Oh mother of God, Sammon on. Can't wait to see the back of Trap. It is so frustrating
Oh mother of God, Sammon on. Can't wait to see the back of Trap. It is so frustrating
A disgraceful decision again.
Great stop from Forde there.
Coleman named MOTM
£9 banked!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Sammon....why like. Trap seems to think he's knock down man but everytime the long ball came to him he jumped too early or didnt bother jumping at all. Like the game was screaming for hoolihan or Brady to add some attacking flair....arghrgahghrgahrgahgrhagrh agrahgrargahgrhag!
He'll never change it from 4-4-2. Thought Sammon did well actually.
Irish MOTM was probably McCarthy.
I thought Sledge had a very solid second half.
O'Shea didn't put a foot wrong and Coleman had a great first half.
Thought Robbie played well too.
Long as always was one of our best performers and Forde was very confident and made some great saves
Poor second half from both teams. The quality of players coming off the bench really showed the difference in resources in both teams. Couldnt of argued if England nicked a winner but good to see Ireland soak up 20 minutes of pressure. England had no cutting edge up front and any chances they made were out of pure luck rather than cutting through us.
Coleman rightly man of the match. McCarthy a close second ahead of any of the England players who really looked like they were playing an end of season friendly.
I didn't like Longs celebration at the end but it's only a personal gripe. Roy Keane would probably agree with me.
At the end of the day, we were living off long punts from Forde where at least they tried to play out from the back, without much success. The big argument earlier in the week about whether England are a top side is pretty moot now. They're good, just not that good.
Trap made good subs in that game, including Sammon. I have no issue with him coming on with a few minutes to go.
Imo, it was toss up between Forde, Long and Coleman for motm.
I thought McCarthy was very good yet again, he was my MOTM. Coleman was good but got caught out twice by not keeping it simple. Potential accident waiting to happen, hopefully he will stamp this aspect out of his game. Forde was impressive tonight. St Ledger showed the rustiness of his recent spell out. Kelly was a liablilty at LB. O'Shea reasonably solid. Whelan has gone way back, his legs are gone. We need a 3-man midfield of McCarthy, Meyler and Hoolahan. McGeady played like a man who was just off a long haul flight, terrible. Ditto Keane. Walters should not be played on right wing. Did nothing. Long took his goal superbly, was a handful and unlucky not to get more change off the ref.
Of the subs:
McClean is not up to standard and will be playing Championship football next season.
Nice to see Hendrick getting a run but thought Meyler deserved the opportunity.
Sammon - feel sorry for him to be honest, way out of his depth. Trap should be careful about continuing to inflict this cruelty. Amnesty international may be forced to get involved.
Cox - Should not be in squad
In summary:
McCarthy, Coleman, Forde and Long above average.
Whelan, O'Shea average.
Keane, McGeady, Walters, St Ledger, Kelly below average
What exactly did he do wrong?Quote:
Originally Posted by tommy_c12000
He won the ball back a few times and got stuck in. More than a few players did over 45 minutes
Good performance overall. I thought Forde was just so solid, not even just the saves in the last 15, but everything up to then was so confident, calm and assured. Took ownership of his area. He gets my motm ahead of Coleman and McCarthy.
Subs were disappointing for me though was great to see Hendrick get 20 mins. He's such a ride.
Referee was a complete w@nkbag.
Nothing against him personally. He wears his heart on a sleeve and will work his socks off for the side. But he just is not up to international standard and should not be in the squadQuote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
defo Coleman for MOM for me made a goal saved a goal and very effective in defence as well as occasionally going forward.
bit of a question mark about sledge/whelan for the goal but otherwise I can't complain too much, I mean when I put my £1
on 1-1 I was not expecting to see it again because I could not see us scoring, which makes Long runner up MOM because that was
a superb header, gotta be right up there with great Irish goals.
90% of that goal was the Long effect.
Happy enough with the draw. Great to see former LoI players assist and score!
For no reason here's the head-to-head league table of the Home Nations [sic] based on the last time they played each other including tonight's draw with the Tans:
Pld W D L F A Pts Ireland 4 3 1 0 10 1 10 England 4 2 1 1 3 2 7 Wales 4 2 0 2 4 5 6 Scotland 4 1 0 3 4 4 3 Dem 'uns 4 1 0 3 1 10 3
Incidentally, England and Scotland haven't played each other since 1999. I find that hard to believe. Is it true?
I think Coleman shaded it for me but Forde was magnificent in goal. He has been brilliant since taking over from Shay. When you see him calmly plucking the ball from the air and staying big whilst blocking shots from Oxladelain you have to wonder what he would have done for us last June.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Rare headed goal from Long tipped into the corner of the net.
It's a Long way to tip a rarey.
Post match article:
http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/14...iendly?cc=5901
It was a great cross from Coleman he is the best crossers of the ball we have, probably the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir