It's here-Originally Posted by zero
is there a thread for the northern ireland game? couldn't see one.
it's on tomorrow, kick off time unknown.
It's here-
lots of positive sounds coming out of the squad, for example ward here
http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/art...-task-at-hand/
read similar from wilson earlier. everyone seems focused on the scotland game.
If there is one thing I learnt from following Ireland over the years, it's words mean feck all.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
In some ways that's what sport is all about.
We play the game and the best teams do their talking on the field.
What happens on the field should be paramount and even if you are unlucky with bad (hopefully not crooked) decisions then you have to accept it.
The talking is just window dressing and poor window dressing at that.
Scotland beat Qatar 1-0 earlier: http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish...wsCategoryID=1
Richie with the goal
Start with Given, Westwood or Forde?
Give Brady another chance, go back to the well with Ward (who hasn't started since December) or move Wilson and reshuffle the CB's?
Risk starting McGeady?
Blind faith in Keane?
Start Hoolahan in a huge game?
Roll the dice with Arter, Christie or McGoldrick?
Change of formation?
A lot of big decisions to make and each seem fraught with danger.
Long ball to Walters....... Possession back with Scotland.
MON expects Hoolahan to be fine for Scotland, that he would have brought him on yesterday only that he needed to bring off John O'Shea as a precauntionary measure. Interesting comments about Robbie Keane also. There's also an article in today's Examiner about the forbidden topic for anybody interested.
The Examiner - An Irish chance would be a fine thing (Liam Mackey)
Keane doesn't score the goals. That's the problem. We are playing Scotland, not Gibraltar. If MON has found the magic youth serum that's great, but we can't afford to carry someone for 60-75 minutes and just hope he scores because of his stats. He touched the ball about 8 times against Poland. And now he isn't even fully fit FFS!
I would say that Roy Hodgson, Gareth Southgate, in particular and the English FA know a lot more than John Fallon on that issue. Fallon has already been caught out several times when he has tried to break anything other than a platitude relating to the issue. As if a spoofer journalist is going to know more than everyone else on the issue.
I find Hodgson more trustworthy than a couple of other of people when it comes to this issue, but hey, events speak for themselves.
Last edited by TheOneWhoKnocks; 08/06/2015 at 12:47 PM.
Fallon's been spot on with everything as far as I can tell.
Did a certain someone here send a tweet to Gordon Waddell telling The Daily Record to reword a sentence about a certain current Ireland international?
He will start with Given.
He will play Brady.
Don't see a risk in starting McGeady.
I don't think he has blind faith in Keane. I may be wrong but he didn't start against Scotland.
Why wouldn't he start Hoolahan in a huge game ? Do you have doubts about him having been moaning ad nauseum under the previous regime about him not being selected.
Roll the dice with Arter, Christie or McGoldrick? For.......?
Change of formation? Yes he will start with 5 in midfield with Hoolahan.
Long balls - sometimes when you have no creativity it's the only solution and we have scored a few even in this campaign from punts up the field but I am expecting a somewhat more cultured approach, that is unless/until that approach has got us no where.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
No. I personally would have a lot of faith in Hoolahan if he was selected to play. I certainly wouldn't be "moaning ad nauseum" about it.
No need for the insulting tone. It's uncalled for.
Fallon has been caught out, saying this will happen and that will happen, and such and such spoke and sources etc. Only for Jack to come out all surprised on his twitter account, and for Fallon's articles to be well off.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Fallon's source all along has been Grealish Sr and he's always set his articles in that context. That Jack has had to put his dad back in his box on a couple of occasions doesn't mean Fallon has reported him incorrectly.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport...battle-9407811
We are f***ed if O'Shea misses this game. You only realize how important the big lug is when he isn't there.
Martin O'Neil should have the cahunas to leave Shay Given on the bench for this game.
He is in poor form recovering from injury and past it (except for that he is fine)
The O'Shea worry sounds minor enough, having read O'Neill's words. He says the "calf is tightening up". It's a common problem in athletes. He hasn't tweaked/pulled it. Hopefully, some rest, massage and stretching will help, but I wouldn't be overly concerned just yet. If he's suffered from it in the past and been able to pull through, you'd hope for the same by next Saturday. Think the Chronicle is probably squeezing as much out of it as they can.
He'll play Given, he shouldn't but I'd be surprised he Given wasn't our keeper now until the end of the campaign barring injury or him inexplicably throwing the ball into the net.
Think he'll play:
-----------------Given----------------
Coleman---O'Shea--Wilson---Brady
McGeady--Whelan--McCarthy-McClean
---------Walters-----Long----------
Only question is over Keane or Hoolahan - but I think he'll leave the pair in reserve and hope two up top, one physical the other mobile, with two wingers will cause Scotland more problems from the start.
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