Squad depth

I was looking at our squad depth and then  comparing the club form of our players at  present.

FF: Maguire, Hogan, Collins, Idah, Connolly, Long, odubeko(maybe), Parrot,Obafemi.

If we were to look at their form this year:

Randolph, Kelleher, Travers all sub keepers with very little game time, Bazunu league one.

RB , Doherty in worst form of his career, in and out of spurs team, Coleman, in and out of everton team and injured a lot, christie championship getting games but is not good enough really when it comes to the crunch of international football, O Connor league one and McNamara in and out of championship team.

CB:egan excellent player(our best player in my opinion)but looks like he will be relegated to championship, Clark getting game time of late but gets injured a lot, O Shea good young player playing in the premiership but looks like getting relegated, Collins excellent prospect and getting game time with possibility of moving to premiership, Long and Dunne not getting game time at Burnley, Lenihan doing ok and getting game time at mid championship team

LB: manning in and out of good championship team, Steven's having poor season going to be relegated, Bagan young up and coming player  hoping his is going to join us, flynn good prospect but nothing more at the minute

MF: Hendrick in and out of Newcastle team, McCarthy and Brady injury prone, hourihane on loan (doing well) but his form has seen him drop down a level to championship, cullen starting to do well and getting games at decend standard, horgan in and out of championship team at the bottom of the table, O Dowda in and out of a mid table championship team, curtis and Harness getting game time at league one, Smallbone good prospect but gets a lot of injuries  Browne getting game time at championship team but plays RB some of the time, knight good prospect and captain of a championship team fighting relegation, Byrne hoping his move to average league works out, Watson seems a good prospect but long way to go, Coventry decend protest but his career hasnt really developed much in last few years, Molumby dropped down to the championship but is not getting games.

FF: Parrott, possibility most disappointing of all, our great white hope but playing in league one and not scoring, Maguire, in and out of championship team and not scoring,  Collins in and out of championship team scoring few goals but most is from the penalty spot, Hogan starting at mid table championship team but not really scoring much, Idah really good prospect but not getting game time in best championship team, Connolly in and out and not scoring much as well as a lot of injuries, obafemi it anyone guess what way his career will turn out and Mipo probably shouldn't be on this list as it looks like he has little interest in playing for us.

On paper our options look ok, but if you were to look at their club form in detail it is very worrying. Hopefully a few of the younger lads push on in a few years and maybe some good eligible player come on board  the problem is the more we drop down the rankings the harder it will be to attract good eligible players. We need to cap Smallbone, hodge etc..

I give kenny a break at the moment but it not looking great lads. unfortunately.

I had mentioned previously about playing b internationals/ LOI XIs and games outside the fifa calandar. Similar to what USA do. Perfect way to assess potential fringe players.

The national team should feel nearly like a club side. We need to try and get back to that and create a more cohesive team, where everyone knows their roles.