Robbie unfortunately is definitely not able play the loan striker role anymore. His pace has gone completely, the small bit he had, without someone playing in the hole behind him he can't be isolated up front he just isnt suited to that game now.
Robbie unfortunately is definitely not able play the loan striker role anymore. His pace has gone completely, the small bit he had, without someone playing in the hole behind him he can't be isolated up front he just isnt suited to that game now.
'loan'? Surely not...
Poor performance overall but a huge three points. I thought Ward was poor for the goal we conceeded. I wouldn't have him near the team myself but a lot of different managers play him so there you go.
Ward is terrible and should never play again...not that it'll matter v. the Gib theme park or Deutschland.
Just going back to the best goals debate (as opposed to favourite which for me is McAteer vs Holland), the following must come close:
Aldridge vs Mexico (lovely build-up and superb finish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvwC0vsJcjI
Glen Whelan (yes Whelan who apparently can't kick a ball) v Italy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OWV5omYkyQ
Ronnie Whelan v.Russia in '88, easily Ireland's 'best ever' goal IMHO!
Or Mark Kennedy v. the Yugos...
bang onQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea;1777776
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Didn't see it. Was watching the wave going round the ground ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
It looks like it was deflected, not sure it was, I think the ball can get misshapen when it is struck sometimesQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
causing it to more very oddly, it seems to start out curling to the right then curl back left then curl right again and dip,
most of that movement when it was no where near anyone. It was a bit of a freak goal.
[edit - transpose left and right for the above to make sense, I always get hem wrong]
Some other games tonight:
Wales, with a genuine world talent and several players who'd get into our team easily enough needed a late goal against Andorra to win 2-1. They were sh1tting their pants. Bale, Ramsey, Allen, Ledley, Chester and Williams are all players I'd take.
Turkey lose 3-0 in Iceland
Croatia struggle to beat Malta at home
Bosnia lose 2-1 at home to Cyprus
Dutch lose in Czech Rep. (not a disaster)
It doesn't excuse sloppiness in Georgia but it does add context. International games are hard to win at this stage of the season. Even more reason to ease off for the time being.
Willo isn't the best at CB, will cost us if Mad Martin persists in playing him there.Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Yes I know he plays there for Stoke, but not his best position by far.
Agreed. Best of a bad bunch at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by the doc
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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Turkey losing 3-0 to Iceland is a real shocker.
is it? Iceland got to the play offs for the World Cup, drew with Croatia, before losing the away leg.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Turkey only beat Estonia, Andorra and Hungary away from home in their qualifiers, and finished fourth in their (admittedly strong) group
The worst part is we're going to hear all about it tomorrow morning from geysir.
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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
I am thinking more long term and more along the population lines.
Iceland's population is about 320,000 which is pretty tiny, Turkey is over 200 time as much, 76 million!!
You could get Iceland's population into Dublin 3 times for example.
And they are about 16th the population of Ireland so that is some achievement.
Ireland have not beaten Turkey in 24 years, they did some how win 5-0 in 1990 though.
Turkey had chicken before the game.
On a FIFA points per head of population they must be the best country on the planet.
The Bosnian loss is a bigger shocker to me. Has the World Cup performance messed them up?
Not so much of a shock to me, we know they can cause trouble at home as happened to us, more of a surprise forQuote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
them to get an away result. However Bosnia is a small country ~3 million so maybe not such a shock, however I
expect they can draw on a much large former Yugoslav population.
I was not aware so much of Iceland position in world football, they do punch above their weight and I considered
Turkey to be a decent side, certainly one capable of giving us tough game.