Duffy and Meyler were immense. The whole back 4 and keeper were quality.
Please tell me Dunphy is squirming the scutter. Bet he had pages of script to tear into MO’N and Keane. Another quality away win vs a top seed.
I defy anyone to bemoan residents of the north declaring for us and see McClean's reaction at full time.
Very good defensively, not so great going forward. One moment of sublime footballing magic from Hendrick, Arter and McClean was all it took. And he ****ing stuck that good and proper.
Thought Hamilton had it right in the second half when he noted how much pressure the Welsh were under from elements of their media and supporters. They were woeful enough in the attacking third, save on a few moments.
Need to be careful not to overblow this result, but tonight, who cares: we're still in it.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Oh, and yeah, we just beat the #13th ranked team in the world. Away. That'll do the coefficient no harm.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Hopefully the gaffa gets some credit now for how he set them up tonight. This nonsense about no plan, identity etc from the press/pundits is way off. The guys knew their jobs, when to press and when to get back into position.
Of course we can improve but let’s think about that tomorrow!!!!!
No, when this happens he praises the players for their commitment and hard work, saying that Irish players always give it everything, tells us all that we've nothing to fear in football or in life and then tells us we'll get thrashed by any of the other teams in the play-offs because of the way we playOriginally Posted by shakermaker1982
Ampadu was the only Welsh player brought out for the warm down. Wonder is his pop at home wishing he could be part of this.
In all fairness - he should tare into Martin O'Neill. The players got the result tonight inspite of their manager. Another woeful performance by O'Neill. No Wes Hoolahan - why we will never know.
And then he brings on his star man Glen Whelan with 15 minutes left? Incredible.
Murphy should have been withdrawn at half time as every ball which went his way he lost. It required a pacy player like McGeady, Maguire, Hogan to pose a threat to Wales on the counter.
Bottom line we won this game by playing a bit of football, and quality football at that. Why are we so afraid to play that way from the off?
Tony, I know you're kidding? You have to be. How did we score the goal, by actually playing some quality football.
Almost word for word! Only thing you missed is how Tony Pulis has been so good for McClean.
Bring Back Belfast Celtic F.C.
You think we have that in us for 90minutes?
Yeah, Dunphy is just holding his fire until we get knocked out by Portugal or whoever. Or until we go out in the group stages. Or until we go out in the knockouts. Or until we lose in the final. Or until we just lose another game.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
When's the playoff draw?
please please stop. three wins and two draws away from home. when have we ever done that in qualifying?
we didnt beat any of our direct opponents away in 30 yrs yet oneill has seen us do it twice in the one campaign.
your post is pure tripe
next week.
World cup playoff seedings: Portugal/Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Denmark Unseeded: Sweden (TBC), N Ireland, Rep Ireland, Greece/Bosnia
"Of course we can improve." Ya think?
We created two chances in the game and took one of them.
Martin O'Neill deserves no credit for tonight. Let me get this straight. We all wondered aloud after the Georgia game if the manager told his players to hoof the ball long all night?
Many of us, including me, could not fathom that a manager would tell his players to sit back and invite the opposition upon them as we did that night.
Well we got our answer tonight. He gave them a similar sort of game plan. Admittedly he deserves credit for our lads closing them down in their half in the first half (if indeed that's what he told his players).
But there was no plan to attack them. There was just a "let's keep it scoreless to halftime and see how it goes from there" attitude.
And as for the last 20 minutes, we didn't even bother trying to get out of our own half. How is that for a plan?
A couple of speedy counterattacking players would have killed off Wales tonight.
I probably am an insatiable pessimist, but all I'm saying is there are far better ways to do it than this.
As I said in my previous post my tongue was firmly in my cheek there. We had one moment of quality football as you say. That and lots of effort. Doesn't change my view in the slightest. No reason we can't at least try to pass the ball as well. Hypocrisy in the extreme from Brady and especially Dunphy, I'd have more respect if they stuck to their guns. (Love the way Brady is talking about Robson Canoe though
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
I just used FIFA's ranking points predictor: http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranki...prognosis.html . So it's Italy, Portugal, Croatia or Denmark...ouch
Last edited by samhaydenjr; 09/10/2017 at 9:31 PM.
Sweden ranked higher than Denmark no??
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
the prov seedings are what the bbc are saying anyway
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