The U21 squad mainly consists of players who have not played at the level before to give them a chance to force their way into the sqaud. It's no big deal.Originally Posted by cclinton
Darren O'Dea not in senior or U21 squads ...
The U21 squad mainly consists of players who have not played at the level before to give them a chance to force their way into the sqaud. It's no big deal.
Maybe he is too old for it as he was born in Feb 1987
In Trap we trust
I think Keogh has done a decent job on the right when asked.
No, players born in 1986 or later are still eligible.
McGeady and Duff will play on the wings and switch around I guess. McGeady switched from right to left against Colombia a bit and Duff is well used to it too.
Let's pray for no players pulling out of the squad. Jesus I'm excited about the chance of seeing Reid, Reid, Duff and McGeady in our midfield.
I would have to disagree, he looked lost out on the wing against Germany. He is much more effective up front.
I don't mean to p!ss on your chips but still 8 days to go, which means a game and a few training sessions for them to get through but hopefully all 4 will make it
I just changed the date in the link.
http://www.fai.ie/audio/2008-08-12.mp3
O'Dea was arrested in Glasgow at the weekend (wrongly I believe). O'Dea, McGeady and Brown were attacked by some morons outside of a nightclub. O'Dea was arrested and later fined (breach of the peace)! Hope thats not the reason he wasn't picked.
yes... Ive been a big defender of him on here up to now but this will be my last post about the little pr1ck.... retiring from your international team at such a young age is beyond disgraceful
Its really not that complicated!!!
Just listening to the press conference and basically Carsley just didn't get a call up. Trap said he's not forgetting him but he didn't want to change much of the squad from Portugal.
That's really interesting and I'm actually quite happy about that. Just because I trust Trap and if he feels we can play better without Carsley then I'm all for it.
Yeah, maybe... but I think we will need Carsley in the campaign... I thought he was amazing on Saturday.
As for Ireland, he hasn't retired from his international team... Trapattoni said he just isn't ready to come back now... I think his decision should be respected, especially as we don't know the reasons behind it and he's a young guy struggling with some things...
I think it's great that Finnan is back... of the three that had dropped out from the squads, surely he is the most important to get back. He should be guaranteed to start every game.
At last!
Everyone else is starting to see sense...lets put Stephen Ireland out of our minds and concentrate on the players that have the passion and pride to play for Ireland. He's an idiot and terribly over rated anyway.
Brilliant news about Finann, he makes a dodgey back four become an average back four, and we need at least that for the next campaign.
'I can't even remember when the Seventies was.' - ROBBIE KEANE
Happy enough with the squad given all the explanations. Having said that I'm cabbaged so I could be missing someone.
I'd take from that squad it is gonna be a straightforward 4-4-2.
Given (Kenny)
Finnan (Foley)
Delaney (Kilbane)
Dunne
O'Shea (Bruce)
Duff (Hunt)
reid (O'Brien)
reid (Whelan)
McGeady (Miller)
Keane (Keogh)
Murphy (Doyle)
I've put the players in brackets as direct replacements as thats the way the squad seems to be shaping up.
The non-inclusion of Carsley is no harm, he's on the way out, and we need to blood replacements now.
Is Garvan injured or in the 21's?
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
11 months and counting............
He has retired, and I never want him in the squad again.
I still don't get how Long gets called over Noel Hunt, Clinton Morrison, Alan Lee, etc.
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Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here
Dont rate shane long ahead of the more experienced strikers,he hasnt palyed enough games at top level.lawerence will be in the nxt squad i reackon once trapp sees him play for stoke in the prem,he is class and it was a mistake on sunderlands behalf to sell him and replace him with edwards
Anyone remember anything other than absolute drudgery football whenever we played Norway?
Worse than playing Poland.
Worse than that Greece friendly.
Anyone else suffer from bad memory syndrome resulting in a total absence of optimism about anything resembling quality football happening in this upcoming game?
Any gamblers out there? we have had 4 or 5 nil nil games with Norway.
was singled out by bruce as one of the main reasons wigan stayed up
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