Ireland are playing tonight - containing a lot of scores, hopefully

Vokes

Ywah, after watching the replay, looks like it was going wide so I reckon it's an o.g.

Pacifico

Is Andy Reid the most unfit professional footballer ever....??

The_B_Man

is there anywhere to watch this online? im ragin that im in work and cant see it! prob only chance ill have of seein ireland scoring a few goals!

dr.bollocko

They seem to have lost all bite since the goal. I mean surely its a matter of time until the 2nd but the irish passing is lazy and they seem to be greedy with possession, losing a lot of ball on the wings.

GuanYin

Pacifico wrote:

Is Andy Reid the most unfit professional footballer ever....??

Yes, because unfit fat players play first team premiership football and get picked for thenational team.

If you're going to post stupid pointless crap, find somewhere else.

The1337_Stephen

2-0 Kevin Doyle

Guy:Incognito

Whats with SM on corners? They come into a match knowing they are going ot lose, it's just a matter of how many. Yet when they get near Irelands goal and get a corner, they have 3 players in the box. Surley sticking 7 or 8 in the box and hoping for a goal is better than 3 and guarenteeing you wont score.

Doyle 2-0.

psi wrote:

Yes, because unfit fat players play first team premiership football and get picked for thenational team.

Jan Molby?

The_B_Man

http://www.rte.ie/aertel/p222.htm says it was an OG.

Xavi6

What a header!!!!

dr.bollocko

2-0!

Gillie

Great header. More of that please!
A lot of the passing has been poor from us so far!

Mossy Monk

go on Kevin Doyle

Vokes

Good goal.

Thats what we need more of - sweeping the ball out wide to stretch out their defence. Tis pointless trying to dribble through 6 defenders in the centre.

The1337_Stephen

Ohhh, nearly a 3rd from kilbane, their starting to pick up some slack

dr.bollocko

Finally the crowd seem interested in the game. And they are starting to use their possession a little bit more. Finnan is making some nice shapes.


phuaargh. Close with that header.

The1337_Stephen

3-0 Keane GO ON!

Gillie

3-0. Robbie
Delighted for him

dr.bollocko

Keano!!! Keano!!!!!

Pacifico

Quality stuff

Vokes

Live Text here for the other group game. Draw would be perfect

The1337_Stephen

Take O'Shea off and we'll be up 5 or 6, if he cant put an easy shot on target why bother try

Kingp35

3-0 up bit still dont think we are playing that well. The passing needs to be better. This team are rubbish and there are loads more goals in this.

Terrific header from Doyle for the second and glad Keane finally got another goal. That should give him the confidence to get some more now.

Need to up the pace and tempo in the second half. Move the ball quicker and get the passing going and can easily score another 3 or 4 goals.

darkman2

I get the impression there is just too much build up play from Ireland. More aggression please, were playing a pub team. BTW nobody should be happy with a 3 - 0 from this game.

P.S Doyles header was class and a neat, controlled finish from Keane.

Johnny_the_fox

is nobody watching the same match as me??

ireland are shocking.. they can hardly get 5 passes together!!

Gillie

O'Shea and Duff are not playing well. Kilbane is playing great stuff IMO.

The1337_Stephen

What a crappy keeper they have, practically threw it to Doyles head

StickyMcGinty

SofaKing wrote:

Live Text here for the other group game. Draw would be perfect

not really, we need germany to run away with this group

The1337_Stephen

Was falling asleep here, then wham, great touches and a good bit of play

PENALTY!

dr.bollocko

Trabopaline!!!

The1337_Stephen

Lol first time in 5 years ireland have scored 4

dr.bollocko

"All that cheering was because of a streaker that didn't even streak." :eek:

The1337_Stephen

Yay, Duff the second just came on >.<

Vokes

FT in Cyprus, 1-1.

dr.bollocko

Germany 1 - 1 cyprus Full time.
Actually I think Cyprus were at home.

joebhoy1916

VinnyL wrote:

not really, we need germany to run away with this group

No draw is better which it was.

GuanYin

6 points behind Czechs and Germany after this game.

We'll need to turn them both over at home and hope that they don't draw to have a chance of 2nd - and thats assuming we beat wales, slovakia and cyprus.

joebhoy1916

Yeah but isnt our next game is against same team but we will have 7 points.

The1337_Stephen

Hat Trick Robbie Keane

dr.bollocko

That makes the score line more respectable.
But the performance so far is pisspoor.
I genuinely think this match has done us no good at all.

GuanYin

It has been a poor performance - O'Shea especially has done himself no favours whatsoever here.

The sad thing is, I think this result may gloss over the severe problems the ireland team have.

The way San Marino were playing 5-0 is a good result for them.

fade2black

But what do you and George Hamilton want the team to do?? Physically murder some of the san marino players?

There's not much you can do against these teams except beat them.

Xavi6

fade2black wrote:

But what do you and George Hamilton want the team to do?? Physically murder some of the san marino players?

There's not much you can do against these teams except beat them.

Well you can at least get the basics right. O'Shea was awful. Couldn't pass or cross the ball all game. Kilbane's touch in the second half was laughable. The result is acceptable but the performance of some players is not.

fade2black

Also...is Dunphy drunk?

Thanx 4 The Fish

Knowing his previous it would be a fair bet.

The1337_Stephen

Sounds and looks like it alright

GuanYin

fade2black wrote:

There's not much you can do against these teams except beat them.

Thats true, you can only beat the opposition put in front of you, but you should always do it playing your best game.

Ireland should have a set way of playing, they should focus on playing that way and they should focus on playing it well.

What we've seen today has been a haphazard display with poor passing, awful positional sense and an unwillingness to communicate or look around.

Had Ireland been more clinical and done the simple things right, that could easily have been 10-nil, because don't doubt for a second, that San Marino team have nothing more than you saw tonight.

Instead you have players making simple errors that you'd chastise schoolboy teams for making. Thats not good enough and it is simply down to poor management and bad player attitude (not all players were like this - I thought a few players had a good game - but not the team as a whole).

Incidently, I'm not in Ireland so I don't have access to RTE and have no idea what George is saying. My views are my own.

BaZmO*

~Rebel~ wrote:

Jeez its just my opinion, you sounded fierce offended there! obviously these people have reasons for selecting him.

No not at all, I just think it's too easy for armchair pundits to take swipes at players like Kilbane who, when you look at it, has been playing at such a high level for most of his career, so he must be doing something right. And as I've said before, plenty of managers would testify to that.

~Rebel~ wrote:

Personally though, I think if we're going to play players around the 30mark when we're supposed to be building for the future, then they'd better be vital players, like carsley and Finnan. Wasn't that the reason Carsley was dropped sure, that Stan wanted to build, yet Kilbane, who id imagine everyone would agree is an inferior Midfielder to Carsley has always been starting there. it doesnt make sense.

If we had more injuries and needed cover then fair enough. I think he should be in the squad, but seeing as he's just 30 and isn't anything particularly special, and since Ireland are apparently building for the next world cup, should we not start using some of the younger players who are probably in or about the same level and who we'll be relying upon in a year or two?

Fo me, you should always play your best players, and whether you, me, or anybody else for that matter likes it or not we haven't hadf anybody that's been much better than Kilbane for quite some time. And as for Carsley, he's only back because we have such a week midfield now, which proves the point thatyou should play your best (and proven) players.


As for the result, meh! 5 against a group of part timers ain't that great but we were never th type of team that puts many away against the opposition regardless of their quality and it's always difficult to play against the 1-9-1 formation.

BaZmO* wrote:

I'm gonna go with a 5-0 or 6-0 with a Robbie Keane hat-trick.

Glad I put that 50 quid on it now!!!

fade2black

Apologies PSI, we replied at the same time...I was referring to the chap who posted before you.

darkman2

We have a chance in this group now with that result in Cyprus. The top teams will take points of each other.

The difficulty for us of course is taking each game as it comes and getting the correct result. I think tbh Ireland ALWAYS perform better against better opposition.

The1337_Stephen

Of course we do, we take easy teams for granted and don't play it simple and Intact