posted Mar 26, 2007

Yes, it's true that the FAI are the main culprits. can someone tell me, who appoints these clowns and to whom are they accountable. more importantly, how do we get rid and replace them with someone competent?

and to all those talking about how it's " a disgrace " to criticise the set-up, get in line partisans!! i'd rather listen to dunphy tell it like HE sees it, rather than listen to some bullshit diplomat/politician like townsend or hansen talk crap!

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posted Mar 26, 2007

I think we have far too high an opinion of the senior members of this crop of players. Since the 2002 World Cup they have failed under three managers to come up with the goods when it has counted. Yes things have been particulary bad recently but does all of the blame really lie with Staunton? Interestingly it is not just Ireland but England who are having very similar problems with a first team of mainly premiership players. Link? Like most Irish people I usually laugh at the luck of the Irish myth but a win on Wednesday will have us in a better qualifying position than England which is actually hilarious considering that this is the worst run of performances in living memory by an Irish team. The rise of Doyle and Hunt is an absolute blessing - Hunt is an absolute terrier and seems to have the fighting spark so badly needed by this team at the moment. With Robbie banned from Wednesday surely Doyle has got to start which could end up being our best chance getting a result as he might actually show up and score when it counts unlike Keane who last scored an important goal in the World Cup 2002!

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posted Mar 26, 2007

Greenteabags,

Fair enough connolly and miller have a had a shot, but miller had his when he was playin reserve football with united, and previously when he was 4 years younger then he is now. Currently he's playin in the most exciting team in the championship, and he's playin some fantastic stuff. Surely he's worth a look, especially when u look at some of the clowns in the squad. Carsley will never be international class, several senior members of former teams (irwin, keane, McGrath) have given testement to this fact. Miller deserves a call-up, and Keane is right as a club manager to put pressure on an international manager to pick his players, look a what Martin jol at spurs has been sayin to get Defoe in the english side.

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posted Mar 27, 2007

Never a fan of Kilbane it is worrying how come on the radio commentary I hear he seems like the greatest player we have. Can we drop Kilbane Duff and Keane, at least to the bench and keep them for the last 20 minutes, it might give them some urgency.

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posted Mar 27, 2007

the republic are just a second rate english team with the odd southerner thrown in!

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posted Mar 27, 2007

It's an interesting state of affairs when the Cricket Team are more succesful than the Soccer Team !

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posted Mar 27, 2007

The comment by Thomas Murphy about the FAI not having the right man in place in John Delaney and he was looking for a Michael O'Leary character, we had one in Fran Rooney but he got shafted. Stan is doing his best but it just isn't good enough. You can see the logic in the appointment of him and Bobby, our most capped player, 3 world cups (very few players can state this) league fa cup titles captain of his country well respected by his fellow players and Bobby vastly experinced in international football and huge experince of European football and would still be manager of Newcastle if it wasn't for Dyer. So you have to wonder where it all went wrong, is he too close to the old guard that he played with (Kilbane Keane et al) probably not when he has dropped Clinton Harte

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posted Mar 27, 2007

According to RTE website, Stan has just announced the team for Wednesday:

Given, O'Shea, Dunne, McShane, Finnan, Carsley, Kilbane, Ireland, McGeady, Duff, Doyle

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posted Mar 28, 2007

Hope the atmosphere is a bit better in Croker tonight. Seems like people are afraid to stand up and shout for their country these days.

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posted Mar 28, 2007

Why are people still quoting Eamonn Dunphy? As a confidant of the runaway captain during the world cup I thought he would be ignored for his bad opinions. Staunton never ranaway. A loyal servant and now new, admittedly inexperienced, manager he deserves a fair chance.

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