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DalyerRegular
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Josh Barrett a surprise for me.
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Would I be exaggerating if I said you could field 2 really good u21 teams with that squad?
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DalyerRegular
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Players that drop out from the Toulon squad:
Conor Kearns, Canice Carroll, Tyreke Wilson, Jamie Lennon, Connor Ronan, Josh Barrett, Stephen Mallon, Simon Power & Aaron Drinan. Ronan the only one injured afaik. Trevor Clarke & Neil Farrugia miss out through injury.
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The Huntacha
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Myself and a mate chatting about this earlier. Can't remember the last time the squad had this much potential in it. And there's still a few decent players who could feel hard done by or are injured.
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Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."
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kevincronin2000
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Can Kenny now get results out of this so called golden generation? Will we top the group? The thing about it is that if the senior men's team don't qualify or get a play off place Kenny won't even be in charge of the u21's towards the end of the campaign.
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DalyerRegular
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Only 3 English born players is it ? Some change from Noel Kings reign.
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DalyerRegular
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Also worth noting that only 11 of the 22 are from the 1998/1999 age group meaning that the other half of the squad is still eligible for the next (2023) qualification campaign.
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daveyc
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Is there more ****s now or are they just more visible? I think it's a bit of both.
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t_rAndy
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Hardly a golden age compared to the likes of Belgium, or even our youth years under Kerr. But given what we have had to contend with the last 15-20 years, it does feel like at least some of the stars are starting to align.
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daveyc
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mostly more visible i say
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I think there's a potential golden irish generation, the last for ireland being the Duff/Keane generation some 20 odd years ago. It's still very early for all these players but I haven't seen a bunch like this for while. From goalkeepers, defenders and a few good forwards
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He (Joe Hodge) actually fractured his ankle but yeah will be a couple of months out at least.
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Luis Amor Rodriguez
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"Golden Generation" - that's going a little bit far. We have some good prospects and maybe two or three that look like they will have a successful PL career. The entire squad has what, 5, PL appearances to their name. In fairness, an interesting aspect of the squad is many of the better players are still U19 eligible, so time is definitely on their side.
However, a quick comparison to other similar-sized countries shows we're not flying ahead in terms of talent - Wales have U21 lads on big-money moves playing senior football for Man U, Bournemouth, RB Leipzig and Schalke, as well as lads with first team appearances for Liverpool. Granted Wales isn't really a country and most of those players are English, but the point stands. Even Scotland have lads getting first team action with the likes of Celtic and Rangers. That's not addressing other "smaller nations" like Belgium or Portugal who are light years ahead, as recently demonstrated against us at U16 and U19 level respectively. Sweden, a comparable nation that we are playing shortly, have lads with a plenty of first team appearances in Serie A for clubs such as Bologna and Udinese, for Russian heavy-hitters, Rostov, and lads previously playing Bundesliga for Dortmund, not to mention the bigger Swedish clubs like AIK Stockholm. We're all looking for the next big player, but are prone to be a little carried away. As a reminder, look at the first post on the general U21 team thread, with what appeared at the time to be a talented squad full of young players playing at prestigious clubs. How many of them have "made it", at least in terms of being a PL regular? One. His name? Jack Grealish. We may want to curb our enthusiasm slightly. Having said that, Mick would do well to bring Connolly in for the Swiss game. If we need a late goal, he's a livewire player who they'll know nothing about and could make a real difference if he came off the bench. Edited by Luis Amor Rodriguez - 29 Aug 2019 at 2:13am |
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The Huntacha
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No one is taking about comparing squads with other nations. As others have said, it's an exciting generation considering the lack of breakthroughs over the last 20 odd years.
And as for Scotland, it's probably more of a sign of the ever-weakening state of the SPL more than anything.
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Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."
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horsebox
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Golden generation .
I think about 4 of those players in that squad have be played 1st team football - you could count the total amount of caps on 1 hand. At least the LOI players are playing weekly with their clubs. There is a lot of talented players there with potential. |
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https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/ireland-u-21-duo-ruled-out-of-armenia-sweden
Collins and Obafemi out
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Luis Amor Rodriguez
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Anyone know is the game v Armenia U21 on TV? Cheers.
€5 for an adult ticket - if you're Dublin, get down to it.
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