Under-19 Squad

**tetsujin1979** · 06/08/2021, 6:45 PM

Josh Seary, who was called into the training camp in May, signed a contract with Preston in June, and is listed in their first team squad this season - https://www.pnefc.net/news/2021/june...-and-pro-deal/

**tetsujin1979** · 09/08/2021, 7:45 AM

Was hoping to see Anselmo Garcia MacNulty in Wolfsburg's squad for their German cup game this weekend, but he didn't make it, and now it looks like they could be thrown out of the competition after making six substitutions instead of the allowed five in their 3-1 win against Preussen Munster

**tetsujin1979** · 09/08/2021, 2:50 PM

35 players called into a training camp ahead of the qualifiers in October: https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/u19-...-training-camp

Republic of Ireland Under-19 training camp squad
Goalkeepers: Matthew Boylan (Lincoln City), Toby Bull (Brighton and Hove Albion), Arlo Doherty (Leicester City), Noah Jauny (Stade Brestois), Owen Mason (Mansfield Town), Joe O’Shaughnessy (Wolves)

Defenders: Sam Bagan (QPR), Tommy Fogarty (Birmignham City), Oisin Hand (Shamrock Rovers), Jay McGrath (Coventry City), Jevon Mills (Hull City), Fionn O’Brien (Coventry City), Sean O’Connell (Kerry SL), Connor O’Riordan (Crewe Alexandra), Harvey Oliver-Rowe (Bradford City), Josh Okpolokpo (Huddersfield Town), Callum Sullivan (Birmingham City), Adam Wells (Shamrock Rovers)

Midfielders: Ruairi Behan (Burnley), Oran Crowe (Cork City), Frankie Deane (Celtic), Evan Farrell (Wexford), Zak Gilsenan (Blackburn Rovers),James Golding (Oxford United), Liam Mullan (Derry City), Matthew O’Brien (Longford Town), Tommi O’Reilly (Aston Villa), John Joe Power (Burton Albion).

Forwards: Sinclair Armstrong (QPR),Will Couch (Burnley), Tom Costello (Wigan), Zachary Dunne (Cork City), Cian Kavanagh (Waterford), Sam Knowles (Stoke City), Leon Hennessey (Cork City)

Hmmmmm

Zak Gilsenan (Blackburn Rovers)

**The Fly** · 09/08/2021, 4:31 PM

It's good to see Gilsenan in the squad.

**Olé Olé** · 09/08/2021, 5:20 PM

Interesting group. A lot of English academy punts in there. And a player with the Kerry District League!

Sam Bagan is an interesting one. Brother of Joel at Cardiff who has been mooted as keen to come onboard with us. Sounds like their mammy has two Irish parents: https://twitter.com/eireguide/status...408637445?s=20

**Kingdom** · 09/08/2021, 6:34 PM

No sign of Ev Ferguson though, that's apity.

Also, the kids with African heritage need to give a break and quit the trolling. Okpolokpo? That's as bad as Peter O'HanraHanrahan or John John for made up name.

**Olé Olé** · 09/08/2021, 9:28 PM

Frankie Deane is a Scottish born lad in the Celtic academy. Just found his old man's Twitter and he's an Ireland supporter

**CSAD** · 09/08/2021, 10:38 PM

Ferguson could also be injured, hasn’t featured for Brighton’s youth team in pre season.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these camps are just being used to cast the net wide and look at options (particularly the 2nd/3rd generation players) every one of them has had a vast mix of players. I wouldn’t read anything into these squads until we see the first squad for the preliminary qualifiers.

**IsMiseSean** · 10/08/2021, 12:46 PM

When do the U19s start their qualifying campaign?

**tetsujin1979** · 10/08/2021, 1:08 PM

November, although the dates haven't been confirmed yet: https://www.uefa.com/under19/fixture...s/#/mt/2021/11

**Kingdom** · 10/08/2021, 1:48 PM

tets,
Just wondering, seeing as how you're open to improving/adjusting the thread headers, would it be an idea to put after Under 19 squad, the year group and the status of the competition?

take this thread for example:

Under 19 (2002*) (Euro 2022 qualifying group 6 - Bul/Mont/BHA)

* or whatever the oldest eligible player can be

i've got to be honest I struggle keeping track sometimes, and I think our underage squads are going to be more in focus over the next few years.

**tetsujin1979** · 10/08/2021, 1:54 PM

Originally Posted by Kingdom

tets,
Just wondering, seeing as how you're open to improving/adjusting the thread headers, would it be an idea to put after Under 19 squad, the year group and the status of the competition?

take this thread for example:

Under 19 (2002*) (Euro 2022 qualifying group 6 - Bul/Mont/BHA)

* or whatever the oldest eligible player can be

i've got to be honest I struggle keeping track sometimes, and I think our underage squads are going to be more in focus over the next few years.

We have dedicated tournament threads for underage competitions, see here for the current list, and the "Under-NN squad" threads are for general discussion in that age group.

**Kingdom** · 10/08/2021, 2:00 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

We have dedicated tournament threads for underage competitions, see here for the current list, and the "Under-NN squad" threads are for general discussion in that age group.

Grand, thanks for that.

**samhaydenjr** · 15/08/2021, 2:21 AM

Originally Posted by samhaydenjr

There's definitely an infrastructure problem when it comes to Celtic which is leading young players into a career trap if they go there - at a point when they need to be playing regularly at a high level, they have not been playing much competitive football at all and now in the Lowland league will be playing against players ranked about 900th best to 1500th best in Scotland (assuming 20 players to a squad in the leagues above them and a number of players in England). If they stay in an academy in England, at least they will be testing themselves against some of the best young players in the world. Even if they come back to LoI and we assume there's about 100 Irish pros in England at a higher level, they will be testing themselves competitively against players ranked 100th best to 300th best in Ireland.

While Celtic's Colts have faced fairly competitive games so far in the Lowland League, today they blew out Vale of Leithen 10-0, with Lawal and Vata both scoring, while Rangers' B team hammered Gretna 2008 9-1 - https://www.celticfc.com/news/2021/a...le-of-Leithen/. If this is s sign of things to come and that these reserve teams are gathering steam, then the issue I outline above becomes pertinent as they could be playing uncompetitive fixtures against players of a significantly lower standard to theirs, and that this could hinder their development. That said, Vale of Leithen have been on the end of a few hammerings this season, with a goal difference of -33 after 7 games.

Also, I want to note the awesome team names in The Lowland League - not for them the standard boring name format of name of City/Town/Area followed by "City" "United" or "FC". No, they have wonderful titles like the aforementioned Vale of Leithen, Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic, Caledonian Braves, Civil Service Strollers, Dalbeattie Star, Gala Fairydean Rovers and The Spartans

**Eirambler** · 15/08/2021, 8:00 AM

It's a huge issue - the bottom half of this league is so far down the Scottish football food chain that some of these teams are struggling to field full teams, let alone put up a challenge against the likes of Celtic's B team.

Scotland is a similar size country with a similar number of players to what we have. They do retain more players domestically than we do and would have more foreign imports in the top division, but let's say for argument's sake that their second tier is of a similar standard to the League of Ireland premier Division (it almost certainly isn't, but anyway). That would make their third tier the equivalent of the League of Ireland first division. Then after that there's the fourth tier that Luca Connell played in for a while last season. Then, only after that, comes the regionalised Highland and Lowland Leagues. Even then a lot of the better players choose to play junior football rather than bother with senior football at this level, many of the junior teams get bigger crowds and can play the players slightly more than these bottom end senior teams.

Given the relatively small size of the country and lack of playing numbers this division is so far down the pyramid as to make it pointless for the likes of Bosun Lawal. It may be worthwhile this year for Vata given he's only 15, but even he will want to be moving on from it in a season or two.

**Olé Olé** · 04/10/2021, 1:49 PM

https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/mu19...r-sweden-games

Goalkeepers: Arlo Doherty (Leicester City), Dan Rose (Schalke 04)

Defenders: James Abankwah (St. Patrick’s Athletic), Tayo Adaramola (Crystal Palace), Val Adedokun (Brentford), Bosun Lawal (Celtic), Anselmo Garcia MacNulty (Wolfsburg), Jevon Mills (Hull City), Josh Seary (Preston North End)

Midfielders: John Joe Patrick Finn Benoa (Getafe), Kian Corbally (St. Patrick’s Athletic), Evan Caffrey (UCD), Oisin Gallagher (Lincoln City), Ben McCormack (St. Patrick’s Athletic), Ed McJannett (Luton Town), Harry Vaughan (Oldham Athletic)

Forwards: Aidomo Emakhu (Shamrock Rovers)*, Cristiano Fitzgerald (Boavista), Zak Gilsenan (Blackburn Rovers), Cian Hayes (Fleetwood Town), Johnny Kenny (Sligo Rovers)**, Jamie Mullins (Bohemians), Luke Pearce (Southampton)

**Olé Olé** · 04/10/2021, 1:53 PM

A lot of English-born lads that took part in the recent squads in there. Cian Hayes, Harry Vaughan, Luke Pearce, Ed McJannett, Josh Seary, Jevon Mills and Arlo Doherty are new lads that may have been in and around those camps?

Great to see Zak Gilsenan receiving another call up. Hopefully we can tie him down.

**ColourfulPeanut** · 04/10/2021, 3:52 PM

That's a strong looking squad. Excited to see Finn Benoa is a green shirt for the first time!

Also just noticed Liam Delap isn't in the England squads. I'm going to assume he's not injured and begin to wildly speculate

**CraftyToePoke** · 04/10/2021, 4:09 PM

Originally Posted by ColourfulPeanut

That's a strong looking squad. Excited to see Finn Benoa is a green shirt for the first time!

Also just noticed Liam Delap isn't in the England squads. I'm going to assume he's not injured and begin to wildly speculate

Delap didn't play his clubs last PL2 game having played the one before & scored the week before that, so maybe an injury there.