Crawford: 'To lose anybody of Andy's quality, any team would feel it'

Jim Crawford knew coming into there games against Norway and Italy there might be a chance of Andy Moran being called into the senior squad. 

BIGGER PICTURE: Jim Crawford sees the bigger picture with players like Andy Moran being drafted into the senior squad. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Jim Crawford insists he has to look at the bigger picture after Stephen Kenny was criticised for calling rising Republic of Ireland star Andy Moran into the senior squad at the under-21s’ expense.

Didi Hamann labelled Kenny’s decision as “inexcusable” as the Blackburn Rovers loanee sat on the bench for the dead-rubber loss to the Netherlands while Crawford’s under-21s lost a Euro qualifier to Norway the night before.