player preparation

[zinedineontour]

Taxi driver that just dropped me home said he picked up Robbie Keane and Ian harte at 5am fri morning and brought them to Robbies apartment in Citywest. They said there was no curfew in force that night so guess they fely they were doing no wrong.

ah sure a taximan would never lie !! friday morning ? sure whats wrong with that did the team not assemble till friday ?

[Cowboy]

ah sure a taximan would never lie !!

a valid point but he was not saying it in bad way so he seemed credible, said Harte wanted to get some food rather than drink more. Is it true a female passenger went to the papers next day?

[loscherland]

The taxi man doesn't have a clue - It wasn't Ian Harte that was with Robbie...

[Cowboy]

then who was it and how do you know this?

[wallis]

then who was it and how do you know this?

Who cares ? just the media trying to find another way of trying to destroy team morale so that they can give it the big 'I told you so' if it goes wrong.

Journos - scum of the earth. The same ones who were running the team down during McCarthys world cup campaign and sharpening the knives when we were 1-0 down to Cameroon were first on the bandwagon at the final whistle going on about the 'spirit and togetherness of the irish'. Makes you sick.

No doubt the same thing is coming this week - I havent read a positive report yet about Wednesday or anyone daring to suggest we can win it.

[zinedineontour]

ah at the end of the day who gives a toss ... it was friday ffs ... let the lads let their hair down and enjoy themselves .. their young lads ... they have enough time to get themselves ready and brian aint the kind of manager to let the lads out and get ****ed all the time ... some people are just looking for a story thats not there ...

[drummerboy]

Normally on an international weekend Ireland would have played on Saturday. If we had played you would expect the players to be out on the town on Saturday night. Lots of time left to prepare for Wednesday's game. You have to remember this IOS rag is English-owned, and hense its main concern is to stir up some controversy, with a pic of Robbie Keane on its front page when thousands of people have lost their lives in the US. Says it all really.

[Cowboy]

ah at the end of the day who gives a toss ... it was friday ffs ... let the lads let their hair down and enjoy themselves .. their young lads ... they have enough time to get themselves ready and brian aint the kind of manager to let the lads out and get ****ed all the time ... some people are just looking for a story thats not there ...

well said Sir