Is that a streaming service, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Is that a streaming service, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Amazon Prime is a streaming service, yes. Of course, if you had the right end of a certain stick plugged into your TV, you might not need to subscribe to it.
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Originally Posted by Eirambler
That team could very well see Collins stepping forward into the shape we seen in Wembley. Personnel wise its pretty much what Id go for, there is logic in playing Knight and Cullen in the away leg, even if Id prefer to see Taylor in there
pretty sure they have a free 7 day trial, which you could get StuttsQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
I assume Kelleher is playing in goal anyway !Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
Brady and Manning? Azaz, MJ and Parrot?
Is that a 433/451 with Brady in the middle? I don’t get it…
Only thing I can think of is maybe Manning is a left sided CB?
Could be a (weird) 3-5-2
Collins - OShea - Dots
Manning or Brady out of position as wing backs
Cullen Azaz Knight
Johnson Parrott
So two left-wing backs, including the one who didn't make the squad initially, and O'Brien on the bench?Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Well its not the team any of us would have picked, hopefully he has something interesting in mind
Being reported as:
Doherty-O'Shea-Collins-Manning
Cullen-Knight
Johnston-Azaz-Brady
Parrott
(i'd personally flip Brady and Johnston probably)
With the squad selected (and the anomaly P-Stu points out)… it’s a head scratcher and a few round pegs in square holes… not impressed but ready to be proven very wrong.
Big game for Azaz, he's been in great form but we've not seen it in a green shirt yet. Hopefully this is his breakout game
i do think it's mad that Manning goes from not being in the squad on Monday to starting on Thursday. If you like him, just call up 24 players.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
I'd like, arguments sake, if Taylor comes off the bench and picks up a knock, Molumby gets called up and starts ahead of Knight - but if Taylor doesn't get the injury then they don't call Molumby up for Game 2
This seems to be what it is, judging by HH's pre match comments ("left footers on the left, right footers on the right").Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
Parrott as the lone striker, albeit backed up by Azaz. A big challenge for him, he's the form pick but is he a lone striker? Huge opportunity for Manning as well.
Will Azaz drop back enough out of possession, will Brady drop into centre mid?
A lot to unpack there, but it's different and at least (hopefully) it's not 3-4-3 with only two centre mids. I'll take anything that isn't that in truth.
HH saying the plan had been to play two left-footers anyway - O'Dowda and Brady - but that begs the question as to why you wouldn't have Manning in the squad from the start in case, to pick something mad, O'Dowda got injured?Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
Will be interesting also to see if it's Manning at left back with Brady in front of him, or the other way around. Could play it either way I guess.
It reads like the way HH was known for setting his Iceland teams up (I think, can't say I watched a huge amount of them). Flat back four, wingers and crosses.
Except the man in the middle is Parrott. Surely if you were going for balls getting flung into the box you'd start Ferguson or Idah? Azaz firing in shots off second balls or something? Not sure.
Team stats
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHbp-Ibu0yi
Had a similar shock reaction to the lineup announcement but happy he hasn't gone 5 at the back and very interested to see if this works. I think they'd be eaten alive against tougher opposition though.
In positive news I watched the Turkey Hungary game and Hungary were woeful. My hope/belief for the world cup qualifiers is cautiously increasing
Brady left back, Manning further forward according to Dan McD. Manning can maybe help out in midfield at times too.
Neither RTÉ pundit impressed with the line-up. Given things we should be putting out a more attacking team - but in fairness I don't think the team we have is exactly defensive, with Parrott, Johnston, Azaz and even Brady and Manning on the wings. Hamann saying Azaz, Johnston, Manning and so on aren't going to get us to the World Cup and we need Ferguson in there - but Ferguson can only take one place in fairness! We're still going to need most of Azaz, Johnston, Manning, etc.
If anybody has a stream, that's be great.
It's on the rte player, or Amazon primeQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Yeah, I'm not convinced you want to watch a stream...Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
First chance for Bulgaria, another unchallenged shot from outside the box sent in off our post.
The more things change...
I'd still like to watch!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Play Ireland ~ ~ Tactic ~ ~ Shooting practice.
They look absolutely muck.. and we hand them a goal.. they'd break your heart
Awful awful goal to give away,so meek in and around our own box ….
You have been warned!Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
(We'd started lively and all - every Ireland cliche over the past few years repeated ad nauseum. Literally until you were sick of it)
Edit - you can add doing feck all since the goal to the bingo sheet. Still early days, but hard to shake the feeling I've seen this game before
Very poor goal to concede. Thought O’She should have got closer to the guy who laid it off. Had been a promising start.
Manning has missed two big opportunities and was primarily at fault for the goal. What a disaster
There we go - Parrott sets Azaz up, and the keeper goes walkabout.
Onwards from here!
Lovely composed one touch ball from Parrott there.
Good goal. Lovely from Parrott. Well done lads.
Lovely touch from Troy Parrot,these are a poor side ,hopefully we can push on …
Their defence is brutal.. get at that keeper, mon the lads
O'Shea wasn't the issue there, the runner off the right wasn't picked up by either Brady or Manning.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Waiting in a flight back to Dublin. Realised I could watch on sky go. Got it started 10 seconds before Bulgaria goal (very soft defending). Had to stop to board, sat down and started stream again and we scored (lovely assist from Troy and ball from Brady). Match will be over by the time we get to Dublin son unless there’s another goal before we take off you can assume there won’t be anymore :)
I’m fine with Manning. High energy, intense, making stuff happen all a marked difference from previous appearances. First goal chance he should’ve done better, the second was a lot tougher and I think the fault for the goal could be spread to O’Shea and Brady as much as Manning. He won the fk that we scored from too. I think he’s offering us something positive overall here.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebelmusic