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

DDC1990

The only thing that could cheer me up is Tony O'Donoghue asking Martin O'Neill if he will step down.

IamtheWalrus

Who on earth benefits from extending this by 2 minutes

callaway92

M!Ck^ wrote: »

5-1 at home
Embarrassing

For a manager who apparently tactically sets his team up to defend

We had to go for it sure

martyos121

Now I know how Germany felt conceding a goal to Andy Keogh after that Bendtner penalty. It stings, a lot.

GreNoLi

Good man Ronnie.

Vincent Vega

murpho999 wrote: »

At least this will be the end of the Hoolahan and Long debates.

How? We needed composure from the start, not try to shoehorn it in at 2-1 down.

Mr.Nice Guy

Regrettable to see the stadium half empty. Have to take the bad with the good.

A depressing day for Irish football.

We were well beaten. Well done to Denmark. Hope they do well in Russia.

Berserker

J. Marston wrote: »

Oh well, back to the usual for World Cups. Cheering whoever plays England.

You could cheer for us for a change? Or would you consider investing in another team like Iceland? 1-5 now, I see.

Strong Life in Dublin

Our luck simply ran out tonight, how many times have we scrapped by games where the team has had missed plenty of chances?

Dick phelan

Humiliation the only word to describe tonight, made Denmark look like a prime Barcelona

NIMAN

What is Eamo gonna do now when Wes retires?

Billy86

So the Germany game in 2012 was our worst home loss ever at 6-1. Am I missing any other 4-0 or 5-1s at home, or is this the second worst home result in our entire history?

More goals than conceded in every other competitive home game under MON, according to George just now.

mzungu

Denmark were better, not 5-1 better. We went asleep and paid the price. These things happen.

AndyBoBandy

pjohnson wrote: »

Quoting this for no reason.

fullstop

That's a disgrace of a result. The truth probably lies somewhere in between the MON haters and the people saying we can't play attacking football. Until Delaney gets off his smug arse and actually does something about the development of the game in his country, we'll never do anything

mzungu

I think we need to get the ship in order before the Euro qualifiers.

nullzero

None of this commiserating and lying on the pitch, no clapping the fans, just fvck off into the dressing room, give up the game of soccer and get a job stacking shelves, you're that fvckin bad.

FutureGuy

naughtb4 wrote: »

Honestly fk anyone slagging off the team

Yes some of them are limited but they all give their all on that pitch!

No they didn't. They were sloppy and lazy.

Guy:Incognito

nullzero wrote: »

Love to hear Roy Keane defend this, put your money where your mouth is

Take each goal individually, what would you do as a manager to stop them? Tell Arter to be a better defender? Tell players not to lose their balance when trying to clear a ball? Tell them not to give away penalties?

Royal Legend

more pints if the name Wes is mentioned by the panel more than 10 times and Tony O'Donoghue to mention the same name at least twice in his interview with MO'N

smelly sock

Should MON go?

murpho999

murpho999 wrote: »

At least this will be the end of the Hoolahan and Long debates.

No it won't

He didn't start Hoolahan

When he put him on he took off the wrong players

A double failure

OldMrBrennan83

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ThunbergsAreGo

nullzero wrote: »

None of this commiserating and lying on the pitch, no clapping the fans, just fvck off into the dressing room, give up the game of soccer and get a job stacking shelves, you're that fvckin bad.

Such a ridiculous statement, no lack of effort

The state of this post

Laois_Man

CBA listening to another debate about what's wrong with grassroots football. We've had it roughly every 2 years for 14 years now and it never changes.

We've always been reliant on the biggest English clubs developing our players but they're not arsed too much about looking towards Ireland anymore!

Rayne Wooney

Why on earth was MON given that contract at that time, brainless

SlickRic

smelly sock wrote: »

1-5.

Lads regardless of what you think about MON he has questions to answer.

He has to live and die by those substitutions. To take off 3 defensive players on put on 3 attackers, particularly 2 at once at half time, was beyond mental.

Alf Veedersane

DDC1990 wrote: »

The only thing that could cheer me up is Tony O'Donoghue asking Martin O'Neill if he will step down.

Or if he asked the same of Ronnie Whelan.


Before the Ronnie Volley is sullied forever.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Too many easy goals given away to mistakes has cost us tonight.
I think having 10 of the same starting 11 from the other night was the main management mistake here. The first game took so much out of them, we needed to make more changes.

I would lay the primary blame for us not qualifying with the FAI. Only half of our starting 11 are players born on FAI jurisdiction land. This over reliance on players born in the north and Britain is a pathetic policy (I like that players from the north want to play for us, I'm just pointing out how we can't take credit for developing them). The players who are born here and come up through the youth systems in this country are then exported out to England when they are teenagers to develop them fully.
So Ireland/FAI takes absolutely no responsibility for producing our own players here, and that has negative knock-on consequences that we see tonight.

And Delaney is on 400,000!!!

mzungu

Fair play Denmark though. I wish them the very best in Russia next summer.

murpho999

O'Neill now paying the ultimate price for his tactics in the group against Georgia, Austria and Serbia.

Had the group in his hands. Blew it and now he's out.

briany

And that's what happens when Ireland go all in to try and play attacking football, everyone.

Strong Life in Dublin

This result is going to damage football in Ireland big time, football is already competing with the GAA and rugby!

pjohnson

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Quoting this for no reason.

I know why :P

Mantis Toboggan

No world cup yet again.

Fair play to the players though, over the campaign they gave it their all.

Last time most likely for wes, John o Shea, Mcgeady, Murphy, Walters and Whelan. Best of luck lads.

nullzero

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Take each goal individually, what would you do as a manager to stop them? Tell Arter to he's better defender? Tell players not to lose their balance when trying to clear a ball? Tell them not to give away penalties?

Where are you going with this?
I just can't see how anyone could stand over getting beaten 5-1 at home. All the things you said should have obvious answers, balance shouldn't be lost at this level, not 5 times, get real.

BorneTobyWilde

We can still do it

AndyBoBandy

I wonder what our T-Shirts would have been like?

Ulysses Gaze

smelly sock wrote: »

Should MON go?

Yes. Tonight.

nullzero

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Why on earth was MON given that contract at that time, brainless

Because it deflects attention away from Delaney.

mzungu

The second half subs did not make much impact. The damage was done in the first half.

FutureGuy

mzungu wrote: »

I think we need to get the ship in order before the Euro qualifiers.

We need to go into amazon and order a ship first. This one is sunk.

adox

Ref playing rugby style advantage? Wtf?

Anyway really hope that’s the last we see of O Neill. Despite what others think most are aware of the limitations of the squad but his “tactics” have been pure cowardice for large parts of the campaign.

Doctor Jimbob

murpho999 wrote: »

O'Neill now paying the ultimate price for his tactics in the group against Georgia, Austria and Serbia.

Had the group in his hands. Blew it and now he's out.

Aye, let's forget the fantastic results away to Austria and Wales.

Tonight is a disgrace and he's surely gone but there's no point cherry picking results to suit a narrative.

martingriff

Whoever is the manager after this it will be a completely new team as I see a number of retirements

death1234567

FutureGuy wrote: »

No they didn't. They were sloppy and lazy.

They certainly weren't lazy. Limited yes, lazy no.

applehunter

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Meh, ultimate outcome of the campaign is acceptable. Tonight's result is bitterly disappointing, but I'd have bitten your hand off for our position 20 mins into the second leg of the playoff at the outset of the campaign.

Would you take our position Now when we were top of the group almost a year ago today?

You are living in la la land.

O'Neill bottled it at home to the Welsh and the rest is history.

Laois_Man

smelly sock wrote: »

Should MON go?

He's not going!

SlickRic

murpho999 wrote: »

At least this will be the end of the Hoolahan and Long debates.

MON will use it as justification for not playing Hoolahan, but it was set up to fail when MON threw any structure out the window with that HT double substitution.

Strumms

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Dunphy is busy preparing his eulogy for Irish football as we speak. Expect mentions for Brian Cody, Joe Schmidt and Michael O'Neill.

Yes... Because the RTE analyst is the real issue at hand here after that.