Irish Players Abroad 06/07

**tetsujin1979** · 18/05/2007, 10:04 AM

Richard Dunne tops Man City's stats for the season, and came in at 46th overall in the Actim stats - http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...&newsid=428441

**eirebhoy** · 18/05/2007, 10:57 AM

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[/I]tetsujin1979;688356]Richard Dunne tops Man City's stats for the season, and came in at 46th overall in the Actim stats - http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...&newsid=428441

Sky Sports list the top 5 shooters, passers, etc. for each club on their site. Dunne has 1,260 passes according to them (Opta Stats). I wonder how that's so much more than the Actim figure?

Anyway here's the Irish players in the top 5s in their clubs Opta Stats:

Passing:
Steve Finnan 1,294 (80.0% success)
Richard Dunne 1,260 (62.1%)
Lee Carsley 1,157 (69.9%)
Paddy Kenny 753 (39.3%)
Kevin Kilbane 752 (67.4%)

Crossing:
Stephen Hunt 166 (21.7%)
Kevin Kilbane 132 (26.5%)
Steve Finnan 114 (37.7%)
Andy Reid 87 (24.1%)
Damien Duff 86 (22.1%)
Robbie Keane 63 (41.3%)
Derek Geary 52 (26.9%)
Stephen Quinn 43 (20.9%)

Tacking:
Richard Dunne 120 (73.3%)
Lee Carsley 99 (77.8%)
Steve Finnan 69 (84.1%)
Derek Geary 68 (82.4%)
Stephen Hunt 67 (76.1%)

Shooting:
Kevin Doyle 47 (57.4%)
Robbie Keane 38 (52.6%)
Lee Carsley 32 (28.1%)
Andy Reid 30 (50.0%)
Stephen Hunt 30 (33.3%)

Dribbling:
Stephen Hunt 83 (32.5%)
Kevin Doyle 57 (29.8%)
Damien Duff 42 (47.6%)
Kevin Kilbane 36 (19.4%)

Most Fouled Player:
Kevin Doyle 53
Stephen Hunt 53
Derek Geary 39
Kevin Kilbane 37

Fouls Commited:
Lee Carsley 59
Stephen Carr 36
Kevin Doyle 36
Stephen Hunt 34

Assists:
Kevin Kilbane 7
Stephen Hunt 6
Steve Finnan 4
Lee Carsley 4
Robbie Keane 4
Derek Geary 3
Stephen Quinn 3
Kevin Doyle 2
Damien Duff 1
John O'Shea 1
Stephen Ireland 1
Andy Reid 1
Alan Quinn 1

**tetsujin1979** · 21/05/2007, 12:54 AM

Hasn't been many games lately, so I haven't been posting.
Here's the Irish Abroad from games from the last week

2007-05-14
League 2 Play Off
Shrewsbury 0-0 Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes's starting players: Keith Andrews, Jonathan Hayes

2007-05-15
Championship Play Off
Derby 2-3 Southampton
Derby's starting players: Jonathan Macken(substituted on 62 minutes)
Southampton's starting players: Leon Best
Irish goalscorers: Leon Best(66, OG)

2007-05-16
Championship Play Off
West Brom 1-0 Wolves
West Brom's starting players: Dean Kiely, Paul McShane
Wolves's starting players: Gary Breen, Darren Potter, Andy Keogh
Wolves's substitutes: Stephen Ward(introduced on 84 minutes), Stephen Gleeson(introduced on 59 minutes)
Irish bookings: Darren Potter

2007-05-17
League 2 Play Off
Lincoln 3-5 Bristol R
Lincoln's starting players: Lee Frecklington

2007-05-18
League 1 Play Off
Nottm Forest 2-5 Yeovil
No Irish players.

League 2 Play Off
Milton Keynes 1-2 Shrewsbury
Milton Keynes's starting players: Keith Andrews, Jonathan Hayes(substituted on 67 minutes)
Irish goalscorers: Keith Andrews(74)

2007-05-19
Scottish Premiership
Dundee Utd 0-0 Motherwell
Dundee Utd's starting players: Sean Dillon, Noel Hunt
Motherwell's substitutes: Paul Keegan

Dunfermline 0-3 Falkirk
Dunfermline's substitutes: Jim O'Brien
Falkirk's substitutes: Stephen O'Donnell(introduced on 81 minutes)

St Mirren 0-1 Inverness CT
St Mirren's starting players: David van Zanten, Billy Mehmett
Irish bookings: Billy Mehmett

English FA Cup
Chelsea 1-0 Man Utd
Man Utd's substitutes: John O'Shea(introduced on 112 minutes)

League 1 Play Off
Blackpool 3-1 Oldham
Blackpool's starting players: Wes Hoolahan(substituted on 89 minutes)
Blackpool's substitutes: Ben Burgess(introduced on 89 minutes)

2007-05-20
Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen 2-0 Rangers
No Irish players.

Hibernian 2-1 Celtic
Celtic's starting players: Darren O'Dea
Celtic's substitutes: Aiden McGeady(introduced on 69 minutes), Cillian Sheridan(introduced on 88 minutes)

Kilmarnock 1-0 Hearts
No Irish players.

**tetsujin1979** · 21/05/2007, 9:05 AM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Hibernian 2-1 Celtic
Celtic's starting players: Darren O'Dea
Celtic's substitutes: Aiden McGeady(introduced on 69 minutes), Cillian Sheridan(introduced on 88 minutes)

Sheridan came on for Celtic and played the last few minutes, despite having played the full 90 minutes, and scored, for the U-19's the night before!

**eirebhoy** · 21/05/2007, 9:11 AM

Yeah I couldn't believe it when I heard at half 1 yesterday that Sheridan was on the bench. An Icelandic striker Finnbogason has been at Celtic 2 and a half years and I was expecting him to be on the bench. It shows how highly Strachan rates Sheridan. He's not even at the club 12 months.

Here's an interview with him from February:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugy_Nwf3_N4

**tetsujin1979** · 21/05/2007, 2:10 PM

Q&A with Richard Dunne: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...&newsid=429348

BEST MATE AT CITY – I don’t have any!
HARDEST PLAYER AT CITY – Steve Ireland
LEAST KNOWLEDGEABLE PLAYER ABOUT CITY – Steve Ireland

Odd that he doesn't have any mates at City, he's there longer than anyone in the first team, apart from Nicky Weaver.
Stevie Ireland - hard man or hardest to play against??
Not too surprised Stevie doesn't know much about City, he was a United fan growing up.

**tetsujin1979** · 21/05/2007, 2:36 PM

Lee Carsley signs new 1 year deal at everton: http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archiv...year-deal.html

**eirebhoy** · 22/05/2007, 8:57 AM

From the Irish Indo:

Stephen Ward of Wolves would be here if it weren't for the setback he picked up in Wolves' play-off semi-final second leg against West Brom, while Southampton's Leon Best - who has confirmed his declaration for Ireland - finished the season with a flourish, barring his misfortune in scoring an own goal in his side's play-off loss to Derby.

That's that one to rest.

**dr_peepee** · 22/05/2007, 9:52 AM

But Kevin Nolan though....

**livehead1** · 22/05/2007, 12:13 PM

is there a quote about Best

**youngirish** · 22/05/2007, 4:33 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

From the Irish Indo:

That's that one to rest.

Nice one. I rate Best. Even though we have bags of talented young strikers many are quite similar - lightweight, quick and skillful but perhaps not as potent as we'd like. Best offers something different as he's big and powerful and is perhaps more a typical goal poacher than the others on offer (bar possibly Rooney).

Eirebhoy have you seen Cillian Sheridan play and if so is he a similar sort of player to Best?

**eirebhoy** · 22/05/2007, 5:00 PM

Originally Posted by youngirish

Eirebhoy have you seen Cillian Sheridan play and if so is he a similar sort of player to Best?

I haven't seen a lot of Sheridan but he's a target man, Jan Koller style (not as tall though).

He'll battle with the centre halves and won't stray too far away from the penalty box. "Battering ram", "giant" and "gargantuan" are some of the terms you'll see if you google his name.

I put an awful lot of weight in the fact that Strachan rates him so highly.

**Paddy Garcia** · 22/05/2007, 6:59 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

From the Irish Indo:

That's that one to rest.

Can't understand why he is not in the States!

**Paddy Garcia** · 22/05/2007, 7:03 PM

See that Dicker has signed for Stockport County. I'm surprised as I thought he would have moved to a higher level than Div 2.

**tetsujin1979** · 22/05/2007, 7:51 PM

Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia

Can't understand why he is not in the States!

Probably because of the play off involvement

**eirebhoy** · 22/05/2007, 8:11 PM

btw, I think this shows that the media are always reading these forums. I'm certain if we never mentioned Best on here they wouldn't have went and found out whether his heart was still with us. It's for that reason that I prefer to keep the likes of Glenn Whelan and Owen Garvan's name out of the limelight. If we're questioning why they're not involved in the squads, the media will bring it up with Stan and they'll have less chance of a call up because he's so stubborn.

**DmanDmythDledge** · 22/05/2007, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia

See that Dicker has signed for Stockport County. I'm surprised as I thought he would have moved to a higher level than Div 2.

Division 3 actually (League 2). I'm surprised as well but I don't think there was too many clubs interested in him.

**dr_peepee** · 22/05/2007, 11:06 PM

John Thompson released from Forrest...

**tetsujin1979** · 22/05/2007, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by dr_peepee

John Thompson released from Forrest...

Might get snapped up by Tranmere, he was rated there and they did well while he was there on loan.

**tetsujin1979** · 23/05/2007, 2:56 PM

End of season ratings for Man City players: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....r_ratings.html

Richard Dunne - The Blues' player of the season. Ever-present in the Premiership and if it wasn't for his form the club would almost certainly have been relegated - 9

Stephen Ireland - The most creative player on City's books but that's not necessarily saying much. He is still hampered by his small frame but has great early vision and would no doubt do more damage with a top class striker to work with. His progress with the Republic of Ireland is encouraging too - 7