Dara O'Shea

But one thing that I've been doing a lot of and has been working out well is looking at DEF CON.

There are these defenders that are DEFCON magnets, Dara O'Shea being one of them from Ipswich.

They play Nottingham next and Hull after that and then Bournemouth at home.

So Ipswich could be a good shot in there.

And Dara O'Shea has overall been...

He had 13 defensive contributions this week, and 9-9-9 the week before that, just missing out by one DEFCON in those three weeks before that, and then 11 before that, and then 18 in game week one.

So usually pretty much a guarantee for getting those DEFCON points.

getting the equalizer.

And you could argue here, Joe, I know Dara O'Shea had a chance, but like Austria looked very threatening on the counter.

And I can't think in fairness to Kelleher, you might have apportioned a little bit of culpability here to Kelleher, but he saved us then down the stretch because Austria really did grow into the game and they finished the game so much stronger than Ireland.

So I think we kind of ran out of legs here, Joe, as well.

Shane Duffy Shane Duffy Seamus Coleman no Seamus Coleman on this day no Matt Doherty Matt Doherty is there yeah he's the right back so you've got Darren Randolph Matt Doherty and Shane Duffy and the Stephens and the Stephens is there at left back yeah you're missing one defender man who has been very prominent over the last little while for the Republic of Ireland So it would have been probably the start of his Ireland career, I suppose.

Leimsk, no. Oh, Dara O'Shea.

Dara O'Shea, yes.

Moving into the midfield then, you've got a couple of players.

Actually, one of these is still playing.

Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, you don't hear Dara O'Shea...

Talking about me and my team.

He says, us and our people.

So you probably won't, because it was one of the last he was, I think it was the last time he'd really spoke to players was around that.

But Dara O'Shea had said the day before the Kosovo game when we were in Pristina just said, you know, "We haven't spoken about this as a group, about the what's going on with Israel.

We wanna just focus on Kosovo, and then we'll deal with it and have a meeting and come together as one after." And in my head it was, in my head it was at the time I was like, well, okay, well that, that makes s- that makes sense on the basis that, because in my in- on my info and also I, I will be honest, my kind of info and kind of understanding was when if, if every- everyone has arrived into the squad who's there and how Grimston had said he had spoken to everyone about it, everyone's obviously happy to play.

I was thinking the reason why they were waiting and wanted to talk about it was 'cause I'd obviously heard whispers about it before that, and then it was subsequently confirmed about, well, players wanted to make different gestures.

I think then that it's clear then that when they were actually writing stuff down, because again, that was put out in a w- wrote about it as well, like I think for Callum Bazunu's case, I think obviously there was that whole thing the night before with that Israeli celebration, the fella doing it and him saying it was a snooker thing or whatever.

Like, but then genuinely at the same time didn't that, with everything that was going on, it was so within voiced.

And then, but also just even the, the statement, 'cause Dara O'Shea was the player who was obviously, 'cause he was the, felt for him actually, 'cause he was like captain, but he was like poor choice captain really, like between Coleman and Nathan Collins.

And, um, they, that first went in the statement that was supposed to come out on the, that initial press conference that was put to me was, "We have agreed to play Israel," et cetera, et cetera.

Brian Brobbey didn't play, obviously, with the injury, but he's still featuring there.

Kyle Rushworth, Abdul Attara, Nicholas Jackson, Dara O'Shea, Bobby Thomas, Ethan Pinnock, Yannick Schuster.

Um...

Chema Andras, Bobby Thomas Adesante, and Christian Mosquera round out the list.

Uh, Coventry.

And also another one similar to Bobby Thomas, uh, Ipswich getting a win, and Dara O'Shea, um, was another star performer this week.

So yeah, look, there's players there a lot of teams will have.

For example, for like you example, Bobby Thomas, Bernies, and O'Shea.