Knowing Trap, he won't make many substitutions anyway.
He'll go with his strongest 11. What will be interesting to see is who he will choose in central midfield. Hopefully Andrews gets a game and I predict he'll start.
That depends on the results, there are plenty you are 'quietly disgruntled' atOriginally Posted by Billy-Green
moment, one bad performance and those opinions will be expressed somewhat
louder. Trap is putting his head on the chopping block with this selection.
I wonder what the other team members think about it?
Perhaps, he really is just an Italian 'double agent' ??
I'd say there all prity confused. Stephen Hunt will prob be very p*ssed off knowing his bro should be there.
We'll never die, we'll never die
I think we need to experiment a bit more, and Robbie does well with a target-man type player. I'm not saying Folan should be ahead of Doyle, he shouldn't, but I think it might be useful for Robbie (who, let's face it, as captain will never be dropped and rarely subbed) to get used to another strike partner who will offer something a little different. I'd like Doyle to still get some game time though.
He doesn't go to matches.
He doesn't pick players on form.
He has frozen out our most creative player.
He doesn't even know some of the players names.
How can people say they are happy with results so far, we beat a poor georgian team, a cypriot team with lots of injuries and drew with a team who had played a total of 11 games together in their history.
He was hounded out of the Italy job because of his boring negative tactics. He had a great career and maybe 10 years ago he would have been a good choice, but if he was such a great coach he would have been coaching at a higher level than Red Bull Salzburg.
agree
At least you are not afraid to let rip with you opinion unlike half the sheep on this board. Sad to say but you are correct. I don’t think that Staunton would have done any worse to be honest and certainly Kerr and McCarthy could have done better,
[quote=Ciaran;1056036]More people calling for Fahey than Carsley to be in the squad is a typical example of why Foot.ie don't have respected opinions in soccer circles.
Its because people like you who post on it know sod all about the game, no other reason.
The fundamental thing that was missing in the Staunton and Kerr eras was organisation. At least with Trap we have that. Each player seems to know exactly what there job is. Even though the 2nd half against Cyprus was fairly shambolic. Would agree with most the points ur making though
What soccer circles are these, centre circle or what.
In Trap we trust
As someone said earlier, it seems the way into the senior squad now is through the B squad. Every player in this squad has worked with Trap before.
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Cant compare. Totally different players but imo both should be in the squad along with Reid, McGann, Garvan, St Ledger, McCarthy Hunt and Walters.
How often are the B squad going to get together ?
Worrying signs indeed.
I'm fine with disagreeing on a few backup players, but it's getting a bit silly now.
I'd like to see Westwood in as the 2nd/3rd keeper over Murphy.
N. Hunt has to be in over Long.
I'm not even going to talk about Andy Reid anymore...
Carsley needs to be in there, and Delap should have been brought in to look at, even in a training capacity.
Hopefully Andrews gets a run out and can establish himself in centre midfield- if we play Whelan and Gibson together again I'll probably die of a heart attack before half-time.
The squad is a fantastic advert
.. for rugby
I wouldnt go that far...
'hold on a minute baby, you have jumped over the fence'
[quote=Ciaran;1056066]wouldnt have brought in the 6 of them but definately 2 or 3 should have been brought in to have a look to give ourselves more options if and when we need it. otherwise if we get a load of injuries for one of the qualifiers we will have to bring in lads that have never been looked at at International level. Friendlies are only of use to look at things like that because most of the time established players just stroll through the game
Its really not that complicated!!!
[quote=Guidedbyvoices;1056071]The real reason all Football Associations have Friendlies is to secure revenue.....the blooding of new players,practising new formations etc is secondary.
Add 6 newcomers into a settled squad in the middle of a campaign who'll have no other impact than sitting on the bench. Brilliant, why didn't Trap think of this?!?
Its a friendly ffs.[B
In fact, as most Clubs (and it seems the players too) do not want International Friendlies, and go out of their way at times to "arrange" slight knocks/niggles to players so that they are not risked in what they deem meaningless games.
Tact is for people who are not witty enough to be sarcastic
The fact is the centre midfield is power puff & will cost us dearly sooner or later. Probably sooner.
He should have taken a look at what A Reid can offer. He should also have taken a look at the likes of Garvan, Delap, McCann and McCarthy. At least these guys get a game for their clubs - unlike the current favoured pair.
The omission of N Hunt & St Ledger is very strange too.
Yes. That may or may not be the case, but I would have thought that Trap as manager with a mind of his own would want the best from his managerial stint. If this is the case surely he would like to look at players who have the potential to make his team better? If he sees something in the likes of Miller, Stokes, Bruce and some of the other numphies he has brought along there is something seriously wrong]
I for one would rather go to a match to watch the likes of Garvan, McCann, McCarthy St Ledger and Noel Hunt and I am sure there are many more like me.
It will be interesting to see how many of the current squad pull out. Not too many me thinks.It will be their only chance to play a bit of football this season.
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