Republic of Ireland Team Talk/News/Rumours 2020/2021 - see Mod Note in OP [18/11/20]

Pawwed Rig

3 Irish scored for St Mirren last night and Jaze Kabia got one for Livingston. All young or reasonably young so hopefully they can push on

johnnyryan89

U21s have been drawn in group F along with Italy, Sweden, Bosina, Montenegro and Luxembourg. Playing Italy, Sweden and Luxembourg again this campaign.

adaminho

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

U21s have been drawn in group F along with Italy, Sweden, Bosina, Montenegro and Luxembourg. Playing Italy, Sweden and Luxembourg again this campaign.

The Ryan Johansson group!

Pawwed Rig

Idah mustn't have been able to get his game in the first pic

Francie Barrett

Doherty playing left wing back for Spurs tonight

Bridge93

I don’t think Doherty has done a single thing right yet. He’s been awful

Andrew00

Matt Doherty is so bad. Will probably get taken off at HT

pjohnson

At this stage just need to hope he gets a better home this summer. Can see Spurs eyeing up an actual right back this summer.

Tchaikovsky

Seamus Coleman's message to Yannick Bolasie, who was loaned out to Middlesbrough from Everton:



The guy's a gem.

Just on Finn.

I was kind of shocked to see her was of African heritage when I saw I article above somewhere else.

Between the name and the ties I had assumed he was white.

Only read about him through here so I'm sure others had a different POV on his appearance too

Francie Barrett

The most interesting thing about that article was that the English FA already beat us to the punch in the pursuit of John Patrick. It looks like any player is fair game in their eyes. I can see a day coming soon when they are going to try and poach an Irish born player with an English connection.

With regard to John Patrick himself, to be honest, I don't think he'll be quite good enough to play for Spain. He's a big physical unit and he doesn't appear to have a great touch. I understand he's still young and growing into his body, but I am not sure he's going to develop into the type of player that they would be looking for in central midfield. It'll be interesting to see who he choses, but one thing wouldn't surprise me at all is if he ends up playing in England.

johnnyryan89

Francie Barrett wrote: »

The most interesting thing about that article was that the English FA already beat us to the punch in the pursuit of John Patrick. It looks like any player is fair game in their eyes. I can see a day coming soon when they are going to try and poach an Irish born player with an English connection.

With regard to John Patrick himself, to be honest, I don't think he'll be quite good enough to play for Spain. He's a big physical unit and he doesn't appear to have a great touch. I understand he's still young and growing into his body, but I am not sure he's going to develop into the type of player that they would be looking for in central midfield. It'll be interesting to see who he choses, but one thing wouldn't surprise me at all is if he ends up playing in England.

Armstrong Okoflex was literally playing with their underage teams even though he didn't qualify for England.

Dennis Cirkin is a different story as his family moved to England when he was three and we'd be his third choice behind England and Latvia probably.

Francie Barrett

Idah on the bench. Hendrick and Coleman starting.

henke

Good to see Idah back to fitness. Hopefully he can have a decent run in the second half of the season.

dr.kenneth noisewater

O'Shea and Robinson in action on BBC1 now for WBA

dr.kenneth noisewater

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote:

O'Shea and Robinson in action on BBC1 now for WBA

O'Shea taken off already as WBA go from 5 at back to 4

crushproof

A Shane Duffy horror just there. Celtic 0-2 down.

He is having an absolute howler of a season.

Francie Barrett

sugarman wrote: »

Another goal for Hourihane.

https://twitter.com/oldmansaid/status/1355544901732151297

He's having some impact, great to see.

dr.kenneth noisewater

Robinson off at HT now

McCarthy also off at HT for Palace

Dr. Bre

Another James McCarthy injury

tastyt

Byrne off on 46 mins , not sure if injury or not . Not given much of a chance to impress if it’s not an injury substitute

Francie Barrett

I can't see Byrne being in contention to make the squad at this rate. There are six places available in the squad for the three midfield positions and McCarthy, Cullen, Hendrick, Brady, Hourihane, Molumby, Knight, and Browne are all ahead of him.

Coillte_Bhoy

Another horror show from Duffy today, bets for all concerned if he gets to **** out of there, even a lower chip side at this stage his confidence must be shot to pieces

Francie Barrett

sugarman wrote: »

Doherty switched to the right for the second half and was just at fault the second goal there.

Absolutely no interest or desire to even try close down his man. If someone gets an inch over him, he completely gives up.

Maybe Doherty will get another chance now?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9203619/Serge-Aurier-fighting-Tottenham-future-storming-half-time-Liverpool-loss.html

Serge Aurier is left fighting for his future at Tottenham after he stunned team-mates with an angry half-time outburst in the dressing room during defeat by Liverpool... and then stormed out of the stadium after being substituted

johnnyryan89

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Maybe Doherty will get another chance now?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9203619/Serge-Aurier-fighting-Tottenham-future-storming-half-time-Liverpool-loss.html

He was always gonna get more chances, people have been too quick to write him off because he didn't bring his Wolves form into this season.

RoryMac

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Another horror show from Duffy today, bets for all concerned if he gets to **** out of there, even a lower chip side at this stage his confidence must be shot to pieces

Nobody wants him gone more than Celtic fans, he has been horrendous costing us goals & points in pretty much every game.

Unfortunately I doubt he'll be going anywhere till the summer. His confidence is shot and I can't see how he could step in to an Irish side for the march games in this form

johnnyryan89

RoryMac wrote: »

Nobody wants him gone more than Celtic fans, he has been horrendous costing us goals & points in pretty much every game.

Unfortunately I doubt he'll be going anywhere till the summer. His confidence is shot and I can't see how he could step in to an Irish side for the march games in this form

Egan and Clark surely need to be our starting CBs for Serbia, does Duffy even make the squad with his form.

Also Kevin Long signs a two year contract extension at Burnley. Either he's gotten reassurance that he'll be Tarkowski's replacement or he's just settled and happy to be collecting his paycheck at this stage in his career.

Pawwed Rig

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

he's just settled and happy to be collecting his paycheck at this stage in his career.

This seems to be the case unfortunately

pjohnson

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

He was always gonna get more chances, people have been too quick to write him off because he didn't bring his Wolves form into this season.

Well he will do till season ends. I'd imagine a RB and back up striker be top of Spurs shopping list however.

henke

No Doherty in the starting 11 today. Could be rotation could be dropped.

pjohnson

henke wrote: »

No Doherty in the starting 11 today. Could be rotation could be dropped.

Sissoko starting RWB ahead of him.

corcaigh07

henke wrote: »

No Doherty in the starting 11 today. Could be rotation could be dropped.

Dropped surely, ffs

fullstop

henke wrote: »

No Doherty in the starting 11 today. Could be rotation could be dropped.

Same as most weeks then? He hardly needs a rest anyway :pac:

Bad sign when he can’t get in when they seem to be playing a back 3/5.

henke

fullstop wrote: »

Same as most weeks then? He hardly needs a rest anyway :pac:

Bad sign when he can’t get in when they seem to be playing a back 3/5.

I'd agree.

johnnyryan89

henke wrote: »

I'd agree.

It's Jose though, does anybody even know what goes through his head when it comes to team selections. Like last week he picks five at the back, has Doherty playing on the left and Ben Davies playing CB (whose playing on the left tonight), and then switches to a back four at half time. Honestly think he'll be sacked before the years over.

fullstop

Connolly with one of the misses of the season.

Arthur Daley

Connolly should be scoring these

Mushy

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Connolly should be scoring these

Reminded me of the one hendrick missed vs Slovakia. Harder to miss the thing

Citizenpain

Mushy wrote: »

Reminded me of the one hendrick missed vs Slovakia. Harder to miss the thing

Hourihane’s? Poor hendrick

Mushy

Citizenpain wrote: »

Hourihane’s? Poor hendrick

I almost had it wiped from my memory. Terrible either way, and apologies to poor Jeff!

pgj2015

disappointed with egan for the man city goal, the ball gets to jesus but he fumbles with it, egan just stood there watching, then he reacted when it was too late. I hate seeing defenders ball watching. he was in no mans land as well when the ball was crossed to jesus.

POKERKING

pgj2015 wrote: »

disappointed with egan for the man city goal, the ball gets to jesus but he fumbles with it, egan just stood there watching, then he reacted when it was too late. I hate seeing defenders ball watching. he was in no mans land as well when the ball was crossed to jesus.

I thought it was basham which just moved out of the way and just left jesus there on his own. Egan did well in the match

kowloonkev

I'm actually very impressed by Egan. Think he's one of those who gets better with age. Looks a strong character. Wouldn't mind seeing him as Ireland captain.

dr.kenneth noisewater

Shane Long could be on the way to Bournemouth on loan it seems, Josh King going the other way in that deal.

Tchaikovsky

fullstop wrote: »

Connolly with one of the misses of the season.

It was a great block in fairness; he lifted the ball and Alderweireld still managed to stop it.

Kiwi_knock

Troy Parrott being linked with a loan to Ipswich. Ipswich aren't a great team but you have to hope he can play well and score at that level.

pgj2015

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Troy Parrott being linked with a loan to Ipswich. Ipswich aren't a great team but you have to hope he can play well and score at that level.

Pity mourinho didn't let him go to Dundalk on loan last season.

henke

That is disappointing news on Parrott. He was playing fairly regularly until the last few weeks but just not scoring. I did have higher hopes for him that he wouldn't be dropping down to League One.

henke

Parrott to Ipswich confirmed. Hopefully it can kickstart him and he can get a few goals before the season ends.

crushproof

Spoke to a massive Spurs fan just before Christmas, 20 year season ticket holder etc. He had such high hopes for Parrott but the fall over the past 12-18 months has been terrible, and his off field antics have put a lot of Spurs fans off him. He's pretty sure now he'll be another exceptional talent that's going to fall into the cracks of professional football.

I'm hoping he's proven wrong but judging by the drop down to L1 he could be right.