Irish Players Abroad 06/07

**Dr. Ogba** · 14/02/2007, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

ipswich v leicester 0-2

leicester end a 20 season hoodoo for this away fixture with Maybury holding his spot again of late at right back and Yeates starting again and crossing cleverly for the his sides second, he was again withdrawn with 10 to go.Logan was on the bench.

for the home side, theres considerable Irish interest with Garvan,Walters and Clarke all starting and O'Callaghan also coming on with Supple on the bench.
Garven got sent off for 2 yellows, the first one may have been harsh but the second one is reported as having been a 2 footed lunge.Walters is reported as having missed a presentable headed chance, ominously enough as his manager goes on to lament Lee being suspended, for this exact reason.

O.S. report lcfc:http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...~34350,00.html
(Irish players mentioned throughout)

ipswich O.S. report again with considerable mention of our lads:http://www.itfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...~34350,00.html

ipswish assistant manager on the missed costly chances with Clarke and Walters in the side:http://www.itfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...979290,00.html

Owen Garvan on his sending off and the need to learn form it:http://www.itfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...979273,00.html

and finally, looks like Michael Synnot is in the last chance saloon thingy:
http://www.itfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...978692,00.html

Was keeping track of the matches on teletext on Saturday and RTE had the lad McAuley (scored twice) highlighted in green....never heard of him before, is he Irish or have they got it wrong (which wouldn't exactly be a major shock!)...

**dr_peepee** · 14/02/2007, 3:30 PM

Young Irish winger Alan Kearney at Everton is going on loan to chester

**CraftyToePoke** · 15/02/2007, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Dr. Ogba

Was keeping track of the matches on teletext on Saturday and RTE had the lad McAuley (scored twice) highlighted in green....never heard of him before, is he Irish or have they got it wrong (which wouldn't exactly be a major shock!)...

McCauley if from Northern Ireland,former Irish League player who after 2 impressive seasons at Lincoln City was signed on a free by Leicester last summer.He was a touch arsey when he was only on standby for a recent senoir squad for them.I rate him,very polished at times for a lower league C.B. and carries a goal threat from set plays.Now's his chance at Leicester to establish himself, with McCarthys shoulder busted.

here he be:http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...~30738,00.html

Do RTE highlight Northern players?

**tetsujin1979** · 15/02/2007, 2:03 PM

Article on Richard Dunne on Man City's website: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...&newsid=403538

**tetsujin1979** · 15/02/2007, 2:04 PM

Stephen Elliott out for 6 weeks with surgery on his ankle: http://www.safc.com/news/?page_id=11718

**cavan_fan** · 15/02/2007, 4:06 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Stephen Elliott out for 6 weeks with surgery on his ankle: http://www.safc.com/news/?page_id=11718

IS there a more injury prone player in the world, he's worse than Darren Anderton or Rory Delap

**theworm2345** · 16/02/2007, 2:45 AM

Originally Posted by cavan_fan

IS there a more injury prone player in the world, he's worse than Darren Anderton or Rory Delap

George Ndah

**FarBeag** · 17/02/2007, 2:11 PM

Connolly scores for Sunderland again.

**FarBeag** · 17/02/2007, 2:42 PM

Steven ward has scored for Wolves.

**gustavo** · 17/02/2007, 2:52 PM

George O'Callaghan sent off on his full debut!!

**cavan_fan** · 17/02/2007, 3:21 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

George O'Callaghan sent off on his full debut!!

To be fair sounds like a harsh decision

**theworm2345** · 17/02/2007, 3:53 PM

Connolly also had a hand in Hysen's and John's first goal
Jason McAteer had the assist on Shuker's goal for Tranmere
Liam Miller set up John's second
Chris McCann scored for Burnley
Gary Kelly did not play for Leeds which may mean he was passing info
Paul Heffernan scored for Doncaster
Lee Trundle (are we counting him?) scored for Swansea

**co. down green** · 17/02/2007, 11:31 PM

Roy Keane seemed well impressed by Liam Miller today

"Liam Miller in the middle of the park was outstanding"

Chris McCann going well at Burnley, one for the future & a great prospect

**FarBeag** · 18/02/2007, 2:11 PM

Richard Dunne played a blinder for Man City to-day.Steven Ireland scored and excellent late goal (again).

**CraftyToePoke** · 20/02/2007, 11:33 AM

leicester v coventry 3-0.

Logan on the bench with Yeates and Maybury in the 11 for leicester, McCarthy's seasons almost certainly over.I like the look of Yeates, skillfull, tricky and entertaining to watch, he provided a good outlet ball all day for his defenders and deliverd a handfull of crosses off either foot as well, some of them causing real problems but early on he delivered very poorly from 2 or 3 dead ball situations.id like to see more end product to his work though, but he is a young player so it may come. he did provide one moment of sheer brilliance when he was under a high dropping ball at the back edge of the penalty area, and with his first touch with his right he left 2 chasing defenders on the floor and then struck a fierce low drive with his second touch with his left which brought a fine save.

over all he is giving a good first impression,he looks very good when he drifts in from the line and gets involved in the build up play, comfortable with it and clever in his passing, i would like to see a little more end product and a touch less show offy type stuff late on when players had run hard to get up in support only to be ignored by him when trying to do to much, he got a good reception when subbed with 10 to go.

Maybury had a good game, defended solidly and overlapped Yeates with good timing and speed on a few occasions, the crosses didnt match the runs though.

for coventry, Tabb played in a midfield role and as a player ive liked the look of in u21 games and during his time at brentford i was looking forward to watching him play,and despite trying to create and being good in posession under pressure, nothing was really coming off for him, his side were 3-0 down after half an hour anyway. he did make some clever late runs but was never found.

at the back for them was Hawkins, and i suppose its not easy for a cb to look good while getting pounded 3-0 but he stuck at it and semed to be a talker, always organising and shouting instructions, on the ground he impressed me, he was composed and picked out good passes at times when other players may have lumped it. he didnt look out of place generally to me but ultimately the tall cf Horsfield, who he was picking up, came away with 2 goals and a motm award.

Thornton is out for the season, injured and Doyle wasnt on show, i believe he was involved in a serious training ground 'incident'.

**theworm2345** · 20/02/2007, 7:24 PM

Stephen Ward just scored for Wolves, Sunderland are 1-0 up, thanks to Carlos Edwards (it 'would have been a waste of time' for Irish keeper Colin Doyle to try and save it)
Glenn Whelan scored (I guess from 35 yards)
Paul Heffernan scored a penalty
Leon Best scored
Wes Hoolahan scored a penalty
John O'Shea on the bench against Lille

**tetsujin1979** · 20/02/2007, 9:20 PM

O'Dea kept a clean sheet against Milan, McGeady also in the side. I didn't see much of the game but what i did see, Milan seemed to have most of the play

**eirebhoy** · 20/02/2007, 10:44 PM

Celtic - Milan

Celtic had 56% possession but Milan were clearly a class apart. It was the best I've seen them in a long time.

O'Dea did well to keep a clean sheet and Boruc only had 1 proper save to make all game. McGeady was marked by Oddo and Gattuso. He didn't have a bad game but he just didn't take on the full back. All his passes were short, nothing special, but I guess Strachan is still coaching him.

**co. down green** · 20/02/2007, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

Celtic - Milan

Celtic had 56% possession but Milan were clearly a class apart. It was the best I've seen them in a long time.

O'Dea did well to keep a clean sheet and Boruc only had 1 proper save to make all game. McGeady was marked by Oddo and Gattuso. He didn't have a bad game but he just didn't take on the full back. All his passes were short, nothing special, but I guess Strachan is still coaching him.

And another clean sheet for our other young centre back Paul McShane.