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Hotlips_Hoolahan 
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According to Wikipedia he made his last appearance for England U-20s in a friendly match in March 2008, two-and-a-half years before he declared for Ireland. And going by comments Clark himself made, he seemed to believe that playing for England was very much a long shot.
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Posted: 15 Dec 2020 at 2:18pm |
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We need to get the bloke from Irish Football Fan TV to ring Rory Delap to find out for sure
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Danger here, OH NO
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clark was an england under 20 captain at the time he spoke to richard dunne about wanting to play for ireland but the fai never approaching him , an england career was not a long-shot for him at this time when he was a 20 year old premiership regular player . your disdain for irish people born in england is border on pathological , you seem to look at them all as cynical bogey-men who could not be irish . this says more of you and your insecurity of irish identity than of committed players like clark who do not deserve your scorn
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Posted: 15 Dec 2020 at 2:11pm |
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His parents need to have a chat with Richard Dunne at a preseason game?
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Posted: 15 Dec 2020 at 1:48pm |
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Ciaran Clark: "I was
England Under-18 captain but I didn't think I was going anywhere really
with that." There's probably a hint in there somewhere about what confluence of events it would take for someone in Liam Delap's position to end up playing for us.
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ciaran clark is proof that players are overlooked sometimes . no one is saying fai are not aware of delap, but this does not mean they have made a serious approach to convince him
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A good summation of a lot of posters on here TBH. Whatever you might think about the FAI, finding eligible players at underage level isn't one of them, never mind a high profile son of an ex International playing in one of the best academies in England.
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Pretty sure it was mentioned somewhere he turned down an invitation to play with the U18s while still at Derby County.
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Exactly - if someone thinks it's silly to discuss potential eligibility, why don't they just sit these conversations out? It's not like we don't have recent examples where players made it clear they wanted to play for one country, and then switched allegiance. It's not impossible that an eligible player chooses Ireland eventually - especially in this case. His Dad played for us proudly.
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it is surprising posters get so angry about the suggestion of a player being asked , you might think it was more a discussion about spitting on their relative grave given the reaction
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DeclanDaly
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The good news is that he has two younger brothers
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Its both naive and delusional to imagine Delap hasn't been approached. Two of his England youth teammates even played for Ireland simultaneously but he didn't. its not like the FAI can't be aware of his Irish connections and they have never exactly been reticent about zealously pursuing any granny ruler out there.
And yet there are still these Ireland fans out there who imagine these players are somehow just sitting waiting for a phone call offering their dream call up to the green shirt, just like Bamford apparently is in some minds
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He's English, he hasn't played for us at any level and he obviously hasn't declared for us. It's kind of crazy that he has a thread in this section while Stephen Ireland has a thread in the ROW section.
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Yeah it doesn't look likely he'll switch now. Little to no chance.
As he hasn't played for England for over a year, if he joins up with them again we can put this thread to the ROW space. |
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He obviously has turned us down until now. Otherwise im sure he would be in. People saying 1 phone call is all it takes and I'm fairly sure that phone call has already happened.
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Posted: 14 Dec 2020 at 7:56pm |
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He was asked up to play a friendly for the 18s and turned it down.
If we really want to try, Kenny should be getting on the phone and offering a senior spot now and even try get onto his da and see if he had any pull or influence. Going by twitter Rory is still a big Irish fan and ye would think his opinion would hold some influence on young Liam.
Anyone who seen him score his first couple of Senior goals would know he is probably the best striker that we would have if he declared for us now, I really belive he is that good
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