I wanted to see Foley, Coleman and Wilson from the start.
We need a proper full back in the team.
We need a player who can pass, tackle and control a ball in midfield.
The Norway game was the perfect chance to give these guys a go. If your good enough your old enough. I cannot see any of them being fazed if thrown in at the deep end because they are mixing it with the big boys week in week out.
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Drillo reckons Keane has been our most influential player in our recent games.
Norway are missing their two first choice strikers and will certainly play a 451.
Incidentally, about half their squad play in the Norwegian league.
I'd actually forgotten about him. I'm not fussed whether he figures though. It might not be fair to him or Wolves given that he's only just back. It'd be different for a competitive game.Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Big change from about 10-12 years ago when most of there top players were based in the epl, solskjaer, tore andre flo, henning berg, bjornebye, thomas myhre, leonhardsen and ostensstad..
Only complaint would be the absence of Foley. He's been around the squad for years now, with only one start to his name - surely that, along with his good form, should have been acknowledged. Still, nothing to get hysterical about. Coleman will surely get a run. It will be interesting to see Cunningham and O'Dea at the back. Intrigued to see Fahey in the middle. Looks a decent, well-balanced side.
Is Foley not hurt?
Trap knows best. Sigh.
I will not see a second of this but i will go on here as soon as i can to get a feel for what happened. And let me take a wild guess, it will be a bad loss with no positives.
Then, a day later, positives will emerge. (This will be argued.)
No one will understand anything AND
McCarthy, Coleman, Meyler, Clifford, Clark..
Will play for us. At some point.
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0-0 anyone?
I completely agree with this. Some fans are so fickle though that one or two poxy goals and they'd be saying he's finally come good. I could hardly believe the critisism he got, locally, after the Russia game. I thought he was our best player by some distance. I do believe that he is pretty ineffective on the right though, and doesn't do much from the bench. He needs to grow into a match and generally improves as it goes on. If it was a choice of springing either himself or Hunt from the bench, I'd probably go with Hunt.
Best of a bad bunch, one might say. McGeady did well going forward and it was great to see him initiating counter attacks, but he often neglected his defensive duties and continuously left Kilbane exposed. It's also very hard to forgive his consistently awful delivery.
We're Barcelona now. It'll be at least 6-2, in my opinion.
I think this lineup shows again what gattuso says in lexlips signature.trap first and foremost went with what he says as a stronger unit less likely to concede goals hence Lawrence and Kelly down the right.Lawrences work ethic matched with Kelly s solid but spectacular defending capabilities over attacking
prowess. Had he gone for Coleman and foley this would have shown a change to his mindset which obviously hasn't occurred and never will. Having said that starting with the former 2 has his benefits as we start well it gives confidence and then he can being on the other two after half time with a more attack minded approach if its a stalemate or we are chasing a goal,these are the key situations where foley and Coleman would excel.
Im happy fahey has got his chance in the middle after almost 18 months, and throwing when in to start with fir experience makes sense though id like to see when be replaced by Wilson as opposed to fahey unless fahey tires which he seems to dk which is understandable as he doesn't get full games for brum.
Don't think Walters not starting is a biggy. He gets feck all time with stoke anyway lately.
So long as trap makes the required changes we all wish for.sometime through the game i am happy enough with this startin lineup even if it were forced upon him. I do agree that i think the only reason he made the change is because of injuries but at the end of the day i think its better to blend them into a game with experienced guys i think the team as well fir with pressure and to learn the trap system from other.
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And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
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I think you're selling Lawrence a little short there. He is very good defensively but he's also been one of our best attacking outlets. He does create goals and is the highest-scoring Irish player in England right now (at least in the top divisions).
I don't think it a bad line-up tbh.
Kelly is playing regularly at club level so it always was going to be a marginal call between him and Foley to start at RB. The centre half partnership picked itself as there was no other options, as did Cunningham's selection at LB. With Cunningham now playing at club level, I'm happy enough to see him get more game time.
Happy to see Fahey get the opportunity to show what he can do in the centre. It's been a while since we''ve had a ball playing midfielder in the centre. I think he and Duff will combine well.
Lawrence's inclusion is a strange one but I think it suggests that Trapattoni doesn't have full confidence in Kelly's abilities at RB.
Up front, again happy with the selection. It would have been wrong to drop Long given his performance in Slovakia. Long and Doyle know each other well so I'm interested to see how they'll work as a partnership.
Hopefully Foley, Wilson and Coleman will all get a run and we win the game.
"Fans travelling to tonight’s international friendly at the Aviva Stadium should not expect a goal glut, as Norway with their last 11 games ending either 1-0 or 2-1."
http://greenscene.me/2010/11/olsen-i...ike-barcelona/
I think all this "playing like Barcelona" talk is an exercise in mind-games. 'Drillo' is a sly dog.
Are you saying that McGeady's international career is more like an adventure in forgiveness?
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