FAI...New Manager Hunt continues

[laoislad]

Good man Kevin Doyle that was an excellent strike for the winner.
Keane was off to celebrate after scoring the peno instead of taking the ball out of the back of the net the muppet.
3 points is 3 points.
I like Brazil it's nice and hot I hope to go.

[Shamrock Shore]

Manuela may struggle to translate "poxed lucky" into Italian for Trap!

[Celt_Man]

There'll be a row in the studio yet!!

[Captain Obvious]

According to Trapattoni only the result is important.

[GalwayBayBoy]

According to Trapattoni only the result is important.

Well he is Italian.

[laoislad]

According to Trapattoni only the result is important.

He's right.

[mylestheslasher]

According to Trapattoni only the result is important.

He's right.

No he isn't. The performance is important in it shows we have not developed our game one iota. The team selection was a total joke and no amount of bullshitting about the flukey win will mask that.

[Geoff Tipps]

According to Trapattoni only the result is important.

He's right.

No he isn't. The performance is important in it shows we have not developed our game one iota. The team selection was a total joke and no amount of bullshitting about the flukey win will mask that.

Agree with that. Absolutely dreadful.

[laoislad]

According to Trapattoni only the result is important.

He's right.

No he isn't. The performance is important in it shows we have not developed our game one iota. The team selection was a total joke and no amount of bullshitting about the flukey win will mask that.

Yes he is right.
If that was Man U tonight they would have been praised for how they never stop fighting till the end and never give up till the full time whistle blows.

Yeah he made mistakes but we still won and that's all that matters, at least he can fix the mistakes now with 3 points still in the bag.
Some lads would prefer if we played out of our skins an ended up losing so they could crow about what a great moral victory it was.
Load of shite.
As I said if that was Fergie tonight he would be a genius for pulling the game out of the fire.
Trap made the subs that changed the game in the end.

Brutal preformance but 3 points won and nothing else matters.

[Capt Pat]

The result was beautiful if not the performance.  They have beaten Serbia and Belgium in competitive games so we avoided a potential banana skin. The Khazaks might even draw with the Swedes to help us out.

Kevin Doyle is still giving his all for the team so things can't be all that rotten.

[From the Bunker]

Have to agree with LL. Result is all that matters (for the moment). We needed that and the way we got the result will lift moral. Remember the days of going to these countries and beating them for six are gone. Job done in a country the far side of Europe on a plastic pitch.

[Onlooker]

Let us be honest.  That was an embarassing performance.  That team are going from bad to worse.

[From the Bunker]

I suppose if you are trying to change a team, you have to do it incremently. Two maybe three changes initially and then one every couple of games. Consistency is the key, Wholesale changes are a no-no. So Trap  today introduced Westwood; O'Dea and McCarthy. The Irish public are not happy with Trap. And unless we change our style of play, he is in for a tough two years.

[thewobbler]

Can't understand this criticism of Ireland tonight. I'd go so far as to suggest that the detractors have a tenuous grip on the reality of Irish soccer at present.

Here's a few things that actually are facts:

- Apart from a couple of seasons under McCarthy (another manager reviled by many), Ireland have never played attractive football since qualifying their first major tournament. If you remember different, you probably remember your childhood days as always sunny.

- In terms of playing personnel, you would have to go back to the 1950s to find fewer Irish options playing regular top flight football in England. By virtue, this is the weakest squad Ireland has had in the modern era.

- In terms of individual talent, there is not one player available to Ireland who would have a market value of €10m. Or to put it another way, there is no single top class individual talent available. This is probably the first time this has happened since before Johnny Giles.

- Despite all this, Ireland managed to qualify for a major tournament just last summer, and have also gotten off to a winning start against opponents who were not so much weak, as completely unknown.

- No team in the history of football has ever had success playing four wingers.


Here's some conjecture:

- Trap's team is boring and is underachieving.

[trileacman]

Can't understand this criticism of Ireland tonight. I'd go so far as to suggest that the detractors have a tenuous grip on the reality of Irish soccer at present.

Here's a few things that actually are facts:

- Apart from a couple of seasons under McCarthy (another manager reviled by many), Ireland have never played attractive football since qualifying their first major tournament. If you remember different, you probably remember your childhood days as always sunny.

- In terms of playing personnel, you would have to go back to the 1950s to find fewer Irish options playing regular top flight football in England. By virtue, this is the weakest squad Ireland has had in the modern era.

- In terms of individual talent, there is not one player available to Ireland who would have a market value of €10m. Or to put it another way, there is no single top class individual talent available. This is probably the first time this has happened since before Johnny Giles.

- Despite all this, Ireland managed to qualify for a major tournament just last summer, and have also gotten off to a winning start against opponents who were not so much weak, as completely unknown.

- No team in the history of football has ever had success playing four wingers.


Here's some conjecture:

- Trap's team is boring and is underachieving.

Exactly, everyone bitches about Irish soccer, wtf do you expect? Of the teams that finish in the top five places in the top 5 leagues in the world, how many Irish players will be on the squad?