Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Only watched the first 20 mins of Norwich but I thought Idah was doing OK. Did very well to create a good chance for Pukki who should have scored really.

Getting injured last season was a disaster for him really. If he had of had a full season in the championship then I think he would look a lot sharper now, but playing Premier League he is probably slightly out of his depth. Would be good to see him get a loan but he would have to be playing for it to be worthwhile.

There was huge hype around the 4 lads at the same time,

its such a shame that right now none of them have kicked on ,

For me if Connolly & Idah get to play week in week out in the championship they would come on leaps and bounds & be more than suitable for us,

Should be moving on a 18 month loan to Schalke who are in Bundesliga 2. Az Alkmaar and FC Zurich were also linked to him.

Anselmo Garcia McNulty could be going on loan in January too. Supposedly linked with Werder Bremen and Nurnberg who are in Bundesliga 2.

Liam Scales starts tonight in the Europa League against Real Betis. Celtic have a second string out so could be a tough night but hopefully Scales can make positive impact.

Solid performance.

Travers and Brady play the 90 minutes for Bournemouth as they lost to Blackburn. Brady played at left back accord to LiveScore.

Knight, Browne, Maguire, Molumby, Robinson, Parrott, McClean and Keane all started while Obafemi came off the bench for their respective clubs.

Smallbone, Long, and Kilkenny were all unused substitutes.

Omobamdiele not in Norwich's squad whilst Idah drops back to the bench.

Ah right thanks I was wondering. Thought he was not doing that bad to be dropped from the squad.

Johnny Kenny was at the Hibs game tonight.

Scales assist

Brighton 1-0 down at half time, their front three including Connolly haven't gotten into the game at all. Wonder is there a chance we could see Ferguson get a chance if it continues.

Connolly subbed off. It’s never gonna happen for him at Brighton but he’s got his big contract so big chance he won’t want to move

Smallbone off after an hour for Southampton, Long on for the last half hour.

Brighton certainly have problems, that is clear by their lack of goals this season, but Connolly's performance wasn't good. I don't think he touched the ball more than a dozen times in an hour. If it was backs to the wall for Brighton, you'd probably let him off the hook, but the fact is even before Wolves scored, Brighton were in control of that game. He should have been more involved than what he was.

At the same time, I do have sympathy for him and wouldn't dismiss him. The Premier League is the best league in the world at the moment, if you put any of our strikers in there at the moment, they would struggle too.

I think Connolly would be best going down the Robinson route and dropping down to the Championship. If he got himself a move in January, was able to get 20 games or so under his belt and 7-8 goals, he'd be well in contention to start for us. He'd also have himself a nice launchpad to get a permanent move to a decent club in the Summer.

Kieran McKenna looks set to take charge at Ipswich. I had not heard of him before, but he seems highly regarded. Maybe one to keep an eye on as a possible future Irish manager.

Europa League draw is happening at the moment.

We've just been drawn against Ukraine, Scotland and Armenia.

Tough enough.

Well capable of taking points off of everyone in that group. If we keep progressing the way we have, we've nothing to fear.

Ukraine were as poor a team as I can remember during the Euros, so I definitely think we've the beating of them if we get the game plan right. Scotland are a better team than us of course, and they'll be the toughest in the group IMO. Armenia are a team we have to be taking 6 points from now, though.