Switzerland vs Ireland [Match Thread]

Utopia Parkway

3 minutes is some joke. I’d say the keeper took that with his goal kicks alone.

Weepsie

edgecutter wrote: »

Jesus, Swiss lads have to do very little to get booked.

You mean the opposite of this surely? They've been getting away without a whistle for things some of our lads have been booked for.

Embola for such a big guy, sure does fall over a lot and he took Connolly out of it in front of the ref and fouled McClean moments earlier.

He got away with a high boot too. But you know, a "push" by Hendrick is a yellow.

antodeco

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

ONLY 3 MINUTES??

Was thinking the same thing. Switzerland will hold onto it for that time.

mada999

Slattsy wrote: »

Why couldn't they play with this urgency against Georgia. I'll never understand that mentality in what was a bigger game than this truth be told.

they were told not to as usual.....

Hammer Archer

Do we really have no one other than Hourihane in the squad who can whip a decent ball in?

lawred2

Real break on there and about three of them proper f**ked it up with show clumsy passing

RoryMac

passremarkable wrote: »

Toothless up front
Think management got a long wrong
Selection and substitutions

It's the non existent midfield that kills us not the forwards, we never control the ball in midfield and never give the forwards the ball in positions they can work off

mzungu

We got away with that.

Father Hernandez

We have Hourihane, Robinson and Doherty all sitting on the bench and we're chasing a game we need to win

Decision making on subs has been shocking tonight

pgj2015

good man whealan, legend.

passremarkable

RoryMac wrote: »

It's the non existent midfield that kills us not the forwards, we never control the ball in midfield and never give the forwards the ball in positions they can work off

Ah sure I know
It’s brutal all round

nullzero

Can't wait for Switzerland to stink up the European championships next year.

Mr.Nice Guy

2-0 Switzerland. Ah well.

Strumms

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Do we really have no one other than Hourihane in the squad who can whip a decent ball in?

Seems like we don’t, and in midfield a load of fûcking mannequins

edgecutter

Well, unless one thing amazing happens it looks like a loss. No surprise, throughout the qualifiers we never looked like we had an attacking plan to try and beat a top side.

tayto lover

Whelan has had a great game.

mzungu

Beaten by the better team.

My name is URL

They should have points deducted

Noveight

Was that going wide?

Abel Ruiz

Mokuba wrote: »

Nonsense reply. Read the last few posts on there, or go a twenty pages back if you want. https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/seamus-coleman.107751/page-21

Haha. I glanced at the first 4 pages. And they disagree with "woeful".

Better second half prior to the red card (which iv still seen no replay of so that's a bit suspect) but I can only think of one shot on target and that was a Duffy header straight at the keeper

MonkieSocks

Swiss bankers

Mantis Toboggan

The swiss are a horrible shower of cnuts

Better second half prior to the red card (which iv still seen no replay of so that's a bit suspect) but I can only think of one shot on target and that was a Duffy header straight at the keeper

Mahony0509

We're awful.

Soups123

tayto lover wrote: »

Whelan has had a great game.

He was excellent our best player

lawred2

That's probably a fair reflection

But it wasn't for lack of effort from those Irish lads really

sonic85

Meh. Expected a loss and wasnt disappointed. The game to go for it was on Saturday. Were not beating Denmark

passremarkable

Be interesting to see what McCarthys take on this game is ?

GLaDOS

Did they show a replay of the red card at all?

Mahony0509

The sooner Stephen Kenny is the manager the better.

James Connolly would struggle to save us tonight.

Relying on a 19 year old with seven games to his name shows what a bog we find ourselves in.

Soups123

Mahony0509 wrote: »

We're awful.

You must have missed tonight’s game.

Zico !

Abel Ruiz wrote: »

Woeful is not correct.
Not as good as he was. But not woeful.
Ireland and Everton have been poor for months and months.
He seems to be the scapegoat.
And I don't know any Everton fans that talk like that, but a few Irish ones

Woeful is correct he doesn't deserve to start for any of the two teams. He's rubbish going forward and poor at defending and gives frees away constantly

Ohmeha

But sure weren't we just negative for complaining about playing for a 0-0 against Georgia, isn't that right Mick?

Abel Ruiz

nullzero wrote: »

Can't wait for Switzerland to stink up the European championships next year.

And what would Ireland do exactly????

Noveight

Noveight wrote: »

Was that going wide?

100%

PTH2009

Curtains for our qualification Hope's

edgecutter

We set up for a draw when we needed a win. Dreadful management throughout the past two games.

nullzero

What is whelan banging on about we have a good chance of qualifying?

Hammer Archer

What the fcuk is Whelan talking about? Not a chance will we beat Denmark based on tonight.

LuckyLloyd

Great gritty performance. Ref absolutely rode us the whole game. The lads need to take the positives from tonight and put it together next month. It’s possible.

budgemook

First half dreadful - continuation from Tbilisi. Second half was good and if we play like that at home to Denmark we have a chance. That's pretty much as good as we are - it's not great but it might be enough. Hopefully they can reach that level from the get go in Dublin.

edgecutter

nullzero wrote: »

What is whelan banging on about we have a good chance of qualifying?

We'll get the hole rode off us in Dublin.

Mahony0509

Soups123 wrote: »

You must have missed tonight’s game.

We just lost 2-0 and finished with 10 men. That's awful.

My name is URL

Soups123 wrote: »

You must have missed tonight’s game.

:rolleyes:

Noveight

glasso wrote: »

100%

Thought as much. Grim stuff really.

Zico !

None of us thought we get something here and we right. All on last game_ big improvements needed

One More Toy

Balls. Just balls

SuperSean11

“Put your body on the line, that’s what this teams all about.” Comical commentary