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Seems to suggest it's 'our' players that have had call ups without naming them until squads are announced. Not sure this is good or bad for us. Gives the squad a week and a half rest but means a relentless last 4 weeks or so.
Fixture changes due to call ups on 13:15 - Mar 29 by dingdangblue
Baah on at ht, along with 9 other changes.
Had one decent effort but not much more. Was played more as one of two strikers central which doesn't really at to his strengths. Unfortunately didn't get on the ball enough.
Thought he did well. Didn't look out of place in that company and had 1 good run which led to a free kick, won the ball back a few times and had a shot which just flew wide of the post. Some highlights here - Baahs shot is the one just before the England free kick effort. England won 2-0.
Its a BRILLIANT goal to cap a BRILLIANT start by Rochdale - Don Goodman 26/08/10
▪️ Wholesale changes as only Bazunu, Coleman & O'Shea remain from Luxembourg defeat ▪️ Shane Duffy, Shane Long, Daryl Horgan, Cyrus Chrstie & James McClean among those to start
In a bid to condemn Ireland's defeat, the Press referred to Rochdale's goalkeeper. Had there been an impressive victory, would the Press have referred to City's goalkeeper?
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Fixture changes due to call ups on 20:26 - Mar 30 with 1788 views
Fixture changes due to call ups on 20:26 - Mar 30 by SuddenLad
Gavin booked after 8 minutes.
Very harsh that, couldn't see much contact made with the Quatar player. The ref initially gave a penalty only to correctly reverse it to a freekick outside the box - although doubtful it was even a foul. Ireland struggle to a 1-1 draw to one of the lowest ranked teams in the World. The days of them upsetting the likes of Italy,Holland and Spain are long gone.
Its a BRILLIANT goal to cap a BRILLIANT start by Rochdale - Don Goodman 26/08/10
Ireland’s halcyon period in the last 30 or so years came when they stacked the team with players who had Irish heritage rather than qualifying by actually being born in the country. That category of player has all but dried up completely and so they’re struggling.
Fixture changes due to call ups on 22:35 - Mar 30 by EllDale
Ireland’s halcyon period in the last 30 or so years came when they stacked the team with players who had Irish heritage rather than qualifying by actually being born in the country. That category of player has all but dried up completely and so they’re struggling.
They were a sum that was greater than their parts and countries have always used players not necessarily born in the nation they represent. It was magnified at the time because of Jack Charlton who found a way of playing to get the best out of some half decent top flight players.
There was no way the likes of Kevin Moran, Steve Staunton and Alan McLaughlin were world class, but within the structure Charlton set-up he had hard working, effective sides. It’s actually possible to say they had more quality later on with the likes of Robbie Keane, Damien Duff and Roy Keane, yet the 90s side is still more fondly remembered.
There used to be a time when most top flight teams would have the odd Irish player, or player who qualified for Ireland. They used to do a lot of scouting there and bringing lads over when they were 15/16 to stay in digs; not sure this happens so much now, and the English teams now seem to be able to hoover up talent from all over the world (a look through any big team's u-18s and you will see lads from Spain, France, Holland, Portugal, even Serbia, Poland etc).
There's not much infrastructure to develop the Irish players at ages below 15/16, and so they aren't even getting the chance to get onto big team's youth books, which was the way most players found their way into English football. That pathway has for the most part dried up. The League of Ireland is on a par with the Conference, so there's a small chance that players playing there will catch the eye of anyone in English football.
In short, the decline of Irish football has been long coming and looks set to continue. They should now look towards countries like Iceland and Luxembourg as being the blueprint for how to improve, as bad as that sounds.
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Fixture changes due to call ups on 09:44 - Mar 31 with 1386 views
Fixture changes due to call ups on 08:10 - Mar 31 by TipperaryDale
There used to be a time when most top flight teams would have the odd Irish player, or player who qualified for Ireland. They used to do a lot of scouting there and bringing lads over when they were 15/16 to stay in digs; not sure this happens so much now, and the English teams now seem to be able to hoover up talent from all over the world (a look through any big team's u-18s and you will see lads from Spain, France, Holland, Portugal, even Serbia, Poland etc).
There's not much infrastructure to develop the Irish players at ages below 15/16, and so they aren't even getting the chance to get onto big team's youth books, which was the way most players found their way into English football. That pathway has for the most part dried up. The League of Ireland is on a par with the Conference, so there's a small chance that players playing there will catch the eye of anyone in English football.
In short, the decline of Irish football has been long coming and looks set to continue. They should now look towards countries like Iceland and Luxembourg as being the blueprint for how to improve, as bad as that sounds.
They seem to find their way to spotland in large numbers.
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Fixture changes due to call ups on 19:33 - Mar 31 with 1098 views
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