Look. Eire are only there for a piss up. They are not a serious football team. Everyone laughs at them because their simpleton fans sing a few songs and are great craic. Thatâs about the height of it. Northern Ireland are a far better team
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Eire should concentrate on sports they are good at like Gaa. On a global scale, boxing and horse racing is the only thing I can think off where we are top class. Thatâs where the real tinker in us comes out
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Look at the team yesterday.
Randolph - West 'Am reserve
Coleman - first choice for a mid table premier league team.
OâShea - kept out of a Sunderland team battling the drop at the end of the season. Great servant but the end is nigh.
Clark - first choice for one of the worst top flight aides in Europe last season.
Ward - couldnât get a game at Burnley.
Brady - relegated with Norwich
Whelan - Stoke stalwart.
McCarthy - midtable premier league player.
Hendrick - struggling to get a game at Derby in the Championship.
Hoolohan - in and out at Norwich who were relegated.
Long - a striker who doesnât score consistently.
MON and Roy did a great job getting us to France.
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The domestic league isnât actually that bad. I enjoy it anyway. When you try to play an odd time yourself, you realise how good these lads are.
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Spot on Flatty. Most of the lads on here are either pig ignorant Muldoon GGA fans or west Brit Rugby disciples.
They simply canât get their head around the concept of a truly global sport.
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You forgot bog snorkeling
i agree with all that
obviously the SRFC academy i the great hope for Irish football. what are your views on the make up of the u18 team and the clubs they play for. the days of kids going to England seems to be lessening
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND U18 SQUAD:
Mark Travers (Unattached)
Eric Donnelly (St PatrickââŹâ˘s Athletic)
Canice Carroll (Oxford Utd)
Tom Cadman (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Conor Masterson (Liverpool)
Tristan Noack Hofman (Longford Town)
Conor McCarthy (Cork City)
JJ Lunney (Unattached)
Jake Doyle Hayes (Aston Villa)
Conor Levingston (Wolves)
Liam Scales (UCD)
Michael OââŹâ˘Connor (Dundalk)
Liam Brady (Stevenage)
Simon Power (UCD)
Luke Wade Slater (Stevenage)
Anthony Scully (West Ham)
Sean Boyd (Shamrock Rovers)
Ronan Hale (Birmingham City)
Jamie Aherne (St PatrickââŹâ˘s Athletic)
Eoghan Morgan (Shamrock Rovers)
That may also be due to clubs over here now signing players from age 7 and gradually whittling the numbers down. They are coached to play systems from the start. Harder maybe to break into that when older (supposition)
Eire do very well.
Iâd be far happier playing proper Irish lads and losing than mercenary imports but thatâs just me.
Thatâs encouraging stats tsg.
probably true, still its better for people to be in their home country than emigrating as 16 years old
btw the FAI are dead set against the SRFC academy which is odd as there are no alternatives
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Weâll still qualify for most of these Euroâs because of the expansion of the number of teams but I canât see us qualifying for the World Cup for the foreseeable future. The thing that might save us a bit is if more immigrants start to come through here which has been successful for other countries
Eire soccer supporters adore the ground John Delaney walks on.
Domestic Eire soccer players canât do the basics like control a football or pass 10 yards.
Majority of domestic Eire soccer players tog out in a bush by the side of a municipal field every Sunday morning before hoofing it 50 yards for 9/ minutes.
Eire soccer fans adore John Delaney because he likes to get pissed with them.
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Youâll note the lads doing the most pissing and moaning about how shit we are will be the most vocal fellas in the anti rugby football thread and the anti Rory mcilroy thread. Sports we are actually successful in.
We punch miles above our weight
Rugby football and golf arenât sports, pal.
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My mistake pal. Carry on
The coaching education isnât all that bad, Iâve done Kickstart 1 and 2 and found them to be brilliant, the problem is that most of the participants havenât any background in the game so theyâre fucked before they start, the instructor tries to explain something by saying a defender needs to be âgoal sideâ (just an example) and people are looking around, havenât a clue what he means. Theyâre mostly interested parents (which is great) who have no real interest in developing anybody bar their own kid.
The courses themselves are really good and the instructors I came across were fantastic, the attitude was shit from some of the club participants though, itâs supposed to be about participation up to u12, I was at a course in St Josephâs boys (Joeys) in Sallynoggin, unbelievable facilities but even for the smallest kids it was all about winning at all costs, no interest in developing the players or the game, Dutch model me hole.
is there not standard coaching across europe?
people get UEFA recognised badges?
About 6 countries play rugby, and we are regularly about the 8th best team in the World. The soccer team punch more above their weight than the rugby team do
Where did I say that they didnât. I made no criticism of soccer
You said we are successful in rugby. We have never got past the last 8 despite about 6 countries playing rugby
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The association team only did well when the sons and grandsons of the emigrants came through in the late 80s/early 90s. The squads were almost entirely made up of players who were born in the Britain and went through British club systems all the way to playing with a British club. The only time these fellas had any footballing connection to Ireland was when they were brought over by the FAI for a poorly organised pre qualifying camp with the ROI.
England B doing well in the late 80s/early 90s is near a total British footballing achievement. That must drive the Rastoolers nuts as deep down they know itâs the truth.
The great thing about all the insecure anti Rugby Football/McIlroy fans is theyâll all be back supporting their Liverpools, Manchester Uniteds & Celtics next year. These lads give out about bandwagoners but they are absolutely not bandwagoners themselves, they just so happened to like those cities when growing up in rural Ireland. Theyâll go over for their weekends to these places, spend a fortune and get back to Ireland as quick as they can. Not a penny spent on the grassroots.
The circle will continue with Ireland relying on British players, but they will slip further and further down the quality scale of the British leagues. I saw one was hoping that the sons of Eire over in the US would be the next place they could raid rather than improve grassroots. The same US still struggling to produce technically good players themselves.
Honestly, you couldnât make it up.