FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[johnnycool]

And who'll improve that team? Ireland have not got the players to compete

Get Wes out of retirement, Andy O'Brien as well and that'll give us the edge to "unlock" other teams.

Is Stephen Ireland still attending funerals?

[Itchy]

And who'll improve that team? Ireland have not got the players to compete

No doubt quality players are sparse but I couldn't help but think how disorganised we were in defence, how easily we were caught out. Our back 4 are all premier league players and they were terrible last night.

[Applesisapples]

Jesus Christ couldn't do anything with that squad.

[Dire Ear]

Jesus Christ couldn't do anything with that squad.

Allah into Tallaght?

[trailer]

No wonder Rice doesn't want anything to do with them. A shambles Bill.

[lurganblue]

Someone call Lurgan Lenny

[Shamrock Shore]

I think the fact it seemed the team had no Plan A - let along a Plan B - is what's getting collective panties in a ball.

This is the management's fault. I know Coleman is a nice chap and all but he's no Captain Fantastic.

[seafoid]

://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/ireland-are-lacking-on-the-pitch-as-much-as-in-the-dugout-1.3622088

« O'Neill's options are so poor that even his fiercest critics aren't really claiming that he picked the wrong team in Cardiff
....
The game has changed dramatically over the past 30 years and the FAI was asleep at the youth development wheel for most of that time. People could see it coming but it far too long for the association to act. Now that it has, it is playing catch up but lacks the money to provide the required support to the clubs it has charged with implementing the system it has devised »

[From the Bunker]

://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/ireland-are-lacking-on-the-pitch-as-much-as-in-the-dugout-1.3622088

« O'Neill's options are so poor that even his fiercest critics aren't really claiming that he picked the wrong team in Cardiff
....
The game has changed dramatically over the past 30 years and the FAI was asleep at the youth development wheel for most of that time. People could see it coming but it far too long for the association to act. Now that it has, it is playing catch up but lacks the money to provide the required support to the clubs it has charged with implementing the system it has devised »

That and we used to Piggy-back on Englands youth development system. In the past England let us tap into this unchallenged. England are now struggling for players and are not as passive about letting decent players declare for the Republic.

Iceland have been the Market leaders in getting the most out of a Lowly populated and inferior League system. Through coaching and setting up a system to to hide their inadequacies and heighten their few strengths.

But even this seem to have become unstuck with them getting hammered by 6-0 by Switzerland today!

Look when you see High end Soccer countries with incredible resources and culture in Soccer like Italy and the Netherlands struggling, you know even a slight fall in form for us and we are  Banjaxed!

[Itchy]

We complain about the GAA but thet are light years ahead of the clowns running Irish soccer.

[From the Bunker]

We complain about the GAA but thet are light years ahead of the clowns running Irish soccer.

That's what you think!

[Itchy]

We complain about the GAA but thet are light years ahead of the clowns running Irish soccer.

That's what you think!

You think different?

[From the Bunker]

We complain about the GAA but thet are light years ahead of the clowns running Irish soccer.

That's what you think!

You think different?

Yes I do, I think the GAA has been making pot loads of money off of the good will of people for a Century and a quarter. In recent years they have got more caught up with making more and more money. This has gradually been to the detriment of the Game. The have gotten too big for their boots by over developing Dublin GAA - the ultimate Cash Cow.

You have also to remember that the GAA isolated and condemned our soccer brethren until the early 1970's in a harsh and hostile way. Backed by the Clergy and the Parish system they made it impossible for rural areas to play the play the game. They encouraged attitudes that are still prevalent today towards soccer.

So before you get high and mighty about how great an organistion the GAA is look at what it has done for your county. How much it cares about it. And how long this has been going on!

[Bord na Mona man]

We complain about the GAA but thet are light years ahead of the clowns running Irish soccer.

That's what you think!

You think different?

Yes I do, I think the GAA has been making pot loads of money off of the good will of people for a Century and a quarter. In recent years they have got more caught up with making more and more money. This has gradually been to the detriment of the Game. The have gotten too big for their boots by over developing Dublin GAA - the ultimate Cash Cow.

You have also to remember that the GAA isolated and condemned our soccer brethren until the early 1970's in a harsh and hostile way. Backed by the Clergy and the Parish system they made it impossible for rural areas to play the play the game. They encouraged attitudes that are still prevalent today towards soccer.

So before you get high and mighty about how great an organistion the GAA is look at what it has done for your county. How much it cares about it. And how long this has been going on!

So how come Ireland's best players, several of them backboning the best club teams in the world were produced during this supposed era of GAA suppression? And now that the Ban is long gone the Irish system is producing absolute manure?

[Itchy]

We complain about the GAA but thet are light years ahead of the clowns running Irish soccer.

That's what you think!

You think different?

Yes I do, I think the GAA has been making pot loads of money off of the good will of people for a Century and a quarter. In recent years they have got more caught up with making more and more money. This has gradually been to the detriment of the Game. The have gotten too big for their boots by over developing Dublin GAA - the ultimate Cash Cow.

You have also to remember that the GAA isolated and condemned our soccer brethren until the early 1970's in a harsh and hostile way. Backed by the Clergy and the Parish system they made it impossible for rural areas to play the play the game. They encouraged attitudes that are still prevalent today towards soccer.

So before you get high and mighty about how great an organistion the GAA is look at what it has done for your county. How much it cares about it. And how long this has been going on!

You may not think the distribution of gaa monies is fair but at least you can see where it goes. There are no fat cats and corrupt suits pocketing the money. Have you ever met John Delaney,  I have and he's a disgrace of a man to lead any organisation. Look at the league of Ireland, look at your local soccer clubs, most playing in council grounds. They are a totally fucked up organisation. GAA far from perfect but not near that level. As for GAA stopping soccer in rural Ireland, if people wanted it they could've started it, GAA isn't sone bogey man that stopped people's free will. By the way I played both sports at a decent local level , been members and still am member of both organisations.

Oh and when we are on the subject. Which organisation, today, is asking nation wide 14 year olds to sign "contracts" to stop playing GAA, Rugby and best of all soccer with their own clubs and instead join their daft regional teams and compete in a bubble. Could that be considered oppression of other sports as that is widespread, even in your own county. If the GAA did it there would be articles in newspaper every week about it. I have seen so many kids go backwards in soccer because of this it is not funny - all convinced they are the elite and will be the next premier league player. Little do they know its 1 in a million their chance.