Ireland v Oman match thread 11/09/12

Roger Sterling

Trap will like Meyler I think.

Mikeyt086

aindriu80 wrote: »

wow cant believe brady got a goal. someone was saying he was terrible. Is there anywhere online i can see it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50x_5T6Elw

Lovely finish, had to watch it all the way onto his foot.

He's just gone and put a BEAUTIFUL cross onto Kevin Doyle's head for 3-0. Stunning.

jaykay74

aindriu80 wrote: »

wow cant believe brady got a goal. someone was saying he was terrible. Is there anywhere online i can see it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50x_5T6Elw

aindriu80

3-0 nice one Doyle !!
Brady doing very well

starviewadams

Great delivery from Brady.

Duff

Superb cross from Brady.

Patsy fyre

some free kick.

Francie Barrett

Robbie Brady is tearing these lads a new one.

kitakyushu

Out of interest why does Trap let them play football in the friendlies when we all know it'll be back to hoof-ball anyway for whoever makes the grade tonight?

G.K.

What happened with the anthems?

Mr.Nice Guy

Brady with the cross. Guy looks like he's loving the occasion.

Stevecw

Wow, what a ball by Brady...nice finish by Doyle too

Patser

Some cross from that free - Doyle 3-0 from Brady's cross

KH25

Absolutely fantastic free kick by Brady.

Banjaxed82

I'd say McClean is getting somewhat worried with this Brady chap.

Mars Bar

Quality of the delivery for that goal!

Patsy fyre

I wonder what Mclean is thinking now !!

desaparecidos

Our "fringe" team would hammer Traps prefered setup. It's depressing.

Roger Sterling

Crosses like that beg to be nodded in. Well done Robbie.

starviewadams

Would fancy McClean to grab a goal or two if he comes on for a decent amount of time.

Roger Sterling

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

I'd say McClean is getting somewhat worried with this Brady chap.

No doubt he'll tell us all on twitter.

v3ttel

Very enjoyable and refreshing to see Coleman, Meyler, McCarthy, Brady want to get the ball down and pass it.

Superb goal and assist from Brady. Nice to see Long & Doyle both on the scoresheet.

Westwood, Coleman, O'Shea, Dunne, Wilson, McGeady, McCarthy, Gibson, McClean, Long, Walters is probably our best 11, with good options like Meyler, Doyle, Clarke.... the future could be bright if we give these players a chance playing the right way.

elefant

I don't laugh out loud at many things in football matches, but 'Be Not Afraid' suddenly being chanted from the stands is one of them

Patser

G.K. wrote: »

What happened with the anthems?

They played an 80s soft rock version of the Omani anthem that even the Omani players didn't recognize and couldn't seem to turn it off so just hit mute, in the silence the Irish fans started to sing Amhrain na bhFiann just to get it over but half way through decided to sing 'Come on you boys in Green' instead. When they finished sing ANbhF the fans gave themselves a clap and then the real anthem started as the lads in charge of the PA finally got the right CD in, cue everyone (including players looking extra confused). After that the real Omani anthem finally came on, whish as some one else said wasn't a patch on the 80s version as it missed the guitar solo.

Mr.Nice Guy

desaparecidos wrote: »

Our "fringe" team would hammer Traps prefered setup. It's depressing.

Who's managing the 'fringe' team?

You can't even allow the Trap bashing to stop for one game. I find that depressing.

adamski8

kitakyushu wrote: »

Out of interest why does Trap let them play football in the friendlies when we all know it'll be back to hoof-ball anyway for whoever makes the grade tonight?

cause we seem to win that way

desaparecidos wrote: »

Our "fringe" team would hammer Traps prefered setup. It's depressing.

you have been to every single ireland training session then?

Mikeyt086

G.K. wrote: »

What happened with the anthems?

Instead of the Oman national anthem they played that cheesy FIFA tune the players walked out to again, only louder.

Then the Irish national anthem didn't start, so the fans started an a capella version.

Then as soon as the a capella version ended the real one started, so we had 2 versions of the Irish anthem.

Then the Oman anthem.

Cringey.

Sully

When was the last time we did this well in the first half alone?

Banjaxed82

Sully wrote: »

When was the last time we did this well in the first half alone?

Paris

Corholio

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Who's managing the 'fringe' team?

You can't even allow the Trap bashing to stop for one game. I find that depressing.

Seeing these players play well is all the more reason for Trap bashing IMO.

kitakyushu

Sully wrote: »

When was the last time we did this well in the first half alone?

We were 3-0 up at half-time vs the Northern Ireland u12's team last year.

jaykay74

Doyle goal. Great cross from Brady.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-jWQ6BZbQ

Patsy fyre

Roger Sterling wrote: »

No doubt he'll tell us all on twitter.

Think he closed his twitter account afaik.

Patser

Sweden 1-0 Kazakhstan (38 minute goal) - HT in that game

0-0 Germany Austria after about 21 minutes

Manc-Red

Watching Germany here - They're 1 up at HT in Austria

aindriu80

we could get carried away with the scoreline as it may be reversed when we meet the germans

Patsy fyre

Patser wrote: »

Sweden 1-0 Kazakhstan (38 minute goal) - HT in that game

0-0 Germany Austria after about 21 minutes

Germany are 1 nil up, Reus scored!

Corholio

aindriu80 wrote: »

we could get carried away with the scoreline as it may be reversed when we meet the germans

Don't think anyone is getting carried away just good to see us play some way decent for a change. I think we know what's coming when the Germans are in town barring a huge climbdown from Trap.

Mr.Nice Guy

Corholio wrote: »

Seeing these players play well is all the more reason for Trap bashing IMO.

Why? If they play poorly he gets bashed and must accept total responsibility. If they play well he still gets bashed and is allowed absolutely none of the credit.

It's a joke.

Patser

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Germany are 1 nil up, Reus scored!

Manc-Red wrote: »

Watching Germany here - They're 1 up at HT in Austria

My bad, was looking at the BBC live score section, very slow update and then suddenly jumped to HT with the score:o

Mikeyt086

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Who's managing the 'fringe' team?

You can't even allow the Trap bashing to stop for one game. I find that depressing.

No. It's... The pressing.

aindriu80

Corholio wrote: »

Don't think anyone is getting carried away just good to see us play some way decent for a change. I think we know what's coming when the Germans are in town barring a huge climbdown from Trap.

nice to see the good play alright.:D

Stevecw

Its just nice to see us playing a bit of passing football. Coleman and Wilson are passing ball inside to mf's instead of lumping it like Ward and O'Shea do. Then again Meyler and McCarthy want the ball, unlike Whelan.

Mr.Nice Guy

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Why? If they play poorly he gets bashed and must accept total responsibility. If they play well he still gets bashed and is allowed absolutely none of the credit.

It's a joke.

but why does he not let the players play to their strengths instead of trying to adopt a brand of puke negative football against rubbish teams?

desaparecidos

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Corholio wrote: »

Seeing these players play well is all the more reason for Trap bashing IMO.

Why? If they play poorly he gets bashed and must accept total responsibility. If they play well he still gets bashed and is allowed absolutely none of the credit.

It's a joke.

Clearly you're not getting what people are getting at. His refusal to play these better players in the important matches is the problem. No point in playing good in these friendlys with the better choice players if we just hoof and pray for some luck in the proper games with lesser players.

Corholio

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Why? If they play poorly he gets bashed and must accept total responsibility. If they play well he still gets bashed and is allowed absolutely none of the credit.

It's a joke.

He should get a little bit of credit for playing the team that he has, but nothing like the credit he would have got if he'd done it a long time ago. Unfortunately, as Ireland manager, he deserves a lot of the criticism he gets. This is the first friendly I can remember that he has tried anything like this, and only because clubs undoubtedly had a big say in who stayed in the squad.

andyman

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Why? If they play poorly he gets bashed and must accept total responsibility. If they play well he still gets bashed and is allowed absolutely none of the credit.

It's a joke.

Because it's all well and good playing well in a friendly where all of these players are going to be putting 110% into their performence on the off-chance that Trap might let them play 10 minutes in a competitive international.

He's going to go back to the same mundane, predictable horse-****e in the next competitive game with the same mundane, predictable, one-dimensional players. That's why he's getting a bashing here and that's why he deserves it. Playing like this in a friendly is going to give us, at best, false hope that he wants to change the way we play. Come the competitive games it's going to be as it's always been. Until he starts turning these friendly performences into our competitive games (at least against the minnows of the group for Christ's sake), then he's going to be bashed no matter what he does in friendlies, and quite rightly too in my opinion.

Dempsey

Its just a pity that the FAI didnt get better opposition for a friendly

andyman

Randolph and Pearce on for Forde and Wilson.

paddy kerins

Alex Pearce coming on, Wilson off. Missed the first half, how did he play?