2022 World Cup Qualifiers Group A

But then we get mixed signals with Arter in.

Makes no sense...is he still a professional footballer?  What does he need to do to get excluded?

Molumby too...himself and Hourihane & Hendrick all with next to no games bar some 2nd tier cup.

I accept we need some people to make up the squad but Gavin Kilkenny can feel hard done-by.
But then I guess he doesn't have that much-vaunted experience and he won't be getting any either just yet.

Cullen/Hendrick/Hourihane has to be our starting 3 in the middle next week.
Progression and a mind on the 2024 campaign indeed.

Thankfully the defenders list is very stong as they will all need to be on their game as whenever they give the ball to the midfield, it's coming right back to them.

you said that on the last page too - he was in the camp in the summer and they used that time to prep for these games.. it makes sense to have continuity in that way.. 

it's understandable that people would like to see someone like Kilkenny get a call up because he's had a few good games and because we haven't been good in midfield for ages, but he wasn't in the training camp for these 3 games and may be better off playing the 2 games for the U21s and maybe coming in to the senior squad next month when we know for sure a play-off is out of reach (i.e it has become mathematically impossible)

Playoff we won’t be in the same sentence as one of those for at least 4 years

He was hopeless in tandem with most the team that was a team problem not a Kilkenny one! The Birmingham game I watched and the biggest compliment I can pay Kilkenny is Birmingham put most their efforts into stopping him play he was so influential in the first few games for them! 

I'd like to have seen him in the squad or anyone over Arter tbh who isn't playing! I wonder will you see one of O'Shea or Coleman step into midfield for any game? 

I'M assuming that's the squad for all three games? Would Robinson be available for Serbia maybe?

We are crying out for a midfielder. The likes of Coventry, Johannson, Kilkenny, even some LOI players should be thinking if we can have a good year there is a position up for grabs in this team. No disrespect to Harry Arter but it's embarrassing having him in the squad, 6 mins of football in 2021 and career is sinking like a stone. We just literally have nobody else.

It's hard to be optimistic about any of these games with a midfield like that. Didn't realise Browne was injured.