FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[bennydorano]

Jesus, some crowd of Poles @ game, home team outnumbered?

[GalwayBayBoy]

Jesus, some crowd of Poles @ game, home team outnumbered?

#FlagWatch update: Limerick, Killarney and Galway all spotted on Polish flags. Out numbering Irish fans 5-1 I reckon. Embarrassing.

[laoislad]

Jesus, some crowd of Poles @ game, home team outnumbered?

#FlagWatch update: Limerick, Killarney and Galway all spotted on Polish flags. Out numbering Irish fans 5-1 I reckon. Embarrassing.

Well the players aren't embarrassing themselves anyway and that's all matters.
The ole ole brigade will be back again when/if results improve.

[spuds]

Tardelli celebrated the Hoolahan goal as if he had just scored in the World Cup final himself again. Trapp had the look of someone who was just told that Hoolahan had fingered his mam.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Great cameo from Hoolahan. He's 30 now but you hope he has a few years left if he's selected for upcoming games. Criminal how underutilised he's been by Ireland considering he's one of the few players who can move, control and pass the ball like a professional footballer should be able to.

[rodney trotter]

Great cameo from Hoolahan. He's 30 now but you hope he has a few years left if he's selected for upcoming games. Criminal how underutilised he's been by Ireland considering he's one of the few players who can move, control and pass the ball like a professional footballer should be able to.

+1

Very talented player, making up for lost time now.

[Main Street]

Hoolahan was very good, essential to making our team function.

But, I never thought I would utter the words , Green was excellent (by our standards of excellence) out there, he got in their noses, stuck like glue to them, defended well and tried at every opportunity to get the ball moving forward on the ground.
Poland were poor,  Lewandonskey, a poser and a diver.

[magpie seanie]

Didn't see a lot but when Hoolahan came on watched it all. Trapp's reaction when he scored said it all - he doesn't want him.

Thought Sammon was game but hisd first touch is awful (second touch is usually a tackle). Way off the required standard.

The spirit among the players looks good though. Encouraging each other and worked hard for the team. Really think if Trapp cops on and picks the right players we could be decent. Hoolahan has to be central to it in my book. He can take a pass in a tight area and find an Irish player which means we don't have to hoof it down the channels all the time.

[Declan]

Some amount of Polish people at the match last night - How some of them managed to navigate their way through to their seats I don't know because I've never seen as many drunk people at a sporting occasion in my life and that includes away trips with us.

Anyway -first half confirmed everything for me that we have no plan/clue in how to play the game bar hoof it up to the big man and try and pick up a few pieces of that. Play for a free kick or a corner etc and maybe grab a goal that way. 
Very frustrating and annoying to watch - Poland didn't get out of second gear and really should have been two or three up before we got the goal - nice finish from Clarke.

Second half was better  but only slightly and factored into that is the amount of changes they made and the fact that they were patently uninterested.

Positives - Clarke looks like he could be a decent player, Holohan confirmed is current good form and our team spirit and work ethic are excellent.
Downsides - Trap's myopia, and too many sub standard players ( Forde, Sammon, McShane, Cunningham, McClean - who did get a bit better aas the game went on-)

Anyway I can't see us getting a result in Sweden but you never know

[ballinaman]

Some amount of Polish people at the match last night - How some of them managed to navigate their way through to their seats I don't know because I've never seen as many drunk people at a sporting occasion in my life and that includes away trips with us.

Anyway -first half confirmed everything for me that we have no plan/clue in how to play the game bar hoof it up to the big man and try and pick up a few pieces of that. Play for a free kick or a corner etc and maybe grab a goal that way. 
Very frustrating and annoying to watch - Poland didn't get out of second gear and really should have been two or three up before we got the goal - nice finish from Clarke.

Second half was better  but only slightly and factored into that is the amount of changes they made and the fact that they were patently uninterested.

Positives - Clarke looks like he could be a decent player, Holohan confirmed is current good form and our team spirit and work ethic are excellent.
Downsides - Trap's myopia, and too many sub standard players ( Forde, Sammon, McShane, Cunningham, McClean - who did get a bit better aas the game went on-)

Anyway I can't see us getting a result in Sweden but you never know

Agree with all of this. Was over myself at it.

Can't see how we've learned much for the Sweden game. Trap won't play Hoolohan as an attacking midfielder or as a 10 so our attacking options and ball retention will still be poor.

Disappointed with McLean, never looks in control of the ball when he has it at his feet. McShane, well what can you say really that hasn't been said before. Trap still bringing on Cox for wingers too FFS.

Long's form has really dipped too.

[rodney trotter]

Stephen Kelly lets rip at Trap

http://www.joe.ie/football/football-news/stephen-kelly-shocked-and-disgusted-at-traps-hurtful-and-untrue-comments-0033876-1

[red hander]

Some amount of Polish people at the match last night - How some of them managed to navigate their way through to their seats I don't know because I've never seen as many drunk people at a sporting occasion in my life and that includes away trips with us.

Anyway -first half confirmed everything for me that we have no plan/clue in how to play the game bar hoof it up to the big man and try and pick up a few pieces of that. Play for a free kick or a corner etc and maybe grab a goal that way. 
Very frustrating and annoying to watch - Poland didn't get out of second gear and really should have been two or three up before we got the goal - nice finish from Clarke.

Second half was better  but only slightly and factored into that is the amount of changes they made and the fact that they were patently uninterested.

Positives - Clarke looks like he could be a decent player, Holohan confirmed is current good form and our team spirit and work ethic are excellent.
Downsides - Trap's myopia, and too many sub standard players ( Forde, Sammon, McShane, Cunningham, McClean - who did get a bit better aas the game went on-)

Anyway I can't see us getting a result in Sweden but you never know

Agree with all of this. Was over myself at it.

Can't see how we've learned much for the Sweden game. Trap won't play Hoolohan as an attacking midfielder or as a 10 so our attacking options and ball retention will still be poor.

Disappointed with McLean, never looks in control of the ball when he has it at his feet. McShane, well what can you say really that hasn't been said before. Trap still bringing on Cox for wingers too FFS.

Long's form has really dipped too.

Indeed, some crowd of Poles there, lots of families, too, which was nice to see. I'm heading to Sweden and I'd be delighted with a draw, but I'd be fearful facing Ibrahimavic, he could destroy that defence

[Declan]

That's powerful stuff from Kelly. Trap has definitely "lost" the dressing room

[rodney trotter]

That's powerful stuff from Kelly. Trap has definitely "lost" the dressing room

Indeed, hard to know was Darren Gibson really carrying an injury when he refused the call up. Must be around 8 or 9 players he has had disputes with at this stage.

[Main Street]

That's powerful stuff from Kelly. Trap has definitely "lost" the dressing room

Lost the dressing room??
He's lost Kelly. And he's lost (some) face by making it public.
But he's intolerant of slackers and I have to agree, he wants players who will bleed for the right to wear the shirt.
No club manager would tolerate such behaviour from their players like we have seen from Kelly and Gibson.
But when it comes to international football, some players think they are doing us a favour by turning up. Some think they have an entitlement to play.
And for sure those two players would not even dare to try and pull the stunts they have pulled, with their own clubs, under the exact same circumstances.
The manager is supposed to go and beg them to turn up, not just once but again and again
and then he is criticised for not succeeding with convincing them or losing his rag on occasion when he's asked about the shirkers