Tony Springett

I made no such claim, because unlike you I don't profess to pass off my suspicions about someones intention as fact. Neither of us know Noss or MacNulty's inner thoughts, but you continue to insist that you do, and funnily enough your insistence is always geared toward distrust of foreign born individuals.

Funnily enough, all the dual-eligible players who were good enough to play for both countries declared for England. The vast majority who wouldn't get near an England squad declare for us. Those who were borderline good enough to play for England underage vacillate between the two nations when it suits (Crowley, Ronan). Just recently you have a lad Taylor Gardner-Hickman playing for us underage who apparently couldn't even tell you what his roots are, going by the fact he later turned out to be ineligible. Doesn't stop the usual lads jumping the gun and starting a thread for this lad (who may or may not be eligible).

There are lads who've played for England (because they were good enough) who are proud of their Irish roots but don't consider themselves Irish. There are lads who've declared for us who don't possess a scintilla of Irishness. 

I think lads are severely overestimating the amount of third generation or second generation English lads with Irish grandparents or one Irish parent walking around who identify as Irish. 

f**k me like. I'm sure the Harry Kanes who visit family in Connemara but don't pretend they're Irish when it suits them are far more common.

I grew up with lads either side of me with English mothers, English cousins, and who visited England every summer. They were Irish and you wouldn't even know of any English links unless their mothers chatted to you or their cousins were over on holiday.

Anyways, the posters who aren't utter headbangers and alt-accounts can read that and make up their own minds what Noss would do if Germany showed interest in him.

And read that and make up their own minds on what Garcia-MacNulty would do if Spain came calling.

Get him involved and interested in playing for us early on. 

Norwich clearly rate him and - given they're blooding him now - might see him as a starter next year when they'll aim to be challenging to win the Championship.  

One area in my opinion that Ireland have fallen behind in since Mick's first stint in the 90s is having a spot in the senior squad for a "development player" - a young player with great potential who possibly isn't playing first team yet.  

I remember Mick did it with Richie Dunne, maybe for a qualifier against top-seeds Romania, and always had young, unproven players in the squad, especially at the start of his reign.  Stan did something similar with Terry Dixon - obviously his career didn't work out as lots of injuries. 

We've capped the likes of the Three Joes, Lapira, O'Cearbuill and Gamble in the past - I don't see anything wrong with getting someone with high potential like Springett involved now and maybe give him a few minutes against Ukraine or Scotland.  He already has more PL minutes than Parrott, Bazunu and Knight combined (ok, slightly unfair stat).

Other countries with similar playing pools to ourselves, particularly Wales and NI, would be giving him a senior call-up.

A similar, albeit weaker, case could be made for Conor Noss, who has been on the bench for Borussia Moenchengladbach for a whole series of important Bundesliga games (and at least to my eyes looked handy for us in the few U21 games he played).  

Smallbone same, same.  [So long as no clash with important U21 qualifiers - haven't checked].

Whilst we want to do well in the Nations League, this is by definition a transition period (between WC and European qualifiers) and the NL is really just slightly more-serious friendlies.  Other countries have used this time very well to incorporate new players. 

Also, put it this way, and I haven't even seen Springett play yet, but at this moment in time, even at that he can't be a worse option than Connolly or Horgan!

Mad, Ted.

Jesus the only other nation he was eligible for was the people's Republic of Cork.