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Green Cockade 
Liam Brady 
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I hadn't heard that before about Martin Keown. His son Niall did declare for Ireland and played underage but has never reached the same heights. Still knocking about in Scotland and was reported to be switching to NI some time ago in the hope that getting international recognition would be easier.
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JoxerDaly
Liam Brady
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Posted: 25 Sep 2020 at 8:43pm |
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He will be good enough for England, havent seen a striker as young and as potent in front of goal since Rooney burst on the scene. At least we have very good options coming through our own system which means it wont be as much of a blow.
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Ray Houghton
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Posted: 25 Sep 2020 at 9:17pm |
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England's young attacking options are light years ahead of irelands. Greenwood(18), foden(20), sancho(20), Rashford(22), Hudson-odoi(19), Abraham(22) are all elite players. Most england u21s would walk into the ireland senior team. Our best prospect is Connolly and although he looks very good he's nowhere near the england players... yet. Not having players with very strong irish connections like delap opt for us is a massive blow to our team. |
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DeclanDaly
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 25 Sep 2020 at 9:24pm |
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Honestly, we messed up on this one. We should have been tracking this Delap sperm since Rory slung it 40 yards across the room into his mrs
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JoxerDaly
Liam Brady
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Posted: 25 Sep 2020 at 10:23pm |
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Im well aware Englands options are much better im just saying we have some good young talent coming through also, Delap would be great but we have Parrott, Idah, Connolly, Obafemi all doing well so the future is looking decent for us along with others like Odubeko, Evan Ferguson and Zefi all looking like they could make breakthrough aswel.
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Healy52003
Liam Brady
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Posted: 26 Sep 2020 at 12:51am |
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Hopefully its not a false dawn for us which has happened before |
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton
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Posted: 26 Sep 2020 at 12:54am |
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We've never had this amount of attacking talent come through at one time before, ever. I get the need to not overhype things, but there's no point pretending we're not in an unusually fortuitous situation either.
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We're decent enough..
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 26 Sep 2020 at 1:07am |
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Posted about it on foot.ie at the time here: https://foot.ie/threads/126140-Jamie-O-Hara?p=1325044&viewfull=1#post1325044 |
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500 Club la la la 
Joined: 08 Oct 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 741 |
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Didn’t he also state at one time, though, that he would have chosen to play for Northern Ireland if it came down to it, think one of his parents is from up there, something in the back of my mind from a few years back is telling me that? |
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Green Cockade
Liam Brady
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Posted: 26 Sep 2020 at 5:53am |
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One of his parents came from Fermanagh.
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500 Club la la la
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His Dad was, this is an article I found Doesn’t mention who’d he’d have chosen https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/martin-keowns-special-reason-to-see-us-reach-finals-30655081.html Edited by Howdo - 26 Sep 2020 at 6:13am |
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Roberto Baggio
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Posted: 26 Sep 2020 at 3:30pm |
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Tyrhys Dolan has scored for Blackburn
Any Irish in him?
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Liam Green
500 Club la la la
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Posted: 26 Sep 2020 at 3:33pm |
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Ya hes a nephew of Joes 😂
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Roberto Baggio
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AbuAbu
500 Club la la la
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Posted: 27 Sep 2020 at 12:15am |
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Oh me oh my........
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It's not me it's you:-)
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Nialler
Liam Brady
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Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 2:37pm |
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Kenny says he is examining all players eligibility and obviously has been leaving no stone unturned.
The question was put to him in the Slovakia squad presser. Does look like he will come back in for all these players. good news. PLaying pool is a huge problem for us. more is always better.
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Fozz
Liam Brady
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Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 2:46pm |
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Yeah the problem with this delayed play-off is that Kenny had to treat the two NL games as prep for that.
So no real chance to bring in many new players and test the waters. Then this squad just announced is for the Slovakia match and if we win that, the two NL games after it will be prep for the final so again, will be no real chances for new faces, hence the predictable squad we see today. Now if we don't make the final then the Nov NL matches can be used for some level of experimenting with new players but the issue there is that the U21's have a key must-win home tie with Iceland, so he will likely leave good players there to contest that. I'm thinking O'Shea, Obafemi, Smallbone etc. Can't really argue with his approach.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
Jack Charlton
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Is it, though? If players like Bamford and Redmond want to play for us, great. Lads like Smallbone and Hodge aren't ready yet but if they turn into excellent PL players and stick with Ireland, great. If Delap has a reawakening that makes him feel more Irish than Brendan Behan, great. If it means we end up with players like Will Keane declaring for us en masse, then it's not going to make a dent in our fortunes. The vast majority of English born players who go with us won't take much persuasion. Lads like O'Dowda and Christie were pragmatic about their intl aspirations, went with us, and have about 50 caps between them already. That's who we're always going to get. Solid mid-table Championship pros.
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