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    Quote Originally Posted by Eirambler View Post
    Well he's 23 and has never played international football at any age group despite playing a number of seasons of first team football in the EFL. So, if he was Irish eligible, you'd imagine we'd have heard about it by now.

    There will be tens of thousands of people in the midlands and north of England with Irish sounding surnames who aren't Irish eligible, the link in some cases will be many generations back.
    Your giving the FAI way too much credit!
    Ciaran Clark had to call them via Richard Dunne. The new lad from Blackpool again had to call the FAI

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    CJ Hamilton had done the square root of **** all to even warrant being on the radar. Never played above League Two until two years ago and had turned 25. And he spent half that season injured along with half the next season when Blackpool got promoted.

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    Watched the end of the Sunderland/QPR came yesterday and wondered if it might be worth our while approaching Dennis Cirkin - he might yet make it for England but he's probably a bit down the pecking order right now. He would walk into the current Latvia squad but could fit in well for us.

    I think the other main potential switches at this point would be Clarke-Salter, who has already expressed interest, Louie Barry, CJ Egan-Riley, Kieran Dowell and Jonjoe Kenny - if we got a few of them on board it would certainly give us good depth, at the very least

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    Cirkin will probably stick with England for now as he is eligible for their Under 21s for the next campaign. Longer term he will probably end up switching to one of Ireland or Latvia though.

    Clarke-Salter is probably there for us if we want him. We're not exactly short of centre backs though. Egan-Riley and Barry may come back to us in time, they seem to be struggling for competitive minutes at the England underage age groups.

    Dowell and Kenny are almost certainly ineligible for us due to their England Under 21 caps after their 21st birthdays.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JR89 View Post
    CJ Hamilton had done the square root of **** all to even warrant being on the radar. Never played above League Two until two years ago and had turned 25. And he spent half that season injured along with half the next season when Blackpool got promoted.
    My point is he is from Waterford originally the fai had no idea who he was. He had to make contact and by the way he was immediately selected

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eirambler View Post
    Cirkin will probably stick with England for now as he is eligible for their Under 21s for the next campaign. Longer term he will probably end up switching to one of Ireland or Latvia though.

    That's exactly the kind of commitment we want!!!
    Folding my way into the big money!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fixer82 View Post
    That's exactly the kind of commitment we want!!!
    I'd say we'd be his third choice given he has lived in England for as long as he can remember and his family are Latvian. Not someone I'd be expecting to declare for us and if he did you'd suspect it might be because a) he's not good enough for England and b) Latvia are hopeless and probably won't qualify for any tournament finals any time soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SkStu View Post
    Saw this yesterday, another one that has been mentioned on here before I’m sure. Jack McGlynn out of the MLS has been the subject of a formal approach to switch allegiances.

    https://punditarena.com/football/ron...-american/?amp
    rumoured to be on the way to PSV.

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    I'm guessing Tommy Conway is another Irish sounding player who isn't remotely eligible for us unless anyone knows otherwise? Has scored three in three for Bristol City and has a name that sounds like he should be playing corner forward for Mayo.

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    A centre midfielder named Quinn McNeill started for Charlotte in the MLS last night. Born in Cork according to his wikipedia page.

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    Very unusual name - quite an American thing to use an Irish surname as a Christian name, but born in Ireland as you say, and presumably his Irish roots are rather closer than the average great-great-grand-pappy-seeking American.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    Very unusual name - quite an American thing to use an Irish surname as a Christian name, but born in Ireland as you say, and presumably his Irish roots are rather closer than the average great-great-grand-pappy-seeking American.
    Getting more and more common. I hear Tylers, Masons, Braxtons, Quinns, Hunters at the school gates these days.

    Lots of names seem to be jobs. Wouldn’t be surprised to soon enough hear a few kids called Plumber, Barman or Carpenter

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    Guy I work with named his first son Nixon.

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    Good Lord.

    None of those are Irish surnames at least (bar Quinn) so it seems people still have some sense here (though Ryan is quite popular)

    Still - Nixon. Why would you do that?

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    IIRC, his explanation was "it's presidential"
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    I hope he didn't name his daughter Bush.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    IIRC, his explanation was "it's presidential"
    At least he didn’t go with, Water-Gate ! !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eirambler View Post
    I'm guessing Tommy Conway is another Irish sounding player who isn't remotely eligible for us unless anyone knows otherwise? Has scored three in three for Bristol City and has a name that sounds like he should be playing corner forward for Mayo.
    There was a Tom Conway in the LOI way back when I started watching. Bohs mainly I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    Still - Nixon. Why would you do that?
    Cos he didn’t think he’d be caught.

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    Once Irish eligible Anthony Gordon looks to be going to Chelsea for £60 million. Crazy money for him, he's probably not that much better than Jason Knight in reality, just has been given better opportunities. No wonder these lads don't declare for us.

    Slightly adapted from a tweet I saw about it:

    Anthony Gordon (ENG) £60M
    Antony Gabriel (BRA) £40M
    Antonio Gordoba (ESP) £20M
    Antonio Giorgio (ITA) £10M
    Anthony Gormley (IRL) £1M
    (€100k if signed from League of Ireland)
    Last edited by Eirambler; 23/08/2022 at 1:51 PM.

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