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

**youngirish** · 26/03/2013, 9:00 PM

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

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

Trap deserves to be slaughtered for throwing that game away with his inept tactics.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 26/03/2013, 9:00 PM

Originally Posted by Noelys Guitar

What did O'Donaghue say?

Ah, just the usual, baiting, looking for a negative reaction. Don't like it.

**rebelmusic** · 26/03/2013, 9:00 PM

Originally Posted by Crosby87

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.

To be honest based on Trap's record we'd be more likely to qualify if all our remaining games were played away

**nigel-harps1954** · 26/03/2013, 9:01 PM

To take Long off was 100% the right choice. He was losing his head, as he does in those situations, and if he was left on the field, he would almost certainly have been sent off.

Sammon is a poor excuse for a footballer. Leaving him on for the 90 was mind-boggling when Kevin Doyle was sitting on the bench. Even the Wes brigade might have had a bit of justification for his calls too.

We sat off them in the second half. It killed us. When they started pegging the ball around and getting at us, we needed to push up the field and put the pressure on them, a counter attack was wide open so, so many times, yet we sat back with 10 men behind the ball and let them come right back at us.

It was utterly useless, stone age tactics.

Trap simply has to go. It's beyond a joke at this stage.

**paul_oshea** · 26/03/2013, 9:03 PM

that goal lads got a wicked deflection.without thay deflection it wouldnt have come down.

**geysir** · 26/03/2013, 9:04 PM

Midfield was crying out to be plugged up in the 2nd half.
Can't say Austria didn't deserve their point, even if it was the last kick of the game. They tried to play football.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 26/03/2013, 9:05 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

To take Long off was 100% the right choice. He was losing his head, as he does in those situations, and if he was left on the field, he would almost certainly have been sent off.

Dead right. Long had lost a bit of composure, the way he got the yellow was evidence of that.

**rebelmusic** · 26/03/2013, 9:07 PM

One thing i would say is that McCarthy dissapeared in the second half as well. Really need Gibson back..

**NeverFeltBetter** · 26/03/2013, 9:07 PM

Need to beat Sweden at home and Austria away. Can it be done? I really don't think so. Brady trotting out "quality of the players" now. Didn't seem so bad against Sweden.

**Park_Lane** · 26/03/2013, 9:08 PM

Sick. F#cking sick. How many chances did they have on target? Should of had at least 4 pts from this double header instead as usual we bottle it, tactics shocking as usual. 10 minutes to go and he brings on green. f#ck off. doyle on the bench, hoolahan on the bench. Sammon worked his ****** off but was **** - lets be honest, rarely controled the ball or did anything creative, he was there as a roadblock basically. Cant wait for this sh1t to end. Put kelly in charge to the end of campaign and then get someone who believes in irish players and playing f#cking football.

**Neish** · 26/03/2013, 9:09 PM

Decent 1st half but let them have far to much in the 2nd half and Austria deserved the point. Can't afford to lose another game now and will have to get at least 13 of the 15 points remaining.

Some questionable subs by Trap again, why take Long off and keep Sammon on? Why not put hoolahan on to run at Austria who know what could of happened.

Sweden will be very happy with that result

**Noelys Guitar** · 26/03/2013, 9:10 PM

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

Need to beat Sweden at home and Austria away. Can it be done? I really don't think so. Brady trotting out "quality of the players" now. Didn't seem so bad against Sweden.

When you put it like that. No. We still can't seem to get over the line against sides of a similar standard. The Swedes will be happy tonight.

**pineapple stu** · 26/03/2013, 9:15 PM

Dunno how relevant it's going to be really, but Austria are currently the lowest-ranked of the second seeds, so as it stands, it's our group that's going to miss out on a play-off spot.

(At the moment, that table is missing Austria's defeat against Germany)

**brine3** · 26/03/2013, 9:17 PM

Originally Posted by rebelmusic

One thing i would say is that McCarthy dissapeared in the second half as well. Really need Gibson back..

True that, can't blame McCarthy though. What's he supposed to do? Pass the ball to himself? He can't run the entire midfield by himself. At Wigan he plays in a functioning system.

**youngirish** · 26/03/2013, 9:17 PM

Originally Posted by Park_Lane

Put kelly in charge to the end of campaign and then get someone who believes in irish players and playing f#cking football.

Des Kelly the carpet aficionado?

**abcd** · 26/03/2013, 9:18 PM

Massive setback, almost feels as bad as Macedonia in 99, but only ourselves to blame. After going a goal down we really got at them and it was obvious that while they are good technical footballers they were a pile of **** at the back. I thought we'd try and stay a bit more positive in the 2nd half but we sat back waiting for the inevitable. You might get away with it sometimes against teams like Armenia and so forth but if you keep sitting back eventually it comes back to haunt you. The substitutions or lack thereof were disappointing. Sammon was so bad he was useful for 60 minutes or so because Austria didn't know what to do with him. However, he needed to be called ashore at that stage. After winning the free kick in the corner on 90 minutes we made a serious hash of it when we could have at least run down the clock by a minute. We got away with home draws against Bulgaria, Slovakia etc. because they were so poor but Sweden are seasoned qualifiers and this result will give Austria hope so this result imo is fatal to our hopes.

**thejollyrodger** · 26/03/2013, 9:21 PM

we threw it all away from the 50th minute.

**tricky_colour** · 26/03/2013, 9:28 PM

Can't believe how we got stuffed, they had men over in the middle queueing up to take a shot.
Had we been caught on the break, unbelievable so late in the game.
Green should have been in the middle, at about the spot where they scored from,
Seems like our player had no legs left on them because they never had the ball in the second half.
Trap had a sub left as far as I am aware, so why not use it to get some more fresh legs on
the pitch?

**tricky_colour** · 26/03/2013, 9:30 PM

Unfortunately it looks like it is still in our hands.

**brine3** · 26/03/2013, 9:31 PM

They had no clue for most of the second half. It was no different to being managed by the Gaffer.

It's a financial consideration for the FAI now. There are more and more empty seats with every passing match. Trap says it is the result, not the show that counts. When it comes to selling tickets, that doesn't seem to be the case. And the FAI may well decide that they are losing so much money on tickets that they may as well cut their losses as far as Trap is concerned.

How many will show up for the Faroes and Kazakhstan at home if this stodge carries on?

How much would Brian McDermott cost us?