Enjoyable evening. Nipped into the 51 after the match and bottled @Bandage[/USER], [USER=1]@Rocko[/USER] and [USER=129]@Thrawneen[/USER] over the head, threw [USER=230]@croppyâs lifeless body into a sewer, and then went to a Republican ballad session with a few lads who were wearing skirts, and chatted up a married Scottish woman. Lovely stuff altogether.
Well that was hopeless.
Havenât read most of this thread yet but Iâll start by laying into Coleman. He was disgraceful. Cowardly on the ball and hopelessly inept when he eventually got his crosses in. And thatâs been about his usual standard in an Irish shirt.
The defending for their goal looked atrocious. Stood off them and then Given and OâShea reacted like pensioners. Not sure if Brady had any culpability (havenât seen it properly since: it came from his side but he canât be responsible for everything inside) but he was our only competent player in the back 5 all game. His set pieces were terrific.
Our defence decided to take a breather for the last 10 minutes bizarrely. They were pathetic on the ball all game, taking no responsibility. But they took that to new depths near the end with nobody even prepared to launch a long ball forward. Everything went lateral, slowly, before being stroked carefully back to Given who insisted on taking a half dozen little shuffle taps of the ball for some reason before launching a mighty hoof up field that would usually fall short of the halfway line.
Whelan and McCarthy had their usual competition to see who could be more ineffective in the middle. I think maybe McCarthy shaded it for his imaginatively unambitious range of passing. Hendrick was slightly better in being a minor threat going forward but he was quiet for long spells. Hoolahan showed well when he was on and at least looked interested in trying to unlock their defence - but it says much when his absence later was lamented given the sum total of his effective contributions amounted to very little.
Walters had a poor game, and heâs had a few of them in this campaign now. He wasnât particularly effective in the air, looked a bit unsure about how wide he should play and the end result was that we were far too narrow. The absence of McGeady hurt us in that respect but we shouldnât have needed to wait for the introduction of McClean for someone to recognise the space out on the flanks.
Murphy battled away trying to make something of aimless punts forward but thought he had tired long before he was withdrawn. Or maybe he was just acting to instructions but he wouldnât show down the flanks in the second half when there was plenty of space there (until just before he came off when he robbed one on our left flank)âŚ
All in all it wasnât a very convincing performance at all. We donât have a great squad of players but we donât look as organised as we did under Trap. His team was extremely predictable but at least it appeared to have a strategy that was easy to predict. We seemed unprepared for the absence of McGeady, playing Murphy up front and causing them problems from crosses but playing nobody about wide. Again, maybe weâd have been an awful lot better if Coleman hadnât been rotten but it was hard to see how we intended to work situations to put crosses into the box, other than Bradyâs corners and Coleman occasionally going far enough forward to put a ball into the stand.
Finally, it is to my eternal shame that I wasnât ejected from the stadium last night. I hurled every ounce of vitriolic abuse I could think of at Naismith, unfortunately it wasnât enough to earn more than a talking to from a steward.
the oirish played a celebratory tune on the PA when the scotch scored-ffs
That was bizarre.
What the fuck was that about? Incredible. Christ, I was fucking furious at the effort to be so welcoming to the scotch.
I assume that Poppy and Queen will be gone by the end of the campaign allowing Big Mick to take over next summer
Brian Kerr was seething about that on the radio commentary
Brian Kerr. 
I was in disbelief at the music myself- thatâs the fucking rugby crowd for sure. A serious letter of complaint with lots of exclamation marks should be wrote to these bastards.
Agreed with the majority of Rockoâs assessment last night and still do.
Most annoyed with the Scots taking over the 51 and pillaging our womenfolk in town afterwards as I was walking home round 1am.
Mick McCarthy would prove himself a paragon of Christian forgiveness if he accepted the job . The "best fans in the world " did not realise how good they had it ,
The Aviva is some shithole anyway, is there any chance the FAI could build a proper football stadium out in some Northside shit hole with a suitably hostile environment?
Mick McCarthy has bigger fish to fry than managing a pub team.
Dela organised that. It was a nice welcoming touch, in fairness.
Roy Queenâs coaching career is surely in tatters now after his latest failure. When will he run away? Iâd say heâll run for the hills before the qualifying campaign ends, like the coward he is.
utterly bizarre , also didnt show replay of goal on big screen
The YBIG traitors think Sid is gas
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[QUOTE=âThe Selfish Giant, post: 1158837, member: 80â]The YBIG traitors think Sid is gas
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[QUOTE=âThe Selfish Giant, post: 1158837, member: 80â]The YBIG traitors think Sid is gas
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