Irish Scorers for 29/03/2014Scottish League OneArbroath 1-2 Rangers Jon Daly(19) Sky Bet League 1 Swindon Town 2-1 Sheffield United Michael Doyle(59) Milton Keynes Dons 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers Liam McAlinden(81) Notts County 2-0 Colchester United Ronan Murray(5) Sky Bet Championship Millwall 2-2 Blackburn Rovers Shaun Williams(57, penalty) Birmingham City 2-4 Bournemouth Ian Harte(52) Ipswich Town 1-1 Nottingham Forest Daryl Murphy(78) Yeovil Town 1-4 Barnsley Liam Lawrence(64) |
Irish Scorers for 30/03/2014Johnstone's Paint TrophyChesterfield 1-3 Peterborough United Eoin Doyle(53) |
Monday, 31 March 2014
Irish goals for weekend of 29 March 2014
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Irish goals week of 25 March 2014
Irish Scorers for 25/03/2014Sky Bet League 2York City 1-0 Torquay United Will Hayhurst(11) Chesterfield 1-0 Morecambe Jay O'Shea(19) Sky Bet League 1 Crewe Alexandra 1-3 Notts County Ronan Murray(87) Ronan Murray(79) Scottish Premiership Ross County 1-1 Aberdeen Adam Rooney(77) Sky Bet Championship Reading 1-3 Barnsley Stephen Dawson(16) Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Brighton and Hove Albion Leon Best(90) |
Irish Scorers for 26/03/2014Scottish PremiershipPartick Thistle 1-5 Celtic Anthony Stokes(4) Anthony Stokes(90) |
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Irish goals for weekend of 21 March 2014
Irish Scorers for 21/03/2014Sky Bet League 2Oxford United 1-0 Hartlepool United David Connolly(78) |
Irish Scorers for 22/03/2014Sky Bet League 2Morecambe 1-1 Northampton Town Padraig Amond(75) Scunthorpe United 1-0 Burton Albion Paddy Madden(60) Scottish Premiership Celtic 3-0 St Mirren Anthony Stokes(90) Aberdeen 2-1 Kilmarnock Adam Rooney(17) Sky Bet League 1 Notts County 4-1 Carlisle United Ronan Murray(40) James Berrett(57) Brentford 3-1 Coventry City Alan McCormack(48) Sky Bet Championship Brighton and Hove Albion 0-2 Ipswich Town Daryl Murphy(80) Yeovil Town 2-2 Bolton Wanderers Kevin Dawson(42) Derby County 5-0 Nottingham Forest Jeff Hendrick(37) Barclays Premier League Hull City 2-0 West Bromwich Albion Shane Long(38) |
Sunday, 23 March 2014
Wes Hoolahan's influence
With the English season entering its final quarter, the final positions of teams at both ends of the table are dominating the hearts and minds of fans and pundits alike. While Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal are battling it out for the top four positions, at the other end of the table, it's not unreasonable to assume that any team from Aston Villa in tenth on 34 points (at the time of writing) can be sucked into a relegation battle. While Norwich City appear relatively comfortable in thirteenth position, further investigation reveals how precarious it really is.
With a game more played than every team between them and the relegation zone, they have a real chance of dropping down the table without even playing. Added to that, they've scored the joint least amount of goals in the division, 26, along with 18th placed Cardiff and 19th placed Sunderland, who have three games in hand on the Canaries thanks to their run to the League Cup Final in February. In their 31 games, the East Anglian side have conceded 48 goals, two more than any other team outside the relegation zone. If that wasn't bad enough, their final four games are against Liverpool(H), Manchester United(A), Chelsea(A) and Arsenal(H) meaning they will more than likely need to be safe from relegation before these games kick off. At the moment, I think 36 points will secure Premier League football for another season, but anything can change in the next few weeks.
This has all amounted to a massive amount of pressure on the manager, former Irish international Chris Hughton, with fans on both sides of the Irish Channel questioning his omission of midfielder Wes Hoolahan. With conceivably only three games left to preserve their status in the Premier League, the evidence for Hughton to start Hoolahan in all of these games is compelling.
Of Norwich's 17 home games this season (including cup games), Hoolahan has only started six, winning three, and of the other eleven games, the Canaries have only won four. There are similar findings for Norwich's away games. Of their 16 games away from Carrow Road, Hoolahan has only started five, winning once. In the eleven games he has not started, Hughton's side have only won a single game, and have lost nine, compared to the three lost from five games with the Dubliner in the starting XI.
These finding are summarised in the table below
With a game more played than every team between them and the relegation zone, they have a real chance of dropping down the table without even playing. Added to that, they've scored the joint least amount of goals in the division, 26, along with 18th placed Cardiff and 19th placed Sunderland, who have three games in hand on the Canaries thanks to their run to the League Cup Final in February. In their 31 games, the East Anglian side have conceded 48 goals, two more than any other team outside the relegation zone. If that wasn't bad enough, their final four games are against Liverpool(H), Manchester United(A), Chelsea(A) and Arsenal(H) meaning they will more than likely need to be safe from relegation before these games kick off. At the moment, I think 36 points will secure Premier League football for another season, but anything can change in the next few weeks.
This has all amounted to a massive amount of pressure on the manager, former Irish international Chris Hughton, with fans on both sides of the Irish Channel questioning his omission of midfielder Wes Hoolahan. With conceivably only three games left to preserve their status in the Premier League, the evidence for Hughton to start Hoolahan in all of these games is compelling.
Of Norwich's 17 home games this season (including cup games), Hoolahan has only started six, winning three, and of the other eleven games, the Canaries have only won four. There are similar findings for Norwich's away games. Of their 16 games away from Carrow Road, Hoolahan has only started five, winning once. In the eleven games he has not started, Hughton's side have only won a single game, and have lost nine, compared to the three lost from five games with the Dubliner in the starting XI.
These finding are summarised in the table below
| Norwich | Home | Away | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | G | W | D | L | G | W | D | L | ||||
| Started | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Not Started | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | |||
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Irish goals for week of 18th March 2014
Irish Scorers for 18/03/2014Sky Bet League 2Accrington Stanley 5-1 Morecambe Padraig Amond(84) Sky Bet League 1 Crawley Town 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers Billy Clarke(27) Sky Bet Championship Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 Queens Park Rangers Leon Best(51) |
Saturday, 1 March 2014
Irish Abroad player statistics for February 2014
Appearance data for February 2014: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=2
Omitted midfielder Chris McCann started the most win in February, finishing on the winning side five times for Wigan
Aaron Doran tops the draw table, with Inverness Caledonian Thistle finishing three games all square
Four losses for St Mirren's Jim Goodwin see him lose the most games in 2014's second month, and his two yellow cards was equaled by Richard Dunne, Shaun Williams, Harry Arter and Jonathan Walters
Simon Cox was in Nottingham Forest's starting XI six times, one more than his compatriot Andy Reid, but only completed 90 minutes in one of these games. His five substitutions in February was two more than any other player
Darren Randolph, Shane Duffy, Shaun Williams, Anthony O'Connor, Willo Flood, and Adam Rooney all completed the five games they started in February
Championship strikers Sean Scannell and Conor Sammon were both introduced from the bench four times, ahead of Jeff Hendrick and James Collins
Goalkeeper Colin Doyle was an unused substitute five times, the same as outfield players Sean Dillon, Kevin Long, Daniel Devine and Sam Foley
Anthony Stokes and Adam Rooney both notched four strikes in February, with Stokes scoring the sixth hat trick of his career against St Johnstone, while Rooney's Aberdeen went on to win three of the games he scored in
Omitted midfielder Chris McCann started the most win in February, finishing on the winning side five times for Wigan
Aaron Doran tops the draw table, with Inverness Caledonian Thistle finishing three games all square
Four losses for St Mirren's Jim Goodwin see him lose the most games in 2014's second month, and his two yellow cards was equaled by Richard Dunne, Shaun Williams, Harry Arter and Jonathan Walters
Simon Cox was in Nottingham Forest's starting XI six times, one more than his compatriot Andy Reid, but only completed 90 minutes in one of these games. His five substitutions in February was two more than any other player
Darren Randolph, Shane Duffy, Shaun Williams, Anthony O'Connor, Willo Flood, and Adam Rooney all completed the five games they started in February
Championship strikers Sean Scannell and Conor Sammon were both introduced from the bench four times, ahead of Jeff Hendrick and James Collins
Goalkeeper Colin Doyle was an unused substitute five times, the same as outfield players Sean Dillon, Kevin Long, Daniel Devine and Sam Foley
Anthony Stokes and Adam Rooney both notched four strikes in February, with Stokes scoring the sixth hat trick of his career against St Johnstone, while Rooney's Aberdeen went on to win three of the games he scored in
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