No replacement for John Eustace yet? There was "hope" in have a replacement in place for the Scotland/ Armenia games.
No replacement for John Eustace yet? There was "hope" in have a replacement in place for the Scotland/ Armenia games.
Who knows. He might be totally off the pace or score twiceQuote:
Originally Posted by ifk101
Think if I was planning it now, these would be my two lineups:
V Norway:
Kelleher
Doherty
O’Shea
Egan
Collins
McClean
Molumby
Cullen
Mcgrath
Ogbene
Obafemi
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V Malta:
Bazunu
Doherty
Coleman
Egan
Collins
Brady
Cullen
Hendrick
Smallbone
Robinson
Obafemi
Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
swpa out smallbone for mcgrath and thats what id do for the norway game. wouldnt be against seeing brady in midfield against malta more likely to be lwb alright though
Sykes called up
Really plays mind games with the opposition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
Bazunu
Doherty / O'Shea / Egan / Collins / O'Dowda
Cullen / Molumby / Browne
Obafemi / Robinson
Decent selection in terms of what's available. Personally, would have gone with Kelleher, but that may be sheer prejudice. Guess he'll play against Malta.
O’Dowda left wing back is the big experiment. If it works out it’s a big addition to the options on that side.
Is it O'Dowda or Browne at wingback? Interesting choice either way, with McClean, Coleman and Brady all benched.
Robinson has a chance to redeem himself after a poor year since his six-goal salvo
Other than that, no real complaints. Kelleher is just back from injury and needs to play games really. Bazunu was poor against Armenia, but Kelleher can't have any complaints
Everyone else on the bench - Kelleher, Travers, Coleman, Brady, McClean, Hendrick, Smallbone, McGrath, Sykes, Ogbene (the form player benched again), Scales, Lenihan, Ferguson
You'd imagine most will get a run out over the next few days
Norway without Haaland are ok, but I think we need a performance after the last window (Scotland/Armenia) do I don't think tonight is for wholesale experimentation
RTE have O'Dowda LWB
They now have Browne at LWB, so who knows.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
If anybody has a stream, a PM would be nice.
It's O'Dowda, with Browne in the centreQuote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
All very friendly-ish so far
Is O'Dowda doing a good job of staking a claim for the role? He's willing to go beyond his man (not always beating him) and whip the ball in and is retaining possession well at times. Must keep an eye on his defensive impact.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Nobody's doing a good job of anything tbh. It's as scrappy a game as I've seen under Kenny. Bazunu's distribution is poor. The defence are passing it to themselves more than to the attackers. Centre-mids are playing facing backwards. Created little up front. He's not been the worst but that's not saying much
1 shot in 45 mins, not great.
Defenders and keeper taking more risks with passing than midfield and forwards.
Uninspiring stuff; we've been poor in possession and, again, have created very, very little.
As soon as I saw the midfield selection, in particular, I knew we may be in for a difficult watch. Browne and Molumby are scrappers and are never likely going to give you much in the way of creativity.
Ødigård with the goal. He scored home and away against UCD for Molde in the Youth League back in 2017. Haaland also played. We lost on penalties. Just shows you the value of a proper domestic league. Østigård is at Napoli. Haaland is Haaland. I think only Power from the UCD team left the LoI and he's back now.
Absolutely pointless. 62% possession 1 shot off target. Kennyball.
I've completely lost faith in him and clearly many of the players have too. But it's only a friendly etc, Norway are a good side, Luxembourg are a good side, pretty soon we'll be hearing that malta are good too.
This has me more worried about Malta on Sunday than I'd like to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by zero
They'll be up for an upset
Thats quite a good spell since half-time but just a lack of quality in finishing
I don't really see any progress with this team no matter who's in the line up for Ireland. The glory days of tournament qualifications are very much in the rear view mirror. The fact that tournaments are getting bigger with more and more teams competing only magnifies the lack of any real quality.
I, personally, don't think Kenny can really do much more with the players he has available to him.
Great strike from Browne…
Fine strike
This is very poor stuff...there's only so many physical beatings a (kennyite)human can take.
What do the players believe in? I don't see a team of believers.
Is Kenny Cunningham drunk:D
Baffling substitution that
They're the like-for-like subs of a qualifier rather than the experimental subs of a friendlyQuote:
Originally Posted by centre mid
Oh FFS
Shocking defending from Collins there sadly...
That was no surprise. Been wretched for the last 15 minutes. Pointless bringing on Hendrick.
Kenny is like a newly qualified teacher who has been assigned to a school in darndale
So easily knocked off the ball a few times tbis evening.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
First 20 minutes of the second half were decent, they got a good goal out of it. The rest was average to dreadful. As always there's no sense of things improving.
Bringing on hendrick and also leaving on the useless robinson is not a sign that kenny knows what he's doing.
Can’t wait to play France and the Netherlands!
Kenny needs to go. And now.