Originally Posted by
Bungle
I'm sorry but is this a **** take. Some pot 1 teams will give us a spanking home and away. Italy might not spank us because of their style but we would take 0 points from them. Maybe, one draw with Denmark at best.
The only pot 2 teams I see us taking points off are Serbia, Slovakia and Romania and in Serbia's case, it's more likely to be 0 points than say 2 or 3. Romania or Slovakia could be two draws but I wouldn't be confident.
The pot 4 teams look ominous for the team currently. A lot of them we might only take 2 points off (at best) though with Luxemburg it should be 6, while I wouldn't be massively confident of taking 6 points off some of the pot 5 teams.
It's time to get real. We are a poor team, albeit one which should get better in the coming 24 months because of players breaking through.
The management doesn't give me any confidence. I can't imagine any manager worth their salt needing to show a video to a team if they have the power of motivation. I like Kenny as a man and he did a great job at Dundalk and to be fair with the u21s, but he has the look of a substitute teacher. I think he's had terrible luck with injury and I'd like to see him given most if not all the next campaign, but if this leak came from a player, all is not well and if it came from the FAI then the sharks are circling.