Daryl Murphy

Might be just what we need for the Slovakia game. Fill him full of coke & tell him he's Marco Van Basten circa 1990.

Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.....

Reports from The Athletic that Daryl Murpy served a 6 week ban at the beginning of last year for taking cocaine.

Daryl Murphy, the former Republic of Ireland international, has spoken of his regret after admitting to The Athletic that he secretly served a Football Association ban for taking cocaine on a night out.

Murphy, whose long career has included spells at Sunderland, Celtic, Ipswich Town, Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest, said he was “not proud” of his actions after serving a six-week suspension that, until now, has never been known because of the FA’s policy not to name players who have failed drug tests.

Hans Moleman wrote:

No over reaction. Murphy should be left where he is. There is no situation where he should be back in an Irish squad. The simple fact that he is part of a conversation around the Irish squad still is grim.

I think we now have a situation where Murphy should be back in the Irish squad, and that is for the last 15 minutes V Slovakia. And the last 15 minutes V Bosnia/NI if it works.

We're not going to do anything different V Slovakia to any other game in the campaign, it will be 'keep it tight, try not to concede for 80 mins' and then hit a few long balls toward the opposition third for the last 10. Duffy performed this role V the Danes (unsurprisingly had little effect) so why not go with a fella as big as Duffy, but is also a forward ??

Any thoughts of progressive football of any description have long gone, tis just about getting over the line any way we can at this stage, and if that's the tactic, Murph can do that particular job better than anyone we have in the squad. He has 3 goals in 6 appearances for Bolton this season too, so even at his advanced age, clearly still has a clue where the net is.

In a grimly pragmatic way, it is a logical call.

Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.....

Double Maxim wrote:

Been given a free transfer by Forest.

If Lee Power hadn't fncked up Waterford he could have been tempted to return home.

Edited by kevincronin2000 - 19 Jul 2019 at 2:54pm

time is the stuff that life is made of, don't waste it.

The irony of this board criticising O'Neill for his setup but encouraging a 36 year old target man to come into the squad, sweet god almighty LOL

I'm okay with Mick opening up all options available but assuming everyone is available he needs to be down there in last place.

In fairness, Quinn was not 30 yet when McCarthy took over and Cascarino was 33.

That said Cas went on to be one of the top scorers in UEFA when qualifying for France 98 and Quinn was still in the thick of it by 2002

Had a great game against Leeds a couple of weeks back, gave Jansson a horrid time.

33 caps 3 goals. For God sake leave the man where he is.

alive and kicking

McG wrote:

ShamtheRam wrote:

What you have here is a case of people not reading the story. Mick has asked DM to make himself available in case of an emergency striker shortage a la Glenn Whelan has done for midfield position.

Correct

No over reaction. Murphy should be left where he is. There is no situation where he should be back in an Irish squad. The simple fact that he is part of a conversation around the Irish squad still is grim.

"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."