Ireland v Belarus - Tue May 31st, Turners Cross

[Gather round]

I appreciate you'll probably want to have a moan about the lads form the 6 counties

Actually no, I wish them all well (if with tongue in cheek as suggested). I see both of us (and Scotland and Wales) continuing to use so many from England as a more serious issue.

[backstothewall]

Actually no, I wish them all well (if with tongue in cheek as suggested). I see both of us (and Scotland and Wales) continuing to use so many from England as a more serious issue.

It will be a problem, if one considers it that, that likely solves itself for us over time. With the exception of few years of economic crisis emigration rates from the south are well down on the bad old days. As years go by there will still be plenty of British kids playing football with names like Keogh & McCarthy, but a lot less of them are going to be with 3 generations of someone born in Ireland.

The weaker economy of the north and the constant flow of working class kids away to join the British military will maybe keep the conveyor going a while longer for you guys, but then if they qualify for you they will qualify for us as well ; )

The risk for us in the future could be losing kids to the likes of Poland and the Czech Republic.