Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

For me I won't be touching any Ireland tops because their quality is utterly dreadful.

Ouch. I was hoping that at least it would not be too long term a deal. O well looks like it will be a very long time before I am buying another Ireland top.

Parrott dropped for Cannon again.

A clear preference is becoming at club end.

Cannon scores.

He is due to link up with the U21 squad for match in Cork. Doubt we will see him in the senior squad for the qualifiers

Hard to include Parrott over Cannon in the squad based on form of late. Parrott's career is on a downward trajectory. I know he's had his injuries this season but you'd imagine he'll be playing at the low end of the Championship or L1 come next season.

2 goals for Andy Lyons tonight for Blackpool. Has made the step up from League of Ireland very well so far

Wouldnt think so. Regardless of that though he is in much better form than idah or parrott so why not look at him again Latvia.

Anyone else a little anxious about what the squad will be ?

We need some 'youth/in form players' in this squad and not Kennys favourites like Hourihane etc we're not beating France anyway but getting a look into the future would give some sort of hope

Can't see it with Coleman and Doherty there. Probably why we should be naming a bigger squad since it's two home games. Get new faces in and training with the squad.

Idah and parrotts form and lack of development is a massive cause for concern at this stage. Yes ok they have both had injuries this year but neither have reached any sort of level where it might improve is significantly. It looks as if our immediate short term future should be built around Ferguson, Obafemi and ogbene. It might not do Parrott and harm to drop back into the 21s for a spell either getting full games.

Does anyone know about tickets for the Latvia match?

I can get 2 tickets (from a friend thats not going) but i was wondering if anyone knows where you could get 2 more for just the Latvia match?

As far as i can see, need to buy the 2 match set on Ticketmaster ..

I dont want to have to choose 1 child to be left out !!! 😣 😄

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I'd cut him some slack really. Has missed a ton of football because of injuries and even during this run of games he's starting in he's played out wide in some.

As seen with Smallbone this season he's needed a good run of regular game time this season to hit the form that he's been showing lately. I know Norwich gave him a new long term contract and Wagner has spoken highly of him but he really needs to be getting game time like Smallbone has been getting this season to hopefully push on. Can't be sitting on the bench getting 20 mins here and there next season.

I think the lad probably needs to get out of Norwich to a club with a guarantee of being a starter but where does he go? Will another Championship club pay decent money for him? Unless Norwich are promoted I can't see him being loaned out to a rival championship club. League 1 would be an absolute disaster but might just be his level. I'd imagine that as long as Ferguson stays fit for us Idah won't see a lot of game time. A bit much like his career with Norwich to date.

Really hard to gauge what his level might be but so far it doesn't scream championship or PL based on his stats.

Nevermind, went off soccerway and they had no mention of this friendly

A bit of everything for Manning throughout the night. Involved in the "bobbling" that led to the opening Millwall goal, scored, could have scored two more and then got booked in the 95th minute.

I would have had him in with the seniors, have said we should name an extend squad given we've two home games. Once the U19s is finished this month we'll likely see a couple of young lads move up.

Ed McJannet was captain I believe last season for the 19s when it was the 03s and should be a cert to move up. Might see Lawal move back to CB when McJannet and McManus whose starting for Bohs (turns 18 tomorrow) possibly move up. Though McManus will have another year at U19s so could float between both squads.

Ferizaj has looked good for Rovers last season and just turned 18 but hasn't featured this season unfortunately. Think he's out of contract this season so will likely be on the move this summer.

Darragh Burns, Mipo Odubeko, Calum Kavanagh and Dara Costelloe look to be the main omissions in attack. Though wouldn't be too worried except for Kavanagh. Would rather see Armstrong, Okoflex, and Moran getting more game time at this level than the others that didn't make it.

Hodge could well move up by September and Lawal drops back to CB so would like to see us give more game time to the high potential 04s and 05s. If we're even in contention for a play off this qualification we'll be doing great and might be a good time to fast track certain players.

Haha I forgot. We aren't allowed to be annoyed when a player doesn't make successive squads when they are clearly a really good option in a position where we need options.

If we question it in the slightest we are accused of trying to build a player up. For Manning it's Roberto Carlos, for holohan it was messi and for Reid it was something similar. Even though the previous 2 players I mentioned were cleary good enough to improve our team.

Get real. It's a fair enough debate and won that needs to be had as to why Manning isn't making squads. He is good enough and in form and would improve the selection.

Does anyone know where to get tickets for the U19 games this month?

Burnley all but certain to be playing Premier League football next year with Cullen at the heart of it all. Amazing to think it wasn't that long ago that we were worried Burnley in serious trouble after going down and losing half their squad.

Was widely reported that there IS an obligation to buy (or in a few reports, an obligation triggered by easily achievable targets), so I'd say he'll be staying there. Both the player and Swansea would've been pushing for that anyway, and given that it took 3 bids for Swansea to accept, I doubt they'd have agreed to something that could screw them over.

Guessing it's one of those loan-to-buys that Juve always do, where it basically just puts off the accounting aspect of the purchase until a financial period when the books look better - which they certainly will after promotion.

No Manning is a strange decision given the form he is in.

McGrath a strange inclusion when there's others at a higher level.

Connor Ronan paying the price for his move to the MLS.

conor hourihane omitted?

Mcgrath fortunate to be included

I’m sorry but thinking doherty should be excluded for the lad at udinese is crazy talk