YepOriginally Posted by joey B
But feck it; it's better than the March games anyway.
Though that's not a high bar, and may even lead to O'Shea getting the job permanently, so maybe need to be careful what we wish for here!
Sammie looking lively. Cannon, O'Brien and Johnston maybe the ones you'd most want to see in the second half at some stage?
Everyone came to see Obafemi tonight...
O shea's Deffo getting the job who else ha e the FAI got. Right now they are praying this finishes nil all so they can anoint on shea if the other match isn't an embarrassment. 29000 announced , hmm if 29000 are prepared to show up to watch this dross there is hope for the future when some of the young kids coming through start filtering into this bunch
Even the FAI can't take the 1-1 away ? !
Ha! But Troy Parrott can!
About the only thing to happen in a dire second half it has to be said
Whoops meant 1 all.
That's o shea annointed. Suppose we could do worse , not much but the fai could probably be counted on to deliver
Wow, what an ending to that!!
First half had some decent moments - Idah looked hungry and purposeful, and a thumping header for the goal.
Second half was awful stuff, no craft whatsoever, slow, rudderless, and we were being outmuscled all over the place.
Then, out of nothing, a winner. I think Szmodics would have murdered him if he'd missed after not passing.
What was szomdics doing sprinting level with parrot instead of hanging back a yard and inviting the pass rather then looking offside. Forced Parrot into shooting and nearly making a balls of a 2 on 1 against the keeper
Not a great game that. Couple of positives to take from it but a typical end of season friendly.
O'Shea probably one hand on the permanent gig after it.
I roared at the tv thinking he made a bags of it only to see it hitting the net!
Not sure there’s much to take it barring the feel good factor of winning,Scales looked decent when he came on and Kelleher was assured in everything he did,Coleman very decent aswell,the midfield is still very weak looking and Cullen didn’t fill me with confidence looking forward to some of the games to come…..
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Josh Cullen. Jesus.
Very poor game over all, but it might be enough to get O'Shea the job. He celebrated like he might get it anyway.
The positives:
Kelleher very solid and distribution excellent.
Smallbone, shaky start but looked confident as game went on.
Idah in 1st half was good, added to his goals of late
Jake O'Brien fitted in well after coming on. Calm and composed and passed the ball well.
Winner for Parrott, played well overall and nice to see a winning goal for a change.
The Negatives:
The shape of the team. Persisting with Wingbacks when we dont have any fit for purpose is infuriating.
Making changes at HT. Duffy and Doherty looked miles off it and I was glad to see that they were taken off at HT (positive that changes were made, negative that those 2 started)
Scales looked very shaky when he came on. Gave ball away too sloppily.
Azaz was quite, we didnt really do enough to get him on the ball though.
Obafemi has miles to go to show hes entitled to get on that pitch.
We have the bones of a good team there. When you add Ferguson to those options up front too its a bright future potentially. Setting the team up wrong will be the death of us though if we persist in being ridged with 5 at the back
Last edited by Razors left peg; 04/06/2024 at 9:14 PM.
Its really not that complicated!!!
Kelleher made everything look straightforward, Smallbone can dominate a lot of International teams we'll play if he decides to. O'Brien much better on ball than i expected.
Good summary, yes bones of decent side there but need a better than decent coach to pull it all together, which clearly isnt O'Shea.
Last edited by Exgrad; 05/06/2024 at 7:22 AM.
Me and you could go on and run around, I didnt see anything football related that he did well personally
Its really not that complicated!!!
Yeah, you are right, I didn't see that at the time.
Streakers!
Yeah, he wasn't great alright. Granted he wasn't exactly alone in that; it was that kind of game.
Agree with your summary overall though I didn't think Idah was great, goal aside. (And I know, I know...) Seemed to be on a different wavelength to others when it came to where passes were going a lot of the time, so we lost possession. Don't know if that's something that didn't come through in training or what. Felt he was least involved of the front line.
But the biggest negative for me was the entire second half; it was just ponderous rubbish. That's more than just individual players. And I know it's a June friendly and I know Hungary aren't a bad team so we can't go gung-ho, but we've seen enough of these type of games in the past 5+ years (including March against Belgium and Switzerland) and if it's what O'Shea is going to bring, then we really need to find someone else quickly.
Also thought his celebrations at the end were a bit Stephen Kenny-esque in their exuberance...
Last edited by pineapple stu; 04/06/2024 at 10:21 PM.
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