Carr lost more than a year of his career to injury though
Given
Finnan
Dunne
McGrath
Irwin
McAteer
Keane
Hoolahan
Duff
Keane
Long
Not really sure about the Shane Long vs Niall Quinn, Long was so unplayable for a period of time, for example during Euro 2016, games against Germany, Scotland, Poland en route. Maybe I was a bit too young for his Quinn's prime...
Shane Duffy vs Richie Dunne is pretty close. Two absolute monsters
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I don't think I've seen a post on here that mixes the sublime with the ridiculous as much as that post.
I'm not trying to be offensive - god knows I've taken enough stick for my McGeady fanboy-dom over the years - but really, Duffy over Dunne, you've got to be joking?
I just cannot get over the love of Shane Duffy.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
Alan Kelly and John Sheridan were cracking players. I'd happily have their 27-year old versions in the current squad. I don't remember who said it, but some pundit (only slightly) exaggerated that Sheridan could drop a ball onto a champagne glass from 40 yards and not break the glass! But 30-odd caps each is hardly a sign of being under-rated. If anything, it's a fairly normal number of caps for their time, and what's raised the bar since their playing days is having a much smaller pool to draw from so that 75 caps plus seems normal because we've had to retain players for too long (McGeady, Whelan) or because they were genuinely indispensable for most of their career (Robbie, Duffer, Given).
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Joey LaPeira and his one cap could go in that team. Even though it was only one cap it still felt like one too many.
I'm sure it's a good quiz question, name an international footballer who never played an international game in his "country's" continent. (E.g. Joe never played an international match in Europe).
Found one - Gary Howlett came on as a sub against China in the 1984 Kirin Cup in Japan - his sole cap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Howlett
Also, Barry Quinn won three of his four caps in the US Cup in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Quinn
There’d probably be a fair few lads from the 2007 Staunton trip to USA. The fullbacks, the left back from Villa who had a load of injuries and the English born Arsenal right back who went to Yeovil and ended up at Pats or clubs to that effect... (names will come back to me)
Both looked decent against a second string Ecuador side, along with promising youngsters Gleeson and Potter
Havin a weekend away is quite frankly,lettin ur team mates down!
I'm astounded. It's not even close for me, even taking into account my utter dislike of Shane Duffy (the player). I think his "ability" (both defensive and attacking aerial process) is being blown out of proportion based on those around him.
Duffy wouldn't even be in my top 3.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
Well that’s your opinion. And mine is different. I think he’s better on the floor than Dunne also.
No doubt you disagree, but that’s part of the beauty of football.
I reckon Dunne probably had better positional sense overall though.
Something he needed to make up for the lack of pace
I think it was generally accepted that Dunne was much quicker than he appeared. I seem to remember him having a couple of tough days against Henry in that regard, who didn't, but for the most part I think his pace would have been an attribute rather than a deficiency.
https://www.offtheball.com/soccer/to...ve-pace-248737
https://www.the42.ie/harry-redknapp-...22194-Jul2018/Originally Posted by Tomasz Radzinski
Originally Posted by Harry Redknapp
I think he had pace but his acceleration wasn't great. It took I'm a couple to seconds to get going and up to top speed, which at the top level is often too late.
I remember against Wales he gave the ball away to Bellamy and got absolutely roasted. We were very lucky not to concede
Folding my way into the big money!!!
I remember being told, by a lad who I played with back years and years ago, who was with him at Home Farm that Everton had a 100m sprint time, which Richie Dunne held for about 8 years. And I remember hearing about it again from someone else when it the record was broken.
Obviously it’s not football distance and he wasn’t particularly fast on the turn and maybe he slowed with age, but Richie was definitely faster than he appeared
Bellamy was electric to be fair. This is Duffy trying to catch some Moldovan lad - https://youtu.be/634SHQzeZ_I?t=103
Bellamy roasted CBs for a living, that was his thing, not a reason to judge Dunne solely on. I don't remember Dunne failing to keep pace or indeed catch up too often either, if he lacked this acceleration he wouldn't have played so much his career for decent clubs at said top level.
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