What a pity , correction what a wasted opportunity … once he brought McClean on there was only one outcome and true to form he screwed up by not stopping the cross for first goal and then screwing up a great chance….. as for Kenny I suspect he’ll keep his job to the end of this campaign…. However a few more defeats to the likes of Luxembourg then he’ll have to go
la FAI tiene que hacer una queja formal de todo este escándalo...jugaron como si fueramos los sparrings de los glober trotters con los arbitros encima en contra de nosotros... very sad. Kenny had 5 substitutions to make, very late very very late.... Arter was there to play. old heads
clark would have been handy as well
Molumby running around like a headless chicken - better off keeping McGrath for 5 extra mins.
esta bien pero McClean no estuvo mal. Para mi era Molumby y Arter por Hendrick y McGrath at 80 minutes or so. anyway the ref was a crook . fai must take some suits there to make a complaint....the treating of Connolly from the ref....the yellow on him was to restrict him in those one on one....the ref was a crook but my question to all you....is .....Is the FAI gonna do something about it ?? because the way the ref acted today was very very prominentQuote:
Originally Posted by brine3
Did Kenny stumble upon or forced into his best formation? Still not sure if he's learning or not, and his subs were very poor.
Lads looking for hope and what not used possession as a stick to defend Kenny with and to beat those opposed to the game plan and implementation we'd seen at the start of his reign. We had 30% possession backs to the wall stuff for most of the second half. Our best bet of winning was when we broke and countered them. The moral victory and self pity and loathing has occured many times under other managers in the past, we lost 2-1 defended resolutely for 35 plus mins of the end of the game, we've seen it before.
That being said some of the young lads looked good.
So many outstanding performances, just sickening.
Nio, we were up against 12 players today. we played the game we had after the lead. Kenny took the subs late very late, but for me the referee is the main antagonist of this game, fai should complaint about it
On yer bike. It was a really good performance, deserved at least a point. Some on here we’re talking about a 6/7 goal defeat, the more optimistic we’re going for 3-0. So now suddenly the performance doesn’t matter, just the result. Despite the fact it was a game absolutely no-one thought we could win.Quote:
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of course we could have done it better, but again, we were playing the game after the lead we needed the yellow on Connolly was very significant that something was cooking
Confidence must have been at rock bottom after previous results/performances, and this could really have been seen them, as a squad, turn a corner.
Big job for the manager to get them mentally ready for a very different game so quickly.
then the yellow on Doherty as well I want to hear Coleman and Kenny talk about all these stranger things we have watched today.. everything was prepeare.....the penalty wasnt ,....then the connolly penalty was twice the other and play on we were cooked today in a cacerole like chicken a la portuguesa
Connolly wrecked my head tonight. Rest of the lads were immense
That's my fear. They'll be lower than ever in that dressing room, and now people are fully expecting six points from the next two games.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
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No because players knew they were robbed by the officials with all those things that happened, i noticed connolly in first half got the ball in a counter attack got hacked by a portuguese Palinha was always a yellow ......nothing ...something was cooking...of course
Can someone please provide a translation of what Kenny was saying…. He’s taken his usual gibberish to a new level
they woudnt do it with the serbs because there would be a brawl on the pitch
Hard to blame the man for the timing of the subs and then also the subs for the mistakes leading to the goals....
Thought the team were generally fantastic. We are just lacking a bit of quality higher up the field. We had chances to go 2 up, both wasted by Connolly who also probably could have had two penos if he hadn't dived early on. I wonder would Robinson have made a difference because we put together some nice moves and there was clearly a plan to hurt them.
Ref was a joke. He had a narrative in mind and clearly wanted to be there for Ronaldo's big day.
Our back 5 is something to build on though. Some of the blocks and clearances were heroic as was the general application. Thought Omobamidele looked good when he came on. If you lose to a couple of Ronaldo headers you aren't alone in world football. A shame we didn't have better to spring from the bench but that's where we are.
Mustn’t let the agenda slip, don’t you know. Any fair assessment of that would conclude that it was a good performance, and those young lads coming through have t(e makings of a decent team. It will take time, but the promise is definitely there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
connolly was ok for me run in the tunnels very good, and got bossed by the referee the whole match,, they were making that remark on espn Argentina, how the ref was treating connollyQuote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82