the mirror?
the mirror?
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the bitterest of them all ?Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Team: Forde, Coleman, O'Shea, St Ledger, Wilson, McGeady, Whelan, Hoolahan, Cox, Walters, Keane
Cox back starting on the wing?...
Seems like it. No Dunne either, after being "90%" likely to play.
press conference live on rte.ie: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/live/7/
Why does he not play McClean on the wing?
Walters and Cox are both strikers
cox up front with robbie and walters on the wing as most recent selections id sayQuote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
I don't read it at all that he's rooting for the Faroes.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Just that he wouldn't be so put out by them getting a result. No harm in that. He has a clear affinity for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Kerr
Whelan in the team? FFS!Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
I'm sure he said something about needing more protection to compensate for the luxury that is Hoolahan!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
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Originally Posted by Fixer82
Needs defensive protecting against the Faroese Cafu-esque left back . . .
I wonder would Hoolahan still have started had McCarthy not been suspended.
Walters will probably play on the wing, a role he plays a lot for Stoke and Ipswich in the past. He is also a much, much better option there than McClean who has taken several steps backwards in the last 12 months. You may have noticed that even Dunphy no longer uses him as an example of "an outstanding young talent" ignored by Trapp. That's when you know you have work to do!!
Hopefully, whether it's Cox or Walters nominally wide, they shift inside and let Coleman play up and down. Basically play three up front with McGeady and Coleman on the wings.
Have no problem with Cox in the team ahead of McClean given he does score the odd goal. Hoolahan and McGeady should have enough creativity to supply the bullets. 3-0 to us.
This shows up Trapp for the lunatic he is, especially at home.
No doubt he and his supporters will say a 1-goal win is a 'great victory'.
Personally I'd take that, given the potential for embarrassment in this fixture.
In fairness we said that the Toshavn fixture could have been embarrasing and it wasn't.
Supposedly they've been training with Cox on the wing and Walters up top: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...roes-1.1417702Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
Walters up front makes some sense with Coleman and McGeady in the side, without Long he's more of a natural target man than any other player in the squad
Cox on the wing again? Trap really takes the biscuit. How many more times does this need to be tried?
And why does Trap never use friendlies to really prepare the team for upcoming competitive games and try things out? Why give Long and McCarthy so much game time against Georgia knowing they will be suspended for the Faroes? And why not try Hoolahan as a No 10, in his proper role? (His ball retention and incisive forward passing is what the team has been crying out for for about 3 years now.)
One of the advantages of Trap at the beginning was that he would ignore the Irish press, but in fact he pays too much attention to it and tries to do the exact opposite of what they say!
The first half v Georgia and indeed many of our games are so disjointed that I wonder just what on earth they do in training. The hallowed "seestem" seems to be to give the ball away within 5-10 seconds and then hope for the best.
And we can't play with one striker cos that would appear defensive... this is obvious and stinking BS, as the two teams in the CL final play with one man up, as indeed does almost every modern team, and the two in the CLF are hardly defensive, are they?
The man is holding us back so much at this stage. We have the makings of a team that should be well capable of second in this grup, instead we probably blew it by persisting with a tired lop-sided 4-4-2 while trying to hang on against Austria.