Ireland V Sweden(A) 22 March & Austria(H) - 26 March 2013 - World Cup 2014 Qualifiers

**Maroon 7** · 26/03/2013, 8:42 PM

Trap will get rightly slaughtered for that. Made the wrong subs and waited too long to do them anyway.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 26/03/2013, 8:42 PM

Looking at post-match highlights. Suppose defence was being pulled around the place.

**Noelys Guitar** · 26/03/2013, 8:42 PM

Absolute sickener...lost my link in injury time and then heard the commentary only from Hamilton and Whelan as their goal was scored. Can't believe it.

**rebelmusic** · 26/03/2013, 8:42 PM

Im normally on the fence but that was the worst display of management i think i've ever seen. To take off Long instead of Sammon was simply insane...and to bring Green on (which i agree with) but then put walters up front instead of putting 5 in MF...just ****ing bizarre. Utterly gut it. Time to go Trap...whatever about squad choices and formation, can't even ****ing manage during the matches

**NeverFeltBetter** · 26/03/2013, 8:43 PM

Can see Walters struggling to get back when Alaba got the ball in space. Centre midfielders were nowhere too.

**shakermaker1982** · 26/03/2013, 8:43 PM

Connor Sammon left on for the full 90.

Paul Green put on for Shane Long.

Didn't even waste some time by throwing on a sub during injury time.

Leaving Wes on the bench when we needed to keep the ball.

Combine that & we ain't going to Brazil now.

**Fergie's Son** · 26/03/2013, 8:44 PM

Just make it stop.

**Noelys Guitar** · 26/03/2013, 8:44 PM

I thought we played really well again. They were more mobile than Sweden but I really fancy us to beat them away. Just keep playing like the last two games and we can still qualify.

**Eminence Grise** · 26/03/2013, 8:44 PM

Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

Bunch of clowns.

Time to get rid of the ringmaster.

A blind man could see that substitions were needed long before Green came on. Why was Sammon on for so long? Ach, just disgusted that we've thrown it all away again.

**boovidge** · 26/03/2013, 8:45 PM

As we're not going to qualify now I think it's right if Trap steps down so we can look to the future.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 26/03/2013, 8:46 PM

Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

Paul Green put on for Shane Long.

I was fine with that, since Long seemed to be losing his temper a bit, but on the wing? That wasn't where the problem was.

**Sullivinho** · 26/03/2013, 8:46 PM

Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

Connor Sammon left on for the full 90.

Paul Green put on for Shane Long.

Didn't even waste some time by throwing on a sub during injury time.

Leaving Wes on the bench when we needed to keep the ball.

Cryptic explanations, via enterpreter, for all of the above in 3..2..

**tommy_c12000** · 26/03/2013, 8:48 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Hyperbolic tripe. Granted, I'm biased (but would still have started either Hoolahan or Doyle), but off the top of my head, you've got -

6-0 down against Germany
The Euro 2012 let-down
Henry's handball
San Marino's late equaliser
Ireland's late equaliser against Cyprus
5-2 in Cyprus
Sitting back on the 2-0 lead against Israel and blowing it
Saipan
0-0 v Liechtenstein
Chris Woods' rugby tackle somehow not being the penalty to send us to Euro 92
Any time John Delaney opens his mouth.

All far, far more disappointing than a Championship forward starting for Ireland.

Sammon playing a full 90 mins in a crucial World Cup Qualifier . . . . . newest lowest point of Irish soccer in my living memory

**youngirish** · 26/03/2013, 8:51 PM

More comedy management from Trap. The game was there to be won. Austria were on the ropes from a combination of our agressive play and our quick and fluid counter attacks. So what do we resort to for the last 40 minutes? Sitting back and playing hoofball trying desperately to hang onto our lead. And when everyone in the world and their dog realised that our team and tactics needed to be shaken up around the 60 minute mark or we were going to concede a goal what does Trap do? Nothing.

Pay him off and let's move on. Hopefully the FAI won't replace him with another Stan and we'll be okay.

**boovidge** · 26/03/2013, 8:53 PM

I actually thought Trap got it right for most of the match. Sammon was fine. Yes he's limited, but he did his job reasonably well. Trap lost it in the last 15-20 minutes.

**Razors left peg** · 26/03/2013, 8:54 PM

Some of the worst management I've ever seen. Leaving on Sammon and taking off Long was incredible. An under 10s manager could have seen in 2nd half we needed someone to get on the ball.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 26/03/2013, 8:57 PM

Tony O'Donaghue stirring the pot right now. Feel genuinely sorry for the team and staff now, gonna get slaughtered by the media.

**Crosby87** · 26/03/2013, 8:59 PM

This is not the end of the world yet, SWE and Austria still have to play twice, (2 draws are obviously possible) SWE has to go to KAZ, we get SWE and KAZ at home and maybe we can muck up a point in Germany.