Cyprus Vs Ireland

scojones

KdjaCL wrote:

Yet the exact same scenario cost our previous manager his job.......


kdjac

I always said Kerr shouldn't have been sacked.

tdv

5-2 were getting there

mike65

Your guys have messed my bet up!

Mike.

MonkeyWrench

I feel physically sick:eek:

ninebeanrows

I predicted a bad week for Irish football but i could not of comprhended this

Tonight we saw the death of Irish international football

KdjaCL

kdjac

Ronan|Raven

Your guys messed mine!

Attractive Nun

This is actually comical. We'll be lucky to qualify for anything in the next 10 years the way this is going.

zAbbo

Absolute disgrace.

A few changes and we'd be so much better.

McGeady has been a bright spark tonight.

Jaysis, Dunne sent off as well

Collie D

There's the inevitable red...to Dunne

pp_me129

And i thought one of the cypriots was goin off first

Right so COMON CYPRUS

CiaranC

Staunton has to resign after this. Most disgraceful performance Ive seen in 20 years of watching Ireland play.

Chardee MacDennis

dunne off = i hear sven goran eriksson is available - maybe he'll do some charity work for us.

~Rebel~

Everybody messed up my bet, had Ireland, England and France to win!

A Dub in Glasgo

5-2 against Cyprus :eek:

okidoki987

No point in Staunton going, it's the team that's brutal.
Apart from Duffer and Given, we have no world class players on this team.
:mad:

deman

This is a nightmare just reading this!!!!!!

ferdi

somebody shoot me.

scojones

Weathercheck wrote:

Tonight we saw the death of Irish international football

That happened when we missed that penno against Spain oh so long ago.

Running Bing

slumped wrote:

Stand by your Stan!

We will not qualify for Euro 08, but give him time.

He's relying on Paddy Kenny for f sake! who has conceded 8 in his last 2 irish matches


S

Slumped are you taking the hit and miss? You think Martin Jol should leave spurs yet Staunton should stay on? 5-2 isnt a bad result its an absolute embarassment!:mad: :mad: :mad:

And now 10 men!!

slumped

Wikipeida already have a page dedicated to us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****

mike65

Holy crap! Now it will be 6-2 Sorry Ronan|Raven!

Mike.

MisterAnarchy

Where is our 'Talismatic' captain Robbie Keane.
Himself and Clinton Morrison arent fit to play Sunday league.
10 goals conceded i our last 3 matches,that more than we conceded in the whole of the last campaign.

ninebeanrows

At least we have Wednesday for us the Irish fans to vent our anger and frustration at Irish football.

I fully expect to see ringing boos and chants of get stan out throughout the game..

I really really cannot believe what i am witnessing

I've now stopped watching the game.

slumped

Babybing wrote:

Slumped are you taking the hit and miss? You think Martin Jol should leave spurs yet Staunton should stay on? 5-2 isnt a bad result its an absolute embarassment!:mad: :mad: :mad:

Stan has only had a few matches, Jol is different altogether.

Let's give Stan at least 5 more matches before we call for his head.

S

Collie D

Can't blame Staunton, he's still goinf through post-traumatic stress from being held up by a plastic gun in the notorious crime blackspot that is Portmarnock

Thanx 4 The Fish

Weathercheck wrote:

I predicted a bad week for Irish football but i could not of comprhended this

Tonight we saw the death of Irish international football

What in the name of god are you talking about ? Is this a bit of overreaction maybe ? It's a loss, there were players unavailable, live with it and look forward to the next game.

pp_me129

NO! his head is now gone and its his own fault

tdv

Bring back Big Jack

Ruu_Old

Even the rte.ie matchtracker is disgusted!

GOAL! Cyprus 5 Ireland 2. Paddy Kenny makes a fantastic save to deny Constandinou. However, Charalambidis follows up to slot home his second goal after coming on as a substitute. This is embarassing.

tdv

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote:

What in the name of god are you talking about ? Is this a bit of overreaction maybe ? It's a loss, there were players unavailable, live with it and look forward to the next game.

I like your attitude. Bring on the Czechs well walk all over them

slumped

pp_me129 wrote:

NO! his head is now gone and its his own fault

Hey, lets not turn into the English tabloid media, calling for the boss to go after just a few matches in charge.

Stan is the man, let's get behind him.

It's going to be a slow process.

S

Collie D

I blame TV3, this would never have happened under George Hamilton's watchful eye

slumped

what odds will you get on Ireland finishing bottom of the group??

S

ninebeanrows

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote:

What in the name of god are you talking about ? Is this a bit of overreaction maybe ? It's a loss, there were players unavailable, live with it and look forward to the next game.

It's a loss?

Are you joking?

This is the worst night in Irish football for decades decades

We have time we have only played 2 qualifiers and the one next week

We have time to get new management in place.. we should beat San marino
in november with even this team so we have a few months for the FAI to roll and for a new management team to put in place.

There is no rebuilding. we have gotten 100 fold worse since Staunton arrived.

We must stop the rot and stop it TONIGHT

yop

I cannot get my head around this one at all, we seems to be totally dis-interested and the "defence" is the worst I have ever seen in green.
Our B team would defend better than these clowns!!

We are missing players but these guys are nearly all playing in the PL for gods sake!!
But a defence who has o'shea and that muppet O'Brien is goin to leak.

What we will do on Wed night is worrying!
But when we don't have the players, we don't have them!

A Dub in Glasgo

Ruu wrote:

Even the rte.ie matchtracker is disgusted!

and the BBC matchtracker

1900: GOAL Cyprus 5-2 Republic of Ireland
Constantinos Charalambidis extends the lead for Cyprus, slotting home a rebound after Paddy Kenny makes a brilliant point-blank save.

This is turning into an embarrassing afternoon for manager Steve Staunton.

this is embarrassing..

so embarrassing

slumped

slumped wrote:

It's going to be a slow process.

We're getting poorer faster than we're getting better, so it mightn't be as slow as you think!

slumped

Collie D wrote:

I blame TV3, this would never have happened under George Hamilton's watchful eye

Let's all e-mail TV3 now, info@tv3.ie and tell them it's their fault for this embarassing result.

Czech Rep must be pissing themselves with laughter tonight,

Man of Match goes to Aidan mcGeady - according to Brian Kerr.

Why not a Cypriot??

S

Chardee MacDennis

sjones wrote:

That happened when we missed that penno against Spain oh so long ago.

agreed. look at our first xi

Kenny - championship player shouldnt be there but no choice
finnan - arguably the best rb in the league
o'brien - disgraceful player
dunne - solid prem defender
o'shea - how he gets into any utd or ireland team amazes me
mcgeady - unproven at intl level but always plays well for celtic
kilbane - useless
ireland - unproven at intl level but performing well in the pl
duff - great lw needs a good team around him
keane - one of the best strikers in the league - a perfect footballer according to moratti
morrison - shouldnt ever play for us - championship level

even with the weakness in there it boggles the mind how we can perform this poorly. look at teams like bolton, wigan etc who have mediocre squads but the management brings the best out of them and makes sure tactically they are always spot on.

in the end i put the blame on the manager.

mike65

Think of this period like this - a year ago Scotish football was on its knees.

Mike.

slumped

mike65 wrote:

Think of this period like this - a year ago Scotish football was on its knees.

Mike.

well said

bbbbb

This is very bad for us, not just the obvious embarassment with tonights result but what it means for the future.
We're now going to slide further down the world rankings, finishing even 3rd or 4th in the group now looks like being difficult, which will give us more difficult draws for future world cup qualifiers & euro championships.
Young up and coming players, that might also have Welsh/English/Scottish/NI "grandmothers" are going to be less likely to declare for us.

A Dub in Glasgo

mike65 wrote:

Think of this period like this - a year ago Scotish football was on its knees.

Mike.

and they got rid of their manager

~Rebel~

I dont think this can really be compared to the normal sitution of a slow start for a manager, this has been terrible from a man who should never have been in there in the first place anyway! I think we can unanimously agree he wasn't even in the top 10 of ANYBODYS possible, realistic options for Manager. I thought it was ok with Bobby being in there, it made it not too bad as i was expecting bobby to be basically calling everything, which would have been greand, but with him out of commission, Stan has nothing. We're trusting our coutries team entirely to the former wallsall waterboy.

Collie D

If anyone can pick an Irish man of the match out of that they desevre better than a pair of tickets to the Czech game, why not a week in Baghdad or something

tdv

slumped wrote:

It's going to be a slow process.

S

Its slowest process in the history of processing stuff.