LMAOOriginally Posted by RogerMilla
Yes
No
didnt make the dutch squad either...
Was he crazy!! Yeah , in a very special way , an Irishman.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
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Time to close this thread for good?
From today's Irish Independent:
Nolan's final avenue to Ireland squad closed off
Sunday August 13th 2006
DION FANNING
IRELAND'S manager Steve Staunton has abandoned any plans to call Kevin Nolan into the Irish squad. Reports last week suggested that Ireland were prepared to appeal to FIFA, arguing that Nolan's appearance in a competitive underage match for England should not disbar him at senior level for Ireland. Australia's Tim Cahill was successful with a similar appeal after he played for Western Samoa as a 14-year-old.
But the FAI have investigated the matter privately and are now persuaded that any case would fail, ruling Nolan out of Staunton's future plans.
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Great news. End of this story hopefully!
not sure it is great news but it does at least stop the debate.
What will we talk about now! We could always start the Joey Barton for Ireland thread.
The timing is rather significant though isn't it, just as England appear to have
closed the door on Nolan, Ireland do the same, I wonder if a final approach was made and he provaracated so they though s*d it, or if it's a sort of slap in the face for Nolan, whose international hopes wouuld now appear to lie with the Dutch.
Well Barton is an Irish name and he's from Liverpool so he must be eligible!
Is it? I've never met a Barton in my life......Where do they all reside, Leitrim?
Hey, what's wrong with Leitrim?
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
You can't help wonder why the FAI did not come to this understanding earlier & let Staunton know before he opened his mouth. Also prevent all the needless debate - which can't be good for them.
So, what have they just realised that they could not have considered before now ?
id like to think this is the end of it as well, was sort of hoping McLaren would give him one cap and dump him a la Zat Knight, but this is next best thing. Still, id like to hear Stan, or indeed Nolan say publicly that its a non-starter before resting easy completely,
then maybe this previously unlockable monster
Why lock it? If you don't want to contribute to the thread then you don't
have to, you don't even have to read it if you don't want to.
Why would you want to stop people posting? If you want to do that why not lock the whole site?
Because every time a thread about Kevin Nolan's eligibility opens up, it disintegrates into arguments about the merits of players born in ireland versus so called mercenaries born outside Ireland, whether or not having nolan, or any player born outside the republic devalues the side and by extension the Eircom League, and whether or not the FAI and Staunton/Kerr are idiots for even approaching these players in the first place. Now that FIFA have stated that he is not eligible, any and all threads about him playing for us are pointless. He can't, and that's the end of it.
Well you could say that 99% of the threads degenerate into arguments. Look at all the arguements about squad and team selection, that thread needs to be shut down immediately. Infact I think I will make a post in that thread to get it closed down. While I am at it I will do the same in any other thread where there is a difference of opinion. We can't have the site degerating into a series of arguements can we.
You will see my post in that thread and it has just as much validity for closing down the thread as your does here, ie none. If everyone took your attitude it would be impossible to discuss any matter here so you might as well close the entire site down.
The jist of my post will be Staunton picks the squad, end of story, any discussion is pointless so let's have the thread padlocked. There is no justification for closing any thread, if people make abusive posts then take action against the abusive posters, not censor the thread. Threads close themselves naturally when nobody has anything further to add on the topic, there is no need for anyone to predict that situation, unless you have a crystal ball that is.
All you are doing is trying to censor topics you don't want to be talked about, well if you don't want to talk about them then you don't have to, there is no reason why you should prevent other people from talking about matter which they want to discuss.
Last edited by tricky_colour; 15/08/2006 at 1:22 AM.
There's nothing left to discuss about Nolan, he's not eligible, he can't play for us, he won't ever play for us, why bother discussing it?
At least those arguments stay on topic, squad and team selection and so on.
testujin is right. If someone opened a Kevin Nolan thread in this forum I'd close it as it has absolutely nothing to do with Irish football anymore. He's not eligible, he won't play for us end of story. I'd leave this open and let the thread flow into obscurity but by the looks of it people still have things to say that have nothing to do with the topic.
Thank you Kevin for such wonderful debates, lets hope this is the last.
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