Georgia played better because the Irish team looked like they just rolled out of bed after a heavy session.
If you compare the players' respective club teams for each country, it's obvious which team should have be winning that game.
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If you compare the players' respective club teams for each country, it's obvious which team should have be winning that game.
Well it's now down to beating Denmark in the Aviva. No Duffy or Coleman so no real leaders. Gonna be hard but the fight might just get us through.
We could definitely have hoped for more. An attempt at a win in Georgia for example.
I think Duffy is in ?
Coleman out is a good thing. Doherty is far better. Coleman is done..
I thought the second half was pretty decent, not easy to play football on a pitch like that, thought the Swiss struggled once we started trying to win the ball back higher up.
Going to be a big struggle against Denmark though, but there's definitely a chance.
Going to be a big struggle against Denmark though, but there's definitely a chance.
There was a graphic when he got the yellow that he was suspended but it looks like that was just an error which is a big plus because him scoring from a set piece is as good a chance as we've got. I would tend to agree that Doherty is the better option ahead of Coleman now.
We absolutely fecked it against Georgia. The pressure on Switzerland would have been huge had we been on 14 points and them on 8. As it was we always looked like we were hoping we’d pick them off, without any real attacking threat.
We definitely go into the playoffs, is that correct?
I read an article there that says we would most likely play Slovakia away in the semi final and if we won then play the winner of Northern Ireland and Bosnia Herzegovina in the final
I read an article there that says we would most likely play Slovakia away in the semi final and if we won then play the winner of Northern Ireland and Bosnia Herzegovina in the final
We will go into the play offs but if 5 teams don't automatically qualify from League B (there's currently 4 outside of the qualifying positions and we would make it 5) then there would be a draw to decide which team goes in to the League A play offs (alongside Iceland and a couple of the teams from League C so that might actually be preferable) while the remaining 4 would be in the League B play off.
That's probably unlikely enough as one of Wales or Slovakia probably will qualify so it would be us away to whichever one didn't and then a game against the winner of Northern Ireland and Bosnia.
This genuinely isn't an exaggeration.
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All beatable opponents for us in the play-offs.
So possibly Israel v Israel in the group A play off?
So confusing I wouldn't put it past Uefa to do that!
Will go for Iceland, Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo to make it.
So confusing I wouldn't put it past Uefa to do that!Will go for Iceland, Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo to make it.
Slovakia won’t be easy, actually don’t think we will win it..
We are just not good enough up front. I hope we have a few more coming through before March.
Nothing is easy but these teams are closer to us in the rankings and are beatable. If we had gotten Wales I'd have little hope.
We aint good enough in MF or up front.. bit shaky at the back at times too..
Slovakia won't be easy, and even if we do get by them, i feel it will be vs N.Ire after, and im not sure at all who takes that
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Over €55 million in debt. Delaney is a rotten cnut who should be fecking exiled.
Instead he gets a massive golden handshake. What a cnut
Explains why the investigation was sent to the Gardai
There’s another thread called FAI shenanigans- but this is way beyond shenanigans. It’s the future of the sport, of youth football. 60 million debt; the national Association run into the ground.
Delaney laughing his arse off at us all walks off with a golden handshake.
All down to greed corruption and incompetence, and not a feck does he give.
Roy Keane, how right was that man? False reporting, false balance sheets, sweetheart deals, the lot. The FAI should be disbanded and cease to exist. There is a lad who has been advocating an all-island league. Maybe it’s time to think of something new and fresh on these lines; the financial situation of the IFA in the North is better but an all Ireland FA could possibly command TV bobs on a bigger scale. Transparency would be the order of the day. It would be a great new dawn... or would it?
Delaney laughing his arse off at us all walks off with a golden handshake.
All down to greed corruption and incompetence, and not a feck does he give.
Roy Keane, how right was that man? False reporting, false balance sheets, sweetheart deals, the lot. The FAI should be disbanded and cease to exist. There is a lad who has been advocating an all-island league. Maybe it’s time to think of something new and fresh on these lines; the financial situation of the IFA in the North is better but an all Ireland FA could possibly command TV bobs on a bigger scale. Transparency would be the order of the day. It would be a great new dawn... or would it?
The IRFU are an example of how a good sporting body is ran. Built the provinces (even in the process of building Connacht) and the youth level to create an incredible conveyor belt of talent. There is an argument that, while we might not get another BOD or O'Connell in the next years, that the current crop coming through is best ever and that it continues to thrive.
The FAI are leeches. Roy Keane was right about executives flying in first class while the players rot in lower class. A bunch of dickheads who sorted themselves out while stealing from the players at all levels. As much as some might hate Keane for walking out it's clear now that his disagreements with the system were dead on. He called Saipan a 'holiday destination' for the lads instead of a proper preparation place for the team (by the way the best team we had since 90-94) and is proven right that executives mattered a hell of a lot more than the footballers.
Of course rugby has a better 'national' situation in terms of strength of clubs at home but we can expect the FAI to do at least 50% of what they do when in reality it has been 10%. No wonder a perfectionist like Keane was so aggrieved at the practices around him. Johnny Sexton isn't flying working class and eating cheese sandwiches before his game against Northampton tomorrow. That is how the FAI treated a golden class of Irish players.
The FAI are leeches. Roy Keane was right about executives flying in first class while the players rot in lower class. A bunch of dickheads who sorted themselves out while stealing from the players at all levels. As much as some might hate Keane for walking out it's clear now that his disagreements with the system were dead on. He called Saipan a 'holiday destination' for the lads instead of a proper preparation place for the team (by the way the best team we had since 90-94) and is proven right that executives mattered a hell of a lot more than the footballers.
Of course rugby has a better 'national' situation in terms of strength of clubs at home but we can expect the FAI to do at least 50% of what they do when in reality it has been 10%. No wonder a perfectionist like Keane was so aggrieved at the practices around him. Johnny Sexton isn't flying working class and eating cheese sandwiches before his game against Northampton tomorrow. That is how the FAI treated a golden class of Irish players.
Nah, as much as Keane may be right about certain stuff, he's also a prime prick.
Oh definitely mate. The point is that the FAI should be about the players first and the 'executives' after. Keane is an absolute prick but players shouldn't have to face problems created by our board in an already naturally problematic situation (as in our League will never be professional). I'd lie to think that Kenny (a great coach) will have a board who are players first behind him rather than having to coach while struggling with a corrupt bunch of pricks behind him.
It's very likely that Keane actually exploded at McCarthy while Mick shared the same grievances as he did. If the FAI are set up properly then the coached only focus should be the team without worrying about the situation outside of that.
Basics would be priority first class flights for players and staff, appropriate hotels with decent training areas provided and good choice of meals for eating. The FAI
can surely provide just this for the senior squad so the manager can focus on just managing.
That's the bare minimum before we even get into the youth coaching.
Grim.
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Doherty Duffy Clark E.Stevens
Browne Hourihane Hendrick
Robinson Maguire McGoldrick
Doherty Duffy Clark E.Stevens
Browne Hourihane Hendrick
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Frightening to think the FAI are in debt to the tune of €55 million. Chronically mismanaged sporting organisation. It's former head John Delaney was handsomely rewarded both on the job and at the point of exit for failure. He is now reviled here in Ireland. Understandably so. Always found it bizarre that the FAI needed money from Denis O'Brien to pay the wages of the national team manager. As for Roy Keane (arch critic of the FAI) he and Martin O'Neill pocketed €1.9 million on being sacked. How on earth did they afford that amount of goodbye money?
Spot on. I guess I have just moved on to wondering about the future, but boy is there one hell of a mess to tidy up after that prime opportunist Delaney.
A YBIG forum poster got banned from all football activity for 6 months for a facebook post questioning the Clare league's defending of John Delaney. 
An absolute farce.
An absolute farce.Well he deserves a major apologyA YBIG forum poster got banned from all football activity for 6 months for a facebook post questioning the Clare league's defending of John Delaney.
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Thank Christ for The Times doing their job well, else this would still be buried and Delaney would still be in charge.
Lot of reports today that England are trying to get Celtic youngster Armstrong Okoflex to switch from Ireland to England .
Rice and Grealish were bad enough but now they chasing players born in Ireland too
Rice and Grealish were bad enough but now they chasing players born in Ireland too
Ireland would never chase an English-born player!Lot of reports today that England are trying to get Celtic youngster Armstrong Okoflex to switch from Ireland to England .
Rice and Grealish were bad enough but now they chasing players born in Ireland too
White collar crime at its finest.
Delaney boasting constantly about how well the FAI is being run, cooks the books, hides the debt pile from the public and the government, then secretly treats himself to multimillion bonuses, while using his FAI credit card to live the life of a Russian oligarch for himself and his family.
I just hope the Criminal Assets Bureau find enough dirt on him to lock him and his cronies away for a long time.
Delaney boasting constantly about how well the FAI is being run, cooks the books, hides the debt pile from the public and the government, then secretly treats himself to multimillion bonuses, while using his FAI credit card to live the life of a Russian oligarch for himself and his family.
I just hope the Criminal Assets Bureau find enough dirt on him to lock him and his cronies away for a long time.
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Not the same though any English born players that choose ireland usually do so because they won't get picked for England .
We need all the players we have
Or a Scottish-born player.
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