FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[Captain Scarlet]

I think Ferguson showed a lot more battle than other times, in terms of winning tussles, etc.
The lads seemed to have an organised press and also played some nice stuff without having to scream about 'we are trying to play football!!'

They also just got rid when needed. Before the game the back 3 were questioned but at least one of them stepped up and squeezed to allow that press further up.

Szmodics looks good and is a keen runner on and even moreso off the ball. He can take it on the half-turn too. Idah also looks like he is mixing it a bit more physically too.

Didn't know Paddy McCarthy was there too. Like he is a coach with a good Premier League CV too. I'd say they might be hoping things go well same as Gleeson with the women.

[Capt Pat]

Poyet to be the new Ireland manager as Georgia beat Greece on penalties.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Poyet to be the new Ireland manager as Georgia beat Greece on penalties.



Awesome a coach who can't even get Greece to the euros through the back door of dud teams, can't wait. Might as well stick with o'shea

[seafoid]

Poyet to be the new Ireland manager as Georgia beat Greece on penalties.
Awesome a coach who can't even get Greece to the euros through the back door of dud teams, can't wait. Might as well stick with o'shea

We couldn't beat teams at our level under the previous regime. Poyet knows how to do that !
Losing on penalties ONCE doesn't mean the manager is bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZt6-NJYv6U
O'Shea needs more time anyway. He definitely has talent.

[mouview]

Poyet to be the new Ireland manager as Georgia beat Greece on penalties.
Awesome a coach who can't even get Greece to the euros through the back door of dud teams, can't wait. Might as well stick with o'shea

We couldn't beat teams at our level under the previous regime. Poyet knows how to do that !
Losing on penalties ONCE doesn't mean the manager is bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZt6-NJYv6U
O'Shea needs more time anyway. He definitely has talent.

Very little, ochon. Ferguson starting to look more like a kid who had a streaky spell a few months ago than "maybe the best teenager in the world" as one over-excitable commentator described him at the time. Both our vaunted goalies are scarcely world-class either; after that? Very little.

[weareros]

The world class lad opted for the North. Class goal for Conor Bradley against the Scots.

[From the Bunker]

The world class lad opted for the North. Class goal for Conor Bradley against the Scots.

He opted for the North so he could stay in Liverpool's Academy. If he declared for the Republic he'd have to leave under Brexit rules.

[seafoid]

Poyet to be the new Ireland manager as Georgia beat Greece on penalties.
Awesome a coach who can't even get Greece to the euros through the back door of dud teams, can't wait. Might as well stick with o'shea

We couldn't beat teams at our level under the previous regime. Poyet knows how to do that !
Losing on penalties ONCE doesn't mean the manager is bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZt6-NJYv6U
O'Shea needs more time anyway. He definitely has talent.

Very little, ochon. Ferguson starting to look more like a kid who had a streaky spell a few months ago than "maybe the best teenager in the world" as one over-excitable commentator described him at the time. Both our vaunted goalies are scarcely world-class either; after that? Very little.

Not the players, 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjE080TGEEk

But Ferguson will find his mojo again

[weareros]

The world class lad opted for the North. Class goal for Conor Bradley against the Scots.

He opted for the North so he could stay in Liverpool's Academy. If he declared for the Republic he'd have to leave under Brexit rules.

I doubt that Brexit rule would have applied to him, as it didn't to Trent Kone Doherty who is still U.18, from Derry, and has opted for FAIreland.

[maldini]

Bradley had never any interest in switching I heard

[An Watcher]

Let's just say that it wouldn't be looked on too favourably in the small village he was from if he played for the Republic.  At the same time I don't think ireland put up much of a case to try and get him

[marty34]

Let's just say that it wouldn't be looked on too favourably in the small village he was from if he played for the Republic.  At the same time I don't think ireland put up much of a case to try and get him

Is he not from a border village?

[markl121]

Let's just say that it wouldn't be looked on too favourably in the small village he was from if he played for the Republic.  At the same time I don't think ireland put up much of a case to try and get him

and why is that then?

[Captain Obvious]

Greece weren't up to much a poorly managed Irish team made them look better than they were. Great pitch celebration by Georgia after that win.

[Pub Bore]

Let's just say that it wouldn't be looked on too favourably in the small village he was from if he played for the Republic.  At the same time I don't think ireland put up much of a case to try and get him

Is he not from a border village?

I think the family live in Killen.  Not exactly a hotbed of republicanism.  There's loads of villages in border areas that would be staunch unionist.