How many goals has Sammon got this Season for his club?
Best of luck to the chap regardless, hope it goes well for him. A fair kick in the hole for Doyle.
Rocko’s away today so could some other boring cunt list out their likely team and formation?
[quote=“carryharry, post: 752004, member: 1517”]How many goals has Sammon got this Season for his club?
Best of luck to the chap regardless, hope it goes well for him. A fair kick in the hole for Doyle.[/quote]
Presumably the kick in the hole was when he was dropped for him for the first match, it would be equally bizarre for Trapppppp to turn around and put Doyle in ahead of him, after dropping him only a few days before
Ireland have a terrible record against Alpine teams.
The last time Ireland played Austria at Lansdowne Road was actually a weekend of mixed results for the home team. They passed “Harry’s Challenge” with flying colours on the Saturday (Jack Charlton had a part-ownership or something in the Harry Ramsden’s restaurant on the Naas Road). But all that good work was undone by the thrashing the Austrians gave them on the pitch on the Sunday.
A fish-related disaster could certainly be on the cards this time.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 751999, member: 9”]Fuck sake.
We had cunts unable to spell Trapattoni for years and now the same thing’s happening with Hoolahan.
Unacceptable.[/quote]
Let’s hope Trappatoni can get the best out of the likes of Ford, Clarke, Greene, McLean, Houlihan and Salmon for this match.
Where is Rocko to build this game up properly? If he does not give an insightful opinion soon i will not watch this game tomorrow night.
If you don’t want to watch it, you’ll be no loss to the team - you know where the door is. You can piss off and follow anther international team - there’s another Irish team playing 100 miles up the road tomorrow that will happily accept your support.
Thanks pal.
I’m not a fan of Sammon so think I’d have gone with any of the other forward options ahead of him - Walters, Cox, Doyle even. I don’t think I’d go for one up front with this team - particularly at home. Might be worth consideration in some away games (and I’d like a lopsided 4-3-3 as my preferred formation) but I don’t think Long in his current form poses enough of a threat up front to be up there on his own. Hoolahan would obviously add a bit more creativity to make Long more dangerous but I’d still lean towards two up front.
Nice vote of confidence for Sammon from his former coach acc to OTB
Pete Mahon, who managed Connor Sammon at UCD, says he shouldn’t be in the team tomorrow.
Conor Sammon
Really??
Austria have been shit for as long as I can remember. I think the 1990 World Cup was the last tournament they qualified for and even that was a poor enough side. Apart from Toni Polster, I don’t think I could name another decent Austrian footballer from the last 20 years, and the only one I remember before him was him was Hans Krankl. In short, we’re fucked if we can’t beat these cunts.
They qualified for the 1998 WC
Andy Herzog
I agree with Jimmy-we are at nothing if we can’t beat these wannabe German child molesting cunts. 2-1 as I’ve already stated.
Red Bull Salzburg are a force to be reckoned with
Did they? I honestly don’t remember anything about that team.
This Conor Sammon thing is crazy - he’s utterly useless. Simon Cox appears to have fallen way down the pecking order too. Forget to mention that it was odd that Keogh was introduced ahead of the originally selected Brady on Friday night too. Fuck it, Sammon will probably score.
Agreed, the only thing Sammon brings is size and his awkwardness. Walters would be a far better option if we are going for a target man, with Brady taking his spot on the wing. With Keane out you would have thought that Cox would be the logical choice given his ability to drop deep and show for the ball to compliment Long who will play on the shoulder and look to get in behind the Austrians
Agreed. There’s a tendency to think this is an expected like for like change in Trap’s “rigid” 4-4-2 but he’s used a striker working from a deeper starting position on numerous occasions. Keane has done it plenty of times, including Friday, and, as you mention, Cox has tools to do it and actually has done it before too - I can think of Armenia at home in the crucial game towards the end of the last qualifying group. Playing Long and Sammon hints at a very direct and robust approach tomorrow night, unless Long takes up the deeper role. Not sure he has the positional sense and intelligence to do it - think he’s better playing right up top but that’s where Sammon will be charging around. I think we’d be better able to get the overlapping full backs and wide players into the game if we had Hoolahan or Cox playing instead of Sammon and dropping off and popping the ball around. I fear straight lines and long balls now but we’ll see.