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    Quote Originally Posted by DCWA View Post
    Facts and reality mean nothing to me.
    I think a wider application of this approach by the Irish fanbase may well be what has brought us to this point.

    Quote Originally Posted by DCWA View Post
    Anyway the above speculation re the changes is wrong. There will be more changes than that and McClean is starting for one.
    Not exactly blooding new faces with that selection though, is he...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DCWA View Post
    Facts and reality mean nothing to me.

    Anyway the above speculation re the changes is wrong. There will be more changes than that and McClean is starting for one.
    Will be good to see young McClean get a run. I wonder how he’ll adapt to international football.

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    Few people might need to pull up their pants before the tide goes out. Got caught out badly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eirambler View Post
    I think a wider application of this approach by the Irish fanbase may well be what has brought us to this point.



    Not exactly blooding new faces with that selection though, is he...
    Quote Originally Posted by weldoninhio View Post
    Will be good to see young McClean get a run. I wonder how he’ll adapt to international football.
    Hi guys I am not using it to defend Kenny’s selectio jjust pounting out that it looks like there will be more changes than actually speculated he is the only one I know for sure so is the only one I named.

    I agree on the need for more game time for younger/newer faces in this game (and against Norway)

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    Malta 1-0 is to be got at 16/1 for anyone who might be in need of a silver lining contingency plan in the coming hours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke View Post
    Malta 1-0 is to be got at 16/1 for anyone who might be in need of a silver lining contingency plan in the coming hours.
    No one wants Malta to win. We just want Stephen gone

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diggs246 View Post
    No one wants Malta to win. We just want Stephen gone
    Sixteens though Diggsy. Sixteens
    A tempting tickle surely
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    Quote Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke View Post
    Sixteens though Diggsy. Sixteens
    A tempting tickle surely
    No crafty believe it or not my country comes first

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diggs246 View Post
    No crafty believe it or not my country comes first
    Ah yeah, I am just observing that with SKs history of 0-1 horror reverses, the showing v Norway, Malta's draw with Greece and their recent form, that sixteens represents value today.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke View Post
    Sixteens though Diggsy. Sixteens
    A tempting tickle surely
    Never bet against your own team. That's my one rule.

    I don't bet though
    I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
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    Quote Originally Posted by paul_oshea View Post
    Never bet against your own team. That's my one rule.

    I don't bet though
    because you love all the teams?

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    Five changes so - Kelleher, Ogbene, McClean, McGrath and Coleman in; Bazunu, O'Dowda, Obafemi, O'Shea and Molumby out

    No Hendrick, but McGrath the only experiment really. And I thought O'Dowda was one of the few lively players on Thursday tbh

    Could have been worse, could have been better I think.

    Let's see how things go

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    Doesn't exactly scream experiment or blooding new players that XI. Cant understand not starting Smallbone or Ferguson.

    Needs a win I guess
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    Pointless picking that team for a friendly against a part time team. As I said earlier, if he doesn't even feel he has the wiggle room to experiment with a couple of younger players in a fixture like this, he'd be as well being moved on this side of Christmas, rather than delaying the inevitable into next year.

    Could easily believe we'll see him bouncing down the touchline in celebration of a 93rd minute John Egan face saving goal before the night is out.

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    Disappointed Ferguson not starting to help him develop. Probably won’t bother watching it until he comes on. Smallbone hasn’t impressed me in senior football so not too bothered with him not starting. Depressing team. These reported green shoots need to start blooming soon.

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    One outfield player under 25 in that line-up, and Coleman and McClean starting. Against a team ranked 168 in the world. Kenny's obviously terrified of losing this one.

    What exactly is the point in this exercise?

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    There's a whiff of desperation and cluelessness about Kenny's selections now. Is McGrath the missing ingredient that will turn a disappointing Nations League campaign into a successful Euros?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trequartista20 View Post
    One outfield player under 25 in that line-up, and Coleman and McClean starting. Against a team ranked 168 in the world. Kenny's obviously terrified of losing this one.

    What exactly is the point in this exercise?
    he was always starting coleman, dont have an issue with it. maybe lenihan deserved a start in the back 3. smallbone missing out is stupid though, mcgrath is poor imo. we'd learn a lot mroe from smallbone getting a start.

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    Quote Originally Posted by third policeman View Post
    Is McGrath the missing ingredient that will turn a disappointing Nations League campaign into a successful Euros?
    Nope - but I don't think Smallbone or Sykes or Ferguson are either.

    But you think back to the early Mick days when he'd throw in the likes of Savage, Moore, Breen, Duff, O'Neill, Fleming - some would sink and some would swim, but at least they'd be blooded and would be less new if thrown in for a real game.

    Of course, none of those I think were as new as Ferguson or Smallbone. We're in a tricky position where I don't rate the manager, but the squad is just terrible and the players aren't coming through as quickly as we'd have liked (look at Obafemi struggling to reproduce his Jan-May form for example).

    God help us if we don't have any wing-backs in a couple of years though when Coleman/Doherty/McClean/Stevens/Brady are retiring.

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    Kenny talking Malta up
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