Glenn Whelan

DUBLIN DOC wrote: It makes no odds who Glenn is playing for once he keeps doing what he has been doing for years been consistent  he will still be a valuable member of our squad

On a separate note did anyone get the WhatsAp with Stephen Cluxton as an old man in his goalkeeping jersey under the caption Dublin going for 25 in a row off course ye did something similiar was doing the rounds on Andy Moran.

mully_85 wrote: didnt hourihane start in the holding mid role vrs spurs??? anyone see how he done?? is he an option there for us

Neil Armstrong wrote: On a separate note did anyone get the WhatsAp with Stephen Cluxton as an old man in his goalkeeping jersey under the caption Dublin going for 25 in a row off course ye did something similiar was doing the rounds on Andy Moran.

Glenn Whelan will start against Switzerland despite your one man campaign and all scottish football is crap bar Celtic 🤡

I think the difficulty for some Irish fans is that it feels like a serious regression. In Declan Rice it looked like we had a ready made, long term DM who would sit into the breach. This was after Meyler finished the World Cup Qualification campaign in 2017 in the role. Since Rice defected and Meyler form dipped we have needed an alternative, and the best it seems we can do is go back to Glenn Whelan. Whelan has been out of the team for some time, and now appears more integral than ever before.

pre Madonna wrote: OnTheOneRoad wrote: Have a look on twitter at hearts' announcement of him. Page upon page of villa fans saying they've got a hell of a player, wishing him all the best, praising him profusely. It was the same at Stoke, where they spent up to about 20 million on players for their midfield who couldn't get him out.  But Dunphy says he drives a Ferrari and doesn't know what he does on a football pitch so he's sh*te. He struggled for us a good few times by the fact that for a large amount of his international career he was played in a 2 man midfield with a player tasked with doing the same job as him. Before it was Meyler it was McCarthy, and it was Andrews before that. They got in each other's way. There is still absolutely no way he should start against the Swiss, he has been unattached until this week. Correct, apart from he should probably start as the alternatives are worse!

OnTheOneRoad wrote: Hans Moleman wrote: Here we go again with the Dunphy stuff  it is painful at this stage. Whelan is the symbol of a 10 year span of utter mediocrity (at best) for the senior Irish team. He is everything we should be aspiring to move away from. Instead, as just mentioned, we are somehow going back to him**. It is beyond grim in the darkest time in Irish football I can recall. ** not a massive surprise tbf, we appointed a has been as manager who was only going to go one way with his squads For large periods of that time he was the best we had available to us as a holding midfielder. We can't move away from those, we'd be ripped to shreds by any half decent side. You need only look at every time something went wrong for O'Neill and he switched to essentially a 4-0-6 formation to see that.  He'd have played better deployed as he has been thus far by mick, as the one defensive midfielder in a 3. I agree that Mick's remit naturally will encourage him to be risk-averse with selection.

Edited by Hans Moleman - 15 Aug 2019 at 5:33pm