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

awec

Brutal.

They’ll score more.

martyos121

Fcuk sake, Big Sam anyone?

ctrl-alt-delete

Comical and Clinical,

Story of the night

Unearthly

Now this is embarrassing

lawred2

Ah another one down to our own doing. Pathetic.

Kerrydude1981

FUBAR

StringerBell

Oh look, another time Ward ****ed up.

Every goal has been **** defending you know, every single one.

Love watching Eriksen though so...

_Kaiser_

The problems here are two-fold I think.. bad management, and we just don't have the players unfortunately (partly because we're a small country, also because of GAA)

And now it's 4

My name is URL

Absolutely woeful stuff. Can't remember such a poor all-round performance

Laois_Man

With one CB on the pitch, Denmark are not even finished yet!

Ulysses Gaze

They'll get another tonight.

Burial.

Strikes the ball so sweetly. Three clinical perfect finishes.

Billy86

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.

Would be 100% behind this, and like many I've been saying it for years. Tonight won't be, but should be, a wake up call about what we do not have the players and it's very much a systemic issue as opposed to a barren patch for what is available to us.

mzungu

mzungu wrote: »

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

Away goals count double so we need eight

Comical

Sad times

Omackeral

Nice assist from Stephen Ward there.

Stevecw

This is humiliating, a total embarrassment.

madcabbage

Pathetic! :mad:

Tipsy McSwagger

martyos121 wrote: »

Fcuk sake, Big Sam anyone?

Chris Hughton please

Vincent Vega

LOL!
I mean at this point, what else can you do.

franglan

We've all done that in 5 a side...

OldMrBrennan83

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wanderer100

What on earth was he thinking??

Embarrassment

smelly sock

Omackeral wrote: »

Nice assist from Stephen Ward there.

Again.

GreNoLi

Well done.

Omackeral

A lot of the fans leaving now.

SlickRic

I'm no MON defender, but I don't know how he can be blamed for some of the absolutely symbolic errors individual players have made.

Berserker

We can see you sneaking out!!!

Rekop dog

Lads let themselves down badly tonight!

Ardent

I'm getting the popcorn out for Dunphy's post-match rant.

DeanAustin

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.

Here come the grassroots conversations. We’ll have dozens of them tomorrow. Same every time we don’t qualify for something.

smelly sock

SlickRic wrote: »

I'm no MON defender, but I don't know he can be blamed for some of the absolutely symbolic errors individual players have made.

Georgia away. Wales at home. Serbia at home. Denmark away.

edgecutter

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.

We have been saying this for years and nothing changes. If Delaney goes some other chancer will take over.

Omackeral

Here comes the Fields of Athenry

_Kaiser_

Omackeral wrote: »

A lot of the fans leaving now.

Can't really blame them.. might as well get ahead of the traffic

Ulysses Gaze

martyos121 wrote: »

Fcuk sake, Big Sam anyone?

I was thinking....

Mr.Nice Guy

The surrender song being sung now.

applehunter

nullzero wrote: »

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.

Here we go.

Aidric

Ward assist..jesus wept

GreNoLi

GreNoLi wrote: »

Well done.

Credit to Ericson, gift him those chances and he will burry them

StringerBell

Billy86 wrote: »

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

Serious question Billy, are you off your head?

My name is URL

Dopey ***** are still defending deep, like there's anything at all to lose at this point

Laois_Man

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Chris Hughton please

No manager is gonna leave a Premier League club to manager Ireland

Probably not even a top-half Championship club for that matter!

dirkmeister

It's all well and good being the "best fans in the world" when everything is going well.

Those lads leaving early would want to be ashamed...you take your hammering.

Mantis Toboggan

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?

On the money, unfortunately.

There's a reason why our most successful managers have played conservative football. Sad but true.

AndyBoBandy

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

They could end up getting 4-5 goals + here

They could end up getting 5-6 goals + here!

Godot.

SlickRic wrote: »

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.

Nah, Denmark have a few players that are way better than what we have, but they play for clubs that Irish football fans don't really follow.

Sisto? Most assists in La Liga this season.
Poulsen? One of the stars of RB Leipzig's 2nd place finish in Germany.
Kjaer plays for a Champions League club in Spain
Jørgensen will probably be playing in the PL/Bundesliga in the next 12 months

Strumms

We go one up, at home, against Denmark...and concede four... And a crowd full of morons singing the fields of Athenry ...

Liamalone

Still in it. Come on lads!

10000maniacs

Liam Brady and Eamonn Dunphy would have done a better job than that shower even with their walking sticks.