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    Quote Originally Posted by Fixer82 View Post
    I’m sure that’s not dictated his thinking, as management changes are never that far from the horizon, especially for a young player. He would likely have gone through three or four managers playing for us.

    He obviously watched World Cup. Liked what he saw. Feels English.
    Was asked to play for them and has decided to do that.
    Good luck to him.
    It’s disapppinting but he hasn’t don’t much wrong, regarding the rules.

    It shows us that the rules need to change.
    Agreed. It's the real problem here. We're going to benefit, and suffer, from players changing their allegiances under these rules, as will every country. Their current state leaves the system far too open to abuse. I'd drop the "competitive senior international" clause, leave it at "any senior international", but keep the "playing an underage competitive international for a second country ties you to that second country" clause.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jbyrne View Post
    one lad.... allegedly
    Jack Grealish also
    "We lost because we didn't win"- Ronaldo

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    Quote Originally Posted by jbyrne View Post
    the wheels could just as easily come off the england bandwagon.
    They just beat Spain... in Spain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin View Post
    They just beat Spain... in Spain.
    In a glorified friendly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TrapAPony View Post
    Jack Grealish also
    Grealish is a villa fan and would have experienced 3 6th place finishes for Villa in MONs time as Villa manager. We qualified for the euros a couple of months after Grealish opted out.
    Its not remotely plausible that Grealish opting out was down to the Irish management at the time

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin View Post
    They just beat Spain... in Spain.
    the point was that is you scratch beneath the surface I don't believe there's a whole lot of substance to Southgates Englands recent form

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    Maybe, maybe not. I'm just saying they impressed against Spain in what was a competitive albeit not crucial match. Spain looked complacent and if they had a rematch wouldn't get done again I'm sure. But on the night, for the first 45+ minutes anyway, England denied Spain any time or space and kept Spain well away from the penalty box. They showed signs of a clever game plan that was really well plotted and executed. Their pace upfront was scary. They were also two poor Rashford finishes away from a draw at Wembley and a win in Croatia. They were a wonder save (from Harry Kane) away from a 2-0 lead in a World Cup semi final, which I'm sure would have been enough.

    They have good players coming through who don't even get into the starting XI like the Leicester left back and Ruben Loftus-Cheek. They have excelled at most underage levels in the last couple of seasons. In reality I'd say they are still at the level I thought they were at in June: too good for most second tier teams, not good enough for the best tier 1 teams. That's about where they have been for a while but Southgate certainly has put a personal stamp on this England team. The relevance for the Rice "debate" is simply that there's a lot of positivity and optimism around England right now, plenty of it justified, and that's about the polar opposite around the Irish mood.

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    one interesting stat that I heard on Off The Ball the other night - Southgate has called up 64 players in his time as manager so far.
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    If the potential for qualifying and doing well at tournaments in the major deal breaker then England is, and always will be, the better choice. This goes without saying. Even if we were winning matches all around us at the moment, Rice would still have the foresight to realise England is the safer long-term option.

    He shouldn't pin too much faith in Southgate though. He's flavour of the month right now but things can unravel fast in that job. Roy Hodgson qualified for the Euros with a 100% record.

    I don't believe that Rice views the Irish setup in a negative way, he was absolutely buzzing to be involved. It's just another lazy and desperate stick to beat O'Neill with, as if there wasn't enough justified ammunition elsewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by osarusan View Post
    I don't think that would make players more likely to declare for us than the current 'wait for them to make a decision' model, so I wouldn't be in favour of it.

    I think we have to accept that among our dual nationality players, there will be some who are likely to choose England if England come calling. We just have to hope England never come calling before they are cap-tied.
    If we reference the Declan Rice situation as a case study ( all be it with hindsight to be fair) He is told straight way if he doesn't turn up for the game in Cardiff its goodbye ( remember he wasn't on fire in the league like he is now) there is 2 results possible here. 1) He says "f**k lets not balls this up and plays against Wales.
    2) He says no I'm not coming and we the fans, the management set-up and the FAI know straight way he is gone and without this humiliating circus we are in now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diggs246 View Post
    If we reference the Declan Rice situation as a case study ( all be it with hindsight to be fair) He is told straight way if he doesn't turn up for the game in Cardiff its goodbye ( remember he wasn't on fire in the league like he is now) there is 2 results possible here. 1) He says "f**k lets not balls this up and plays against Wales.
    2) He says no I'm not coming and we the fans, the management set-up and the FAI know straight way he is gone and without this humiliating circus we are in now.
    Is it a humiliating circus? It's clear the last is confused or he would just have made his decision public by now. I don't see what he has to gain from prolonging the "humiliating circus". I think MON has acted quite dignified throughout this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Olé Olé View Post
    Is it a humiliating circus? It's clear the last is confused or he would just have made his decision public by now. I don't see what he has to gain from prolonging the "humiliating circus". I think MON has acted quite dignified throughout this.
    I have no criticism of Mons handling of Rice. I just think going forward we need a different approach.

    Re Rice he has prolonging the "humiliating circus" and its to secure his defection to England via two face to face meetings with the FA

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    Some you win, some you lose. Not a Declan Rice story, but certainly there are similarities.

    http://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/footb...ocid=ientp_edu

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    Quote Originally Posted by gastric View Post
    Some you win, some you lose. Not a Declan Rice story, but certainly there are similarities.

    http://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/footb...ocid=ientp_edu
    Ahhhh. That's Caoimhin Fowler's sister. Looks like Caoimhin was semi-pro with Wollongong Wolves in Australia's second tier before moving back to a side in the Dutch second tier. His career hasn't quite taken off.

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    He's been on the bench twice this season. For a 19 year old in the Dutch second division, you'd hope he'd at least have made his debut by now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    one interesting stat that I heard on Off The Ball the other night - Southgate has called up 64 players in his time as manager so far.
    Oh please... MON calls up 64 players for every game

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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    one interesting stat that I heard on Off The Ball the other night - Southgate has called up 64 players in his time as manager so far.
    It's Southgate way of letting players know that they are all in his thoughts and any player from any club can get a cap. This makes all English players feel they can get a cap and thus makes it harder for us to grab one or two that we may have obtained before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TrapAPony View Post
    It's Southgate way of letting players know that they are all in his thoughts and any player from any club can get a cap. This makes all English players feel they can get a cap and thus makes it harder for us to grab one or two that we may have obtained before.
    Nathan Redmond perhaps another good example.

    Off The Ball AM had an interesting debate the other morning about who was the last Ireland player that England would have picked i.e. since the days of Lawro, Aldo and Townsend. I found they were very biased towards their own analysts in Kevin Kilbane's and Gary Breen in saying they may have earned England caps. They used Trevor Sinclair at the 2002 World Cup as an example of someone Kilbane would have got in ahead of. Sinclair had a little more guile than Killer. I think they got a bit carried away on Breen too. Richard Shaw didn't get any England caps while playing beside Breen for Coventry.

    It's a funny one when you look at the Wales squad and see Woodburn, Brooks and Ampadu who could very conceivably have earned caps for England.

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    That’s the FA though, they love helping little England as much as they can whereas they don’t seem to give a flying F if they screw us and Scotland over. Either Declan Rice is a far better prospect than the likes of Ampadu, Brooks, Woodburn etc or the English FA are prioritizing taking our lads.

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    You could say the same about us and the IFA in fairness

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