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Post by dai on Oct 16, 2021 13:39:31 GMT
I was looking at Dundee to see if Levitt was playing today (he's not), and noticed they had a centre back named 'Ryan Edwards'. He's 28 and born in Liverpool. Hasn't had a great career, but was just curious if he is at all eligible.
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Post by saturn9 on Oct 16, 2021 16:49:00 GMT
He 'archer' was on the bench for Villa today.
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Post by mortillsy on Oct 18, 2021 15:01:07 GMT
Not eligible! … bit of a shame. Looks a decent prospect.
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Post by bale-droed on Oct 19, 2021 2:27:29 GMT
Not eligible! … bit of a shame. Looks a decent prospect. He can join Leif Davis, Gary Hooper and Will Hughes as players someone made up eligibility for Wales so that England or England under 21s pay attention. Exciting while it lasted. Who next I wonder?
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Post by welshrover on Oct 19, 2021 8:15:19 GMT
Not eligible! … bit of a shame. Looks a decent prospect. He can join Leif Davis, Gary Hooper and Will Hughes as players someone made up eligibility for Wales so that England or England under 21s pay attention. Exciting while it lasted. Who next I wonder? If no-one pops up we could resurrect Brett Pitman 😃
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Post by mortillsy on Oct 19, 2021 8:34:44 GMT
He can join Leif Davis, Gary Hooper and Will Hughes as players someone made up eligibility for Wales so that England or England under 21s pay attention. Exciting while it lasted. Who next I wonder? If no-one pops up we could resurrect Brett Pitman 😃 I still see Brett Pitman pop up for Bristol Rovers and wonder what happened there! All of the above caused considerable excitement! 😂 .. all would have added to the squad. I presumed Archer was the player DS was talking about the other week? Although, Smith seemed to suggest Wales didn’t know a few days ago (nothing to know I suppose!), which didn’t tie in with DS’ timeline.
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Post by allezlesrouges on Oct 19, 2021 8:46:15 GMT
If no-one pops up we could resurrect Brett Pitman 😃 I still see Brett Pitman pop up for Bristol Rovers and wonder what happened there! All of the above caused considerable excitement! 😂 .. all would have added to the squad. I presumed Archer was the player DS was talking about the other week? Although, Smith seemed to suggest Wales didn’t know a few days ago (nothing to know I suppose!), which didn’t tie in with DS’ timeline. DS was talking about Ed Turns, CB for Brighton who played in the EFL Cup for them against Swansea
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Post by mortillsy on Oct 19, 2021 8:58:57 GMT
I still see Brett Pitman pop up for Bristol Rovers and wonder what happened there! All of the above caused considerable excitement! 😂 .. all would have added to the squad. I presumed Archer was the player DS was talking about the other week? Although, Smith seemed to suggest Wales didn’t know a few days ago (nothing to know I suppose!), which didn’t tie in with DS’ timeline. DS was talking about Ed Turns, CB for Brighton who played in the EFL Cup for them against Swansea Are you sure? Ed Turns was reported a while back on Dragonsoccer. I thought DS stated he’d just been made aware on here a few weeks back.
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Post by allezlesrouges on Oct 19, 2021 9:10:20 GMT
DS was talking about Ed Turns, CB for Brighton who played in the EFL Cup for them against Swansea Are you sure? Ed Turns was reported a while back on Dragonsoccer. I thought DS stated he’d just been made aware on here a few weeks back. I don't think Ed Turns was reported a while ago. No one mentioned him on here until September. Around the time DS mentioned
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Post by insertname on Oct 19, 2021 9:40:44 GMT
If no-one pops up we could resurrect Brett Pitman 😃 I still see Brett Pitman pop up for Bristol Rovers and wonder what happened there! All of the above caused considerable excitement! 😂 .. all would have added to the squad. I presumed Archer was the player DS was talking about the other week? Although, Smith seemed to suggest Wales didn’t know a few days ago (nothing to know I suppose!), which didn’t tie in with DS’ timeline. Christ Pitman can barely move these days 😂 saying that he’s still out performing the rest of the team on goals and assists which is partly why I don’t think we should be calling up any other Rovers players like Spence! With regard to Archer, for me that’s a bit of a hammer blow- Rovers tried to get him on loan iirc but had no chance because he’s a really highly rated prospect on the edge of the Villa first team. I think he’s already proved he can score goals at senior level in the EFL if memory serves. Seeing as he is a striker too he really could have offered us some hope for the future at a time when we are crying out for a goalscorer. Really gutted that he’s not actually eligible 😢
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Post by mortillsy on Oct 19, 2021 9:58:34 GMT
Are you sure? Ed Turns was reported a while back on Dragonsoccer. I thought DS stated he’d just been made aware on here a few weeks back. I don't think Ed Turns was reported a while ago. No one mentioned him on here until September. Around the time DS mentioned Fair - I thought it was stated that he had been known for the last few years.
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Post by mortillsy on Oct 19, 2021 10:02:30 GMT
I still see Brett Pitman pop up for Bristol Rovers and wonder what happened there! All of the above caused considerable excitement! 😂 .. all would have added to the squad. I presumed Archer was the player DS was talking about the other week? Although, Smith seemed to suggest Wales didn’t know a few days ago (nothing to know I suppose!), which didn’t tie in with DS’ timeline. Christ Pitman can barely move these days 😂 saying that he’s still out performing the rest of the team on goals and assists which is partly why I don’t think we should be calling up any other Rovers players like Spence! With regard to Archer, for me that’s a bit of a hammer blow- Rovers tried to get him on loan iirc but had no chance because he’s a really highly rated prospect on the edge of the Villa first team. I think he’s already proved he can score goals at senior level in the EFL if memory serves. Seeing as he is a striker too he really could have offered us some hope for the future at a time when we are crying out for a goalscorer. Really gutted that he’s not actually eligible 😢 Yeah - Pitman seems to have been around forever. Still plodding on 😂 Archer is a shame. My buddy is a Villa fan and always sings the praises of their academy. He said he’s looked lethal on the limited occasions he’s seen him. The striker hunt goes on! ..
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Post by bale-droed on Oct 19, 2021 11:31:04 GMT
The hilarious thing is there’s probably players in the championship eligible but they have no idea. I’m 31 I found out (much to my devastation) only when I was 30 that my grandfather who died in 1967 was born in England. I don’t understand though how there’s no players in Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain with a Welsh nan. Surely there’s one somewhere. Closest we’ve ever had is Thomas gregg lopes da Silva, A young Dutch keeper who didn’t make it and Patrick otte but there must be someone in a top division in Russia even with a Welsh taid. There’s got to be more than just English people with Welsh lineage and the odd American who declares Welsh parents but can’t even get a game for our under 19s
edit I remembered Matthew De Cae
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Post by dai on Oct 19, 2021 11:56:22 GMT
Don't the FAW invest a lot of time into player eligibility though? Or was that something they USED to do?
How did we come to find out that Moore was eligible?
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Post by jimexotic on Oct 19, 2021 12:33:38 GMT
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Post by Albert on Oct 19, 2021 13:18:10 GMT
Wasn't there an American lad who had a Welsh mother and was raring to go for the u17s -u18s? Couple of years ago now.
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Post by insertname on Oct 19, 2021 14:24:41 GMT
I still see Brett Pitman pop up for Bristol Rovers and wonder what happened there! All of the above caused considerable excitement! 😂 .. all would have added to the squad. I presumed Archer was the player DS was talking about the other week? Although, Smith seemed to suggest Wales didn’t know a few days ago (nothing to know I suppose!), which didn’t tie in with DS’ timeline. Christ Pitman can barely move these days 😂 saying that he’s still out performing the rest of the team on goals and assists which is partly why I don’t think we should be calling up any other Rovers players like Spence! With regard to Archer, for me that’s a bit of a hammer blow- Rovers tried to get him on loan iirc but had no chance because he’s a really highly rated prospect on the edge of the Villa first team. I think he’s already proved he can score goals at senior level in the EFL if memory serves. Seeing as he is a striker too he really could have offered us some hope for the future at a time when we are crying out for a goalscorer. Really gutted that he’s not actually eligible 😢 EFL cup, I mean
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Post by ystradwales on Oct 19, 2021 14:25:12 GMT
Wasn't there an American lad who had a Welsh mother and was raring to go for the u17s -u18s? Couple of years ago now. . Josh Francombe was called up for a few Welsh squads but thought with Covid-19 restrictions it had stopped his participation for the last 2 seasons. Also Gavin Gall (Kevin Gall's nephew) was called up for Wales u17 squad in February 2019 but covid would have stopped him coming over
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Post by insertname on Oct 19, 2021 14:27:36 GMT
The thing that jumped out to me was El Salvador have still been a World Cup more recently than us!
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Post by allezlesrouges on Oct 19, 2021 16:01:55 GMT
That's brilliant! To be fair the FAW do a great job. It's not always as easy to tell by names these days. Rhys Williams being ineligible and Ethan Ampadu being eligible is case in point There are bound to be more out there though, it's just not always an easy process to find them unless the players themselves come forward
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Post by jimexotic on Oct 19, 2021 16:19:07 GMT
All things said, I'd much rather a player knew they had some Welsh in them and made their intentions very clear ie. Sorba Thomas rather than anyone having to rummage around trying to find out if a player has a Nain or Taid from Denbigh before seeing if they fancy it. One of the most encouraging things for us on this front recently was how set on Wales Sorba was and how public he was about it.
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Post by welshrover on Oct 19, 2021 17:32:15 GMT
Here is a brain teaser as I can't recall the lad's name.
But didn't we hear some years back about a lad who was raised in Portugal but had Welsh parents and was on the books of some big club?
Or was it Spain?
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Post by bale-droed on Oct 19, 2021 20:35:02 GMT
Here is a brain teaser as I can't recall the lad's name. But didn't we hear some years back about a lad who was raised in Portugal but had Welsh parents and was on the books of some big club? Or was it Spain? Yeah I mentioned him above Thomas gregg lopes da Silva Born wales raised Portugal (could’ve been Spain) played Swansea youth
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Post by welshrover on Oct 19, 2021 20:41:34 GMT
Here is a brain teaser as I can't recall the lad's name. But didn't we hear some years back about a lad who was raised in Portugal but had Welsh parents and was on the books of some big club? Or was it Spain? Yeah I mentioned him above Thomas gregg lopes da Silva Born wales raised Portugal (could’ve been Spain) played Swansea youth Just searched on him, he has retired.
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Post by bale-droed on Oct 20, 2021 0:21:38 GMT
Yeah I mentioned him above Thomas gregg lopes da Silva Born wales raised Portugal (could’ve been Spain) played Swansea youth Just searched on him, he has retired. Before he had that cap by Portugal we were all worried about a decade ago??? Strange
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Post by wirralwelsh on Oct 20, 2021 2:15:30 GMT
Batistuta was the great one that got away wasn't he? The hilarious thing is there’s probably players in the championship eligible but they have no idea. I’m 31 I found out (much to my devastation) only when I was 30 that my grandfather who died in 1967 was born in England. I don’t understand though how there’s no players in Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain with a Welsh nan. Surely there’s one somewhere. Closest we’ve ever had is Thomas gregg lopes da Silva, A young Dutch keeper who didn’t make it and Patrick otte but there must be someone in a top division in Russia even with a Welsh taid. There’s got to be more than just English people with Welsh lineage and the odd American who declares Welsh parents but can’t even get a game for our under 19s edit I remembered Matthew De Cae Nains and taids would be no good though. To meet eligibility requirements you'd need to qualify for a UK passport and grandparentage doesn't entitle you to that. We can only use the granny rule to cap players from the rest of the U.K due to the anomaly of us all sharing the same passport. So its a case of finding players with Welsh parents and that narrows the pool considerably. Dylan Hughes our Welsh-Canadian (after having failed to get Hargreaves!) is another one that played for us at 21's.
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Post by bale-droed on Oct 21, 2021 11:25:38 GMT
Batistuta was the great one that got away wasn't he? The hilarious thing is there’s probably players in the championship eligible but they have no idea. I’m 31 I found out (much to my devastation) only when I was 30 that my grandfather who died in 1967 was born in England. I don’t understand though how there’s no players in Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain with a Welsh nan. Surely there’s one somewhere. Closest we’ve ever had is Thomas gregg lopes da Silva, A young Dutch keeper who didn’t make it and Patrick otte but there must be someone in a top division in Russia even with a Welsh taid. There’s got to be more than just English people with Welsh lineage and the odd American who declares Welsh parents but can’t even get a game for our under 19s edit I remembered Matthew De Cae Nains and taids would be no good though. To meet eligibility requirements you'd need to qualify for a UK passport and grandparentage doesn't entitle you to that. We can only use the granny rule to cap players from the rest of the U.K due to the anomaly of us all sharing the same passport. So its a case of finding players with Welsh parents and that narrows the pool considerably. Dylan Hughes our Welsh-Canadian (after having failed to get Hargreaves!) is another one that played for us at 21's. Thanks for the granny info on passports I didn’t know. I’d forgotten Dylan Hughes he was interesting because I remember at the time in the under 16s we had david Jones of Hamburg so we had 2 bundesliga based players which was exciting. Sadly David never made it pro
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Post by marsvolta on Oct 21, 2021 11:39:48 GMT
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Post by dai on Oct 21, 2021 12:11:35 GMT
While it's good to have finds like this, does he get in before Morrell, Levitt, Smith etc who play in his position? Suppose he is a captain for a League 1 side, and plays well often apparently, so may be worth a look. Can't see Page calling him up though.
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Post by gimli on Oct 21, 2021 12:20:07 GMT
This story doesn't make any sense. He seems to be a defensive/deep midfielder, and as said above he surely won't be picked above the ones we already have. And he'll be 29 by the end of the season. If we really did want to introduce fresh blood to that position, surely we'd call up MJ Williams, who's playing at the same level but is 3 years younger and actually Welsh, before him.
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