Potentially eligible players thread

**paul_oshea** · 13/01/2022, 5:56 PM

Originally Posted by JR89

Jim Crawford already mentioned the FAI were interested in Bradley back in November, but I'll assume he's happy where he is given he's regularly been involved with them since making his debut.

Would take a massive hail mary bid from the FAI to convince the lad at the last minute having played three competitive games, and featured in two friendlies.

Like Declan rice you mean? Send Southgate up to him. That'll do the trick

**paul_oshea** · 09/02/2022, 2:47 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Signed for Leeds today, looking at the photo on the announcement, he *has* to be Irish
https://www.leedsunited.com/news/tea...s-leeds-united

Has anyone identified whether he qualifies or not?

**Demesne Lad** · 28/02/2022, 5:30 PM

Stan Flaherty (20, attacking midfielder) has just moved from Newcastle Utd to QPR on a contract to the end of the season. Stats for 2020/21: PL2 1,710 mins played, 7 goals, 3 assists.
Seems to have been inactive this season, maybe injured? Transfermarkt shows him as English and Irish.

**CraftyToePoke** · 09/03/2022, 2:16 PM

Not sure if he has a thread or not but according to Crawford today, Taylor Gardner Hickman is a generation too far back to qualify for us. Seems the family weren't sure themselves & it came down to paperwork ( or lack of )

It has been done to death before I realise but how Irish can the guy possibly feel when the family link isn't even known within his family.

**Razors left peg** · 09/03/2022, 5:19 PM

Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

Not sure if he has a thread or not but according to Crawford today, Taylor Gardner Hickman is a generation too far back to qualify for us. Seems the family weren't sure themselves & it came down to paperwork ( or lack of )

It has been done to death before I realise but how Irish can the guy possibly feel when the family link isn't even known within his family.

Plenty of lads havent felt very Irish in the past until they put on the green shirt and then are all in.

**third policeman** · 09/03/2022, 5:40 PM

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Plenty of lads havent felt very Irish in the past until they put on the green shirt and then are all in.

Find it odd not knowing where your grandparents were born? Was always confused about how Aldridge qualified via a great grand parent. My daughter is UK born but is an Irish citizen, her offspring will qualify via a grandparent, but if they become citizens before they become parents will their offspring be eligible for citizenship?

**Razors left peg** · 09/03/2022, 5:45 PM

Originally Posted by third policeman

Find it odd not knowing where your grandparents were born? Was always confused about how Aldridge qualified via a great grand parent. My daughter is UK born but is an Irish citizen, her offspring will qualify via a grandparent, but if they become citizens before they become parents will their offspring be eligible for citizenship?

I dont have any clue where 2 of my grandparents were born. Not everyone grows up in the town where all their family have lived forever

**elatedscum** · 09/03/2022, 5:51 PM

Originally Posted by third policeman

Find it odd not knowing where your grandparents were born? Was always confused about how Aldridge qualified via a great grand parent. My daughter is UK born but is an Irish citizen, her offspring will qualify via a grandparent, but if they become citizens before they become parents will their offspring be eligible for citizenship?

Aldridge was actually a grandparent afaik- it’s that his mother was adopted and her adoptive parents were irish but her birth parents weren’t. Going back a gen further he was irish through birth - but it was clarified that having an adoptive grandparent in those circumstances was sufficient

**elatedscum** · 09/03/2022, 5:52 PM

Actually maybe the was Cas - sorry

**third policeman** · 09/03/2022, 6:02 PM

Originally Posted by third policeman

Find it odd not knowing where your grandparents were born? Was always confused about how Aldridge qualified via a great grand parent. My daughter is UK born but is an Irish citizen, her offspring will qualify via a grandparent, but if they become citizens before they become parents will their offspring be eligible for citizenship?

I bet you know what country though.

**third policeman** · 09/03/2022, 6:16 PM

Originally Posted by elatedscum

Actually maybe the was Cas - sorry

Here's some background on Aldridge. Definitely references a great grandparernt.

https://group.irishecho.com/2011/02/...-in-dispute-2/

**Bungle** · 09/03/2022, 7:07 PM

Think Aldo had a grandparent that was Irish, but he said that he always had a huge affinity with Ireland. From knowing Liverpool the way I do, they don’t feel English at all and generally embrace their Irish roots which a strong majority of them have. I lived all over the UK and Liverpool was the only place I ever felt like home.

Separately Sonny Perkins, an up and comer with West Ham is eligible. If anyone has a contact in the FAI, would be great to let them know. He’s a current England youth international but could be worth asking him. His dad played with us.

**elatedscum** · 09/03/2022, 7:19 PM

CJ Egan-Reilly starting for Man City in the champions league tonight…

**third policeman** · 09/03/2022, 7:38 PM

Eligible apparently

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_Egan-Riley

**Eirambler** · 09/03/2022, 9:35 PM

Originally Posted by third policeman

Find it odd not knowing where your grandparents were born? Was always confused about how Aldridge qualified via a great grand parent. My daughter is UK born but is an Irish citizen, her offspring will qualify via a grandparent, but if they become citizens before they become parents will their offspring be eligible for citizenship?

Aldridge I believe qualified through a great grandparent but declared for us shortly before FIFA tightened the rules in the mid 1980s. Eligibility was a bit of a free for all before that, you just needed to be able to prove some lineage so great grandparents were fine. Once FIFA formalised it the line was drawn at grandparents and if Aldridge had tried to declare after that he would have been deemed ineligible.

Regarding your other query - your great grandchildren will be eligible for an Irish passport as long as your grandchildren formalise their Irish citizenship before they give birth to your great grandchildren. However (under current rules) your great grandchildren, although they would be Irish citizens, would not be eligible to play football for Ireland (unless they had an Irish parent or grandparent).

**liamoo11** · 09/03/2022, 9:47 PM

Originally Posted by third policeman

Eligible apparently

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_Egan-Riley

Played in victory shield for us. Played holding midfield against the North the night I saw them definitely didn't seem to suit him Bradley for the North of Liverpool and mccormack of St pats looked far better. That side had ollie o neill

**Demesne Lad** · 09/04/2022, 3:37 PM

We're hardly short of keepers, but I notice that when Keiren Westwood became the 5th(!!) QPR keeper to be injured (in this case, during the warm up this p.m.), Rangers turned to a 20 year-old Murphy Mahoney :-) Must have an Irish grand-dad, surely?

**tetsujin1979** · 09/04/2022, 4:20 PM

Harry Halwax is there as well, but I think he's only on an academy contract

**Olé Olé** · 09/04/2022, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by Demesne Lad

We're hardly short of keepers, but I notice that when Keiren Westwood became the 5th(!!) QPR keeper to be injured (in this case, during the warm up this p.m.), Rangers turned to a 20 year-old Murphy Mahoney :-) Must have an Irish grand-dad, surely?

I had to look this up. Murphy is his first name? That is mad.

**elatedscum** · 11/04/2022, 2:01 AM

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/...being-23581880

Very good player, very unlucky with injuries. Lots of talented wingers in 2003 - it's probably the position which it is most stacked, that combined with injuries and 2 years of no international football for his age group due to covid have probably halted Harkin's progress. Still, would be a real shame to lose him.