Starting eleven

[skbio_toronto]

Given

Carr Cunningham Dunne Harte

A. Reid Holland O'Shea Kilbane

Keane Morrison


O' Shea in centre midfield!?! Theres a risky move. O' Shea was quite possibly our biggest liability on Saturday.

Kerr must be seeing something different in training. It also has to be said that Kavanagh was very poor on Saturday also.

Are we going to have the creativity to break this Swiss team down?

[dancinpants]

O' Shea in centre midfield!?! Theres a risky move. O' Shea was quite possibly our biggest liability on Saturday.

Be afraid - be very afraid :eek:

[shakermaker1982]

don't worry lads I'm confident O Shea can do the business. Hopefully I don't end up regretting that statement

[Dan K]

Let's hope that's the team that can do the business....

[The Legend]

C'mon Clinton, knock in a hat trick son!

[shakermaker1982]

C'MON IRELAND!!!!

My nerves are starting but I'm sure if we set an early tempo and press the hell out of em we can win it.

[dancinpants]

Hows the game shaping up after 25 mins?

Cyprus seem to be holding there own so far anyway.

[ifk101]

1-0 France. Zidane.

[dancinpants]

I must have put the pox on them :mad:

[strangeirish]

I'm following it here (http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/) Scroll down a bit and hit the launch Matchcast button. Hope it works!!

[ifk101]

50-50 in our match. Not many chances except Harte had a free header form a corner in the third minute. Otherwise the ref is blowing up everything.

[ifk101]

2-0 France. Wiltord

[dancinpants]

Excellent strangeirish...thanks :D

[strangeirish]

No worries, we're in the same boat!!!

[ifk101]

3-0 France.

[sligoman]

No worries, we're in the same boat!!!If ya have sky digital, go to channel 825 and you can see the whole French game;)

[dancinpants]

Looks like we're gonna have a nerve wracking second half here lads. :o

[FarBeag]

45 min lads..Please please please

[strangeirish]

Here we go...C'mon

[dancinpants]

c'mon Ireland Ffs - We Owe These B*stards Big Time!!!

[ifk101]

Elliot is coming on!

[ifk101]

Robbie Keane off.

[Closed Account 2]

Elliott on for Robbie Keane

[Adrianovic]

My ****ing audio won't work.

I'm in the dark, bar text commentary.

C'mon Ireland!

Robbie Keane off? Big gamble.

Ade

[Fergie's Son]

Why not put 3 up front?

[Closed Account 2]

74 mins gone, we just cant break them down :(

[Fergie's Son]

No audio here either and too busy to get out of the office.

Yep, can't break them down :(

[tricky_colour]

My ****ing audio won't work.

I'm in the dark, bar text commentary.

C'mon Ireland!

Robbie Keane off? Big gamble.

Ade

Its on Radio 5 live sport if you have Freeview (thats R5 live Sport, not R5 live).
Commentary is good. (Better than RTE).

[thepogues]

Id be very suprised if we scored now. We need Paul mcgrath, niall quinn and John Aldridge to come on

[Closed Account 2]

Steven Reid for Andy Reid. Swiss just missed a sitter

[ifk101]

swiss should of scored. s. reid on for a. reid

[Closed Account 2]

Swiss miss another sitter, Frei clean thru Given great save

[ifk101]

Given you genius!!!!!!!

[Closed Account 2]

Doc for Clinton

[thepogues]

**** roy keane i miss you already. i honestly do, im so depressed

[Adrianovic]

Kerr brings off another striker for a striker?

What the?

Ade

[Fergie's Son]

The guy on the Guardian is going nuts. Why take off a striker for a striker? Morrisson was doing well.

Wave World Cup.

Farewell Brian Kerr.

[Closed Account 2]

all over were out :( :( :(

[Adrianovic]

Its not going to happen is it?

It brings back memories of that night in Turkey where we just couldn't score. I was quite young back then and we couldn't watch it. Remember watching teletext willing it to change every minute, but it never did. I was so sad that night. I was an Irish kid at an English school, it was really tough. No tournament in the summer to dream of.

De ja vu.

Ade

[Closed Account 2]

It's the two results against Israel that cost us. At the end of the day finishing 4th is the worst we've done in a qualifing group for years... bye bye Brian Kerr.

Time for major re-building in our team, see what the draw is like for Euro 2008 but I think it will be tricky... wont see us in a tournament in Europe for a long time imo.

[dancinpants]

Bye bye Brian!!!...don't forget to take some of the team with you!!!

[FarBeag]

That's it.I feel so sorry for Given.That poor bloke will he ever get what he deserves.Well they lost it a long time ago why o why did'nt they play with such determination from the start.Germany is the ones that will miss out,the cash we would have spent there.I am fuc*ing gutted.

[Adrianovic]

Yeah, time for Kerr to go.

I am off out to a club to get wasted.

See you in our next drab qualifying campaign.

Ade

[Marked Man]

Another year of depression to come.

Ireland out. England in. Presumably that applies to the position of Irish manager too - I won't be cheering when the FAI sack Kerr and appoint some foreigner who doesn't give a damn about Irish football.


Well clearly having someone in who does give a damn isn't enough on its own.

[thepogues]

Jesus Im so depressed. Im seriously not in the mood to listening to people slating Brian Kerr at the moment. I feel sorry for him, at the end of the day hes just not good enough. Im praying martin O'Neil or Roy Keane take over. When Robbie Keane got substitued it was so depressing

[dynamo kerry]

depressed. aye thats a good word for it. dunne was just on and tactical reviews were definitely not on his agenda.

'always going to come down to this game'


ahem

[Soper]

I can't sum up how I feel inside, I just feel....empty.And tearful.

At least most of them tried their best.

[Fergie's Son]

We all knew that beating Israel in Tel Aviv was key. We didn't. Beating them at Dublin was key and we didn't do that either.

Taking off 2 strikers for 2 strikers made no sense. None at all.

Now there are no games for a year.

$*@#@)($@

[dancinpants]

I think its time to pull the whole set-up apart and start from the beginning.

[RedX]

Absolute disgrace of a performance..when Kerr walks down the tunnel he should keep walking..before i continue, in his defence i will say this..he is really not that bad of a manager but what happened to him a while back is he simply could not handle the pressure..he started making wrong decisions and his tactics were poor..Switzerland were terrible tonight..and i mean that..they were a team we should have beat..i could go on and on all night but there is one thing more i want to say..Kerr must leave and take Morrison with you..how is that guy playing for our country..its a fcuking disgrace..what a terrible night for Irish football..its time the FAI reach deep into there pockets and get us a top class manager..be it Martin O Neill or someone else up that end of the market..

KERR OUT NOW...and tale Robbie/Carr/Morrison/Doherty with you...what a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!11