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Citizen
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On the sarcasm, ditto Roger,
Yeah what a great team alright roger, point well made, household anems than run off the tongue…. Team that lined up in the final of Euro 2004
(1). Nikolodas (2). Seitardis (4). Kapsis (3). Fyssas (5). Dellas (6). Basinas (7). Zagorakis (8). Katsourinas (10). Karagounis (7). Giannakoppolis (9). Christeas (1). Given (2). Steven Carr (3). John O’Shea (4). Richie Dunne (5). Cunningham (6). Roy Keane (7). Steve Finnan (8). Kevin Kilbane (9). (10). Robbie Keane (11). Damien Duff |
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RogerMilla
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jokerman , you and i both know that lots of players didnt cut the mustard in the english league besides those greeks , the fact is though that most of that team had champions league experience going into that tournament and that they were of sufficient calibre to not even concede a goal during the whole tournament and played on the break to perfection, regardless of who our manager would be we would not pull that off as our players are just not good enough , that is my point . a bit of balls is not enough , you need quality , we lack it at the moment and there is no denying that. and whats more if we were winning every game 1-0 and playing boring stuff like greece , fellas would be on complaining about that too , just liek they did under jack charlton
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Jokerman
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Otto Rehhagel won the Bundesliga with Kaiserslautern and the European Championships with Greece. Greece have regularly qualified for tournaments under his stewardship. Maybe Trap should take a leaf out of this guy's book and stop living off accomplishments from 20 years ago.
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RogerMilla
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when you are looking up bile go the whole hog and try sarcasm as well
when greece won the euro championships they had a better sqaud than us by a country mile.
and jokerman , neither of you have made any coherent argument , nor do i expect either of you to, far too blinkered.
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Citizen
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@ Citizen
There's no use arguing. It's like squeezing blood out of a stone.
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RogerMilla
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absolutely , its the breed of superfan like you who will lead us to this new nirvana of qualifying , sure we hardly need a manager at all
and greece obviously have had better squads than us over the last 6 years, their record speaks for itself..
norn iron beat england and spain , but in the end they get nowhere, and we are pulling away from them..
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Citizen
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I've snipped your comments because clearly you don't really follow the progress of Irish lads playing in England to make plausible cases for their squad inclusion. Many of the lads on either side of your argument, were not getting their games at their clubs last season and some this season. Your argument is nonsensical. Replacing like with like, won't suddenly transform us. Look, I'll say it again, which I've said before in similar threads. Trap decides the tactics and the players that suits, not us. Of course we all want our own favourites to play, (In the past I've made cases for Delap as an impact sub and McCarthy) but he's sees guys that fit the bill and others that don't. And yes, we have overachieved with Trap, certainly in comparism to the previous three previous campaigns. What else have we to go on? Arguably, we had better players 4-6 years ago when the likes of Keane/Duff/Dunne/Givens/Finnan/Carr were in their prime and did not even make play offs.. Anyone who cannot see that, is no different from the average barstooler that comes up with knee jerk reactions as to why we are not better than we are and offering the instant solution by naming bit players who will suddenly transform us into world beaters. This is the sort of rationale that has our neighbours across the pond scratching their heads as to why they mostly underachieve.[/QUOTE] This is the sort of attitude why we will never progress in sporting terms, our benchmark is set too low, as long as you have your few pints and wave your inflatable hammer you will be happy out, you are probably too locked to even watch the game, as a few in the singing section are guilty of. If you aim for mediocrity you get failure, you have to aim high to achieve success. I’m not saying nor are Trapped and Jokerman, that we should be winning tournaments, but should deffo be qualifying for them as counties with similar and less talented squads are doing so consistently. If you think trap has over-achieved you obviously have not got a breeze mate, he is the 3rd Highest paid international manager in world football, do you think his job description was not to qualify given his outlandishly high salary? People go on about Henrys handball, but even the players were the first to admit that they had opportunity after opportunity to put (a french team in turmoil) them away, but that lack of mental strength (or balls as I say) prevented them. It’s no coincidence that |
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On a form guide over the past two qualifying campaigns, at best we are just about equal to Slovakia. What other rationale can I use? Only some illogical, wishful thinking puts us ahead. In the 2008 campaign, drawn in the same group, Ireland finished just ahead of Slovakia by the narrowest of margins, one point. In 2010 WC qualifying, they topped their group with 22 points from 10 games, opposed to our 18 garnered from the same amount of games. Arguably, they were in a tougher group. Oddly enough, we may still get to the playoffs without even beating them, should they falter again elsewhere and we don't.
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We"re 3rd seeds for a reason due to not qualifing for a major tournament since 2002 and not beating any big team of note since then....The World Rankings are aload of p**s but they hold the key to Qualifing for Tournaments nowadays with the seedings....We can talk about Russia and Slovakia not being better than us , so far we havent shown in 4 qualifiers that we are a side capable of qualifing for the Euros "but" we have alot of matches to play with a group of players "if picked" i.e. Wilson , Coleman , Foley , McCarthy etc etc that are players that i personally think can get us back on the road for Ukraine/Poland!! Negativity gets this country nowhere trust Trap and the lads come on Ireland
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what a load of utter tripe been sh*tted about on this thread fook me pink
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Just because it's tradition does not make it right
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Jokerman
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RogerMilla
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yup a couple of lads arguning on a messageboard , rather than FIFA's corruption is the reason henrys handball was allowed last year.
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The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own.
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Stoked Up
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It's not defeatist in the slightest. I'm stating facts. We are the third seeds in our group. If we finish better than that we've overachieved*. Do you not understand simple maths? * Like we did in the WC qualifiers, when again we were third seeds. Edited by Stoked Up - 15 Nov 2010 at 7:01am |
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RogerMilla
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he was never that at any stage of his career , never mind last november
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The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own.
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Jokerman
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Let's look at objectively. We are third seeds. If we make the playoffs we've overachieved. End of. |
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