James McClean

Brady clearly isn't 100% match sharp or fit, not setting the world alight against New Zealand is no big deal.

Lenny82 wrote: Is McClean the new Whelan? Should we all start slating him now?

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We may have a few decent players coming through, but there seems to be a belief that Kenny is going to make wholesale changes. That seems unlikely given our playing pool is quite small. For all McClean’s faults, I can’t see Kenny completely removing a player with McClean’s attitude and determination from the squad because of a few statistics on Twitter. He may not start as regularly under him, other factors will be relevant, but I will be amazed if he still isn’t involved.

10/10 for commitment, workrate and passion 

Edited by Left foot - 19 Nov 2019 at 2:15pm

Het-field wrote: pre Madonna wrote: We may have a few decent players coming through, but there seems to be a belief that Kenny is going to make wholesale changes. That seems unlikely given our playing pool is quite small. For all McClean’s faults, I can’t see Kenny completely removing a player with McClean’s attitude and determination from the squad because of a few statistics on Twitter. He may not start as regularly under him, other factors will be relevant, but I will be amazed if he still isn’t involved. Lads love dismissing players and saying they need to dropped, the problem is we don’t have outstanding options to bring in. Totally correct. Quite frankly, nobody knows what Kenny is likely to do. That includes the approach he takes to Lads like Westwood, Arter, McCarthy, Long who have not been heavily involved in this campaign. Or Robbie Brady for that matter. Or whether he’ll go For Doherty and/or Coleman. Also, the likes of Duffy, Egan, and Clark are hardly likely to be displaced. The same probably applies to Stevens and possibly McClean, Hendrick and McGoldrick. I foresee change. Even last night, the team was unrecognisable from the 1-5 defeat. But that doesn’t mean a whole team will be dispatched.

I would say there's a decent chance he'll call Michael Duffy up to a squad

The O'Shea wrote: I would say there's a decent chance he'll call Michael Duffy up to a squad

It seems that every other question to O’Neill is about co-managing the North. And after they played Netherlands and Germany, every other question was about co-managing Stoke.