Irish Abroad 2010/2011

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Ryan Connolly -Derby County has been unlucky to do his Cruciate.
http://www.dcfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...127357,00.html

[tetsujin1979]

U19 cap Richie Towell on the bench for Celtic tonight
Barry Maguire on the bench for Utrecht in the same game.

[gastric]

Update on John Joe O' Toole's progress on TeamTalk, Colchester section today. He seems to be on track and other reports indicate he will be back early 2011.

[SaucyJack]

Sorry if this has been brought up on another thread, but does anybody know anything about Chinedu Vine? He's a Nigeran born youngster(Irish passport holder) who was recently picked up by Portsmouth from Home Farm. On other threads we've talked about how the kids of immigrants from Poland, Nigeria, Lithuania etc...might play for their parent's country, just like dozens in Britain have played for Ireland and I"m just wondering if he might declare for us because he's supposed to be a talented striker and we don't get them that often. More below

http://www.brila-fm.net/index.php?op...d=2352&catid=1

[cestlavie]

Ciaran Clarke 20 Aston Villa, his father is from just outside Letterkenny in Co Donegal, his grandmother lives just outside the town in manor, played last weekend, I know he was captain off Englands under 19 team but certainly a fantastic prospect that we should be going after. Time to let Kilbane and McShane go out to pasture. They are not the future for Irish footbal, If they are its time to pack things up.

[tetsujin1979]

I'll cover McGeady tets....if there's no taker for Sheridan I'll do him as well.

I can get Bulgarian stats no problem.

thanks lads, sent a PM to each of you

[Stuttgart88]

Westwood, Keogh, Bell and Doyle start for Coventry, Green and Irish-eligible teenage forward(?) Conor Doyle start for Derby. Game starting soon on SKY.

[tetsujin1979]

Irish Abroad for Saturday, 21st August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-21
Steven Reid came on for the last 8 minutes of a game, and still found time to be booked
Ipswich's seven man bench had 4 Irish players - Brian Murphy, Shane O'Connor, Colin Healy and Conor Hourihane. However, only O'Connor made an appearance.
The three bookings in the same game was the most since Brentford played Hartlepool in May
Thanks to irishfan86 for the Spartak Moscow result

Irish Abroad for Sunday, 22nd August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-22
Adam Rooney scored his first goals of the season, and his first goals in the SPL since February 2009

Irish Abroad for Monday, 23rd August 2010: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Game...ate=2010-08-23
Shay Given was an unused sub for two consecutive league games for the first time since September 2007

Incidentally, the game with the most bookings is Leeds VS Sunderland on 13th September 2006, with 5 bookings - Paul Butler, Jonathan Douglas, Gary Kelly, Graham Kavanagh and Liam Miller all shown the yellow card

[tetsujin1979]

irishfan86 and TheBoss have agreed to track Aiden McGeady's and Cillian Sheridan's progress for the site this season, is there any interest in tracking some of the other Irish players playing outside England and Scotland - Dominic Foley, Anto Flood, etc?
I don't have the time to do it as well as everything else, so if I can get one volunteer per player that would be fine

full credit will be given for each player monitored

[Stuttgart88]

Carling Cup on tonight in England. Plenty of Irish in action but of most note in context of the Armenia game is probably that McShane was substituted on 22 minutes and St Ledger was substituted at half time, suggesting both got injuries of some degree. Defenders are rarely taken off that early. O'Dea was subbed on 60 minutes for Ipswich but it looks like it was part of a double substitution so was probably tactical or match fitness related.

I'll let Tets deliver the full details!

[Charlie Darwin]

Treacy banged in what sounds like a cracking winner for Preston.

[Colbert Report]

Carling Cup on tonight in England. Plenty of Irish in action but of most note in context of the Armenia game is probably that McShane was substituted on 22 minutes and St Ledger was substituted at half time, suggesting both got injuries of some degree. Defenders are rarely taken off that early. O'Dea was subbed on 60 minutes for Ipswich but it looks like it was part of a double substitution so was probably tactical or match fitness related.

I'll let Tets deliver the full details!

We can only hope.

[theworm2345]

Half-time saw Keith's Republic of Ireland teammate Sean St. Ledger make way for youngster Bailey Wright who was making his second first team appearance for the Whites with his other coming in the previous round against Stockport County two weeks ago. But Ferguson insisted this was simply a procaution for Saturday - not wanting his prized asset to be any worse for wear come the showdown against the Blades at Brammall Lane. The gaffer added: "Sean is a complete procaution - he will be ok for Saturday. We thought we would give it five minutes but he has said look I don't want to risk it and we made the decision between us.

http://www.pnefc.net/page/NewsDetail...133836,00.html

[theworm2345]

There are a trio of Irishmen in Scandinavia that have only been mentioned on here a few times by one guy awhile back.

Pat Walker who played for Bohs and the u21s is the manager of Tippeligaen (top league in Norway, though they're surely relegated) side Sandefjord while his two (Sweden-born) sons, Kevin and Robert, play for AIK (Allsvenskan -- top league in Sweden -- champions last year) and Jönköpings Södra (second tier in Sweden), respectively.

[ifk101]

As already mentioned, Anto Flood is with Örebro in Sweden until the end of the season. He's been an unused sub in 4 league games since joining late July/early August.

[DannyInvincible]

Has anyone heard of a Japanese player called Robert Cullen? I'm came across him a while ago through Wikipedia and thought the name stood out as particularly bizarre given he had international honours for Japan's under-20 side. Turned out, he was born in Ibaraki to a Japanese mother and a father from Northern Ireland, so presumably he'd be eligible to play for us. Not that I'm necessarily suggesting we should be going after him as he is now playing with Roasso Kumamoto in the J. League Division 2, but I just thought it was a rather interesting one. He played with the highly-esteemed (in Asian football, at least) Júbilo Iwata of the J. League Division 1 up until this season.

Edit: Just to add that Cullen won the J. League Rookie of the Year in 2005.

[DannyInvincible]

Sorry if this has been brought up on another thread, but does anybody know anything about Chinedu Vine? He's a Nigeran born youngster(Irish passport holder) who was recently picked up by Portsmouth from Home Farm.

I'm not certain he'd actually be eligible to play for us. Presumably, his nationality was dependent on residence. Therefore, he would not qualify automatically under article 15 of FIFA's current statutes. I assume article 17 would be of relevance:

Acquisition of a new nationality
Any Player who refers to art. 15 par. 1 to assume a new nationality and who has not played international football in accordance with art. 15 par. 2 shall be eligible to play for the new representative team only if he fulfi ls one of the following conditions:
(a) He was born on the territory of the relevant Association;
(b) His biological mother or biological father was born on the territory of the relevant Association;
(c) His grandmother or grandfather was born on the territory of the relevant Association;
(d) He has lived continuously for at least five years after reaching the age of 18 on the territory of the relevant Association.

Seeing as he's only 15/16, I suspect he doesn't satisfy any of those criteria, which would lead me to believe he isn't eligible to play for us despite being an Irish national.

[HarpoJoyce]

Conor Sammon (ex-UCD, ex-Derry City) got a hat-trick against Ayr Utd. in the Co-operative Insurance Cup.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ps/8941349.stm

[theworm2345]

Jon Daly scores for Dundee in the Europa League against AEK Athens but they go down 2-1 on aggregate.

[ifk101]

Anto Flood came on with 2 mins to go in Örebro's match with Helsingborg today. They said on the TV that it was his third appearance for the club so you can scratch my previous post.