Seamus Coleman

OUR best player tonight along with our goalkeeper.

was our best player in the second half of the season.

Our best atm, and more loads to come from him.

this 'world class' saying is used way 2 often imo,been a longtime since ireland produced a world class footballer. brady?

paul mcgrath, giles ,roy keane and brady.4.not bad for a small country

ronnie whelan class act

wasnt world class tho.other 4 were

He must have been close to be fair, he'd be the next one for me too.

very good for sure..so was stapleton,heighway.lawrenson,houghton,and staunton.but world class?

kavvie had any of the above played loi before going to uk,ronnie had i know,mot sure about heighway or stapleton

*not

staunton may have.

Heighway was English, Staunton had as well, he played for Dundalk.

ok wasn't sure,also how good was gerry daly,i remember him,but i was very young,always thought he was good but i can't say really

Steve Heighway is Irish ie.born in Ireland, but never played in the LoI. I still have a letter that he sent to me when I was 11 in response to a letter that I sent to him.

Correct reb.

I did not know that, i see he moved over when he was a young lad.

Denis Irwin, great player. and may also have got his start in LOI

irwin started with leeds

shane long greatest striker to play for ireland, englands performance in brazil, really showed how good the ireland
team are at the moment,should stop playing robbie keane now hes too old, trapptoni needs to play shane long. good
nucleus of a team going forward. build that team around the striker.

reb
Do you know where in Dublin Steve Heighway was born / lived?

Sorry, no idea, kinscem.

I remember that some Irish fans of the 70s were a bit disappointed with him as he appeared to play far better for Liverpool than he did for Ireland. I always felt that that was, at least in part, due to the fact that the Irish team didn't have sufficient quality in it like that first great Liverpool team of the period. Consequently the international opposition could concentrate more on nullifying Heighway than his opponents at club level.

Mind you, he could do little wrong in this onlooker's eyes after sending me that letter.