Quotei dont know if its the manager or just Ireland. We dont have the players. France have the better 11 than us
That too. 'Cept we don't have no alternatives, unless you want to see the likes of David Connolly making a reappearance...Originally Posted by dancinpants
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i dont know if its the manager or just Ireland. We dont have the players. France have the better 11 than us
Switzerland still have to play both france and us!!! there is still hope lets focus on winning the next two games before asking who should be hired and fired!!
In any case who the hell would you seeing replacing Kerr? and manage to get us further? its not the manager its the group we're in, had france not been in it we would'nt have this problem
We're basically sean bhean bhocht... lying 4th 3 points behind , Israel, Switzerland, France. Basically you need the Onion eaters, the Triangular chocolate makers and the Kosher boys to all screw up before we can win the group... that ain't gonna happen.
Need France to beat Switzerland... Ireland to win both remaining games.. and keep saying Novenas just to make a play-off which we would probably lose anyway
Can We use most of the Cork City boys over in Cyprus instead of the national team?
After all almost half of them are bloody suspended for that game.
Someone who has experoence of managing Premiership players. God bless Brian Kerr, but he hasn't the right experience to coax the performances out of the over-preened ponces we have that pass for a team. At least David O'Leary has an ego to match the best of them - why not give him his head? He might be ready to accommodate us now, after all...
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How about Ireland v England in the play-offs?
How so? It isn't just France that we can't beat!!!its not the manager its the group we're in, had france not been in it we would'nt have this problem
I have never forgiven O'Leary for gifting Poland two goals in that 3-3 draw which cost us Euro 92. He would only screw up the Irish gig too like he did at Leeds.....Someone who has experoence of managing Premiership players. God bless Brian Kerr, but he hasn't the right experience to coax the performances out of the over-preened ponces we have that pass for a team. At least David O'Leary has an ego to match the best of them - why not give him his head? He might be ready to accommodate us now, after all...
for what its worth the teams we are likely to play should we make the playoffs are looking like:-
Turkey
Slovakia/Russia
Norway/Slovenia/Scotland
England/Poland
Serbia
But I think we will need a lot of luck to get that.
lets keep our heads and keep the talk of firings to a minimum. We need to win the last two games, Cyprus is a potential banna skin, just ask Croatia who drew 1 - 1 away to Malta
Ireland V England in the play-offs... The visiting hooligans would help the IRFU demolish the old ground before the new Lansdowne Road emerges from the ashes...
who else is there to have as manager??? are we going to sack Kerr and have another manager to take over the last two games with the possibility of getting through?? (sounds like euro 2004 anyone?)
Thought we were talking about the france match? FK england!!!
Ok whose going to start the ball rolling..?
The players who went on the **** last Friday are to blame...
Coming soon the Roy Keane six part Sunday Newspaper exposé
I do think Kerr should be sacked,be it now or after the two games remaining,irregardless of whether he gets us to the finals or not,He has constantly shown his ineptitude as a manager and tonight was no exception
I don't think we should be so negative.
If we win our two games, barring an abhorration by the French, we will be in the play-offs.
From there, we are as good as any team likely to be in it and we can be on the road to Germany once again.
Ade
3 losses in 31 games???? i keep asking but who could replace him and do better?
Here it is....
France ? Well we all knew they would win the group.
Israel ? I hate the country and everything it stands for but you have to admire the team. Still in the mix but probably won't get there even though they arguably deserve a shout (think of us in the Charlton days.)
The Swiss ? Not that good but grind out what they have to.
Us (as in Ireland, not USA) We should've closed off this group when we had the chance. As it is we could possibly struggle to a play off place. We do have a decent team. Given, Duff, Roy Keane are top drawer. A. Reid, Carr and even Dunne are not far behind. I've been one of those who has been annoyed at club managers not showing our strikers the respect they deserve but I'm beginning to thing that maybe the two boys have been rumbled. It's just possible these managers know something.
Brian Kerr ? I like him. Give him another chance. I feel he's the kind of bloke who'd admit when he feels he's out of his depth. I certainly don't want a Brian Robson type there. Obviously the head of the FAI thinks differently. If they're not watched we could have the likes of Terry Butcher managing the team.
Anyway, I'm f'ing depressed. Hope youi're all feeling better.
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