Rep. of Ireland v Sweden - WCQ - K/O 7.45Pm

Duff

Simon ****ing Cox! The mind boggles.

ctrl-alt-delete

Simon Cox, groan.

Bleating Lamb

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

He has still had a big hand on both goals and will be even more dangerous from now till end of game with our lads tiring,time for Hookahan and Brady if Trap has any interest in at least a draw.

Cox.......hmmmmm bring on a lad that's been out of football for last month,way to go Trap.

tayto lover

Cox ????

Lennonist

Ridiculous substitution

Andersonisgod

Isn't it sad that a player like Simon Cox will probably end his career with more caps than a player like Wes Hoolahan.

swoody

greene on for mccarthy next

Corholio

Cox is coming on to try and get a draw to improve the coefficent.

Kerrydude1981

Funny Ibra looking at Cox

He was like "Who the funk are you?"

Q_Ball

There's a substitution that inspires confidence

klose

Not even the commentators can paint over how much of a non sensible sub it is

gandalf

Ffs he's bringing on Cox!!! Trap is an absolute disaster for Irish football and will scar the team long after he's gone.

aindriu80

I can't see Ireland scoring again. We don;t have the players on the pitch

passremarkable

cox..wtf

Mr.Nice Guy

We need a goal and he puts on a striker. Don't see a problem.

Hoolahan was a big disappointment against Wales.

Chagan

I don't get that substitution. It makes absolutely no change to the team.

PhlegmyMoses

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Doesn't matter, he's been decisive. Against the cannon fodder you can get away with Trapatonni's football but against real quality, proper quality like Ibra, there's no getting away from the facts.

I really don't think he has done anything special. We've played against a lot of players over the years under Trappatoni who could have done what he did tonight. I mean, I think he's been a great player and all, but it was our frailties rather than his genius that have caused us to come unstuck.

tayto lover

Hit and hope football. Absolutely dire.

Kerrydude1981

The boys in the studio are going to tear strips out this second half performance with all the long balls.

Corholio

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

We need a goal and he puts on a striker. Don't see a problem.

Hoolahan was a big disappointment against Wales.

Have to get the ball to them to score a goal though.

passremarkable

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

We need a goal and he puts on a striker. Don't see a problem.

Hoolahan was a big disappointment against Wales.

cox is terrible, thats the problem

NIMAN

If you play football based on long balls, percentages and the fact that the ball might fall kindly for you, thats hardly worth 1.75mill per year wages, is it?

SirDelboy18

"And Wes Hoolahan can only look on, Championship player goes on, Premier League player sits on the bench" - Georgie gets a nice dig in!

kupus

Lob ball, not going to get anything here tonight

_Kaiser_

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

The boys in the studio are going to tear strips out this second half performance with all the long balls.

You can only hope.

Dire stuff and the manager is doing nothing about it as usual

Agueroooo

That substitution has juat gifted 3 points to Sweden.

slingerz

At least Trap will be gone soon. Such a negative old fashioned manager.

What's wrong with playing 4-2-3-1 why the need to stick with 4-4-2 constantly??

And what has he got against Hoolohan?

klose

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

We need a goal and he puts on a striker. Don't see a problem.

Hoolahan was a big disappointment against Wales.

Cox is poor and hes playing out the wing. So traps last role of the dice in his last few games here is to put on a poor player out of position.

slingerz

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

"And Wes Hoolahan can only look on, Championship player goes on, Premier League player sits on the bench" - Georgie gets a nice dig in!

He's dead right though

Kerrydude1981

Could Wilson have kicked that any higher?

Chagan

Pilkington coming on to finally make his competitive debut

SirDelboy18

Pilkington coming on - if we do anything it'll be through him.

kfallon

The guy might be an idiot but I wouldn't mind having Stokes on the bench to bring on now! More prolific that Cox or Walters

passremarkable

hopefully pilkington comes on for cox

wonderboysam

man o man our set pieces have been a disaster, how hard is it to cross a dead ball?

.jacksparrow.

Mccarthy has been a bag disappointment.

Chagan

FFS Long

Festy

He took too long

Andersonisgod

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

I really don't think he has done anything special. We've played against a lot of players over the years under Trappatoni who could have done what he did tonight. I mean, I think he's been a great player and all, but it was our frailties rather than his genius that have caused us to come unstuck.

I'm gonna have to disagree. Not scored but he's been on an entirely other level to any other player on the pitch. Practically everything good that Sweden have done has gone through him.

Jason Todd

Ah Long, ffs

bizmark

how the jesus

Tinie

Jesus long that was a great chance for an early ball

Just An Opinion

Honestly when is this f***ing tool's contract up?

Amirani

Terrible from Long.

DEVEREUX

LOOOONGGGGG LOOK UP

jimjamcos

FFFFFFIIINNN BRAINLESS!!!!!!!!!!

swoody

Pilkington on next :eek:

thought he likes withdrawing from the squad

Duff

Ah Long! Golden chance there.

ctrl-alt-delete

It is horrible to watch this,

The fact is we played some good stuff in the first half, we had something to build on. What were the players told at half time that makes them bring out all the bad stuff from the first half?

Panthro

Bring on the Pilk!