Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Can we not just throw Festy on for the final 2 minutes and let him have his moment in an Irish jersey? Much better than him going home after these internationals disgruntled that he was called up for nothing.

We're finishing strong here.

Christ McLean is poor.

Good result. Good performance. Time they had a holiday now.

Another really strong performance all in all, delighted with how this window has ended. Can bring some positivity going forward, with a clear sense of our strongest way of playing. Great to be able to fairly clearly name our best, most effective 11 now.

That Mudryk looks a real talent.

Missed first alf. But Ireland didn't seem to do any really stupid stuff second half, when Ukraine were putting on the pressure. Good away point. Didn't crumble.

Don't get beat 👍️

Time to park the poor mouth nonsense about not expecting anything positive. We are well capable of results and results in succession. Expectations will be raised ahead of the Euro Qualification process, and rightly so.

Peter Collins complaining that we have to wait till September for another Ireland match. Is 4 matches in 5 days in June not enough for you Peter???

Really, really good performance. Loads of individual performances to be happy about but also a super team performance. Good chance to finish second in the group now too.

Happy enough I suppose. You'd feel that with a full team available we will be even better.

Obafemi

Doherty

Stevens fully fit

Duffy

Egan

Bazunu

Omabamdiele

Idah

All of the above will add to it. I think the questions of Hendrick or McClean starting have been answered. Re centre mid it'll be interesting to see how Smallbone starts the season. If its on loan or with southampton. Hogan offers nothing.

The last 2 performances have rescued Kenny for the moment.

Collins future captain.

United go out and get him please.

Lets go Ireland.

Stephen Kenny competitive record: 3 wins, 7 draws, 9 defeats.

Pleased for Collins to get the goal. As for Kenny, he spoke of us winning the group but we find ourselves in 3rd with 2 games to go. We were supposed to be playing possession-based football yet Ukraine had nearly 2/3 of the ball. Lose to the Scots in September and we're in a battle to avoid relegation with Armenia for the final game of the group.

Lads dont put doherty lwb. Play him in his correct position

We need to get the most from him. Lets see how stevens gets on at the start of the season. Dont forget Bagan too who is a natural LWB. He might be a regular again for Cardiff. He should be tried as should Manning.

If we play like we did in the last two games against Armenia, we'll win.

Bar the Armenia disaster it's been a decent window. More game time for the young senior players combined with a playoff spot for our U21s is a massive positive. I think Obafemi and Parrott should be leading the line for us from here on out. We're still light in midfield but there's potential there with some of the other youngers we have.

This could well be another golden generation of Irish players in the next 2 to 4 years if our senior and U21 lads continue to kick on while we wait to see what comes of the likes of Adaramola, Ferguson, Abankwah, Zefi, Moran and Vata.

A deserved draw away at the top seed, a fine result.

Impressive performance from this team. Playing aggressively on the front foot is what we should be doing on a regular basis, not the 'soaking up pressure' nonsense which we're not able for. Midfield were very good and tenacious tonight. More of that please...

We all want the team to get results, I presume. It’s been a great four days and hopefully a marker for what we can expect going forward. Great stuff!