Assessing all of the Irish performers in this season's Championship

Gavin Cooney THERE’S ANOTHER SEASON of the English Championship put down: all is over bar the anguished shouting of the play-offs, from which one of a quartet of Premier League veterans – Leeds, Norwich, Southampton and West Brom – will bounce back up to the big time.

Mikey Johnston shone briefly but brightly having landed at West Brom from Celtic in January: seven goals in 18 games – most of them bangers – helped his new side into the play-offs. Will Smallbone also nailed down his place in the Saints team, playing 43 games while chipping in with six goals. Regardless of how the play-offs work out, he has had a good season.

Jack Taylor and Marcus Harness may not stick around for the Premier League but each clocked more than 30 games to play their part in Ipswich’s stunning promotion. Cyrus Christie - remember him? - played 27 games for a Hull side that narrowly missed out on the play-offs, and it would have been more had it not been for a mid-season achilles injury. Sean McLoughlin maintained his status as another Hull reliable, making 23 appearances.

Andrew Moran‘s loan spell at Blackburn can be cleaved into two: Before Eustace and After. Under Jon Dahl Tomasson, Moran played in all but one of Blackburn’s league games, starting 19 of them. John Eustace hardly played him, however, and restricted him largely to cameo appearances off the bench, much to Brighton’s annoyance. Overall, though, it was a pretty good debut season, with a senior international debut thrown in there too.

A calf problem also knocked out a chunk of Enda Stevens’ debut season at Stoke City, having earlier missed a run of games because of the injury he sustained during Ireland’s chastening night against Ousmane Dembele and France at the Parc des Princes.

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