Do they not refer to themselves as abbos? Anyway, I hope your wife doesn’t find out, be tough on her and the childer to know you have a taste for the darkies.
Is there a reason why ya wouldn’t pork an abbo? Is there something with these ladies?
Their snatches would scare rats out of a skip full of rubbish
save your scripted cliches for clarehurlers please mate
You’re worse than Foley now referring to other forums in your quips
The FAI today have confirmed that we will play Wales in a friendly in Cardiff on the 14th of August
I’m just seeing the Ravens unprovoked attack on me now. I suppose its better he attack me online than attack his wife physically. Who are we to judge a man with such anger issues?
Thats a disgraceful and unprovoked attack on Mac TASE, something you have done many times before. What is your problem with Mac? He is an innocent bystander here,
Who’ll play in the wide positions for us, chaps?
Forde,
Coleman, O’Shea, St Ledger or Clark, Wilson,
AN Other, McCarthy, Whelan, AN Other,
Keane, Long.
This is actually a game where Coleman on the right of midfield could have been an option but he’s hardly going to play Kelly right back. We surely wouldn’t play Robbie Brady and James McClean away from home, along with 2 strikers. We’d get completely overrun in midfield.
During the summer, the puce-faced hun cunt in charge at Manchester United was experimenting with having Brady as back-up for RB for the season so maybe the idea of him playing right-wing and tracking back isn’t so far-fetched?
I think Brady and Cox will be our wingers.
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[SIZE=4]I’m spoilt for choice, insists confident Trapattoni[/SIZE]
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
You might be tempted to call it accentuating the positive or seeing the glass half-full or even just standard managerial spin but, for a man deemed to be facing a make or break brace of games, there’s no getting away from the fact Giovanni Trapattoni is radiating confidence and good vibes in the run-up to Ireland’s World Cup qualifiers away to Sweden on Friday and at home to Austria the following Tuesday.
So much so that, even though he will have to do without first-choice personnel like Richard Dunne and Aiden McGeady — as well as Anthony Pilkington who would probably have gone straight into the starting 11 in Stockholm — Trapattoni insists he is still left with one of the happier selection headaches of his time as Ireland manager.
“At last, we have four players in every position,” he enthused after training in Malahide yesterday.
“In midfield, for example, it’s not easy to choose because [Jeff] Hendrick played well against Poland and Paul Green also played good. [Glenn] Whelan is the best in midfield. [James] McCarthy also is very strong. We have many options.
“It’s the first time I have, not difficulty [in deciding the team] — because I have a clear idea — but all players deserve to play. All this squad deserve to play.”
Although, according to Trapattoni, Whelan’s ankle is “a little bit swollen but not too much”, the manager expects the Stoke City man to pass muster today. But while he also declares Sean St Ledger to be “100% fit”, he adds that, with the defender having only just returned from a lengthy lay-off, he’s “not sure to play”.
The leading alternative to the Leicester man to partner John O’Shea at the back would be Aston Villa’s Ciaran Clark. “He plays every game, plays well and can also score a goal,” said Trapattoni. “At this moment we have this option.”
West Brom striker Shane Long, who looks a certain starter, has recovered from his recent ankle injury.
“Oh yes,” said the manager. “The young players are always fit. Shane is ready. He has been training and he is ready to play.”
The manager also offered some further elaboration on his controversial decision to relegate Kevin Doyle to the standby list.
“It was very difficult but I have many difficult decisions to make,” he admitted.
“In the past, I had a lot difficulty building a team; now I am in difficulty when I choose the players. But I’m very happy that we have this quality and we have also Robbie who came back last week and has scored goals and then we have Sammon, Cox and Long. We have many options.
“Yes, [Kevin] was fantastic [against Kazakhstan] and maybe there is the moment in the near future when he is coming again but at this moment he wasn’t in the best condition psychologically, not physically, but psychologically. And I have to think about the others who are options.”
Reminded that Doyle scored for Wolves on Saturday, the manager parried: “I know about the condition he is in at the moment but there are other strikers with enthusiasm.”
Goalkeeper David Forde was rested for training yesterday while Jon Walters nursed a sore back but Trapattoni said both will take part in today’s session. However, the manager confirmed Walters won’t start in Stockholm on Friday, which would appear to suggest the choice will be between Simon Cox and Andy Keogh to play wide on the right, with either James McClean or Robbie Brady on the opposite flank.
Meanwhile, Trapattoni’s own right-hand man, Marco Tardelli, missed a second day’s training yesterday suffering from fever and upset stomach.
“Marco is sick,” the manager reported. “He was always a strong player but [laughs] maybe he eats something…”
Finally, Trapattoni concluded on a clenched-fist note when asked what he thought his Swedish counterpart, Eric Hamren, meant when he said last week that Ireland would represent a totally different challenge to any other the Swedes can expect to encounter in the group.
“That’s because probably he knows our character and attitude,” said Trapattoni.
“He knows we are a proud country. I think also he knows football, so he knows also our quality. Because we are not just proud, we also have good players.”
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can anyone give me a debriefing about the Austrian side please?
the only austrian player i know is Paul Sharner (sp) who used to play with Wigan
I remember they beat us in Lansdowne road in june 1995 ( the day before my JC irish exam)
Their domestic club game is crap, israeli sides have beaten them regularly over the last few season,
i played a game their once with a MSL representative side ( think Runt was playing as well) in 2001 against one of their amateur league teams from a place called Tirol and we beat them 2-0, they were crap
I expect the following team to start:
Forde
McShane
Clark
O’Dea
Ward
Cox
Green
Whelan
Keogh
Sammon
Keane
Sweden to win 6-0 (Zlatan 5, Lustig 1). Zlatan to be hailed as the greatest player in the world, ever, by Fingal Raven and Rocko to argue for an extension to Trap’s contract.
The forecast is for -8 in Stockholm. Tickets have been returned to the Swedes as less than 2000 of the Ole Ole brigade are heading out there.
How they lined out in training today:
Forde
McShane
Clark
O’Dea
Ward
Brady
Green (FFS)
Whelan
McClean
Long
Keane
Walters was injured in training following a collison with Long.
When is this farce on. I hear the ole ole brigade are sending over less than 2,000 to watch the plastic paddy’s play. What happened to all the rest that went to Poland.:rolleyes: