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    Quote Originally Posted by Olé Olé View Post
    Straight into the team. Right wing back. Manning left wing back. Obafemi on the bench.

    Good few starts in the Championship today actually. Knight, Ebosele, Egan, McGoldrick, O'Dowda, Connolly, McNamara, Taylor, Szmodics, Shipley, Browne, Cunningham, Dunne, Molumby and Robinson.

    That's on top of McGuinness, Collins, Lenihan and Travers in the earlier kick offs.

    That's 20 players up for selection (excluding McGoldrick) and there's a team in that.
    The championship is probably where at least half of out team is going to come from ~ from now on / present time. That’s the way it is.

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    I don't have an issue with that. It's probably a timing thing too. How many of those younger lads can progress? Knight, Ebosele, McGuinness, Taylor, Connolly, McNamara, Travers, Dunne and Molumby are young and bright that some of them might push on.

    Egan, Robinson and Lenihan are older players that are probably in that grey area between being good enough for a promoted Premiership side and being a good Championship player.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Olé Olé View Post
    Straight into the team. Right wing back. Manning left wing back. Obafemi on the bench.

    Good few starts in the Championship today actually. Knight, Ebosele, Egan, McGoldrick, O'Dowda, Connolly, McNamara, Taylor, Szmodics, Shipley, Browne, Cunningham, Dunne, Molumby and Robinson.

    That's on top of McGuinness, Collins, Lenihan and Travers in the earlier kick offs.

    That's 20 players up for selection (excluding McGoldrick) and there's a team in that.
    Seán Maguire and Scott Hogan on as subs in Preston v Birmingham too - as is Jobe Bellingham, Jude's younger brother. Turned 16 in September and on for his league debut. He's their second youngest player ever, after his brother.

    England are going to win something in the next few years unfortunately...

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    Seán Maguire and Scott Hogan on as subs in Preston v Birmingham too - as is Jobe Bellingham, Jude's younger brother. Turned 16 in September and on for his league debut. He's their second youngest player ever, after his brother.

    England are going to win something in the next few years unfortunately...
    Maybe Spain will, too. Who cares? My only concern is the Irish national team.

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    The Championship is, in relative terms, of an extremely good standard; one of the strongest in Europe by most metrics, outwith the big 5 or 6.

    A strong Irish presence in that league can only be a good thing.

    The great Irish Italia '90 squad that made the Quarter-Finals had 9 of the 22 playing playing outside the top-flight, by the way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    The championship is probably where at least half of out team is going to come from ~ from now on / present time. That’s the way it is.
    Quick note - the legendary 1990 World Cup Squad had only 12 players in the English top tier plus Aldridge in La Liga - 2 were playing for Celtic, six were in the old Second Division and John Byrne was with Le Havre in the second level of the French system. And this was long before the Bosman ruling and the influx of players from Europe, South America and Africa

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trequartista20 View Post
    The Championship is, in relative terms, of an extremely good standard; one of the strongest in Europe by most metrics, outwith the big 5 or 6.

    A strong Irish presence in that league can only be a good thing.

    The great Irish Italia '90 squad that made the Quarter-Finals had 9 of the 22 playing playing outside the top-flight, by the way.
    Whoops, didn't see you had already made my point

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    In fairness, of the six in the Second Division, only Moran was really getting game time. Peyton, McLoughlin, Stapleton, Kelly and Slaven weren't. We've more third tier players than that these days. (And of course the changes in the game since then make it very hard to compare second tier then v second tier now)

    12 players in the Premier League (seven across the top four clubs, and key players too), two in La Liga and one in France - we'd be delighted with that squad these days!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Olé Olé View Post
    Straight into the team. Right wing back. Manning left wing back. Obafemi on the bench.

    Good few starts in the Championship today actually. Knight, Ebosele, Egan, McGoldrick, O'Dowda, Connolly, McNamara, Taylor, Szmodics, Shipley, Browne, Cunningham, Dunne, Molumby and Robinson.

    That's on top of McGuinness, Collins, Lenihan and Travers in the earlier kick offs.

    That's 20 players up for selection (excluding McGoldrick) and there's a team in that.
    Plus O'Leary (Bristol City), though it wasn't a happy outing for him.

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    Goal and an assist for Christie today who is impressing on loan. His assist was for Obafemi’s goal.

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    Great!!!

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    An interesting piece on Cyrus Christie and racism on the BBC Wales website this evening: Cyrus Christie: 'We must keep highlighting racism', says on-loan Swansea City defender - BBC Sport

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    Quote Originally Posted by Demesne Lad View Post
    An interesting piece on Cyrus Christie and racism on the BBC Wales website this evening: Cyrus Christie: 'We must keep highlighting racism', says on-loan Swansea City defender - BBC Sport
    Comes across very well, and I have felt that he’s been unfairly criticised at times. Apart from O’Neill’s ill judged decision to play him in midfield, he’s never let us down. Honest pro and decent human being. Good on him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by third policeman View Post
    Comes across very well, and I have felt that he’s been unfairly criticised at times. Apart from O’Neill’s ill judged decision to play him in midfield, he’s never let us down. Honest pro and decent human being. Good on him.
    And yet he didn't do too bad in midfield compared to the others that played that Nations League campaign. Though it doesn't say much because we were poor. Battered by Wales and then parked the bus to avoid being spanked by Denmark.

    At the time the environment was hostile. You had the Roy Keane situation, talks that players had lost confidence in MON and many fans calling for change. Christie just happened to get caught in the middle of it when MON decided to play him in midfield after that Wales battering and him only finding out when he arrived at the stadium. Which shows it wasn't even worked on in training.

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    Obafemi and Christie linking up for the third goal. Obafemi also got the assist for the second goal.


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    Contract with Fulham expires next month and is being linked with Forest, Watford, Konyaspor and Fenerbahce.

    https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport...r-loan-7081914

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    Quote Originally Posted by third policeman View Post
    Comes across very well, and I have felt that he’s been unfairly criticised at times. Apart from O’Neill’s ill judged decision to play him in midfield, he’s never let us down. Honest pro and decent human being. Good on him.
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    And yet he didn't do too bad in midfield compared to the others that played that Nations League campaign. Though it doesn't say much because we were poor. Battered by Wales and then parked the bus to avoid being spanked by Denmark.

    At the time the environment was hostile. You had the Roy Keane situation, talks that players had lost confidence in MON and many fans calling for change. Christie just happened to get caught in the middle of it when MON decided to play him in midfield after that Wales battering and him only finding out when he arrived at the stadium. Which shows it wasn't even worked on in training.
    Two excellent posts from February. I also don't understand why Christie has often been glibly parked in the not-good-enough basket. That midfield misadventure was not of his making - played at full-back or wing-back he's a skilful and creative option for Ireland.

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    I think he was dismissed here long before he was played in midfield. I always thought his pace was an asset in attack, and if it weren't for Coleman he'd have a lot more caps and be acknowledged as a decent player. Some players are just stuck being compared with someone else.

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    While Swansea would have liked to sign Christie after his very successful loan spell, it's reported that the gap between his salary expectations and Swansea's budget may see him going instead to Nottingham Forest or Watford (FLW, 20 May)-- or further afield?

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    Close to joining Preston, according to reports. What would they be wanting with another right wingback when they already have Browne?

    https://www.lancs.live/sport/footbal...gning-24205201

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