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Hotlips_Hoolahan 
Jack Charlton 
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Attracting the attentions of PL clubs, and the English FA, according to John Fallon in the Irish Examiner.
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Healy52003
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Posted: 13 Jan 2022 at 1:02am |
His name didn't sound irish anyway
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You Tell Me
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Posted: 13 Jan 2022 at 7:42am |
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Sounds like he has quite a limited link to Ireland (one grandparent) so I think he's one where if we get him great, but if he feels more English and they want him them hard to argue really.
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Green Cockade
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Posted: 05 Mar 2022 at 10:35pm |
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He no doubt feels more English as he is English. Rice and Grealish have shown our vulnerability on the granny rule so it is up to Kenny and those in charge to look at spotting talent early and tying good kids down early doors if the rules allow.
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Healy52003
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Posted: 06 Mar 2022 at 12:43am |
Maybe he feels English and that and the fact he could be in his prime and has a chance of playing in the final stages of Euro 2028 in front of a home crowd in Wembley
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Healy52003
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Posted: 06 Mar 2022 at 4:29pm |
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Hard to see him sticking with us
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Posted: 06 Mar 2022 at 8:47pm |
Why, he's got two of the best RBs in the PL who are 3 and 2 years older only. Has never been capped at underage by England and Max Aaron whose the current U21s RB has over 13k minutes in League games for Norwich. Tino Livramento who starts for Southampton has played for the U21s this season along with Cody Drameh,and wouldn't be surprised to see Djed Spence whose being linked with Arsenal and Spurs called up this month for them. He's probably got less chance of getting a game in midfield. If one cap for England means more to him than possibly 50+ for Ireland because he'll probably only get a handful at most with the talent available at their disposal. |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 2:12am |
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Looks like this one can be moved to the rest of the world section.
Unfortunately it turns out he doesn't qualify for us. Jim Crawford was on LOI central tonight and said when they went to do the paperwork he was a generation out with his great grandparents being Irish rather than his grandparents. Massive shame.
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You Tell Me
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Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 6:37am |
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That's happened a couple of times recently. Tommi O'Reilly from Aston Villa was in an under 19 squad and it turned out he didn't qualify either. Do these lads' parents not know where their own parents were born? Maybe it's more that they don't understand the eligibility rules and think any historic link to Ireland makes you eligible.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 8:31am |
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Is the onus not on the FAI to ensure that these lads are, in fact, eligible before calling them up and giving them squad places that could go to players who are actually Irish?
If you don't even know where your parents or grandparents were born, then the link is obviously not strong enough or important enough to them. I don't know what I find harder to believe, that it would take this long for a person to find out whether they're eligible or not, or that the FAI continue to insist on embarrassing themselves in their trawl for any English player with an Irish link to play underage for us.
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You Tell Me
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Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 8:53am |
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In O'Reilly's case it was just an overseas training camp he came in for, think it was the one where we brought in loads of overseas players that we hadn't heard of before. He might not have been the only ineligible player in it. I don't think he'd have been called up to a proper squad without confirming his eligibility.
To be fair Gardner Hickman has never been called up. It sounds like a mistake from the parents who genuinely thought he had an Irish born grandparent, but it turned out he didn't, it was a great grandparent. A bit mad that they didn't know that to start with, but it seems that is what happened.
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