Slovakia v Ireland - 12th October - K/O 19:30

_Bella_

Poor ending. We really should have won, 2 sitters and a peno.

everdead.ie

That's it should of been 3 points very disappointing

Sherifu

****

CSF

Robbie really has to take the blame for this one, not just the penalty too.

JamBur

el dude wrote: »

Define "good shift"

He had some nice touches, he worked hard. Its a pity about the peno. Wasnt at the races in 2nd half, mainly due to a lack of supply

cruiserweight

Would have been happy with a point at the start, but given how the game went I am disappointed with it

Mars Bar

Ugh.

TheJesusWarrant

Well that's it, another major tournament will pass us by. This side is so frustrating to watch.

Gonzovision

Poor result

Mr.Nice Guy

SantryRed wrote: »

I'm talking about his general play. He has offered nothing except being king moaner to the referee. Even if he didn't miss the peno tonight he was still sh1te. Even though he scored a peno on Friday he was still sh1te.

People were saying Green was sh*te and wanted Gibson on. The result is we played worse. Same thing will happen with Keane. He constantly gets bashed yet imo his plusses outweigh the negatives.

NickDrake wrote:

Clown! Missed two sitters as well my friend. He is shocking tonight . Just admit it. What is it with ye dubs and Keane??

How am I a clown for wanting a guy who scored in his last 2 games to feature? The fact he is a Dub is irrelevant. He is our leading goalscorer and would be better than the alternatives.

Raskolnikov

Why can't we put a team to the sword when we're given the chance? Slovakia were a shambles defensively and we should have taken advantage.

Manc-Red

JamBur wrote: »

He had some nice touches, he worked hard. Its a pity about the peno. Wasnt at the races in 2nd half, mainly due to a lack of supply

Keane looked dog rough, the second chance really highlighted that

dublincelt

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

Lack of first team match practice has effected us tbh.

Keane playing regularly would have had a hat trick tonight.

I can't understand peoples sudden hate towards him, idiots tbh.

He's our all time top goal scorer, and nearly always gets us a goal when we need it.

Sure, he's had 2 off games in a row, but give the man a break. He's been living off scraps for the most part.

He would have been better off playing first team football on loan. Even in the SPL for Celtic. Match sharpness has gone completely. A player as good as Robbie needs first team football.

In saying all that though. We will struggle to get to the Euro Finals...

Kristopherus

Well, at least we scored. England have'nt yet. 65 mins gone

aidan24326

We may come to regret this result as 2 points dropped. And the poxy Russians saved a penalty in their match too to keep it 1-0. Keane really doesn't look sharp at all.

witnessmenow

Anyone else disgusted that the ref didnt blow up on their attack, and did on ours, with a 20-30 seconds left to play on the clock?

NickDrake

JamBur wrote: »

He had some nice touches, he worked hard. Its a pity about the peno. Wasnt at the races in 2nd half, mainly due to a lack of supply

He did not have nice touches. Shane Long had. Long outclassed him tonight. He really needs to look at himself. Outshone by his co striker yet again

Kylo Ren

Ah well we're handy enough at the rugby...

LowOdour

maybe the reason keane doesnt get a game for spurs is because he shows the same 'i dont need to prove myself' attitude he has with ireland

Manc-Red

TheJesusWarrant wrote: »

Well that's it, another major tournament will pass us by. This side is so frustrating to watch.

Early doors yet.

NUTZZ

Kristopherus wrote: »

Well, at least we scored. England have'nt yet. 65 mins gone

England will qualify, we won't after tonight

Raskolnikov

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

People were saying Green was sh*te and wanted Gibson on. The result is we played worse. Same thing will happen with Keane. He constantly gets bashed yet imo his plusses outweigh the negatives.

What's the alternative? Anthony Stokes, Caleb Folan? Let's get real.

SantryRed

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

People were saying Green was sh*te and wanted Gibson on. The result is we played worse. Same thing will happen with Keane. He constantly gets bashed yet imo his plusses outweigh the negatives.

I'm sorry but Green going off had nothing to do with us playing worse. The rot had already set in. Once we score,, regardless of the personnel we always lose control of the game. Hope Trappatoni's contract isn't renewed after this campaign. His methods are outdated.

FREETV

everdead.ie wrote: »

That's it should of been 3 points very disappointing

Poor performance from a very poor and overrated team. They are useless upfront and cannot create chances or even master the basics.

Carcharodon

baldbear wrote: »

You should write for the Sun!!!! He isn't playing regular football at Spurs and it's showing big time tonight.

I was dead serious :rolleyes: tongue in cheek....

But Keane was very poor tonight and no one can argue with that and the fact he is not playing regular football at Spurs, is that a defense of his poor performance, if so fair enough but he is so so frustrating and he is not producing for Ireland.

Aidric

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Why can't we put a team to the sword when we're given the chance? Slovakia were a shambles defensively and we should have taken advantage.

Yep. Muck result quite frankly. Slovakia were very much for the taking. These are the games that will be looked back on achingly.

Keane has to ship most of the blame for tonight.

JerryHandbag

Same ol ****in story....never really believed we could win this game. Cant beat a decent team away from home, Robbie Keane should just move in January tbh

el dude

JamBur wrote: »

He had some nice touches, he worked hard. Its a pity about the peno. Wasnt at the races in 2nd half, mainly due to a lack of supply

Sure how can you supply him when he spends the 90 minutes running away from the ball?

madma

our lock gets worse.. peno missed and macedonia miss a penalty. looks like another battle for the playoff spot.

Lord Trollington

Kristopherus wrote: »

Well, at least we scored. England have'nt yet. 65 mins gone

Who d **** gives a f*ck about the ***** across the water couldn care if they never scored, or if they scored 20.

It has nothing to do with our resilt tonight.

Desperate housewives time...

pistolpetes11

Dunphy hit the nail on the head there about keane , "were starting to see the effects of keane not playing for Spurs at the moment" !

Patser

Let's look on the bright sides here.

Defence was very solid with St Ledger playing very well. Ok Kilbane on JOS offer little going forward, but for all Slovakia's possesion 2nd half they had very few chances to show for it.

McGeady is definately startting to show the spark of something, he's still relatively young so can develope. I'd rather see him going more for a goal sometimes, rather than attempting crosses. 1 goal and I'd reckon he'd be flying. Brill bravery for peno too.

Long shows we do have an alternative to Doyle (or Keane when Doyle comes back), but for a while there literally only seemed to be Doyle and Keane.

And after last Friday, that was a much better performance. I'd settle for 2nd in the group and qualification (and I'd have done it from the start too)

el dude

So Long and Doyle for thre next game? Doyle's been our best player the last few months, Long played much better than Keane tonight.

baldbear

James McCathy should be playing. Trapps is a great man for snubbing players.

TheJesusWarrant

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Robbie Keane should just move in January tbh

He should have gone in the last window, he knew Redknapp didn't fancy him. Plenty of mid to lower table sides would have had him. He'd rather sit on his huge wages. Should have given up his automatic starting spot after such an act of greed.

Diabhal Beag

Robbie has cost us the 3 points tonight. Smug bastard shaking hands after the match as if he contributed anything positive. Any one of 3 chances would have won the match for us.

Don't believe the bollocks that he would have scored if he was playing regular football. Any one of the those chances were harder to miss than score.

Nothing good from this performance. We gave away a lead and had the opportunity to regain it. We were headless chickens (no offense to all headless chickens out there) after the penalty miss.

If Hamsik played better we would have lost.

The state of Irish football.

JamBur

NickDrake wrote: »

He did not have nice touches. Shane Long had. Long outclassed him tonight. He really needs to look at himself. Outshone by his co striker yet again

FFS, it annoys me how negative people are. I admit that it wasn't a vintage Keane performance, but he was in no way a candidate for dropping. We've a limited pool of talent, Keane is one of our greatest ever (Im not a Dub)

He's in a valley at the moment, but stick with him and he will give returns again.

jayteecork

lol @ Brady

"Russia and Slovakia were in the world cup. They got to last 16 in World Cup"

lmao!

FREETV

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Same ol ****in story....never really believed we could win this game. Cant beat a decent team away from home, Robbie Keane should just move in January tbh

How can we win any games when we cannot even get shots on target and are afraid to take shots and keep passing the buck instead of taking initative. The goal posts are wide enough! No excuses! There is nobody of the quality of Stephen Ireland upfront in that panel!

Kristopherus

I have'nt seen anything here about the other matches. Scot 2 Spain 2. Scot were 2 down. 73 mins. Switz 4, Wales 1 - result. England 0, Mont 0, 71 mins

FREETV

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Robbie has cost us the 3 points tonight. Smug bastard shaking hands after the match as if he contributed anything positive. Any one of 3 chances would have won the match for us.

Don't believe the bollocks that he would have scored if he was playing regular football. Any one of the those chances were harder to miss than score.

Nothing good from this performance. We gave away a lead and had the opportunity to regain it. We were headless chickens (no offense to all headless chickens out there) after the penalty miss.

If Hamsik played better we would have lost.

The state of Irish football.

Keane is a poor finisher!

NickDrake

JamBur wrote: »

FFS, it annoys me how negative people are. I admit that it wasn't a vintage Keane performance, but he was in no way a candidate for dropping. We've a limited pool of talent, Keane is one of our greatest ever (Im not a Dub)

He's in a valley at the moment, but stick with him and he will give returns again.

You keep believing that

pistolpetes11

Keane should just head back to Celtic , granted the league is terrible but at least he would not be as ring rusty and might even be coming into games on the back of bagging a few goals !!!

FREETV

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Robbie has cost us the 3 points tonight. Smug bastard shaking hands after the match as if he contributed anything positive. Any one of 3 chances would have won the match for us.

Don't believe the bollocks that he would have scored if he was playing regular football. Any one of the those chances were harder to miss than score.

Nothing good from this performance. We gave away a lead and had the opportunity to regain it. We were headless chickens (no offense to all headless chickens out there) after the penalty miss.

If Hamsik played better we would have lost.

The state of Irish football.

We probably won't qualify again!

Andy Reid is the answer

TheJesusWarrant

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Keane should just head back to Celtic , granted the league is terrible but at least he would not be as ring rusty and might even be coming into games on the back of bagging a few goals !!!

He's welcome back but won't go because he'd have to take a pay cut.

Diabhal Beag

FREETV wrote: »

We probably won't qualify again!

Not after the last two showings

Patser

rarnes1 wrote: »

Andy Reid is the answer

or Stephen Ireland;)

Blood pressure across this board just shot up.:pac:

Kristian_

Bunch of f**king wasters imo, so much dead wood in this team including Keane. He's been a great player in the past for Ireland but lets face it he's past it.

population

I reckon Trap aims for 2nd place in each campaign. He showed the worst Italian team in living memory too much respect, and he is constantly setting out his teams to pick up draws in utterly winnable games. He has no faith in his players and frankly i feel that has to be a pre requisite for any manager