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Originally posted by Green Devil Green Devil wrote:

Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Good to see optimism is still alive and well

Could you blame people for not being optimistic?

That is one of the worst Irish squads in living memory ffs LOL


I'm not saying it's the best or worst squad ever but the way some people are going on you'd swear it is a squad of Sunday league players.

It's the level we are at in the current moment, the influx of foreign players has seen chances for Irish players limited and they've had to drop down the leagues

In that 38 man squad we have:

12 Premier League players :
Kelleher*,Coleman, Doherty, Christie,Duffy, K Long,Ward,McCarthy, Hendrick,Arter, Brady,S Long
(*I know he hasn't actually played but still registered to PL club)

There is 4 players from Sheffield Utd who are 3rd in Championship: McGoldrick, Stevens,Hogan,Egan

Two on form goalkeepers in Randolph and Westwood.

Yes there is lads like Collins and Amond from League 1 and 2 respectively but they are scoring goals and are confident.

It's our level Wales and Northern Ireland have had similar make up of their squads for the last few years.

As someone pointed out you'd think we had players like Messi or Ronaldo available to us.
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Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

f**k me the meltdown from some LOL
Its fckin hilarious LOL we got a new manager not a new fckin squad gobshoites LOL

All I see is people concerned with the standard of player available to us.

Where is the meltdown? 
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Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

f**k me the meltdown from some LOL
Its fckin hilarious LOL we got a new manager not a new fckin squad gobshoites LOL

All I see is people concerned with the standard of player available to us.

Where is the meltdown? 
What is amazing is the sudden realisation!
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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

f**k me the meltdown from some LOL
Its fckin hilarious LOL we got a new manager not a new fckin squad gobshoites LOL

All I see is people concerned with the standard of player available to us.

Where is the meltdown? 
What is amazing is the sudden realisation!

To be fair that is the worst squad we have ever named. 

Reserve goalkeepers, players who haven’t played in two years, League 1 bench warmers and League 2 strikers. 

Genuinely interested to see what Georgia’s squad is like as it can’t be a whole lot worse than ours. 
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Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

f**k me the meltdown from some LOL
Its fckin hilarious LOL we got a new manager not a new fckin squad gobshoites LOL

All I see is people concerned with the standard of player available to us.

Where is the meltdown? 
What is amazing is the sudden realisation!

To be fair that is the worst squad we have ever named. 

Reserve goalkeepers, players who haven’t played in two years, League 1 bench warmers and League 2 strikers. 

Genuinely interested to see what Georgia’s squad is like as it can’t be a whole lot worse than ours. 

How many of them will be in the final squad?
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Travers is a genuinely surprising call up, you'd have thought someone like Bonham or O'Malley would have been ahead of him, but obviously Mick has heard good things.
We're decent enough..
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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

It's our level Wales and Northern Ireland have had similar make up of their squads for the last few years.

As someone pointed out you'd think we had players like Messi or Ronaldo available to us.


No. Wales have Ramsay and Bale. You can go very far even having 2 players of that caliber. We're not at that level in my opinion. We don't even have a midfielder at Joe Allen's level. 
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Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

f**k me the meltdown from some LOL
Its fckin hilarious LOL we got a new manager not a new fckin squad gobshoites LOL

All I see is people concerned with the standard of player available to us.

Where is the meltdown? 
What is amazing is the sudden realisation!

To be fair that is the worst squad we have ever named. 

Reserve goalkeepers, players who haven’t played in two years, League 1 bench warmers and League 2 strikers. 

Genuinely interested to see what Georgia’s squad is like as it can’t be a whole lot worse than ours. 


This is the team which played their last NL game, no one is playing for a Real Madrid or Barcelona.
Perhaps bar maybe the Ukrainian and Russian league I wouldn't say majority of those leagues are English Championship Level.

Player     Caps     Club Location
Giorgi Loria         48 P.F.C. Krylia Sovetov, Samara Russian PL
Guram Kashia        70 San Jose Earthquakes, San Jose MLS
Solomon Kvirkvelia         33 F.C. Lokomotiv, Moscow Russian PL
Otar Kakabadze   86'      23  F.C. Luzern, Luzern Swiss PL
86' Davit Khocholava      16  F.C. Shakhtar, Donetsk Ukrainian PL
Lasha Dvali   12 Pogoń, Szczecin Polish PL
Jaba Kankava  Captain  78 Tobol F.C., Kostanay Kazakh PL
Giorgi Merebashvili  31 Wisła S.A., Płock Polish PL
Nika Kvekveskiri 21 Tobol F.C., Kostanay Kazakh PL
Vako Qazaishvili 39  San Jose Earthquakes, San Jose MLS
Vako Gvilia   75' 19  F.C. Luzern, Luzern Swiss PL
75' Nika Kacharava   16  Anorthosis Famagusta, Famagusta Cypriot PL
Giorgi Chakvetadze   90+'  7 K.A.A. Gent, Gent Belgian PL
90+' Giorgi Aburjania 12  C.D. Lugo, Lugo Spanish Segunda
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Originally posted by Icy Bread People Icy Bread People wrote:

Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

It's our level Wales and Northern Ireland have had similar make up of their squads for the last few years.

As someone pointed out you'd think we had players like Messi or Ronaldo available to us.


No. Wales have Ramsay and Bale. You can go very far even having 2 players of that caliber. We're not at that level in my opinion. We don't even have a midfielder at Joe Allen's level. 


Of course - Bale and Ramsey but rest of their squad is in and around similar to ourselves.
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Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

f**k me the meltdown from some LOL
Its fckin hilarious LOL we got a new manager not a new fckin squad gobshoites LOL

All I see is people concerned with the standard of player available to us.

Where is the meltdown? 
What is amazing is the sudden realisation!

To be fair that is the worst squad we have ever named. 

Reserve goalkeepers, players who haven’t played in two years, League 1 bench warmers and League 2 strikers. 

Genuinely interested to see what Georgia’s squad is like as it can’t be a whole lot worse than ours. 
But what did people expect? Was he supposed to find a load of players in a couple of months? The squad has been sh*te since around 2011 and getting gradually worse.
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Originally posted by Icy Bread People Icy Bread People wrote:

Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

It's our level Wales and Northern Ireland have had similar make up of their squads for the last few years.

As someone pointed out you'd think we had players like Messi or Ronaldo available to us.


No. Wales have Ramsay and Bale. You can go very far even having 2 players of that caliber. We're not at that level in my opinion. We don't even have a midfielder at Joe Allen's level. 

What about Northern Ireland?
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would have much preferred he took a chance on a young gun like Parrott/Idah/Connolly than Amond, got a good look at them and then decided whether to send them back down or not
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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Of course - Bale and Ramsey but rest of their squad is in and around similar to ourselves.

Well that's like saying Argentina wouldn't be as good without Messi isn't it?! 
Can you imagine we had a player going to Juve who will be getting paid 500k a week...
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Originally posted by 10 Box 10 Box wrote:

What about Northern Ireland?



Yeah I was watching them in Nations League I think and they were playing some nice football. Maybe Mick can get us playing good football again but I think we're romanticising the past, I'd say it'll be route one for the most part, it's in our DNA. 
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Originally posted by Icy Bread People Icy Bread People wrote:

Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Of course - Bale and Ramsey but rest of their squad is in and around similar to ourselves.

Well that's like saying Argentina wouldn't be as good without Messi isn't it?! 
Can you imagine we had a player going to Juve who will be getting paid 500k a week...


Well we know that's true Wink
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Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by Maccatacca Maccatacca wrote:

Originally posted by DUBLIN DOC DUBLIN DOC wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

f**k me the meltdown from some LOL
Its fckin hilarious LOL we got a new manager not a new fckin squad gobshoites LOL

All I see is people concerned with the standard of player available to us.

Where is the meltdown? 
What is amazing is the sudden realisation!

To be fair that is the worst squad we have ever named. 

Reserve goalkeepers, players who haven’t played in two years, League 1 bench warmers and League 2 strikers. 

Genuinely interested to see what Georgia’s squad is like as it can’t be a whole lot worse than ours. 

It's a 38 man squad, take 15 out and then you can compare it against other countries
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Originally posted by Icy Bread People Icy Bread People wrote:

Originally posted by 10 Box 10 Box wrote:

What about Northern Ireland?



Yeah I was watching them in Nations League I think and they were playing some nice football. Maybe Mick can get us playing good football again but I think we're romanticising the past, I'd say it'll be route one for the most part, it's in our DNA. 
Davis looks past it, he is  vital to the way they play. They have continuity, everybody knows their job, but I have a feeling that they are past their peak.
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Does anyone think he'll keep Curtis in the final squad, and maybe give him a run out against the Rock?
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