That's unbelievable. Sick stuff.
Republic Of Ireland Football Thread
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Jesus fecking Christ McLean. So dumb.
For what it's worth the ball has been in play for 9 seconds out of the first 1:30
Aw well give it a good go.
That ref was bent btw. 100% gave them absolutely fecking everything.
Performed a literal miracle and score two goals and still lost due to conceding shocking goals. It’s almost heartbreaking.
Very different match than I expected but same outcome. Kenny must be on the ropes at this stage. It's not good enough.
Do you think Kenny can turn it around?
We did and scored two actual goals.
Need to kick on with a good performance on Saturday now.
It's all just so, so uninspiring.
A decent performance undone by two mistakes.
There's hope yet.
I'm not sure what you were expecting given the circumstances though.
I thought that was a lot more encouraging than I expected it to be going into it. We have no one on the level of Tadic or even Mitrovic.
Decent in spells definitely. It was better than our recent performances but it's still just not really good enough.
It’s bad. We’re bad. But uninspiring? We played a decent, technical team and took them on at their own game. I find it a breath of fresh air tbh.
Almost?
Fair enough. I am in an overly negative mood tonight as I thought we were looking good first half then conceded a stupid goal.
Except for the nailed on pen when Coleman slipped and absolutely clattered their striker.
Turn it around and qualify or get second? Unlikely I’d say, but I don’t think anyone could. It’s really poor side, man for man Serbia has way more quality. We did well to even give it a proper go today, first choice keeper in there and we could be walking away with a point or more.
We actually pass the ball which is good enough for me tbh. I don’t see what sacking Kenny achieves. You can bring in whatever manager you want, they can’t conjure a striker or a creative midfielder out of thin air. The group of players is really really poor. Bleed some youngsters through, comfortably beat Luxembourg and Azerbaijan, and sit and hope some young quality comes from somewhere is the best we can really expect. I have no interest in watching us purposely play shit on a stick football anymore. Either we have a manager who wants to play football or I’ll just stick to following Canada from now on.
Yeah first half was better. We seemed to run out of steam and fitness seemed to be an issue. I don't know for definite but I got the impression many of our players in midfield and attack aren't playing regular first team football.
Well it is only one game so I didn’t want to be too dramatic and say it’s full on heart breaking
Your impression is correct. They went through them all, man by man, on the Second captains podcast. All woefully out of form and most of them not getting picked for crap teams.
Can’t believe he’s had the job a year already. I want him to succeed so badlyWell it is only one game so I didn’t want to be too dramatic and say it’s full on heart breaking
Jaysus yeah thought I'd heard that. I didn't get a chance to listen to me podcasts this week.
Hopefully we bate Luxembourg and the club situation improves by September.
Yeah that seems fair enough.
Long gone are the days of having the the 2 x Keane's, Duff, Finnan, Dunne and Given being really good PL players.
Those were the days
Tell me about it. I remember being in 5th year at the 2002 WC. What a summer that was!Those were the days
At least the next two matches against Luxembourg, Qatar should be confidence boosting wins.
Tadic was the difference between the teams tonight. At our level just one top player makes such a difference. Our most established/top quality player is a 32 year old full back at a mid-table team. It’s actually nuts how few regular PL starters are in our team. Surely the fewest in decades? Certainly in my lifetime watching Ireland.
Yeah I feel the same, definitely the lowest quality of players I've seen in my lifetime. If only Grealish had of chosen us, so frustrating especially given he was a big GAA head as a kid. Even someone like Bamford would be useful for us now.
I remember back in the day even the average players in the squad were all regular PL players: the likes of Holland, Kinsella, Carsley, Cunningham and Kilbane. We badly need more players in the PL but Brexit will scupper that.
Grealish and Rice would literally double our overall quality as a team. Maybe triple it. Plus only going to get better in years ahead. Oh well. Spilt milk. I thought Mulumby and Cullen both did themselves proud tonight.
I was down the pub before work for the Germany game
I was down the pub before work for the Germany game
I remember the streets being literally empty. I had mates doing the Leaving Cert who left early. I was pissed drunk in a mates, I was like 16
Exactly i can't see why anyone would rather get rid of the first manager we have had in a lifetime who wants to play actual football rather than just hoofing it up in the air for 90 minutes.
Kenny has very little quality to work with but is going about things in the right way by trying to bring in new players and looking to play decent football
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Thanks for the reply and good assessment.
The more I see, the more I worry that whatever relative success Kenny might have, will be little more than being responsible for bringing through a younger squad of players who are given the freedom to play a bit of football. Results are looking like they might be hard to come by, even on a good day. I feel for Kenny. It's a horrible job to take on in terms of expectations versus raw materials.
It hurts me how low we have gone. The whole FAI fiasco has led us here and now we are a nothing nation on the field.
They made a good point on Off the Ball this morning. Not many of us would want to pay to watch us stick 10 men behind the ball and try to sneak a nil all.
I'd pay to watch this team have a go and try to play the right way.
Absolutely. It feels like it's a very small majority who are strongly against how it's going under Kenny, as opposed to how many were turned off by the puke football we were serving up in the past.
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