Wes Hoolahan for Ireland?

kensutz

Ok, I know this may be biased as a Norwich supporter, but Wes Hoolahan is playing football which needs to be admired. He has 11 goals for us this season and some of the football he plays is just brilliant. The through balls fed into strikers, goals scored and general work rate is second to none.

elshambo

I doubt Trap even knows his name if reports are to be believed:(

Wes is quality, always was, may suffer the same fate as Andy Reid,
hope he doesnt play guitar:rolleyes:

Gillington

Yeah I've been noticing him scoring a fair few goals alright,what age is he now? Oity there are no friendlies coming up he coulda been a useful addition.

kensutz

There's friendlies coming up in March. I know it's 4 months away but hopefully he'll have more goals and assists to his name. He's already making a big name for himself in League 1 where he helped Blackpool gain promotion and now doing the same with us. His only international experience was the "B" game v Notts Forest. Trap was only with the FAI a short while then.

event

he wont get a game when he is in league one unfortunately and rightly so

Slash/ED

Weso should have been in the team five years ago. The sooner the better. He's the closest thing we'll ever have to Lionel Messi :pac:

Sheepy99

kensutz wrote: »

Ok, I know this may be biased as a Norwich supporter, but Wes Hoolahan is playing football which needs to be admired. He has 11 goals for us this season and some of the football he plays is just brilliant. The through balls fed into strikers, goals scored and general work rate is second to none.

I thought he was a goalie.:P

Spiritoftheseventies

Wes very exciting player to watch. But does tend to lose possession sometimes. Got caught out against Deportivo when he played with Shels a few years ago.

Johner

event wrote: »

he wont get a game when he is in league one unfortunately and rightly so

Why rightly so?

kensutz

bayviewclose wrote: »

Wes very exciting player to watch. But does tend to lose possession sometimes. Got caught out against Deportivo when he played with Shels a few years ago.

That was years ago. His whole game has improved considerably even in the past 6 months and even when Lambert dropped him he came back even better.

Spiritoftheseventies

Either way Trap doesn't go to that many Premiership games let alone Coca Cola games.

Slash/ED

bayviewclose wrote: »

Wes very exciting player to watch. But does tend to lose possession sometimes. Got caught out against Deportivo when he played with Shels a few years ago.

Depor subbed Doucher, of Beckham injury fame, on specifically to man mark the little genius. Says it all. This was a Depor side fresh off a champions league semi final iirc too.

Het-Field

Wes got one cap, against Colombia in 2008.

The man had ability to burn, and unfortunatly was robbed of a true chance to shine by remaining in a National League which was built on shoddy foundations.

He was superb at Shels, and deserved a big move in 2004. It never materialised, and he ended up at Livingston. Like Richie Foran, his desperation to play cross channel soccer ended with him playing at no hoper teams. His Norwich period is the pinnacle of his career, and they are light years behind where they were in 1992/1993, and 2003/2004.

Xavi6

Absolute legend. Up there with Tony Sheridan as the most skillful player I've watched in the LOI.

Would love to see him in the squad.

event

Johner wrote: »

Why rightly so?

a player playing well in league one is generally not at a high enough standard to be able to play international football.

its not a great standard in the league

Spiritoftheseventies

Yes and you make an equally strong case for Keith Fahey as well.

applehunter

Great little player.

He's as good as any player we have.

Lacks that burst of pace, but his game has adapted to this and he is still very dangerous.

kida

if andy reid can't get in little chance of wes making it - not traps type of player

kensutz

Het-Field wrote: »

. His Norwich period is the pinnacle of his career, and they are light years behind where they were in 1992/1993, and 2003/2004.

I'd say we're on par with 03/04.

cson

bayviewclose wrote: »

Yes and you make an equally strong case for Keith Fahey as well.

+1 to that.

How Martin Rowlands got called up ahead of him for Montenegro I do not know. I'd be hopeful Jay O'Shea can start making a bit of an impact too.