It's already limited to 16 teams.
Senior B is just a name. It's the second tier , whether you call it senior B or intermediate.
Senior B is just a name. It's the second tier , whether you call it senior B or intermediate.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: weareros on September 08, 2023, 02:08:03 PMQuote from: statto on September 08, 2023, 01:39:08 PMQuote from: imtommygunn on September 08, 2023, 10:06:22 AM+1. Ireland weren't even qualifying for every tournament during the golden era's of the 80s and 90s e.g. euro 92, euro 96 missed the boat and at that stage had players playing at high end premiership teams.
A problem is expectations... Trappatoni and O'Neill got to tournaments with mediocre enough teams so this has now become the expectation when really it shouldn't be. It also highlights another thing - Kenny sets the team up to play football and those managers set us up to be hard to break down and to grind out games. The players aren't really there to make that gameplan happen against the better teams so I wouldn't suggest Kenny is a failure but if you want results rather than trying to build a footballing culture he maybe isn't the man for the job.
There were less spots then. In 1988, only 8 teams qualified so you had to win a difficult group, as Ireland did. It was still 8 in 1992 and Ireland were very unfortunate not to qualify. 24 teams will participate in Euro 24 and it looks like we'll be nowhere near being one of those teams. That's how far we have fallen. Granted with break up of Soviet, there's more teams too and technically the Eastern Europeans were always superior to Ireland. No shame in losing 2-0 to probably best team in world. But Kenny looks very lost and in his own world. A change should be made soon. Also if Ireland/Uk win Euro 28 bid, we should think about having a unified Irish team have automatic qualification. Will never happen of course.
Quote from: weareros on September 08, 2023, 01:16:55 PM
Whether you like rugby or not, that's a tasty opener coming up, and if we get out of our group we meet one of them.
Quote from: weareros on September 05, 2023, 07:05:39 PM
3rd place still gives a chance of a playoff depending on nations league rankings after top 2 in each group are known. That said: Greece have looked better than us so far.
Quote from: delgany on September 05, 2023, 04:06:25 PMQuote from: weareros on September 05, 2023, 03:15:22 PM
Lot of paranoid nonsense being posted that he can still switch to England until he wins 4th competitive cap. He's already capped 6 times for Ireland.
I think friendlies are not counted ! So he has 3 full International caps!
Quote from: seafoid on September 01, 2023, 12:47:40 PMQuote from: Rossfan on September 01, 2023, 11:55:28 AM
Well said Shark.
A player with a D1 Club in Ros would play a maximum of 18 games over 8 months from 1st March to end of October - 34 weekends.
11 League rounds, League Final, 3 Championship group games and 3 k.o. games up to Co Final.
A player with a D2/Inter Championship team could have a minimum of 13 games over 27 weekends from 1/3 to we 2/3 Sept.
9 League rounds, 3 Championship group games and a play off game.
No one will be burnt out from Club games anyway.
How many games will Enda Smith play in total?
Quote from: seafoid on September 01, 2023, 11:40:52 AMQuote from: Rossfan on September 01, 2023, 11:28:51 AMHope is thinking something is worth working for. Optimism is thinking things will work out.
You're entitled to your opinion but the majority of Counties favour a group system followed by the best teams playing a knocknout closing stages.
Gives every team a chance of priming/improving before the hell for leather starts. Then the knockout fetishists can have their pleasure.
Also means a team just up from Inter gets 3 Senior Championship games.
Club Leagues are grand for a bit of exercise but with County lads not involved and player availability issues they don't count for a lot in the greater scheme of things.
The obsession of playing as few games as possible always amazes/amuses me, usually we'll summed up in the phrase "running off" a competition.
If I was running a soccer club I'd be delighted of course.
If County Boards genuinely want group stages and leagues and knockout , lets see how they feel after 5 years of injuries and burnout.
Quote from: imtommygunn on August 02, 2023, 09:44:14 AMQuote from: Wildweasel74 on August 02, 2023, 12:29:19 AM
Fitzgerald, never scored remotely near as much from play, granted he played half his career on poor to average kerry team.
He also would have played a lot further from goal a lot of the times too.
Quote from: bennydorano on August 01, 2023, 04:36:45 PM
Fitzsimmons is one of those players whom I've always thought isn't that super, a potential weaklink and could be easily exposed by the right man, when you look back now, it's never really happened and he's very very rarely had a poor game, solid as they come.
Clifford is obviously a huge talent but I've never understood the GOAT talk for such a young fella with the majority of his career ahead of him.
Quote from: marty34 on August 01, 2023, 09:11:02 AM
I mentioned a while back that one of the players was asked directly should VP get a new contract and the player was noncommital on the issue.
Maybe because it was a curve ball question for a journalist looking a story, especially as the player and VP were sitting beside each other.
Seems to say a lot.
A case of that ill-fated statement that the manager has lost the dressing room.
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on July 29, 2023, 03:57:38 PM
Sorry to be positive but it has the makings of a very good game. I've no love for either team but I'm looking forward to it.
Quote from: weareros on July 29, 2023, 03:10:00 PM
You'd wonder if there's any joy in wining so many. I'd settle for one in my lifetime.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on July 22, 2023, 06:37:50 PMQuote from: shark on July 22, 2023, 06:08:10 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on July 22, 2023, 05:47:04 PMQuote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on July 22, 2023, 05:26:29 PM
ah lads, been saying for years mcilroy can't putt
he'll be top 10 at best tomorrow evening, despite what sky want
hopefully harman can get it done despite the haters, funny to see how desperate they are for him to lose
Who's hating Harman?
The local crowd is obviously against him, which is fair enough seeing as he's up against a local player.
The locals are cheering on Fleetwood but not hearing boos or jeers when Harman is about the course?
Think someone is full of shit and looking for stuff that's not actually happening