David McGoldrick

sorry Leon Best i meant it was a typo  people get ready and most of you are very sensitive like a rose, wouldnt say simon cox but michael robinson could have been like kempes

JAVIER wrote: sorry Leon Best i meant it was a typo  people get ready and most of you are very sensitive like a rose, wouldnt say simon cox but michael robinson could have been like kempes

 

Trapcandoit wrote: Citizen wrote: whats the point in international football if we take every waif and stray on. id get more satisfaction out of irish lad playing tbh. Or at least 2nd generation irish who's intention was always to play for ireland. These lads will never really make a difference to the overall quality of the squad anyway.  Bigger countries than ourselves do it all the time Citizen. With our small pool of players we simply can't afford not to follow this trend. Not saying that we can't field a team of basically home-grown talent somewhere down the line, but it would be far far down it. You know all this yourself sure. Imv I'm quite touched about it when these lads show some genuine desire and enthusiasm to don the green. Look at Carruthers (is it?), he turned down how many other countries including England to declare for us. As long as this chap shows some sort of similar desire for it I'm happy to have a look at him at least.

big difference between carruthers and mcgoldrick. no problem with genuine lads wanting to play for us (clark ,mccarthy, mcgeady, kilbane), but not lads who want to get a bit of international football on their cv as they approach their late 20s. Other countries only do it also to add quality to the squad, not for the sake of it. spain with senna and diego costa. deco portugal etc. I don't think he would add anything to the squad in terms of quality tbh, a good percentage of his goals have come from the peno spot, and he also has no history of being a prolific scorer.  

its no harm to cap a few of these lads , we would have lost lawro and andy T to england i bet if they had been allowed to switch later on and they were both class players for us who peaked a little bit later in their careers  

He seems to be a late bloomer, let's see if he can maintain his form and warrant a chance.

Steve Amsterdam wrote: He seems to be a late bloomer, let's see if he can maintain his form and warrant a chance.

Stillhuntinghenry wrote: Bit harsh clonbhoy, mcgoldrick was adopted and only found out last year that both of his birth mothers parents were Irish. Had he known this when he was 17, who is to say he wouldn't have declared? I certainly think he is an exceptional case. I haven't seen enough of him to know if he's good enough but on his goal record he has to be ahead of the likes of cox, Doyle, Sammon etc You say he's as Irish as Beni McCarthy, in fact he is as Irish as ciaran Clarke, sean st ledger, paul green, Aidan mcgeady

Caoilan Lavery thats sound some celtic name all the way, is he able for the Republic?

Big loss for Ipswich. He was scoring 1 in 2 this season.