I’m not one bit disappointed by the performance all things considered. We played an awful lot of good stuff against a talented side. The high of the last day and the short recovery and change of training camp are all little things that made this a huge task.
They have died on their feet to a man.
Ah Wes
Wes has been beyond shit
Cross the fucking ball into their area.
Their CB pairing have got a free fucking ride the entire 2nd half.
No harm in that, pull it off and we’re in
Get in the box the lot of ye.
John O’Shea and been superb.
Randolph has been superb.
Brave performance, I’m in bits…but the players and management have given everything out there.
I’m proud of them all.
We died with our boots on.
Ah well, gave it a good go.
Coman coming on allowed the French to stretch the game wider and Ireland were too naive in dealing with this, staying too deep, going too narrow and it was just wave after wave of French attack as we had no real outball.
French were brilliant in second half though.
Wes and Walters have offered little since coming on
Randolph is a hero
Was it a tactic for McClean to tuck in or poor positioning? France got a lot of joy down our left.
Conan substitution changed the whole complexion of the game.
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who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat
Yeah, you’re correct about the first goal, lost our shape at the back after that. France will get a serious lift from this win.
Everything he touched turned to shite. He was out on his feet after about 20 minutes on the pitch. I wonder will Dunphy acknowledge this
Fuck it.
I’m proud of that though. I can’t recall the number of times I’ve seen an Irish team beaten while playing within themselves, without heart & drive, without imagination.
Today, they battled physical conditioning and a home team. We died with our boots totally sunken in the shite.
Good on ye boys.
We probably wouldn’t have beaten Iceland anyway 