Originally Posted by
pineapple stu
Conor Sammon and Dave McMillan released by Hearts and St Johnstone respectively.
Wonder will either return home now?
McMillan was unlucky with injuries after joining St Johnstone, but it's still disappointing that he didn't make more of an impact in the SPL. It seems that more LoI players going abroad are misses rather than hits lately. Maguire's done alright but no better (a difficult second season with just three goals), and Curtis has a couple of caps and a double-figure goal tally, but the likes of Andy Boyle, Pat Hoban, Kevin O'Connor, Graham Burke and McMillan have all unfortunately not made an impact, while others like Forrester, Towell and Horgan have earned a decent career but never really lived up to their perceived potential, and Sadlier and O'Malley are bit-part players in the third tier in England.
Probably fair to say that any Ireland team for the foreseeable future with 8 LoI players in the squad (like we had at Euro 2016) is going to be a fairly poor team. And that in an era when we're getting used to some fairly poor international teams too.
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