FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Reports today that Rice is going to do a Grealish. These guys should be capped against the minnows in qualifying so the whole crap is knocked on the head but O'Neil doesnt seem to have learnt that lesson yet. Anyway any hesitation to play for the boys in green and they shouldnt be asked again. Embarrassing when we kept chasing the likes of Hogan and Bamford and they kept weighing up their options as they believe the hype that they are the next Messi when in reality they are shite. Hogan finally realised he was light years away from an England call up. Deluded Bamford still has hope - couldnt tell you which championship team he is playing fir this week.

[smelmoth]

Reports today that Rice is going to do a Grealish. These guys should be capped against the minnows in qualifying so the whole crap is knocked on the head but O'Neil doesnt seem to have learnt that lesson yet. Anyway any hesitation to play for the boys in green and they shouldnt be asked again. Embarrassing when we kept chasing the likes of Hogan and Bamford and they kept weighing up their options as they believe the hype that they are the next Messi when in reality they are shite. Hogan finally realised he was light years away from an England call up. Deluded Bamford still has hope - couldnt tell you which championship team he is playing fir this week.

Some of these guys are not weighing up whether to play for ROI or England. They are weighing up whether to play international football for a country they have limited interest in or focussing on their club with some small unextinguished hope of an England cap.

We have yet to see what the post Brexit impact of being English qualified will be

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Its all about money end of. Still think if you play for Ireland and maybe qualify for some tournaments you will get more exposure than being one of maybe 20 guys who may get an England cap at some point. Grealish is still waiting and playing championship football tick tock.
O'Neills mistake is indulging this shite. The moment he pulled out withh his reasons O 'Neill shoukd have told him where to go. He is a good player but nit much better than what we have. If it was Harry Kane then it would be worth the chase not some kid prone to mistakes at a joke of a club.

[maldini]

He played in 3 friendlies for the Ireland senior team and Southgate/The FA still went sniffing after him. Poor form.

[An Watcher]

It's not oneills fault there hasn't been a competitive game since the Denmark debacle and it would have been madness to cap him in such an important fixture.

[michaelg]

He played in 3 friendlies for the Ireland senior team and Southgate/The FA still went sniffing after him. Poor form.

Annoying when a player is developed through the underage squads and is then poached by another association.  You wouldn't get the FAI doing that....

[From the Bunker]

It's not oneills fault there hasn't been a competitive game since the Denmark debacle and it would have been madness to cap him in such an important fixture.

Well we could have thrown him in when we were 4-1 down.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

He played in 3 friendlies for the Ireland senior team and Southgate/The FA still went sniffing after him. Poor form.

Annoying when a player is developed through the underage squads and is then poached by another association.  You wouldn't get the FAI doing that....

Kind of makes the IFA poaching stance even more ridiculous as if it is just an FAI thing but hey you knew that already? By the way it is the clubs that develop the players and for both Irish associations they are by and large relying on English clubs to do all the work at the business end. So both sets of blazers need a kick up the hole.

[michaelg]

He played in 3 friendlies for the Ireland senior team and Southgate/The FA still went sniffing after him. Poor form.

Annoying when a player is developed through the underage squads and is then poached by another association.  You wouldn't get the FAI doing that....

Kind of makes the IFA poaching stance even more ridiculous as if it is just an FAI thing but hey you knew that already? By the way it is the clubs that develop the players and for both Irish associations they are by and large relying on English clubs to do all the work at the business end. So both sets of blazers need a kick up the hole.

Yes mate, fully aware that that it's not just an FAI thing.  Just interesting to hear ROI fans' aping what NI fans used to say when it happened to the NI team in the past.  Not too many coming out with the counter arguments that used to get trotted out when it was the ROI doing the poaching!

[Capt Pat]

It's not oneills fault there hasn't been a competitive game since the Denmark debacle and it would have been madness to cap him in such an important fixture.

He only needed to come on for a few minutes at the end like McGeady Houlihan or Long did.

Would he even make the England squad at the moment? Will he end up like Grealish?

[trileacman]

Irish Soccer is 100 years behind Gaelic games. Why? Because we oppressed it for those 100 years - well for 85 of it!

That's not true. Here in NI GAA was the oppressed sport, oppressed much more than soccer was in the Free State, and yet still outperforms the IFA in terms of participation and facilities. Bar the Stormont money the IFA would still be kicking ball in a Chernobyl-style Windsor Park and the 6'000 "safe capacity" Oval would be their second best stadium. The only major soccer clubs east of the Bann are Institute, Dungannon Swifts and Ballinamalllard.

How regularly soccer clubs in Ireland go to the wall are no fault of supposed traditional discrimination against soccer in Ireland. The idea that the financial mismanagement, ineptitude and corruption of the FAI should be bank-rolled by the state is a disgusting suggestion.

Fund pitches, coaches, small clubs and youths etc but the rest can get fcuked.

[smelmoth]

It's not oneills fault there hasn't been a competitive game since the Denmark debacle and it would have been madness to cap him in such an important fixture.

He only needed to come on for a few minutes at the end like McGeady Houlihan or Long did.

Would he even make the England squad at the moment? Will he end up like Grealish?

But who is to say they think they have a chance of playing for England

[From the Bunker]

Irish Soccer is 100 years behind Gaelic games. Why? Because we oppressed it for those 100 years - well for 85 of it!

That's not true. Here in NI GAA was the oppressed sport, oppressed much more than soccer was in the Free State, and yet still outperforms the IFA in terms of participation and facilities. Bar the Stormont money the IFA would still be kicking ball in a Chernobyl-style Windsor Park and the 6'000 "safe capacity" Oval would be their second best stadium. The only major soccer clubs east of the Bann are Institute, Dungannon Swifts and Ballinamalllard.

How regularly soccer clubs in Ireland go to the wall are no fault of supposed traditional discrimination against soccer in Ireland. The idea that the financial mismanagement, ineptitude and corruption of the FAI should be bank-rolled by the state is a disgusting suggestion.

Fund pitches, coaches, small clubs and youths etc but the rest can get fcuked.

I am talking about Soccer down here. I don't have a clue about how things work or the politics with the IFA and I don't really care. Please don't quote me out of context. This is a FAI Stream.

[Itchy]

Have the FAI tried tried throwing a party for Declan and get John Delaney to buy everyone a few pints and throw out a few free football's and jerseys.

[trileacman]

Irish Soccer is 100 years behind Gaelic games. Why? Because we oppressed it for those 100 years

That's your quote there's no possible way to misquote that. All I did was point out that it was a fallacy that Irish soccer lags behind gaelic games because of some perceived oppression of the sport.

No need to get so ratty because I countered your bull.