We are far too open against the lesser teams in our endeavours to score goals, we will be far more defensive and compact obviously Monday night(you would pray) and our only hope will be to catch the French from a rare counter or set piece.
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Stephen Kellyās hair colour is suspect. He looks like heās gotten himself an Alan Shatter style colour in.
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With all the Grecian 2000 in his hair heāll have a conflict of interest when Ireland travel to Athens on June 16th.
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This is it in a nutshell. We donāt have a particularly talented group so to make up for a multitude of deficiencies you make the team hard to beat. Good shape, clean sheets, not conceding many set pieces.
Sadly weāve not seen much of that in his reign.
Itās very irritating seeing him prance around the technical area celebrating goals against cannon fodder like Luxembourg, Latvia like heās qualified for the World Cup.
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Johnny Metgod
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This lad is a bumbling fuckin buffoon
Itās like an Apres Match interview
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Everyone wants/wanted to see him do well. His heart is in the right place etc but you have to be more practical in international football. I canāt see any real improvement in the team outside of the odd good selection of a player like Smallbone tonight for half an hour. There seems to be no protection from midfield at all. It wonāt do even if we do have some really good younger players coming through, which we do. Weāre wide open to counter attacking goals from teams who are well below us in the Fifa rankings.
Look at this eejit laughing away to himself like a complete simpleton
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Does anyone know what game Kelly and Sadlier were watching?
Iām not sure what you were expecting on his 35th time out.
Enough about TOāD. What do you make of Kennyās interview?
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All I took from it is that Kenny loves Mikey Johnston
Doesnāt want to use the word complacent says Kennyā¦ every cunting mickey mouse side is scoring screamers in acres of space outside the D what are ye doing on the training ground you moron??
Kenny isnāt learning. He keeps making the same mistakes game after game. Out of pure stubbornness/incompetence he still leaves us wide open defensively every game due to the slavish adherence to his system.
Probably suffer a narrow, heroic defeat next Monday and heāll revert to type by lauding the youngsters, the crowd, the style of play as France, like most teams we play, stroll away with the three points.
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Why the hell would a Leicester or West Ham offer him guaranteed starts?
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Parry Bonner against Italy in 1990.
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Heās surely a better prospect than Danny Ward or that Iversen fella in goal for Leicester. Heād be unlikely to break straight into the West Ham team but Fabianski and Areola are getting on.
Virtually every other Premier League club wouldnāt have a suitable vacancy in nets for him.
You could throw Yordan Letchkov into the mix too for that header v Germany alone.
Iād be very surprised if any Premier League team wanted him as their number 1. Heās barely played in his career and heās 24
Itās the lapses in concentration that are so shocking. We can play good stuff for 20 mins or so, then suddenly Narnia will nick two goals against us. We havenāt a prayer of qualifying whilst thatās happening.
We can still be pretty on the ball but we need to stop throwing lads forward recklessly when thereās no need. Shite teams will punish ya for that let alone good ones