Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Ireland have really woken up since the goal.

Much better performance now

That was ridiculous. Pathetic by about three of them in front of goal.

McLean the worst.

Migs looks just as flappy as he did in his Liverpool days. Get some shots at him and he'll hand us a 2nd.

Ireland improved from the first 20 minutes. They deserve at least a draw here.

That's a great goal. Doherty did great.

Superb goal. Great header

Matt Holland, sounds like Townsend too

Ogpele MoTM.

The low level some of our players are playing at has been remarked on, but our best player today is a League One player.

Kelleher with not a single save tonight. That is odd given the opposition

Again, another decent performance. We had 4 league one players playing tonight. You may say its against a Belgium reserve side, but Tielemanns, Hazard, Batshuai etc would walk into our team.

The last 12 months been good, long may it continue

Gotta love Ogbene, and he's out of contract in the summer so should hopefully bring a bit of more interest his way performing well for us.

Two disappointing goals to concede, especially the second goal having two players free in the box like that. Wonder what changes we'll see on Tuesday. If he'll make wholesale changes or just the subs that came on getting a start.

Enjoyable friendly. We were poor for the first 30 minutes but improved considerably after that. Ogbene man of the match. Scored a cracking goal and some excellent work to keep the ball in play for the equaliser. Robinson improved after a poor first half in the second. Thought our defending for their second was really bad, two players were free for headers. Didn't think Knight played particularly well today and I wonder is he possibly better as a impact sub when the game becomes stretched.

Finished 4-1 to Portugal with three late goals coming in the 84th, 92nd, and 95th minute. For some reason we only had five subs on the bench which was probably a big factor in the result. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th goal all came from subs while Ireland made one sub all game.

We havent seen enough of him to say he is better than Travers. Travers could very well be the only one of them playing PL. Sure what does that count for. I know you are probably a wee bit biased though.

Good solid outing. Ogbene good. At 25 in May he needs to move to championship. Browne is a better option than Hendrick.

He had literally no chance whatsover with the second and I wouldn't pin the first on him either.

Personally I'de take the guy playing every week. Must be great for Kelliher to say he plays for Liverpool but a bit of League Cup isn't good enough against someone who is both on the City books and also getting a full season of games.

As for Ogbene Rotherham will almost certainly get promoted but I think he could go to a bigger club all the same.

For himself he should look to move and get a better contract somewhere else as Rotherham will always be a League One yo-yo club. If he wants to stay at Rotherham fair enough because as long as he keeps putting in good performances when he pulls on the Irish jersey I couldn't care less where he's playing his club football.

EFL team of the season is decided by whoscored I'm pretty sure. So easy enough to check out and see where each keeper stands regards team of the season. Haven't checked it in a few weeks but Travers was ranked 3rd or 4th in the championship for keepers. Huddersfield Lee Nicholls was ranked number one amongst the keepers but could have dropped a place after their 3-0 loss to Bournemouth.

Wes Foderingham (Sheffield United), Lee Nicholls (Huddersfield), Matt Ingram (Hull) are the top three rated keepers in the championship. Travers is fourth and same rating as Ingram though.

Jamie Cumming (Gillingham/MK Dons), Michael Cooper (Plymouth), David Stockdale (Wycombe) are the top three rated keepers in League One. Bazunu is fourth just one point below Stockdale.

Looking at the ratings and Luke McNally is the highest rated CB in League One this season.

So that would be Mark Travers then playing week in week out with the Bournemouth in the Championship.

I'd have to agree having him above Kelleher as number two at Liverpool who just really plays cup games and Gavin Bazunu playing for midtable League 1 Portsmouth