That's one reason we had 2 unders 23 players on the bench today 

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Wasn't selected in Crawford's Under 20 squad recently even though he's from the 2002 group, he seems like one that could be looked at for the next Under 21 campaign.

I don't think this was expected?

Great moment for the lad.

Talk is he'll be a striker, rather than a winger, where he was moved to last year in their U23s and was scoring goals.

Young winger, found himself on the bench for Burnley at the business end of last season. Highly rated and direct. 

Been really impressed with his so far, looks tidy on the ball too 

Spoke too soon 

In fairness to him apart from finishing he has been really good.

Very decent first 45 for him all the same.

They do mispronounce Irish surnames as a matter of course. I'm surprised they haven't found creative ways to do it with names like Kelly, Doyle and Lynch.

Even the pronunciation of Dara was horrendous when he was going off, sounded like he saying "The Ra".

Good debut anyway, held his own out there. Neat and tidy player on the ball, decent crosser, finishing / decision making in the final 3rd needs improving but that will come with game time. Impressive for a 19 year old making his debut.

No. The thing is when it's a player from a non-English speaking country they make every effort to get it right. But when it's us they just impose their own pronunciations and don't really give a f**k.

Castella. 

Way too niche ffs 

Here's an interview with Dara Costelloe, and his accent is very influenced by English accents.

Should we demand to see his birth certificate? DNA test? Too early for that?

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Strange comment. He's definitely Irish going by that interview. 

Strange comment. He's definitely Irish going by that interview.

Good to see you're changing your tune HH!

I call it as I see it. Case for case basis, like anything!

Barely any English influence there at all. That's not out of place at all for a Limerick accent

There was no interest from England nor would there be now. There would be about thirty players ahead of him if he had held out for them.

Think hard guvnor

I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined who would take the bait on GC's post. Never. 

He wasn't baiting anybody. It was a sincere comment and I responded to it in kind.

Hook. Line. Sinker. 

His Wikipedia said that 

Without wishing to discredit him, how does a forward get a move to England when he plays 16 games and scores 0 goals at Galway Utd 

Played on the right wing last week when I watched him.

Hes predominately a RW but was mostly played as a CF last season with the u23s.

What I've seen of him and Burnley so far this season they look to be playing 4-4-2 / 4-5-1 in games and he drifts between the 2 positions.

It's a super competitive league and neither of these lads have even played for our u21s.

Let's not stress over it. 

As other other have said he played on the wing for galway, plus he was only 15 /16 when he was playing there. He is galways youngest ever loi player.

Like i say was shocked to see him start last week but he will get better just yo see . 

Dara has a great attitude and is one hell of a player who made the bench in the pl last season and has rightfully started this season. I rxpect him to get even better.

Crawford was speaking of Costelloe as being one for the next U21s campaign, but if the lad continues to get regular gametime over the next 4-6 weeks, then he has to be in the squad for the play-offs. Maybe even starting.

Playing regularly in the Championship he'd be well ahead of the likes of Wright, O'Neill, Burns, Oko-flex, Ferguson, etc

Totally agree with that. Championship level football is miles ahead of u21s football and is one of the best leagues in Europe. 

If he's playing mens football regularly in the championship he should be starting in thr u21s with a view to the seniors. 

The fact that some of our senior players have been playing league 1 would underline that.

Fully agree but can't see JC agreeing.

Seems loyal to lads who have played for him, and I don't see much change in the next squad compared to the last.

He has hasn't been involved in any of the ROI youth squads so far so he went under the radar a bit.

I think if he keeps starting or making appearances and playing well for Burnley until mid September he should be in the squad at least. 

Crawford is very loyal to the core of his squad, but it the same time it is the U-21s, there is a very small, limited time scale to play and look at players at this age and level, with only 5 windows in a year that squads are picked. I think there should always be space in the squad for a couple of wild cards every window, for players who are showing form and performing regularly at a high level. 

Finding himself on the bench at the tail end of last season .

Should've pretended to be English with an Irish granny to expedite the process.

Still... costelloe is in a good position to make it difficult for them with some good performances. 

For a 19 year old to be starting championship games is incredible. 

He'll get better in the next couple of seasons I would think 

Bastien and Maatsen have been absolutely brutal this first half.

Doesn't make it back out for the second half, have to say he was fairly ineffective in the 45 minutes he played. 

He seems to be ahead of him for the "throw a big lad on up front in the last minute" role anyway.

To be expected really, with Rodriguez coming back from injury. Twine is yet to come back too.

Hopefully will still get a decent amount of minutes across the season.

No Luke McNally on the bench either.