Darren Randolph

Randolph has barely played all season. Do you honestly think he would turn down an Intl call-up for a friendly game let alone a competitive game when he has never done so before? Even when he was third choice keeper and eligible for the USA he turned up every time.

Even for purely selfish reasons he would play if it was at all possible to keep himself in the shop window.

It's just a pity Kelleher and Westwood are injured as well and that Travers has been recalled to the bench at Bournemouth.

We're due a bit of luck. Maybe Begovic will get injured over the next 24 hours.

It really is unprecedented how bad our luck has been under Kenny so far, first with Covid and now an assortment of injuries.

With Egan, McCarthy and McClean out already, I was looking at it from the perspective that at least there are none of the expectations one would normally have.

Now it's just getting depressing.

Still two weeks to go, so it's going to be interesting to see just how ramshackle a team we're forced to put out.

Unfortunately I don't think it's that simple. Molumby, Knight and Idah haven't done anything to suggest they are the answer to our problems; indeed two of them aren't even getting game time at club level. Parrott's dropped down to League One and still can't score. O'Shea's probably the best shout but he looks like he has a mistake in him (still ample time to iron out these mistakes, granted). Cullen has impressed, albeit in friendly matches against, frankly, terrible opposition.

The bottom line is that Hendrick and Hourihane are playing at a much higher level than Cullen. It would be a big call to drop one of them, especially when the team is depleted everywhere else.