Trapattoni's first (extended) squad announced!

[DeNiro]

Surely you mean time, although we could play a game, what name should he call the squad.
I vote for Sandra.

I do mean time. . He could name it Stephen. It fits nicely with Ireland for some reason. Although I reckon that name might be busy or have other plans that day.

[youngirish]

Couple of links attached

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...9520-20313185/

"On a personal level, Lawrence feels playing in the Premier League might also enhance his ambitions of becoming an established member of the Republic of Ireland in which he has already appeared briefly. "If I can keep playing well, I feel I have got a good chance," Lawrence added.

Pulis, who described Lawrence's sublime strike as: "Absoluterly fantastic; a goal good enough to grace any game" was fulsome in his praise for an industrious midfield in which Roy Delap, Glenn Whelan and Richard Cresswell matched the prodigious workrate of Lawrence." telegraph

http://www.eleven-a-side.com/acrosst...ws.asp?n=32187

Whelan could also figure regularly in future squads if he's getting regular games next year in the Premiership. It might be a step too far for him though so we'll see how it goes.

[Dr. Ogba]

5 changes made to the U-21 squad for Malaysia, including removing Stokes, so he could be another moved to the senior squad

lets hope not. don't think he merits being anywhere near the senior squad at the moment...

[tetsujin1979]

Whelan could also figure regularly in future squads if he's getting regular games next year in the Premiership. It might be a step too far for him though so we'll see how it goes.

Slightly off topic, but I really fear for the Stoke team next season, they got promoted in second with a worse points tally and goal difference than Derby last season, who came up through the play offs.
Whelan, Lawrence and Delap could be in for a real shock.

[Scooby Doo]

i assume then today we will find out for definate if finnan, o brien and that little spanner from man city are returning?

[Kingdom]

Slightly off topic, but I really fear for the Stoke team next season, they got promoted in second with a worse points tally and goal difference than Derby last season, who came up through the play offs.
Whelan, Lawrence and Delap could be in for a real shock.

Very off topic but yup I agree, and if Hull come up with them I think the record score in the Premiership could go next season against either of these teams.

[soccerc]

Whelan could also figure regularly in future squads if he's getting regular games next year in the Premiership. It might be a step too far for him though so we'll see how it goes.

Glenn is delighted to have been named in the travelling party...."hopefully I do well and go on to get my first senior cap"

[tetsujin1979]

Squad announcement live on fai.ie: http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=c...k=view&id=3163

[gustavo]

you have to go to the main page to get the audiio link , thicks didnt put it on that page yet

[tetsujin1979]

awful stream, seems to be broadcasting the same audio at 3 different speeds

O'Dea, McGeady and O'Shea out of trip due to club commitments
Keane out due to personal commitments
Andy O'Brien out due to to injury

<edit>
stream problems sorted out now

[eirebhoy]

Kiely, Bruce, Delaney in the squad I think. Ireland also named. Scannell too.

Given, Carsely, Kilbane, Gibson and a couple more are injured.
O'Shea, O'Dea, McGeady and someone else can't go to Portugal because of club games.
Keane can't go to Portugal because of stag arranged a long time ago but still in squad.

[RivaldoBabb]

awful stream, seems to be broadcasting the same audio at 3 different speeds

O'Dea, McGeady and O'Shea out of trip due to club commitments
Keane out due to personal commitments
Andy O'Brien out due to to injury

Are you suggesting the FAI have cut corners with the development of their website...surely not

John O'Shea club commitments? oh yeh, sitting on the bench in Moscow then picking up a medal for something he contributed feck all to.

Fair play to you John, bag full of medals that you didnt earn...

(sorry, i know thats off topic)

[ifk101]

Heard Wes Hoolahan's and Martin Rowlands' names also but could be mistaken.

[eirebhoy]

Heard Wes Hoolahan's and Martin Rowland's names also but could be mistaken.

These named I heard:

Colin Doyle (Birmingham City)*
Joe Murphy (Scunthorpe United)*
Kiely*

Kelly (Birmingham City)*
Dunne (Manchester City)*
O'Shea (Manchester United)*
McShane (Sunderland)*
Foley (Wolves)*
O'Dea (Celtic)*
Bruce*
Delaney*


Miller (Sunderland)*
Ireland (Manchester City)*
Duff (Newcastle United)*
McGeady (Celtic)*
Andy Reid (Sunderland)*
Garvan (Ipswich Town)*
Hoolahan (Blackpool)*
McPhail (Cardiff City)*
Rowlands (QPR)*
Whelan (Stoke City)*
Scannell (Crystal Palace)*

Robbie Keane (Tottenham Hotspur)*
Kevin Doyle (Reading)*
Long (Reading)*
Andy Keogh (Wolves)*
Murphy (Sunderland)*

Finnan has to get hernia op.

[eirebhoy]

On Finnan "In August..sure he'll come back"

Confident is probably the word he wanted though, not sure.

[Kingdom]

No word on O'Brien then....oh well!

[NeilMcD]

So Ireland is in the squad and Andy O Brien and Finnan are getting operations and Dean Kiely is back so Trappatoni has done his work on that front.

Garvan Mc Pahil Whelan are all in the squad which to me shows that Trappatoni and Brady and Tardelli are looking at good central midfielders who can play the ball rather than just kickers like Douglas.

I think Morrisson is unlucky to miss out if he is not there and I thought that Lawrence was unlucky to miss out.

[NeilMcD]

http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=c...k=view&id=3164

[eirebhoy]

http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=c...k=view&id=3164

I don't know how I thought I heard Ireland's name.

[geysir]

Sound isn't bad but I'm struggling with Traps language.
I'm glad to hear the intimate whispers of that nice lady.

What was that about set pieces?
Set pieces, set pieces, 1-0 1-0 1-0

Trap sounded so definite, it was like he has had a vision.

Thank féck that Italian ex journo hasn't opened his mouth yet.