Irish Abroad 2010/2011

**hudhastings** · 16/02/2011, 7:09 AM

I see Colin healy scored for Ipswitch He is starting alot of games of late gettin good reviews surly he should be gettin a look in the squad ahead of green

**drummerboy** · 16/02/2011, 8:01 AM

Originally Posted by hudhastings

I see Colin healy scored for Ipswitch He is starting alot of games of late gettin good reviews surly he should be gettin a look in the squad ahead of green

I think Paul Jewell made Healy captain. Saw the highlights and he was certainly involved a lot, scoring a nice goal. Great to see him rise again from the bad luck with injuries he had in the past.

**Stuttgart88** · 18/02/2011, 8:38 AM

Originally Posted by hudhastings

I see Colin healy scored for Ipswitch He is starting alot of games of late gettin good reviews surly he should be gettin a look in the squad ahead of green

I'm always sceptical of posts suggesting a Championship player on a run of form be called up. But he's a similar type of player to Green and playing well so it's not a wild suggestion. It won't happen though, and I'm not sure it'd change the big picture much. I never thought I'd ever miss Keith Andrews so much!

Watching Arsenal v Barcelona made me weep. The standard of midfield play was stunning and we are in the dark ages by comparison. Even England have a 21st century midfielder with technique to die for now!

**paul_oshea** · 18/02/2011, 9:33 AM

Does anyone go to watch barnet? How has johnny dunleavy been doing?

**tetsujin1979** · 18/02/2011, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Does anyone go to watch barnet? How has johnny dunleavy been doing?

5 unused sub appearances and one 10 minute appearance from the bench: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Play...playerID=58179

**Kingdom** · 18/02/2011, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Watching Arsenal v Barcelona made me weep. The standard of midfield play was stunning and we are in the dark ages by comparison. Even England have a 21st century midfielder with technique to die for now!

They always had, he just didn't want to play for them ;-)

**paul_oshea** · 18/02/2011, 12:42 PM

KK? good one kingdom.

**paul_oshea** · 18/02/2011, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

5 unused sub appearances and one 10 minute appearance from the bench: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Play...playerID=58179

surely mick musn't be too happy with that?

Tets i searched googled for irish players abroad, and i never found your site, usualy google ups its own sites to the top for matching searches(a couple of sites ive done this was the case anyway) but i did find a few who i reckon were taking your players and stats off of you.

you could use Talends Data Profiler to look for patterns on those stats tets.

**tetsujin1979** · 18/02/2011, 1:05 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

surely mick musn't be too happy with that?

probably not, but the loan has been extended according to this: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/180220...nned-bees.html

Teenage defender John Dunleavy has extended his loan deal from Wolves but is likely to have to make do with a place on the bench again.

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Tets i searched googled for irish players abroad, and i never found your site, usualy google ups its own sites to the top for matching searches(a couple of sites ive done this was the case anyway) but i did find a few who i reckon were taking your players and stats off of you.

yeah, I need to improve the metadata tags to get better search results.
I know the database section on thefreekick.com - http://www.thefreekick.com/blog/about-tfk-irish-soccer-database/ - use the stats, but they acknowledge the site as a source

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

could use Talends Data Profiler to look for patterns on those stats tets.

Might do, bit busy with work stuff at the moment. Cheers

**Kingdom** · 18/02/2011, 1:20 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

KK? good one kingdom.

Paul scholes

**paul_oshea** · 18/02/2011, 1:23 PM

I think as a joke though it sounds better to use kilbane

Cos he didnt want to play for them and he is a midfield maestro at lowly huddersfield

Tets eurorivas.net was another. Cheers for that, i was trying to find out stuff, his agent is a mate of mine and i was wondering if he was telling me the truth.

there was about 6 sites i think. We didnt need to do anything with Metatags(actually i think googles trawler doesnt use them anymore) it was just a google pages site so it automatically came up on top after a few searches.

Is darren dennehy on loan at barnet? Does the site tell you whose the parent club?

**tetsujin1979** · 18/02/2011, 4:11 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

I think as a joke though it sounds better to use kilbane

Cos he didnt want to play for them and he is a midfield maestro at lowly huddersfield

He really is, words to remember the next time someone trues to convince you they could do better than playerX in the Championship

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Tets eurorivas.net was another. Cheers for that, i was trying to find out stuff, his agent is a mate of mine and i was wondering if he was telling me the truth.

there was about 6 sites i think. We didnt need to do anything with Metatags(actually i think googles trawler doesnt use them anymore) it was just a google pages site so it automatically came up on top after a few searches.

Thanks, I'll have a look at that. I don't mind any other site using it as a resource, as long as it's credited

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Is darren dennehy on loan at barnet? Does the site tell you whose the parent club?

Nope, he signed for Barnet last summer: http://www.barnetfc.com/page/LatestN...090374,00.html

**abbeyvale** · 19/02/2011, 10:41 AM

Saints land Gunners goalkeeper

Southampton manager Nigel Adkins has signed goalkeeper James Shea on a month-long loan deal from Arsenal.

Shea's arrival at St Mary's comes as a result of injury to Bartosz Bialkowski, who has picked up a knock in training and is being assessed.

The 19-year-old goes straight into Adkins' squad for Saturday's trip to Rochdale.

Shea is rated highly at the Emirates Stadium and recently penned a contract extension with Arsene Wenger's side.

Although he can represent both England and the Republic of Ireland, the talented youngster is yet to play international football although his qualities have been recognised by Fabio Capello, who last year drafted him into the Three Lions' training preparations

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...759996,00.html

Anyone know if this keeper is any good.............surely has potential if he's signed with Arsenal and has already been called up to training camps with England!!!!!!!!
Get in there trap and give him a cap, just to secure his services for the future (incase he turns out to be a good one)....

**CraftyToePoke** · 19/02/2011, 2:16 PM

Anyone know if this keeper is any good.............surely has potential if he's signed with Arsenal and has already been called up to training camps with England!!!!!!!!
Get in there trap and give him a cap, just to secure his services for the future (incase he turns out to be a good one)....

Easy there now, Abbeyvale, easy, remember Terry Dixon? Joe Lapira? lets not sully the honour of wearing that shirt. Anyway, Trap is not that man, he is as likley to cap this lad at present as he is to recall Packie Bonner going on his dealings with young James McCarthy, you are right though, it would be nice if he chose us, and he is at a good club at present, definitely call him to an underage squad and make him part of things that way.

**Paddy Garcia** · 19/02/2011, 3:42 PM

Great to see Doyle getting a game again at Birmingham.

**gastric** · 19/02/2011, 9:06 PM

Goals at the weekend by Darrren Ambrose, Noel Hunt and Wes Holohan. From all reports the Ambrose goal was a cracker, something he is capable of doing quite regularly.

**abbeyvale** · 19/02/2011, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by gastric

Goals at the weekend by Darrren Ambrose, Noel Hunt and Wes Holohan. From all reports the Ambrose goal was a cracker, something he is capable of doing quite regularly.

Never even knew Ambrose qualified for us..................I think he is a decent player and would prefer him over Green any day

**TrapAPony** · 20/02/2011, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by gastric

Goals at the weekend by Darrren Ambrose, Noel Hunt and Wes Holohan. From all reports the Ambrose goal was a cracker, something he is capable of doing quite regularly.

Goal here around 12 seconds in. Some goal too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF178...layer_embedded

**gastric** · 20/02/2011, 8:54 AM

Originally Posted by abbeyvale

Never even knew Ambrose qualified for us..................I think he is a decent player and would prefer him over Green any day

Supposedly the paperwork is done and he is now technically ours!

**shakermaker1982** · 21/02/2011, 7:27 AM

Forgot to post this yesterday. Preview of Orient-Arsenal + interview with Stephen Dawson (lad from Dublin)

Leyton Orient's captain, Stephen Dawson, says the Arsenal players will not 'fancy the 50-50s' at the Matchroom Stadium

Stephen Dawson The Leyton Orient captain, Stephen Dawson, is confident his side can be a match for Arsenal in the FA Cup fifth round. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images

Arsenal beware: on Leyton Orient's challenging pitch, Stephen Dawson and his crew plan to rough up the Premier League aristocrats when they walk out at the Matchroom Stadium for the FA Cup fifth-round tie this afternoon.

"I don't think it will be like the Emirates, it's not the flattest you'll ever see," says Dawson, the Orient captain, of a surface that had to be completely relaid in 2008. "It will help us. They've got the Carling Cup final next week and Barcelona at the Camp Nou [in the Champions League next month], they don't want to be doing a 50-50 challenge at Brisbane Road.

"We're not just going to stand around and admire how they play. Whoever I mark, be it Cesc F�bregas or Alexandre Song or Jack Wilshere, whoever they put out, you want to put one over on them and beat them. That's the main thing. Whether it involves a tackle or not, that's part of football isn't it?

"Against Ipswich [in the Carling Cup] and Huddersfield and Leeds [in the FA Cup] Arsenal got put under pressure and I don't think they really liked it. It's not about kicking them around, it's about getting in their faces – we're going to be right on top of them."

Ars�ne Wenger's team travel across London with extra zip after Wednesday evening's memorable 2-1 Champions League comeback win over Barcelona. Yet Irishman Dawson, 25, only sees the potential advantage in taking on a team who are also second in the Premier League and still chasing an unlikely quadruple.

Two years ago, the midfielder was relegated to the Conference with Mansfield Town before being released, so his rosy view of life now is understandable. He says: "I know they are professionals [but] there are an awful lot of internationals who might have the mentality, 'OK, let's just get through the game'."

Helping Dawson and his colleagues in their quest to pull off one of the great FA Cup shocks will be 70 or so of his family and friends, plus a factory full of Cadbury employees in his native Dublin, where his father, Brendan, works.

"He worked 15 hours a day for the last 20-odd years and brought us up very well. I shouldn't say this, but my Mum would have one or two drinks in the pub and my dad would have to look after us, so he would give us a football.

"To say he's proud about this game is an understatement. He'd been a window fitter, but he's working for Cadbury now and has probably got around 3,000 workers there all watching the game as well. More Cadbury people will be Leyton Orient fans on Sunday. More than the usual Tuesday night crowd in the stadium."

Orient pull in around 4,500 for home games and, this season, they have seen their club, owned by Barry Hearn, go on a run that has featured the attractive football favoured by Russell Slade, the manager. They have lost only once in 20 games and have moved up the League One table to be within three points of the play‑off positions.

This sequence featured an FA Cup second-round replay against Droylsden that the club website correctly described as "one of the most bizarre [games] you'll ever see". Dawson says: "There was about eight minutes left, with us 2-0 down – and with 10 men as well. But we managed to get two goals and it ended 8-2 [in extra time, with both teams reduced to nine men by the finish]. They were thinking: 'What's going on here?' It was one of those games."

Dagenham, Norwich and Swansea are the three other scalps taken by Orient in their FA Cup run, but making Arsenal number five appears particularly unlikely. Even if Wenger rests one or all of F�bregas, Samir Nasri, Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott and Wilshere, a stellar queue of reserves, headed by Andrey Arshavin, Tomas Rosicky and Nicklas Bendtner, can step in.

Dawson's hero when he was growing up in Dublin was Roy Keane and he recalls the Manchester United captain's tussle with Patrick Vieira at Highbury in February 2005. "Vieira picked on [Gary] Neville and Keane, who was a foot shorter than Vieira, had a go at him. That's what I grew up on," he says. "Roy Keane is an absolute idol. I managed to train with the Irish team and I wasn't scared of that, I was scared of meeting Roy. He shook my hand, but if you gave away the ball he'd go mad at you."

Whatever the result, those travelling friends and family face a short trip to Dawson's post-game party. "I live in the corner flat that overlooks the ground, you can see the pitch up to the penalty spot," he says of the property owned by Hearn. "There'll be a few drinks."

There could be more in Nevada. Leyton Orient's best FA Cup run was in 1978, when they reached the semi-finals, at which point Sunday's opponents beat them 3-0 at Stamford Bridge. But if they manage even a draw against Arsenal, Hearn has promised to take Dawson and his team‑mates to Las Vegas for a celebration to remember.