Elderly Squad for World Cup 2010

[pete]

Age of current squad in 4 years time.

Given 34
Kenny 32
???

Dunne 31
O'Brien 31
Doherty 30
O'Shea 31
Finnan 34
Harte 33
Carr 34
Maybury 32

Kilbane 33
S Reid 31
Quinn 31
Miller 29
A Reid 28
Duff 31

Keane 30
Morrison 31
Elliot 26
Doyle 27

Only a handful of players will be in their prime which points to serious lack of quality coming through. Can't include any of the U21s as no idea how they will progress.

[smy_eanna]

i watched the u21s in cyrpus and you would see more quality at an over 40s pub league 5 a side.There the worst irish team iv seen in years.Willo Flood and henderson are our only good prospects.Mcgeedy should have stayed with the scots and the back line is worse then the accrington stanley under 10s girl team.they gifted cyrpus the goal last week.Ireland are fuct

[thejollyrodger]

wow, that isnt long away when you think about developing players and it will be adios Duffer , robbie, Given et al.

Who have we got at 15 or 16 that is talented? Not to many to be honest....

[eirebhoy]

i watched the u21s in cyrpus and you would see more quality at an over 40s pub league 5 a side.There the worst irish team iv seen in years.Willo Flood and henderson are our only good prospects.Mcgeedy should have stayed with the scots and the back line is worse then the accrington stanley under 10s girl team.they gifted cyrpus the goal last week.Ireland are fuct

IMO the U-21's had the best set of players at their disposal in this campaign than ever before. England play pub football a load of the time but they still have quality players.