The Irish Football Team Thread

Have we any decent players coming through does anyone know. We definitely need a fresh injection of players.

Dreadful stuff tonight. Static, no creativity and just simply outclassed. We need to look to the future. I'm sure there are a few considering retirement also. Sad night indeed.

 

The interview after georgia over there was the same heated with the manager being difficult.

Even if RTE were at fault i think any manager at international level anyway should answer the questions regardless of how he feels about them ,as i have said the fans are the bread and butter of the national team and they have a rite to answrs.

(Dont want to get into a debate about tonight's game)but im sure a lot of fans would love to know the reasons for the strange substitutions and how the manager felt regarding our dropping of points at home during the campaign these questions are not difficult but our manager seems to go on defence when asked questions of this nature.

 

Some people were saying that Dunphy was talking * by saying that Martin's excuses for us not having good enough players was why we're not doing so well, when Michael's team is selected from 'lesser' clubs, yet they can perform so much better.

I agree with him, as much as it pains me to say it.

The North went out fighting, and they've been that way for some time. In fact, but for a dodgy ref decision and a goal-line clearance, they'd have been en route to Russia.

We completely * it.

 

A Brit * grow up mate

 

Things have gone downhill for us recently,as you said the north went down fighting where as we seem to slowly but surely got worse as the group went on .

Its hard to figure it out as the players and manager seemed to be talking a great game but when it came to doing it on the pitch they just stopped delivering.

I guess we can only do so much giving the players we have how ever i would love to see the manager try to get the team play a bit more ball on the ground.

 

Predictable football is what you’ll get with * players though. Said the same thing to my mates earlier but give O’Neill Keane, Duff etc at their best and we qualify no questions asked IMO, and it wouldn’t be the same style of football we’re witnessing at the moment.

Our best players that we’ve produced in recent years are probably Hendrick and Brady, they play for Burnley. Not bad players but not the type of players you can build a decent international side around. Players like Keane and Duff were levels above anything Ireland or Scotland currently have.

I really think people are underestimating how much we’ve overachieved under O’Neill. The * neck of that journalist asking him had his luck ran out in the video above. * me imagine asking your national team manager of 65 years that after he’s just been knocked out of a World Cup play off.

 

I think Scotland definitely have the more talented players but you’re right, probably lacking that talismanic figure that can get them over the line when it comes to getting to tournaments.

Serious lack of Irish talent coming through at the moment, at least that I’m aware of.

I want O’Neill to stay, I just wouldn’t blame him for chucking it as I don’t see how he surpasses what he already has done without a sudden emergence of top young players.

 

got the same problems we have had for years wheres the goals coming from, if yous make a chance

looks like players wise your heading for a drought

the good thing about martin is he'l get a team full of belief but if the talent is not there then theres nothing you can do really

i would imagine he'd probably chuck it now as hes getting a hiding for ultimately something that is not his fault

 

Aye at the end of the day, Ireland just aren't a very good team. Did well to reach the Playoffs here, and to reach the Euros Last 16. Denmark have a guy like Eriksen- we, at present, do not. O'Néill has done a good job with what he has.

On a separate note though, he's getting on like a complete * in his interviews. Stop pretending to be outraged any time you're questioned on a decision.

 

Huns are lapping it up, only little "victory" they've had in years.

 

A lot of delusional Irish fans. We didn't have to fight to get 2nd in our group? Do some think because the the quality of our players Austria and Wales we brushed aside with ease. Should we have maybe already known we had a poor manager wen he didn't go one better than Wales at the Euro's?

 

There was a few on here as well thinking like that but only the brain dead scum ones.

 

If Strachan had played the right players and system from the beginning of the tournament you'd have made the play-offs comfortably or even have topped the group.

Our players aren't great but MON did a great job to get them this far. I'd love Ireland to have Griffiths, Armgstrong, Tierny, Brown and McGregor.

 

Shut the * up.

Martin O'Neill can do whatever the * he likes.

 

Half the Irish fans seem to want MON out. Same type of fickle idiots who wanted Mick McCarthy out just after he returned from getting us past the group stages of the World Cup and giving Spain a * of a scare. Still waiting for one of his predecessors to equal his achievement. If MON leaves I fear we will go downhill again like after Mick was hounded out

 

Give your mouth a rest son.

 

I will when you stop talking utter *.