Irish Footballers MIA ?

Rollo Tamasi

Lads whatever happened to these bright irish soccer stars of the future :

Stephen McPhail
Ritchie Partridge &
Liam George

A few years ago there would have been a lot of hype about them but where are they now? Also, speaking on Irish players can Bolton's Kevin Nolan qualify for Ireland, i heard before that he has an Irish gran but not much else on the matter. He would make a great partner for Keane, er..i mean in a football sense btw!

Seaneh

Nolan isnt abile to play for ireland anymore.
there was some sort of amnisty by fifa but only for a small period of time.
Chris macken took advantage but nolan didnt.
McPhail plays League 1 football, Psrtridge is playing with Sheffield Wed. in the championship and to be honest Ive never even heard of liam gorge...

KdjaCL

Liam George was with pats 2 seasons ago , went to a non league club.

Others as seaneh posted.

kdjac

Rollo Tamasi

who is McPhail playing for?

Jivin Turkey

Barnsley I think.

pickarooney

Not that you asked, but it seems as Ronnie 'Man of the Millenium' O'Brien is making a real go if it in the MLS and is hoping to get citizenship next year in the hope of playing for the US.
Should that come to pass, would that be the first time an Irish player defected?

Rollo Tamasi

Kevin Gallen, former QPR striker. Me thinks he played a few times underage for Ireland but then declared himself for England. I think he got a B-Cap with England

jubbly

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Lads whatever happened to these bright irish soccer stars of the future :

Stephen McPhail
Ritchie Partridge &
Liam George

A few years ago there would have been a lot of hype about them but where are they now? Also, speaking on Irish players can Bolton's Kevin Nolan qualify for Ireland, i heard before that he has an Irish gran but not much else on the matter. He would make a great partner for Keane, er..i mean in a football sense btw!

Put a big F in there for Stephen.

Ritchie Partridge was plaged with injuries at liverpool AFAIK and went to sheffied united.

Kevin Nolan, who wants him ?

Rollo Tamasi

Who wants Kevin Kilbane?

Chucky the tree

jubbly wrote:

Put a big F in there for Stephen.

Ritchie Partridge was plaged with injuries at liverpool AFAIK and went to sheffied united.

Kevin Nolan, who wants him ?

no, he went to wednesday, as seaneh mentioned already.

jubbly

i meant wednesday ><

wheres me jumpa

shame about mcphail he had a sweet left boot but never seemed to take off. partridge i didnt really know too well and my only memory of liam george was back in days of brian kerr managing the young lads.

Rollo Tamasi

yeah same here with regards Liam George, remember thinking himself and colin hawkin where for the future...

wheres me jumpa

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

yeah same here with regards Liam George, remember thinking himself and colin hawkin where for the future...

i see you have taken a break from the heat of the "affordable web designer thread"!

hawkins is class. surprised he didnt make it in england.

Rollo Tamasi

wheres me jumpa wrote:

i see you have taken a break from the heat of the "affordable web designer thread"!

jesus yeah! lol, some of those guys will keep at for ever!
Yeah, i remember St Pats put a 1,000,000 pound price tag on him a few years ago after his youth team sucsess. Shame it didn't go better for him. I think he might have spent a season in the conference but i might be wrong. Another guy who was meant to be the next big thing is Eamonn Zayhed, i think he moved from Coventry to Bray. There are so many thou, i have a feeling that Liam Miller could follow the long line of misfortunate young players, although maybe not as dramatically. He lives down the road from me, himself and colin healy. It be nice for them to have some success.

AngelofFire

Is Colin Healy back from that horrific injury yet?

StickyMcGinty

partridge scored the winner for wednesday at the weekend i think! gooo on richie!

Big Nelly

VinnyL wrote:

partridge scored the winner for wednesday at the weekend i think! gooo on richie!

I wished!!!! 0-0 draw with QPR.....Partridge was playing thou!!

Rollo Tamasi

AngelofFire wrote:

Is Colin Healy back from that horrific injury yet?

nope, he has broken his leg in the same place twice, Safri busted him originally about 2 years ago now, and then he broke down during a reserve match and the leg practically snapped on him. I doubt we'll see him play this season anyway, i'm not sure on his progress thou. I hope he comes back better than ever, he looked very compentant whenever he played for Ireland

ianomccabe

richie scored to make it two one in extra time during last week against stockport, think thats what vinny was referring to.

He also played v QPR on friday

shelsfan

Yeah, i remember St Pats put a 1,000,000 pound price tag on him a few years ago after his youth team sucsess. Shame it didn't go better for him. I think he might have spent a season in the conference but i might be wrong. Another guy who was meant to be the next big thing is Eamonn Zayhed, i think he moved from Coventry to Bray.

Colin Hawkins played at Doncaster Rovers.
Eamonn Zayed trained with with NY/NJ Metrostars recently (I think he scored in a friendly). I heard he could have went but decided to stay at Bray because he's going to college.

por

pickarooney wrote:

Not that you asked, but it seems as Ronnie 'Man of the Millenium' O'Brien is making a real go if it in the MLS and is hoping to get citizenship next year in the hope of playing for the US.
Should that come to pass, would that be the first time an Irish player defected?

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Kevin Gallen, former QPR striker. Me thinks he played a few times underage for Ireland but then declared himself for England. I think he got a B-Cap with England

Noel Whelan is another , I remember the concern that was shown when he declared for England and then went on to score in a B international against Ireland in early 1995.
Thank God nothing came of him like Gallen.

wheres me jumpa

zayed has just signed for a norwegian premier division team on an eight month loan.

Seaneh

actually... thats eight week loan...

wheres me jumpa

whoops sorry my mistake, didnt see the other thread either!

Slash/ED

Hawkins played for Doncaster but the manager who signed him got sacked and the new man signed two centre halfs without ever seing hawkins, who hadn't offically signed until the new man came in. As a result he got played in mid field or right back and never got a proper chance. He could easily have progressed with a proper chance.

The_B_Man

Graham Barrett just moved to Livingstone. Coventry apparently told him to find somewhere new this summer. Let's hope he gets on well up there.