Rep of Ireland v Russia - 8th/Oct/2010

ctrl-alt-delete

Funeral mass is over,
Stay tuned for the burial.

KungPao

I hope Russia start to tire or something...or complacent and we work ourselves back into it.

Clutching at straws here



Our positional play has been atrocious....

Hopefully it's a game of 2 halves!

Come on trap, work some magic at HT

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Some one give Kilbane a shotgun....

Mr.Nice Guy

bonerm wrote: »

Don't suppose we have Rocky on the bench?

Don't think so. This is our bench:

Subs: Westwood, Fahey, McShane, Long, Gibson, Keogh, Cunningham.

Doesn't instil much confidence does it?

cson

rarnes1 wrote: »

Dunne is having a mare

He's far from the worst out there. Plus the guy isn't 100% fit either.

Johner

I'm moving from Cobra onto the Captain Morgans.

bonerm

Maybe not playing into the "shít-end" of the stadium will inspire the team in the 2nd half.

JerryHandbag

Dont know what we can do to reverse this tbh. Couldve been a cricket score already. Never seen Ireland so outplayed at home in a qualifier.

Maybe an early goal from a set piece might drag us back into it, but is anyone confident that Russia have finished their scoring for the night?

d22ontour

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Don't think so. This is our bench:

Subs: Westwood, Fahey, McShane, Long, Gibson, Keogh, Cunningham.

Doesn't instil much confidence does it?

Fahey and Gibson on couldn't be any worse tbh.

bluefinger

KungPao wrote: »

I hope Russia start to tire or something...or complacent and we work ourselves back into it.

Clutching at straws here



Our positional play has been atrocious....

Hopefully it's a game of 2 halves!

Come on trap, work some magic at HT

or get 2 or 3 players sent off.

Jimmyboss

Gibson and Cunningham on for Whelan and Green, O'Shea to midfield with Gibson, he's played there before.......

heavyballs

Kilbaine and Aidan seem to hate each other,no talking at all ,just moaning,noticed it at the last home match where i was seated in the front row,made it much more obvious

fred funk }{

Lads, with the players we have I think the long ball is our best tactic. We haven't the ability to pass it around like the Russians do.

Our best bet is to lump it up to Doyle, hopefully he'll knock it down to someone and we go from there. Sh1te as it is it's our best bet.

cson

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Funeral mass is over,
Stay tuned for the burial.

Very good. :pac:

KungPao wrote: »

Hopefully it's a game of 2 halves!

Come on trap, work some magic at HT

We're going to be beaten in the first half, and we're going to be beaten in the second half?

FlawedGenius

SHOCKING STUFF.
Trap out please, sick of his selections, were not better than Russia but were not that bad either..nothing on the bench
Get Trap out and give it to someone who can pick a team. This was always waiting to happen. KILBANE??????? WTF TRAP:(:mad::(:mad:

bonerm

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Dont know what we can do to reverse this tbh. Couldve been a cricket score already. Never seen Ireland so outplayed at home in a qualifier.

Reminds me of home to Spain 1993. Spain totally destroyed us that day and were 3-0 up at HT. Prob could have won 7-0 if they'd wanted to.

jayteecork

Bill O'Herlihy "What a BUMMER of a first half"

lol.

Panthro

lob on Gibson and take a chance on Cunningham
and text Rocky someone.

ultain

Gotta stop kicking the ball out to the Russians:rolleyes:

The Muppet

MEH

MagicMarker

I have to say the studio design is shockingly bad.

Leiva

Green is getting s schooling needs to be replaced immediatly .

Dempsey

jayteecork wrote: »

Bill O'Herlihy "What a BUMMER of a first half"

lol.

Nail on the head though!

Lord Trollington

FlawedGenius wrote: »

SHOCKING STUFF.
Trap out please, sick of his selections, were not better than Russia but were not that bad either..nothing on the bench
Get Trap out and give it to someone who can pick a team. This was always waiting to happen. KILBANE??????? WTF TRAP:(:mad::(:mad:

Holy God, over reaction much.

karma_

Well that was dire. Can Ireland actually pass a fcukin ball at all? Most of these guys play in the prem but you wouldn't guess that from this match.

Paul Green is the worst player by far out there tonight, just how does he keep someone like McCarthy out of this team?

jonnyfingers

Our midfield is shocking. Absolutely nothing coming from them. Green should never be an international footballer.

bonerm

Anyone wish we'd go back to the McCarthy style? This is not a team playing to their strengths and even when he lost games under him it was decent to watch.

This game is already over.

karma_

jonnyfingers wrote: »

Our midfield is shocking. Absolutely nothing coming from them. Green should never be an international footballer.

Completely agree about our midfield, it is completely devoid of anything tonight.

FlawedGenius

FlawedGenius wrote: »

SHOCKING STUFF.
Trap out please, sick of his selections, were not better than Russia but were not that bad either..nothing on the bench
Get Trap out and give it to someone who can pick a team. This was always waiting to happen. KILBANE??????? WTF TRAP:(:mad::(:mad:

Can't blame Trap.

He's working with sub standard players.

Also our captain and vice captain can't even get a game with their clubs

JerryHandbag

bonerm wrote: »

Reminds me of home to Spain 1993. Spain totally destroyed us that day and were 3-0 up at HT. Prob could have won 7-0 if they'd wanted to.

LOL that game came into my head when they got the 2nd. Watched it at school :pac:

KungPao

cson wrote: »

We're going to be beaten in the first half, and we're going to be beaten in the second half?

Yes

cson

MagicMarker wrote: »

I have to say the studio design is shockingly bad.

Wouldn't be a huge fan of the oul pink myself.

And lads, Whelan is worse than Green out there. Green is bad but at least I know he's playing, Whelan has been completely anonymous.

Give credit to the Ruskies as well; they are playing very well bar the odd shaky spot at the back.

Mr.Nice Guy

whycliff wrote: »

Holy God, over reaction much.

I wouldn't call for his head just yet personally but a wake up call like this has been coming. All the 'Trap has been getting results' comments are going to dry up if we lose and fall short against Slovakia.

Too much muck being selected who just aren't up to it.

Lord Trollington

Is it me or are we as a sporting nation slow in terms of pace?

Our 4 midfielder look like they are jogging back when Russia attack. You could take all 4 midfielders off to be fair. You can't single out any of them.

The only player that we seem to have of any real class is Kevin Doyle.

cson

Christ Akinfeev is overrated, all our chances have been his near **** ups.

FlawedGenius

No its not, we wouldnt be losing here if we had, Andy Reid, Gibson, Coleman, Mcarthy, Cunningham, Sheridan, wed at least play better. fcuk traps system he hasnt even got us the results we failed to qualify for World Cup and we win against the minos, wooopdeedooo

FatherTed

Time for Trap's plan B! (whatever that is)

Xavi6

So who's going to start the 'Are Trap and Ireland done?' thread?!

Dempsey

rarnes1 wrote: »

Can't blame Trap.

He's working with sub standard players.

Also our captain and vice captain can't even get a game with their clubs

Not to bring it up again but he's left better players at home so you can blame Trap

LowOdour

i dont rate gibson at all so i think fahey is the only choice. Id say he will put keogh on first...im going to cry

cson

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I wouldn't call for his head just yet personally but a wake up call like this has been coming. All the 'Trap has been getting results' comments are going to dry up if we lose and fall short against Slovakia.

Too much muck being selected who just aren't up to it.

To be fair to him, Killer and Green aside you'd stuggle to really improve upon the 11 that are out there imo.

Now that doesn't account for his tactics and stubborness but anyway...

bonerm

FatherTed wrote: »

Time for Trap's plan B! (whatever that is)

That would be launching useless long balls into the opposition box and praying for a bit of luck. Oh wait....

el dude

We need to.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PT65I2ny8

ultain

Should put derval o'rourke up front

MUSEIST

We are sh!t:(

Souless

whycliff wrote: »

Is it me or are we as a sporting nation slow in terms of pace?

Our 4 midfielder look like they are jogging back when Russia attack. You could take all 4 midfielders off to be fair. You can't single out any of them.

The only player that we seem to have of any real class is Kevin Doyle.

He just doesnt pick any of our midfielders with pace he's happier playing 2 slow defensive mid-fielders, we've only pace on the wings, our best chance is like people said long balls or catching them on the counter down the wings when their fullbacks get forward. Lets just hope the 2nd half goes a lot f*ckin better than the 1st!

Nearly certain he wont change anything following half time.

jonnyfingers

whycliff wrote: »

Is it me or are we as a sporting nation slow in terms of pace?

Our 4 midfielder look like they are jogging back when Russia attack. You could take all 4 midfielders off to be fair. You can't single out any of them.

The only player that we seem to have of any real class is Kevin Doyle.

Well look at our midfield. Three of them, Green, Lawrence and Whelan are defensive. McGeady has talent but has terrible decision making. Green and Whelan are there to break down play but haven't gotten near the Russian midfield so they're largely redundant. Both avoid the ball like the plague and Green has the touch of a rapist to be honest, passing to him is a liability.

I'd love to see Fahy in for Green, possibly Gibson on as well but I don't think he's good enough. Wish McCarthy was on the bench. Even Andy Reid would do, at least he could string together a few passes.

But I think the Russians are just far superior. We'll have to play out of our skin to get back into this game.

karma_

FlawedGenius wrote: »

No its not, we wouldnt be losing here if we had, Andy Reid, Gibson, Coleman, Mcarthy, Cunningham, Sheridan, wed at least play better. fcuk traps system he hasnt even got us the results we failed to qualify for World Cup and we win against the minos, wooopdeedooo

I'd even throw Delap in there, at least there would be a bit of an attacking threat from his throws.

JerryHandbag

Sickening thing is we had a good first 10 mins and shouldve scored. Would that goal have had any bearing on what followed.....probably not

cson

Predictions for the 2nd half gentlemen?

Score: 3-1

1st Change: 70th Minute