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

smelly sock

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

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

We attack them and concede 3(so far)

We attacked them??

Billy86

NOTE TO MANY: This is your wake up call about how talented we actually are when it comes to "playing open football" against other sides. I'm sure most will learn absolutely nothing from this and expect us to tiki-taka our way through France, Spain or whomever we get in the Euro 2020 qualifiers, but what you are seeing is the painful truth.

Has Wes taken over the game by the scruff of the neck yet?

BorneTobyWilde

Remember Barcelona

Kermit.de.frog

Let's be honest.


The damage was done in the group when we threw points in to the Liffey. If we were going to qualify we could have won that group.

Coming to this stage to play a top seeded side over two legs was always asking a lot.

SlickRic

Clark has been abysmal all game.

WinnyThePoo

Clarks been atrocious too

awec

The only thing McClean is good for is leaving a bit on the opposition players with his late tackles now and again.

Billy86

HA! Got to love Ronnie Whelan... "we need to get Long on and try more long balls".

This same gobsh*te will be moaning if we try just that.

nullzero

Football isn't anywhere near the Gaa or rugby in this country in terms of participation funding or support. We have no business being at the level we're at in the sport, I think eventually we have to accept that in the modern Era of no Irish players at top clubs were just not going to be good enough. Getting to this point with the players available is in reality a miracle in itself. Denmark doesn't have three other field sports ahead of soccer, no country we play against does, we will never, bar a miracle be anywhere near the level we reached in the 90's again.

IamtheWalrus

There should be a white flag option for sides like ours

smelly sock

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Let's be honest.


The damage was done in the group when we threw points in to the Liffey. If we were going to qualify we could have won that group.

Coming to this stage to play a top seeded side over two legs was always asking a lot.

True enough
And it was management that lost it in Georgia .

GreNoLi

Good luck to the Danes and the other Scanners, all have gotten through impressively.

Mantis Toboggan

GreNoLi wrote: »

But you can naturalise it.

Bring on bundi aki

Osmosis Jones

Billy86 wrote: »

NOTE TO MANY: This is your wake up call about how talented we actually are when it comes to "playing open football" against other sides. I'm sure most will learn absolutely nothing from this and expect us to tiki-taka our way through France, Spain or whomever we get in the Euro 2020 qualifiers, but what you are seeing is the painful truth.

Has Wes taken over the game by the scruff of the neck yet?

Don't **** yourself off too hard there.

Wheeliebin30

Long and wes for ward and murphy.

Move brady to left back.

Bizarre subs.

LuckyGent88

Our World Cup adventure didn't end tonight. It ended with the poor performance against a welsh team down to 10, the terrible first half against Austria and then the mother of all ****e performance against Georgia.

We were in the driving seat in the group and simply didn't plough on. Automatic qualification was in our hands and we messed up.

Tyson Fury

Tyson Fury wrote: »

You can't buy that quality in international football.

You certainly can't, unfortunately.

MON will be the one sent to the gallows for this with the fans. That's grand, he's been terrible at times.

However, we're doomed for 'lather, rinse repeat' for decades to come if we don't address the problems in Irish football which go beyond the manager and current crop of players.

We can't buy that quality on the international scene, but we can definitely do a better job of nurturing it and developing it at home.

johnpatrick81

smelly sock wrote: »

We attacked them??

Yes, what we were doing for their second goal when they caught us on the break?!?!

Welcome to my ignore list you imbecile

wanderer100

Wonder if MON will be happy to stay on after tonight. Euro 2020 is a very long way away

Mantis Toboggan

Let's die with our boots on

Laois_Man

One CB left on the pitch now. Denmark will surely get another

Baffling substitution!

edgecutter

Without too many quality players Denmark are dominating and look so assured when pressed. Looking at our side we lack any ability to move the ball around the pitch with any fluidly.
FAI need to start investing money into grassroots.

OldMrBrennan83

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Billy86

awec wrote: »

The only thing McClean is good for is leaving a bit on the opposition players with his late tackles now and again.

That, and you know, the whole being our top scorer and second highest scorer in our group thing. Yeah... that... that kinda helps a bit.

Alf Veedersane

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.

Arter isnt really a defensive midfielder. Hendrick as capable of playing that role as Arter

Doctor Jimbob

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

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

We attack them and concede 3(so far)

But we can't have attacked in the first half, we didn't have creative players.

Never mind the fact we conceded a goal thanks to having too many men forward and made plenty of chances.

awec

Centre half for a striker. Suppose that’s pretty brave.

Berserker

nullzero wrote: »

Football isn't anywhere near the Gaa or rugby in this country in terms of participation funding or support.

Wrong. More people play football than either of those sports.

StringerBell

It is like he wants to see how many Denmark can score for the hell of it at this point.

SlickRic

Billy86 wrote: »

NOTE TO MANY: This is your wake up call about how talented we actually are when it comes to "playing open football" against other sides. I'm sure most will learn absolutely nothing from this and expect us to tiki-taka our way through France, Spain or whomever we get in the Euro 2020 qualifiers, but what you are seeing is the painful truth.

Has Wes taken over the game by the scruff of the neck yet?

None of Denmark's goals were as a result of open football.

The first was a poorly defended set piece.
The second was a counter off a really poor mistake.
The third saw us picked apart after a period of Danish possession.

Royal Legend

Shane Long, 20 minutes - Hat trick

cmon

DeanAustin

Billy86 wrote: »

NOTE TO MANY: This is your wake up call about how talented we actually are when it comes to "playing open football" against other sides. I'm sure most will learn absolutely nothing from this and expect us to tiki-taka our way through France, Spain or whomever we get in the Euro 2020 qualifiers, but what you are seeing is the painful truth.

Has Wes taken over the game by the scruff of the neck yet?

Ah stop. No one thinks Wes takes the game by the scruff of the neck. But he’s a different class in possession to some of our other players. You can even see that with some of his touches tonight.

brilou23

rebeve wrote: »

Wes Who !!

Sad idiot

This is sad to watch now. I don't care much for MON but the players are good lads and must be hurting

Esse85

Effort, bravery and spirit only get you so far. Imagine if we'd some quality to add to this. Individually we're awful. We've over achieved even getting to the playoff second leg with a chance.

Its still time for MON and Keane to go.

Kermit.de.frog

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Our World Cup adventure didn't end tonight. It ended with the poor performance against a welsh team down to 10, the terrible first half against Austria and then the mother of all ****e performance against Georgia.

We were in the driving seat in the group and simply didn't plough on. Automatic qualification was in our hands and we messed up.

This, this, this.

It was there for the taking and we fcuked it up. No one did it for us.

Billy86

Patww79 wrote: »

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Funny that, we were 1-0 up and kept playing at that just like some wanted. Worked out great, eh?

WoollyRedHat

Tbh at this Id say **** Qatar in 22 even. We clearly need an overhaul from the bottom up, which goes to grassroots. We need to be rid of the likes of Delaney for any hope in the medium to long term.

weadick

Sick of seeing opposition supporters coming to Dublin and laughing at us.

The Danes look like they want to give us a good hiding. Maybe it wasnt such a good idea for Myler to say they have no character or heart.

lawred2

Grim.

They are a better side but pretty much all of this is Ireland's own doing.

My name is URL

And we still have 5 at the back vs 2 when keeper is picking ball off ground

Stevecw

Now we have 1 cm and 1 centre back, and no idea who is where or what they are doing!

Mr.Nice Guy

I'm not sure why two of our holding midfielders were taken off for two attacking players.

smelly sock

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

Yes, what we were doing for their second goal when they caught us on the break?!?!

Welcome to my ignore list you imbecile

We lost the ball on the halfway line you twonk.

lawred2

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Tbh at this Id say **** Qatar in 22 even. We clearly need an overhaul from the bottom up, which goes to grassroots. We need to be rid of the likes of Delaney for any hope in the medium to long term.

They need to have a look at the boys in the IRFU

nullzero

Pathetic

Mr.Nice Guy

Eriksen hat-trick.

But he's not world class apparently.

mzungu

Now we need to score 4.............

smelly sock

Ward. A hammering.

BorneTobyWilde

We can still do it. keep the faith .