Turkey v Ireland 23rd of March

Iā€™m curious as to why Randolph, Westwood and Elliott arenā€™t in the squad, rather than having any issue with Doyle.

Hogan misses a one on one. Lovely ball by Hendrick (possibly) and he decided to go around the keeper. Took it too far and ended up hitting the side netting from an angle with his left.

Robbie Brady hasnā€™t been involved at all so far.

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Ronnieā€™s doing his thing with SeĆ”n Maguire this evening. Identifies one early piece of slack play and then nitpicks about every single this he does after that.

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Shocking miss from 5 yards out

Missed the first half. Colin Doyle got his last cap 11 years ago. Surely must be close to an Irish record for time between caps

Turkey score from the next corner from a similar area

Conceded a shitty goal from a corner after a miss a few minutes ago.

Brutal defending.

Turkey one up

Doherty and Long for Coleman and Maguire.

Word on the brook was that TOD went begging to MON for mercy and to help save his job.

He may have lost his man for the goal (not definitive on that), but Declan Rice has had a very assured game otherwise both on the left of the back three and since moving forward into centre midfield. Heā€™s engineered a series of good passing combinations in this last period.

Yeah Iā€™m impressed. Good judgement as usual, @Bandage. @Big_Dan_Campbell will be along soon to provide further support from another reliable judge of talent.

Hope he told him to jog on.

Tony better not say unlucky to MON after this

Turkey look pretty poor tbh . Back in the early to mid noughties they looked to be on the cusp of becoming a powerhouse . The international team was going well , ditto their clubs & they had a huge diaspora in Europe . They seem to have regressed.

That was utter shit the Turks are muck too.

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George signs off by lauding the debut of ā€œDamien sorry Declan Riceā€ for the third time. :angry:

Tony is probably asleep , bored shitless

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The results are secondary in these spring test matches. Its about blooding players for the autumn test matches.