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We played a left back and a right back at centre half, wingers at wing back, a League One CM with a bloke that couldn't get in a League One side, with a Championship winger, plus Roberts and Moore. They've got established PL players. They're not very good, granted but they should do an awful lot better. Mick proved that.
Just because I'm bored I thought I'd compare the two line ups from our reserves vs mexico and Ireland vs Luxembourg:
GK : Hennesey Vs Bazunu
Wales are better
DF : Gunter, Cabango, Norrington-Davies vs Coleman, O'Shea, Clark
Ireland are better
MF: Williams, Levitt, Smith, Lawrence vs Doherty, Knight, Cullen, Stevens
Ireland better
FW Roberts, Matondo, Moore vs Browne, Collins, Robinson
Wales possibly shade that
Altogether they are fairly similar in quality, perhaps even Ireland are slightly stronger , but that is our 2nd XI and I don't think Ireland have too many better players to bring in to replace those.
I looked at the Ireland squad the other day. It's as bad as I've seen it.
They used to have a few decent pl players and the rest made of good championship ones. This is very much average championship players with a few pl players on the down curve of their footballing career