Ireland vs Serbia - WCQ

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Nah, FA is to greedy to have any middle man
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Mate i think i'm close to reading some compliment regarding serbian football from your behalf for the first time in years. Close to qualification if the result stays this way.
 

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Honest question, why do you expect so much with the quality of players you have at your disposition? There's only so much you can do.

Also, I thought the grass was supposed to be greener in Ireland. Why so dry?
 

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We've literally went from topping the group to being knocked out within three days....

We lost it for the gutless performance at home to Austria and the shambles on Saturday against Georgia
 

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I respect play to your strengths and all that but this has been the most old fashioned style i've seen for a while.

Thought I was watching GAA at times.
 

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Why Irish are taking these stupid long distance shots when they have 5-6 players in the box?
 

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Mate i think i'm close to reading some compliment regarding serbian football from your behalf for the first time in years. Close to qualification if the result stays this way.
:lol: I gave up following them long time ago, they use national team as vocation. I mean 20 years of same shit, even when we get to final stage, we are bad as feck, rather give our spot to Syria. Like i said, Gudelj, Prijovic, while Milenkovic Savis is ignored, because you know, he doesnt fit in national coach system :houllier: . fecking mafia, thats why we have better results in any other national sports, there is no much money in those sports like in football.
 

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Feck off ref with your red, time should have been wasted even fecking more, 3 points, job done, goodbye.
 

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Serbia have so many punchable players.

Kolarov's strike was enough in the end.
 

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A load of shit. vs both Georgia and Serbia. Bottle jobs who look completely clueless.
 

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Think i never seen more clueless team with extra man, long balls, long attempts Gsus.
 

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Games like that is why I hate international football. Roll on United's game until we watch proper football.
 

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We've literally went from topping the group to being knocked out within three days....

We lost it for the gutless performance at home to Austria and the shambles on Saturday against Georgia
Ireland played well - that rubbish last week may cost us. Capable of beating Wales for sure.
 

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Terrible football and outdated tactics from a manager past his sell by date.

Do ONeill and Keane go to games in England looking for players with any sort of Irish blood? Certainly doesn't look like it.

Shocking when time and time again we can't saying two passes together then we turn to the likes of McGeady and Daryll Murphy .

When you look at Northern Ireland and how they can play good football it's very poor.
 

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Honest question, why do you expect so much with the quality of players you have at your disposition? There's only so much you can do.

Also, I thought the grass was supposed to be greener in Ireland. Why so dry?
We've much better players than the north have imo and yet they're flying. The majority of our lads are solid lower premier league level players and Coleman (injured) is a class act.
 

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This team is probably worse than Trapp's. Sickened.
 

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We've much better players than the north have imo and yet they're flying. The majority of our lads are solid lower premier league level players and Coleman (injured) is a class act.
Leicester proved it's not about having the best players. The north are on a roll because they are organised, have team work and clear game plans. Something that seems to be lacking from Martin and Roy
 

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Shocking when time and time again we can't saying two passes together then we turn to the likes of McGeady and Daryll Murphy .
Thing is McGeady at least has some skill to pull some shit off, he is just inconsistent but he has gotten way too much hate from Irish fans. For years our entire game plan was to boot balls to McGeady and just watch him and see what he can do.

Another shit game, so we had more possession today and booted the ball into the box a bunch of times and took a few horrible long shots. Never at once looked dangerous. Its just dreadful stuff and frankly shit against Georgia was just embarrassing and I'm sick of performances like that against horrible opposition.
 

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I'd go to war too with McClean. I wouldn't go to a football match with him though because he's absolutely fecking shite. In the words of George Hamilton - "an Irish hero". A hero for running around like a headless chicken every 90 minutes.
 

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I'd go to war too with McClean. I wouldn't go to a football match with him though because he's absolutely fecking shite. In the words of George Hamilton - "an Irish hero". A hero for running around like a headless chicken every 90 minutes.
He's not "absolutely fecking shite", but he is limited at a certain point. You can never give out about endeavour.

Stick Özil out there instead of him and it'd be a rout.
 

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Without a proper consistent striker it's almost impossible for O'Neill and Keane. We dominated that game but there was not enough threat up front. Maybe Scott Hogan can become that player that we're lacking. Well done Serbia. A better side than us but we dominated on the night. We are not getting a result away to Wales - no chance.
 

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Ireland just didn't have the quality and composure tonight. Long balls against a big tall Serbian team wasn't the way to go. It works most of the time but not tonight. Couldn't stretch the game with extra man either, not enough quality at the minute. Plenty of determination but not good enough with the ball in the end.