List of all Irish players abroad

[Stuttgart88]

By accident, I stumbled across the fact that Daryl McMahon scored for Leyton Orient against Colchester in a friendly at the weekend. 23 year old former underage international.

[Stuttgart88]

From BBC website:

Falkirk have completed the signing of former Livingston striker Graham Barrett on a two-year deal after he was released by Coventry City.
The 24-year-old had a successful trial with the Scottish Premier League club.

Barrett began his career with Arsenal, with the Premiership outfit farming him out to Bristol Rovers, Crewe Alexandra, Colchester United and Brighton.

He moved to Coventry in 2003 and had loan spells with Sheffield Wednesday and Livingston.

Barrett failed to score in seven appearances during his four months at Almondvale last season.

[theworm2345]

Kavanagh and Connolly played in Wigan's win over Barnsley, dont know what Kavanagh did but Connolly...

It took a moment of brilliance from David Connolly...who latched onto Denny Landzaat's crossfield ball, cut inside his marker and curled a delightful right foot shot over keeper Nick Colgan and into the back of the net.

"David Connolly celebrates the equaliser"

"Major Kav rules the midfield after break"
I do know Kavanagh had a shot that went high over

[tetsujin1979]

i'd have high hopes for Connolly this season, with Roberts gone to Blackburn he should be in the starting XI a lot more regularly than last season. Didn't he score on his debut for Wigan?

[Zidane]

Just noticed on Barnsleys web site that Colin Healy is to sign a one year deal.

I was in Barnsley on Monday and had an hour to spare and went along to their training ground. Healy came on for a practice game and I was impressed with him. He got space and made himself available for the ball, he made a few runs with the ball and was comfortable holding on to it. One thing I didnt see was any tackles by him - but its training and pre season.

I hope it works out for him

[theworm2345]

i'd have high hopes for Connolly this season, with Roberts gone to Blackburn he should be in the starting XI a lot more regularly than last season. Didn't he score on his debut for Wigan?

Yes, against WBA. It wasnt too bad a goal either (Ill post the video if you want). Wigan just signed Heskey to help out Camara, and those two have been starting the friendlies, while Connolly started one. Kavanagh has been playing almost every match.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Any chance of posting the article?- you need to register to see it.

[theworm2345]

Any chance of posting the article?- you need to register to see it.

You really should register, you will be set for all PremiumTV sites, and it is free
They dont let you copy text off those pages though, so here is from the View Source

Shane Long scored a 19-minute hat-trick as the Royals defeated Gallstads FK in the first friendly of their Swedish pre-season tour.<BR><BR>Long took his goals very well, and could even have had more, hitting the post and seeing one effort disallowed and another cleared off the line. <BR><BR>Seol Ki-Hyeon scored with a thunderbolt from outside the area, while Dave Kitson and Kevin Doyle were also on target.<BR><BR>Sam Sodje made his debut&nbsp;by playing the&nbsp;first half, and went close to scoring a couple of times. He has an impressive spring, and is an aggressive header of the ball in defence and attack.<BR><BR>Cameroonian triallist Andre Stephane Bikey took Sodje's place for the second period, and put in an assured display, looking comfortable on the ball and strong in the tackle.<BR><BR>Bobby Convey and Marcus Hahnemann enjoyed a good return as they played their first friendlies of the summer. Hahnemann played 90 minutes, while Chris Makin was the only outfield player to get a full game under his belt.<BR><BR>Graeme Murty, Glen Little and James Harper all missed the game through injury, but thankfully there were no new knocks to report after the match.<BR><BR>Reading: Hahnemann, Makin, Hunt (Golbourne 59), Ingimarsson (c) (Sonko HT), Sodje (Bikey HT), Halls (Gunnarsson 60), Sidwell (Cox 60), Oster (Seol 62), Convey (Shorey 59), Doyle (Long 62), Kitson (Lita HT)<BR>Sub: Stack<BR><BR><BR><EM>




Full report</EM><BR>The game was preceded by the classic Elm Park song The Royals Anthem, which Gallstads officials had downloaded from the official site <A title="" href="http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/RoyalsAnthem/0,,10306,00.html" target=_self>here</A>.<BR><BR>The Royals did not seem to be inspired by Kevin Girdler's ditty though, and they started the match slowly. Dave Kitson's mistimed volley on 10 minutes was indicative of how the team settled into the game early on.<BR><BR>That rustiness was quickly worked out of the system though, and Kevin Doyle had a low shot that was well parried just after the quarter of an hour mark.<BR><BR>With 17 minutes gone, the two strikers combined to open the scoring. Doyle's pace saw him race down the left wing, and he crossed low for <STRONG>Kitson </STRONG>to finish tidily with his left foot from eight yards.<BR><BR>Five minutes later it was 2-0. Steve Sidwell's throughball released <STRONG>Doyle</STRONG>, and the Irishman's pace again put him clear of the defence, before he finished well from a tightening angle.<BR><BR>Reading were now playing well, and good work from Bobby Convey released John Oster inside the area. He took a touch around the keeper, and from a tight angle hit the inside of the post, before seeing the ball rebound quickly over the head of the onrushing Doyle.<BR><BR>Debutant Sam Sodje could and perhaps should have had a goal just after 30 minutes. The ball was well worked by Sidwell and Oster, and with the keeper stranded Sodje could not keep his header down from 10 yards with the goal gaping.<BR><BR>The centre back went close again on 37 minutes, throwing himself powerfully at a Convey free kick, only to see it well saved.<BR><BR>With half time approaching, Coppell's team looked to add a third goal. Doyle saw another shot well saved by the impressive home keeper, and Kitson then had a goal disallowed harshly for a push on a defender.<BR><BR>Sidwell nearly had an excellent goal but volleyed over on the turn, and then seconds before the break Sodje dummied expertly to put Kitson in acres of space, but again the keeper did well and smothered the chance.<BR><BR>Gallstads had some guest players from higher division teams, and the goalkeeper is a Swedish under 20 international who certainly caught the eye.<BR><BR>Coppell made three changes at half time, bringing off both centre halves and also giving Kitson a rest, with the striker playing his first game in a number of&nbsp;weeks.<BR><BR>The home keeper again made a couple of saves early in the secong half, first from Convey's 20-yarder, then at the feet of Doyle after Leroy Lita's throughball.<BR><BR>Nicky Shorey's corner was stabbed in the area by Ibrahima Sonko, and triallist Andre Bikey couldn't quite control his shot on the turn.<BR><BR>Another Shorey corner then gave Lita a golden chance he would normally snap up, The set piece was hit goalwards by Simon Cox, and it deflected to Lita but he shot over from six yards.<BR><BR>Midway through the period Shane Long had his first and Reading's third. The impressive Seol Ki-Hyeon did well on the right, and his low cross found Shorey at the back post. He calmly passed to <STRONG>Long </STRONG>ten yards out, and he finished with power and accuracy.<BR><BR>Seol then flew past his man again on the right, and Long clipped it goalwards, only to see it hit the upright.<BR><BR>WIth 75 minutes gone the Royals scored again. Shorey's corner came to <STRONG>Long </STRONG>in the area, and he smacked home first time on the volley.<BR><BR>The young Irisman was now in full flow, and he went very close to adding another, seeing the ball cleared away at the last minute after Lita's pass allowed him to go around the keeper.<BR><BR>Bikey played an excellent crossfield ball on 82 minutes, and Chris Makin laid off neatly to <STRONG>Seol</STRONG>. The Korean touched past his man, and leathered home a left-footed thunderbolt from 25 yards, giving the keeper no chance at all.<BR><BR>Midfielder Cox then stabbed just wide from the edge of the box, and Long had a goal disallowed for a push while heading home.<BR><BR><STRONG>Long </STRONG>was not to be denied a hat-trick though, and his third was an absolute thunderbolt, leathering home a bouncing ball from 12 yards, with the keeper barely able to see the ball, let alone keep it out.<BR><BR>All in all it was a good positive workout for Steve Coppell's side, with some excellent goals, the return of a number of players and no new injuries to report.<BR><BR>Video highlights from all our games in Sweden will be available on <STRONG><A title="" href="http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/WorldKickOff/0,,10306,00.html" target=_self><STRONG>Reading World</STRONG></A> </STRONG>when the squad return from the trip on Thursday.

[Stuttgart88]

Aiden McGeady played upfront for Celtic in Yokohama yesterday and Darren O'Dea got on for the last 30 mins.

Celtic's 3-0 defeat prompted the headline "Yoko Oh No!" in the Daily Ranger.

[Dr. Ogba]

Bournemouth sign Leon Best on loan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...th/5240104.stm


Daryl Murphy signs new 5 year deal at Sunderland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...nd/5244996.stm

[CraftyToePoke]

luton v leicseter 2-0

McCarthy and Maybury played for leicester and Logan made the bench.Foley played r.b. for luton.

McCarthy played ok, certianly not the worst offender in a pi$$poor leicester performance, he had a couple of headers from set plays, one of which grazed the bar, he also made a tasty challenge or two in vital areas.however, he picked up the obligatory booking and his 90 also included a couple of errors, thankfully they went unpunished.

Mayburys 90 gave no inclination of what the manager thinks he will contribute in a midfield role, cant seeing recall much of him, booking apart. in fairness had to spend the greater part of his day covering for his r.b. who was defining the term, nightmare, behind him.

Foley wasnt overly tested in this game as leicester offered no sustained threat down his flank.

[tetsujin1979]

Just read that Karl Moore and Gary Breen have been promoted to Man City's reserves, and played in their first pre season game, a 3-1 win over Altrincham. Breen played the full 90, Moore came on as a sub on 70 minutes for Willo Flood.

[eirebhoy]

Mark Yeates off to Hull on season long loan.

http://home.skysports.com/list.asp?h...ee+winger+deal

[CraftyToePoke]

leicester v burnley 0-1

Maybury again on the right side of midfield,ineffictive, is the polite term, i believe got the tug on the hour.

McCarthy, the man of the moment, had a decent game but not as commanding as you would look for from a captaining c.b., but the confidence of this whole team is shot at present, he is not alone in this. he did however avoid a booking at least, and did well in the air generally but the distribution was a bit hopefull at times. Again as Staunton has touched upon in his reasons for omitting McCarthy, he went to ground a few times when he might have stood up. one instance in particular struck me, when a burnley player managed to chase down, and keep in play a wayward ball near the by-line just inside the leicester penalty area, it was there to win and Paddy slid in but the burnley player got to it first and nicked it away, and Paddy hit him late, lucliky the player stayed on his feet and tried to cross and it came to nothing, but a sneakier/cleverer/international player would almost certainly have hit the deck for a pen.

Logan again was on the bench for leicester.

and for burnley, best of the irish was Mahon, taking all their setpieces and in the process seting up their goal, always involved with really good use of posession.McCann also had a good game, good passer. and James O'Connor made a late appearence. Gareth O'connor was on the bench.

[eirebhoy]

Good to see McCann starting ahead of the 2 O'Connors. He's the only 1 of the 3 with a real chance of playing for Ireland considering the ages.

[Dr. Ogba]

Good to see McCann starting ahead of the 2 O'Connors. He's the only 1 of the 3 with a real chance of playing for Ireland considering the ages.

What position does he play? Thought he was left winger but bbc had him lining up as centre mid?

[eirebhoy]

What position does he play? Thought he was left winger but bbc had him lining up as centre mid?

He's a central midfielder.

Chris, who was added to the first team squad in the summer of 2005, was the unanimous choice as Young Player of the Year following a stunning debut season.

The midfielder had been an integral part of the youth team squad that reached the final of the Youth Alliance Cup and also impressed in his outings for the reserve team while still a first year apprentice.

Manager Steve Cotterill catapulted the Dubliner into his squad for the 2005/06 pre-season matches and after fitting in well with the senior players and proving his ability on tour in Austria, he was given a squad number.

The teenager made such an impression in the first half of the campaign that he was awarded a professional contract in December 2005, which runs to the summer of 2009.

He finished the season as a mainstay in central midfield before joining the Republic of Ireland U19 squad in their European Championships Elite Round in Slovakia.

[eirebhoy]

Paul Skinner started in goal, Paul Cahillane up front and Graham Carey on the wing for Celtic U19s today. Celtic won 1-0 with Carey scoring the only goal. All 3 players are 16 or 17 but most of last seasons U19s are going to be playing in the reserves and pushing for the first team.

Report:
http://www.celticfc.net/newsroom/new...09_1709gk&#39;

btw - I think I'm going to open a new thread for the new season with updated lists of players. Any idea's of anything I can add like season stats or whatever?

[theworm2345]

David Connolly starts for Wigan against Norway's top club, Rosenborg. He scored and set up Lee McCulloch...his (Connolly's) third goal in as many games
Kavanagh played 60 minutes

[tetsujin1979]

Karl Moore was a late substitute and Garry Breen was an unused sub as Man City's reserves beat Northwich 3-0.

City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?sy...&newsid=353606