I didn't realise it was the ACTUAL Timmy Mallet posting!
Was Reyna is the US squad while he was at college?Originally Posted by gustavo
I am sure some of them have made a decent career in the MLS but is there any chance they have improved since they left college?
To use that logic we should be calling up youth team players to get a look at them early.
A lot of them have ended up in the league under the MSL too. And some tried getting a club in their home country, and were unable to do so. So hardly inspiring.
Who said he was the best young player in the US? He won a COLLEGE'S award in an AMATEUR league! I guarantee you he wouldn't make most of the teams in the EL.
Your having a laugh son, how can you "guarentee" that when you don't even know how good he is.
the same way you've generalised about the eircom league in the past?
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I'm disappointed
Perhaps you would be good enough to enlighten us as to why?
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Thats a big claim. Surely he would get into the UCD side if he got a scholarship to do his Masters there.
The thing about those cases are that the information was coming from people that had knowledge of football and seen the players play. I've never heard anything like that about Kerr but if that was the case that can't justify Stan doing it.
That was the reason but is far from what he is doing, e.g. Alan O'Brien.
Look at the award he won. All quality international players.
There's no might- he hadn't before he was invited to train with the squad.Stan might have seen him before, might not have.
Best young player? Just shows what you know about him.The best young player in the US is eligible for us then you have to take a look at him, regardless of the circumstances. I almost guarantee you that he'd be better than alot of the players in the EL.
How many eL games have you ever seen?
So Lapira's uncle, who works for the FAI, never saw him play and has no knowledge of football?
From http://www.kickinmagazine.ie/jpanayi1622001.htm
I'm convinced I read it elsewhere tooIrish underage supremo Brian Kerr has called on the huge Irish communities in the UK and America to act as scouts for the Republic of Ireland soccer teams - revealing that a parish priest and a taxi driver have tipped him off in the past!
Kerr wants Irish people living abroad to let the FAI know whether promising young players have an Irish parent or grandparent.
He revealed he found out from a taxi driver that Wycombe's u17 Irish international Ian Simpemba's mother was Irish; and that a parish priest tipped him off about Charlton Athletic's Adrian Deane.
After this week, the Irish management have seem play, know if he's any good, and have a decent fu**ing idea - certainly better than any of us.Look at the award he won. All quality international players.
In all likelihood Stan hasn't seen him play live, but he has to have seen videos of him, otherwise he'd never had brought him into the squad - to see him play live.
So who is the best young player in the States? Lapira is the best college player in the states, and previous winners of that award have gone on to play professionally, so why not try and get this guy on our side
Since when does going on to play professional football mean a player should be capped? Why not cap all of the professional Eircom League players? I'll answer that - alot of them wouldn't be good enough, when compared to our Premiership based players such as Doyle, Keane.
I fail to see how Lapira could be conceiveably thought of as having the potential to be good enough for the Irish squad on the basis that he may one day be a professional player. Jesus, he could end up playing for TNS in the Welsh league. Surely scouts would have been alerted to him if he truly had any sort of potential. It stinks of nepotism and cronyism.
No i haven't seen him play but I didn't comment on his uselessness without ever seeing him play, like yerself. Based on comments on here from a few living in the US about the standard in the MLS and having watched a lot of MLS games, he is more than likely better than most of the eL.Look at the award he won. All quality international players.
Played in the eL, son. Standard, bar about 10 players, is very poor.
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The people you mentioned, Ron Atkinson and Kevin McDonald, are experienced, well respected and have proven to be very good at their jobs, which are in football. Lapira's uncle merely works for the FAI- this requires no knowledge of football.
That's the thing- after this week. What about before? Incidentally they clearly weren't impressed by him.After this week, the Irish management have seem play, know if he's any good, and have a decent fu**ing idea - certainly better than any of us.
Like the "videos" of Alan O'Brien he saw on Sky Sports News?In all likelihood Stan hasn't seen him play live, but he has to have seen videos of him, otherwise he'd never had brought him into the squad - to see him play live.
Seeing as you asked Freddy Adu is the best young player in the States. I'd say all of these are better than him as well seing as they made the squad.So who is the best young player in the States? Lapira is the best college player in the states, and previous winners of that award have gone on to play professionally, so why not try and get this guy on our side
How many previous winners went on to play international football? Sweet feck all. And being professional does not make you international standard.
So how do you know if he's better than most eL players?
But you made comments on how good he is.but I didn't comment on his uselessness without ever seeing him play, like yerself.
Based on comments on here from a few living in the US about the standard in the MLS and having watched a lot of MLS games, he is more than likely better than most of the eL.MLS? He isn't even at that standard. Look at the previous winners of the award- how many have played international football?
Proof?Played in the eL, son.
Not only that I went one better and managed Notre Dame.
Last edited by DmanDmythDledge; 27/05/2007 at 3:53 PM.
I'll jump on the prooflessness bandwagon by saying I used to play for Drumcondra in a parrellel demension, so I know it all.
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