Jack Byrne

Shedite wrote: He's gonna be another Wes isn't he, gets his breakthrough at 31 and we're gonna wonder why he was wasted for the past 10 years. I love him, and being a LOI player he's got an unknown element if he was thrown in next June

planning wrote: rolo wrote: Yeah and as pointed out elsewhere, very hypocritical. There was one poster yesterday who wrote "I love friendlies, they give me an excuse to drink". No one batted an eyelid at this. The fact is, there are a group of maybe 300 or 400 or more (I have no clue, dont go to away games anymore) Irish people, who are mostly on this forum too, who use all their annual leave to travel to such exotic places as Moldova and Switzerland and Wales, often never venturing beyond the capital city, or beyond a square in the capital city, or beyond a pub off the square in the capital city, to spend 2 and 3 days at a time drinking copious amounts of booze. (Its fun, I enjoyed it, but its nowhere near as much fun as properly seeing the world out there). We would have a much smaller amount of travelling fans if these trips were alcohol free. And yet Jack Byrne is getting grief every day on this forum for enjoying a drink!! Maybe best to look at yourselves first.  But keep having digs at him, while you nervously wait for clarification on when you can book your 3-day bender in glamorous Bratislava in March. Maybe you have woken up and seen the damage the devils buttermilk does. No matter what way you like to dress it up, Wales is not glamourous. Nor is Bratislava. I know because I'm not locked in a pub for 3 days on away trip. But I suppose for people who are, the whole world looks exactly the same.

Jack definitely got a touch of class about him, but needs greater consistency. From the limited number of times I have seen him, he drifts in and out of games too often. With all due respect to LoI, he needs to move to a more testing league. As a number of countries not overly blessed with talent have shown, it is not too hard to develop a compact team that is hard to beat. You need that bit of quality to go beyond that and actually win against decent opposition. Some of us have hoped that McGeady or Wes might have become that player over recent years and now the hope has passed to Byrne. Really hope he does develop, but looks as if other grounds for optimism with the U21s too.

I for one thought Bratislava was lovely

Baldrick wrote: pre Madonna wrote: rolo wrote: doherty wrote: the whole jack likes a drink line is getting a little tiresome i must say. Yeah and as pointed out elsewhere, very hypocritical. There was one poster yesterday who wrote "I love friendlies, they give me an excuse to drink". No one batted an eyelid at this. The fact is, there are a group of maybe 300 or 400 or more (I have no clue, dont go to away games anymore) Irish people, who are mostly on this forum too, who use all their annual leave to travel to such exotic places as Moldova and Switzerland and Wales, often never venturing beyond the capital city, or beyond a square in the capital city, or beyond a pub off the square in the capital city, to spend 2 and 3 days at a time drinking copious amounts of booze. (Its fun, I enjoyed it, but its nowhere near as much fun as properly seeing the world out there). We would have a much smaller amount of travelling fans if these trips were alcohol free. And yet Jack Byrne is getting grief every day on this forum for enjoying a drink!! Maybe best to look at yourselves first.  But keep having digs at him, while you nervously wait for clarification on when you can book your 3-day bender in glamorous Bratislava in March. Whatever about the merits of drinking and not drinking or our fans being puss heads, it isn’t hypocritical at all. It would only be hypocritical if those same fans were professional athletes and were held to the same standards. If you extend that argument, I shouldn’t criticise any player because I was sh*t at football and am unfit. There was always a whiff of sanctimonious arsehole off rolos posts. His latest one just confirmed it.  Nothing worse than the wannabe sinner who thinks he has seen the light.

I think when people watch Jack play (whether it be playing for the national team or watching him for Rovers with the view to playing for Ireland), we tend to expect a lot from him. We look out for the eye of the needle through balls, 60 yarders across the pitch, linking up around the edge of the box. When you are watching him expecting this it is hard for him to impress as our expectations are high, but if we just watched him like we do with most of our midfielders it's hard to argue he isn't our most comfortable midfielder on the ball and in terms of making things happen.

he done nothing that you'd expect from an international player and that's pass the ball well.he never stood out (for me) against a very poor international team.last night was his time to shine and he just didn't do it.people on here saying he was "brilliant " and "best player on park" really need to get a grip...looking at him last night...he's league one level...and an average on at that.

I think...like many on here ...you haven't a clue what your watching.

thanks.