Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Are they going to give an Irish player man of the match again despite losing(though the match isn't over yet)?

Surely the Kenny era is now rivalling the Staunton era?

Mick knew that 3 points in Tbilisi meant 1 point from our last 2 games could have put us through but we created nothing after the 6th minute.

Id much prefer to watch an Ireland team try and fail then not risk anything and ultimately fail anyway.

I want to win too but I would still rather be there regardless.

I don't use my attendance as a vote.

The real Man Of The Match is Mykola Shaparenko.

I think its fair to say we won't be getting any points in Poland considering it will be closer to Ukraines first team.

So Saturdays match the only chance of some points from 4 games.

I really wanted to see SK do well and thought we'd finally kicked on after the LUX game.

But I'm fine with cutting him loose if the next two games produce similar performances and or points.

he's been our only source of goals even before Kenny came in tbh....

Shaking Kenny's hand and saying thanks but it's not working does not mean reverting to a Mick/MON type. You can try someone else who also wants to play a progressive brand of football. He's had two years and 20 odd games now (I think) and won 5, that's a very fair shake.

Updated Stephen Kenny record for competitive matches: 17 games, 2 wins, 6 draws, 9 defeats.

We just got taught a footballing lesson by Ukraine's second string team. After 20+ games in charge, set-pieces remain our best hope for getting a goal. Poor tactics, poor team selection, poor in-game management. We are tragic.

Ireland have been able to get forward at times, but unlike the Ukrainians, they've shown no incisive skill in the final 3rd. Just get gummed up on the edge of the box, giving Ukraine time to get back and get themselves organised. As usual, Duffy has been Ireland's most dangerous player - a defender. He had one ball fall to him in the 74th minute and looked like he could have injured himself if he'd miskicked it any worse. Good effort from Knight just as I began to type this. Just a general lack of nous and skill. Not to excuse Kenny - he as the manager will shoulder most blame for any loss, but this Irish team has about as much cutting edge as a butter knife.

He needs to go. The team selection is wrong. The system is wrong. He has no plan b to change things.

disappointing result. did that possible handball go to var?

unfortunately, we just dont have the players anymore.

Well, we were crap against Luxembourg at home and crap against Ajaers at home.

You have a weird fascination about the Georgia game. Apart from being tough opponents, we did try to win the game, maybe not to your bizarre liking, but he even gave Aaron Connolly his debut and he fluffed a good chance.

That's all as an aside anyway. Did you not see Ireland get three results out of four against Switzerland and Denmark? Best Georgia at home?

Can only dream of such results now.

Duffy unlucky, Collins looks more than decent, UNFORTUNATELY the ROI are like my granny, completely toothless

I find it hilarious that you think leaving on 3 cbs and a dm on the field when chasing the game is a good idea just so we might nick a goal from a set piece. Its evident that kenny is out of his depth with that crap going on. And nothing will change.

Knight sums it all up under Kenny 😀

F*ck it

If he goes soon fine but not for some knee jerk big Sam type shte.

And by that I don't mean the style of play which really doesn't bother me but I really like these young players and hope the new manager keeps going in that direction. We were too conservative in the past and it cost us.

I think you could say there’s some mitigating circumstances. covid didn’t help and he was basically tasked with completely overhauling the squad, which will be beneficial to us long term. The teams results had been getting better to the tail end of the qualifying group too(although I accept these results have been disappointing).

Not saying he’s the saviour of Irish football, but he’s absolutely done enough to be given a full campaign with his players.

Did you see the pen they didn't get against Wales on Sunday ? They were completely robbed.

I didn't think it was a pen for us tonight

We were not robbed, we were deservingly beaten.

Knight cursing with frustration. I think the only thing Ireland can win is the ‘3 MOTM’ and they give those away regardless of results!

Ah now, I'm all for calling out bad decisions etc but both teams could have had a penalty so there's no bias on show. Nothing else happened there.

We were fairly poor bar the last 15 minutes when we finally upped the tempo. We were just so slow on the ball all game, poor decision making all around. Final ball killed us all night. We were desperate for someone who could get on the ball and do something offensively.

Substitutions could/should have been made at half time, I'd have changed shape and gotten Obafemi on at ht. We lacked any presence up front.