FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[Milltown Row2]

shite

[From the Bunker]

Back to square one!

Scotland have woke up!

Scotlands soft goal has taken the wind out of us!

[mouview]

Exuberant stadium announcer is the most entertaining aspect of this game.

[From the Bunker]

Fair dues to Scotland! Average side. Hope they go on and qualify now! As for us time to rebuild and try a few players and systems under O'Neill for the rest of the campaign.

[Itchy]

Brady mom. Ronnie whelan is some clown. Most limited Irish team in a long time but not helped by management when your best striker long is some how 4th choice!

[BennyCake]

That's that then.

[SHEEDY]

Very poor. Ireland were all huff and puff with no end product. Shane long gets a few mins at the end of must win game. Explain that one please.

[Syferus]

I don't know why I watch the Irish soccer team anymore. It's at best boring and at worst depressing.

[screenexile]

I can see why we played that style with Jack Charlton because at least we were getting results... That was utter rubbish from both sides!

Shane Long and McClean not starting says all you need to know O'Neill was hoping to nick a set piece then keep tight to the end. He wasn't able to do that!

[From the Bunker]

I don't know why I watch the Irish soccer team anymore. It's at best boring and at worst depressing.

I agree. But you have to remember we are spoiled with (the best football in the world in) champions league football week in week out for the last couple of months. International football is always going to be a come down from watching that. Also we have an emotional attachment and this often spoils the spectacle as you are under edge (especially with Ireland) watching it.

[T Fearon]

You'd have to wonder if O'Neill was the messiah after all.He never took Celtic out of the group stages of Champs League,despite having far better players and more resources than Strachan and Lennon who both did.Also there was the unforgivable loss of the SPL title in the dying minutes ten years ago?

At best his best days are long gone and a younger manager more in tune with contemporary ways is required.

[J70]

I don't know why I watch the Irish soccer team anymore. It's at best boring and at worst depressing.

Been like that since McCarthy left.

And I actually thought at the time that Brian Kerr was the nadir!

[laoislad]

You'd have to wonder if O'Neill was the messiah after all.He never took Celtic out of the group stages of Champs League,despite having far better players and more resources than Strachan and Lennon who both did.Also there was the unforgivable loss of the SPL title in the dying minutes ten years ago?

At best his best days are long gone and a younger manager more in tune with contemporary ways is required.

I've been saying it for years. He is nowhere as near good as people think he is.
What has even actually achieved?
His best is probably with Leicester winning the Coca Cola Cup or whatever it was called then and that's not something to write home about.
It was criminal not playing Long today. Also I don't know why so many are asking for McClean to start. The guy is a header and can hardly make a relegated from the championship Wigan team ffs.
Oh and Scott Brown is a t**ser.
Laois getting hammered now also. What a f**king day 

[From the Bunker]

You'd have to wonder if O'Neill was the messiah after all.He never took Celtic out of the group stages of Champs League,despite having far better players and more resources than Strachan and Lennon who both did.Also there was the unforgivable loss of the SPL title in the dying minutes ten years ago?

At best his best days are long gone and a younger manager more in tune with contemporary ways is required.

I've been saying it for years. He is nowhere as near good as people think he is.
What has even actually achieved?
His best is probably with Leicester winning the Coca Cola Cup or whatever it was called then and that's not something to write home about.
It was criminal not playing Long today. Also I don't know why so many are asking for McClean to start. The guy is a header and can hardly make a relegated from the championship Wigan team ffs.
Oh and Scott Brown is a t**ser.
Laois getting hammered now also. What a f**king day 

Go have a few pints LL. It's only football after all! There are more important things in life (so the wife tells me anyway).

[T Fearon]

I'd say Michael O'Neill is a better bet than Martin at this stage.A clone of Brian Clough might have been good back in the day,but totally obsolete in the modern era