Robbie Keanes sheer volume of goals spoilt us
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Connolly is doing his best. Youâd swear he was missing chances on purpose and there isnât many alternatives either.
I agree with a lot of your post but the constant hammering off Connolly is tiresome.
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At our best in last 20 years we generally had a good goalie, Robbie and a hard working attitude - meant we had a chance
a 1 in 2 man at international level would set you apart from the rest and get you to around the top 10 in the world
look this is mens senior international soccer, if you arenât able for it, stick to the ponies
With the physical effort we put in last night and our tendency of not being able to break teams down on the front foot at home, I suspect we will be doing very well to beat Azerbaijan on Saturday.
Kenny will need to make a few changes I think, just to freshen the legs.
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His general decision making / game intelligence needs to improve ⌠He looks up when itâs too late and his touch is poor.
heâs a game lad, but when youâre in the team for your pace and youâve a 38 year old man isolated on the wing with a field to run into and you donât push it passed him, youâre fucked. He dribbled two out over the line, fell over the ball once and dived another time. The plan was to get him isolated one on one and we achieved it time after time in the first half, the missed chances can happen but they just fucking kill you
I donât think touch can improve at his age and the bad habits look fairly ingrained
That level of criticism for a young lad is mad over the top. I donât get the heightened criticism of the manager or players after last night. Itâs something unique to discourse on the Irish soccer team. I find it bizarre.
Look at where theyâre coming from, what they were up against, and then look at the shift they put in. Theyâre operating with severe limitations (yes, their own) and yet a really you team put in a really creditable performance that showed the most promise the Irish team has shown in years.
They deserve praise.
Putting in a shift is the bare fucking minimum. They are highly paid professionals who cannot trap a ball, cannot use their weak foot, cannot track runs, make tackles, beat a man, score from 6 yards etc.
If I feel I want to criticize that, I will.
Excusing shit performances and shit players for putting in a shift and moral victories is worse. Fuck that shit
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No one is faulting effort.
Soccer is the toughest and most brutal sport in the world when it comes to criticism - itâs par for the course. These guys are also highly paid and cant perform some very basic stuff - that lends to the criticism and itâs in no way unique to the Irish soccer team - footballers get destroyed the world over.
It wasnât a shit performance.
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some of the players had shit performances.
It was a decent performance on the whole, the back 6 was brilliant, Cullen, Idah and McGrath were superb, Connolly put a shift in but was desperate and I wonât even talk about Hendrick
the performances are generally overstated because people think we pick 11 lads up off the road to go and play internationals.
These are all professional players. In the end we made elementary mistakes and lost a game we should have been clear by more in because of missed chances.
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Some rubby fan boys on here want to go down the âheroicâ line we often see quoted in the wake of a rubby defeat⌠This isnt rubby⌠this is a results business.
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Where is Guus Hiddink these days?
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Didi has fired a shot.
Jurgen Klopp is the man for the boys in green - heâll be done with Liverpool by 2024.
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we could/should have been 3 down after 20 minutes yesterday,
a calamitous penalty and Jota missed two absolute sitters.
We scored right on the brink of 45 minutes in the first half hence why he played over the minimum announced added time. There was a VAR penalty check and we made a double substitution after added time was announced in the second half. It wasnât some grand conspiracy
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