Good shout; you're spot on. Though was with Burton in League One for his two caps.Originally Posted by Eirambler
The funny thing is kelleher was sh*t for the u21s !
Has done brilliant at liverpool to be fair
Good shout; you're spot on. Though was with Burton in League One for his two caps.
Kelleher has been very good for the 21s and has always been good for us underage
I think he's married already, old man.
Callum O'Dowda had only played League Two football when he made his debut and was being considered for the Euro 2016 squad
How dare you! What a ridiculous statement! He was never on loan at the bottom of L2 with Notts County! (they were L1 at the time)
More seriously on the squad - it pretty much picked itself, although I'd probably still have had Hogan over Parrott this time out (or maybe even Shodipo, given his current goalscoring form)
Really? I was certain I remembered them as L2 at the time
Football managers have to be willing to go that extra step.
The Serbia manager gives his view on the upcoming games (might be a cue for a match-specific thread actually?)
He notes there's question marks over a couple of players due to covid restriction requirements at club level, with three players at French clubs - goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic [Stade de Reims], defender Stefan Mitrovic [Strasbourg] and midfielder Mihailo Ristic [Montpellier] - possibly not going to be released as the game is outside the EU.We are aiming for nothing less than a maximum nine points and the shambolic performance against Scotland must never happen again while I am in charge.
I'd have put good money on it being L2 also, but nope. Strange.
It was announced today that the 6 EPL based German and 2 Icelandic footballers can travel to Germany for the WC qual game.
Icelanders are happy because they reckon that their 2 top players are worth more to their team than the gain Germany will get from their 6.
Kelleher, Bazunu, Travers, O'Hara
Coleman, Doherty, Duffy, Stevens, Long, Clark, O'Shea, Manning, Christie
Hourihane, Browne, Hendrick, Molumby, Knight, Cullen
Brady, McClean, Horgan, Curtis, O'Dowda, Robinson, Connolly, Long, Collins, Parrott
The squad is what it is. It's weak, but young and weak is better than old and weak.
I'd have had Jake Mulraney instead of Daryl Horgan, and Scott Hogan instead or Ronan Curtis. But apart from that it's what we have.
Bring Back Belfast Celtic F.C.
Mulraney hasn't played a game in three months, and only one in almost five months, so not sure this would be the ideal time to call him up for the first time.
Our two big losses are Egan and McCarthy. Clark is no step down from Egan - and McCarthy seems fragile at the best of times. We should be well capable of a draw. But we have zero chance if Kenny showcases go-nowhere tip-tap again - and that's not a call to park the bus and hoof to high heaven. The least he should provide is evidence that a gaggle of woeful performances have not been in vain.
Has he improved hugely since he moved stateside? No offence to the lad but didn’t look good enough for the 21s when he was at that level
Hogan hasn't really impressed for us either, I'm not sure he's worth his place due to the occasional mini goal burst at Championship level, though some of those selections are of the splitting hairs variety.
Horgan has looked better for us than his struggles to establish himself at club level would suggest. I'm not sure Curtis and Collins really merit inclusion though, Collins looked woefully out of his depth in Georgia and Switzerland, and Curtis is game but not sure he offers anything that we don't already have in abundance.
Plus L1 football has seemingly ruled an infinitely more talented player in McGeady out, if you were to take SK's explanation at face value...?
Disagree with this. He was really poor in Toulon for a start, displaying a array of different types of mistakes. He was better (or at least less tested) in the qualifiers, but still had some really ropey moments, most of which he got away with so easier to forget/ignore. But that was then I guess, he did look a more competent performer for Liverpool this season, so hopefully he's come of age.
I'd say you would be hard pushed to find 2 or 3 mistakes he has made at under 21 level for us . He is a quality keeper and always has been since under 17 level for us. His footballing ability is always going to mean he is suited to a higher level where he can actually knock a 20 yard pass to a centre half who can control and pass it. He also makes his back line play higher because he takes up much more advanced positions himself unlike Randolph who plays so deep that it encourages Duffy to drift back and sit on the edge of our area.
He was shaky in the first game of Toulon, particularly his distribution but as far as I remember, that game was less than a day after Liverpool won the champions league and did the parade and he hadn’t really slept at all. Flew, landed, played... something like that
You're right, I would be hard pushed to find them, as I wouldn't even know where to look. It was mostly handling errors, poor decision making, that kind of thing and not so much leaving in terrible goals, though the second one here is highly questionable. These are some comments throughout the tournament from various posters on here.
Your view that he's better (or will be better) with senior pros is stacking up on the little bit of evidence we have so far, so hopefully you're right, and he has probably just improved anyway. I lived around the corner from his club in Cork for a couple of years actually, it would be great to see him succeed, I just haven't been overly convinced as of yet.
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As far as I remember, Idah in particular and O’Shea received criticism in Toulon. Not that the criticism is definitely wrong, but it’s easy to find criticism of almost everyone’s performance
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