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Hotlips_Hoolahan
Jack Charlton Joined: 04 Aug 2020 Status: Offline Points: 6615 |
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Traditionally one of the most aggressive sides in Intl football when it comes to courting eligible players and people are acting like it's a possibility that the FAI haven't asked about or are unaware of a) the son of a former ROI international and b) someone playing for one of the biggest teams in the world. It scarcely beggars belief. Aye, we found out about all those lads playing at League 2 and National League level who were capped under Kinger, but Delap slipped through our fingers.... I presume Liam's aware of his Irish heritage based on musicinmouth's post earlier in the thread. He's more than capable of picking up the phone if he's interested. It's irrelevant in any case as there were reports back in September that the FAI were aware of him and have been aware of him for some time. If he wants to play for us, he will play for us. At the moment, he demonstrably doesn't, as he is playing for England.
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Left foot
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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I was of the understanding that until the Septembers fifa rule change he was not eligible? Is that correct? I remember reading it somewhere that players that we initially thought were eligible were in fact not until recently
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Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Just to add, the last game he played for England was September 2019 (over a year now) for the u17s, he hasn't featured in the 8 or 9 games at any age level since then for whatever reason. (Maybe injury?)
Anyway, if there are straws to be clutched at I'll be inclined to clutch them.
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zizu Kilbane
Jack Charlton Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 8355 |
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There is nothing to lose by asking, but you'd suspect feelers have already been sent out and a dead was hit
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"Sometimes, sh*t happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who ya gonna call?"
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Four-Four-Two
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 18 Oct 2020 Status: Offline Points: 284 |
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what is your point? maybe he does say no, so what, what do we lose by this. imagine northen ireland had not asked jamal lewis, now they do not have their best young player because they just assume he would say no
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JoxerDaly
Liam Brady Joined: 03 Apr 2018 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 1272 |
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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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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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t_rAndy
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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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Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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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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Hotlips_Hoolahan
Jack Charlton Joined: 04 Aug 2020 Status: Offline Points: 6615 |
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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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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 928 |
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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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DeclanDaly
Ray Houghton Joined: 17 Oct 2013 Location: Boston, USA Status: Offline Points: 3254 |
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The good news is that he has two younger brothers
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Four-Four-Two
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 18 Oct 2020 Status: Offline Points: 284 |
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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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musicinmouth
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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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J89
Ray Houghton Joined: 25 Mar 2018 Status: Offline Points: 3582 |
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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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exgrad
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 27 Mar 2019 Status: Offline Points: 274 |
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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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Four-Four-Two
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 18 Oct 2020 Status: Offline Points: 284 |
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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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Hotlips_Hoolahan
Jack Charlton Joined: 04 Aug 2020 Status: Offline Points: 6615 |
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