Irish Abroad 2012/2013

[Paddy Garcia]

Jack was no mug!

But this says a lot about Trap......

[Colbert Report]

Doesn't the draw in Paris count as a win for us?

[Charlie Darwin]

Nope, FIFA counts the score at the blowing of the final whistle, which was 1-1.

[tetsujin1979]

this is the list of fixtures I used - https://sites.google.com/site/tetsujin1979/fixtures

[DannyInvincible]

was a little bored tonight, so I went through the history of Ireland games on soccerscene.ie to see who are the highest ranked teams defeated, and lowest ranked sides lost to by Irish managers in competitive games, by matching up the teams with the rankings on fifa.com
here are the results:

Manager Highest Ranked Lowest Ranked Team Defeated Team Lost To Jack Charlton Italy(4) Austria(42) Mick McCarthy Croatia(4) Macedonia(85) Brian Kerr Georgia(84) Switzerland(44) Steve Staunton Slovakia(37) Cyprus(103) Giovanni Trapattoni Armenia(44) Russia(25)

Here are the averages of those figures ranked:

Jack: 23
Trap: 34.5
Mick: 44.5
Kerr: 64
Stan: 70

Does that indicate anything? To be fair to Trap, his "lowest ranked team lost to" record is a lot more impressive than the others'. Still, Armenia being our highest ranked team defeated is pretty lame.

[tetsujin1979]

not really sure what it indicates, Trapattoni has better results against lower ranked sides - never lost to a team ranked lower than Ireland

[bwagner]

There was a piece in the Star about this lad : Personal information
Full name Shane Edward O'Neill
Date of birth (1993-09-02) September 2, 1993 (age 19)
Place of birth Midleton, Ireland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Colorado Rapids


spoke to noel king about playing for us

[Charlie Darwin]

Interesting. Never heard of him. From wikipedia:

O'Neill is eligible to represent both the United States and the Republic of Ireland. On October 9, 2012, O'Neill was called up by the United States U20 national team for the 2012 Marbella Cup in Spain.^[3] A day later, O'Neill made his debut for the U20's in a 2-1 loss to Canada, however he suffered an eye injury that ruled him out for the rest of the tournament

[tetsujin1979]

seems to be a push on in the underage ranks to recruit US born players with Meara called into the U21s, and the two lads in the U19s?

[Charlie Darwin]

There's only one of the 19s, as far as I know, and O'Neill was born in Ireland.

[bwagner]

The article was actually about O'Neills brother trying to make it in the NFL ..

[AlaskaFox]

spoke to noel king about playing for us

More info here:
http://extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/9218/

[mark12345]

seems to be a push on in the underage ranks to recruit US born players with Meara called into the U21s, and the two lads in the U19s?

That's a good thing!

There are a lot of talented young kids in America who on the surface would appear to qualify for us. I'm at the point now where I'd advise any Irish kid to try any option other than England, and the US is slowly becoming an alternative. Ok the top Irish talent will still slavishly go to England but those middle of the road lads might want to try America.

Would love to see more Irish talent go to places like Sweden, Norway and Denmark

[tetsujin1979]

Aiden O'Brien has travelled with the Millwall first team for the last few weeks, and with James Henry suspended, the indications are he will be on the bench tonight against Wolves: http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/news/art...ws-511443.aspx

[Charlie Darwin]

Do we know much about him?

[AlaskaFox]

He's a bit of a stud from what I hear. Long face too.

[SkStu]

Andy Keogh and Mark Yeates score for Millwall and Watford respectively.

[tetsujin1979]

Sean Maguire linked with a move from Waterford to west ham today

[Supreme feet]

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...994539,00.html

Carruthers, Drennan, Burke and Grealish all involved in Villa's 5-1 NextGen win over Sporting CP.

[liamoo11]

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...994539,00.html

Carruthers, Drennan, Burke and Grealish all involved in Villa's 5-1 NextGen win over Sporting CP.

Drennan is a goal machine. Be nice if some of those lads got to go out on loan in the new year