Fair play to.him.for doing what is right for him. He played for England in Dublin against us at 17s and got sent off for fouling festy so he made his choice. Clearly no affection for us which is perfectly right as he left when very young and has no family ties.Originally Posted by SkStu
First time hearing about this lad: https://www.irishstar.com/news/new-y...rview-32233294
Anyone know if he’s any good?
I dont mean to sound like a smart-arse or to sh!t on him but that interview has the bang of Joey Lapira off it. Knowing what I know about MLS, I cant see that a 25 year old with 34 MLS appearances and who visited last year for the first time since he was 3 years old is the answer to our problems (and i know that is not actually the question you asked)...
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
This made me look up Laprias "career". There's lads play DDSL that should be in contention for a call up considering Laprias one
Its really not that complicated!!!
Apparently, former international Joe O'Cearuill has a 14 year old son who is training with the Manchester United first team https://www.balls.ie/football/irish-...st-team-638433
I knew there was an Irish connection but never would have made that connection - one day maybe it won't just be quizmasters looking for obscure call-ups who will be eternally grateful to Stan for capping Joe O'Cearuill after all! JJ Gabriel is extremely highly thought of at Man Utd (whatever that's worth these days). Too young to pin hopes on, but an interesting one to watch and hopefully, if he progresses, not lose Delap-style.
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Strike Paul Nebel from the lists, just been called up to German squad
https://x.com/Mainz05en/status/1960736211309379871
Its really not that complicated!!!
Dan McDonnell's weekly email today included this line
"There has been chatter about Everton’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall across the summer but I felt Hallgrimsson’s answer gave every indication that something was happening with the 27-year-old who qualifies via grandparents."
I'm not sure if it's a mistake because I thought previous reports had said the exact opposite to that.
Benji Richardson declaring for Ireland apparently.
He can run 100 metres in under 9.9 seconds - call him up and stick him on the wing!
I was only thinking about this the other day. Who's the fastest ever player to pull on a green shirt for men's senior team?
Alan O'Brien was my conclusion. Terry Phelan possibly could edge it though
Folding my way into the big money!!!
Shane Long was fastest in the Premier League at one stage.
Festy and Ogbene must be there or thereabouts?
9.86, to be exact, 19.99 for the 200m. Assuming this goes through, it's an astonishing coup for Irish athletics. Those are elite times. His 100m PB would have won every European Championship and his 200m time would have won all but 3. He's capable of making global finals and even winning medals with that 100m time... and he's only 21. This is like if Harry Kane had declared for us aged 21!Benji Richardson declaring for Ireland apparently.
He can run 100 metres in under 9.9 seconds - call him up and stick him on the wing!
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Born here and lived here during his childhood it seems as well. Surely a picture of him.as a kid with an.ireland jersey somewhere to be found
Jack McGlynn confirms the FAI did approach him, but he only wanted to play for the US team
The episode is 52m long, the relevant section is at 17:40
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Best of luck to him
CJ Egan-Riley on the bench for Marseille against Newcastle on Tuesday-https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/c07m74ed4kzt#Line-ups
Can play at right back so could be a good pickup for Ireland. Still only 22
The interesting line is “whether it was the club turning it down”, because it’s pretty well known that he accepted a call up in late 2021 for the u19s for their competitive games and his club fearing that he would be worth less as an irish international basically dicked around and refused to release him even though they were supposed to. Admittedly, he accepted it, I assume, knowing that he could always switch back because he had never played competitively with the US.
In March, we had another opportunity to call him up but neither Mohan or Crawford did, both managers calling up Ollie O’Neill for the same window and agreeing to share him (1 game for Mohan, 1 for Crawford). It worked out terribly for the u19s who had O’Neill just for one game and started the camp with Andy Moran injured and then lost both Sinclair Armstrong (concussion) and Jonny Kenny with injury along with Adaramola and Garcia-McNulty and basically had no attacking players for the second and third game so ended up playing an injured Kenny and Moran for game 2 before losing Kenny again for the third game.
Let’s just say in retrospect it would have been better to have called up McGlynn to the u19s instead of Ollie O’Neill or even someone like Kian Corbally whose career consists of spells at Longford, Wexford and Ballymena.
The following window in June, the US called him up to their u20s for qualifiers which were his first competitive games.
Then 6 months later both Stephen Kenny and Jim Crawford went across to meet him to present a plan which would see him begin with the 21s before moving to the seniors to try convince him to switch and he basically came back saying he was still undecided (second rejection he mentions).
Stephen Kenny left in November 2023 and then McGlynn accepted a call up for a home based US side vs a home based Slovenia side.
Hard to imagine many US or Canada eligible players that are genuinely good enough to play for those countries choosing us. Those countries basically have a guaranteed pass to the World Cup, whereas we'd be lucky to make one in their entire career. Even McDonnell may go back to Canada in time I suspect.
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