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Well, there you go, learn something new every day! Now corrected! Would give you a thumbs up but no option on the phone!Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Rumania is even worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Or 'Orte'...
My thoughts on last nights game on the latest blog. Still absolutely gutted....
http://afalsefirstxi.blogspot.ie/201...er-has-to.html
Just to throw my own musings upon the reams of depressing analysis of last Friday, and our current situation. Must admit that my preview of the game was spectacularly wayward in parts, especially in saying that the eventual match-winner, Svensson, would be Sweden's Achilles heel. I was optimistic. I was wrong.
http://anditscomethroughhere.blogspo...st-mortem.html
Well done, best piece I've read yet on the whole situation.
I think Drum's will to carry on the blog to the end has been sapped.
Maybe he's even questioning his own will to live.
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Originally Posted by Junior
There was another example of this v Austria a few hours ago, we had a free kick form about what 40 yards out, McClean steps up to take it.
What does he do? He crosses it in at about 3 feet high in their small wall. WTF???!! Total waste, attack turned into defence.
I just cannot understand it, I remember when I was a school kid, I would regularly take the corners, must have taken close to 100 of the
*not* one was wasted. They all beat the first man or whatever and dropped into the zone in front of the goal.
It is beyond believe McClean cannot do that, indeed every player in the team should be able to do that including Trap!!!
What is further beyond belief is that he is still taking them.
The only possible reason I can think of for this is that he is the only player capable of running and putting in a tackle in when it breaks down.
It's not like it's difficult skill, I could swing one in between the posts 50% of the time!!
It like someone crashing his car into the garage 50% of the time he attempts to park it!!
All he has to do is kick the ball about 25 yards above head height, it does not even have to be accurate, 50% of the time you will find
and Irish player simply by luck.
I mean like, when he goes do drink a pint does he pour it down his shirt 50% of the time? It's about the same level of difficulty.
I honestly cannot understand this. All he has to do is beat the first man and its a decent ball. The number of players that cannot do this is crazy. Do they not practice taking free kicks and corners in training. It's not rocket science.
Not only did he not beat the first man with one kick, it bounced before the first man!
Yeah, when he stepped up to take it, I turned to my dad and said "straight in to the wall, watch"
Compare to Alaba's corners (I know he was the stand out player on the park but still) whipped in, middle of the goal, between the 6yard box and penalty spot. It should be as simple as that. Like doing lines at school, stay behind after training, hit a 100 corners each day until you are hitting the spot in your sleep.
When you are garbage in open play like we have been for such a long time now, then the one saving grace is you will score from a set piece, our set pieces are largely garbage, lacking invention or accuracy.
The Captain or manager should be making sure McClean is nowhere near a set piece. He couldn't cross a road, never mind a bloody ball.
OK It did get past the first wall but it was a total waste, it was chipped over them into another line of Austrian defenders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Furthermore it was the wrong kick for a left footer, it needed a right footed bending it in, as it was it would be almost impossible to
head it in as it would be coming from the back of an attacking players head.
I really have no idea what they were trying to do, it just looked shambolic.
I think the players had given it up as a lost cause by now I suppose.
They really need a new manager in to bring in some new ideas.
Blog on Austria game and trip if anyone's interested.....
http://afalsefirstxi.blogspot.ie/201...oor-opens.html
Latest blog on Trap era and possible successors. Bit of a long piece, was a ******* to finish!
http://afalsefirstxi.blogspot.ie/201...ts-sprung.html
I suppose I better read it then seeing as you've posted it in 3 threads!!:D
Just making sure anyone interested doesn't miss it! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Junior
It better be worth reading, after that 3 dimensional plug.
To quote his predecessor. You tell me. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
I have just read it and I'll give it a modest 9.5/10.
Just below your previous established gold standard.
I don't know what accounted for the marginal slip in form. I suspect it had to do with the sheer breadth of the topics over a 6 year timespan, ending with the prospective new managers review.
On Bielsa, he doesn't speak English, the key question to his candidacy is, does Manuela speak Spanish?
Ah, you've smoked out my real reason for wanting him appointed!Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Decent read. Good point about Robertson coming in with MON. Steve Walford was also a key member of that backroom staff (certainly at Celtic and Leicester anyway and I think he was at Sunderland with him also).
Interesting table on the records of former managers too. Like you say McCarthy's and Traps records are fairly comparable except for the Goals Scored column. McCarthys teams scored 31 more goals in just 4 more games. If we had just a fractionally more potent strike force under Trap then this last campaign may have been just a little different.
But junior that's the whole thing about traps reign it wasn't down to an individual even with a Rooney in there we were just not setup and told to play in a way that could produce goals.traps motto was don't concede. That was it. We had nothing else. And then in the end we didn't even have that.
I remember sitting there watching the Austria game in the stands and its the first time in a long time that I wasn't nervous or anxious or worried it had a certain air of imevitability. I was almost glad when the result came cos I knew it meant the end of trap. We were totally out of ideas or any imagination under trap for well over a year and a half now. His goose was cooked and I'm not sure he really cared.
Contrast to how we looked 4 or so years ago against Bulgaria away. it says it all really.
The talk is (I forget where I heard it) that Walford is past it - a fancy for archaic coaching methods and Robertson is definitely not interested in coming back into the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Junior
Did you at least get some good Weinerschnitzel Posh?
I didn't realise Alan Kelly senior's record was so good!
I've been thinking about MONs back up team too and would like to think the requirement of this job would negate the need for Walford /Robertson. I'd love to see people like Cunningham, Kilbane, Kinsella, Breen etc as part of any set up.
Assuming they can coach of course!
Am assuming that Robertson won't want to go back day to day due to his illness but that the part time nature plus staying based where he is could swing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Like Stutts, I'd be happy to see some recent ex players involved but I think O'Neill needs someone of his vintage there to bounce off...
Genau. Immer Wieder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
I thought we were comfortable and looking like nicking it for the best part of 60 minutes. When they made their telling change, we did nothing. Like with like, as usual. Set pieces rubbish, as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
I think the end of the sweden game showed it. The players looked out of ideas, tired and almost bored, certainly toothless and frustrated. I think deep down they had enough of the tactics themselves. Hit and hope.
Personally think the last 20 minutes of the Austria home game did it. Had them well under the cosh around the hour mark, corner after corner, they were there for the taking but the subs and tactics were so negative and boom, 2 points dropped.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
I agree but you were talking about Austria!Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
You had to go and remind me of that again!! That was definitely the turning point. It changed the context of the group completely. We could have drawn both the last games and still be in contention, but by drawing it put too much pressure on us needing to win our first game against Sweden. We might have found it easier to actually get the win against Sweden had that been the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drumcondra 69er
As the games turned out, I think all 4 of the games against Sweden and Austria were winnable. Not on paper, but as the actual games played out.
Instead we got 2 draws.
There was probably a lack of leadership on the pitch and a lack of killer instinct. This is intertwined with the lack of a winning habit in these games. We regularly failed to win such games under Trap and his "definitely don't lose, maybe win" ethos largely contributed to this.
For years I've been noticing Sweden win games like Ireland away.
In fairness the "draw away" mantra has dogged us since way before Trap, but at least we used to win home games.
We didnt do, we never really won the home games against teams like Sweden or even Austria. Thats the point, trap changed nothing on that front.
This is more fairytale revisionism(not at you stutts). Whoever we beat away we generally beat at home, whoever we drew away with, we drew at home with also. The difference being our results were better than theirs were against the other teams. We lost twice when before we would have drawn - home v sweden, away v austria and this time it would have us trailing sweden by a couple of points.
Had we sweden and austria in traps first or even second group the outcome i imagine would have been very similar.
and if my auntie had balls, I'd imagine that would make her my uncleQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
If she was in midfield and Trap was boss them balls would probably be flying over her head......Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Thats about the 100th time you have said that on this forum. She would most likely be a transsexual but so it would purely be up to you what you called her. At any rate they would be articificial testicles.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
I don't think that's true. For over a decade we'd turn up knowing we had a half decent shout at beating a no. 1, 2 or 3 seed. But even in those campaigns like Stan and Kerr's' we'd be competitive at home and drawing was not for won't of giving it a go (Swiss home game excepted probably). Stu posted the competitive home statistics. Traps home record was poor.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea