Ireland Vs Austria - K/O 7:45PM - Sky Sports 2 & RTÉ 2

Kerrydude1981

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Let's not take anything away from the lads though - I thought it was over after the 1st but what an amazing comeback in the first half.

Trap as usual f&cks it up in the last third though by doing nothing but standing there!

Ya they had given us 100%,the legs were gone but the lad on the sideline couldn't see it for some reason and we paid the price

eagle eye

Here we go with Dunphy playing to the clueless section of the audience.

irish bloke

eagle eye wrote: »

Nothing to do with subs, the players just starting sitting deeper and deeper, didn't matter who you had on the park.

Utter rubbish

Quazzie

A lot of people here being shown up as clueless by saying that Trap couldn't have made better substitutions.

Rikand

Thats what happens when you take off forwards and bring on defenders/defensive midfielders

Aidric

missingtime wrote: »

That last free kick, what were they doing. Should have just kept it in the corner.

Sickening...so sickening.

Yep headless stuff. All too regular with this group unfortunately. No cool heads out there.

klose

We were on the back foot for a half an hour and he did **** all, the players were on their legs and he did **** all for changes bar paul green for our best player on the pitch. Trap shoulders some of the blame here

Hank Scorpio

Subs were brutal

Kirby

Sack him. It's that simple.

How we stayed 442 with 3 exhausted players I'll never know. Tactically inept.

Sack him.

Midlife Crashes

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

wonderfullife

Have to say i'm a supporter of Trap but you could see Sammon was out on his feet yet he brought Long off who seemed fresh. No problem with Green coming on but it should have been Green and Hoolahan on for Sammon and Walters.

Aidric

TaosHum wrote: »

Big ask to qualify now.

Qualification is done now.

murpho999

Jax Teller wrote: »

We didn't need to get a third we just needed to hold onto the ball and stop them scoring .

Rubblish, a third goal would have killed off this game and destroyed any hope.

A team can always fight to come back from one down.

aramush

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

That goal was coming for 45 minutes.

adox

How anyone can't question Trap after we waited and waited for a sub when a few players looked out on their feet, take our best player off for Greene with absolutely no tactical change, I find mind boggling.

Downlinz

Professional Griefer wrote: »

Why was green playing? Heartbreaking. Why the **** didn't trap change things up. **** sake

We're 1 goal up and we brought on a defensive midfielder for a forward. Do you seriously want an explanation?

FutureGuy

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

That's the cool thing to do!

SantryRed

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

Thats what happens when you take off forwards and bring on defenders/defensive midfielders

What? There is nothing wrong with doing that. BUT, Green off and Walters up top is baffling. It literally gives us nothing more.

kfallon

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

It was deflected

Professional Griefer

FutureGuy wrote: »

Lol. A few days ago he was great.

Lol? He may have been, but why would you bring him on, to play on the right especially when there was better players to bring on.

Green is not good enough.

Lolololololololololol

ceegee

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

We're blaming him for leaving knackered players out there instead of bringing on subs, leading to us sitting back more and more until the inevitable goal came

Prop Joe

James McCarthy a player who everyone has shouted and screamed about him that he HAS to be picked,He is one of our most creative players etc... very similar to the talk about Hoolihan now

McCarthy booted the ball away 20 seconds before the equaliser...All Traps fault

IvySlayer

Taking Long off and putting Green up front in a 442...............people can defend that

Super-Rush

markie29 wrote: »

taking off long was a huge mistake...moving walters into the centre was a huge mistake....leaving sammon on for the full 90 minutes was horrific!

Spot on. At least Long could have chased the hoofed balls.

_Kaiser_

Brady is suspiciously/unsurprisingly quiet...

sReq | uTeK

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

Yes, it's a wondergoal that should never have come to fruition, if trap had made some decent subs and tried some ball retention instead of heaping it up to conor ****ing sammon then things might be different, but instead we retreated into our shell and enabled them to push us back more and more.

murpho999

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

No, for his tactic of sitting back and not taking game by the scruff of the neck and destroy opposition.

Amirani

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

No. I'm blaming Trap for the second half performance. We had no ambition to try get a third, no ambition to hold possession and see it out.

sfwcork

We never ever ave been able to close games out

Why was long taken off and sammon left on is beyond

St ledger isnt the first cousin of an international player.

Wes hoolahan must be scratching his head

Trap got it wrong big time tonight

wonderfullife

lol qualification is by no means over, Sweden at home and this Austrian side are more than beatable away. Get a grip it's not over, it's been made a lot more difficult now but by no means over.

tayto lover

We needed another central midfielder on earlier. Trap should have taken Sammon off and left Long on. Long had far more energy than the tired Sammon.

Our players were very tired and yet we only played two subs???

SantryRed

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

DID YOU ACTUALLY WATCH THE THIRTY MINUTES BEFORE THAT? JUST BECAUSE IT WAS A ****ING WONDER GOAL IN THE 93RD MINUTE DOESN'T ****ING MATTER. IT WAS COMING. IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE SEVENTIETH MINUTE.

****ING HELL.

Mr. Guappa

Midlife Crashes wrote: »

Are we seriously blaming trap for a wondergoal that one of the Irish players should've blocked...

No I'm blaming him for looking at that second 45 minutes and not deeming it appropriate to make substitutions to change the flow of the game.

sReq | uTeK

IvySlayer wrote: »

Taking Long off and putting Green up front in a 442...............people can defend that

he played green right wing and pushed walters up, still shocking tho.

elefant

Eh, never mind taking off the wrong players and making mad positional changes, if he'd just used the last sub the time would have ran out!

Everyone out on their feet. Injury time. Hanging on. Only using two subs.

SantryRed

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Brady is suspiciously/unsurprisingly quiet...

Even he knows.

IamtheWalrus

Anyone got an RTE recipe?

Stevecw

Trap, u fool. Why u cudn't use Hoolahan tonight makes no sense...playing Sammon for 90 mins made no sense. Green for Long wtf?? Trap out now please

jive

This isn't a knee-jerk reaction type post (of which I'm sure there'll be many in the next couple of hourse) but Austria deserved that. I'm sorry but we started poorly and Austria took the lead, Ireland then dominated and took the lead before half time. For the second half, and in particular for the last 20 minutes, we had our backs to the wall... at home... to Austria.

Again, when we were behind and needed a goal we were excellent. Trappatoni negative tactics come into effect and we were the cause of our own demise. He had the entire second half to make positive substitutions but he took off Long for Greene. Honestly, trying to hold on at home to Austria is a bit much and despite what Trap might think that is not a reflection of the players we have at our disposal, it's a reflection of his tactical decisions.

Trap should have been gone after our showing Euro 2012. I had hoped he would be more positive at home to Austria but alas, he has failed to learn (no surprises there). I still hope we qualify under Trap, and am by no means calling for his head during qualification, but if we don't qualify I hope a manager with a more positive approach is hired rather than one who parks the bus for results regardless of the opposition.

Agent Smith

gosplan

I'm blaming Trap for that one. He has to realise that this isn't some expensively assembled Juve back line.

If we focus on playing the last 25 minutes of a game without the ball, we will concede against half decent opposition.

Colonialboy

Trapattoni returned to management in the German Bundesliga in June 2005, by signing at Stuttgart. However, during his 20 games at the helm, Stuttgart produced poor results. Danish Internationals Jon Dahl Tomasson and Jesper Gronkjaer openly criticized their coach, claiming he was afraid to attack...

no harm no foul as long , dont worry punters as long as john Delaney gets his 500k a year ....

Fair play to the new lads who showed what they can do when given a chance , even if that chance was forced on Trap.
Traps a clown.

aindriu80

Dunphy is right, its time for the manager to go. It was awful to watch.. I couldn't look from the 50th minute

IamtheWalrus

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Anyone got an RTE recipe?

rteplayer
aertv

Professional Griefer

Downlinz wrote: »

We're 1 goal up and we brought on a defensive midfielder for a forward. Do you seriously want an explanation?

Yes. Salmon is nothing on long, he should have been taken off, not long. And to bring green on, and play him out the right. I want to know the thought process behind it.

Midlife Crashes

Even on points with second = no chance of qualification and sack the manager

Ryu Hayabusa

Trap out, Gary Neville in

fullstop

rarnes1 wrote: »

ffs

Got a problem? If you can't see that was an idiotic sub you haven't a clue quite frankly. We got away with the tactic of inviting the opposition onto us time and again in the last campaign, lady luck is catching up with us now. Even Brady is saying it should have been Holohan for Sammon 'ffs'.

Soups123

Professional Griefer wrote: »

Lol? He may have been, but why would you bring him on, to play on the right especially when there was better players to bring on.

Green is not good enough.

Lolololololololololol

Green plays on the right

FutureGuy

SantryRed wrote: »

DID YOU ACTUALLY WATCH THE THIRTY MINUTES BEFORE THAT? JUST BECAUSE IT WAS A ****ING WONDER GOAL IN THE 93RD MINUTE DOESN'T ****ING MATTER. IT WAS COMING. IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE SEVENTIETH MINUTE.

****ING HELL.

Easy on the old caps. 15 seconds more and it's "a ok".

Yeah I'm sure you would have been gutted with a 2-1 win.