Pepper

[PaderbornCaley]

Conor has been electric every time he has come on.

Who can forget the last kick of the ball against Hearts to draw the game?! Or his goal against Hibs?! Every time he came on in the first half of the season he was fantastic.

But the management don‘t pick one of our best players any more. This begs the obvious question.

Why?

Could it just be that, because Conor plays in U-20's Butcher doesn't want to risk burning the lad out. After all he's only 18.

 

There aye seems to be conspiracy theories whenever the youngsters are mentioned but I think Conor and Liam etc get quite a lot of competitive game time in their development. I also think we dont have enough U-20 players to compete in that league so what we've got has to be protected.

Possibly.  But I never mentioned a conspiracy theory.   However, he has changed games for us in the early part of the season.  There's been times in the last few weeks that I've thought that if he came on and played like he had earlier in the season, we could have had that game changing performance.  I'm hearing he is now injured after Mondays U20 game though?

[Renegade]

I see Pepper's been called up to the Ireland squad and will join them at their training camp in Malaga!  

Edited March 7, 2013 by Renegade

[lukemackay]

can someone clear up whether its an u19,21 squad or whether hes been called to train with the first team? it seems a little too good to be true

[Renegade]

I thought the same (it was probably U21s or something), but from what I can gather it's the first team.

[lukemackay]

I thought the same (it was probably U21s or something), but from what I can gather it's the first team.

Great opportunity for him if so, he'll be training with some very good players.

[Renegade]

He might even get to play against a Gibraltar Select XI! 

[Yngwie]

he'll be training with some very good players.

 

Just a normal day then. 

[lukemackay]

He might even get to play against a Gibraltar Select XI!

Was juanjo not in Gibraltar at some stage?!

[Rival]

He might even get to play against a Gibraltar Select XI!

Was juanjo not in Gibraltar at some stage?!

Yes

[Rival]

Also, I'd imagine that game vs a Gibraltar Select would have a high number of substitutions available so he may get on

[Alex MacLeod]

This is the Republic squad as published on BBC site today. No CP listed there. Cant find any info anywhere on U-21 or U-19.

 

Goalkeepers: Westwood (Sunderland), Forde (Millwall), Randolph (Motherwell)

Defenders: O'Shea (Sunderland), St Ledger (Leicester), Clark (Aston Villa), Wilson (Stoke), Coleman (Everton), Kelly (Reading), O'Dea (Toronto), O'Brien (West Ham), McShane (Hull), Pearce (Reading), Ward (Wolves)

Midfielders: Whelan (Stoke), McCarthy (Wigan), Green (Leeds), Hendrick (Derby), McGeady (Spartak Moscow), Pilkington (Norwich), McClean (Sunderland), Brady (Hull)

Forwards: Keane (Los Angeles Galaxy), Long (West Brom), Doyle (Wolves), Sammon (Derby), Walters (Stoke), Cox (Nottingham Forest), Hoolahan (Norwich)

[Renegade]

Presumably that's the full squad list for the next couple of matches, and he's been called up to train with them and join them at their camp, while acting as a back-up player?

[ictchris]

He'll have been called into the Under 19s, he's played for them before.