Irish team for first WCQ in March

I would go with something like

Randolph

Doherty

Clark

Egan

Stevens

McCarthy

Hendricks

Brady

Connolly

Idah

Robinson

But can imagine Duffy will start ahead of Clark. Kelleher probably has a chance if he starts more games than Randolph between now and March, which is a possibility.

Apart from that Coleman, O'Shea and Knight pushing for places, and Molumby if he gets some game time.

Agree.

I think O Shea should start ahead of Duffy and Kelleher ahead of Randolph and we would be better able to play the style Kenny wants 

And in many ways, I don't mind who has a good run, in order that by march things will be in good shape to approach qualification. As I've always said, what has given me heart is that our best performance over the 8 games was in the one that mattered against Slovakia, and the poorest one was in the game in which we had nothing, more than pride to play for. It suggests that Kenny does have sufficient nous to approach games against the likes of Serbia with a good and well thought out plan, in which we can create chances to win games, and concede little. In fact, apart from the covid issue, when we took on Slovakia we were not suffering from the same issues in relation to form and playing time as we were by November, or the boost prior to the September games of players making moves, and starting the season in their first team.

Simple fact is he got covid and missed the league matches and his return coincided with th4 Europa league and he has played there and Aurier has played in the league.   The Wednesday game coming up soon against Liverpool will tell us more but he is no where near frozen out. 

I hope the prospect of catching COVID on international duty and missing a couple of weeks doesnt put any players off joining the squad. We seem to have been very unlucky with it compared to the UK countries