I'm not taking delight at all and never do but I never understood how people saw things that weren't there to see and I genuinely want/wanted to understand that.
slovakia was actually good compared to this though. we had 2 sitters and should/could have won that game. tonight was hopeless stuff on the pitch and on the line from 20 min markOriginally Posted by paul_oshea
I'm not taking delight at all and never do but I never understood how people saw things that weren't there to see and I genuinely want/wanted to understand that.
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
Basically the period when the subs came on, further questioning why they weren’t on at halftime.
If we play the same front 3 as we did versus Scotland I will seriously question Kenny’s mental sanity because at this point it should only take common sense to see that changes are desperately needed.
And that was when we had moderately close to first team out, whereas now conveniently just like previous poor windows we’ve had a suspiciously high number of injury pull outs…if I was a cynic I’d be saying are these players getting “injuries” to get out of Ireland camp without outright refusing? I’m noticing a pattern…
Collins in front of two Centre halves could very well work.
We need 3 in Centre midfield for sure.
Hendrick is a good player but needs more solid player beside him I think.
Cullen is solid but they both are swamped in midfield.
I would consider maybe a 4-3-2-1 formation to tweak this team.
We do some things well but ultimately it’s not working.
Perhaps Barry’s absence is the reason we are falling flat
Folding my way into the big money!!!
Well said. I have turned the corner completely. The little bit of hope i had that we had finally turned the corner has been ripped to pieces since Saturday.
His interview was a disaster too. Before and after the game he was asked a fairly easy question during each interview and could barely answer (pre game: what do you think we need to do better compared to Armenia? He got spooked, rambled for 2 minutes, and ended up saying nothing and not answering the question // post game: do you think our players were less fit than Ukraine? He asked what is the question, got spooked, then got defensive and rambled). Not sure its the signs of a man under pressure as he has never been good in front of a camera but it doesnt help and you'd think that it might damage his credibility with the players.
only bazunu is missing? the rest are long term injuries??
Except how many windows is that now? It’s okay if it’s one window or two but it’s got to the point where we are probably one or two injuries away from this being Ireland B…and not for the first time.
Was surprised anyone thought we’d win easy tonight after watching us on Saturday,even Ukraine’s reserves are better players than us and you can see that in how they pass the ball and move,I thought we noticeably went long quite a lot for the first 70 odd minutes but then it was just praying Duffy would get his head on a cross,there was zero patterns of play for the most part and it feels like the end is near for SK now,I really hoped it would work out for him but that hope is gone for me now……
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
I didnt listen to his interview, I had to turn it off on final whistle. Hes never been great in front of the cameras, but he did get the respect of the players. That was obvious from the beginning so I couldnt really care less how he looked with the media. Today didnt look like he lost the player or anything like that, we just looked completely disorganized and players not in right positions
Who are we talking about? The two lads at Norwich haven't played in a long time. Doherty has only missed this window. Coleman and Bazunu have been injured in recent days. Who's left?
You can't spell failure without FAI
Connolly another one.
Another thing, the so called leaders need to be told to …you know…lead for be shown the door. Kenny got a lot wrong tonight but for the Irish defence to let that ball bounce with their experience is unforgivable, you know they would never do it for their clubs…
I thought he was just dropped, to be honest. He had a rubbish loan spell by all accounts.
You can't spell failure without FAI
Kenny should be dismissed with immediate effect but that's gonna be a riot. His fate is after these two more games, he just can't turn the corner.
Connolly's dropped, not injured
We've lots of problems, but lads withdrawing with fake injuries isn't one of them
But I also find these injuries also coincide with the players not really lifting a finger when they do show up, I mean the Ukraine goal tonight is case and point.
This isnt an Ireland B due to injuries. Yes there are some important players out. Matt Doherty chief amongst them. Hes been Irelands best player under Kenny and its curious how little talk there was in any analysis before these games about him being missed. He is huge for us. I do think there are other players that make a difference. Idah for example I think is excellent, and was just getting into good premiership form when his injury hit. All that said though, you have to play the cards that you have properly and in both of these games we havent done that. Thats on the manager, not missing players
The problem isn't the defence. We'll always concede goals - everyone does - and we're not conceding too many. You can nearly always complain about the specifics of any given goal. It's just that we can't score, at all. Robinson's two-games mirabilis aside, we're depending on headers from set pieces, and desperately little else.
You can't spell failure without FAI
That's really clutching at straws tbh
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