QuoteIt was a reckless lunge but never a red, contact was minimal.
Thought the rolling and dive by the Czech player was more deserving of a red.
He managed Blackburn as well .... did a good job thereOriginally Posted by cfdh_edmundo
It was a reckless lunge but never a red, contact was minimal.
Thought the rolling and dive by the Czech player was more deserving of a red.
Reading a lot about the Eircom League and starting from grass roots so the International side can benefit in the long run. Doubtful.
The way I see it, the FAI should set up an academy of football. For the best out there from 8 year old's up.
Provide the best of everything for them. No expenses. And for the older 15-18 year olds, their training should be run in conjunction with the Inter and Leaving cert, so if through injury or whatever they have something to fall back on.
Something along the lines of Ajax in Holland.
If we got 2 players a year who made it in Premiership or elsewhere we'd have a great squad in 10 years.
Lets look through our qualifying campaign
Germany 1-0 Ireland : Gave an ok account of ourselves but if we were still there till now we wouldnt have scored. Stan getting sent off for acting like a child
Cyrus 5-2 Ireland : Shaeful night where we were the laughing stock of Europe/ Should have been a sackable offence.
Ireland 1-1 Czech Rep :Only game where we showed some heart, but as usual we were happy with the draw where we should have been very angry at throwing away 2 points from a very winnable game
Ireland 5-0 San Marino : The least you would expect, not much to add
San Marino 1-2 Ireland : Yeat another shameful night and yet another night where we were the laughing stock of Europe.
Ireland 1-0 Wales : Another awful performance from a game so devoid of any footballing skill. The only positive was we sligthly less bad than Wales
Ireland 1-0 Slovakia : Hardly inspiring stuff, scored with one opf our few chances and Slovakia could easily have snuck a draw
Slovakia 2-2- Ireland : A game that Slovakia could easily have won, we showed our age old quality of playing like school kids once we took the lead. Their 5-2 defeat by Wales 4 days later showed their footballing levels.
Czech rep 1-0 Ireland: Similiar to the Germany game at the start of the campaign. Few postives and a hell of a lot of negatives
Now can anyone tell me where the positives from that group are. We are out of the group with three, yes THREE games to go. And you can mark my words we will never get an easier group than what we have. look through the other groups and we easily have the the simplest one. We have been a shambles and there is no ****ing way the management team can stay on after this. he should be sacked but due to the FAI's sheer stupidity of awarding him a 4 year contract Stan will not walk and lose out on some 1 million euro. Stans talk last night of building for the World Cup in 2010 was 100% accurate. And the first step to doing that is handing him his p45 as soon as possible and getting a new manager in for the meaningless last three games of this campaign. Thanks a million Stan for making me ashamed for probably the first time ever to call myself an Irish fan. I hope John Delaney with his stupid suits and poxy hair cut is feeling truely ashamed of himself today. Its only because of Daddy that he got the job anyhow. He is a vulture on Irish football and things will only change when he is held accountable for hiring a reserve team coacjh from Wallsall, somehow think that he is worth 400,000 a year, and somehow think that he merits a 4 year contract. the anger i have inside me wrting this is almost undescribable
I really wish McGeady had choosen the country of his birth to represent instead of us. Nowhere near an international standard player. the fact he plays for a team that the irish love in a terrible league should have nothing to do with it
Look at the Czech team last night. Cech plays for Chelsea, one of the best teams in Europe, Jankulowski plays for AC Milan, Baros plays for Lyon, wonderful teams. Our lot play for the likes of Sunderland, Manchester City, Blackburn, reserve teams, and such like. How does that make them fit to play international football??The selection policy is a joke, where only players playing in England+Celtic are eligible to play.
Only England and Italy can afford to play teams made up solely from the one league, and be competitive. This policy and bad coaches have got us to 1 tournament from the last 7 available. You pick the best team available. Half the Rovers team could make the Irish team. They may be part timers, but they have the attitude, the desire, the skill, and commitment required to play International football. Fuc this no players whinge. We do have them, so go out and look for them, and play them. Look at the LOI-based players. They can't be much worse, than the bunch of jokers masquerading as an international team out there at the moment.
But what D&S will say is that last night was our first defeat in 9 games. Which will mean nothing next summer, when we're watching the tournament on the tele.....again!!!
Or as Brady calls him... Mageddy.
silly tackle but did anyone see last night, when the czechs took the free after Hunt was sent off Andy reid done a terrible tackle from behind on the czechs player that received the ball from the free. idf the ref was sticking to the rules of the game he should have gone too
I think you meant ' no expense spared ' ??
Why do we always qualify for tournaments half way around the world.
USA 94-Qualified
Japan / Korea-Qualified
We dont qualify for UK / Euro based competitions??
I heard South Africa is lovely... cant wait.
http://www.ireland.com/sports/soccer...076275910.html
Read this and weep, weep for the future of Irish football because after the shambles and sheer ineptidude of this campaign so far, to read this crap is so utterly depressing that I for one am seriously thinking about packing it all in. I love Ireland and enjoy going to games especially away games but I can't believe what I've just read here from the FAI. F*****g unbelieveable and who the F**K is this ******* BLOOD? Like Carlos I'm livid that this fiasco is going to carry on into the WC Qualifiers, it's madness, sheer madness. I was in San Marino when we got that lucky win, that night crap refereeing saved our bacon by not blowing up on time and it was SM who were robbed! That's the night Stan should have gone because I have never witnessed such a shambles as I did that night and Delaney and his gesture to the fans at the end who were rightly disgusted at what had happened should have been sacked then as well. Now we know nothing is going to change it's just even more deppressing! Where's those pills?
Think owlsfan is trying to make the point that if our expectations are always too high then we will forever be moving from one knee jerk reaction to another. We are a minor footballing nation in the grand scheme of things and qualification isnt a given no matter how good a crop of players we have. however where he loses me is in the thinking that we shouldnt try put everything in place to at least give ourselves the best possible chance of qualifying. We arent doing this by not having an experienced coach who knows his stuff.
theres not a chance of either of those parasites(delany and stan)stepping down. stan will go back "home" to blighty and not have to listen to the media over here and delany has a neck like a jockeys bo11ox so it obviousy doesnt bother him.
if stan ever gave a damn about irish football he'd do the decent thing and stand down altough i doubt he will.... remember siapan when he hid behind mccarhtys apron , the guttless clown, just so he would get the armband for the tournament, he's an easy option for the fai, a gormless yes man, who is incapable of independant thought or reason
If Ireland had lost the drawn game against Switzerland last year, Staunton wond have been sacked, as would have Delaney. But what happened 2 weeks after that, Delaney gave himself a new 6 year contract and Stan got a 4 year one shortly after. So if these muppets have to be removed it will cost the FAI an arm and a leg. Neither has the decency to stand down. In hindsight, I now wish we had lost that game. Never thought I'd say thalt about a team I've followed throughout Europe for over 30 years
Always look on the bright side of life
The damage was done on Saturday. Yesterday was merely a formality.
I think I should the parachute, because I'm great.
In fact, I think I should get both parachutes, in case one doesn't work.
And what did he do wrong last night?
Germany are going to wallop us.
I think I should the parachute, because I'm great.
In fact, I think I should get both parachutes, in case one doesn't work.
His positioning for the goal - if he held his line then the Czech player would have ran into the space he was supposed to be occupying. Instead he just drifted towards the ball. He was dreadful all round. Scared of the ball and scared of putting his foot in.And what did he do wrong last night?
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
O'Shea had a good game last night and was our best player for the first 30 minutes. He made 4-5 vital interceptions. Okay he wasn't great for the goal, he lost his man, but Dunne, Kilbane and McGeady were equally at fault. Also, it was brilliant play by the Czechs and sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and say fair f**ks to them.
As for Robbie Keane. Why do people insist on having a go at him? "Shouldn't play for Ireland again"?!? He is our record scorer, by a long, long way, he works his socks off and he has genuine quality (see the first goal v Slovakia). Having a pop at him last night is a joke, he got no service. It'd be like having a go at Paul Robinson for not making enough saves v Israel. Doyle and McShane missed sitters last night but they, being crowd favourites, are exempt from criticism from the bandwagon brigade that just want to have a pop at the usual scapegoats.
I think the goal last night could have been prevented long before KK McG & Dunne even seen the ball, the ball should have been sent with Baros into the stand by Kelly instead he stood off let him check play a 1 - 2 and move the ball across the box. IMO.
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