Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Had to miss the match with work, but decided to avoid the scores and watch in full on the player (thank god for vpns) - delighted I did! I saw the huge number of posts next to this thread so feared the worst, but bloody hell what a treat.

That front midfield/forward 5 has to just be the first team now. As others have said, Hendrick is a better footballer, but ultimately the bite and energy Molumby offered was outstanding. Never let the Scots settle. Could see his red boots snapping into everything. Best he's looked for us since Kenny's first window... hopefully now that he's finally playing regularly for his club he can keep this level of intensity up. Cullen and Knight are no brainers, and now so too are Parrott and Obafemi. I've a lot of time for what Ogbene and Robinson have done over the past year, but ultimately today's lads are just a class above.

I feel a bit justified now in my constant and probably annoying level of support for Obafemi over the last 3 years!

Very impressed with that win. Obafemi and Parrott were excellent but the whole team were on it today. Ireland are so much more relaxed when they score first, it’s the kind of thing you’d hope Kenny could teach them to be before they score!

It’s the kind of thing I’d hoped for from the Kenny reign - buzzing to be able to talk about positive performances and multiple goals! Tuesday will be tough but hopefully this result gives the team confidence. A draw there would be a fine end to this series of games.

At the game yesterday. Very positive Irish performance with some lovely goals.

Scotland were dreadful.

What's the story with the occasional booing of Robertson and McTominay? I truly hope it wasn't club football related!? If so, I give up on some people.

Tbf the booing was **** embarrassing and fairly small time to be honest.

I mean, Kelleher plays for the same club as Robertson ffs.

It was absolutely pathetic. My ST is in Upper West Stand and as far as I could make out it was predominantly from behind the goal. Hate that crap. First happened with that Danish player who played for Rangers (name escapes me) - absolutely childish behaviour.

Fantastic performance yesterday.

I’d say kenny got a bit of quiet satisfaction out of that.

Particularly with so many firing sneaky comments his way.

I read in the Irish times yesterday that Martin o neill was making a few comments about him.

Drawing with Hungary, a team that has recently beaten England and drawn in Germany is a very strange stick to beat Kenny with.

I genuinely feel sorry for you if you looked at yesterdays game and all you could take out of it was the manager had poor results in other games.

For some people there is no recognition of improvement. Whatever Kenny does someone else will do better. If Kenny got us to a semi final in the Euros we’d be told a half decent manager would have won the tournament.

Really shows the work that went on behind the scenes to bring Michael back into the team too. We've been crying (in some cases literally) out for the sort of creativity he displayed yesterday.

The landsdown crowd has always been a bit odd. I'd say about half of them never go to any other games. Remember when Liam Miller got pelters for leaving Celtic.

Yeah I know what you mean, as most of the Irish supporters look at the Irish team through the British (club) lens. As that is where the ‘glamour’ and ‘event’ is.

The majority are just consumers of the British football product ONLY rather than Soccer fans in the truest sense.

Which usually starts when they are about 10 of which ever British team was successful at that time.

So majorly of Irish soccer supporters are framed mentally by the British game ONLY. It is colonialism by marketing.

Celtic is a particularly odd one the marketing says Celtic =Oirish. People still fall for the trick. They play up to the didily die do Oirish angle.

The funniest one I remember was involving foreigners. Spanish student goes off to Carroll’s tourist shop. Comes back real proud of himself said he had an Irish jersey. It was a Celtic one. That took some explaining! Or another time with Spanish students, me watching telly soccer on. They glance at it Celtic? No says I, it is Shamrock Rovers! Confused looks.

You would think Spanish fans would know we'll that many teams wear Green or green and white. In fact I think it's only the UK that green is almost non-existent as a club colour.

Well there should be no reason to fear being dismantled off the back of a confident win. I mean we played these lads less than a week previous and only lost 1 - 0.

”Don’t get beat”

This is great prep for the Euro qualifiers. The type of results we need to get. I’m confident we can get a result, how could you not be after yesterday?

seems like practically everyone is an awful manager to some people. Clarke is a good manager on what I observe. Kenny I’d say is an ok to good manager; somewhere in that range. He’s one of the most inarticulate managers I’ve seen but I just don’t watch his media output.

from listening to ex pros a lot of quite celebrated managers are complete bluffers, such as Harry redknapp.

the players had a few pints in the Aviva lounge After the game going by Instagram. Hope it didn’t turn into a late session on the town.

will be interesting to see obafemi’s next year, he played to a level yesterday that I was highly dubious I would ever see.

Can we have a rule in this thread that if you suggest we should have capped Grealish and Rice that you get permabanned.

Jaysus H Christ they didn't want to play for us, get over it to fcuk

2 things

• - I don’t believe Kenny’s reign at Dunfermline was disasterous. Maybe at shamrock rovers it was. The pars were relegation candidates that got relegated. The manager lost his job, it happens all the time.
• - the Irish government should be more hands on with supporting infrastructure development but not giving money to the fai for appointing managers which you appear to be suggesting. It’s not a government function to improve the brains trust of the Irish football manager….and if it was I’d hope they’d look at better names than the ones you are suggesting

He’s having a better time because he’s playing for the country he identifies as being from.