Ireland v Norway

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spock out

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Admins?

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We used to be so well set-up for set pieces too. We tended to score from them rather than concede in the MON era.

I suppose we conceded from that smart set piece play against the Scotā€™s in 2014 when Maloney curled it in but that wasnā€™t a put it in the mixer per se.

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Spock out

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Kenny always reminds me of the pub putdown I heard years ago.
ā€˜niall Quinn is absolutely shiteā€™
ā€˜hes better than youā€™.
His starting point in commentary is that the Irish players are the best players in the country and are very good at football. Heā€™s totally unique in his positivity about ā€˜averageā€™ professional players. Probably because he was one himself he appreciates the small details that means they are better than 99.99999pc of people in this country who play the game. Heā€™s the polar opposite to the likes of ray Houghton and Ronnie Whelan

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Absolute no creativity at all in midfield. The future looks bleak. Egan woeful for the goal.

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Iā€™d take Kenny and his ā€œone v one situationsā€ over those miserable sods

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Even though Ireland are losing to norways b team, im happy enough as we are playing scintillating football

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Not one piece of coherent football, less alone an incisive move or a good chance/effort. Weā€™ve had one shot, a wild left footed effort from Robinson from broken play. Dire stuff.

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Need to get Ogbene on for Robinson, the latter has continuously given away possesion in the first half and there is zero chemistry or communication between him and Obafemi.

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You dont understand what kenny is tryjng to do mate, we are transitioning from playing stoneage football, this is actually fantastic

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Thatā€™s a huge change from your usually positive outlook around the future of this team. I think thereā€™s some great young players in the squad. Unfortunately very few of them are in midfield. What we wouldnā€™t give to have a 22 year old John Giles/Roy Keane or Liam Brady right now.

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Its what @Aertel220 and the Newstalk generation wants

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Hamann laying into them

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Hamann scathing here. No point in having 250 passes in your own half. No penetration. As bad as heā€™s seen.

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@Aertel220 and the newstalk generation saying the possesion stats are good

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292 completed passes

I doubt Spain with Xavi et al dominated the ball that much in a half

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Need to beg o neill to come back.

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We donā€™t have the players

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Iā€™ve been sceptical of Spock for the last two years!:joy:Iā€™m fairly sure youā€™ve been sympathetic to him on these pages before.