QuoteSean McCarthy played up front in the early days of the premiership for Oldham. Scored against Unied aswell if i recall. The like of him and Micky Evans are why I don't get too exited about the likes of Caleb Folan...
Paul Byrne went on and won the Double with Bohs with Roddy Collins. He went back over to England to Carlisle i think for a short spell. Back playing non-lge LSL for Dublin Bus. and Yes still goes on about "THAT" goal....
Sean McCarthy played up front in the early days of the premiership for Oldham. Scored against Unied aswell if i recall. The like of him and Micky Evans are why I don't get too exited about the likes of Caleb Folan...
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
I thought it was a 0-0 in 1994?
As for one hit wonders, I'll remember Austin Hayes.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Aha! Different game so.
Mick's first game was '96 a 2-0 home defeat to Russia. Shay made his debut and I think Stan missed a penalty. Captain Keane got a red card for a nasty kick at a Russian bloke.
Totally off topic but this is one of my pedantic bugbears. It is defeat BY not to. It is loss to, defeat by. This has come though America and all the commentators now say defeat to. Do you say they were defeated to Russia? No. ((slips off his soapbox and breaks his leg)).
I was at that game. If I recall Mick's first few results didn't set the world on fire. I was never a huge fan of Mick but he hung in there and got us to qualification in the end after some near misses. Oh that penalty in Lansdowne against Turkey
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Sorry sir. Funny thing is you've mentioned it a few times before too. I'm a bit of a pedant too so point learnt, until I forget it again.
My bugbear is "neither did their cause any good" whereas each, every , either , neither, none all require a singular such as "neither did his cause any good".
As for Mick's early results, I remember thinking the 2-2 home friendly draw with Croatia was like winning the World Cup.
Was Brendan Murphy not the Wimbledon reserve keeper at the time?
This whole thread has gone way off topic.
Last edited by youngirish; 12/04/2007 at 10:32 AM.
Hmm, maybe you're right there. It's all a foggy memory now and the UCD Brendan Murphy had overshot his level when he left UCD for Rovers!
brendan murphy was definitely a keeper and was reserve at wimbledon in late 1990s. Sean McCarthy came to prominence from Oldham's cup run in 1994, I think Mick Milligan got him onto the scene as he was in a few squads then himself. McCarthy's first squad v Russia in 96 had something like 32 in it. Chris Morris was there even then, so there probably was a lot of untried in it.
Did Staunton miss a penalty v Russia in 1996 Stuttgart? Can't remember it, although remember the nightmare of a game it was!
'And Crouch must score'
Ya i remember being at that game - Keith O'Neill scored the equaliser to make it 2-2 i think??. To be fair to Mick, he used all those early friendlies to have a look at new players and formations and he realised that was more NB than the actual results. Although it took him the whole '98 campaign to realise Ian Harte is sh*t at centre half
God yeah, I remember Sean McCarthy now alright. I think Staunton missed a penalty against Russia but again, maybe age is catching up on me.
There is talk of us playing Brazil in a friendly. Anyone else heard anything on this?
'And Crouch must score'
I heard it won't happen because the GAA won't release Croke Park for a friendly in 2007, the FAI aren't going to challenge them because they have 2 friendlies organised in the States this summer, and the papers only ran with it because there's nothing else to write about the FAI since Staunton earned a stay of execution after the 2 home wins over Wales and Slovakia
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