QuoteIt was normally "Oh Dear" in some of the club games I've seen him appear in...
O Dи.
Sounds like the commentator's about to say "Oh Je...sus" though.
It was normally "Oh Dear" in some of the club games I've seen him appear in...
Seems to be in and out of the team/squad, or has he been injured lately? They seem to know him simply as Darren.
started their last game, a 1-0 loss on 1st September, and has been in the matchday squad more than out of it since he joined: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/ClubDetails?clubID=8010
Next game is Hoverla on Sunday afternoon
Probably ensures he feels more at home playing with his silky Brazilian team-mates, Alexandre and Daniel.Originally Posted by DeLorean
O'Dea played 50 mins in the Donetsk derby (home to Shakhtar) on Saturday, he was then subbed off. Metalurg were 1-0 up, they ended up drawing 2-2.
Four minutes their clean sheet lasted minus Darren... clearly a game changer!
I thought King said something like he's got a right to feel disappointed but that's life. The press have highlighted O'Dea, alongside Keogh and Cox, as a Trap stalwart left out. I don't think it warrants much more discussion really. Nice lad, very committed, head screwed on and a decent player but it's a moot call as to whether he's more deserving than McShane of a place.
I would say on current form most people would pick O'Dea ahead of McShane, simply because O'Dea has at least been playing. McShane's only featured in the league cup this year for Hull, one match where they won 1-0 at L'Orient, he hasnt played a minute in the PL and that would be a slight worry at this stage.
Vote for Darren O'Dea (Даррен О`Ди) as Metallurg Donetsk player of the season: http://metallurg.donetsk.ua/ru/vote/?votename=20
Done. He's looking good with almost 60% of the votes so far!
Just voted for him there.
So, how has he been playing this season?
Well looks like he doesn't need my vote, he is well in the lead.
As I have never seen the team play I would not too keen on voting anyway, I mean we would not want players selected
based on Martin and Keane looking as some dubious rigged internet poll results would we!!
If it was a close run thing I might throw in a vote for him though!!!
Aside form that it seems like in Ukrainian an 'r' is a 'p' and a 'n' is a 'h'. the vowel a e o seem to be the same and the и is an e.
It's seem to be pretty much the same as the Russian Alphabet and perhaps the Greek, so it might come in handy if i ever get stranded
in such desolate places!!!
Ah, c'mon, sure if Ronnie O'Brien can be Time Magazine's 'Man of the Century', there's no reason why Darren O'Dea shouldn't be Metallurg's 'Player of the Season'.
The Ukrainian League has now been postponed indefinately. Darren was due to play a home match vs Chernomorets Odessa last weekend (which obviously didn't happen) and the away fixture (vs Arsenal Kiev) had already been cancelled as Arsenal had been expelled from the league a few months ago. There are rumours that the Metalist Kharkov owner has pulled the plug on that team (and Devic, the league's top scorer, has already been sold to Rubin Kazan) and Chernomorets have released most of their foreign players, but Metalurg Donetsk's owner (Taruta) has just been made govener of the region, and they still seem to be signing players from overseas... Either way it could be a while before Darren is playing competitive football again.
As far as I know, Kharkiv's owner hasn't pulled the plug, but he has fled the country. The club was in disarray already over long-standing non-payment of wages, etc.
Think the stick O'Dea gets is out of line. He never put a foot wrong for us, apart from the Germany game, and nobody came out of that one smelling like roses.
He could come back to play in the LOI. His experience of the Ukrainian League's chaos and other shenanigans could serve him well.
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