Darren Randolph

Left foot wrote: daithi wrote: Left foot wrote: What are the thoughts on turning a crisis into an opportunity? Randolph is out, Duffy unlikely to play, mcclean is also out I believe, mcgoldrick retired. Why not also drop Hendrick, hourihane, Coleman and clear our all other over 30s. Get kelleher, oshea, molumby, knight, idah, parrott, Cullen all up to speed. Christy did your daddy ever bring you to the local baths ? Did he throw you into the deep end to see if you could swim but then have to dive in to help you out because you couldn’t even float ? That’s what it would be like taking all the experience out of the team at this level.  Ah sure you're right daithi  It was a bit of a radical idea.

I secretly might like it though 

Hope Kelleher is fit. I don't think Bazunu is anywhere near ready for a game of this magnitude and, as another poster alluded to, Travers doesn't inspire much confidence in me. Seems the polar opposite to Kelleher in terms of body language.

BohsinMunich wrote: According to rte.ie Randolph is out of the Serbia game

Bazuna was saving penalties in the top flight of the Irish League and lining out in thw Europa League at the age of 16 while the rest of yous were probably pulling your plums.

McG wrote: Banjaxed wrote: Bazuna was saving penalties in the top flight of the Irish League and lining out in thw Europa League at the age of 16 while the rest of yous were probably pulling your plums. Wouldn't be ideal if he ends up having to start, but I'd.be far more worried about certain other personnel who may end up in the starting 11. Really? Like who? Goalkeeper is the bedrock of any team. I’m not saying he should be a non runner but it’s certainly not an ideal time to give a 19 year old lad with 30 or so senior apps his debut

They are 3 really good prospects. Even with their relative inexperience the goalkeeping position if they get luck with injuries etc is not a spot we have to worry about. I wouldn’t be having panic attacks if any of the 3 were thrown in for Serbia honestly they’d lack experience yes never ideal but they have more then enough ability.

Edited by kevin100 - 11 Mar 2021 at 11:45pm

with Randolph out and a very inexperienced keeper he definitely needs to put out his most experienced back 4 Coleman Clark and Stevens have to start for me.

Left foot wrote: I would say we need to play our most experienced back 10 in order to get something out of these games

This is the first competitive game Darren has missed since he replaced Given at half time in the infamous 1-0 win over Germany in October 2015. (39 games)