Firstly, I think McCarthy should be dropped. It’s particularly disappointing after a strong end to the qualifying campaign when he finally looked to be pulling his weight at international level. The stats don’t help his case for either game but I think he was ok against Sweden. And he started ok against Belgium, he just fell apart.
I think a conditioning coach is always going to ascribe that to poor conditioning. In McCarthy’s case there’s probably little doubt that he’s not at peak fitness but that’s probably more due to the fact that he was injured rather than a collective poor preparation.
Ya fair points, it is what i would look at. But we have a number of players fading badly.
I also accept numbers and stats can be misleading and he may be doing a job, but i have forgotten he was playing watching games too often. His sudden rush tackle would then make you realise he is there. If its him not looking for ball, or manageme t telling him not to i don’t know. Either way its no where near consistent enough for big games.
John O’ Shea, Coleman (although i am overall very disappointed with him generally) and Brady look to be some of the few in actual decent nick towards end of games.
For our size, resources and what we are up against we are alright, mate. Could be better yes but you are displaying a complete lack of knowledge of the sport with a ridiculous comment like that… we are in the top 24 in Europe, 53 attempting to qualify.
The other 29 teams that didn’t make it are also either useless or managed by Teege (or whatever that translates into Dutch), Fuck it what does it matter. We have only 2/3 players that look comfortable with the ball at their feet. But you are dead right, I know fuck all about it. Enjoy the game.
