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

happyoutscan

It's a hard watch.

Esse85

What a sad state of affairs for Irish football.

statesaver

Deleted User wrote: »

If I can take the green-tinted glasses off for a second, Luxembourg are a likeable team. Good attitude, no drama and well organised.

Gone are the days Ireland were described like that.

Mantis Toboggan

Finally long is on

tom1ie

Come on longer!

The White Feather

I am a big Kenny fan but this seems like he is freezing and doesn't know what to do. We are still doing the same thing that we started with.

He is putting on Long as I type. Take off a defender now. but no he takes off Robinson

edgecutter

nullzero wrote: »

How we are 42nd in the world is anyones guess.

After this campaign we'll be down a fair amount of places in the world rankings.

It will do no harm. Hopefully a reset and much needed improvement in how we produce young players.

nullzero

Esse85 wrote: »

What a sad state of affairs for Irish football.

We should blame English clubs for not developing our players for us any more.

nullzero

edgecutter wrote: »

It will do no harm. Hopefully a reset and much needed improvement in how we produce young players.

There's no other route out of this.

Mantis Toboggan

Big 15 minutes for Kenny, this is septic

pjohnson

Take off a striker for a striker.


Yep thats how you chase a game Kenny.

zig

This thread is depressing, 20 mins of a drop in possession and we are now worse than the Staunton era.

This will come good eventually, unfortunately I don’t think it’ll be in this WC campaign.

tanko

Who is the co commentator on RTE, he thinks Seamus Long is after coming on.

Francie Barrett

Long hasn't scored since 2016.

De Bhál

pjohnson wrote: »

Take off a striker for a striker.


Yep thats how you chase a game Kenny.

Bizarre substitution

blueser

This is gruesome fayre.

The Big Easy

Yes, it's a great time for one of those rare but beautiful things, a Shane Long goal!

What's seldom is wonderful

KungPao

We should be playing like we’re one down, almost kitchen sink time. Our slim hopes of Qatar WC will be over if we don’t get all 3 points here. A draw is no use.

pjohnson

nullzero wrote: »

We should blame English clubs for not developing our players for us any more.

Could blame global warming. Anything but the manager managing the team.

tom1ie

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Long hasn't scored since 2016.

Wha?
Is he not on fire?

DrumSteve

I don't think we can fault the effort of the players, but it all feels a bit lightweight tbh.

Pressure should be on Kenny, but there are huge underlying flaws in how players are developing in this country.

fyfe79

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Don’t write off Luxembourg yet.

If they get a soft touch in the play-off's, who knows?

Mr.Nice Guy

For all the stick McCarthy took for his selections, and for all the much lauded talk of a new era of youth under Kenny, what subs does Kenny bring on to pull out a win against Luxembourg? McClean, Brady and Long.

FixdePitchmark

Honestly.

I want a bit more energy from Kenny.

roverjoyce

Kenny under all kinds of pressure now, no plan b at all
Why not put Coleman to right back and go 4 at the back

For Forks Sake

Portugal 2-2 Serbia now

Father Hernandez

zig wrote: »

This thread is depressing, 20 mins of a drop in possession and we are now worse than the Staunton era.

This will come good eventually, unfortunately I don’t think it’ll be in this WC campaign.

I desperately want Kenny to succeed but we should be allowed to call out how crap this is when it is, don't have to be mutually exclusive.

It's Luxembourg. At home.

A performance that will reflect extremely bad on the team/Kenny as a whole.

luckyboy

The White Feather wrote: »

I am a big Kenny fan but this seems like he is freezing and doesn't know what to do.

Kenny doesn’t exactly look authoritative as he lingers awkwardly around the edge of the players congregated on the sideline now

Zico !

A total farce humiliating the lowest of the low fcuk in ****e

Oat23

zig wrote: »

This thread is depressing, 20 mins of a drop in possession and we are now worse than the Staunton era.

This will come good eventually, unfortunately I don’t think it’ll be in this WC campaign.

Can't wait to re-read these threads in a few years. Enough doses in here to vaccinate the whole country.

(And yeah it's definitely taking longer than this campaign)

edgecutter

pjohnson wrote: »

Could blame global warming. Anything but the manager managing the team.

If Kenny was to be sacked (won't happen, the FAI is broke) who would come in? What major differences could a new manager do with this squad?

The Big Easy

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Honestly.

I want a bit more energy from Kenny.

Surely you want more energy from the players on the pitch Fix!

Mushy

DrumSteve wrote: »

I don't think we can fault the effort of the players, but it all feels a bit lightweight tbh.

Pressure should be on Kenny, but there are huge underlying flaws in how players are developing in this country.

Lightweight is a good way to describe it. Game has gone as i feared

CantGetNoSleep

roverjoyce wrote: »

Kenny under all kinds of pressure now, no plan b at all
Why not put Coleman to right back and go 4 at the back

Because he's a clueless manager who has never done anything outside of a pub league

ShamoBuc

Long was close to that.

statesaver

Christ, Ireland are a poor side.

JeffKenna

Brady is having a great game in fairness.

Agent Coulson

Honestly I'd take Big Sam as manager at this stage at least he has a style of play that might suit this level of player.

ShamNNspace

fyfe79 wrote: »

I don't think we're watching the eventual World Cup winners here tonight.

But we'll really shake them up when we win the wurrild cup cos Oireeland are the greatest football team

De Bhál

Someone should've got on the end of that brady cross. Poor forwards

edgecutter

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Because he's a clueless manager who has never done anything outside of a pub league

That's unfair, he did great things with Dundalk especially in Europe.

FixdePitchmark

Brady has been class

breezy1985

edgecutter wrote: »

If Kenny was to be sacked (won't happen, the FAI is broke) who would come in? What major differences could a new manager do with this squad?

I keep asking this and it usually gets ignored

The Big Easy

Yes, Thill is off, now we can push up with impunity! :P

Francie Barrett

Thank god Thill is off anyway.

Zico !

Players limited in what they are are not responding to Kenny time for a change if they can't put a performance in against this shower of crap he has to go. He got dunfermline relegated

The White Feather

KungPao wrote: »

We should be playing like we’re one down, almost kitchen sink time. Our slim hopes of Qatar WC will be over if we don’t get all 3 points here. A draw is no use.

I said this with 30 mins left!

Kenny is freezing up I think. He doesn't know what to do it seems and remember I want him to do well. Other than the subs we are doing the same thing

ArielAtom

What is the bottom see you can achieve I either the Euros or WC qualification, that’s where we are at. It’s really not until for discussion.

_Kaiser_

luckyboy wrote: »

Kenny doesn’t exactly look authoritative as he lingers awkwardly around the edge of the players congregated on the sideline now

I got that impression from his interviews. Figured it's just some media training needed but maybe it's more than that alright.

He looks out of his depth

Mushy

The Big Easy wrote: »

Yes, Thill is off, now we can push up with impunity! :P

There's two Thills though