Republic of Ireland General Discussion Thread 2024 [use match threads for games]

you don’t support Ireland. You literally just said you were delighted they scored. You were actively against Ireland in a sport , that really doesn’t make you as Irish as they come. No not a season ticket holder , have gone to about 6 Pats games this year.

Some of the reaction to this is OTT. People need to relax a bit. We'll have a far better picture of where we are against Greece.

I’m a season ticket holder with both Ireland and my LOI club.

The day I’m ‘delighted’ someone scores against either will be the day I hand both back.

were you also delighted they scored? Or would you not go as strong to have supported England instead?

You know you can actually just disagree with something.

You'd have to have a fairly large inferiority complex to be "delighted" to see them score against your country.

I think Brady being in the team is a bit of a joke. I love the guy and have great memories provided by him but what business does he have in our squad let alone team these days. O'Shea shouldn't have had as large a role in these games after the uninspired stuff that was served up the last couple of windows.

Agreed - so lets give the guy a fair crack at the whip - a two nill loss at home to the third best team in the world after 3 days with the squad isn't the worst result in the world - its probably fairly realistic.

Lets see how the campaign goes and perhaps the one after that also before making too many decisions.

As for the questions about Soccer in general in ireland - its not in too bad a state all things considered with the history of mismanagement at the FAI and that's down to some brilliant volunteers on the ground for decades.

Biggest issue is facilities for clubs - local club here has some great people involved but renting pitches and trying their best to get land to develop which is proving very difficult - very little central assistance in even scoping the work involved - this is one of the fastest growing underage clubs in the west. There should be support coming in from the FAI to get it developed but very little happening from what I can see.

Perhaps if JD hadnt made the decisions he had or the millions weren't spent on international managers over the past decade clubs like this would have gotten the resources they needed but either way these clubs need to be supported.

In fairness...Keane has been hard work since he got the sack everywhere ...Ireland tolerated his antiquated carry on and dark age psychology as it was the FAI..

Anyone who has to listen to him week in week out ..would realise why he would turn guys away. Sure he is still going on about his old grudges 20 years on...

His player management methods are cave man stuff..

Isn't a massive leap to understand why the O'Neill and Keane set up turned guys away.

Calling lads out when they were actually injured was a particularly bizarre period by Keane.

The stuff Keane is willing to say on TV live ...you can only imagine how toxic it was behind the scenes..

And whilst we are talking about the failure of FAI and failure to put structures in place.

The money that the managers from Trap on walked away with ..and redundancies are an absolute scandal..

So I would never judge a manager after 1 game, and he needs time to access and assemble his own team and style fully.

We also played the 4th best team in the world, supposedly, but they are a team of huge talent, all they need to do is play as a unit more

However it is a bit concerning that he is saying this game it not his team, and passing it off to JOS.

He has had time to review all the players and at least give his direction to his staff on what he wants to do. I mean all he has to do since being appointed is look at the ALL of Ireland's last games for 2-4 Years, and the premiership, championship games.

He didn't just arrive at the first training session to figure it all out, I assume.

I'm sure the FAI have forked up some money for skysports for him.

Anyway hopefully he takes a more lead role, and responsibility going forward with the team.

A fair amount of the criticism is in regards to Declan "tiocfaidh ar la" Rice coming up through the youth system and taking a senior cap.

There is actually a good number of English players who could have played for us and get no stick.

The rules were changed regarding capped players supposedly to stop big countries like England and France capping and dumping young talent who could have played for countries struggling for numbers but it has sadly gone the opposite way too.

im not gaa bashing my son plays gaa and loves it alomost as much

but even in my area his gaa club had 2 pitchs and have in the last 2 years purchased land and developed a futher 2 with plans for astro pitch and new club house etc the neighbouring gaa club have 4 pitchs and have in the last 2/3 years built an indoor complex with a full gym

My sons soccer team have 1 good pitch and a poor training pitch

they needed extra dressing room space and had to go down second hand modular structure route

The vast majority of players in the soccer club would play gaa for the above two clubs so you can see where all the money is been pumped even just in my one local area and im sure its not alone

Not saying this is the only problem but when it comes to infastructure funds its part of it o

Soccer has more participation than any other sport in the country. When the soccer team has done well and qualified for tournaments it tends to hold the attention of the country beyond any other sport too, so I'm not sure your point stacks up.

The person I replied to said Roy Keane bullied Rice. what you said has nothing to do with Keane bullying Rice.

Anyone know if the match programme price yesterday was a once off? I always get one for the young lad, but a tenner is fcuking extortion. It was a fiver 2 years ago!

Reads like something you'd see on Waterford Whispers

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