Ireland vs Croatia - Match thread

eagle eye

eagle eye wrote: »

Personally the only change I'd like to see is Kelly coming in for either Andrews or Whelan and JOS pushed into midfield. We need somebody to shut down Modric I think and imo O'Shea can do that.

Ugh, no, no, no:(

:eek:

O'Shea has been the fault of the first and third goal tonight.

Bodhisopha

markie29 wrote: »

3 goals that should and could have been stopped ...luck of the irish my arse

Wouldn't be here without luck. We are, and have been rubbish.

Red Crow

Our defence is brutal and we look soft which is surprising in comparison to the campaign to get us here.

dsmythy

Pull one back and you never know I guess.

dsmythy

Wait what?

kingshankly

Mc clean please

JaMarcus Hustle

McGeady instead of Duff?

kitakyushu

Looks like they're going into "Bari" mode.

aaronh007

aaronh007 wrote: »

Shay Given, perfect name. Given goals left, right and centre

Stupid comment. Nothing he could do about any of those goals tonight.

helimachoptor

dsmythy wrote: »

Pull one back and you never know I guess.

Get one back and we'll go hard at it for an equaliser

markie29

confusing subs there ...no idea what the plan is now

yomtea98

markie29 wrote: »

confusing subs there ...no idea what the plan is now

Score

WIZE

it will end 3-3

bizmark

helimachoptor wrote: »

Get one back and we'll go hard at it for an equaliser

bad this is you can almost be sure they will retreat into their shell and die on their ass again

V480

I have a vague recollection of Ken Early on Newstalk saying a few months ago that Ireland will probably be one of those awful teams that loses every game and stinks out the tournament. Those words are ringing in my ears now....

Pacing Mule

Who brought the sheep ?

fullstop

What a load of ****e this is. How much are we going to stand off them in the final 3rd?! 2 left wingers on the bench and he brings on a striker to play left wing ...

kitakyushu

WIZE wrote: »

it will end 3-3

What are you smoking? (This game clearly has 5-3 win for Ireland written all over it.)

ctrl-alt-delete

markie29 wrote: »

confusing subs there ...no idea what the plan is now

Out of character, but obviously recognises the wingers are null and void as is, so no point in McClean.

Doyle didn't do much wrong, but he was never gonna take off Keane.

tdv123

To be fair to them there way out of there depth to begin with & way too much pressure put on them to deliver espically from Dunphy who just hammered them for years & then just jumped on the bandwagon when he felt like it.

I never expected us to make the quarters or infact even qualify for the tournament so we should be happy were even there.

tayto lover

We need to score very soon to get back into this.

Stinicker

We are being exposed now for what we are. Fine thing we never qualified tbh, the Spain and Italy result today will now result in both teams using as a cannon fodder to see who can top the table on goal difference. This tournament will do more damage than good to Irish football and leave a whole generation with memories of losers in recessionary times. I hope something happens now to get us expelled from the tournament to save face.

kitakyushu

Take away far post corners and direct free kicks and we're .... eh .... pretty much out of ideas it seems.

markie29

nice to see ivory coast fans at the game too

shrewdness

Deleted User wrote: »

Stupid comment. Nothing he could do about any of those goals tonight.

I'm a Given fan but he clearly could have done better for the first.

fullstop

JaMarcus Hustle wrote: »

McGeady instead of Duff?

McGeady was absolute muck. That ball he played into midfield after the 3rd goal summed up his performance.

tdv123

Deleted User wrote: »

Stupid comment. Nothing he could do about any of those goals tonight.

He could have positioned himself much better for the first goal.

SirDelboy18

Keane has done absolutely nothing in this game. I know he can nick a goal, but Shane Long would offer us that and much more.

luckyfrank

Stinicker wrote: »

We are being exposed now for what we are. Fine thing we never qualified tbh, the Spain and Italy result today will now result in both teams using as a cannon fodder to see who can top the table on goal difference. This tournament will do more damage than good to Irish football and leave a whole generation with memories of losers in recessionary times. I hope something happens now to get us expelled from the tournament to save face.

you'll never beat the irish 3-3 fnal score

Mr.Crinklewood

In fairness, if we get the next goal you never know.

WIZE

COMON IRELAND

bizmark

Stinicker wrote: »

We are being exposed now for what we are. Fine thing we never qualified tbh, the Spain and Italy result today will now result in both teams using as a cannon fodder to see who can top the table on goal difference. This tournament will do more damage than good to Irish football and leave a whole generation with memories of losers in recessionary times. I hope something happens now to get us expelled from the tournament to save face.

:linkin park:

d22ontour

Stinicker wrote: »

I hope something happens now to get us expelled from the tournament to save face.

http://bit.ly/N05UNK

Xavi6

Cox as a winger. Wonderful.

tdv123

Stinicker wrote: »

We are being exposed now for what we are. Fine thing we never qualified tbh, the Spain and Italy result today will now result in both teams using as a cannon fodder to see who can top the table on goal difference. This tournament will do more damage than good to Irish football and leave a whole generation with memories of losers in recessionary times. I hope something happens now to get us expelled from the tournament to save face.

I don't go along with that, will be a good leraning experience for the young players in the squad.

dsmythy

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

Keane has done absolutely nothing in this game. I know he can nick a goal, but Shane Long would offer us that and much more.

What do you want him to do when the ball is hoofed left right and centre. At least now we're trying to pass it. Keane should slowly get into the game.

sonic85

given was unsighted for the first goal. no way hes was at fault

edgecutter

Would take ward off. He is like a rabbit in headlights.

JaMarcus Hustle

if Trap wanted a winger who could score goals, why not bring on McClean ffs.

I like Simon Cox, he's done pretty well in his limited appearances for us, but sticking him out wide is BS.

luckyfrank

no creativity in the middle of the park, need a change there now trapp

kitakyushu

sonic85 wrote: »

given was unsighted for the first goal. no way hes was at fault

I've noticed it's never his fault.

_Kaiser_

Soft goals to concede and we look like a schoolboy side at times - particularly in the build-up to their 2nd - but I blame the manager.

His "system" has been exposed as woefully inadequate to the task and it's a miracle we've gotten as far as we have here, but I fear that barring another miracle this tournament is going to end in disaster for Irish football.

I'm reminded of Mike Bassett myself and his insistence on the 4-4-2 system coupled with the jeers of the "England B side" - but this time without the happy ending!

Stinicker

luckyfrank wrote: »

you'll never beat the irish 3-3 fnal score

I hope so, and I admire your optimism, I am a realist and it will probably end 4-1 or worse 5-1. I'm on boards and can't even watch, I decided last January not to go to the Tournament in Poland as I had a feeling this would happen. Ah well, at least Euro 2016 will have 24 teams and some worse than us so we might get a Euro victory sometime, just not this tournament. Spain and Italy will both eat us 5-0 minimum unless they decided to save face but in the face of todays result that won't happen. England and France tomorrow, anyway they could both lose?

tayto lover

John O'Shea ???

tdv123

sonic85 wrote: »

given was unsighted for the first goal. no way hes was at fault

Thats because he was standing in the wrong posistion, if he was in the right posistion he would have had a better sight of play,

CptMackey

We're just up against a better team really but we let in very soft goals. Hope we can keep going now tho. A goal in the next few mins would make it very interesting. Our marking has been poor to say the least when Croatia are attacking

Pacing Mule

Stinicker wrote: »

We are being exposed now for what we are. Fine thing we never qualified tbh, the Spain and Italy result today will now result in both teams using as a cannon fodder to see who can top the table on goal difference. This tournament will do more damage than good to Irish football and leave a whole generation with memories of losers in recessionary times. I hope something happens now to get us expelled from the tournament to save face.

just

dsmythy

WE're evil

Mr.Crinklewood

tdv123 wrote: »

I don't go along with that, will be a good leraning experience for the young players in the squad.

Which you g player is currently getting match experience ?

SirDelboy18

dsmythy wrote: »

What do you want him to do when the ball is hoofed left right and centre. At least now we're trying to pass it. Keane should slowly get into the game.

Long is actually useful in the air and on the ground.