FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[Baile Brigín 2]

Troy is on loan at Millwall currently and picked up an injury a few weeks ago, not sure when he is expected back. Although still young with limited out and out strikers at Tottenham, I am surprised Jose didnt hold on to him for the season.

Strong rumours that he is, ahem, in with a bad crowd.

[Ed Ricketts]

U21s bate in Italy today. Still in with a great shot at second place and a best placed runner up spot. Could even still sneak top spot if Italy drop the ball against Iceland and Sweden.

Ireland definitely need to win the last two games against Iceland and Luxembourg, though. Iceland have already beaten them in this qualifying campaign, so that one is far from a given. 

[MayoBuck]

Some good play in the first half there but still don't really look like scoring.

[weareros]

Hopefully the tiki-taka can yield a 2nd half goal.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Can't score to save their lives. Awful shite. Finland got spanked 5-1 by poland

[Itchy]

If they'd have made correct pass in a couple of attacks they'd have been 2 up before Finland scored from terrible defensive pass

[Captain Obvious]

Shades of Steve Staunton era this is turning out to be.

[Itchy]

90% of what they are doing is good but snatching at every chance. Shame, should've won that with a goal or two to spare.

[weareros]

Didn't deserve to lose but with Europe  having 13 slots in next World Cup, will take a near miracle to qualify when that competition starts up.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Shades of Steve Staunton era this is turning out to be.

Yep but the lads on the coybig forum can't see it. Everything will be great in 2050 ffs. Kenny is a disaster. The possession football only works if you fecking score

[dublin7]

Shades of Steve Staunton era this is turning out to be.

Yep but the lads on the coybig forum can't see it. Everything will be great in 2050 ffs. Kenny is a disaster. The possession football only works if you fecking score

Who exactly do you think he should pick that will score all these goals? Under Mccarthy Ireland only scored 3 goals against the mighty Gibraltar over 2 games and 1 of them was an OG.

[general_lee]

Only caught the second half, probably unlucky not to score, two very good chances, one a bit of a fluke and the other denied by a match winning save. Conceded a stupid goal from an individual error. A draw would have been a fair result, didn't deserve to lose based on what I saw

[Itchy]

Shades of Steve Staunton era this is turning out to be.

Yep but the lads on the coybig forum can't see it. Everything will be great in 2050 ffs. Kenny is a disaster. The possession football only works if you fecking score

Only few games in, give him a f**king chance for God sake. If you didn't see substantial improvements from his 1st two games then I'm afraid you don't have a clue about the sport.

[shark]

Didn't deserve to lose but with Europe  having 13 slots in next World Cup, will take a near miracle to qualify when that competition starts up.

It's utter madness. 13 out of 32, and 9 or 10 of those will be in the last 16. Europe should have 16-18 of the teams. Not that we'd likely qualify in 2022 anyway. 2026 will have a larger tournament with UEFA allocation going to 16. Which is less than Africa and Asia combined. Mental stuff.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Shades of Steve Staunton era this is turning out to be.

Yep but the lads on the coybig forum can't see it. Everything will be great in 2050 ffs. Kenny is a disaster. The possession football only works if you fecking score

Only few games in, give him a f**king chance for God sake. If you didn't see substantial improvements from his 1st two games then I'm afraid you don't have a clue about the sport.

They are passing more and retaining possession better but they are losing. Unfortunately these are not friendlies, our rankings will fall off a cliff making further qualification even more difficult. These teams he has played are poor it's not like we are playing Spain and Germany. Finland got spanked sure even the dinosaur McCarthy best Bulgaria 3-0