It had to be Murphy!!Originally Posted by SkStu
Not sure how you can pick a MOTM from that performance for us...
It had to be Murphy!!
It really did have to be Murphy.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
It gets worse - they'll give him a crystal vase in a few minutes.
Well better than losing, but a draw is a decent result all in all, defeat would not have been horrible!
Well let's hope he doesn't drop it!
Imagine if o Neill had asked them to play a bit when we were 1 nil up
I can't understand the indifference towards Murphy.
He has been very unlucky not to score until now, Germany and Italy off the top of my head. Won a penalty against Bosnia. Should have had a stonewall penalty against Italy. Sets up loads of chances.
He was arguably our best player against France IMO.
Even aside from the goal tonight, he set up a great chance for Long and was a constant nuisance to their defense - right down to the last minute when he charged down the goalkeeper.
He has been good for us more often than he hasn't.
I'm delighted for him and more than happy for him to be an option for us.
Dreadful stuff. If that was a loi match people would be complaining
That was probably the strangest game I've seen in a long time. Our constant hoofing, their keeper, Coleman staying on the line, the ref, the pen, their lad smashing it off the crossbar... Bizarre.
Bosnia was odd as well. Maybe it's something to do with being in the Balkans
The Serbian keeper's a turd too. We didn't test him anywhere near enough.
I do agree with Didi though, can't see the Serbs dropping many points in Belgrade.
The banging on from the panel about passing the ball is getting boring now. Anyone with a couple of eyes could see that the game was being played on a glorified peat bog tonight. It was a night for getting it forward and trying to win it back in a more dangerous area.
Really feel that game was there for the taking if you put in - and it doesn't have to be Hoolahan - another midfielder in there instead of Walters.
Look how much the game changed when Quinn came on. He easily could've slotted in there.
Fn synonymous with our long ball approach. And he didn't even have the legs to offer proper support to Coleman on the right hand side.
In mitigation:
He did improve in the last twenty minutes when we got back on top.
And he did test the goalkeeper with a decent header first half.
But I stand by what I say.
I feel between the 1st and 3rd minute, between the 50th and 55th minutes and between the 70th and 85th minutes were our best periods.
It was a terrible performance aside from that.
Last edited by TheOneWhoKnocks; 05/09/2016 at 8:58 PM.
MON saying the Serbians play in bigger leagues for better teams.
By and large, they don't.
It's not like it's Real Madrid and Barcelona lads playing Rotherham and Bolton lads ffs.
There is marginal difference in the teams they play for.
Making excuses for a tawdry performance.
As Liam said, the conditions were just as bad for the Serbians - and it didn't affect them.
Disappointing, the game was there to be won, Serb's were dire anytime the ball was being crossed in. Seems like a step back from the Italy/France games.
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Serbia could pass it about. They'd have been out of sight with forwards who could keep out of each other's way.
We were really poor, and we always will be against a team that can pass the ball.
Never a penalty though, but they could have had another couple anyway.
I agreed with a lot of what Brady said after the game - we don't have the players, and we don't have a manager who really wants to play that way either, so we should stop lamenting how we don't pass the ball.
We need to start picking players who are getting game time for their clubs.
We need to stop panicking when we take a lead. Every bloody time we retreat against a half decent team once we go one nil up. Kill them off. Serbia were there for the taking, crowd was on their back and we were content to let them have the ball.
Obviously we'd have all taken a point beforehand but it's a shame we didn't try and go for the 2nd goal.
The Walters penalty, it looked like it was outside the box anyway? The ref was god awful all night.
Awful performance but a great result. If we think that they were there for the taking I can't imagine what they thought about us. I'd have taken a draw beforehand but it was an even better result in the circumstances. Delighted for Hendrick (assuming it's not taken off him) and Murphy getting of the mark.
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