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

Started by Cúig huaire, November 19, 2009, 01:34:00 PM

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BennyCake

Down. Sat at the top table a couple times in the 90's. A couple of QF/Euros appearances in recent years, but beaten badly in one and overachieved in another.

Baile Brigín 2

Quote from: BennyCake on September 06, 2019, 03:21:21 PM
Quote from: Baile Brigín 2 on September 06, 2019, 01:34:54 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on September 05, 2019, 10:13:19 PM
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Quote from: BennyCake on September 05, 2019, 09:54:47 PM
Quote from: laoislad on September 05, 2019, 09:50:24 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on September 05, 2019, 09:43:54 PM
Ffs where was the urgency after levelling? Get up off your arse and get back for the kick off and try and win the feckin' thing. Over a minute wasted and another with McGoldrick subbed. All smiles on the bench with a draw. f**k sake. Big chance missed.
Wouldn't say it was a big chance missed, the Swiss were by far the better team tonight. Some great defending from Ireland tonight and fair play to them for getting back into it but they were blessed to get a point from that game imo.

Better team doesn't always win. 5 minutes left, have momentum, crowd behind you, great opportunity to nick a winner, and they piss about wasting time. Lump it up, nothing to lose. You need to win your home games, as I doubt Ireland will get the win out there.

Except the ball, and they were hitting on the counter at that stage.

Lump it up ffs. Its international football.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSSOXkoNPVY


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RJup10szLr0


1. 17 years ago and losing in injury time

2. 20 mins to go, targetted long ball for a runner in space as Germany held too high a line.

It would have been bonkers to start launching high balls at 1 - 1 the way they were set up.

Ireland played Germany off the park in 02, and creating little. One long ball, they score.

If anything, lumping it in would have put the Swiss under pressure. Ireland mightn't have won the ball, but the Swiss has to at least deal with it.

Did you watch the game? The swiss 'dealt with it' far too well to give them the ball deliberately. I'm not arguing against the odd direct ball (see 02...) but just blootering it up the pitch as a tactic when the draw was got is madness. Especially with one man up top.

Captain Obvious

Quote from: imtommygunn on September 06, 2019, 05:19:50 PM
No. ROI always punch above their weight. Fermanagh...

Fermanagh probably the best comparison.

Hound

Roscommon. 100%

We can beat the good teams (unless in actual knockout) and we go mental when we do. And we've even got a trophy of two in the cabinet, like the Connacht title or the equivalent Iceland cup 😄

mouview

Quote from: seafoid on September 06, 2019, 05:17:01 PM
If the RoI soccer team was a GAA county, which one would it be ?
Maybe Antrim   ?

Kilkenny.

Footballers.

seafoid

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Quote from: mouview on September 07, 2019, 12:53:09 AM
Quote from: seafoid on September 06, 2019, 05:17:01 PM
If the RoI soccer team was a GAA county, which one would it be ?
Maybe Antrim   ?

Kilkenny.

Footballers.

RTÉ :

Here's a list words the Republic of Ireland players, and their manager, used to describe their own performance after Thursday night's draw with Switzerland at the Aviva Stadium.

Mettle. Bottle. Character. Commitment. Heart. Never-say-die attitude. Durability.

And here's a list of words they used to describe the Swiss.

Top team. Good. Good team. Quality. Strong. Pacey.

And that, in the most basic terms possible, is the story of the match.

"Are we the best team in the group?" Mick McCarthy asked rhetorically. "Probably not. But we don't half keep going.

Ireland have consistently shown two things over the course of the last three years: technical inefficiency, and enormous heart.

It's true Ireland have all sorts of flaws: a worrying inability to establish anything resembling controlled possession, a midfield that sometimes looks porous even with three central men running themselves into the ground, a lack of goals, a lack of imagination and creativity.« 
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

Baile Brigín 2


Baile Brigín 2

Due to the short term nature of the appointment McCarthy is doing a short term job. Reliable players, hard to beat, but zero flair. Compare and contrast with the U21s, playing samba football.

We are producing players, its just when they get to England the attacking flair is beaten out of them

An Watcher


laoislad

When you think you're fucked you're only about 40% fucked.

BennyCake

Quote from: laoislad on September 08, 2019, 07:24:41 PM
Quote from: An Watcher on September 08, 2019, 07:15:45 PM
Great result for the Georgians
Great result for Ireland.

It's only a great result for Ireland, if Ireland go and win in Georgia.

mouview



From the Bunker

Quote from: BennyCake on September 08, 2019, 08:40:20 PM
Quote from: laoislad on September 08, 2019, 07:24:41 PM
Quote from: An Watcher on September 08, 2019, 07:15:45 PM
Great result for the Georgians
Great result for Ireland.

It's only a great result for Ireland, if Ireland go and win in Georgia.

That's it in a nutshell! The Georgians will take confidence from this!

under the bar

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Quote from: From the Bunker on September 08, 2019, 09:43:49 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on September 08, 2019, 08:40:20 PM
Quote from: laoislad on September 08, 2019, 07:24:41 PM
Quote from: An Watcher on September 08, 2019, 07:15:45 PM
Great result for the Georgians
Great result for Ireland.

It's only a great result for Ireland, if Ireland go and win in Georgia.

That's it in a nutshell! The Georgians will take confidence from this!
So a bad result for Ireland then? Any one taking points of Denmark has to be a good thing