Republic of Ireland Team Talk/News/Rumours 2017

The Talking Bread

Poor old Coleman got an awful doing with Zlatan falling on him!

The_Kew_Tour

Ya agree he was poor for goal but overall had very good game

Umaro

Very good article in The Guardian about Arter's last 12 months - link


Great to see him keep things on track after that terrible personal tragedy.


(Warning: that article might be tough reading for anyone who has experienced something similar.)

Mushy

Does anybody know how to get sse rewards tickets? I signed up but no sign of it on sse site, and can't start thread asking sse here.

Christy Browne

Jeff Hendrick and Stephen Ward have both scored for Burnley in the first 15 minutes of their game against Bournemouth

OldMrBrennan83

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tayto lover

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Its good that his form is returning. Hope he keeps it up.

yabadabado

Hendrick had a good game today,has the talent but consistency is a problem for him.

AgileMyth

Hendrick has been consistent in an Ireland jersey.

Two more for Scott Hogan today, one for Conor Hourihane too.

yabadabado

AgileMyth wrote: »

Hendrick has been consistent in an Ireland jersey.

Two more for Scott Hogan today, one for Conor Hourihane too.

He has done well for us but hhe seems to be the type of lad who drifts out of games.Still fairly young and is making the step up to the EPL so can't be too harsh on him.
It was a criticism that a lot of Derby fans of him 1 good game and 2 or 3 games where he would be anonymous.

Our CM options are looking good at the moment .

The Red Lad

Harry Arthur is top quality on his day hopefully McCleans international form will stay for the Wales game we need him Walters and Hendricks to be on form especially with Brady out. Think Bale will be out for game here's hoping anyway and with Ramsey not getting much game time at Arsenal that's a bonus too !!

Patww79

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Loved his take down for the half volley
Great technique & finish

Ferris_Bueller

Hourihane seems to be having a great season, hard to know who you would leave out of the squad to include him though, still a lot of people ahead of him in the pecking order for a midfield spot.

Rhys Essien

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Hourihane seems to be having a great season, hard to know who you would leave out of the squad to include him though, still a lot of people ahead of him in the pecking order for a midfield spot.

Oh so your saying our regular midfielders should stay and we continue to leave out the fella who has 4 goals and 8 assists.

Maybe it would be a good idea to drop the loyalty bull**** and play our best performing players.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Oh so your saying our regular midfielders should stay and we continue to leave out the fella who has 4 goals and 8 assists.

Maybe it would be a good idea to drop the loyalty bull**** and play our best performing players.

Who should he replace?

Rhys Essien

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Who should he replace?

Well given that right now he's statistically the best player in the Championship,your question should be who starts alongside him.Any other manager would have him an automatic starter and rightly so.

OldMrBrennan83

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Rhys Essien

Patww79 wrote: »

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I don't really care.I just think its farcical that our best performing midfielder who has been club captain since the age of 21,won two cups at Wembley this year,is an all-round midfielder and he cannot make the Ireland team.Then to top it all off Roy Keane told him he needs to do more.

Father Hernandez

World class save from Randolph there to deny Henderson.

AgileMyth

Rhys Essien wrote: »

I don't really care.I just think its farcical that our best performing midfielder who has been club captain since the age of 21,won two cups at Wembley this year,is an all-round midfielder and he cannot make the Ireland team.Then to top it all off Roy Keane told him he needs to do more.

He's performing better at a lower level, surely that's obvious. Again, who do you drop?

ahlookit

Father Hernandez wrote: »

World class save from Randolph there to deny Henderson.

Good recovery after his horrible mistake for Liverpools equaliser. Hopefully he'll get a run of games in the first team now

Rhys Essien

Rhys Essien wrote: »

I don't really care.I just think its farcical that our best performing midfielder who has been club captain since the age of 21,won two cups at Wembley this year,is an all-round midfielder and he cannot make the Ireland team.Then to top it all off Roy Keane told him he needs to do more.

In fairness, he has been captain in that division for a year. He was captain at Plymouth in the 4th tier.

I mean, fair play to him, but I'm not sure I'd be axing one of the midfielders who have played many times at international level. Even Arter, playing in a higher division, didn't easily displace the tried and tested players. Who would you axe from the team to accommodate him?

The Talking Bread

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Oh so your saying our regular midfielders should stay and we continue to leave out the fella who has 4 goals and 8 assists.

Maybe it would be a good idea to drop the loyalty bull**** and play our best performing players.

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Who should he replace?

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Well given that right now he's statistically the best player in the Championship,your question should be who starts alongside him.Any other manager would have him an automatic starter and rightly so.

Patww79 wrote: »

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Rhys Essien wrote: »

I don't really care.I just think its farcical that our best performing midfielder who has been club captain since the age of 21,won two cups at Wembley this year,is an all-round midfielder and he cannot make the Ireland team.Then to top it all off Roy Keane told him he needs to do more.

AgileMyth wrote: »

He's performing better at a lower level, surely that's obvious. Again, who do you drop?

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In fairness, he has been captain in that division for a year. He was captain at Plymouth in the 4th tier.

I mean, fair play to him, but I'm not sure I'd be axing one of the midfielders who have played many times at international level. Even Arter, playing in a higher division, didn't easily displace the tried and tested players. Who would you axe from the team to accommodate him?

:D:D

Dirty Dingus McGee

Hopefully Randolph is getting all his mistakes out of the way before the Wales match.

Ferris_Bueller

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Oh so your saying our regular midfielders should stay and we continue to leave out the fella who has 4 goals and 8 assists.

Maybe it would be a good idea to drop the loyalty bull**** and play our best performing players.

Relax there.

Arter, McCarthy, Hendrick, Whelan and probably Meyler are all ahead of him in the pecking order. Most of the above get regular enough games in the premier league, whereas Hourihane has never even played a PL game yet.

I would like to see Hourihane get a chance maybe in the Iceland game but it's not as straight forward as you're saying for someone to break into the Ireland team, and rightly so. Despite his current form, Hourihane is untested at this level. I certainly wouldn't be throwing him straight in against the Welsh, maybe if we were playing terribly and in desperate need for a change you would have a point but we are top of the group and the players have been getting the results.

keeponhurling

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Hopefully Randolph is getting all his mistakes out of the way before the Wales match.

He any well find himself back on the bench at West Ham if he keeps making them

Christy Browne

keeponhurling wrote: »

He any well find himself back on the bench at West Ham if he keeps making them

Made up for it with that save for the Henderson strike I reckon

Redo91

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Relax there.

Arter, McCarthy, Hendrick, Whelan and probably Meyler are all ahead of him in the pecking order. Most of the above get regular enough games in the premier league, whereas Hourihane has never even played a PL game yet.

I would like to see Hourihane get a chance maybe in the Iceland game but it's not as straight forward as you're saying for someone to break into the Ireland team, and rightly so. Despite his current form, Hourihane is untested at this level. I certainly wouldn't be throwing him straight in against the Welsh, maybe if we were playing terribly and in desperate need for a change you would have a point but we are top of the group and the players have been getting the results.

Myler is struggling to get in the starting XI for Hull so he's the obvious one to drop out for me.

keeponhurling

So, it appears that Preston North End have signed up Horgan and Boyle from Dundalk.
I'd be interested to know how much €€€ Dundalk will get for this.

They will join fellow Irishmen Aidan McGeady, Greg Cunningham, Eoin Doyle, Alan Browne.

(and Alan Kelly on the coaching staff).

They can be our new second team!

Awesomeness

keeponhurling wrote: »

So, it appears that Preston North End have signed up Horgan and Boyle from Dundalk.
I'd be interested to know how much €€€ Dundalk will get for this.

They will join fellow Irishmen Aidan McGeady, Greg Cunningham, Eoin Doyle, Alan Browne.

(and Alan Kelly on the coaching staff).

They can be our new second team!

0 - they were both out of contract

keeponhurling

Redo91 wrote: »

Myler is struggling to get in the starting XI for Hull so he's the obvious one to drop out for me.

But he was excellent in our recent away win at Austria, arguably man of the match, so hardly that obvious of a candidate to drop out?

Raoul

Awesomeness wrote: »

0 - they were both out of contract

Yep. Again Dundalk are unfortunate that players that have a chance of moving on to England don't want to sign longer contracts.

Awesomeness

Raoul wrote: »

Yep. Again Dundalk are unfortunate that players that have a chance of moving on to England don't want to sign longer contracts.

I wouldn't blame it on players not wanting to sign longer contracts. It is more down to all clubs in the league not being able to offer multi year contracts and leave themselves financially exposed

johnnyryan89

Awesomeness wrote: »

I wouldn't blame it on players not wanting to sign longer contracts. It is more down to all clubs in the league not being able to offer multi year contracts and leave themselves financially exposed

I think some clubs could afford multi year deals for the right players but players know it's easier to move to England with one year deals and makes it easier to move around the league to whoever will pay them the most to get the best contract year after year.

Raoul

Awesomeness wrote: »

I wouldn't blame it on players not wanting to sign longer contracts. It is more down to all clubs in the league not being able to offer multi year contracts and leave themselves financially exposed

Oh yeah, I'm not blaming the players. They have to look out for themselves. Horgan actually was on a 2 year contract.

yabadabado

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

I think some clubs could afford multi year deals for the right players but players know it's easier to move to England with one year deals and makes it easier to move around the league to whoever will pay them the most to get the best contract year after year.

Club's give players 44 week contacts id reckon the majority of players would prefer proper contracts

Captain Havoc

yabadabado wrote: »

Club's give players 44 week contacts id reckon the majority of players would prefer proper contracts

That's the problem, players are able to sign on for the other 8 weeks or do a few jobs and earn more money that way than on a 52 week contract. Players don't get good wages so they're better off this way. If a club pays a player over 52 weeks, they'll just end up with a lower weekly wage. If a player is on 500 a week a team won't increase his wages from 22k to 26k, they'll just pay him 423 per week instead.

TheCitizen

keeponhurling wrote: »

So, it appears that Preston North End have signed up Horgan and Boyle from Dundalk.
I'd be interested to know how much €€€ Dundalk will get for this.

They will join fellow Irishmen Aidan McGeady, Greg Cunningham, Eoin Doyle, Alan Browne.

(and Alan Kelly on the coaching staff).

They can be our new second team!

Will Horgan be competing with McGeady for a start, although McGeady normally plays on the right. McGeady is only there on loan anyway and doesn't always start.

Redo91

keeponhurling wrote: »

But he was excellent in our recent away win at Austria, arguably man of the match, so hardly that obvious of a candidate to drop out?

That's a fair point. He'd be my pick but ya maybe a bit harsh given how good he was in the Austria game.

Ferris_Bueller

Redo91 wrote: »

That's a fair point. He'd be my pick but ya maybe a bit harsh given how good he was in the Austria game.

He would also be my pick but as people have said, very hard to leave him out after his performance against Austria and when he has generally played pretty well for us. I am all for giving Hourihane a run in a friendly match but he is still some way off being a starting player, he only has about 20 Championship matches under his belt with the rest being in League 1/2.

What is the story with Alan Judge? He seemed to be last seasons Hourihane. I know he was terribly unlucky with the timing of his injury but surely he must be getting close to a come back now?

johnnyryan89

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

He would also be my pick but as people have said, very hard to leave him out after his performance against Austria and when he has generally played pretty well for us. I am all for giving Hourihane a run in a friendly match but he is still some way off being a starting player, he only has about 20 Championship matches under his belt with the rest being in League 1/2.

What is the story with Alan Judge? He seemed to be last seasons Hourihane. I know he was terribly unlucky with the timing of his injury but surely he must be getting close to a come back now?

http://m.herald.ie/sport/soccer/judge-has-world-cup-target-on-road-to-recovery-35167369.html

Interview he done with the Herald at the end of October. He doesn't give a definitive date but he says that hopefully be back by early February.

keeponhurling

Robbie Brady being linked with Aston Villa.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/1213/838469-villa-eye-up-l10million-swoop-for-robbie-brady/

He might be better off biding his time to get a Premier League move, alrthough hard to turn down a higher salary.
Wait and see if Villa/Norwich get promoted this season.

TheCitizen

keeponhurling wrote: »

Robbie Brady being linked with Aston Villa.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/1213/838469-villa-eye-up-l10million-swoop-for-robbie-brady/

He might be better off biding his time to get a Premier League move, alrthough hard to turn down a higher salary.
Wait and see if Villa/Norwich get promoted this season.

Yes, I'd wait if I was him. He could do better than Villa. Surprised he didn't get an EPL offer after the Euros.

TheCitizen

Shane Duffy on the scoresheet at the right end for Brighton v Blackburn tonight. He has settled well there after a sticky patch at the start of the season when at Blackburn. There's a player there.

Worztron

TheCitizen wrote: »

Shane Duffy on the scoresheet at the right end for Brighton v Blackburn tonight. He has settled well there after a sticky patch at the start of the season when at Blackburn. There's a player there.

And Coleman has scored for Everton.

TheCitizen

Worztron wrote: »

And Coleman has scored for Everton.

Coleman is our best player. McCarthy played well for Everton tonight.

Robbie Brady is one of our better players as well and he's currently being linked with Aston Villa, he should reject them, and he'll get a move to a better club or maybe go back up again with Norwich. Norwich beat Villa 1-0 btw.

The Red Lad

Imagine Coleman turned into are Gareth Bale lb converted into an attacker :P Duffy scored too !
Hope Brady holds out he's good enough for a premiership move and delighted for Horgan think it was the right move as he will def get game time at Preston NE

Dirty Dingus McGee

The Red Lad wrote: »

Imagine Coleman turned into are Gareth Bale lb converted into an attacker :P Duffy scored too !
Hope Brady holds out he's good enough for a premiership move and delighted for Horgan think it was the right move as he will def get game time at Preston NE

I've always thought that trying Coleman on the wing might not be a bad idea.It's such a shame that one of our most dynamic players is playing in a defensive position.

He's back to his best this season after tailing off a bit in the last couple of years under Martinez.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I've always thought that trying Coleman on the wing might not be a bad idea.It's such a shame that one of our most dynamic players is playing in a defensive position.

He's back to his best this season after tailing off a bit in the last couple of years under Martinez.

Exciting times. He is totally is peaking at the right time. Looking forward to the Wales game even more now

Martinez had such a negative effect on the squad morale last season, I agree it also effected Coleman's performances

keeponhurling

TheCitizen wrote: »

keeponhurling wrote: »

Robbie Brady being linked with Aston Villa.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/1213/838469-villa-eye-up-l10million-swoop-for-robbie-brady/

He might be better off biding his time to get a Premier League move, alrthough hard to turn down a higher salary.
Wait and see if Villa/Norwich get promoted this season.

Yes, I'd wait if I was him. He could do better than Villa. Surprised he didn't get an EPL offer after the Euros.

EPL clubs wanted him, including Leicester, but Norwich put a huge price on his head apparently.

Which is their right to do I guess as he is under contract.