Does Delap deserve a call up? He's causing quite a stir in the Premiership this season with his throw ins and he cant be a bad defender if he's alway getting his game.....unlike other Ireland players at Stoke.....

Edited by Honey Monster - 06 Oct 2008 at 6:11am

NO

id have him in the squad, id trial him against cyprus anyway, his throws are ridiculous, if we still had quinny in the 6 yard box getting on the end of them we would be laughing..McShane is playing well on the right as well, but delaps danger from the throw ins cannot be ignored..

look at that stat, 5 from 8 of their goals this season were from his throw ins, that's incredible

He's gotta be better than Bruce and though I don't mind McShane, he's still an accident waiting to happen.  Great attacking option and he's versatile as fook.  Should be in the squad at least........

Should be nowhere near the squad. And thankfully he isnt.

Kevin Doyle is great in the air so Delap throws could be a way of getting goals, they certainly would find it hard to defend against that, somehow I cant see Trap going for that though think he will stick to his way of winning games.

o'brien should slot in!

When Harte was a regular, I always prayed for the introduction of American Football "Offence/Defence" type rules, where you bring on the players to suit your play.

That way we could have had him sitting on the sidelines for 89 minutes and 30 seconds of every game, and just whip him and his sainted peg on if we managed to get a free in a good position.

I feel the same about Delap : He'd be great to throw on (pardon the pun) whenever we got a throw-in up in the top third of the pitch, but otherwise he'd be just a so-so addition to the first team.

Personal opinions aside, I thought he would have been named in the B squad though...