Republic of Ireland v Armenia - Tuesday, 14th October 2025 - 2026 World Cup Qualifier

[CraftyToePoke]

A thread about things hanging by a thread, campaign, manager, our sanity. Or has even that ship has sailed ? It probably has with all three of the above on it.

Which Ireland will we get on Tuesday ?
Say the last nights Ireland show up & give Armenia a decent dicking and carry on those levels of performance with say two, three or even four points in the November window, is there a case for HH staying ?

Armenia couldn't do the double over us, could they ?

Were we cursed by being in our adolescence when Ireland were briefly decent and thus forever bound to chasing those highs ?

Does HH want the fcuk away from us & this group of players ASAP either way ?
Could well do.

So many questions. Who'd have thought we'd ever look to fcuking Armenia for the answers but here are, here we go.

Predictions lads, please.

[elatedscum]

I think it’ll be a 3-1 win. Overdue a good result. I’d be worried that the game against Portugal was both physically draining to the extreme and mentally absolutely heartbreaking.

Team selection will be key in terms of keeping a degree of consistency between games but also bringing in fresh legs where needed and picking players who have the ability on the ball to be more expressive than we were against Portugal. In the last window, I think we started 9 of the 10 starters available to play game 2 and I feel that contributed to how lethargic and poor we were in Yerevan.

But I think we also paid for last window’s squad selection. There were plenty on here bemused by the decision to drop Coleman, Ebosele, Molumby from the squad and it meant that when it came to changes we were forced to go to Killian Phillips and Liam Scales to chase the game. The unused subs were the uncapped Josh Honahan, Jonny Kenny and Bosun Lawal, alongside Jimmy Dunne and Matt Doherty along with two keepers, so we just didn’t have a bench that was capable of chasing the game.

When it comes to qualification for a World Cup, we really need to get probably 95% of decisions right as a management team and when that doesn’t happen we drop points. We could easily have won the home game with Hungary after the sending off happened and we threw away a point against Portugal and three against Armenia.

We did a lot right against Portugal but I’d still question the Ferguson selection and the late defensive substitution.