"SH"? Getting confused with a rugby winger? 😀Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
"SH"? Getting confused with a rugby winger? 😀Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
Nice to see both Clarke and McGeady in the EFL Team of the week: http://www.efl.com/news/article/2016...016-11-08_0956
Not too happy about Mick McCarthy being the manager of the week ;) He was under a lot of pressure coming in to the game despite the miracles he had performed there with no money. Some fans have short memories. They were rock bottom of the league when he took them over a few seasons back.
Gartland is very prone to making mistakes and has done so in the last number of games in Europe that he's played in!Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Another case of a manager who has raised the expectations of a club up a few levels and then when the club drops off the pace from that raised level for a period (mainly due to dwindling or overtaxed resources) the manager then takes the flak for not meeting those expectations which he was responsible for in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
That's exactly what happened there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
I've hit the same fence as all those southerners down the years talking about David Trimble playing on the wing for the rugby boys.
Strange how Cunningham can't make the squad.
Acquitted himself well any time he has played for IRL.
Very consistent for Preston.
Hourihane is another bizarre omission. Especially considering he possesses the ability to score goals and the composure to pick a pass in the final third - something I don't think O'Kane or Arter have.
Hard to get hopes up about Horgan (or Boyle) when you see likes of Pearce, Gleeson and McShane making squads.
Egan too. Someone who clearly has more up side than the aforementioned.
Hoping to see something justifying the hype re: Arter.
I thought he was average enough against England and Oman. Slightly better against Holland.
I suspect that McShane is in the squad because he is a versatile player who can play at either full back or centre-half and is currently playing well in a Reading team which has risen to 4th in the Championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
I know but he's been in squads for over ten years and made no progress.
He's 31 in January and it's abundantly clear he is a last resort option.
It would make so much more sense to blood Doherty and Egan rather than keep lads like McShane and Pearce around.
I know there is a good lot of lads with half a dozen odd caps around the squad already, and maybe that factors in MON's thinking when it comes to this.
But this is what happens when you keep guys like Green, Cox and Kelly around squads way past their sell by date.
The squad is still too old. Work needs to be done to bring the average down in line with other teams.
If I had to name 3 Austrians off the top of my head, they would be 1.Toni Polster 2.Peter Stoger and..3 ....... Kurt Waldheim, all figures that inspire very negative thoughts.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
The Austrian football federation says Bremen midfielder Zlatko Junuzovic has been ruled out of Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Ireland and a friendly against Slovakia because of a knee injury.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bungle
Coach Marcel Koller has called up Karim Onisiwo as a replacement for Junuzovic. The Mainz midfielder made his debut in a friendly against Switzerland a year ago but hasn't played for the national team since.
Junuzovic is the third regular starter for Austria to miss the Ireland game because of injury after goalkeeper Robert Almer (knee) and defender Sebastian Proedl (groin) were sidelined.
James McClean is an injury concern for the Republic of Ireland's World Cup qualifier in Austria after sitting out Tuesday's training with a back problem.http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37908364
No room in your top three for a certain Adolf H? (Admittedly, it's hard to knock Polster off top spot!;))Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Weren't Opus Austrian? Life is Life, la la la la la. Total and utter Euro pop classic. Up there with Guns'n'Roses as one of my guilty secrets. Love that song.
Dont forget the star of the movie kindergarten cop
Nothing Adolf did comes close to Stoeger and Polster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
But Toni is a special kind of bast4ard!
Josef Fritzl?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diggs246
Falco?
Hitler, Niki Lauda and Franz Ferdinand (the Archduke, not the band).Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Who got shot in? No googling...and his assassination caused?
World war 1