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The O'Shea 
Jack Charlton 
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Lafferty hasn't scored a goal for NI since before Euro 2016, their fans are starting to ask whether he should even be a starter for them...
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We're decent enough..
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 21 Sep 2018 at 3:21pm |
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I'd wager twenty squids that he will score another international goal before Shane Long.
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Liam Brady
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A pretty damning statistic, but we shouldn't be too surprised. Certain chickens are coming home to roost, now. We could never piggyback on the efforts of foreign associations for ever. Decades of FAI negligence are coming back back to bite us in a big way, and this was always going to happen eventually.
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Jimmy Raggatip
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Posted: 21 Sep 2018 at 9:43pm |
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pretty damning statistic
comes to something that we are relying on Burnley reaching the groups
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton
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Posted: 21 Sep 2018 at 9:52pm |
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Hardly "chickens coming home to roost" though, is it? Cillian Sheridan has been our only CL representative over the past few years, and he's never even been included in one of MON's squad! That pretty much sums up the usefulness of the stat. At the end of the day, I'd much rather have our guys playing for middling teams in the most competitive league in the world, rather than some 2nd rate backwater just so we can say that we have a few "CL players"..
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We're decent enough..
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Liam Brady
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Posted: 21 Sep 2018 at 10:12pm |
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Lithuania, Andorra, Faroes, San Marino, Gibraltar, Latvia, Liechtenstein, and Moldova. That is the company we're keeping in terms of standard of player these days. This doesn't tell entirely the whole story, I'll grant you, but it doesn't look good. It can hardly be spun as a positive, can it? |
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton
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Posted: 21 Sep 2018 at 10:27pm |
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Well it can, with some nuance. We're probably unique in Europe in that 1)We have a weak domestic league; and 2)All of our best players are fed into the richest, most competitive league in the world. When you consider those two vital points, it makes sense that we will always have a limited presence in the EL/CL. If we had a standard European dynamic (ie a domestic league that often qualifies at least 1 side for either the EL or CL; and a more even spread of our players across different European leagues), then we would have a much greater representation in those competitions. That wouldn't really make our players any better though, they'd simply be moving their "Premier League averageness" to a weaker league where they stand out.
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Jimmy Raggatip
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Posted: 22 Sep 2018 at 9:59am |
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Ray Houghton
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Posted: 22 Sep 2018 at 2:06pm |
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Irish players don’t care about playing in Europe. They care about who will pay them the most wages for the minimum amount of effort required.
Most championship clubs would be paying better wages than a lot of Europa league, and even some Champions League teams.
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Cillian Sheridan scores a brace in his first start in a month, Richard
Keogh reaches 300 appearances for Derby County, Ciaran Clark's tenth
Premier League goal, and more in the round up for the weekend of Friday,
14th September:
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=9215371232993439210
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 27 Sep 2018 at 12:17pm |
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John O'Shea's first red card since 2013, three players are booked for the first time this season, Conor Hourihane's 350th career appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=7809969744764784301
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 28 Sep 2018 at 1:01pm |
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Wes Hoolahan's first start for West Brom, Cyrus Christie's first goal in
almost exactly a year, Conor Coventry's debut for West Ham, and more
in the midweek round up:
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=719896486775885740
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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12 players are shown their first yellow card of the season, four players score their first goal of the season, Darragh Lenihan reaches 100 appearances for Blackburn Rovers, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=7922810698375866860
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 05 Oct 2018 at 1:19pm |
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Aiden McGeady's first start of the season, Simon Cox's 30th goal for Southend, Shaun Williams' 100th appearance in the Championship, and more in the mid week round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=3515238617844391915 |
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 09 Oct 2018 at 12:27pm |
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Darron Gibson's first red card since 2012, Pierce Sweeney's 100th appearance for Exeter, Sean Maguire's first appearance of the season, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=6780708784772764713
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theworm2345
Liam Brady
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Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 3:00am |
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Dubliner Brian Gregg finished joint-third top scorer in the top (and only) tier of Turks and Caicos Islands football. He finished second from top last year I believe but we weren't covering with stats then.
And a hello to tets
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League of Ireland archive with reports back to 91/92 (goalscorers for First Division) now online, plus Twitter: twitter.com/StattoLOI
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 23 Oct 2018 at 3:48pm |
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Richie Towell's 50th appearance for Rotherham, Aidan Keena's debut for Dunfermline, Andy Keogh scores on the opening day of the ALeague, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=19277525183415027 |
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Aiden McGeady and Corey Whelan score for the first time this season, Jeff Hendrick's 200th career appearance, the first red card of Sam Foley's career, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog?id=1523306368153932936 |
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