Jimmy Dunne

Bainneban wrote:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/if-it-takes-until-im-26-to-play-for-ireland-so-be-it-jimmy-dunne-rxh5qhd7p

any chance of copy pasting the article?

Article looks like bollocks, but it might be a sign that Jimmy or his agent are a little bolshe and eager to get into the senior set up.

And as others have said, why not? He seems very promising, he’s playing at a good level, and as a left sided CB could be a good option if we consider three at the back

You asked if I'd be anyone from history, fact or fiction, dead or alive:
I said "I'd be Tony Cascarino, circa 1995"

dunne's got potential hopefully MON won't take too long to give a senior call up

grannyrule wrote:

This probably won't happen. However, lets look at it this way. Young Hearts centre half John Souttar started for Scotland last night (got harshly sent off). Jimmy Dunne is better than Souttar yet Noel King didn't even think he was good enough to start for the Irish U21 team.

To be fair, Scotland have been very weak at centre back for the past few years, apart from right back, it’s probably the posistion we have our most options in.

Anything Noel King does should just be discarded and not taken personally, I imagine the players know how much of a clown he is at this stage.

Dunne probably isn’t far off a senior squad call-up, there probably is a good chance that he’ll make the extended panel for the Northern Ireland friendly.

Our O’Neill just needs to get on the phone to the lad and tell him that he’s very likely to be part of our long term plans in the next two / three years.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/if-it-takes-until-im-26-to-play-for-ireland-so-be-it-jimmy-dunne-rxh5qhd7p

Denis Irwin wrote:

Maccatacca wrote:

We should disband the national team if this lad declares for the scum.

f**king hell I thought some of the stuff in the Declan Rice thread couldn't be topped but boy was I wrong LOL

Is the purpose of this forum to take clearly tongue in cheek comments and then implicitly quote them saying: “I can’t believe how dumb this person is to post this” and then f**k a heap of smiley faces at the end?

tetsujin1979 wrote:

Terrible, terrible article.

why is the lack of a competitive cap irrelevant? The FAI still hold his registration, and it'll take at least three months to change that, and probably more.

No quotes from the player, or either football association. He "understood to be considering", so they think they know what he's thinking?

Also left out of that drivel was that the game against Iceland was an U21 international.

this line is absolutely ridiculous

he is free to link up with the North for this week's Nations League qualifiers against Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Even if he was (which he isn't) he was named on the bench in Israel yesterday for the qualifier, and will be flying to Germany for the final game in the group.

I would think they mean when referring to a lack of a competitive cap that he hasn't played for Ireland in an official UEFA match at any level as I'm aware so wouldn't have to formally apply to switch nations. I don't think we need to apply to the English FA to transfer registrations every time we pick a granny ruler, other than the likes of Robinson and Clark who have represented England competitively. Not sure if having played a friendly under-21 match changes that situation though maybe it does?

Maccatacca wrote:

We should disband the national team if this lad declares for the scum.

f**king hell I thought some of the stuff in the Declan Rice thread couldn't be topped but boy was I wrong LOL

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

The worst of all the Irish rags. An embarrassment.