Declan Rice

Anything we can do as supporters?....a petition/a video sharing our hopes/dreams/joys/despairs of being an Irish football supporter...send him Irish jerseys with Rice on the back....something with humour/a bit different....yeah in an ideal world he’d be 100% committed but he is English born and while he clearly has a strong affinity with Ireland I don’t see any problem with him feeling that conflict of emotions....and if there are more mercenary considerations,so what...he’s 19 yrs of age ffs!....(I’m coaching some U16 kids who are precisely that i.e kids...and they are just 3 yrs younger than him!!!) don’t think we’re dealing with a Grealish type here....this guy is a leader and a footballer and we need him.....would be great if in some small,respectful,humorous,distinctly Irish way we could encourage him to be the foundation stone of the Irish team for next 10 yrs plus....forgive the cock eyed idealism😀

GoneToShowgies wrote: What does he think is picking ... a club ffs.  This is to play for your country. Simple as that. It should be a very very easy decision if there is a choice. This 'toughest decision' business is horsesh1te, as I said this isint a choice between 2 clubs. If he wants to play for England then fine, but don't be wasting peoples time playing to the galleries while sitting on the fence like its a difficult decision.

Interesting that all of the talk on UK social media today is whether he will sign a new contract with West Ham, not whether he will declare for England.

lassassinblanc wrote: shouldn't you be training set pieces?

shouldn't you be training set pieces?

That article convinces me even more that he's gone. He's described it as "the toughest decision of his career". I'd consider it the toughest decision of someone's life..

zizu Kilbane wrote: From this interview, and what MON has said in public, the aul lad seems sounds like a very patriotic irishman. That'd be really the only thing giving you a bit hope but it sounds like the club, the new agent and the Southgate have turned his head. #Decxit is right!

Edited by eire28 - 09 Nov 2018 at 12:40pm

horsebox wrote: BrendanD88 wrote: Trigboy 10 wrote: It was a good read and nice to see him using pubic transport but we don't want him back we're fine thanks "you" don't want him, plenty of us would love to have him back. He hasn't actually left us yet. He is still an Ireland player and has been nearly 4 years now.

I'm well aware. I would love to have him back in the squad was what I was getting at, as you well know.