BRENTFORD’S SCOTT HOGAN has been named the Championship’s Player of the Month for September, after another goal-filled few weeks for the Manchester-born striker.
The 24-year-old netted six goals in five league games for the Bees last month, including a hat-trick against Preston North End.
It is now 14 goals in his last 16 appearances for the forward, who qualifies to play for the Boys in Green through his grandparents.
But Hogan stated last month, he wanted to use this international break to concentrate on his club form after suffering two cruciate ligament injuries, before deciding on his Ireland future.
Conor Hourihane claimed last month’s award but wasn’t included in the final Ireland squad for this round of World Cup qualifiers, despite Martin O’Neill naming the Barnsley midfielder in his expanded panel.
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Dear Scott, throw me a freaking bone here
Still hasnt committed to Ireland, championship player of the month means nothing to Martin apparently anyway.
Not wanting to get on the MON bashing bandwagon, I have no major issue with his not begging players like Hogan or Mason to play for Ireland. Also while Hourihane has been in fine form I had no issue with MON gradually introducing him to the fold… until… when the game was in the mixer last night and I looked to the bench to see what we had to change the game and outside Wes there was nothing. I mean the like of Hourihane, O’Dowda, Byrne, Horgan etc. get over hyped and have a lot to prove but there is no situation in which we are better off with 5th and 6th choice CB’s McShane and Pearce (should be at least 7th and 8th) on the bench than some of these up and coming prospects.
And 2 goalkeepers on the bench
Is that Joe mason , I wasn’t aware there was a question mark over his allegiance to Ireland.
You have to name 3 goalkeepers in the squad
We feckin need a striker, hopefully he comes on board.
Beggers can’t be choosers. If Shane Long is your only source of goals, your fooked!
Forget about him ,if he wanted to play for Ireland he would have committed by now he is clearly hedgeing his bets
Totally agree with you Kevin, this phoney tug of war stuff over lads is embarrassing and unseemly. I always wonder what the likes of Kevin Kilbane makes of some of these guys, Kevin refused England at 17 and told them he was Irish from the get go
Doubt it, he must be number 140 in the English pecking order! Give him a chance
@an_beal_bocht kilbane is on newstalk and has given his opinion on it. He stated players should know and commit straight away and we shouldn’t chase them but admitted we had little choice given our player pool.
Kevin is well entitled to say what he likes, but that above is a bit like saying we shouldn’t have fought for our independence in 1916 but given our complete lack of hope or resources we had little choice but to do nothing
We cud loose arter too because of conservative team pickin
Hard to lose someone who doesn’t want to go
@Niall fay: yes, conservative team picking could be a reason to loose him but we’ll have to wait until he’s fit first.
Hope he wasn’t watching last night’s game…
irish qualified, hes probably Welsh, Scottish qualified too,but would like him to choose ROI