No guts, no spine, no heart...

[Plastic Paddy]

Discuss.

PP

[Jon'o]

Not so much that over the 10 games, just the last two. and the draw against the swiss and the two against israel have come back to haunt us.

Dont think our formation helped tonight, we seemed to be short in attack with robbie or clint dropping back to pick up the ball and no one overlapping, in defence we were either caught on one side or a man too short.

at the end of the day it isnt just this result that has cost us, we should have made more of our chances instead of sitting on the other draws.

and its too early to call for kerr's head, thats just a quick reaction we need to rebuild and refocus for the euro's

[Closed Account 2]

no hope...


Seriously were in very bad shape, dont think we've looked this bad since pre 1988 days, there is a lack of talent and a lack of direction.

[Dan K]

Not so much that over the 10 games, just the last two. and the draw against the swiss and the two against israel have come back to haunt us.

Dont think our formation helped tonight, we seemed to be short in attack with robbie or clint dropping back to pick up the ball and no one overlapping, in defence we were either caught on one side or a man too short.

at the end of the day it isnt just this result that has cost us, we should have made more of our chances instead of sitting on the other draws.

and its too early to call for kerr's head, thats just a quick reaction we need to rebuild and refocus for the euro's

I'm not calling for Kerr's head, but he needs to buck his ideas up if he can get the FAI to renew his (now expired) contract.

[Éanna]

absolutely dreadful. Much as I dislike Kerr, there's no way he can be blamed for a performance like that- the players had no interest and no heart. Overpaid, overrated big time charlies living off undeserved reputations.

[thejollyrodger]

no world class players more like

[Closed Account 2]

Duff and Given

The Swiss dont have any "world class" players, nor do the Swedes, Poles, Serbs or Croats. The Ukrainians only have 1 or 2 as do the Czechs now, yet all these have made it thru.

[dancinpants]

Duff and Given

The Swiss dont have any "world class" players, nor do the Swedes, Poles, Serbs or Croats. The Ukrainians only have 1 or 2 as do the Czechs now, yet all these have made it thru.

Well hello Mr Larsson!! How are ye?

[Dan K]

Well hello Mr Larsson!! How are ye?

Injured, that's how.

[thejollyrodger]

nah they dont , but but the swiss have players who are technically good. They have proper clubs unlike us.

[junkie]

It's no coincidence lads that the emergence of no guts, no spine or no heart within the Irish team started sometime around early 2003 . There is talent in this Irish team, we are better than tonight and the last few games but we have absolutely no discipline whatsoever. At least with Charlton we hoofed the ball up the pitch properly.

At the end of the day the buck stops with Kerr. One or two inept performances then you could question the players but these poor performances have been going on for the last 2 years!

[dancinpants]

Injured, that's how.

Did he not score tonight?

[Jon'o]

It's no coincidence lads that the emergence of no guts, no spine or no heart within the Irish team started sometime around early 2003 . There is talent in this Irish team, we are better than tonight and the last few games but we have absolutely no discipline whatsoever. At least with Charlton we hoofed the ball up the pitch properly.

At the end of the day the buck stops with Kerr. One or two inept performances then you could question the players but these poor performances have been going on for the last 2 years!

surely hoofing it up the pitch wouldnt do us any better either when the players who are meant to be in attack can win a ball in the air and have to drop into midfield to get the ball

when this group was drawn no one thought that top spot could have been up for grabs as they had the french penciled in, we had a chance but didnt take it, as expected at the start we played for second place, its not as if kerr has lost a load of games, we just cant score more than two goals.

[thejollyrodger]

the swiss spent the money investing in youth. we did the cheap option and didnt get away with it. Ireland has moved on from the "figthing irish" and there isnt the same hunger in the sporting world as their used to be. If this was 10 years ago we would have sunk the swiss with weaker players.

[Dan K]

Did he not score tonight?

I don't know. I thought he was out until the new year after breaking his leg.

Still, I'm not going to let fact get in the way of a good joke.

[brine3]

Make Shay Given captain.

Steven Reid: wave of the future.

[Plastic Paddy]

the swiss spent the money investing in youth

Don't believe it. They have a team full of 2G players - the products of other systems. There's no hiding the fact that - Kevin Doyle or no Kevin Doyle - the Irish domestic set-up is bankrupt, and it really does pain me to say so.

PP

[dancinpants]

I don't know. I thought he was out until the new year after breaking his leg.

Still, I'm not going to let fact get in the way of a good joke.

LMAO

He did score tonight BTW

[boysingreen]

Disgraced. I'll never forget this disappointment. How could we go from feeling we could compete with any team in the world, to this... We beat no one... no one... in this entire campaign...

The only thing to take solace in... is the fact that we couldn't possibly have been further away from deserving a place in Germany.

[CollegeTillIDie]

4th in the group is fairly gank guys to be fair.