Yeah, worrying for Ireland especially seeing as this season (not included on the graphs above) they look likely to slip even further.

Strange thing is that there are still 19 Irish players (7th highest for any single nation) who have featured in the EPL this year but between them they've managed just shy of 6000mins football (16th highest). I'm sure that the Irish national team would like to see their players getting more first team opportunities regardless of where they play.

!BEER