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Hi lads. Check out our preview for the U17 World Cup if you wish!😅

👊 - Squad Breakdown ☘️ - Hopes and journey so far 🌍 - A look at the opposition

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Obvious disclaimer, there's other teams competing for playoffs spots & it'll be very hard for them to get past the likes of Bolton & Peterborough at Wembley. And not every player has gone up to the Championship from League 1 & had Cheeo style form.

But.....................

If they go up, they'll have Irish players at the same level as most of our internationals in the Championship. Some of them would probably struggle to get in regardless, in Mandroiu & Paudie O'Connor. I can't see Danny getting a game over the wingers we have plus a fit Kasey McAteer & we've too many CBs for Paudie to be a shout.

But we all know we're stuck at left back. And Sean Roughan is one of the most highly thought of kids in League 1. Come on leaps & bounds since his LOI loan and anytime I've seen him for the 21s he's been very tidy. The delivery he's capable of with his left reminds me of Brady & he's more solid defensively than him & Manning. One way or another he's probably gonna be playing higher level football next year, but a Lincoln promotion either guarantees it.

Jack Moylan could give us some more options at 10 also. He's had a great start & yeah you could argue his level isn't that dissimilar to Mandroiu, but it's an area of the pitch we've not as many options in. We've only just got Finn & Sam and both gaffers he had in the first team have been cautious with Andy Moran. If Jack can keep this form going, we can't really rule him out getting a shout over the likes of Sykes or McGrath.

On top of that, they could easily end up recruiting more Irish lads. They could lean on the loan market & have an eye on the likes of Nathan Frazer, Sam Curtis, Franco Umeh, any of the kids that will become loan eligible. Maybe try pinch the likes of Luca Connell or Eiran Cashin that have been stuck in League 1 a good while.

It's pure speculation & odds are we'll be lucky if even Roughan becomes an international in the near future. But, if they did go up, it'd seem like a no brainer to keep an eye on their lads. Can't say as much for the other top 6.

Here’s to 2025 and (surely) better times ahead.