Irish Abroad 2008/2009

**tetsujin1979** · 25/01/2009, 1:16 PM

Just noticed Mark Kennedy is playing at left full for Cardiff against Arsenal, has he been playing there a lot recently?

**tetsujin1979** · 26/01/2009, 2:00 PM

Irish Abroad for Tuesday, 20th January 2009: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroa...ate=2009-01-20
Scott Davies scored his 11th of the season, only his second away from the Recreation Ground
John O'Shea scored his first goal of the season, his first goal since the 28th April 2007
Can anyone confirm if Dean Brill qualifies for Ireland or not? I believe he was approached when Staunton was in charge. If so, Luton join Charlton in having a starting Irish goalkeeper (Conrad Logan) and a substitute Irish goalkeeper (Brill)

Irish Abroad for Wednesday 21st January 2009: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroa...ate=2009-01-21
Chris McCann scored his fifth goal of the season
McCann picked up his second booking of the season in the same game

Irish Abroad for Saturday, 24th January 2009: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroa...ate=2009-01-24
Roy O'Donovan made his second start for Blackpool, and picked up his second consecutive booking
In the same game, Keith Fahey made his second appearance from the bench
Lee Trundle started consecutive games for the first time since the end of October
Billy Clarke marked his debut for Northampton with a hat trick, reportedly the first one for the club in the league? Should Clarke score after returning to Ipswich, he'll have scored in League 2, League 1 and the Championship in one season
Aidan Downes was shown the first red card of his career
Michael Liddle was substituted for the first time, on loan at Carlisle
Billy Mehmet scored his ninth of the season, and his first goal since 18th October
Alex Bruce scored his second of the season

Irish Abroad for Sunday, 25th January 2009: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroa...ate=2009-01-25
Jamie McCarthy picked up his fifth booking of the season
Cardiff have yet to lose a home game that Mark Kennedy has started. He played at left full against Arsenal, has he been playing regularly there for the bluebirds?

**EastTerracer** · 26/01/2009, 11:48 PM

Just posted this article in the Barry Maguire thread but probably more appropriate here. The Evening Herald did a pretty extensive list of the Irish (or potentially Irish) players with clubs across Europe.

http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/wh...e-1608735.html

**bwagner** · 28/01/2009, 11:42 AM

ITS A DISGRACE KEILY CANT GET A GAME (another 5 goals) watch the Tevez goal lol ...he drops it so badly. he had conceeded some amount of goals. Dean is a class keeper and deserves a run!

**bwagner** · 29/01/2009, 10:43 AM

Championship side Blackpool have signed Manchester City midfielder Paul Marshall on a one-month loan deal.

**bwagner** · 03/02/2009, 8:31 AM

Jim O'Brien made all 3 goals in the game last night for Motherwell

**zackmorris** · 04/02/2009, 6:25 PM

Keith Treacy returns for Blackburn tonight whilst Aaron Doran makes the bench, he is very highly rated at Ewood and recently signed a new contract. Also, Garry Breen terminated his contract with Hereford

**bwagner** · 05/02/2009, 9:19 AM

Lowry was on the bench for Villa

**zackmorris** · 06/02/2009, 2:16 AM

David Hutton is on trial at Exeter with a view to signing on loan, he is very
highly rated at Tottenham.

http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/footba...l/article.html

**SkStu** · 06/02/2009, 4:58 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ed/7875534.stm

Frecklington to join Peterborough

**paudie** · 06/02/2009, 6:02 PM

Originally Posted by bwagner

ITS A DISGRACE KEILY CANT GET A GAME (another 5 goals) watch the Tevez goal lol ...he drops it so badly. he had conceeded some amount of goals. Dean is a class keeper and deserves a run!

I'd forgotten kiely was sub keeper at WBA. Carson really is brutal.

**paudie** · 07/02/2009, 12:43 PM

http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroa...5&seasonID=138

Roy O'Donovan is now on loan to Blackpool.

**Wexford Delboy** · 07/02/2009, 3:03 PM

Trap is at reading v preston...hopefully st ledger will provide him with some food for thought...doyle after taking a knock,back on the pitch do so hope he will be ok

**the doc** · 07/02/2009, 7:39 PM

Originally Posted by Wexford Delboy

Trap is at reading v preston...hopefully st ledger will provide him with some food for thought...doyle after taking a knock,back on the pitch do so hope he will be ok

Eddie Nolan called up into the senior squad, St Ledger overlooked again, despite putting in a performance which Alan McInally descibed on Sky TV "Sean St Ledger, a player in the championship putting in a Premiership performance.

**FarBeag** · 07/02/2009, 9:49 PM

Originally Posted by the doc

Eddie Nolan called up into the senior squad, St Ledger overlooked again, despite putting in a performance which Alan McInally descibed on Sky TV "Sean St Ledger, a player in the championship putting in a Premiership performance.

Do they know he is Irish? It would not surprise me if they didnt. I cant understand why he is not given a chance.

**tetsujin1979** · 08/02/2009, 4:39 PM

Irish Abroad statistics for January 2009: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/january.xquery
John O'Shea and James McCarthy won seven and five games respectively, no other player won more than three games
Chris McCann and Jon Macken both lost four games in January
McCann and O'Shea both started the most amount of games - eight
The Manchester United defender also completed every one of those eight games
Stephen Elliot was withdrawn from the action more times than any other Irish player. The Preston front man was called to the bench four times, twice at Deepdale, and twice more away from home
Conversely, Matt Holland and Adam Rooney were introduced from the dugout four times each
Dean Kiely was an unused substitute seven times in January, to add to the 20 other games before the New Year where he remained on the bench
The first month of the year was frugal in terms of goals scored, Billy Clarke and Scott Davies both notched three. Only Stephen Elliott, Wes Hoolahan, [urlhttp://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=18804]Graham Barrett[/url] and Andy Keogh managed to get more than one

**tetsujin1979** · 09/02/2009, 10:36 AM

Jim O'Brien happy with progress at Motherwell: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...907229,00.html

**tetsujin1979** · 09/02/2009, 11:06 PM

Irish Abroad for Saturday, 7th February 2009: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroa...ate=2009-02-07
Andy O'Brien started his first game since 17 January 2009
Shay Given made his debut for Man City
Stephen Kelly made his debut for Stoke City
Damien Duff scored his third of the season, and the first since 21st December 2008
Michael Doyle scored his second goal in two games
Gary Doherty was sent off for the second time this season
Liam Miller started his third consecutive game on loan at QPR, he hasn't done that since the end of last season
Darren O'Dea made his third start of the season
Adam Rooney scored his first goal since 27 December 2008

Irish Abroad for Sunday, 8th February 2009: http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroa...playerID=11957
Robbie Keane completed 90 minutes for the first time since the 26th December 2008
Manchester United have not lost a league game away from home when John O'Shea started this season