Best Ireland Squad Available

TheRedDevil10

In my opinion here is the strongest squad Ireland have available for the next qualifier against Macedonia in March. Who do you think should be included or removed from mine ?

23 Man Squad

Goalkeepers
Given
Westwood
Murphy

Right Backs
Kelly
Foley

Left Backs
Ward
Cunningham

Centre Backs
Dunne
O'Shea
Wilson
Clark

Right Midfielders
Hunt
Coleman

Left Midfielders
Duff
McGeady

Central Midfielders
Whelan
Gibson
Fahey
McCarthy

Forwards
Keane
Doyle
Long
Stokes

hitman79

Liam Lawrence with 7 goals this season should be in there imo.

TheRedDevil10

who should be sacrificed so ?

hitman79

Ward as Hunt can play left back if needed. Decent squad in fairness to you.

BERBA

whelan and gibson are $hit , i dont know why trap persists with em

hitman79

And i'd have Andrews ahead of Gibson

BOHtox

Shay Given
Keiren Westwood
Brian Murphy

Seamus Coleman
Kevin Foley

John O’Shea
Sean St. Ledger
Richard Dunne
Ciaran Clark

Greg Cunningham
Stephan Ward
Killer Kilbane

Aiden McGeady
Liam Lawrence
Rory Delap

Glenn Whelan
Keith Andrews
Darron Gibson
Keith Fahey

Stephan Hunt
Damien Duff

Robbie Keane
Kevin Doyle
Shane Long
John Walters
Anto Stokes

Le King

Hunt is a left mid.

BERBA

Le King wrote: »

Hunt is a left mid.

he wouldnt get his game with waterford utd

~Rebel~

BERBA wrote: »

he wouldnt get his game with waterford utd

?
He gets his game in the premiership..

I'd also move O Shea to one of the full back slots over either Foley or Ward, and bring in Ciaran Clark for CB.

cson

BERBA wrote: »

he wouldnt get his game with waterford utd

But he's getting it with Wolves.

You really do set the benchmark of idiocy quite high sometimes.

Jayob10

Given
Westwood
J.Murphy

Kelly
Foley
Cunningham
Kilbane
Dunne
St.Ledger
O'Shea
Clark

Lawrence
Coleman
McGeady
Duff
Whelan
Fahey
Wilson
McCarthy

Keane
Doyle
Long
Stokes
Walters

BERBA

~Rebel~ wrote: »

?
He gets his game in the premiership..

point being i dont rate hunt at all.

WallyGUFC

No Gibson or Kelly imo. And Trap has to broaden his horizons. Everytime I turn on Aertel I see Rooney and Sammon scoring for fun in the SPL. But definitely no Gibson or Kelly...or McShane!!

Bounty Hunter

my 25 man squad

Shay Given
Keiren Westwood
Brian Murphy

Seamus Coleman
Kevin Foley
John O’Shea
Sean St. Ledger
Richard Dunne
Ciaran Clark
Darren O'Dea
Greg Cunningham
Stephan Ward

Aiden McGeady
Liam Lawrence
Rory Delap
Glenn Whelan
Marc Wilson
James McCarthy
Keith Fahey
Stephen Hunt
Damien Duff

Robbie Keane
Kevin Doyle
Shane Long
Anthony Stokes

newballsplease

If Sir Alex Ferguson rates D.Gibson..... hes good enough to be on the Rep. of Ireland squad. End of.

Rob113

WallyGUFC wrote: »

No Gibson or Kelly imo. And Trap has to broaden his horizons. Everytime I turn on Aertel I see Rooney and Sammon scoring for fun in the SPL. But definitely no Gibson or Kelly...or McShane!!

Isn't that waynes younger brother playing in the spl? I heard he was eligible to play for us. He seems to be lashing the goals in for fun. He could be a late developer. If he turns into half the player Wayne is I'd have him in our squad in a heartbeat

Jayob10

Rob113 wrote: »

Isn't that waynes younger brother playing in the spl? I heard he was eligible to play for us. He seems to be lashing the goals in for fun. He could be a late developer. If he turns into half the player Wayne is I'd have him in our squad in a heartbeat

I hope to god you are taking the p*ss

~Rebel~

Rob113 wrote: »

Isn't that waynes younger brother playing in the spl? I heard he was eligible to play for us. He seems to be lashing the goals in for fun. He could be a late developer. If he turns into half the player Wayne is I'd have him in our squad in a heartbeat

Adam Rooney is from Dublin, no relation to Wayne.

Wayne's brother is John and is without a club. Released by Macclesfield Town and having trials in the US now.

TheRedDevil10

kilbane, mcshane, green, folan and best should never be allowed to put on an irish shirt AGAIN

BOHtox

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

kilbane, mcshane, green, folan and best should never be allowed to put on an irish shirt AGAIN

Wrong! Kilbane is a legend and still is a good player.

dyl10

newballsplease wrote: »

If Sir Alex Ferguson rates D.Gibson..... hes good enough to be on the Rep. of Ireland squad. End of.

lol

Remember Liam Miller?

WallyGUFC

newballsplease wrote: »

If Sir Alex Ferguson rates D.Gibson..... hes good enough to be on the Rep. of Ireland squad. End of.

He must be highly rated alright if Carrick is ahead of him. But seriously, every time I've seen him play he's disappointed me, apart from maybe the 2nd leg against Bayern last year.

Mr.Nice Guy

Given
Westwood
Murphy

O'Shea
Dunne
Foley
Kilbane
St Ledger
Coleman
Clark

McGeady
Hunt
Duff
Lawrence
Whelan
McCarthy
Wilson
Fahey

Keane
Doyle
Long
Stokes
Walters

Soby

WallyGUFC wrote: »

He must be highly rated alright if Carrick is ahead of him. But seriously, every time I've seen him play he's disappointed me, apart from maybe the 2nd leg against Bayern last year.

Its kinda a love hate thing with him.At times he doesnt offer much bar his ability to smack one hell of a shot. +1 on those adding Delap to their posts.Someone like Doyle and Dunne could do well id say with him.

The Rooster

Soby wrote: »

Its kinda a love hate thing with him.At times he doesnt offer much bar his ability to smack one hell of a shot. +1 on those adding Delap to their posts.Someone like Doyle and Dunne could do well id say with him.

I've never really rated Delap and certainly wouldnt carry him in a team just because of his throw. But he's been very good when I've seen him this season - so I've changed my mind on him. As a player who can cover right back, right midfield and centre midfield, he should certainly be in the squad.

PaddyBomb

As long as Green is not in the squad, I'm happy .

As regards Delap, there is not much he would add to the team except for his long throws. I know this is perfect for us but in open play he's fairly anonymous. I watched the full game of Stoke against Birmingham on telly the other week and I couldn't even tell what position he was supposed to be playing. I think they play him as a holding midfielder? Do we really need another one of those? Maybe a squad player to cover injuries but couldn't see him starting for us.

IRISHSPORTSGUY

If we start looking at the likes of Sammon/Rooney, we should also be considering Paddy Madden, IMO.

GK:
Given
Westwood
J. Murphy

LB:
Ward
Cunningham

RB:
Foley
Kelly

CB:
Dunne
O'Shea
Clark
St Ledger

RW:
Coleman
Lawrence

LW:
Duff
McGeady
Hunt

CM:
Fahey
McCarthy
Wilson
Meyler
Delap

ST:
Keane
Doyle
Long
Walters

newballsplease

dyl10 wrote: »

lol

Remember Liam Miller?

Ya, he was playing great stuff for Celtic the time Utd signed him. I suppose the Scotish Premierleague can make any average player look outstanding....... which is why Stokes is in most of yer squads :rolleyes:

ColeTrain

newballsplease wrote: »

Ya, he was playing great stuff for Celtic the time Utd signed him. I suppose the Scotish Premierleague can make any average player look outstanding....... which is why Stokes is in most of yer squads :rolleyes:

He didn't look too bad scoring against Lyon in the Champions league.
He was genuine real prospect at Celtic, made a huge mistake going to Utd. Move was far too soon for him.

LeeroyJones

I think Stokes take more than enough flak for his time in the Premiership.

Firstly, by his own admission he was a young immature kid and let the lifestyle get ahead of him. For me, I say fair play to the lad to recognise that and rectify it while he is still young. He is only 22 - a lot of Premiership talent doesn't even make their first team by 22. Furthermore he was only 19/20 when he played in the Premiership.

Secondly, many of his appearances in the Prem were off the bench or on the wing without the licence to cut in like he does now. So that makes it even more difficult to show off your goalscoring ability.

Thirdly, and finally, he got one crack it really, and didn't shine. But if we were to judge all players on just one period of time we would be left with few players. Case and point for me would be Darren Bent, one of the Prems top goalscorers, yet he was brutal for Spurs. Luckily for Bent he was given another go at it and proved himself again.

Now I know the proof is in the pudding so I cannot just state: "Anthony Stokes will be a fantastic Premiership striker", but I do trust that if a mid-table club were looking for a goalscorer, they should look no further than Anthony Stokes.

As for Ireland, I would really like us to look at Brazil 2014 as the target and use these Euro qualifiers as an opportunity to blood the promising talent coming through.
By 2014, we could have the following squad

Goalkeepers
Given
Westwood

Left Backs
Cunningham
JOS
Right Backs
Coleman
Foley
Centre Backs
Clark
Duffy
St Ledger
Dunne

Left Wing
Duff
Brady
Right Wing
Lawrence
McGeady
Box-to-Box Midfielders
Meyler
Whelan
Centre Midfielders
Gibson
Clifford
Playmaking Midfielders
McCarthy
Fahey

Forwards
Stokes
Keane
Madden
Doyle

Okay, there are a few ifs and buts regarding whether or not some of those players will reach their potential. But with the exception of Brady they have all played first team football and done very well so far.(Clifford has been doing quite well at his loan spell at Plymouth and Duffy has played a handful of times for Everton in Europa League fixtures)

Yakult

McShane hasnt been mention yet? :eek:
Hes our best player!! :pac:

Bounty Hunter

LeeroyJones wrote: »

Forwards
Stokes
Keane
Madden

no Doyle?

I agree though that post Trappatoni (i dont imagine he will have another campaign even if he brings us to the euros) there is a lot of potential within the Irish selection panel should it be used properly and should we get lucky with some of the players continued development.

LeeroyJones

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

no Doyle?

I agree though that post Trappatoni (i dont imagine he will have another campaign even if he brings us to the euros) there is a lot of potential within the Irish selection panel should it be used properly and should we get lucky with some of the players continued development.

Sorry, complete oversight on my part!

noodler

newballsplease wrote: »

Ya, he was playing great stuff for Celtic the time Utd signed him. I suppose the Scotish Premierleague can make any average player look outstanding....... which is why Stokes is in most of yer squads :rolleyes:

Form and gametime.

Eventually it becomes hard to ignore someone like him even if it is the SPL.

Especially when our top two strikers (for various reason I grant you) have one EPL goal between them this season.

Not saying he will necessarily be a revelation but he has to be worth a chance in the squad.

antomorro-sei

Paddy Madden is nowhere near good enough to even be considered part of the Ireland squad.

Wolfe Tone

Delap in Delap in Delap in, makes perfect sense.



How is Ian Harte doing these days?

eagle eye

Hopefully Meyler will be back in first team action for Sunderland soon. He is the future star midfielder for the ROI.