Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Irish Abroad appearance statistics for 2013/14 to date

Player statistics for the 2013/14 season to the end of December 2013: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=13
Anthony Stokes has started the most wins, the Celtic striker has won 17 of his starts, three games ahead of Richard Keogh's 14 wins
Midfielders Chris McCann and Andy Reid both started the same number of draws, eight of their games finished all square
Ross County's Graham Carey has started the most losses so far this season, losing an unlucky thirteen of his starts in 2013/14, one ahead of Crystal Palace defender Damien Delaney
Paddy Kenny has started the most games so far this season, the Leeds goalkeeper has started 26 games between the sticks, ahead of fellow netminder Darren Randolph on 23 with both players completing 90 minutes in each game. Of the outfield players, defender Richard Keogh has also started 23 games for Derby County, completing 21 of these along with fellow defenders Richard Dunne and Alex Pearce
Strikers Daryl Murphy and Simon Cox have both been substituted ten times, the most of any outfield player. Keiren Westwood is the only goalkeeper to be substituted so far this season
A striker also tops the introductions table, Derby County's Conor Sammon has been summoned from the bench 17 times
Unsurprisingly goalkeepers top the unused substitutes list, with Conrad Logan(27), Brian Murphy(23), Colin Doyle(23) and Robert Elliot (20) all ahead of the most unused outfield player - Yeovil's Sam Foley(18)
Robbie Keane has found the back of the net 13 times since July 2013*, and LA Galaxy never lost when he scored, winning five and drawing two of the seven games he scored in. Honourable mentions for Rhys Murphy with 11 strikes for Dagenham and Redbridge, David Mooney with 13 strikes for Leyton Orient, and Aiden O'Brien with six goals in seven starts for Aldershot Town
Defender Jim Goodwin has been booked eight times so far this season, in only 20 starts.

*note that while the MLS season runs March-November, only games since 1st July 2013 were used when compiling the player comparison tables

Irish Abroad appearance statistics for December 2013

Player appearance statistics for December 2013: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=12
Anthony Stokes started six wins for Celtic, ahead of Richard Keogh's five wins and Seamus Coleman's four wins.
Darren Randolph started four games for Birmingham City that ended all square, ahead of Andy Reid, David Meyler, Sean Murray, Daryl Murphy and Simon Cox who all started three games that finished level
Ross County's Graham Carey has the unwanted stat of most losses started, he was on the losing side five times in December
Midfielder Chris McCann started the most games in December - lining out for Wigan seven times, but only completing four of these. Of the players who started six games Shay Given, Paddy Kenny, David Forde, Darren Randolph, Richard Dunne, Damien Delaney, Ciaran Clark, Seamus Coleman and Andy Reid all completed 90 minutes in each one
Aidan White, Glenn Whelan and Sean Murray were all substituted three times in December, more than any other player. No goalkeepers were withdrawn during the month
Huddersfield striker Sean Scannell was introduced from the bench five times during the final month of 2013, while unsurprisingly goalkeeper Conrad Logan was again the most unused substitute in December, remaining on the bench for seven games. Of the outfield players, Daniel Devine, Sam Foley and Jay Tabb were all unused substitutes in five games
Seamus Coleman scored the most goals in December, finding the back of the net three times, and Everton went on to win all three of these games. That's the first time a defender topped the monthly scoring chart since Damien Delaney in October 2012
Ciaran Clark was booked three times in December, to top the yellow cards table

Sunday, 17 November 2013

Irish players under Martin and Roy

During their club management careers in England and Scotland, both Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane have managed several Irish players. After examining the Irish Abroad player database, we've compiled the following table with the appearance data for these players.

Manager Team Player Name S I G B R
Martin O'Neill Celtic Colin Healy 15 17 2 3 0
Liam Miller 19 24 5 3 0
Aiden McGeady 3 1 1 0 0





Aston Villa Richard Dunne 48 0 3 8 0
Ciaran Clark 1 0 0 0 0





Sunderland Keiren Westwood 8 0 0 0 0
John O'Shea 53 0 1 5 0
David Meyler 2 9 0 0 0
James McClean 48 14 11 6 0





Roy Keane Sunderland Liam Miller 43 17 3 10 2
Anthony Stokes 16 22 5 1 0
Daryl Murphy 50 26 11 4 0
David Connolly 32 10 13 2 0
Stephen Elliott 11 9 4 0 0
Clive Clarke 1 1 0 0 0
Graham Kavanagh 11 4 1 3 0
Liam Lawrence 7 2 0 1 0
Kenny Cunningham 6 0 0 0 0
Paul McShane 22 1 0 3 1
Ian Harte 3 5 0 0 0
Roy O'Donovan 5 13 0 2 0
Andy Reid 19 9 1 3 0
Nicky Colgan 2 0 0 0 0





Ipswich Owen Garvan 19 11 1 3 0
Alan Quinn 10 13 1 0 0
Colin Healy 7 5 0 0 0
Damien Delaney 51 0 2 5 2
Jonathan Walters 45 2 7 8 0
Shane Supple 1 0 0 0 0
Daryl Murphy 17 0 6 0 0
Brian Murphy 24 0 0 1 0
Shane O'Connor 15 6 0 1 0
Ronan Murray 0 10 1 0 0
Darren O'Dea 12 0 0 2 0
Mark Kennedy 11 1 0 1 0
    Legend
  • S - Starts
  • I - Introductions
  • G - Goals
  • B - Bookings
  • R - Red Cards
    Notes
  • John Egan was an unused substitute for Sunderland under Martin O'Neill, while Ian McLoughlin and Conor Hourihane were unused substitutes for Ipswich under Roy Keane
  • Both Alex Bruce and Shane Lowry appeared for the new Irish management team at club level before changing their international allegiance to Northern Ireland and Australia, respectively.