Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

O'Shea, Molumby, and Cullen all start tonight. No McNally again, and Costello drops out after being on the bench mid week. Gonna be interesting to see Molumby Vs Cullen in midfield tonight.

Bazunu now has more starts in the PL than Kelleher has.

Yeah remember reading that and would have been great to see him playing in one of those leagues. Burnley probably offered the best wage and with VK also there was a no brainer for him. At least Burnley try to play decent football.

Bournemouth ireally a Championchip team playing in the Premiership, nothing against them used to see them a bit when I lived nearby, but ther capacity is about 10k, no doubt owner who is Russian will be happy to just Yo yo. Regarding goalkeeper, I see Bazunu as our No. 1 going forward.

Think they want to move to a bigger stadium as they're only tenants at the current stadium but want help from the council to build I think I read.

But yeah they'll be happy to get the TV money, if they survive lovely but if not they'll get parachute payments and favourites to come back up etc etc.

Yeah for me Bazunu is our number one and going forward I don't really see the other two challenging him much.

Absolutely Gavin is our Number1 . But its great to have 2 PL keepers and another one second choice at one of the biggest clubs in the world.

We should be delighted with that but we have to listen to WUMs on here.

Jaysus I remember when we had Kieran ohara as our up and coming goalie. Jaysus wept.

We are in a really good place with our GKs. You'd have full confidence in all 3 being solid for us.

Interesting that there's no Michael Obafemi in the match day squad after the interest and bids from Burnley being turned down.

Probably find out in the after match press conferences. Similar with Idah.

Idah had surgery on his meniscus and unfortunately for him could be something that affects his career. Could be swelling in the knee like last month or hopefully not and nothing knee related if it is indeed injury related.

Russell Martin said Obafemi was left out because he felt his head wasn't in the right place.

"Michael, we had a chat after the deadline day madness and both decided it was best for him to have the weekend off and that he couldn't contribute in a way that he should have. I'm a young manager and have to learn a lot, I shouldn't have brought him on Wednesday with what was going on, I made the wrong call. But I feel like we made the right call today, and Michael agreed.

"He'll come back in on Monday, we'll have a really good chat and we'll make sure he's in the right frame of mind to contribute. His head has been filled with all sorts of nonsense since we first came back in, so his energy has been a bit different.

"We need to get back to the Michael Obafemi we had from December onwards and I'm sure we will."

Jim Goowin had similar to say about Jamie McGrath and outside influences back in January.

“I told Jamie there are outside influences in his ear telling him this and that but it’s purely speculation. The most important thing is concentrating on the football because the move will come.

It’s extremely simple, you’ve been asked twice for the errors Travers made that qualifies your opinion that he consistently makes errors.

you haven’t had a response to that question. So we think you need to watch more and talk less. Any questions?

I never said that posters implied it and others ran with it. i simply said seeing Travers for three Ireland games is enough. Plus added to his recent club form and him being dropped what does it add up to. Now supporters defending players is admirable. But blindly defending players and making excuses for them as fans is the wrong thing to do IMO. It is similar to the approach the fella on Irish Football Fan TV does defend the players no matter what. It becomes silly, Why not call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel?

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Good to see a manager support a young player. The last thing we'd need is Gavin being dropped too. He was at fault for the Wolves goal but that will happen. A young goalie like him needs to be guaranteed games and told that mistakes won't necessarily see him being dropped. Pity Bournemouth took the view that Mark it is the weak link. Laughable really.

He seems like a fella who could maybe do with a good long term advisor - not in an agent capacity, but rather someone who won't profit off his specific actions. Just someone to keep him focused on the longer term goals, who he knows is on his side. He does seem to get overly effected/distracted by the little drama's around football.

Women's team had a great campaign. A bye to the second round of the playoffs but neither round is seeded so could get lucky or draw one of the top two teams.

Wish him all the best and luck.

Very annoying from Irish point of view

I would think it's more likely to be Austria. And that will be tough.

At this stage of the competition everyone will fancy themselves in one off games. Wales or Bosnia would have been the best draw though. Was a good campaign and should set them up nicely to have a right crack at qualification for Euro 2025 which being one of the three best runners up would get you automatic qualification and avoid a playoff. Will likely be the final tournament for a few of the girls so be interesting to see if some call it a day if we qualify for the WC or stay on for the Euros.

Men's senior and U21 squads should be announced Thursday or Friday. Interesting to see if more games are postponed between now and then. Not that some players who aren't getting minutes atm will suddenly of pick up game time ala Doherty, Coleman, and Duffy.

U19s kick off their campaign Wednesday week against Gibraltar which is a handy first fixture and don't think their squad will be announced until after the U21s. Can't see anyone from the 2004 group sneaking into the U21s so they should be unaffected.

James mclean sticking to his guns anyway. Had a dig at miguel delaney. No black arm band for him.

No Obafemi in the Swansea squad. Smallbone starts for Stoke but no Kilkenny in the squad again. O'Dowda makes his return for Cardiff in time for a possible call up. Cullen, Brady, and Parrott all start in the live game but again no Luke McNally to be found in the Burnley squad.

2 assists for Robinson now