Republic of Ireland v Luxembourg - Match Thread - K.O 19.45 - RTE and Sky Sports

edgecutter

tayto lover wrote: »

The sharks are circling I see. Hoping and praying for the opposition to score.
Sad to see.

What? Why?

ShamoBuc

Great chance missed by Browne!

The White Feather

Jeez what a miss from Browne

TheRiverman

All too tippy happy, no bite. One chance on target so far sums it up.

Happy Monday

Nil Nil and Stephen Kenny will find it difficult to find cover despite RTE analysts covering up for him these past 9 months.

CantGetNoSleep

Did you smash it wrote: »

Doherty is a backup right back or perhaps in a back 3 at a stretch vs Lux and Aze.

He’s just not very good.

Do you watch football? There is no way Doherty will ever play as a CB in a back three

Dr. Bre

Great chance for browne

FixdePitchmark

tayto lover wrote: »

The sharks are circling I see. Hoping and praying for the opposition to score.
Sad to see.

What are you on about . We went about 700 minutes without a goal .

And are 0-0 against Luxembourg.

Sharks have been very reasonable.

statesaver

tayto lover wrote: »

The sharks are circling I see. Hoping and praying for the opposition to score.
Sad to see.

Nonsense.

The White Feather

It feels like a friendly so far.

We so seem to have a bit more urgency last few mins

johnnyryan89

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Do you watch football? There is no way Doherty will ever play as a CB in a back three

Yet he's played there at times for Wolves.

Francie Barrett

The best looking footballer on the pitch is the Luxembourg lad Thill.

tayto lover

Terrible free kick.

fyfe79

Thank goodness we have a dead-ball specialist in Brady. Imagine where we'd be without?

Hercule Poirot

Get Browne off, giving it away more times than a two dollar hooker

The Big Easy

Maybe move Coleman into the middle?

If Pep was manager, he'd definitely be in there :P

FixdePitchmark

By the way

We will win

I take back 3-1

Agent Coulson

They are a very limited bunch of players really.


Looking out over the next decade Kelleher & Bazunu might be the two best and busiest Irish players.

Charlie19

Some of the passing has been dismal.

TheRiverman

Apart from that chance in the first half, no one is prepared to take the ball on and get a good cross in. Surely it is a basic skill of the game.

Agent Coulson

Luxembourg want this more.

ctrl-alt-delete

It is getting worse this.

FixdePitchmark

Jaysus. He ran the full pitch ..no even tackle

Why do we keep passing wide every time there have been a handful of balls that could have been played through the middle that they don't even seem to be looking for

KH25

We are a very ordinary team.

edgecutter

The passing in the final third is killing us.

Did you smash it

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Do you watch football? There is no way Doherty will ever play as a CB in a back three

He already has in a back 4 for Ireland vs Wales a couple of months ago. Did you watch that? Why would a back 3 be off limits?

brianregan09

This is worse than ****e

Mr.Crinklewood

They like pissing about with corners

Jimbob1977

The Thill brothers are fairly handy

statesaver

This is terrible from Ireland.

tanko

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Jaysus. He ran the full pitch ..no even tackle

It was a bad miss in the end, should really have buried it, would have been some laugh if he had scored.
This is embarrassing stuff.

Dillonb3

Completely switching off defensively

Boxcar_Willie

As bad as it gets

Azatadine

This is terrible altogether. Really, really poor.

KungPao

Agent Coulson wrote: »

They are a very limited bunch of players really.


Looking out over the next decade Kelleher & Bazunu might be the two best and busiest Irish players.

Not sure of Fifa rules, but hopefully we can field both of them.

Peter File

Serbia level now against Portugal.
Maybe the worst Irish performance this decade so far

Mr.Nice Guy

This is worse than I feared. They're in with a sniff of winning this. Our passing has been dire.

Agent Coulson

I really never though I would see an Ireland worse than the Staunton era however here we are.

The Big Easy

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

The Thill brothers are fairly handy

They're going to o be the new Yakan brothers for us! :O

Hercule Poirot

Bazunu is the only positive so far

Which is a pathetic inditement of this performance

Hammer Archer

Browne has given the ball away a stupid amount of times.

The White Feather

We need to go all out attack now. its 0-0 against Lux, at home. We haven't created one chance this half yet. 30 mins left.

We need to act like the last 5 mins already before this game peters out into a draw in a must win game.

Mantis Toboggan

Bring back Mick, all is forgiven

pjohnson

Clinging on for dear life at 0 - 0

Soups123

There’s no excuses after this, truly awful

Oat23

Francie Barrett wrote: »

The best looking footballer on the pitch is the Luxembourg lad Thill.

Not really surprising is it? A lot of their players have come through the youth academies of other, larger EU countries and learned to play modern football the way Kenny wants his team to play. The FA not only encouraged it but put money into the project to get their players playing outside the country which is why they have improved. Thill has been in France since he was 15 for example.

How many of our lads would a top tier Portuguese team consider capable of playing the style of football played in Liga NOS? Hardly any right now. That's what has to change.

FixdePitchmark

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I really never though I would see an Ireland worse than the Staunton era however here we are.

In fairness. Stan had a way better squad

Francie Barrett

Why the fcuk are we still playing with three centre backs?

johnnyryan89

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I really never though I would see an Ireland worse than the Staunton era however here we are.

It's what normally happens when your pool of players get weaker and weaker every few years.