Predict the Squad/ Starting Lineup for Macedonia

**Closed Account** · 20/03/2011, 11:49 AM

Squad Watch

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Keiren Westwood	GK Started 	90 Mins
Darren Randolph	GK Started 	90 Mins
David Forde	GK Started 	90 Mins

Kevin Foley	RB Started 	90 Mins
Marc Wilson	RB Started 	90 Mins
Sean St. Ledger	CB Started 	90 Mins
Stephen Kelly	Unused sub
Darren O�Dea	Unused sub
Ciaran Clark	Not in Squad	Suspended
Richard Dunne	Not in Squad	Injured	(Shoulder)
John O�Shea	Not in Squad	Injured (Hamstring)

Seamus Coleman	RM Started 	90 Mins	1 Goal	
Glenn Whelan	CM Started 	90 Mins
James McCarthy	CM Started 	90 Mins
Paul Green	CM Started 	90 Mins
Kevin Kilbane	CM Started 	90 Mins
Liam Lawrence	AM Started 	90 Mins
Keith Treacy	LM Started 	83 Mins
Damien Duff	RM Started 	75 Mins
Darron Gibson	Unused sub
Aiden McGeady	Not in Squad	Suspended
Keith Andrews	Not in Squad	Injured	(Groin)
Keith Fahey	Not in Squad	Injured	(Groin)
	
Jonathan WaltersST Started 	90 Mins	1 Goal
Kevin Doyle	ST Started 	90 Mins
Shane Long	ST Started 	90 Mins
Andy Keogh	ST Substitute 	1 Min
Robbie Keane	Not in Squad	Ineligible
Leon Best	Not in Squad	Injured (Foot)

I'm gonna go with
Westwood
Foley
Dunne
St Ledger
Clark
Lawrence
Whelan
Gibson
Duff
Keane
Doyle

**rebelmusic** · 20/03/2011, 12:12 PM

Nice article here

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...292610755.html

**mark12345** · 20/03/2011, 3:32 PM

Westwood
Kelly, Dunne St Ledger, Kilbane
McGeady Whelan, Green, Duff
Doyle Long

if that's the team he starts with I would say pack up and go home now Trapattoni.

**IsMiseSean** · 20/03/2011, 3:54 PM

Does anyone know where I can watch the match in Las Vegas on Saturday?

**geysir** · 20/03/2011, 3:59 PM

Originally Posted by rebelmusic

Nice article here

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...292610755.html

Nice? It's mainly an article about injury concerns. 2/3 of the article is about what could go wrong.

**Noelys Guitar** · 20/03/2011, 4:22 PM

Originally Posted by mark12345

Westwood
Kelly, Dunne St Ledger, Kilbane
McGeady Whelan, Green, Duff
Doyle Long

if that's the team he starts with I would say pack up and go home now Trapattoni.

Would not be my team but if you read Trapattoni's comments this game has 1-0 written all over it. Get the goal and shut up shop (or at least try). Very interesting to read about the Delaney/FAI and Trap coffee morning concerning communication issues. Good idea and praise for both Delaney and Trap on how they intend to go forward.

**paul_oshea** · 20/03/2011, 4:39 PM

what was that Noely

**Stuttgart88** · 20/03/2011, 4:39 PM

I'm still not sure he'll go with Green.

Andrews has withdrawn, yes?

The next 48 hours will be telling re-injuries. RTE will hardly be any use - the international soccer section still has "McCarthy unsure" and a caption under a photo implying that he's considering not turning up.

Once he makes his debut I'm going to set myself up on Twitter and send a note to that RTE ex-DJ. Just out of info, has he ever tweeted anything else on Irish football? Does he even watch the games?

**paul_oshea** · 20/03/2011, 4:57 PM

Stutts john kenny reported on soccer in the early years of the last decade.i remember thinking he was always interested even on rte sport when he gave results and on occasion on his metal show on a Sunday night.

**Noelys Guitar** · 20/03/2011, 4:58 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

what was that Noely

Its in todays Indo Paul. I'll post passages of the article here it here in case people can't open the link.

Over that coffee it was suggested to Trapattoni that he meet McCarthy. Those close to McCarthy had stated repeatedly that he wanted to play for Ireland. Senior officials in the FAI also knew this was the case, that McCarthy was not another Stephen Ireland.

The FAI has always worked hard at establishing relationships with the families of players who declare for Ireland. They had done it with Shane Duffy, Darron Gibson and Aiden McGeady. They had done the same with McCarthy's family.

There may have been a reluctance and a fear within the Association that McCarthy would be lost because of a severed relationship with a manager, if not a country, so they felt Trapattoni had to act.

As importantly, there is openness in their communication with Trapattoni. He has a good relationship with John Delaney and the FAI believe he is the most straightforward manager they have worked with since Jack Charlton.

Trapattoni was happy to take suggestions and the process was put in place for a meeting which, despite the ongoing comments of Martinez, should ensure that nobody is left questioning McCarthy's commitment to Ireland.

Trapattoni may now meet other players who he has been repeatedly questioned about. FAI sources suggested last week that he would soon try and sit down with Jamie O'Hara, the Wolves midfielder.

O'Hara is a different case again and one which may again conflict with Trapattoni's view of what an international footballer should want. Yet the FAI believe that he will commit to Ireland if approached in person by Trapattoni, even if the manager, and there are many who would support him, believes that an international manager should not have to do that.

Trapattoni should now be able to look forward to a week when he is asked about the players who are in the squad. Although with Shay Given and John O'Shea out and Richard Dunne and Robbie Keane struggling, he will certainly be preparing for a week in the unknown. He will be forced to take more gambles than normal and he never likes to take gambles.

Trapattoni, too, made a decision at that meeting with the FAI last month. At last Monday's squad launch, he spoke primarily in Italian so he was less likely to be misunderstood. Anybody who has spent time with Trapattoni will understand his ability to make a connection with people, something he tries to do by speaking the language. Reluctantly, he conceded that he wasn't being understood and decided to conduct most of his briefing in Italian

**Noelys Guitar** · 20/03/2011, 5:07 PM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

I'm still not sure he'll go with Green.

Andrews has withdrawn, yes?

The next 48 hours will be telling re-injuries. RTE will hardly be any use - the international soccer section still has "McCarthy unsure" and a caption under a photo implying that he's considering not turning up.

Once he makes his debut I'm going to set myself up on Twitter and send a note to that RTE ex-DJ. Just out of info, has he ever tweeted anything else on Irish football? Does he even watch the games?

I feel he might play Green over Gibson or Fahey because of the lingering doubts about Dunne's fitness (even if Dunne starts). Possibly thinking that he must protect the defense at all costs with O'Shea already missing and a "new" keeper. Personally I would play Fahey but I don't think he will start him in this game. And Andrews is definetely out. Fahey is also carrying a slight injury but is expected to be fully fit for Saturday. We'll have to keep the heads in this game. Popov was hittting the deck the other night against Man City every chance he got wasting time. It could be a long night. I will be delighted with a horrible 1-0. It sounds weird to say it but if fans want to see a great game then Macedonia will have to score first. So **** that. Zero entertainment and 1-0 please.

**geysir** · 20/03/2011, 5:54 PM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

RTE will hardly be any use - the international soccer section still has "McCarthy unsure" and a caption under a photo implying that he's considering not turning up.

Once he makes his debut I'm going to set myself up on Twitter and send a note to that RTE ex-DJ. Just out of info, has he ever tweeted anything else on Irish football? Does he even watch the games?

RTE.ie just subscribe to the Press Association and take articles of interest from them. The articles are simply reproduced without the least bit of scrutiny. That article on McCarthy is from the PA.

**paul_oshea** · 20/03/2011, 5:58 PM

they do have their own writers though in each department.

**geysir** · 20/03/2011, 6:10 PM

Even if those writers were capable of being responsible, it is not in their job description to be responsible for the vagaries of site editorial policy.

**paul_oshea** · 20/03/2011, 6:40 PM

id be very surprised if they have a web content editor.

infact id say each sports area is responsible for their own and given the fact the layout is different for each area id say this is the case.

it comes down to the soccer section the rugby and gaa seem fairly on the money.

**geysir** · 20/03/2011, 7:02 PM

If they paid me enough, I might consider the position.
Hard to do worse than that article they had on for weeks, proclaiming victory for the IFA, after FIFA resolved the eligibility issue.

**Stuttgart88** · 20/03/2011, 7:47 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

they do have their own writers though in each department.

They're probably all still in Kiely's dipping their nobs in their Heinos.

**paul_oshea** · 20/03/2011, 9:18 PM

How do they pronounce Kielys? is it like the farney men or is it Kiiiiiiiely's?

Thats where i thought you drink on the football weekend?

**Stuttgart88** · 21/03/2011, 9:08 AM

Kiely's rhymes with Reilly's. D4 rugby pub, next to Donnybrook rugby ground, populated by blokes wearing cricket jumpers around their shoulders and docksider shoes. The spiritual home of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. I hardly ever go / went there.