Ireland u19s

Quite a lot here I hadn’t heard of before, English born most of them. I was aware of O’Neill but likewise didn’t know he was eligible, if indeed he is. If one or two gems should emerge from this group, well done to whoever unearthed them.

Edited by Green Cockade - 29 Jan 2023 at 11:14am

Would be foolish to call up the U19s players this March. It's likely gonna be a training camp with another training camp in early June which will have no impact on the U19s if they make the finals.

You've got whatever 2002 players from the last campaign and last season's U19s that can make up March's squad before adding in the 2004 and whatever 2005 players stand out from this campaign in June.

Literally calling up every sh*te English player with an Irish granny who has a pulse. Farsley Celtic. 

Fozz wrote: Put our best U19 team out for these games in March and don't worry about promotions to the 21's just yet. This Elite group is winnable, and that should be our aim as a top-10 seed at this age-group. I'd say Vatta would have been in this but for the fact he's out with a niggle. Curtis, Ferizaj and Zefi not UK-based so that explains those. Now, can we get TV coverage of our three matches in March please?!

There surely will as we're hosting the games and if it's on in LOI stadiums they'll have the set up there from streaming their own games.

Edited by J89 - 29 Jan 2023 at 12:04pm

Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote: Literally calling up every sh*te English player with an Irish granny who has a pulse. Farsley Celtic.

 

Edited by kevin100 - 29 Jan 2023 at 12:08pm

kevin100 wrote: Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote: Literally calling up every sh*te English player with an Irish granny who has a pulse. Farsley Celtic.    Why wouldn’t you! Think it’s a great idea scorched earth! The rules allow it Tom Mohan didn’t make the rules!  Plenty other countries do this it with success scorched earth call up anyone with a 26th cousin to the country in question! Jamaica,Ghana and close to home Wales! It’s a training camp not a lifelong commitment!

Most of these lads will end up not being good enough for the Montserrat national team let alone our senior team. Quality over quantity. Having listened to Gerard Lyttle and others in the NI underage setup, I'd personally be more preoccupied with encouraging three or four very talented young lads who are presently with NI than calling up Farsley Celtic players, but that's just me. The vast majority of the lads called up are never going to be in a position to turn Ireland down so it comes across to me as an utterly pointless exercise.

Edited by You Tell Me - 29 Jan 2023 at 12:14pm

Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote: kevin100 wrote: Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote: Literally calling up every sh*te English player with an Irish granny who has a pulse. Farsley Celtic.    Why wouldn’t you! Think it’s a great idea scorched earth! The rules allow it Tom Mohan didn’t make the rules!  Plenty other countries do this it with success scorched earth call up anyone with a 26th cousin to the country in question! Jamaica,Ghana and close to home Wales! It’s a training camp not a lifelong commitment!  Most of these lads will end up not being good enough for the Montserrat national team let alone our senior team. Quality over quantity. Having listened to Gerard Lyttle and others in the NI underage setup, I'd personally be more preoccupied with encouraging three or four very talented young lads who are presently with NI than calling up Farsley Celtic players, but that's just me. The vast majority of the lads called up are never going to be in a position to turn Ireland down so it comes across to me as an utterly pointless exercise.

 

Edited by kevin100 - 29 Jan 2023 at 12:22pm

PaddyMaddenIsCounty! wrote: Don’t write anyone off, so what if they on loan to Farsley Celtic at that age, Dara O’Shea had loan to Hereford at similar age and was making of him especially there cup run and higher profile games. Better than playing academy football