team called Dublin United or Dublin Celtic go out and take on the likes of Inter Milan or Barcelona in the Champions League, cheered on by fifty thousand at Aviva.

Getting there....

You can hardly fault me for being so ignorant on the game because so few of the players make it in the big time world of full time professional football. The matches are not on television here and in fairness, I do read the Independent online religiously and they have little or no coverage of the League at all.

How can I be ignorant? I read the Independent and watch Sky Sports.

Apart from Fahey and Coleman, the only other player I know of to come out of the Eircom League (or whatever they're calling it this month) and make an impact in England was Tadgh Purcell, and that's only because my father is a lifelong Darlington supporter.

I'm really of good footballing stock...

I grew up in Ireland and the only football matches I ever went to were when Liverpool or Aston Villa came over to play an LOI XI.

Sometimes the circus came to town and I was there.

The matches back then, in mid-nineties got no coverage. Don't bother me for not knowing the name of the poxy league - I'm posting in the International Team section of this site only, and I do so religiously.

Don't insult my intelligence. Sky Sports don't have LOI coverage. I have a religious devotion to Sky. How can I be ignorant?

I know more about the current national team prospects than 99% of Irish football fans, just from reading this forum every day.

I know what I need to know. I read the Independent and watch Sky Sports for Christ's sake!.

The LOI is simply not relevant when speaking of the International team, not at all.

If it's not in the Independent or on Sky, I don't need to know. Don't insult my ignorance.

[osarusan]

I mean absolutely NO disrespect to fans of the Irish domestic game.......

the only other player I know of to come out of the Eircom League (or whatever they're calling it this month)
.........
Don't bother me for not knowing the name of the poxy league.

You mean no disrespect but you just can't help yourself?

[Colbert Report]

Well I'll just come out and say it then, and take the possible infraction points. Nobody grows up wanting to play in the LOI, they play in it only after they don't make the cut over in England. I grew up in Ireland and never once went to a LOI match, neither did any of my childhood chums EVER even mention the league or anything related to it. Every year when I go home I ask around about it and get weird looks - the interest simply isn't there an likely never will be.

Good luck supporting your own domestic league, nothing wrong with it, but don't be attacking me for not knowing the name of the current sponsors when I live halfway around the world and have no interest in watching it. Why would I support the LOI? The standard of football is roughly equivalent to watching the MLS, which is terrible. Why watch Bohs vs. Shamrock Rovers when I could just turn on Inter vs. Bayern instead on the next channel?

[Closed Account]

Just looking at the Irish in the Premiership at the moment, the people who don't qualify as homegrown or U21 are (and correct me if I'm wrong):

Jay O'Shea
Seamus Coleman
Daryl Murphy
Stephen Ward
Kevin Doyle.
James McCarthy(next season 11/12)

Ok, Doyle is safe. You would have to think Coleman too (4 year contract).
Daryl Murphy will likely be in the Championship regardless.
Stephen Ward is probably safe too because of the general small size of Wolves squad and most of them are homegrown anyway. Ditto Jay O'Shea.
The 25 man squad limit is the most worrysome thing to me, particularly for O'Shea. If your not named, you can't play until the January transfer window, so your best option is to go out on loan.
The obvious trend from the above list is, premiership clubs will be less likely to take a punt on a LOI player who hasn't spent 3 years in English(or Welsh) youth structure.

The U21s who may benifit as they can supplement squads are:
Arsenal
Conor Henderson U21

Aston Villa
James Collins U21

Blackburn
Gavin Gunning U21
Aaron Doran U21

Bolton
Mark Connolly U21

Chelsea
Connor Clifford U21

Everton
Shane Duffy U21

Manchester City
Greg Cunningham U21
Donal McDermott U21

Sunderland
Michael Liddle U21
David Meyler U21

Wigan
James McCarthy U21
Craig Mahon U21


Players outside the Premier League who's transfer opportunities maybe limited are (to name a few:
Aidan McGeady
Darren O'Dea
Gary Deegan
Noel Hunt
Dave Mooney

[Charlie Darwin]

Does the Welsh part apply only to the clubs in the English leagues or all Welsh sides? Probably a moot point anyway but still.

It looks like McCarthy will miss out on qualifying as homegrown by a couple of months, which is unfortunate, but it seems like he's good enough that it won't become a problem.

Jay O'Shea could well be squeezed out by the limited squad size as Birmingham's squad is quite old but he may well have been spending next season out on loan anyway.

[Louth4sam]

stuff of nightmares...

id rather a real team with real history like Bohs competing at the highest level they can attain (whatever that may be) ahead of some Oireland Franchise FC crap.

I actually agree with him. It'll be great cheering on Dublin Celtic in the champions league and North Atlantic in the world cup!

[SkStu]

I actually agree with him. It'll be great cheering on Dublin Celtic in the champions league and North Atlantic in the world cup!

especially if we got to beat those South Atlantic scum in the final...

[Closed Account]

25 Man Squads Being Named Today:
Here's who it affects.
Confirmed Players In BOLD, U21 in Italic, Not Selected Underlined

Arsenal			Conor Henderson		U21
Aston Villa		Richard Dunne		HG
			Stephen Ireland		HG
			James Collins		U21
Birmingham City		Colin Doyle		HG
			Stephen Carr		HG
			Keith Fahey		HG
			Jay O'Shea
Blackburn		Gavin Gunning		U21
			Keith Andrews		HG
			Aaron Doran		U21
Blackpool		Billy Clarke		HG
Bolton			Andy O'Brien		HG
			Mark Connolly		U21
			Joey O'Brien		HG
Everton			Shane Duffy		U21
			Seamus Coleman
Fulham			Stephen Kelly		HG
			Damien Duff		HG
Manchester City		Shay Given		HG
			Greg Cunningham		U21
			Donal McDermott		U21
Manchester United	John O'Shea		HG
			Darron Gibson		HG
Newcastle		Leon Best		HG
Stoke City		Rory Delap		HG
			Glenn Whelan		HG
			Marc Wilson		HG
			Jonathan Walters	HG
Sunderland		Andy Reid		HG
			David Meyler		U21
Tottenham		Robbie Keane		HG
West Bromwich Albion	Dean Kiely		HG
			Steven Reid		HG
Wigan			James McCarthy		U21
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Kevin Foley		HG
			Stephen Ward
			Stephen Hunt		HG
			Kevin Doyle

[The Fly]

^ It's interesting that Conor Henderson has been included in Arsenal's squad. I hope it bodes well for the boy!

[Closed Account]

^ It's interesting that Conor Henderson has been included in Arsenal's squad. I hope it bodes well for the boy!

What? No. Thats just a list I made from Tets website. Conor doesn't have to be named in a squad because he is U21.
Most of those players should be named in 25 man squads today, excluding the U21s. Jay O'Shea, Joey O'Brien, maybe Dean Kiely should be worried.

[tetsujin1979]

There was a story last week about Joey O'Brien going out on loan: http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport..._s_Leeds_loan/

Joey O’Brien has also been told he will be sent out on a short-term loan as he continues on the road to recovery from a serious knee injury.

Coyle said "
He’s a big, big part of my plans and what I have said to him is that I would be willing to give him a month somewhere so that he can get four or five games in the Championship and then return to us ready to push for that competition in the midfield area

[Closed Account]

Looks like they all made it, just waiting on confirmation of Robbie and Billy Clarke.

Actually Billy Clarke the only one not to make the cut. Hardly suprising since he's likely to be out for the season.

[paul_oshea]

is that james collins not the welsh international signed from west ham?

[Closed Account]

Theres a James Collins Jnr or Jim Collins on the books at Villa too. Has been in Underage squads.