Will Germany thrash us again?

Ok sorry I read it quickly and thought you implied that.  Anyway I still believe we will be annihalated by Germany.  Maybe worse than last time.

Trap junior wrote: Ok sorry I read it quickly and thought you implied that.  Anyway I still believe we will be annihalated by Germany.  Maybe worse than last time.

Edited by Green Devil - 17 Jun 2014 at 1:41am

Trap junior wrote: Yeah well according to all Trap's haters such as yourself this new management team (who some people on here descibed as ''all our christmases coming at once') would make us competitive against the top international teams and beat our rivals such as Poland and Scotland which was apparently a failing of Trapattoni. With the players we have at our disposal and the tactics O'Neill has so far employed I can see Traps reign looking like a golden era compared to the absolute wilderness we might experience over the next decade or more.

Trapattoni took us over as 3rd seeds which we were for every group he was involved with us for. He finished 2nd twice and 4th once. Overall a success given the shambles of the previous 6yrs of management by Kerr and Staunton.  Nobody thought we would qualify for a decade given the state of our national side. He brought us back from the brink and made us for 4 yrs a very respectable international team regaining us to 18th in the world and qualifying us.  Everyone blamed the heavy defeats on him and his tactics during Euro 2012 and Germany etc...  But I think many on here are realising that those defeats would have happened with O'Neill/Keane in charge too.  The players are poor quality. I hate saying it but thats the reality. We have 2 or 3 decent players.   We can change the system, try to pass it and the results will be as bad if not worse.  I wanted to pass it and maybe we have to try and pass it and forfeit results in order to bring on future players but from what I see us trying to pass it out from the back will be a disaster. The players arent good enough to do it.

fck trapattoni , he gone !

I said last week after attending the Portugal v Mexico game how average a side Portugal are.  Was not surprised they got hammered by Germany.  Was and am still pissed off at O'Neills bizarre tactics/substitutions in our Portugal game.  The US with a host of MLS players no better than average Championship players will give Portugal and Germany a real game.  So why can't we?  Klinsman's template for the US side has changed in the last 16 months or so.  He realised the US did not have the players to play out from the back all the time.  He had the US work continually on set pieces with a mix of playing from the back and long ball.   

Hold on now lads. All of a sudden its ok to be pummeled by Germany when it wasn't before??  This forum wanted 3 things from the new manager:

1. Be competitive against the top teams, have a go, and lose repectably if we do. no hidings. Actually we wanted a win over a top side not achieved since 2001.
2. Beat the teams in and around our level.
3. Play better football.


Now point number 1 is being disregarded

So that means that many of you totally overestimated the ability of our players now that you are revising your own personal targets for the teams performance this coming term. So it seems we will be hammered by Germany and the likes not due to tactics (which was the claim before) but by our own poor quality of players (not the claim before).

I do get a kick out of seeing some lads posting here I must say.  The amount of unrealistic expectations of many based on the rubbish spouted in the media and started by Dunphy no less!  Dunphy and his pals Sadlier etc sold the public the notion that this group of players is capable of so much more. We can play good football and have a go at the likes of Italy, Croatia, Spain, Germany and give them a right good game. Always reminds of the opposition political party before a general election.  It will all be so much different and better with us in power and of course they get elected and its the same old sh*t. Ditto here.


Edited by Trap junior - 17 Jun 2014 at 1:38pm

Trap junior wrote: Hold on now lads. All of a sudden its ok to be pummeled by Germany when it wasn't before??  This forum wanted 3 things from the new manager: 1. Be competitive against the top teams, have a go, and lose repectably if we do. no hidings. 2. Beat the teams in and around our level. 3. Play better football. Now point number 1 is being disregarded So that means that many of you totally overestimated the ability of our players now that you are revising your own personal targets for the teams performance this coming term. So it seems we will be hammered by Germany and the likes not due to tactics (which was the claim before) but by our own poor quality of players (not the claim before). I do get a kick out of seeing some lads posting here I must say.  The amount of unrealistic expectations of many based on the rubbish spouted in the media and started by Dunphy no less!  Dunphy and his pals Sadlier etc sold the public the notion that this group of players is capable of so much more. We can play good football and have a go at the likes of Italy, Croatia, Spain, Germany and give them a right good game. Always reminds of the opposition political party before a general election.  It will all be so much different and better with us in power and of course they get elected and its the same old sh*t. Ditto here.

As opposed to your sensible posts Kerrzy yeah?

I thought you'd be over in Mississippi now burning crosses