Dean Marney

[eirebhoy]

what is interesting is that a few week ago I posted a question on Keith Andrews which elicited zero comment, Andrews is 100% Irish but my gawd some English kid plays a few minutes of Premership football and we want to snap him up and embrace him in our shamrocky bosom...I really think some people on this board would love to see 11 Brits play in the green.

Keith Andrews is almost 25 and has only recently broke into the Wolves team.

[tetsujin1979]

Parents or Grandparents are the only acceptable link. As Marney said himself this doesn't apply to him & he is ineligible to play for Ireland.

My bad on this one, serves me right for believing a red top

[Stuttgart88]

what is interesting is that a few week ago I posted a question on Keith Andrews which elicited zero comment

Did you post it on this section of the board? I never saw it. If I had I'd have said good luck to him but he doesn't look good enough to me.

[TheJamaicanP.M.]

Keith Andrews is almost 25 and has only recently broke into the Wolves team.

While I dont share Mick Collins' excitement for Keith Andrews (he's not good enough), I would just like to point out that Keith Andrews has been involved in the Wolves first team for the past few years. He was in the same underage set-up as Robbie Keane. He broke into the first team after Keane left the club. I think he is the second youngest player ever to captain Wolves. He did so when he was about 21. He was unfortunate to break his leg in an FA cup tie about two years ago which prevented him from having an impact in the Premiership last season. Therefore, the lad has more experience than you think. However, his only chance of playing for Ireland would require him to be playing every week (think he was on the bench last weekend?) at left-back. He is a better left-back that central midfielder.

[eirebhoy]

He was loaned out to Stoke and Walsall last season and you'd have to go back to 00/01 to find the last time he was a regular at Wolves. He started 4 games the following season and 3 games the season after that. In 3 seasons (01/02, 02/03, 03/04) he started just 10 games for Wolves so I think I should have said re-broke into the Wolves team.

[SaucyJack]

On Newstalk this morning that Marney has confirmed to them he doesn't qualify - great grandparent connection only.

yep

[1MickCollins]

While I dont share Mick Collins' excitement for Keith Andrews (he's not good enough), I would just like to point out that Keith Andrews has been involved in the Wolves first team for the past few years. He was in the same underage set-up as Robbie Keane. He broke into the first team after Keane left the club. I think he is the second youngest player ever to captain Wolves. He did so when he was about 21. He was unfortunate to break his leg in an FA cup tie about two years ago which prevented him from having an impact in the Premiership last season. Therefore, the lad has more experience than you think. However, his only chance of playing for Ireland would require him to be playing every week (think he was on the bench last weekend?) at left-back. He is a better left-back that central midfielder.

Yeah I posted the question after Hoddle had pretty much said that he wanted to build the Wolves midfield around Andrews a few weeks back, it doesn't look like he has seized the opportunity though. He had tough luck with the brken leg he was gunning along before that and has had productive loan spells at Stoke and Walsall after the injury. He has the potential to be as good as Kinsella I'm not sure that I am excited about Andrews, it's just that I was wondering what others thought as I haven't see him play very much, at least he does qualify for us.