QuoteFantastic goal, for those unable to view it, it was a great strike not very far out but from an angle like Van Basten's vs the Soviet Union in 1988.
Great stuff.
Morrision - magic!!!
Fantastic goal, for those unable to view it, it was a great strike not very far out but from an angle like Van Basten's vs the Soviet Union in 1988.
Great stuff.
The referee is a total balloonOtherwise so far so good
Yeah, great goal.. but the camera-work is bloody terrible!!! i barely saw it..
I thought RTE were supplying the pictures? They are terrible I agree. Given's save from the free kick was totally missed by the live cameras. How can the cameras miss a free kick from just outside the box????
We are not exactly dominating but there is plenty of space for our good players to play in and I fancy we will go on to win 2-0.
not a good result, hope we do not live to regret those two points we have just squandered
frankly although we were decent I was always worried they would score in the second half.
I would have taken the draw before hand but ......
Tactics were a bit of a disgrace and where was the closing down?
I'm too disappointed to write something constructive. Maybe later.
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Ade
1:1 is OK.
We are still in the driving seat.
Bye bye world cup.
Israel are absolute ****e. Of course the media hype has told everyone that Israel are a good team. They're crap. But then again....so are we.
f**king joke!!!!!! we had all the play and no shots....morrison's goal, cracker...after that no one took a shot.... if israel had scored earlier in the game... we would have come back and won 2-1 or 3-1...ireland best play was the last three minutes after israel had scored....why dont they take shots???? there able
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We weres sitting on the lead, we were unlucky they got a late strike,
going ahead early is a tricky (no pun intended) position.
Sloppy, very sloppy. On tonights evidence, they were not a good side... the Georgians and Albanians caused us more problems away 2 years ago.
A lot of us probably would have taken a draw before hand, but in September we could have put the Swiss out after taking the lead in Basle and tonight we could have put Israel out of the competition.
As it is were still in a decent position, but we could have had a foot in the door to Germany tonight. The only thing to take from tonight is that they are poor and we should beat them at LR in our next proper match.
I dunno why he took Clinton off, if he had to take a striker off it should have been Robbie, who was off form tonight.
That was ****ing disgraceful. Macedonia all over again. Israel were garbage. Period. No arguement.
At half time I asked myself if Kerr, of whom I am a big fan, had the nous to do what was required to bag the 3 points. He didn't.
This was an extremely narrow pitch which meant their 3 at the back was enough to cover all the ground. Our natural width was obsolete on such a tight pitch. Kilbane was an irrelevance in the first half and showed his lack of experience in CM. They also had nothing to think about on the RHM. If Reid had played both Duff & he could have switched & switched and kept them on their gaurd. As it was they said "no threat here, thanks very much Brian".
Morrisson & Keane were anonymous because we couldn't get the ball to them through the middle. Why? Because they had the numerical advantage in CM ALWAYS.
At HT Kerr should have taken Morrison off, brought on either Holland or Kav & brought on Reid. We'd have had 5 vs their 5 in midfield PLUS that attacking threat of an interchangable Reid & Duff. It was obvious there were flaws in our first half performance.
I thought Holland did well when he came on (I didn't see a replay of their goal so I don't know who you'd fault) but didn't he come on at the same time in Macedonia way? Not blaming him, just pointing out an irony.
Carr's absence in Dublin will be a blessing on that performance.
Our set pieces were a disgrace too. Who's to blame for that?
Israel 1, Ireland 1. Grant 0, Kerr -1. Absolutely sh1t result. Gilt edged opportunity to take the lead in this group thrown away. Pressure is on to deliver all the home results now. Lost momentum, seeds of self-doubt as well as 2 pints dropped. ****ing livid.
Out for dinner now with the wife. God help her.
Originally Posted by BobbySands
Hang on, one minute your saying Bye bye world cup and we're crap and then your saying not to lose heart. Did you change your mind within seven minutes?
Last edited by sligoman; 26/03/2005 at 7:49 PM.
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
set fcukin pieces, the one thing you can always pratice in training and we fcuked them all up.
O'Brien got dragged out of position in the build up for the goal and it went tits up from there.
All not lost though, still in our own hands
now ye have it is right.....
To put it simply. We played terrible!
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
waiting for davros to come on and say keane meant to get booked
If the result goes our way in the France match, and at half time it is, we'll have lost nothing and will have gotten past our last tough away match. It's not the massive blow people would have you believe even if that result doesn't go our way. This is still very doable, the hardest fixtures are behind us.
Kerr is too negative, who didn't see the goal coming? Reid should have started and to not play him was daft, when Morrison finally came on bringing on Holland simply invited them onto us even more. They were a poor side we gave too much respect to, we shouldn't have fallen back we should have looked for more espically considering how early we scored, but Kerr is too negative for that, it's very frustrating.
I agree really and was saying the same thing. At home Reid would have started and had we needed to change Morrison, it would not have been Holland coming in. We went into the game with a full back as a winger, and then brought Holland on for Morrison, inviting them on to us. We would simply never have done that at home, that's one of the reasons our home record is so different to our away one, it's in our own attitude to the matches.
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