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I haven't seen massive amounts of him but from watching the Football League show he was pretty clinical at times last season for Millwall (granted it was League 1 level) and from the few times I've seen him when Millwall were live on Sky, you can see that Aiden is very pacey and direct (raw) 

I suppose with Scott Hogan we're getting a more polished natural striker with high conversion ratio and all round more skillful. 

Still Aiden is only 24, if he can become a 10+ goal a season man in The Championship then happy days.
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Nice to see O'Brien get some recognition with the call up. 

Delighted for him even if he most likely won't make the final squad. Clap
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Originally posted by Fozzy B Fozzy B wrote:

scored for millwall tonight. another possible option in the striking department. someone just needs to remind oneill that he's played for us from u17's up to u21's.

Think he had a one in two notch rate at U21 for us, five in ten, and has a goal from two apps at Championship level so far. Still 23, surprisingly little about him considering our scouring that division for strikers.
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scored for millwall tonight. another possible option in the striking department. someone just needs to remind oneill that he's played for us from u17's up to u21's.
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He gets a bit of stick from Millwall fans(who doesn't) for being a bit lazy. Still think he is more of a striker than a winger, from what I have seen of him. Hopefully he will push on next season.
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Good for 10-15 goals in League One from the wing. If he can replicate that in the Championship it would be great
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Nice to have another Irish striker in the championship who's still pretty young.

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Originally posted by DeclanDaly DeclanDaly wrote:

Depressing news: Aiden O'Brien scored again today and set up another. Sad day for Irish football.
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Another goal tonight which takes him to 9 for the season in all competitions which isnt bad considering he missed the start of the season through injury. He is also starting to attract interest from some championship and premier league teams. 

Also goals tonight for bradley garmston and sean murray in the JPT Trophy


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Originally posted by DeclanDaly DeclanDaly wrote:

Depressing news: Aiden O'Brien scored again today and set up another. Sad day for Irish football.

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Originally posted by DeclanDaly DeclanDaly wrote:

Depressing news: Aiden O'Brien scored again today and set up another. Sad day for Irish football.

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Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Originally posted by Bohsfan84 Bohsfan84 wrote:

The problem with Ireland is that nobody scores, be they striker, winger or midfielder.

Plenty of teams bigger than Ireland have went to tournaments without a half decent striker but usually there are players who can carry the load in other areas of the pitch.

We have wingers who average about 5 goals in 100 games and central midfielders (Whelan) who go 5 years without scoring goals.


Agreed, but no need to pick on Whelan specifically, McCarthy's goals to games ratio is no better. Meyler gets an odd one or 2 for his club, but hardly prolific either, Quinn even less than that (currently injured anyway), Gibson is nearly always injured but at least has a good strike on a ball the odd occasion he does play, it is a bit early to tell on the likes of Harry Arter (though again, is a good striker of a ball).
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Hendrick has done well for us though, at least in the assist department, seems to have the knack for being in the right place at the right time, but difficult to pin all yer hopes on a young lad still learning his trade too. Hoolahan, again, plenty credit in the build up play/assists, but not a lot in the goalscoring either. </span>

The one that disappoints me most is actually Robbie Brady, we haven't had a decent set piece/free kick specialist since Liam Lawrence left us, and that's 4 years ago now, Brady has the technique and ability to step up to the mark here, but yet we have seen very little evidence of it, bar in the friendly against USA a good while back. 

Goals from defenders have been very rare too, Coleman scored 7 or 8 last year for Everton, rarely looks like doing so for us, JOS/Clark/Wilson/Keogh all do the normal central defender thing & go up for frees & corners, but none of them seem to have the ability/instinct of SSL or Dunne to nick an odd one, you always thought there might be a chance when one of those 2 went forward. 






Good summation and agree with it all. Seems we have ultimately failed to replace those that offered a goal threat in, let's face it, all areas of the pitch.
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Depressing news: Aiden O'Brien scored again today and set up another. Sad day for Irish football.

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Originally posted by Bohsfan84 Bohsfan84 wrote:

The problem with Ireland is that nobody scores, be they striker, winger or midfielder.

Plenty of teams bigger than Ireland have went to tournaments without a half decent striker but usually there are players who can carry the load in other areas of the pitch.

We have wingers who average about 5 goals in 100 games and central midfielders (Whelan) who go 5 years without scoring goals.

Agreed, but no need to pick on Whelan specifically, McCarthy's goals to games ratio is no better. Meyler gets an odd one or 2 for his club, but hardly prolific either, Quinn even less than that (currently injured anyway), Gibson is nearly always injured but at least has a good strike on a ball the odd occasion he does play, it is a bit early to tell on the likes of Harry Arter (though again, is a good striker of a ball).

Hendrick has done well for us though, at least in the assist department, seems to have the knack for being in the right place at the right time, but difficult to pin all yer hopes on a young lad still learning his trade too. Hoolahan, again, plenty credit in the build up play/assists, but not a lot in the goalscoring either. 

The one that disappoints me most is actually Robbie Brady, we haven't had a decent set piece/free kick specialist since Liam Lawrence left us, and that's 4 years ago now, Brady has the technique and ability to step up to the mark here, but yet we have seen very little evidence of it, bar in the friendly against USA a good while back. 

Goals from defenders have been very rare too, Coleman scored 7 or 8 last year for Everton, rarely looks like doing so for us, JOS/Clark/Wilson/Keogh all do the normal central defender thing & go up for frees & corners, but none of them seem to have the ability/instinct of SSL or Dunne to nick an odd one, you always thought there might be a chance when one of those 2 went forward. 
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Originally posted by Bohsfan84 Bohsfan84 wrote:

The problem with Ireland is that nobody scores, be they striker, winger or midfielder.


Exactly why it's good to see one of our kids who can score from centre forward or the wing
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The problem with Ireland is that nobody scores, be they striker, winger or midfielder.

Plenty of teams bigger than Ireland have went to tournaments without a half decent striker but usually there are players who can carry the load in other areas of the pitch.

We have wingers who average about 5 goals in 100 games and central midfielders (Whelan) who go 5 years without scoring goals.
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