Shane Long has just gone off at the San Siro with a hamstring injury.
Good news
Austrian no.1 just after suffering what looks like a nasty knee injury against Roma.
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He is being stretchered off. I’d say it’s a cruciate.
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More good news
More keepers than strikers***
The O’Neill way
*** labeling Walters, Rooney, Doyle & McGoldrick as strikers is stretching the definition.
Shane Long is therefore OUT. Slab Murphy is still injured also so we’re very short of forward options.
McCarthy is likely to be ruled out too.
Macmillian is surely a better option than Doyle at this stage?
fking hell, wow, we look very bad up there.
FFS, im seething actually, Sean Maguire and Macmillan have to be options, scoring regularly and playing, ah this is scandalous lads
If Rooney is in the squad no reason in the world why they shouldnt be
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Maguire is a sub on a shit Ireland U21 team.
yes , but he scored in serbia and is on fire for Cork, its an option, hes a very good player, we need a seperate thread for the Irishj U21 selection policy
how , how is a player from fking aberdeen in the squad over Macmillan? really now, you watch that shite and know how bad it is , they cant even beat teams from luxembourg FFS
Slab omitted from provisional squad . Surely something there for our pun men .
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It’s only one match so Walters up front and loading up the midfield should be fine. Callum Wilson is eligible for us iirc but I suppose he’d have declared by now if he was going to.
No John Egan either, though? Every other week he’s in the team of the week in the championship.
Julian Baumgartlinger has bossed the midfield for Bayer Leverkusen at Wembley tonight, chaps.
5 keepers, 4 strikers… fucking hell. And the strikers are all non-strikers too… Walters is our best option out right and in terrible form, McGoldrick isn’t an out and out striker, Rooney plays for Aberdeen and Doyle is long past it. It could easily be Doyle up front though.
Good to see Horgan in, and Boyle. Slightly surprised it was Boyle though rather than Massey, say.
I do think it’s a bit odd that someone like Egan who is playing every week for a decent side doesn’t get in over Pearce who can’t get a game.
Odds on Arter pulling out of the squad?
He seems an OK sort ??
Austria are decent. It will all end in tears.
Ronald Koeman said he was surprised that McCarthy was selected in the provisional squad as he’s unfit. Said he recommended to the player that he stay at Everton and work on recovering from his injury but the choice lies with McCarthy.
Everton are a cunt of a club.
Everton are quite a cuntish club when it comes to Oireland