Irish Abroad 2010/2011

**bwagner** · 27/01/2011, 8:09 AM

young keeper at Bury Ritchie Branagan - the son of former irish cap Keith

**Closed Account** · 27/01/2011, 1:41 PM

Brandon Miele (16) made his debut for Newcastle Reserves during the week
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newca...2703-28065309/

**gastric** · 28/01/2011, 10:37 PM

It's a bit quiet on the website at the moment and I thought I'd post this update on potential recruit Carl Magnay from Wikipedia. May not be true, who knows!

In March 2010 Magnay suffered a serious injury in a reserve team game against [COLOR=#0645ad]Charlton Athletic[/COLOR], damaging his [COLOR=#0645ad]anterior cruciate ligament[/COLOR], [COLOR=#0645ad]medial collateral ligament[/COLOR] and cracking his [COLOR=#0645ad]kneecap[/COLOR];[COLOR=#0645ad][8][/COLOR] he has yet to return to fitness.
Carl has reportedly dislocated his knee on the 05/01/2011 which could see him out for at least another 10 months after a freak accident at home late that night when he reportedly tripped over the family dog Hugo.

**gastric** · 29/01/2011, 1:30 AM

Dave Mooney scored for Colchester tonight, then got himself booked for leaving the field when celebrating!

**cornflakes** · 29/01/2011, 12:26 PM

IRELAND U21 squad v Cyprus

Ritchie Branagan (Bury), Ian McLoughlin (Ipswich); Gavin Gunning (Blackburn), Shane Duffy (Everton), Rob Kiernan (Bradford), Mark Connolly (Bolton), Richie Towell (Hibs), John Dunleavy (Barnet), Shane O'Connor (Ipswich); James McCarthy (Wigan), Conor Clifford (Chelsea), Conor Hourihane (Ipswich), Aaron Doran (Inverness), Jamie Devitt (Hull); Conor Doyle (Derby), Robbie Brady (Man Utd), James Collins (Shrewsbury), Michael Collins (APEP Cyprus), Robbie Gibbons (Alki Larnaca, Cyprus).

What club(s) was he at before heading to Cyprus

**TrapAPony** · 29/01/2011, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by cornflakes

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What club(s) was he at before heading to Cyprus

Notts Forest
http://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/pa...~52540,00.html

**tetsujin1979** · 31/01/2011, 1:19 PM

Irish Abroad statistics for January 2011: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=1
Reading's Ian Harte and Shane Long were joined by Damien Duff and Anthony Stokes at the top of the wins table. Each player was on the winning side 4 times
Dundee's Sean Dillon drew the most games, finishing 5 games level
Teammates Joe Murphy and Eddie Nolan, Mark Kennedy and David Norris, Stephen Ward and Stephen Hunt, as well as James O'Connor and Liam Lawrence all lost four times
As well as this James O'Connor, Stephen Hunt and David Norris joined Darren Randolph, Damien Duff and Sean Dillon at the top of the most starts table. Each player started 7 times in January
Of these Randolph, O'Connor, Dillon and Norris completed every game
Stephen Hunt went on to be substituted 4 times, along with Leon Best as the most substituted player
Stoke's Glenn Whelan was the most introduced substitute player
Shay Given makes his monthly appearance at the top of the most unused substitute player table
Anthony Stokes comfortably tops the goalscoring charts in January, scoring 7 times in just 6 games, with Celtic winning all but one of the games in which he scored. Reading striker Shane Long scored 5 goals, and Reading went on to win every game.

**CraftyToePoke** · 02/02/2011, 12:39 AM

I went to Peterborough V Sheffield Wednesday tonight, Morrisson only on the bench, with Mellor/Madine preferred to him. James O'Connor also started on the bench but came on soon after Darren Potter had been shown a straight red after hauling a player down when he was the last man. Being honest, It was Potter's only act of note in the portion of the game he played, very subdued IMO, and not on the ball more than half a dozen times, ten max. He didnt do a lot wrong, just wasnt really on the pace of it.

O'Connor was so eager to get on he ran on before the fourth official had held up the numbers board, so he had to trek back, and was booked before being allowed on the field again, surreal stuff, one Irish player red carded, going down the tunnel having hardly broken sweat and the other yellow carded in his attempts to get on.

O'Connor got stuck in at least, got on the ball and challenged for it, I dont recall Potter making one challenge all game, but the red card turned it, it was 3-2 Wednesday when he was sent off, with maybe 20 to play, and they ended up losing 5-3.

**theworm2345** · 04/02/2011, 6:04 AM

Reading with Long, Tabb, Hunt, and Harte against QPR with Kenny and Rowlands (probably only as a sub) tonight on TV, should be a good one.

**Closed Account 2** · 05/02/2011, 12:55 PM

Patrick Kohlmann played for Union Berlin away in the Berlin derby (vs Hertha) in front of over 74,000.

Had a decent game, got booked for a necessary but slightly late challenge on Raffael, Hertha's Brazilian winger. Won a few free kicks with his forward runs.

Union won 2-1 inflicting Hertha's second home defeat of the season - Hertha should still be on course to win the 2er Bundesliga, Union will prob finish midtable.

**theworm2345** · 08/02/2011, 3:04 PM

James Shea signs a new contract with Arsenal
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...738228,00.html

Gary Dicker attracting interest from Championship
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...738319,00.html

**irishfan86** · 08/02/2011, 3:20 PM

I see an Irish flag by James Shea's name on Wikipedia...has he played for us at underage level?

**Metrostars** · 10/02/2011, 4:44 PM

John Rooney yesterday played the second half of NY Red Bulls' first preseason game against Atlante in Mexico. Finished 0-0, NY won 4-3 on penalty kicks. Rooney missed his pk.

**gastric** · 12/02/2011, 9:26 PM

I thought it might be worth mentioning that Mark Bunn at Blackburn who has declared at interest in playing for us has recently signed a new contract. When he was on loan at Sheff. Utd a while ago he showed a lot of potential.

**gastric** · 12/02/2011, 10:07 PM

Shane Long scored again at the weekend, Stephen Elliott and Adam Rooney scored two each while Rooney's team mate Aaron Doran scored too as Inverness drew with St. Mirren. Looking at team lists, can anyone tell me what is the story with Keith Treacy? Preston are a mess and he continues to sit on the bench , and in fact this weekend he was not even named among the subs.

**Charlie Darwin** · 12/02/2011, 10:46 PM

He pulled out injured from the Ireland squad, so I'll assume it's the same thing that's keeping him out this weekend.

**CraftyToePoke** · 13/02/2011, 1:05 AM

I posted this in the Connor Clifford thread, but will put it here too, delete if this is a no no.

By a happy coincidence I was at Notts County V Exeter today, and saw Connor come off the bench on the hour mark, he looked smaller than the other midfielders on both sides, but looked immediately to get on it and pass, and did so well on the first few occasions, he also made two challenges soon after coming on, one winning the ball back, the other not, but not fouling either, he gave it away cheaply once while looking to spread the play, not enough pace on the ball on a sticky Rugby scarred surface and the opposing fullback intercepted it. On the other hand he played one really nice disguised angled ball from about 40 yards out to the edge of his opponents penalty area, which did cause problems and needed defending, it was a little flash of vision.

He lost all 3 arial duels I saw him go for though, but made one very nice late run arriving for a pullback which didnt come from Lee Hughes, who had it made clear to him that he should have passed, this was noticable in his game, he was talking to those round him a lot, good to see.

We will see if he starts the next game, his side went two down soon after he joined the action and had been poor all day.

John O'Flynn played for Exeter and put in a shift, in the chanells mostly without any real clear sights of goal, except one, which was parried and led to a goal for his side.

**Slumdog** · 14/02/2011, 4:11 PM

LEE-J LYNCH. Just thought i would mention a young lad that played with us before. Lee-J Lynch. Scored 2 on his international debut u17, signed with west brom but spent most of his last year their injured. He is now signed with Glenn Hoddle in Spain and is on loan to jerez industrial cf. He was always a winger, but Hoddle has converted him to centre mid, his style is propably more suited to the continent than england. Spoke with him when he was back a few weeks ago, seems like Hoddle has had alot of offers for him from the spanish championship and one from italy, but he seems to be stalling on any deals as he thinks he could get better, which i presume means more money from bigger clubs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Fhvq9xi2E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRegl...layer_embedded

http://www.jerezindustrialcf.com/ind...icas&Itemid=19

**theworm2345** · 16/02/2011, 1:23 AM

Youth international Kane Ferdinand scored his first senior goal today for Southend and is reportedly attracting interest from the Championship
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...742347,00.html

I guess he's Rio and Anton Ferdinand's cousin though I guess the family is huge and he has never seen or spoken to either.
http://www.garethmaher.com/articles/...kane-ferdinand