Mark Noble

While ye have a point, I think people seem to forget easily enough on how ‘irish’ some of our great players from the past were – like listening to townsend go on at English matches is a laod of bo!!ox, ‘we’ this and ‘we’ that! Don’t think anyone really cared when he ‘declared’ for us though (along with a lot of other past greats, im sure they’d have jumped at the chance to play with England if they were good enough or given the chance)

Anyway, Noble has some cousins living in Drogheda – think one of them was in that young Irish girls team that did well a couple of months ago

That’s the point im making – whether people want to admit it, a lot of our great players in the past only played for us when they realized they weren’t good enough for england – were we complaining during euro 88, Italia 90 or USA 94, or even more recently? – if they were good enough to play for England, they’d have jumped at the chance - just like noble and ohara)