Who is your worst Republic of Ireland XI of all time?

reddevils10

After seeing a documentary on the England worst XI, who would fit in Ireland's worst XI, maybe Paul Green

AgileMyth

Green would be nowhere near our worst 11. Neither would Mcshane but I'm sure he'll get a lot of mentions here..

Kankan14

Centre midfield.

Joey Lapira.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lapira

kfallon

Paul Butler centre back. Paddy Kenny in goal?

CSF

You'll be looking at a load of 1 or 2 cap wonders really.

StringerBell

Worst XI with 10+ caps would be interesting

Lovely Bloke

Of all time?

Sure there's nobody posting here who'd be able to give a proper opinion of players who played for the ROI from the 50s to the 80s.

cdeb

Is the 80s really some dim and fabled time, which maybe wasn't even real?

Nobody here can pass any opinion on Mark Kelly, Peter Eccles or Pierce O'Leary?

Anyway, my worst Ireland XI would have Gary Breen in goals. I don't care what the song says.

Kermit.de.frog

"Who is your worst Republic of Ireland XI of all time"?

You mean...

Who would be in your worst Republic of Ireland team of all time?

My choice is the current lot. We have no class players, just journeymen.

blade1

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

"Who is your worst Republic of Ireland XI of all time"?

You mean...

Who would be in your worst Republic of Ireland team of all time?

My choice is the current lot. We have no class players, just journeymen.

The lot that went to Poland were worse.

pickarooney

Alan Kernaghan
Liam Daish
Jeff Kenna

HalloweenJack

The guys who played in the Cyprus defeat.

8-10

Jon Macken.

Was Manchester City's record signing at the time he was capped I believe.

Mint Sauce

Anyone who competed in Euro 2012. Both at qualifying and the finals.

Benimar

For those with 10+ caps I'll throw in Nicky Colgan and Alan Lee.

Connor Sammon is lucky he only has 9 caps

Iused2likebusts

Gary doherty he was dreadful in 2 positions.

AgileMyth

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Anyone who competed in Euro 2012. Both at qualifying and the finals.

Shay Given, Damian Duff and Robbie Keane?

Liam O

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Anyone who competed in Euro 2012. Both at qualifying and the finals.

Yeah we were in so many Euros before that and regularly winning them so those that qualified were terrible.

enzo roco

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Anyone who competed in Euro 2012. Both at qualifying and the finals.

What a silly silly statement.

Guy:Incognito

pickarooney wrote: »

Alan Kernaghan
Liam Daish
Jeff Kenna

I came across the Matt Le Tissier 100 club episode on sky sports the other day. I was amazed how many of his goals were assisted by Kenna or at least involved him in the build up. Theres plenty of filler players much more worthy of a spot than Kenna.

Dempsey

I imagine the actual worst team will be full of 1 cappers.

The worst team to amass the most caps would be an interesting team to see

Edit

Or the worst team to amass under say 50 caps

blueser

HalloweenJack wrote: »

The guys who played in the Cyprus defeat.

In terms of a collective team unit, rather than the fourteen
individual players, it's hard to argue against that group on that inglorious night.

Sue Pa Key Pa

Not a fan of Glenn Whelan

eh i dunno

Jon goodman and Eddie mcgoldrick deserve mentions.

BorneTobyWilde

Paki Boner

the groutch

Phil Babb

Ulysses Gaze

Andy O'Brien

Howjoe1

I don't like this thread.

Leave this sort of this to the English & their Tabloids.

con___manx1

Stephen Elliot

holy guacamole

Of those I've seen.

1. Nick Colgan

2. Stephen Kelly
3. Alan Maybury

4. Liam Daish
5. Brian Carey


6. Gareth Farrelly
7. David Meyler

8. Alan O'Brien


9. Simon Cox
10. Gary Doherty

11. Andy Keogh

delaad

Eleven Dunphys

cunavalos

From the FAI website of official caps. I have selected those with between 1-10 caps who played from 1980 onwards.
The stats were correct as of June 2015 from http://www.fai.ie/ireland/senior-men/caps-list

1 CAP

Harry Arter (2015 -), Keith Branagan (1997), Paul Butler (2000), Owen Coyle (1994), Colin Doyle (2007 - ), Mick Doyle (2004 - ), Shane Duffy (2014-), Michael Evans (1997), Jim Goodwin (2002), Gary Howlett (1984), Jonathan Macken (2004), Paddy Madden (2013 - ), Mike Milligan (1992), Barry Murphy (1986), Joe Murphy (2003), Kelham O'Hanlon (1987), Richard Sadlier (2002), Pat Scully (1988), John Thompson (2003), Johnny Walsh (1982)

2 CAPS

Alex Bruce (2007 - 2011), Liam Buckley (1984), Thomas Butler (2002), Jason Byrne (2004-2006), Clive Clarke (2004), Glen Crowe (2002-2003), Ken De Mange (1987-1988), Terry Donovan (1979-1981), Mick Fairclough (1982), Noel Hunt (2009 - ), Alan Mahon (2000), David McGoldrick (2014 - ), Joe Murphy (2010 - ), Darren Randolph (2012 - )

3 CAPS

Alan Campbell (1985), Brian Carey (1992-1994), Cyrus Christie (2014-), Rob Elliot (2014 - ), Jacko McDonagh (1983-1984), Jerry Murphy (1979-1980), Eddie Nolan (2009 - ), Fran O'Brien (1979-1980), Sean O'Driscoll (1982), Damien Richardson (1971-1979), Cillian Sheridan (2010 - ),

4 CAPS

Greg Cunningham (2010 - ) , Eamonn Deacy (1982), Jon Goodman (1997), Mark Kelly (1988-1990), Kieran O'Regan (1983-1985), Barry Quinn (2000), Mike Walsh (1982)

5 CAPS

Liam Daish (1992-1996), Joey O'Brien (2006 - ), Ray O'Brien (1976-1980), Eamonn O'Keeffe (1981-1985), Darren Potter (2007 - ), Martin Rowlands (2004 - ), Dave Savage (1996), Keith Treacy (2010 - )

6 CAPS

Graham Barrett (2002-2004), Alex Pearce (2012 - )

7 CAPS

Leon Best (2009 - ), Caleb Folan (2009 - ), Bernie Slaven (1990-1993), Alan Quinn (2003)

8 CAPS

Pat Byrne (1984-1986), Jonathan Douglas (2004 - ), Kevin Foley (2009 - ), , Anthony Pilkington (2013 - )

9 CAPS

Nick Colgan (2002 - 2004), Conor Sammon (2013-), Anthony Stokes (2007 - )

10 CAPS

Curtis Fleming (1996-1998), Alan Lee (2003-2006), Alan Maybury (1998-2005), Stephen McPhail (2000-2004)

blade1

A team of Gary Breens!

Hard to look past Simon Cox and Conor Sammon.

I mean, just not international players.

Pierce O'Leary was the usual one identified in worst player pub discussions back in the days before the internet. A whole career based on being the brother of the very fine David.

kfallon

Alex Bruce has to be in there, absolute poison!

Rikand

McGeady. A man who bluffed his way through an international career and has been pretty terrible throughout

Ulysses Gaze

Clinton Morrison is another.

GavRedKing

Conor Sammon and Caleb Folan get my starting CFs with Daryl Murphy running both close, all three have failed to score for us too.

GLaDOS

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Clinton Morrison is another.

There's a heap of strikers we've had worse that Morrison.

chicorytip

The eleven who started against the mighty Egyptians at Italia 90.

Ulysses Gaze

ScienceNerd wrote: »

There's a heap of strikers we've had worse that Morrison.

That have played 40+ times for Ireland?

SantryRed

Rikand wrote: »

McGeady. A man who bluffed his way through an international career and has been pretty terrible throughout

Bollocks.

85 caps for us. Without his goals in this campaign we wouldn't have been in France.

He's been incredibly frustrating throughout his career and his form has noticeably dipped in the past two years. But he shouldn't be anywhere near this discussion.

GLaDOS

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

That have played 40+ times for Ireland?

He got that many caps because the other options werent any better.

He scored 9 goals in 36 appearences for us, not world class by any means but not deserving of mention in this thread.

Shane Long has a similar strike rate for Ireland as a comparison.

kellstrom

Surprised there's been no mention of Liam Miller yet...
To my eyes, the worst I've seen don a green jersey, he was dire. He's been living off the back of his Man United days

TCDStudent1

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Clinton Morrison is another.

Had many fine games for Ireland

cdeb

Second top scorer in the 2006 campaign; scored away to Switzerland and Israel.

Would have been vital goals had Kerr not insisted on sitting back on every lead. Shouldn't be included I think.

DeanAustin

chicorytip wrote: »

The eleven who started against the mighty Egyptians at Italia 90.

The eleven who played against France in 2016.

Am I doing this right?

kfallon

chicorytip wrote: »

The eleven who started against the mighty Egyptians at Italia 90.

Yip, Moran, McCarthy, Staunton, Houghton, Townsend, McGrath, Sheedy, Aldridge & Cascarino should ALL definitely be in the worst XI......

eagle eye

pickarooney wrote: »

Alan Kernaghan
Liam Daish
Jeff Kenna

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

Not a fan of Glenn Whelan

eh i dunno wrote: »

Jon goodman and Eddie mcgoldrick deserve mentions.

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Paki Boner

the groutch wrote: »

Phil Babb

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Andy O'Brien

con___manx1 wrote: »

Stephen Elliot

Rikand wrote: »

McGeady. A man who bluffed his way through an international career and has been pretty terrible throughout

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Clinton Morrison is another.

This is why I hate threads like this.

Completely clueless stuff here from all the above. :rolleyes:

kfallon

DeanAustin wrote: »

The eleven who played against France in 2016.

Am I doing this right?

Don't forget the 11 who started against Liechtenstein in '95 too!

Lovely Bloke

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Paki

hmmmmm.