Players eligible for Ireland

I've no issue with these lads coming on board, but not when the England dream is over.

Homegrown Irish players are missing out.

Chancers like Ray Houghton (obviously Scottish but a similar situation) and many more from our greatest ever squads?

Different times. For various reasons we are not as reliant on the granny rule anymore. We could rely exclusively on Irish-born players and not be that worse off. 

The dregs of what England produce like Louie Watson and Conor Coventry and Cyrus Christie aren't going to change anyone's fortunes drastically in international football, and at that point you're probably just better working with players who've come through domestically.

The threads on the ones with the best, game changing, talent could reach 50000 posts before they'd contemplate going with Ireland.

There's no point babbling about lads like Liam Delap as if he's going to settle for Ireland when history shows (Davies/Noble/O'Hara/Nolan/Maddison/Bamford), he's either not going to play for us or he'll be approaching thirty when he does.

People should give attention to young Irish players. But I guess it's not as fun when there's a will he won't he approach to things.

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Big difference between someone like Coventry who represented Ireland at underage level since he was 16 compared to a player declaring at 24 after representing a different country. 

Plenty of people not born in Ireland to Irish parents who feel Irish first or whose preference is to play for Ireland.  

Your completely misinterpreting what I've said. 

Coventry and many many others have played with us from the very START. There is simply no question about their allegiances here.

They want to play for Ireland and ARE playing for Ireland.

Robinson, Will Keane and Clarke-Salter as an example, have all played for England through the underage setup, their now senior players who are nowhere near good enough to play for England so they switch to Ireland to further their own careers.

Will Keane's twin brother plays for England. 

2 twins playing for different countries! give me a break.

There is many examples of family members playing for different counties it's not unique to Ireland. I'm not going to defend the Will Keane call up though I don't personally think he adds anything to the squad and I wouldn't take his brother either as I find him a very average CB.

I'm sure there are many English (and other countries) players who aren't patriotic and play international football because its an indication of success rather than some deep loyalty. So personally I just don't see any point to assigning any player motive we will never really know if a player wants to play for Ireland so  I'm going to judge by their performances and attitude not paranoia that they would rather be playing for another country.

He captained England at underage and always maintained his dream was to play for England.

He has a massive Irish family (some of whom live in my area), but he declined a call up because he said it wasn't right and that he would ultimately be taking another players place and denying their dream to play for Ireland.