Marc Wilson

[swinfordfc]

It be good to see him today against Arsenal how he performs

[SkStu]

How'd he do?

[Stuttgart88]

I thought he looked accomplished

[swinfordfc]

Has to start for Ireland ... best we have at left back

[Stuttgart88]

Wilson was obviously the player on media duty yesterday. Always interesting when it's someone new.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...ar-206379.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soccer/

Key bits for me were that he had persistent injury problems last year and he did speak to trap in June. His American girlfriend was hospitalised so he had to look after her.

[geysir]

Wilson was obviously the player on media duty yesterday. Always interesting when it's someone new.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...ar-206379.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soccer/

Key bits for me were that he had persistent injury problems last year and he did speak to trap in June. His American girlfriend was hospitalised so he had to look after her.

Again, the specter of that unapologetic mystery fringe player looms, has to be Andy Reid?
'for he had mixed Wilson up with another slightly fringe player who has, it seems, yet to come back on bended knee.'

Though you wouldn't refer to Andy as 'slightly'.

[tetsujin1979]

Again, the specter of that unapologetic mystery fringe player looms, has to be Andy Reid?
'for he had mixed Wilson up with another slightly fringe player who has, it seems, yet to come back on bended knee.'

Though you wouldn't refer to Andy as 'slightly'.

Could be Stokes, or Ireland?
Stokes out injured at the moment anyway

[geysir]

Yeah it could be, but Stokes' crime was withdrawing from the Carling cup squad and Ireland hasn't featured, therefore can't have breached Trap's law.

[ifk101]

Some many "conflicts" these days that it is hard to keep track. Stokes announced he was tired and didn't want to be considered for the games with the North and Scotland. Wilson, Walters and McCarthy were awol for those games.

[geysir]

That leaves us with opportunity and out of all those, only Andy had the opportunity.
There is a conspiracy of silence around the naming of Andy as the unapologetic curfew breaking rascal.
It could be that Andy who might have gone through his youth being blamed for everything, didn't feel like apologising because he wasn't the ringleader, blamed in the wrong yet again. Other players who had cajoled Andy (against his will) to play yet another tune, got wind of Trap approaching, managed to make an exit out the side door, leaving Andy holding the banjo to face the music. Andy was the patsy and the other players kept mum to protect their own ásses. Andy didn't snitch on his mates even though they left him high and dry,
therefore Liam Brady praising Andy as a fine fellow of integrity.

[paul_oshea]

I wouldn't say snitching, more being made an example of.

And happily for Trap Reid was the kinda player he didn't want in his team anyway, one that could play ball, but was less of a defending player.

Or in this case an offending player

So it was a double victory for Trap.

[DannyInvincible]

Wilson was obviously the player on media duty yesterday. Always interesting when it's someone new.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...ar-206379.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soccer/

Key bits for me were that he had persistent injury problems last year and he did speak to trap in June. His American girlfriend was hospitalised so he had to look after her.

Was there an Irish Times article as well? That second link just brings me to the main football page.

Anyway, great to hear Wilson's side of the story as that clarifies matters over which there still seemed to be residing clouds of suspicion for many people. Will be tough reading for Murfinator...

[geysir]

You have to play the detective Danny and you'll find the article on the soccer menu, without much tax.

[DannyInvincible]

That leaves us with opportunity and out of all those, only Andy had the opportunity.

So, does this indicate it is a grudge with Reid (the most likely culprit for betrayal of the group), after all?

Interesting also that the IFA made queries with Stoke with regard to the possibility of Wilson returning to their fold.

[geysir]

Andy was the fall guy for the Mainz after-curfew session.
Seeing as Trap was ready to put him on as a sub against Montenegro, it appeared that the discipline breach was not a live issue at that time, probably it became an issue after that game and Andy was supposed to offer profuse apologies by the time they met up for the Cyprus game, or maybe some other new discipline issue emerged then. At that Cyprus game, Andy was pictured on the bench like a beached whale with a face longer than a sourpuss walrus. He had refused to apologise. After that game, Andy was not called up again, when no matter what people may think about Andy and Trap's system, he was definitely good enough for a squad number.

Trap let it spill out when he got his wires mixed up re Wilson, but if it wasn't Wilson then it had to be somebody else.

[Murfinator]

Was there an Irish Times article as well? That second link just brings me to the main football page.

Anyway, great to hear Wilson's side of the story as that clarifies matters over which there still seemed to be residing clouds of suspicion for many people. Will be tough reading for Murfinator...

He admitted in the interview that many of the absences were from his own doing, so it confirms all the suspicion around him as valid and accurate. But nice effort trying to ignore that part.

[DannyInvincible]

He admitted in the interview that many of the absences were from his own doing, so it confirms all the suspicion around him as valid and accurate. But nice effort trying to ignore that part.

But didn't you more or less accuse him of pulling out of squads for no reason on an imaginary five or six occasions and showing a serious lack of commitment before knowing the full facts (or seemingly even the bare facts already made public)? The guy is clearly committed to the cause and had valid reasons for any withdrawal over which you were not merely suspicious, but unfairly accusatory.

[youngirish]

Was there an Irish Times article as well? That second link just brings me to the main football page.

Anyway, great to hear Wilson's side of the story as that clarifies matters over which there still seemed to be residing clouds of suspicion for many people. Will be tough reading for Murfinator...

I didn't see a single reason in that whole atricle that throws up what I would state are even passable excuses for any of his absences. His girlfriend was going to be on her own going into hospital so he couldn't go to the Euros? Unless she was getting open heart surgery then that's a fairly lame excuse. Either way she needs to get some friends.

He played 10 games for Stoke at the end of the season but couldn't even show up for an Ireland squad after a 3 month rest?

He's no Kevin Kilbane in the commitment league that's for sure. More so somewhere between Stephen Ireland and Anthony Stokes.

On the plus side maybe this will mean Stephen Ward won't get onto the pitch for the next few couple of games.

We can only hope.

[Charlie Darwin]

Let me get this straight... you're postulating that Marc Wilson might have skipped a major international tournament in order to accompany his girlfriend to the dentist?

[geysir]

I didn't see a single reason in that whole atricle that throws up what I would state are even passable excuses for any of his absences. His girlfriend was going to be on her own going into hospital so he couldn't go to the Euros? Unless she was getting open heart surgery then that's a fairly lame excuse. Either way she needs to get some friends.

Read the article again.
He was selected to be the stand-by, that was not the same as 'going to the Euros'.
He said “if I’d been called up for the Euros I’d have been there, I just would have had some tough decisions to make.”