It shoes how godawful Kenny has been when a loss is thrown up as vindication of him and his best game in charge of Ireland.Originally Posted by BOOMSHAKALAKA
That's Tchouameni who has started in 17 out of his 23 caps for France? "doesnt start much". Thats as far as I read, was too busy laughing at that nonsense to read the rest.
It shoes how godawful Kenny has been when a loss is thrown up as vindication of him and his best game in charge of Ireland.
u ok hun?
It does seem a bit odd. If you didn't know the score last night but just looked at the reaction of some supporters and the media, you'd assume we won the game or at least drew it. There was some encouragement but we shouldn't be celebrating defeat, no matter who we played. We have a manager who's been trying to learn on the job, not a great position to be in but we all hope he has learned enough by now. Losing at home in the first game of a qualifying group and sitting bottom definitely doesn't prove anything yet but we still have 7 more games for him to do so.
It’s not like we played San Marino last night. Weird that peeps can’t understand that.
Yes as I said its not top corner. My friends were right behind the area it came into and confirmed it as well - I'd take that before any photo anyway. Still a great save of course.That's an angled photo in fairness. A more central angle shows it was maybe a yard or more inside the post -
I don't think that takes away from either the quality of the header or the save. But it wasn't quite top corner.
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I cannot fathom the negative begrudgery after that performance. That's all it is too, begrudgery, from a small number of wums. What would have been the reaction had Maignon not pulled off a couple of world class saves at the end? "We should have won by more"?
Very proud to have been there last night to witness a coming of age performance for this team. There's been false dawns previously, but that really did feel like the start of something great last night.
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It's not nitpicking; it's just correcting tets' image which was clearly angled. The video (1:51 here) shows what I've said also. I don't know why people are so insecure in fairly minor views that any bit of disagreement is dismissed as nitpicking (or begrudgery) tbh. Heaven forbid we have a bit of fun debate without being dismissed like that.
Sounds like a few posters on this board had a similar reaction to the french commentator when their keeper made that save. Imagine as a supporter getting yourself to a place where you hope ireland dont get a result.
Lads, we lost the match. I'm never happy when Ireland lose, I'm sure most others aren't either. France were not at their best last night. It was a real opportunity to get a draw at least and put us in a strong position in the group. Just because it wasn't a team like Luxembourg defeating us this time doesn't mean that this is the start of something great. People have different opinions and some prefer to celebrate actual victories and results. It was obviously an improvement on most of the past 3 years but that's not saying much. I can only talk for myself but I'm only interested in qualifying for major tournaments. We're in a weaker position now than before yesterday's match. That's the bottom line.
I’m not insecure about anything. I just think it’s pointless arguing whether it’s too corner or near the top corner. We all saw what happened. It was a very good header and a great save. Any other sane forum would just accept that, but here the professional miserabilists have taken over as usual. Not just on this issue but the whole game.
And as for the “you’d swear we won” claim. Beyond pathetic.
The way we sat off them made it difficult for them to play through the middle, and they had to swing in a lot of crosses. I guess they expected that, seeing as they had Giroud on from the start, but we defended better than they expected I'd say.
I do think they played within themselves at times, and were just a bit ponderous and sloppy at times as well, expecting a goal would eventually arrive. Had the goal not been gifted to them, I think they'd have gone through the gears until they got one.
Relying on their keeper to pull off a world-class save is not what they expected, it wasn't a case of them comfortably seeing out the game at the end. They really were rattled in the closing minutes and we came much closer to a goal than they'd have expected.
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I told my mates before the game that I felt a coming of age performance was due soon. I think they were close to delivering it. I’m not ashamed to say I saw positives in defeat but defeat it was, and that hurts as it always does. Of course we’ll only know in the next 8 months whether this group actually do come of age, but I think you have to say that most of the younger lads put in high quality individual performances. They deserve credit for that.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone decry the scoring of goals from set pieces. As for having Duffy on the bench (I thought he was injured anyway ?) I don’t think he could have done more than Nathan Collins did with his header. We also had Egan on the pitch, who has scored from corners.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
I think being called begrudgers and being told that we are actually up for the other team is beyond pathetic. And just because some aren't fawning over this defeat.
So take it up with those who accused you of being up for the other team then.
Go back to lumping it on top of Duffy's head is the cry from some of those who think hoofball is the only alternative to Kenny.
Really not worth it but was interesting that you only signalled out some opinions for being pathetic and not others.
Boomers, was last night's performance that of a competently-managed and coached team? If not, why not exactly?
Were we motivated and spirited? Was there a sense of purpose and cohesion? Did we suffer from a lack of attacking ambition or defensive organisation? Were there any contentious selections or substitutions that negatively impacted the team? Was there anything, specifically, that a 'competent manager' would have done differently?
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