Squad for Australia match?

[Stuttgart88]

It's supposed to be latin, his French isn't that much better, fortunately he is sound in football matters.

A pal of mine dropped in a bit of Latin to a scouse bird when chatting her up in a night club. Nothing fancy, just QED or Et cetera or whatever. She asked what does that mean so he explained and she responded that only pretentious ****s drop in Latin into conversation. He replied "if that's what makes one a pretentious **** then mea culpa". To much laughter....

[geysir]

At least spell it properly and we will promise not to laugh.

[Stuttgart88]

I was always better at phonetic Latin

[tetsujin1979]

Definitely phoned that one in!

I'll get me coat.....

[SunderlandBohs]

Barstool? You obviously have no idea but that's irrelevant to the discussion so I don't need to "prove" myself to you.

I saw the games. Overall he was good but made two basic errors for both goals which can not be overlooked. The reason why they could have been costly is because he was been looked at in those games to possibly name him in the squad. It's important to perform your best when in the spotlight.

I've seen Westwood play far more than five time this season. He's definitely going to be our future number one when Given has to retire. He also was named the best keeper in the Championship last season so I don't see how he hasn't proved himself as undoubtedly our number two keeper at the moment. Obviously people still can't make a balanced judgement of him due to his comments over a year ago.


And Brian Murphy is a League of Ireland keeper, what's your point? If you are going to judge how good players are based on what league they play in you are automatically ruling out Brian Murphy.

Joe Murphy was named League One keeper of the season so, like Westwood, he has merited his inclusion. He continued his great form when under spotlight in the playoffs and is in the squad because he is a better goalkeeper than Brian Murphy.


Was the Nigeria game more than 2 years ago?


I don't think new players should be given a chance in friendlies at this stage of the qualifying campaign. Time is limited in international football as it is and the more time the core group of the squad has together the better. Most of the players you mentioned will get a chance to show what they can do in the Premiership soon enough, as has been mentioned previously, so it's not imperative that they be seen up close as may have been the case if they were still playing in the Championship.

Firstly, I've been told that LOI is of better standard than League 1. These aren't my words but views from regular visitors to Elland Road and the Victoria Ground.

I'm sorry I didn't know you were a Coventry season ticket holder. But I notice Westwood made a mistake for one of Everton's goals on Saturday.

Liam Miller had one half decent game in two years and that makes him a world beater! Lets forget the terrible 30 odd games he had for Sunderland and QPR. If I'm not mistaken that was the first time Miller was picked to play for under Gio.

Friendlies are the perfect time to bleed in new blood. How else will uncapped players get a chances?

[tetsujin1979]

I'm sorry I didn't know you were a Coventry season ticket holder. But I notice Westwood made a mistake for one of Everton's goals on Saturday

Keeper in mistake shocker!

Liam Miller had one half decent game in two years and that makes him a world beater! Lets forget the terrible 30 odd games he had for Sunderland and QPR.

Noone's said it makes him a world beater, the general consensus seems to be that the one decent performance will keep his place in the squad for the time being. Noone's calling for him to start, and the chances are that the likes of McCann or McCarthy will more than likely replace him. However, they have to prove they're worth their place first (they do, accept it, get on with it) whereas Trapattoni knows exactly what he is going to get from Miller

If I'm not mistaken that was the first time Miller was picked to play for under Gio

You are, he played both games against Serbia and Colombia, and came off the bench in the away game against Georgia. He's been a mainstay in the squad under Trapattoni. Apart from the home games against Georgia and Bulgaria, he's featured in every squad to date

Friendlies are the perfect time to bleed in new blood. How else will uncapped players get a chances?

Then play them in the South Africa game, this game was only ever about preparing for the Cyprus game, and nothing else.

[rebelmusic]

To be honest, considering the south africa friendly is just around the corner, this game is all about prep for cyprus, something trap has come out and said.

I would imagine the game against S.Africa will be like the nigeria game, showing new faces. I would expect to see mccarthy capped in that match, although i wouldn't expect to see mccann until the premier league season is well underway.

On the stephan ireland front, considering what happened the last time we played away against cyprus, i seriously doubt this would be the game he'd want to come back for. If he comes back it'll be for the italy match i believe, or not till after the world cup.

[ifk101]

Australia squad:
Mark Schwarzer, Ante Covic; Patrick Kisnorbo, Lucas Neill, Rhys Williams, Jade North, Matthew Spiranovic, Adrian Madaschi, Luke Wilkshire; Mark Bresciano, James Holland, Dario Vidosic, Tim Cahill, Nick Carle, Aaron Mooy, Harry Kewell, Oliver Bozanic, David Carney, Mile Jedinak; Scott McDonald, Brett Holman, Nikita Rukavytsya.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0804/australia.html

[Wexford Delboy]

doyles out according to the sun

[Hibernian]

doyles out according to the sun

He should be back for Cyprus game but we could be left sweating on his fitness he not due to start the season with wolves and is in race to be fit for Cyprus.

But by account he should make it back. lets hope so

[briancool21]

lads whats the story do kids have to pay full price aswell or what? Want to take my 12 year old brother but i'm not paying 35 quid for him that's madness

[Razors left peg]

lads whats the story do kids have to pay full price aswell or what? Want to take my 12 year old brother but i'm not paying 35 quid for him that's madness

Pretty sure its the same as Croker and Landsdowne, they just charge for the seat no matter who is sitting on it

[tetsujin1979]

Doyle to miss Australia game: http://soccerrepublic.eircom.net/New...afriendly.aspx

[Serb]

Doyle to miss Australia game: http://soccerrepublic.eircom.net/New...afriendly.aspx

Not terrible news, I'm interested in seeing more of Folan in a green shirt anyway.

[irishfan86]

Not terrible news, I'm interested in seeing more of Folan in a green shirt anyway.

Once you go black...

[Razors left peg]

Looks like Doyer could have some involvement in the game after all...
http://www.teamtalk.com/football/sto...481775,00.html

[old git]

Looks like Doyer could have some involvement in the game after all...
http://www.teamtalk.com/football/sto...481775,00.html

heard also he was training with team in tipperary today .... so things must be looking good

[tricky_colour]

heard also he was training with team in tipperary today .... so things must be looking good

Yes, it's a long way to Tipperary, so he must be in fairly good shape.

[tetsujin1979]

heard also he was training with team in tipperary today .... so things must be looking good

from today's Indo: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...s-1855490.html

Kevin Doyle was here, however, with Mick McCarthy deciding that it would be worthwhile for the Wexford man to travel despite considering him doubtful for Wolves' Premier League opener this weekend. Trapattoni confirmed he had given McCarthy an assurance that he would look after the costly summer acquisition, with Doyle likely to play just 45 minutes against the Aussies.

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more on soccerrepublic: http://soccerrepublic.eircom.net/New...nfriendly.aspx

[shakermaker1982]

It was good of Mick to let him travel.

Folan/Best have filled in well so far so if we do lose Doyle to injury I wouldn't be too concerned. Central midfield is our problem area.....