Question now is do you stick with the two up top with Hogan (Keane seems to be down the pecking order now) and Parrott together or do you revert back to the 3 across the front… weird to say it but Obafemi seemingly a big loss after only one start for us!
I think I’d go with the following
—————Kelleher
O’Shea — Lenihan — Collins
Browne ————————McClean
————Cullen — Molumby ———
—————— Knight ——————
——— Parrott —— Hogan ———-
Ogbene for Browne if chasing.
Kenny’s Kids just announced it.
https://twitter.com/kennyskids/statu...-0KfpnizTOtJLQ
Yup. That's a blow.
Hogan has looked lively in his two recent cameos; I'd start him ahead of Robinson. Agree on the logic for starting Kelleher over Travers too, much and all as I think he deserves a game. This is starting to be a cobbled-together team while Ukraine (for all the wrong reasons of course) are mostly quite fresh after a full month's pre-season and four competitive games, including one against us where they could change everyone around.
Not positive signs at the moment. But at least Manning will make the bench!
Obafemi did travel to Poland so there is still some hope he could do what Egan did on Saturday and unexpectedly recover.
If he missed out Id go with Hogan up front I think. I definitely dont want to see Ogbene through the middle again or we'll have same issues as 1st game against them
End Apartheid Now! One Team in Ireland!
Who do we reckon will captain the team tomorrow? Just seen McClean having a bit of laugh about getting it! Cullen or Collins maybe if McClean doesn’t get it….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Would like to think the run of games he played in the championship and it's a league with a tough schedule is an indication his injury woes could have been down to a lack of professionalism regarding fitness. Between April 2th and May 7th he played 9 games and completed 90mins in all bar one where he played 86mins.
Idah is the one that worries me most when thinking of lads in a few years and talking about if only he could have stayed fit. Has missed 48 games in the last two seasons because of injury and has had two long term knee injuries so far.
You mean you actually noticed his disgraceful non-performances in the u21 games against Iceland and it came to your attention that he declined an invitation to join a subsequent squad
A player would have to prove himself most worthy after that, almost priceless, seems like Ogbene is well into the process of doing just that.
I think you're getting your O's mixed up.
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