Has their keeper made a save bar the one from his own player?
Why didn't Crowley receive a call up again? Was it just a paperwork delay?
Has their keeper made a save bar the one from his own player?
Just the one from Keogh. Aside from that he's mostly flapped at crosses.
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OK, now I'm really worried about the Georgia game
Think I'm gonna bury my head in the sand for 3 years and hope that when I look again the underage teams will have progressed to the seniors
Mick going to watch him in Dutch cup final. I think paper work is done, but might be wrong. He’dmake a difference.Originally Posted by The Fly
I bet Mick didn’t think we were this bad....but we are. MF as always is a massive problem area for us. We cannot link play and we look clueless as to what we need to do with the ball.
This is WOEFUL. These guys are part time FFS.
Randolph motm.
That was probably the worst I've ever seen us play (maybe the 2-2 in Serbia aside)
Let's hope it was conditions. We'll know on Tuesday
That's was dreadful, even allowing for the conditions we revert to hoof. Gibraltar are quite poor. McClean offers absolutely nothing, we should've experimented there today. Hopefully Georgia have an off night against us.
Agree with Hamilton when he says to reserve judgement till full time against Georgia, the conditions out there were so woeful that I think it's unfair to offer a full assessment of McCarthy's Ireland just yet. Plenty to work on mind.
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It hasn't been confirmed but it seemed to me that the paperwork shouldn't have posed much of a problem given how quickly Rice's transfer was facilitated.
Anyway...in conditions like that the game has to be played on the deck with players who possess a little composure and creativity controlling things in the centre. Our fecking donut/polo mint formation & tactics™ offer nothing. The true test is still on Tuesday, but I do think people should really temper their expectations for this side until the playing personnel in midfield substantially changes.
Last edited by The Fly; 23/03/2019 at 7:28 PM.
If the players we had on the pitch today played like that for their clubs they would all be non league footballers. Have they been so brainwashed for years that when they line up for Ireland they are incapable of getting the ball down and passing
I did say that Mick would be on the first plane to Holland after he has actually seen us play. But he picked the team having two full backs on the right and féck all at CM. The biggest disappointment was the lack of work ethic after we went one up and allowed them into the game when we should have been knocking down their door to get a second.
The minnows did exceptionally well.
As much as he set up the goal, I thought McGoldrick was really poor.
Maguire not a whole lot better.
Brady did well when he came on but we have the ball back to them way too much.
McGoldrick is a bit of a plodder.
If the wind was the major factor in that performance... how quickly can we build a roof over the Aviva pitch and restrict heavy breathing / flatulence among supporters for tuesday?
For Randolph to be a virtual spectator for a half and pull off that save ... MVP stuff.
McGoldrick is something of a luxury.
Maguire seems like a trier.
I realise that I love McClean the man a bit more than McClean the player.
Hourihane's set piece prowess is a breath of fresh air within a gale.
Does Hendrick's goal fall into the category of flattery or deception? I can never tell with him.
Last edited by Sullivinho; 23/03/2019 at 7:09 PM.
Pairing two people in midfield who have a habit of ghosting in and out of games, as Hourihane and Hendrick do, is always going to be a bad idea. The should never play together unless it's in a three, and even then...
Arter (or someone) should play in there on Tuesday, Brady for McClean and consider bringing Aidan O'Brien back in for either McGoldrick or Maguire.
Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
At half time I would have take hourihane off for arter and taken Maguire off for judge. Playing judge at 10 and pushing mcgoldrick up to 9
Is it still crazy too suggest matt at right back and coleman in the advanced role?
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