Irish Players Abroad 06/07

**tetsujin1979** · 19/09/2006, 9:21 AM

Donal McDermott played for Man City's reserves side against Newcastle's second XI. The Toon came from 3-0 down to win 4-3! No sign of Alan O'Brien, Stephen Ireland or Garry Breen, so they could be involved in their respective clubs games this week, City play Chesterfield tomorrow in the League Cup and Newcastle travel to Anfield in the Premiership.

Newcastle review: http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~899373,00.html
Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...&newsid=364286

**youngirish** · 19/09/2006, 9:52 AM

Joe O'Cearuill from Arsenal hasn't ever declared for Ireland has he? Also whatever happened to Matthew Connolly? He has jumped ship now hasn't he as has Leon Best.

**Stuttgart88** · 19/09/2006, 9:56 AM

I think Connolly has jumped ship. Best is no loss if Bournemouth is the best he can do at this stage. He's never actually impressed me anyway.

Also James Simmonds at Chelsea has jumped ship too, no? He's been purged from the FAI website in very Stalin-esque fashion.

**eirebhoy** · 19/09/2006, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by youngirish

Joe O'Cearuill from Arsenal hasn't ever declared for Ireland has he? Also whatever happened to Matthew Connolly? He has jumped ship now hasn't he as has Leon Best.

He's Irish as far as I'm concerned.

2 Irish parents.

I'm not sure about Simmonds though.

**Stuttgart88** · 19/09/2006, 10:33 AM

Only updates on Simmonds I've found online are a string of U17 caps Simmonds got for England in late 2003. I've searched within FAI website and "James Simmonds+Ireland" on google and found nothing.

**tetsujin1979** · 19/09/2006, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Only updates on Simmonds I've found online are a string of U17 caps Simmonds got for England in late 2003. I've searched within FAI website and "James Simmonds+Ireland" on google and found nothing.

Looks like he has jumped ship: http://www.thefa.com/England/U17s/Ne...r_profiles.htm

**eirebhoy** · 19/09/2006, 1:01 PM

I'll leave Simmonds in for a while as he hasn't got an England call up since he was called up to our underage squads. His uncle was on soccercentral last year:

Simo for Ireland!!!! He is an outstanding prospect. Damien Duff has been giving him lots of encouragement at Chelsea. God bless the "Duffa". He has had to pull out of the game in Bari as he has damaged ankle ligaments but should be back in training in a few weeks.
Brian Kerr presented his Ireland cap at a big do in Dublin, he got his England cap through the post!! No contest.
The FAI sent him a fantastic letter when he declared recently welcoming him and his family ( Kerry and Donegal) God bless Brian!
Choosing Ireland ahead of England came from James's heart. We are all brimming with pride as he is living out all our dreams. Who knows God willing, he may one day be at Landsdowne Road , singing the soldiers song?
Keep an eye out for him
Come on you bhoys in green!!
Whelo (Jame's uncle London, Cork and Dublin)
ps Thankyou to Pat from the RISC who alerted us to this website at the Munster game last saturday

**eirebhoy** · 19/09/2006, 4:39 PM

Cillian Sheridan scored another brace for Celtic U19s. Skinner and Carey also started with Cahillane on the bench.

http://www.celticfc.net/newsroom/news.aspx?id='2006-09-19_1716gk'

**tetsujin1979** · 19/09/2006, 7:49 PM

Darren O'Dea is starting for Celtic tonight against St Mirren in the CIS Cup

**eirebhoy** · 19/09/2006, 9:01 PM

He played left back. I've seen him play 2 or 3 times in his best position at centre half for the reserves and he looked decent, if rarely tested. Tonight he seemed to like the long ball but got in a few nice crosses. He lacked pace but was never beaten. Impossible to tell how good he could be though.

**tetsujin1979** · 19/09/2006, 10:16 PM

David McGoldrick is missing from the list of Southampton players, he scored tonight against Millwall.

According to his soccerbase profile, he is Irish: http://www.soccerbase.com/players_de...playerid=37797

**theworm2345** · 19/09/2006, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

David McGoldrick is missing from the list of Southampton players, he scored tonight against Millwall.

According to his soccerbase profile, he is Irish: http://www.soccerbase.com/players_de...playerid=37797

I love SoccerBase, nut unfortunately, its not the reliable, For example, look up Tesfaye Bramble, Kevin Betsy, and Adam Newton...Montserrat, Seychelles and Saint Kitts and Nevis, they all say England

**FootballsKing** · 19/09/2006, 11:08 PM

anthony stokes scores 60th minute winner for Falkirk away to Inverness. Supposed to be pulling up trees in scotland, as i suppose you would expect from a man with his potential

**drummerboy** · 19/09/2006, 11:36 PM

Report on Anthony Stokes game tonight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ps/5356406.stm

**eirebhoy** · 19/09/2006, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

David McGoldrick is missing from the list of Southampton players, he scored tonight against Millwall.

According to his soccerbase profile, he is Irish: http://www.soccerbase.com/players_de...playerid=37797

He was born in Nottingham and has never played for Ireland afaik so I don't know why he's listed as Irish on a few sites.

Originally Posted by FootballsKing

anthony stokes scores 60th minute winner for Falkirk away to Inverness. Supposed to be pulling up trees in scotland, as i suppose you would expect from a man with his potential

He definitely seemed impressive judging by the BBC report. He was also apparantly their best player in the 2-0 defeat to Aberdeen.

**Dodge** · 19/09/2006, 11:46 PM

Did ex Pats player Stephen Quinn play for Sheffield United?

**theworm2345** · 20/09/2006, 12:51 AM

I have homework, no full review

David McGoldrick (

) scored for Southampton

Michael Keane scored for Rotherham

Mark Kinsella unused sub for Walsall

**Stuttgart88** · 20/09/2006, 7:00 AM

Fantastic to read that about Stokes.

Stephen Quinn came on as sub at half-time last night. Alan Quinn started. John Fitzgerald played for Bury, Brian Barry-Murphy unused sub.

**youngirish** · 20/09/2006, 8:54 AM

Originally Posted by FootballsKing

anthony stokes scores 60th minute winner for Falkirk away to Inverness. Supposed to be pulling up trees in scotland, as i suppose you would expect from a man with his potential

Supposed to be pulling up trees because he scored 1 goal in three appearances against Inverness? By all accounts he was pure s**te in his other 2 appearances. Talk about getting carried away.

**Stuttgart88** · 20/09/2006, 9:08 AM

Paul McShane played full 90 again for WBA. Mixed game according to the Guardian:

Odejayi capitalised on a defensive mistake by Paul McShane to slide the ball past Pascal Zuberbuhler. But McShane atoned three minutes into the second half with a volleyed cross that Ronnie Wallwork stooped to head past Shane Higgs.