What do you reckon? There's 4 games this May/June.
Must be hard for players to motivate themselves for Faroes game on June 7th! Have to say it's a pretty uninspiring time so late in the season to be waiting to play a relative minnow.
You'd expect dropouts but then there's the fillet of England at Wembley on May 29th and Spain on June 11th in NY. Sandwiched in between is Georgia in a home friendly on June 2nd.
Can we expect a full squad? Will Robbie insist on making himself available and playing at Wembley in a friendly which he rarely does of late?
Is Dunne going to make a cameo?
I'd totally missed the spain game on the 11th as an option, a certain work trip to syracuse is looking more likely...
I'd say it will be a pretty strong squad. not too many of the players have good reason to put their feet up and say job well done for the season. Well at least for the England/georgia/faroes leg of things. Decent chunk of games actually. none of them too demanding but all quite attractive in their own way.
Unless of course we particularly get stressed about beating England..
Originally Posted by Grafter
You would hope there will be a full squad , great having the glamour games but there is a WC qualifier then and thats the priority , so I cant see anyone crying off injured
Hope Robbie does insist on making himself available.....if only certain other players followed his example
Dont see Dunne being involved however
The Georgia game at home is mind boggling pointless....great to have a game to bring in young players but do it against better opposition
I think the championship playoff final is 2 days before the England game, so that could rule out a host of players from that game.
3 points against the Faroes is more important though.
Id like to see scannell,quinn and garvan involved for the georgia game and the training camp in general. Think they could all bring something potentially different to what we have.
Anyone coming to NYC for the Spain game?
I think Keane playing in any friendlies if he misses Galaxy time is tenuous. He has been missing time there with injury and will probably feel he needs to start earning that paycheck.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
I'd like to see Joe Mason called up, blooded anyway. Just been promoted with Cardiff, made 28 league apps this season for them, with six notches from twelve starts in doing so.
But I am sure he has nothing on Sammon.
I'd like to see Mason and the better U21s like Hendrick, Shane Duffy and maybe Aidy White, called up. Brady will hopefully feature in all the upcoming games.
On the assumption that this won't be a full strength squad maybe even Stephen Quinn could play himself into a regular squad place as a left-sided midfielder. I believe there's a guy in League One called Doyle too!
Trap's modus operandi seems to be to leave things alone for a while, use a friendly squad to take a look and then give a chance to the least impressive player and out of position. No, seriously, in fairness to Trap he has often used these occasions as shop windows so Stokes and his ilk should start making some noises.
I can't see Trap calling up a whole host of players he has never had in the squad before. More likely to see Hoolahan, Clark, Meyler etc given more game time.
Hopefully Pilkington will be available, I read somewhere he's getting married soon...
Mason wasn't in the squad for yesterday's season finale against Hull. Not sure if he's injured or not.
Would like to see the likes of Richard Keogh, who seems to have had a good season at Derby and Pearce given more game time as with Dunne not looking like he will be returning any time soon if at all I think we need to look at other CB options would be good to see Duffy get a chance too but I think thats not Traps style.
Message to all fringe players: don't tell Trap you're going on holiday.
For the craic, I'd love it if Trap shocked Anthony Stokes and gave him a call-up...He couldn't really turn it down after bemoaning Trap snubbing him earlier this year and t'would probably totally feck up his holiday plans this summer....
Player of the Year at Derby, I'm pretty sure I heard over the weekend.
Predictions for the England game in terms of starting 11? I imagine it will be his strongest team available. No point ruining kids.
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
Just to clarify, when saying that I was hoping that he'd pick some promising U21s I was anticipating a large (>23) squad and thinking more about the US trip. In hindsight this probably wasn't fair to assume at all, and I'd expect a full first XI to face England - maybe with some tinkering - and most definitely a full first XI to face the Faroes.
You heard correctly. Jeff Hendrick finsihed second.
This is Keogh's third season running winning a similar award, having picked up Coventry City's Player's Player of the Year in 2011 and 2012.
Last edited by DeLorean; 09/05/2013 at 1:11 PM.
Trapattoni's going to the Norwich gaeme at the weekend, and has been at a few games recently, according to today's Independent: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-29255664.html
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