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was trap going to bring McCarthy?
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It doesn't matter a shite now, but I'm intrigued, I had thought that he would and that Keith Fahey/Darron Gibson would miss out, yet a sager man then I posited the fact that he was actually very unlikely to pick him and therefore that he was actually spared a difficult situation.
What's your gut?
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-- tricky
09/05/12 at 10:00
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 From :
skennedy
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Posted : 09/05/12 at 10:54 |
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| To be honest, I think Big Mick is too old for it now. Better to give the new blood a chance.
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From :
number10
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Posted : 09/05/12 at 11:16 |
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| His long throws would be an asset.Although I can't understand why Trap hasn't used Rory Delap...
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From :
davidlynch
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Posted : 09/05/12 at 18:47 |
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| He said at the press conference on Monday he would have brough Mccarthy only for his Father`s illness.
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From :
tricky
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Posted : 10/05/12 at 00:05 |
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no he didn't.
he said "yes yes yes" which is as much his was of starting to reply as anything else.
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From :
davidlynch
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Posted : 10/05/12 at 00:37 |
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Fair enough, I didnt see it,just read tweets from football reporters who said he said yes when asked if mccarthy would be in it.
I`d say he would have been ahead of fahey or hunt.
One man who is lucky to be on the plane who will probably start is Kevin Doyle,Like Pepe Reina at Liverpool a sacred cow of a player who is nowhere near as good as people think.
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From :
number10
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Posted : 10/05/12 at 10:54 |
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One thing Trap doesn't do is scared cows. You have to try to understand why Trap likes particular players. He likes Andrews, for example, because he is big, strong, does what he's told and works really hard – and is ok technically. Plus he can score goals. But the most important thing is that he is big. Remember the quote: "I like big."
So why does he like Kevin Doyle? Actually the reasons are very similar: because he is big (to Robbie Keane's small), strong, does what he's told and works really hard – and is ok technically. Plus he is good at holding the ball up, is effective at bringing other players into the game and can go wide and get crosses in when the ball is pumped down the channels.
I reckon, on the basis of what I've seen this season, given that Doyle suffered a bit of a dip in form, Shane Long will give us a bit more in pretty much all of these aspects – so I'd start him. But Doyle is no 'sacred cow', that's for sure.
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From :
tricky
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Posted : 10/05/12 at 10:55 |
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| kevin doyle has had a crap season but he's a good player. I do think there's something in Trapatoni's line that he hasn't recovered fully from that knee injury. Knees are very important to you if you're holding, twisting & turning. It's not so much that his knee isn't up to it, but that he hasn't mentally got comfortable with pushing it as far as he used to.
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From :
davidlynch
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Posted : 10/05/12 at 11:30 |
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| Doyle has been very poor for over two seasons at club and International level,you`d want to wake up.
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From :
number10
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Posted : 11/05/12 at 16:02 |
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| He was never a big goal scorer. But he does all of the other stuff well.
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From :
davidlynch
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Posted : 12/05/12 at 19:34 |
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| General play is poor
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From :
number10
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Posted : 14/05/12 at 01:01 |
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The title of this thread should be:
"Was Trap going to ring McCarthy?"
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From :
tricky
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Posted : 14/05/12 at 12:40 |
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well in a change to previous situations it does seem like he spent half a day ringing people that WEREN'T going to get called up. In other words they've started treating people with a bit of respect.
(by the way I don't blame Trap or the FAI for the previous way things were handled in particular, it sort of harks back to a previous era of communication that football seems curiously attached to)
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