[quote=“The All Seeing Eye, post: 720452”]
Arsenal choose some of the best young players in the world and play a style appropriate to that - Ireland have a team made up of lads that play for wigan villa and toronto - they play a style appropriate to that- this isnt very hard to understand[/quote]
TASE in shock ‘EPL also rans contain the best young players in the world’ admission
they get then as potential superstars than the druggery of life in that grey foggy hellhole suffocates any creativity out of them
:lol:
You have to set the fact that George Hamilton was on the radio this morning calling for him to be sacked against this though.
ignorant clowns like Sadlier and Ken Earley shown up for the spoofers they are, take that you cunts, yea, lets sack the manager when we are right in prime contention, idiots like that should stick to fifa 13 in the playstation or whatever the fuck it is called
That was quality. Dunphy was clamped and looked lost for words, Chippy just took his argument, scrunched it up into a ball of paper and threw it into the bin, one of the biggest clampings I’ve seen on live TV. Brady is a great man in fairness, he reminds me of a modern day Cathal Brugha - a principled man with the convictions to stick by what he believes fair and right - no matter how unpopular it may make him or the consequences of doing so.
Prime contention for what? Are you on drugs?
Qualification, you idiot.
Only a particularly stupid cunt could think we can qualify in this group. Scraping a jammy victory away to Kazakhstan and beating the Faroe Islands does not put you in prime contention.
We’re not though
Six points from a maximum nine does, you dullard. While this side are absolutely pathetic, when we have a manager like Trapattoni in charge, qualification is possible.
Go back over to your Italian thread and talk to yourself ya thick cunt. You don’t have a fucking clue what you’re on about.
Like Chippy Brady - I will be vindicated.
In Totti and Chippy we trust.
We’re playing catch-up after three games
Liam Brady/TASE/Bandage/Totti 1 - 0 Dickhead Sadlier/Eamonn Dunphy/KIB Man/Croppy Boy/Thrawneen
Suck on that, Irwin.
As much as I hate the square headed cunt he called for Trap to remain in the job until March in the wake of the German defeat
NO POINT IN CONDEMNING TRAPATTONI
by Denis Irwin
YES, I could lay into Giovanni Trapattoni’s stewardship of the Irish team this morning. The football he has this team playing is hard to watch, it is uninspiring and young, flair players like James McCarthy, James McClean and Seamus Coleman seem to be judged harshly by the boss when it comes to picking his teams.
But I ask you this, would you prefer to be a Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland supporter today - our neighbours who have played just two World Cup qualifiers and are more or less out of it already.
Each of those countries will have to win every remaining qualifier game if they are to reach Brazil 2014. For Trap’s Ireland, life is much better. A draw against the Germans next month will do us fine. Beat the Faroes away in our next match after that and we’d have seven points in the Group and be ready for the crunch games against Sweden and Austria next March.
Note, I wrote next March - that’s five and a half months after we play Germany and the Faroes. A lot can happen in football in that time and many more Irish players may have come to the fore.
Wounds
It’s a much better scenario than Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland face where they have away matches ahead in Serbia, Croatia or
Portugal from which they must now win three points. But I’m not going to defend Trap to the hilt because he has not always helped himself.
The worst of his self-inflicted wounds is poor communication with his team and squad that is seeing players receive mixed messages about their future and what he wants of them when in an Irish shirt. It is a lesson the FAI must learn too. If they go beyond Ireland or Britain for Trapattoni’s eventual replacement, that coach must have perfect English. I said the Boys in Green are hard to
watch, but that is the price of being hard to beat, which is where Ireland lie now. It is also very difficult to watch at home where we are supposed to be the aggressor chasing goals.
We’d love it if teams came on to us, but they just won’t do that in international football. At home you have to make your own chances - and our system is not great for that. Maybe that’s why the crowds at the Aviva to watch this Irish team are so poor over the last 18 months. But I wonder would the crowds be any better if we were knocking the ball about, playing good football, and out of the qualifying chase after a couple of matches. You know the answer to that - they wouldn’t.
Trap has set us up so that when we go out on the pitch, home or away, everyone knows what they are doing and this may be behind his reluctance to use shining new talent such as McCarthy (left) or McClean the moment they present themselves.
Style
He wants them to have four or five friendlies to bed in, before they go into a big competitive game like Germany. But it can take 18 months for a player to play in five friendlies. I sense too, from some of the quotes you read, that the Italian would be willing to play a different style of football, if the quality players were there.
But he’s making the best use of what he has and in almost getting Ireland to a World Cup, andgetting them to the Euro 2012 finals, you have to say he’s doing a decent job. Remember that Aiden McGeady, at Spartak Moscow will be Ireland’s only Champions League player this season.
That’s where we stand and we’re trying to qualify against Sweden or Austria who have more such experienced players in Europe’s top flight. I think Trap will fail to get us to Brazil in the end, but only because we’ve drawn a very hard group. The Germans will win it and we’re trying to get past Sweden and Austria for second place and even then, we’ll have to win a play-off.
But there are groups in the qualifying that we could have got out of, we just didn’t have a slice of luck in the draw this time around.