FAI...Spring friendlies for Interim Manager - Belgium/Swiss

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thewobbler

Shane Long has become a really useful player.

mylestheslasher

Quote from: Shamrock Shore on June 04, 2011, 09:51:52 PM
If Microdisney were any use they'd be at least level. Ireland switched off in second half.
I thought we look pretty untested in the 2nd half

laoislad

Fair play to Robbie Keane,he has his critics and begrudgers but its hard to slate a man who has scored 51 International goals.
Credit where credit is due.
When you think you're fucked you're only about 40% fucked.

J OGorman

Quote from: Blowitupref on June 04, 2011, 09:30:43 PM
Quote from: muppet on June 04, 2011, 09:25:47 PM
Given: Even injured he is better than Hart
Kelly: Quiet
O'Dea: O'Dea oh dear.
O'Shea: Poor
Kilbane: Great servant, crap left back.
Hunt: Usual mix of skill effort and psychosis. Their left back is playing well though.
Whelan: Might as well be Ronnie.
Andrews: Took a bang on the head but it didn't work.
McGeady: Usual mix of pointless dribbles.
Cox: Should have had a goal and got a yellow card. Sums it up.
Keane: Still knows how to score thankfully.

Trapp: A genius to get us remotely competitive.
+1

A defeat would have been the icing on the cake for you pair

Make shift central defence, no Dunne, Doyle or Duff. A 2 nil away from home..massive result. Were always gonna drop deep with 2 up in the 2nd half. Not the greatest bunch of players, but players with big hearts which is slowly becoming a rare comodity in the lesser payed Int soccer

Shortso79

Just a wee note... re second place


Ranking of second-placed teams

Because some groups contain six teams and some five, matches against the sixth-placed team in each group are not included in this ranking. As a result, eight matches played by each team will count for the purposes of the second-placed table

Tiebreakers

The following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.

Higher number of points obtained in these matches
Superior goal difference from these matches
Higher number of goals scored in these matches
Higher number of away goals scored in these matches
Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system
Fair play ranking in these matches
Drawing of lots

muppet

Quote from: J OGorman on June 04, 2011, 10:27:33 PM
Quote from: Blowitupref on June 04, 2011, 09:30:43 PM
Quote from: muppet on June 04, 2011, 09:25:47 PM
Given: Even injured he is better than Hart
Kelly: Quiet
O'Dea: O'Dea oh dear.
O'Shea: Poor
Kilbane: Great servant, crap left back.
Hunt: Usual mix of skill effort and psychosis. Their left back is playing well though.
Whelan: Might as well be Ronnie.
Andrews: Took a bang on the head but it didn't work.
McGeady: Usual mix of pointless dribbles.
Cox: Should have had a goal and got a yellow card. Sums it up.
Keane: Still knows how to score thankfully.

Trapp: A genius to get us remotely competitive.
+1

A defeat would have been the icing on the cake for you pair

Make shift central defence, no Dunne, Doyle or Duff. A 2 nil away from home..massive result. Were always gonna drop deep with 2 up in the 2nd half. Not the greatest bunch of players, but players with big hearts which is slowly becoming a rare comodity in the lesser payed Int soccer

This is a football competition not a big heart competition. We are not very good at football theses days sadly.

We are crap but we are less crap than Macedonia.
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thewobbler

That was a superb win tonight. Anyone pondering quality at this moment should be hanged for treason. Well done Ireland, and special mention for the greatest attacking player this country has ever produced. I doubt anyone on this forum will live long enough to see his goalscoring record eclipsed.

J OGorman

Quote from: muppet on June 04, 2011, 10:33:10 PM
Quote from: J OGorman on June 04, 2011, 10:27:33 PM
Quote from: Blowitupref on June 04, 2011, 09:30:43 PM
Quote from: muppet on June 04, 2011, 09:25:47 PM
Given: Even injured he is better than Hart
Kelly: Quiet
O'Dea: O'Dea oh dear.
O'Shea: Poor
Kilbane: Great servant, crap left back.
Hunt: Usual mix of skill effort and psychosis. Their left back is playing well though.
Whelan: Might as well be Ronnie.
Andrews: Took a bang on the head but it didn't work.
McGeady: Usual mix of pointless dribbles.
Cox: Should have had a goal and got a yellow card. Sums it up.
Keane: Still knows how to score thankfully.

Trapp: A genius to get us remotely competitive.
+1

A defeat would have been the icing on the cake for you pair

Make shift central defence, no Dunne, Doyle or Duff. A 2 nil away from home..massive result. Were always gonna drop deep with 2 up in the 2nd half. Not the greatest bunch of players, but players with big hearts which is slowly becoming a rare comodity in the lesser payed Int soccer

This is a football competition not a big heart competition. We are not very good at football theses days sadly.

We are crap but we are less crap than Macedonia.

Big heart and commitment has us top of the group

"We are crap"..yer impressing no one

muppet

Quote from: thewobbler on June 04, 2011, 10:41:45 PM
That was a superb win tonight. Anyone pondering quality at this moment should be hanged for treason. Well done Ireland, and special mention for the greatest attacking player this country has ever produced. I doubt anyone on this forum will live long enough to see his goalscoring record eclipsed.

Lots of balance and perspective there.  ::)

Take Robbie Keane and Shay Given out of that team and it is a poor team. Dunne is huge loss fair enough but our problem is two central midfielders who cannot string successive passes together. They are hackers. Add in two weak full backs, if Dunne is missing - no centre backs and you have a poor team.
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thewobbler

Muppet, anyone who has watched an Ireland game in the past 5 years would be fit to tell you that it is a side bereft of quality. There is no need to bring it up tonight. Just celebrate overachievement when you're lucky enough to witness it.

Orangemac

Quote from: laoislad on June 04, 2011, 10:24:13 PM
Fair play to Robbie Keane,he has his critics and begrudgers but its hard to slate a man who has scored 51 International goals.
Credit where credit is due.
Agreed he can be a frustrating bugger when his flicks/dummies don't work but his international record is incredible and he has scored against all the top teams, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, not a flat track bully lke Peter Crouch who has a lot of international goals but mostly against crap teams.

Ireland need Keane and Given playing regularly in the Prem league next year. 10 points from last 4 games would give Ireland great chance of winning group.


muppet

Quote from: thewobbler on June 04, 2011, 11:00:25 PM
Muppet, anyone who has watched an Ireland game in the past 5 years would be fit to tell you that it is a side bereft of quality. There is no need to bring it up tonight. Just celebrate overachievement when you're lucky enough to witness it.

Ok I'll pretend we are great.
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J OGorman

Quote from: muppet on June 04, 2011, 11:08:44 PM
Quote from: thewobbler on June 04, 2011, 11:00:25 PM
Muppet, anyone who has watched an Ireland game in the past 5 years would be fit to tell you that it is a side bereft of quality. There is no need to bring it up tonight. Just celebrate overachievement when you're lucky enough to witness it.

Ok I'll pretend we are great.

Have a little perspective.
Dunphy has done his work..grow a set and think for yourself man

ardtole

You should give credit were credit is due. Ireland were missing Dunne, Duff and Doyle away from home in an arena were we dropped points previously with much better teams. In the build up to the game there was attention on the players who pulled out but over the last 10 years the commitment shown by Given, Oshea, Kilbane, Dunne, Duff, McGeady, Doyle, Keane amongst others has been excellent. Sadly in the future this is unlikely to be repeated as the newer breed of professional footballers seem to have lost interest or pride in playing for their country. I really hope I am wrong though.

muppet

Quote from: J OGorman on June 04, 2011, 11:14:08 PM
Quote from: muppet on June 04, 2011, 11:08:44 PM
Quote from: thewobbler on June 04, 2011, 11:00:25 PM
Muppet, anyone who has watched an Ireland game in the past 5 years would be fit to tell you that it is a side bereft of quality. There is no need to bring it up tonight. Just celebrate overachievement when you're lucky enough to witness it.

Ok I'll pretend we are great.

Have a little perspective.
Dunphy has done his work..grow a set and think for yourself man

Do you only do ad hominem?  ::)
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