Conor Hourihane

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   lads, no player is going to thrive for the Irish team because players are no allowed to thrive. We don’t play football, we don’t pass the ball or build attacks. The last “good” goal we scored was McClean vs Austria in Vienna where there were 2 intelligent passes and a really good finish at the end. Ireland don’t set up to play any sort of passing game. Under MON we’re playing an uglier version of Jack Charlton’s “put em under pressure” game. 
The likes of Hendrick, Whelan, Houlihane and basically all of our players are playing at the high level they’re at because they excelled at not only the basics of the game which include passing and positional sense. Thise basics are being abandoned by MON. Hourihane is a good player and could be very important for Ireland but how the Irish team is set up is nothing short of scandalous and I’d say even if we had Xavi in midfield our tactical approach to games would make even him look crap. I don’t judge Irish players on their form for the national team, I judge them on their form for their clubs because that’s where they are allowed to play to their strengths and do their jobs properly. 