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Speaking in his post-match news conference, O’Neill said he felt Kelly had made the “right decision” by joining the Tykes.<\/p>\n

“He spoke to me in the summer and asked what I thought. I felt it was the right thing for him to leave and go to Barnsley,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And that’s not why he’s in the squad – he’s in the squad because he’s made a real impression there. <\/p>\n

“Conor Hourihane [Barnsley manager] spoke glowingly about how he’s adapted to their team, and they’re a team that obviously want to challenge for promotion as well.<\/p>\n

“He’s just got to continue playing games, and if he continues to play games and play well, then obviously he’s knocking on the door of the squad.”<\/p>\n

After earning his first senior cap, Kelly is now targeting more senior appearance in Northern Ireland’s World Cup play-off in March. <\/p>\n

They will discover their opponents in Thursday’s draw, but know they will be away to a pot one team in the semi-final. <\/p>\n

“I’m itching for it and it’d be the biggest came of my career,” Kelly added.<\/p>\n

“So hopefully I can kick on now at Barnsley and have a really good run of games to try and get myself in the squad, and the fingers crossed we get to the World Cup.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Speaking in his post-match news conference, O’Neill said he felt Kelly had made the “right decision” by joining the Tykes. “He spoke to me in the summer and asked what I thought. I felt it was the right thing for him to leave and go to Barnsley,” he said. “And that’s not why he’s in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}