https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Toulon_Tournament
Just looking at the teams in the toulon tournament I had forgotten how rubbish it is. England and France are in the euro under 21s so they on obviously will send a very inexperienced team.
I think it's great we are sending a team. It will be a wonderful experience for players and staff alike. Hopefully by the end of the tournament a new generation of players will have been bitten by the bug of international football.
I'd hope the country offers them a proper sendoff beforehand. A visit to the Aras and all that.
Group A: England, Chile, Japan, Portugal
Group B: France, Brazil, Guatemala, Qatar
Group C: IRELAND, Bahrain, China, Mexico
From our last entry to Toulon tournament
https://foot.ie/threads/2991-Under-21-Toulon-Tournament
Squad: (bold went on to win senior caps)
Joe Murphy (Tranmere Rovers),
Graham Stack (Arsenal),
John Thompson (Nottingham Forest),
Jim Goodwin (Celtic),
Brian O'Callaghan (Barnsley),
Clifford Byrne (Sunderland),
Keith Foy (Nottingham Forest),
Paul Tierney (Manchester United),
Thomas Butler (Sunderland),
Brian Cash (Nottingham Forest),
Liam Miller (Celtic),
Michael Doyle (Celtic),
Shaun Byrne (West Ham United),
Joe Gamble (Reading),
Andy Reid (Nottingham Forest),
Graham Barrett (Arsenal),
Jonathon Daly (Stockport County),
Paul Heffernan (Notts County),
Jonathan Douglas (Blackburn Rovers).
Ben Burgess (Brentford),
Dwayne Mattis (Huddersfield Town)
also selected depending on whether their club's progress in the English Second Division play-offs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-struggle.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-Republic.html
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2002...64203-under20/
The Toulon Tournament will be televised on FreeSports according to https://www.live-footballontv.com/.
Only two of the Ireland games are listed though.
Squad announced for Toulon - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/irel...urnament-squad
Republic of Ireland U-21 Squad
Goalkeepers: Caoimhin Kelleher (Liverpool), Conor Kearns (UCD AFC)
Defenders: Darragh Leahy (Bohemians), Conor Masterson (Liverpool), Dara O'Shea (West Bromwich Albion), Liam Scales (UCD AFC), Lee O'Connor (Manchester United), Tyreke Wilson (Manchester City), Canice Carroll (Brentford)
Midfielders: Jayson Molumby (Brighton and Hove Albion), Conor Coventry (West Ham United), Jason Knight (Derby County), Connor Ronan (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Neil Farrugia (UCD AFC), Stephen Mallon (Sheffield United), Zach Elbouzedi (Waterford), Simon Power (Norwich City), Jack Taylor (Barnet), Jamie Lennon (St. Patrick's Athletic)
Forwards: Adam Idah (Norwich City), Aaron Drinan (Ipswich Town, on loan at Waterford), Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion)
Leahy over Trev Clarke I disagree with. No criticism to Leahy but I really rate Clarke
I’d have Nolan there ahead of Scales - as presumably Masterson and O’Shea will start, so I think Kenny working with Nolan is no harm considering he hasn’t had the opportunity. Seems crazy that he's been out in the cold for so long.
Cotter v Carroll is fine. Same idea. The more players that Kenny gets to see the better.
O’Connor, Coventry, Knight, Idah, Connolly - hope their inclusion in this tournament doesn’t preclude them playing for the u19s. I guess we’ll only know in July.
I hadn’t seen or heard of Jack Taylor prior to today. Can’t really judge.
Very surprised Mandriou isn’t included. Was at the Pats/Bohs game on Friday and Mandriou looked a level above Lennon and pretty much every other player who played. Josh Barrett, Kian Flanagan, Ronan Hale all merit inclusion. Joe Hodge is another outside shout.
Still, there’s a lot that we might not know. Maybe Bohs and Rovers pushed to have Clarke and Mandriou available for them. Maybe there are injuries to some of the lads I mentioned. Dunno...
Nolan is playing in the Primavera 1 (Italian U23 championship) Play Offs , so that rules him out. Hadn't heard of Taylor myself. Hw was playing in the National League in the 2018/19 season, finishing 13th, but has a few appearances in League in the previous two seasons.
I'd imagine the U19 qualified players in the squad will be omitted from the finals in July, otherwise they'll go from this, to the U19 finals, and then straight into preseason training when that ends.
Ryan Johansson? Bayern Munich reserves must having something going on? Another one omitted is Nathan Collins whose priority is probably getting a transfer to Man Utd right now..
Last edited by TrapAPony; 21/05/2019 at 3:45 PM.
"We lost because we didn't win"- Ronaldo
Best of luck to all and Jack Taylor who will be 21 a week after toulon ends. There was a massive outcry when shipley from Coventry in league one who has 30 odd appearances for them in league one was called up by noel king in October can we expect a similar outcry for a player Iin the 5th tier in England been called up by Kenny? Strange barrett isn't in from reading given he at least was involved with them at first team level in the championship towards end of season
It was League Two that Shipley had made the appearances in. And he went straight into the starting line-up.
Anyway, I see that Taylor's Wikipedia page has been updated to state that his dad his from Galway.
Found this article about Taylor from 2017: https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...-a3434691.html
RE King. Looking at the last campaign, I felt the major fault on his part was the reluctance to integrate players from 98 and 99 after they graduated from 19s. And the 97 kids as they continued to develop
All our matches will be on TV
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