Martin O'Neill...

I’d be interested to know what the plan in in 2019. This year we had the Nations League and friendly matches. It has been as bad a year as we could have feared for. One win, a few draws and a few defeats. Very few goals scored, not a huge number conceded and a lot of players tried. Rice and Kelly refuse call ups, Arter has industrial relations issues, Coleman, McCarthy, Brady, Maguire, Walters and Long all have injury problems. 

Het-field wrote: I’d be interested to know what the plan in in 2019. This year we had the Nations League and friendly matches. It has been as bad a year as we could have feared for. One win, a few draws and a few defeats. Very few goals scored, not a huge number conceded and a lot of players tried. Rice and Kelly refuse call ups, Arter has industrial relations issues, Coleman, McCarthy, Brady, Maguire, Walters and Long all have injury problems.  In 2019 is the hope to revisit the Rice and Kelly situation, hope all the injuries clear up, Arter re-establish himself, use Coleman and Doherty in coordination as opposed to competition, hope Long ends the goal drought, or Hogan rediscover his Brentford form, or Alan Judge wash away the injuries of the past seasons. Or implement a system which clearly uses players in their normal position. I don’t believe the methods used this term can follow us into 2019, and MON will know that resolute 0-0 draws will only get us so far before we either concede in an important game, or score and need to implement a system which suits the defence of a lead.

Edited by Banjaxed - 20 Nov 2018 at 12:31am

Het-field wrote: I’d be interested to know what the plan in in 2019. This year we had the Nations League and friendly matches. It has been as bad a year as we could have feared for. One win, a few draws and a few defeats. Very few goals scored, not a huge number conceded and a lot of players tried. Rice and Kelly refuse call ups, Arter has industrial relations issues, Coleman, McCarthy, Brady, Maguire, Walters and Long all have injury problems.  In 2019 is the hope to revisit the Rice and Kelly situation, hope all the injuries clear up, Arter re-establish himself, use Coleman and Doherty in coordination as opposed to competition, hope Long ends the goal drought, or Hogan rediscover his Brentford form, or Alan Judge wash away the injuries of the past seasons. Or implement a system which clearly uses players in their normal position. I don’t believe the methods used this term can follow us into 2019, and MON will know that resolute 0-0 draws will only get us so far before we either concede in an important game, or score and need to implement a system which suits the defence of a lead.

Its an absoloute no brainer that he needs to call up Crowley and even Jack Byrne. We have zero creativity at the moment.

Christie in midfield is enough for him to be burned at a stake. He has lost the plot. Seriously.

Dr. Pat wrote: irishmufc wrote: Dr. Pat wrote: I'm done. Not going to another game or even watching the senior team on TV while he's there. I'll check back in in Apri 2020. Peace. Close the door on your way out  Have I offended you somehow? The current set up is toxic and damaging Irish football. Supporting it in any way, shape or form is at best futile and at worst contributory to the mess we find ourselves in. I attend Ireland underage and LOI games and will continue to do so (and contribute on this forum re- those topics).

MayoMark wrote: Good man Pat  Vote with your feet. If they aren't getting the €€€ then it makes the decision for them.

It will all go quiet now for the next few days, everyone will put international football to the back of their mind for a few months and the rot will continue in March. If this was club football he would be gone but because international football is so broken up, Delaney knows they will just take flak for a few days either side of the games and then everyone will forget for a few months.