Surely Garreth O'Connor for Liam Miller?

[robbie_B]

Burnley star eyes Irish chance


October 2, 2005

Burnley winger Garreth O’Connor feels time is on his side in a bid to make a belated impact at senior international level.

O’Connor, 26, made his name in the eircom League with Bohemians before spending five seasons in the English lower divisions with Bournemouth.

An exceptional season with the Cherries last season paved the way for a summer switch to the Coca-Cola Championship, and his career has maintained his upward graph, with the Dubliner firing five goals in nine Clarets appearances to date – including the only goal in Friday night’s surprise away win over Wolves.

And O’Connor feels that the call-up of Reading striker Kevin Doyle to Brian Kerr’s Irish squad earlier in the week gives him a chance of making the step-up to that level in the future.

He said: “I don’t think Brian Kerr has seen any of my games because I would imagine I would have heard. But I saw Kevin got a call-up. Fair play to him, I played against him and he looked like a good player.

“It’s a big ambition of mine to play for Ireland, and if I keep scoring goals in this division you never know.

“It’s not as though I’m 30 and time is running out. All I can do is keep playing well. I have improved a lot, especially over the last year or so because I realised I needed to be more focused.”

[Stuttgart88]

Ben Burgess scored too

Bloody great goal - did you see it?

[OwlsFan]

Neither Miller or Quinn (if was in squad) have any hope of playing in either game. Irish squad has a lot of midfielders.

I agree. I have seen Quinn play many times for Wednesday. I regret to say he's not international class. Busy midfielder but still behind Kavanagh/Holland/Kilbane/ in the pecking order and I appreciate that they may not be international class either. Miller is further back again without any first team games under his belt.

[Irish_Praha]

Bloody great goal - did you see it?

No heard it was good though

[tetsujin1979]

No heard it was good though

Looped a header over the keeper from just inside the area, top notch strike
He's mainly been coming on as a sub for Hull this season, which is understandable after so long out last season, and it's really encouraging that he's still scoring.