Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Kenny would resign if he had any shame.

He is completely out of his depth and cursed.

Stephen Staunton

That could bankrupt the Irish state.

After a few games of Big Sam longball people will be calling for his head as well.

Why would he want the Ireland job? What are the FAI going to pay him with? Leave Kenny in for this campaign and the next one then revaluate after that.

Caught the last 35 minutes of the match. Embarrassing.

McClean - it's puzzling how he is even in the squad, but for him to be starting and playing 90 minutes is absurd. All he is a burst of energy for 5 seconds followed by a blocked cross attempt or a pass back. Truly the worst player in our squad currently.

Horgan - constantly gets away with criticism, but he is another conman like McClean who has no business playing international football.

Hourihane - lazy, uninterested, combined with the inability to pass a football.

Bazunu - a liability at present. Not ready for international football. Needs to be dropped.

I enjoyed the performance against Portugal but even on a bad day we should be beating teams like Azerbaijan at home. We're a laughing stock in world football right now.

Kenny out.

Idah speaks well

Ireland played with a bit of nous against Portugal, but it's now looking like that result was one of those unexpectedly good away performances that the team sometimes musters, and they still lost that match. But, true to form, they deliver a listless home performance to accompany that, except that where that was once a 0-0 against Slovakia or other average European opposition, it's struggling to get a 1-1 against a minnow who scored first, and needing Duffy (once again) to rescue the situation. I had expressed some optimism after the Portugal game. It now seems that this expression was premature. Kenny will be feeling huge pressure after this. He has to give us some indication that he can deliver a result by the time this campaign is over or else he's gone. No problem with him staying 'til the end of the campaign, though, as the campaign is a complete write off. Never seen it anywhere near this bad in all my time watching Ireland.

I can't believe people here are seriously suggesting Sam Allardyce.

Enough Boards for me for today.

we will have a great game against serbia. we play better against decent teams.

Chris Hughton will likely be out of a job soon enough.

Stan had a decent squad at least. for the rest of the qualifiers I'd rather keep Kenny to see how things pan out. I'd hate to see get Big Sam or Lennon get the job

The stone age where would win more than 1/16 games?

Perish the thought indeed.

This progressive aimlessness is the future. Until Kenny remembers Egan/Duffy headers are our best tactic to actually score.

Former underage coach Paul Clement is out of work.

Big Sam & Tony Pulis are out of work and are hardly going to get another club job.

Didn’t guardiola say he wanted a go at international football management ? Could be worth giving him a call ?

Just so I'm straight, the case for him staying is that he's a League of Ireland legend, who is 'progressive' and promotes youth, despite being incapable of getting a win at this level, even against dross?

The FAI has to answer for most of the state of the national team, but Kenny is out of his depth. It's clear.

Portugal was superb in a sense, but there's been nothing else encouraging bar the simple fact he has young players in the team.

Mother of christ.

What the f**k has Paul Clement ever done apart from get Jose Mourinho his coffee in the morning? He failed miserably at Reading and Brugge. His Brugge team was rancid to watch.

As for the other two suggestions, just shoot me now before I have to see Big Sam or Tony f*cking Pulis in the dugout.

You have to question how much football some people actually watch with the takes they have on the Irish NT.

Same old same old. Where does the goal come from?

Answer: Duffy if we're lucky. If not, nowhere.

The way Kenny was celebrating after Duffy's equaliser is embarrassing. It's Azerbaijan.

Kenny is probably gone I'd say but the last thing we need is a Big Sam type. We need an Irish coach that actually gives a sh!te about the national team. I don't think a change is going to do anything though being realistic. We have the worst calibre of player we've ever had

Really don't want want to be too overly critical of Kenny & the players but it's becoming harder.

There is definitely some progress that we can see and reasons for optimism but I fear that it's not enough.

I like what he is trying to do with the culture shift and the young players etc but football is a results business and the home games especially have been very poor.

Definitely let him see out the campaign at least anyways and see how things progress.

Was mostly joking about Allardyce, but Jesus there's a massive lack of realistic alternatives to Kenny.

I don't know what to think but I am still on for Kenny staying.

Results have been pretty poor but I'm starting to enjoy Ireland games for the first time in a long time.

For so long watching Ireland was a chore.