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Originally posted by The O'Shea The O'Shea wrote:

Originally posted by NewtNewbie NewtNewbie wrote:

Darren Potter. Played six times in the Champions League for Liverpool and ended up a mediocre lower league player.

He may have been a long way off greatness, but Potter still played a lot of his career in the Championship/towards the top of L1. Calling him a "lower league player" is a bit of a disservice.

Perhaps I was a bit unfair. He remained a technically proficient player. He just failed to reach the heights some of us had hoped for.

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Tony Sheridan looked like a really exciting talent at Coventry when they were in the Premier League. Quickly ended up back in Ireland.

I remember watching him scoring a stunning goal for Shelbourne in the Cup against Sligo at the Showgrounds in the mid-90s when I was very young.
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It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me,
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So he kept me soul for ransom.
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Always hoped seamus coleman would be our Alaba
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Despite the deleted posts, a change of thread title would seem judicious

It's still an unfortunate turn of phrase.


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Thread title changed. Ermm
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Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

Thread title changed. Ermm

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Thread title changed. Ermm

Well done. Good call.




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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Stephen Ireland
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Keith O’Neill . Thought he would have made a real player. His body said otherwise.
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Originally posted by King_Kenny King_Kenny wrote:

Keith O’Neill . Thought he would have made a real player.
He would have preferred a VLC (very long career)
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i can make an 11 side plus some reserves

rob elliot

derek geary
joey obrien
darren odea
marc tierney

stephen ireland
rory delap 
thomas butler

alan quinn

anthony stokes
steve heighway

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paddy kenny
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gareth farrelly
stephen mcphail
Sean thornton
keith treacy
anthony pilkinton
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Originally posted by sid waddell sid waddell wrote:

[QUOTE=King_Kenny]Keith O’Neill . Thought he would have made a real player.
He would have preferred a VLC (very long career)
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Or a very lovable character! (VLC) Like yourself. 
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Declan Rice ohh wait 

Courtney Duffus
Harry Charsley
Eoghan O Connell
Thomas Hoban

It will be heartbreaking if say in 8-10 years a similar thread is made and we include Troy Parott in it Cry



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Tommy Morrison.....oh they've changed the thread title now Confused

The converse of this is all the late developers we have who aren't rated that high as youngsters but then hit the heights later on. Wes was a classic example of this, nobody mentioned him too much at all under Trapp when he was being omitted. Of our current team all our best players at the moment - Doherty, Egan, Randolph Stevens all made a slow stuttering journey to the top. Hourihane too had to make his way up slowly , Coleman wasn't hyped as a youngster and nobody much was demanding Mcgoldrick be called up when they were all drooling over Hogan not long ago. 
That's each of our top Premier league players this season there whose careers have been a bit of a slow burn. Just seems to be the way Irish footballers make it these days, so makes up for the Conor Cliffords out there.
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Originally posted by seanyshuffler seanyshuffler wrote:

Thought Liam Miller (RIP) was going to be mainstay for us but just didn't work out.

Yeah when he got that big move to Man U it seemed he would be our best player for years.

Stephen Carr is another. He did play about 40 games for us but never made it to 2002. He was the best right back in the epl for the previous 2 years and the year after....
Knee injuries ruined a big move for him as Man U and others were interested.

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Carr was injured for 2002 !!
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