Republic of Ireland vs Denmark, World Cup Play-Off 2nd Leg, kick-off 7.45, RTE 2

The Backwards Man

That's what you get when you replace a competent midfielder with McGeady

Berserker

Too much space in front of the back four again. Lovely finish. Top class player. Feared they would do this when they had more space. Anyway, that's that for you. Back to our game.

johnpatrick81

smelly sock wrote: »

0-0 in copenhagen


Set us up nicely for tonight.

Well done MON

Well done indeed. Playing open it woulda been 6-0

Osmosis Jones

Quazzie wrote: »

And that folks is why we needed the midfield we had at the start.

Game Over!

fcuk you're right, had we kept the defensive mids on we could hold them to only winning 2-1.

Couldn't be arsed watching anymore.

Hopefully MoN steps down and the night won't be a total write off.

Another two years of that dross isn't worth 2/3 WC games where we stick 11 behind the ball and wait until we're behind to try play.

DDC1990

I didn't want to go to Russia anyway. Bears and Snow and ****e.

Kermit.de.frog

Would rather the ref blew the final whistle tbh.

Rayne Wooney

The way O’Neill sent out the team to play against Georgia was the beginning of the end

He should be sacked but we’re stuck with him

MonkieSocks

This is a spanking now :mad:

Eriksen on a hat trick now

Billy86

nullzero wrote: »

They're playing us, they'll go the world cup and do nothing. Just like the sides who've spanked us over the last decade and a half, Switzerland for example embarrassed us time after time in qualifiers and were dogsh1t in every tournament they went to.

Strange that, I remember a team our group for the 2014 qualifiers going on to win the whole thing...

The last time I can remember the Swiss finishing above us in our group off the top of my head were the 2006 qualifiers; they topped their group in that world cup, ahead of eventual finalists France (who were also in our qualifying group).

AndyBoBandy

They could end up getting 4-5 goals + here

Mantis Toboggan

Way too open, we should have kept with the same tactics as Saturday night.

Hope dunphy and Co are happy.

Ulysses Gaze

Rank bad management by O'Neill taking off two defensive midfielders.

Take one off sure. But both?

Cancel that ****ing contract and pay up the compo and get him and that clown Keane out.

Unearthly

It's the taking part that counts

Which is why not being part of world cup hurts

weadick

Curse of the pipe band strikes again.

mrsoundie

It's revenge for humiliating yer wan outside Victoria's Secret!

johnpatrick81

smelly sock wrote: »

You are a fool

You are reported

DJIMI TRARORE

Anything to be said for saying a mass

Tyson Fury

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Way too open, we should have kept with the same tactics as Saturday night.

Hope dunphy and Co are happy.

Bull**** x2

SlickRic

McClean acting like Billy Big Bollocks running across getting frustrated and the whole shape went on the team. Sisto and Eriksen had all the time in the world.

applehunter

Good man Ronnie

smelly sock

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

Well done indeed. Playing open it woulda been 6-0

We havent played open ball though.

Our ****e tactics have been rumpled. Like they were against georgia away amd serbia at home.

Well that's that. Our OTT celebrations in Cardiff look silly now. Folks, in truth we'd add nothing to a world cup anyway aside from eejits serenading nuns. Our two best players, Walters and Coleman were out injured and that fúcked us

Vital Transformation

The neatness of the passing for that goal just emphasised their technical superiority. Deserved qualifiers.

TheCitizen

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Couldn't be arsed watching anymore.

Hopefully MoN steps down and the night won't be a total write off.

Another two years of that dross isn't worth 2/3 WC games where we stick 11 behind the ball and wait until we're behind to try play.

If he steps down who do we get Einstein?

_Kaiser_

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Rank bad management by O'Neill taking off two defensive midfielders.

Take one off sure. But both?

Cancel that ****ing contract and pay up the compo and get him and that clown Keane out.

Did they sign in the end? I thought I remember hearing in a few weeks that it was still pending?

SomethingElse

The Backwards Man wrote: »

That's what you get when you replace a competent midfielder with Wessi

FYP

One More Toy

Vincent Vega wrote: »

Here's to a stress free Summer 2018.

Just my luck to get allocated tickets for our group matches if we qualified. Fitting end to a ****ty year for me

MonkieSocks

MonkieSocks wrote: »

This is a spanking now :mad:

Eriksen on a hat trick now

He's a class act. He has more creativity and spark than our combined 11, and at least will bring something to Russia

Francie Barrett

Kind of funny how people were writing Eriksen off after the first leg.

IamtheWalrus

If you pay the peanuts you get the monkey's

GreNoLi

Tyson Fury wrote: »

You can't buy that quality in international football.

But you can naturalise it.

brilou23

SuperSean11 wrote: »

But...but...Wes :,(

Idiot

Dick phelan

O Neil out should have qualified automatically after the start we had but the games against Georgia and Wales at home fcuked us

mzungu

Close from McClean.

ctrl-alt-delete

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Rank bad management by O'Neill taking off two defensive midfielders.

Take one off sure. But both?

Cancel that ****ing contract and pay up the compo and get him and that clown Keane out.

Strange subs indeed, played further into Danish hands.

_Kaiser_

applehunter wrote: »

Good man Ronnie

I think we heard you the 10th time!

johnpatrick81

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

Well done indeed. Playing open it woulda been 6-0

Talking out your hoop yet again
We gave them the initiative once we took the lead

Those MON tactics invited the pressure

The goals were always going to come

Bleating Lamb

Vincent Vega wrote: »

Here's to a stress free Summer 2018.

Business owners and Ibec heads are breathing a huge sigh of relief....a more productive Summers work ahead nationwide.

DeanAustin

smelly sock wrote: »

We havent played open ball though.

Our ****e tactics have been rumpled. Like they were against georgia away amd serbia at home.

It’s got little to do with tactics. They’re better than us.

dfx-

Quazzie wrote: »

And that folks is why we needed the midfield we had at the start.

Game Over!

a midfield that also conceded twice anyway?

smelly sock

TheCitizen wrote: »

If he steps down who do we get Einstein?

No Weinstein. Maybe we can molest are way to a world cup.

applehunter

Bring on whelan

OldMrBrennan83

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johnpatrick81

smelly sock wrote: »

We havent played open ball though.

Our ****e tactics have been rumpled. Like they were against georgia away amd serbia at home.

You’re not the brightest are you. We play caution we get 0-0.

We attack them and concede 3(so far)

nice_guy80

good man MON
take off the two lads covering their one world class player

SlickRic

Bottom line is the team are off similar general quality, but one team has a world class player and the other doesn't.

It's not rocket science.

rebeve

Wes Who !!

Berserker

I 'm afraid to say what I am thinking but I going to post it anyway. Have to be honest lads but I think you were a better footballing side under Trap. Not seeing what MON brings to the table on that front.

My name is URL

So do we still need 2 'managers'?