Underage squads: Best Prospects

It didn't sound like he had declined call ups previously he just stopped getting picked after his first few caps it seems to me even though he continued to improve at club level and stopped getting u19 call ups. Unpopular opinion maybe but it's a two way street you can make it sound like he's not committed or look at the fact Ireland are only interested when he's got some headlines for making a PL club breakthrough. Similar to Tom Cannon really we only got interested after some lower age group call ups when he got his first loan goals.  It just sometimes feels like we are pretty bad at knowing which players to keep involved. 

Again I'm not all that sure on his ceiling (its hard with 18/19 year olds) and he isn't a must pick at this point as I really like Armstrong and i'm not saying he wouldn't jump to England if he had the opportunity. But his club circumstances are such right now that if he's not available he misses a big opportunity so I don't see this refusal as being about Ireland as much as his club future. Maybe I'll be wrong but I can see an Irish born striker taking the same decision.

If Cannon plays for England, that's him locked in though isn't it? I think he's aware that he needs to be very careful with what he's doing. A handful of England 21 caps in nothing qualifiers, could end his international career there and then. 

Obvisouly not a big deal if he has no affinity to Ireland ala Bamford, but he clearly has some interest in playing for us. He even showed up to that mickey mouse U20 game against Ireland amateurs a few years back.

Could be something in the one time switch argument holding Cannon back abit but if he's set on playing for England playing for the u21s would help in the long run. Or maybe England would just rather have 'forwards' than a more traditional 9 in the squad so haven't reached out to him yet.

Thanks. 

Could also ask Hamza Choudhury