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Joe McCarthy casts his eye over the Irish players across the water.
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Matt Doherty made his 150th appearance for Wolverhampton Wanderers
Saturday, 25 February 2017
Darron Gibson was booked for the first time this season. Before this, the midfielder hadn’t been booked since May 2016
James McClean came off the bench and was booked for the first time in 2017
Cyrus Christie was booked for the fifth time this season
Anthony Forde scored his first goal in the Championship, exactly 200 days after his last goal on Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Ciaran Clark’s late equaliser means the defender has scored more than two goals in the same season for the first time since 2010/11
Aiden McGeady’s equaliser (his fifth goal in the Championship) won Sky Sports’ goal of the Day
Liam Kelly made his 25th career appearance
Kevin Foley was booked for the first time in 2017
Emmanuel Osadebe’s first start since November (his first appearance in a month) was the defender’s 25th appearance in League One
In his 200th start for Southend United, Michael Timlin was booked for the fifth time this season
Shaun Williams was booked for the tenth time this season and is suspended for the next three games
The sending off of both Donal McDermott and Joe Rafferty was the first time two Irish players were sent off in the same game since Marc Wilson and Glenn Whelan were sent off for Stoke against Newcastle in December 2013. This was McDermott’s first red card of his career, and Rafferty’s third – his first since May 2015
Keith Keane made his 25th appearance for Rochdale
Josh Cullen made his 50th appearance for Bradford City, coincidentally this was also the midfielder’s 50th career start
Conor Wilkinson was booked for the fifth time this season in his first start since October
Gerry McDonagh made his first start for Cambridge United
Jake Carroll was booked for the fifth time this season
John O’Sullivan was booked for the fifth time this season
Owen Garvan made his 50th appearance for Colchester
Patrick Hoban returned to to the Mansfield starting XI for his first start since January 10th
Gavin Gunning was booked for the fifth time this season
Conor Sammon scored his second goal of the season, before this the striker had not scored since August 20th
Glenn Whelan was shown his fourth yellow card of the season, this was the midfielder’s first booking September 24th
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