Quinns First Team Selection.

Pighead

My God, Talk about Keeping it Country.
Check out Quinns opening team selection for the new season.

B Alnwick, R Delap, K Cunningham, S Caldwell, D Collins, T Miller, G Leadbitter, D Whitehead, L Lawrence, S Elliott, D Murphy

Almost half the team are Irish. And there only the ones that are definitely Irish. Does anyone know if Miller and Collins are too. Looks like Sunderland could be playing in a snazzy new Green Jersey this season.

KdjaCL

if you dont go over to see them, its a failed investment, Cmon Ireland get behind your local Premt team



kdjac

Rollo Tamasi

some truck load of irish players at S'Land the last 3 or 4 seasons alright.
I'm expecting to see Babb in the squad come the end of the season

Good to see a young all Irish strike force and especillay Elliott

Pighead

KdjaC wrote:

if you dont go over to see them, its a failed investment, Cmon Ireland get behind your local Premt team



kdjac

They're gonna need all the support they can get by the looks of things. 1-0 up with 20 mins to go suddenly turns into 2-1 down with 10 to go. Has a certain inevitability about it.
C'mon Sunderireland, Lets Be Aving You.

JPA

Daryl Murphy signed a new 5 year contract during the week despite only scoring 1 goal last year (I think). Quinn minding his own it seems.

Lemlin

JPA wrote:

Daryl Murphy signed a new 5 year contract during the week despite only scoring 1 goal last year (I think). Quinn minding his own it seems.

Murphy never really got a chance. He spent half the season on loan AFAIK. Got few PL starts and took his goal well against Spurs I think it was.

I'm pleased to see Sunderland with so many Irish starters. It'd be good to see them do well this year and get back into the PL. Perhaps they could make a decent run at it for once.

PHB

Sunderland are riddled with Irish players, most of them poor, simply because McCarthy didn't know anything else but Irish football

Seaneh

PHB wrote:

Sunderland are riddled with Irish players, most of them poor, simply because McCarthy didn't know anything else but Irish football

As usual you are wrong, again.


sunderland are "riddled with irish players" because Lawrence is english and was signed for a packet of chewing gum from some league two side, elliot was a great investment, about 250k when he left man city, Cunningham is the best defender in the championship (IMHO) and probably the best captian as well, Delap was a good buy in january and will be way above the championship standard and Murphy was a great buy from waterford (cost something like 4 lucazde sport and a mars bar) and will be a damned good championship player.

PHB

Irish football isn't restricted to the EL

Seaneh

I'd also like to add that they did just loose a few players and are in to process of signing another 4 or 5, so that won't be the first team squad in a few weeks, I'd expect thier starting squad to be more like

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Alwick

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Nosworthy---Cunningham----Caldwell

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R. Elliot


Lawrence

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Delap

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Leadbitter

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Walsh

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S.Elliot

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Stead

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Subs: Murphy, Whitehead, Miller, Collins, Kyle

Rollo Tamasi

PHB wrote:

Irish football isn't restricted to the EL

yes, and what are you on about now?

eirebhoy

It looks like Sunderland are taking Anthony Stokes on loan too. He had a trial with them last week.

eirebhoy

Sunderland signed Clive Clarke from West Ham yesterday and he came on after half an hour tonight. He gave away a peno though which led to the only goal of the game. All 5 Irish listed in the OP started again.

btw - Quinn didn't take Stokes as he wanted him to have more of a chance of playing 1st team football.