the dago is staying :lol: :guns:
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That bit from Irwin is the most sensible summing up of the current state of things as I’ve seen.
Everyone else is so far to the extreme of either argument that it’s hard to know who to take seriously.
Liam Brady/TASE/Bandage/Totti/John Delaney 2 - 0 Dickhead Sadlier/Eamonn Dunphy/KIB Man/Croppy Boy/Thrawneen/Irish media
The ignorant, old senile cunt will be gone in March. He’s had to be told to go and do his job. We’re a laughing stock.
Seething :lol:
Wait til we get Glenn Whelan back 
Chewy, can you add Mr Denis O Brien to that list?
And thrawneen to the side with Zero
i think you’ll find that currently we are the best football team from IONA and the other nations of IONA can only dream of being as good as us
:strokechin: No need, he was already included.
G’way to fuck.
N. Ireland just drew with Portugal.
We are no better than Wales and Scotland at the moment.
You are half correct in that we’d put Iceland and the Faeroes in the ha’penny place.
A freak result. Portugal played them off the park but were unlucky in that they have a complete and utter imposter Postiga still faking it up front for them. Our 4-1 demolition of the Faroes on the other hand was as compelling a dismantling of an International Side away from home as you’re ever likely to see.
Then why is the team 8th in the Norn Iron league able to attract the Shams best player, on lower money? Soccer is dying in the republic.
One of the Key points in Bradys side of the argument unravelled as RTE went off air, The point secured by Sweden will probably be crucial in terms of them securing second place assuming that they beat the minnows, so do we, and lets assume we draw home and away with them and lets assume both of us are beaten by Germany.
I think it is curtains as regards qualification barring major slipups by Germany and Sweden.
As regards Trap, they would have to pay him and his entourage off and then pay a new man and his new entourage. He qualified for the wrong tournament when his key players were over the hill. If they got through against France, his stock would have been higher, and they would probably have performed better in that tournament.
The big question is, could another manager extract qualification from the present group of players and could another manager have presided over better in the euros. Trap has questions to answer and Brady has his head buried in the sand relating to some issues but the simple fact is that we do not have the players. Our only player with a Champions League club across the water is Robbie Brady and he might not play Champions League. McGeady is the only other Champions League player. Have we any player in the Europa League even???
Man for man (And for the record, Robbie > Zlatan), I believe we can field a team that is a match for Sweden. Possibly even better. They have a lot of dross. That point for Sweden is huge if they can get another point against Germany at home. Our players were a disgrace last Friday and they will surely capitulate against Germany away. So, we’re fucked. Appoint a new man now and let him build, for christ’s sake. The current manager is too old, will probably have a stroke, doesn’t give a fuck and is senile. It’s not an ideal situation.
you’re nuts
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I think on reflection, Sweden getting the draw wasn’t as importat as was thought at the time as by pulling back three goals they already had gone a long way to pulling ahead of us on goal difference again which is effectively a point in itself. That you would imagine would mean we would have had to take four points off them anyway. We still probably have to do that unless we better their results against Austria.
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Peanuts on toast.
Ireland doing better than they should
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When his back was against the wall scrambling for reasons to insist he was the right man for the job, Giovanni Trapattoni, pointed towards the convoluted rankings table.[/size][/font]
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Ireland are 28th in Fifa’s most recent list but when you take into account other contributing factors to a country’s success, such as population and economy size, it turns out the Boys in Green punched well above their weight for the last 40 years.
Journalist Simon Kuper and economist Stefan Szymanski teamed up two years ago to publish Soccernomics, a book which essentially used numbers to prove or dispel various theories within the game.
By taking into account three factors which impact on a nation’s performance — population, economy and the amount of games the country has played — their study on international sides performing beyond their limitations placed Ireland fifth in Europe and 10th in the world.
Georgia topped the European list, which only counted games between two European teams, and a major caveat is they only played their first international in May 1990, with Yugoslavia (the list dates back to 1980) in second.
The formula found Ireland have consistently exceeded what, considering resources, should be the team’s level especially in the world table, where they are the highest ranking European team overall. Some might insert the ‘golden generation’ argument into the fray, but as the table is based on several generations, it doesn’t stand up.
Results are made up by working out a win percentage and lining it up alongside the aforementioned three factors.
When you compare the population of the country to Germany – who, unsurprisingly, are ranked 38th in their European list – and also the size of the respective economies, then Ireland should, on an average day, lose quite heavily to them every time.
That was the case last weekend but supporters’ expectations, after becoming accustomed to overachieving, meant it was treated as a national tragedy. According to Kuper and Szymanski’s extensive database, the team are doing much better than they should when external factors are accounted for.
European over-achievement table (based on games between Uefa members): 1 Georgia, 2 Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro), 3 Croatia, 4 Iceland, 5 Ireland, 6 Armenia, 7 Czech Republic, 8 Portugal, 9 Netherlands, 10 Bulgaria.
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Georgia must be delighted with themselves. :rolleyes:
Stupid fucking article.