Recent content by Cian

He can't change - there is no differentiator and hasn't been since the rules changed in 2020. All caps count the same. I've linked to the rules further up this page and a few pages ago.

The rule is 3 caps, competitive or not. The competitive/non-competitive thing was the previous rule for changing. Evan hasn't been able to change country since March '23 due to that.

Can't happen. Since the rules changed to allowing up to 3 appearances, it is all senior appearances - friendlies now count (art 9, c, iv). Evan has 6. Tabloid media don't seem to have realised that bit. The old rules counted friendlies and competitive appearances differently but that was...

Shamrock Rovers have ended up in the group stages before from falling out of CL qualification, not at all implausible and quite nearby. I also have a ticket purchasing record on their systems for the home end at Euro games (POG for normal games). Other Irish teams are all Conference League. And...

Four pack of the local IPA and whatever of the wine doesn't go in to the lasagna sauce.

Met Ralph a few times in The Swan or the SU bar before/after matches. Great guy from those meetings at least, and the Martlets is a worthy cause.

Got a nice chocolate one sent in through work (this one - promotional push by the maker), and a bloody awful one from Viking the office supplies place - cheap soya crap. Didn't see a beer one I wanted this year, last year Lidl did one with their own brand "craft" beers which are actually made...

We've Nobo whiteboards in work.

That's a shock, would have talked to him here / messenger apps going back to the very early NSC days. RIP.

Another oddity with only accepting NHS passes is that I don't need to do a test or a passenger locator form to enter the UK, and indeed I only need to show vaccine or test status anywhere because the airline insists on it - I can go by boat* (or drive two hours to an airport *in the UK* and take...

Currently willing and it would seem able to go the LFT route but should that be stopped or become more complicated, I'll be locked out. My twice a year average + big game charley revenue isn't likely to be missed but add everyone similar together and it can't be that small. Outside the clubs...

Stephen and Noel Hunt played together internationally, possibly a single game - Noel only got 3 senior caps (and against each other at team level) Wayne Hendersons two brothers were also keepers, as was his father and is his nephew - so obvious reasons preventing them playing on the same pitch...

I've convinced myself I can remember Lockerbie - had some distant relations die on the ground - but I'm fairly sure that's not actually true and I remember my parents talking about it after the fact. Probably the first one I can definitely remember myself would be the Balkans, particularly...

Well, we didn't want to go to Qatar anyway...

Omobamidele is local to me, great to see him get a senior cap.