RTE Panel

No it isn't. Only one who should be off the panel is that prick Dunphy. Always looks for something to bitch about

Didi talks a lot of sense and gives a very balanced and unbiased view. However, Dunphy, Brady and Sadlier are only interested in slating our manager, team selections and performances. If they are going to be on the panel, there needs to be someone there to defend MON's selections and tactics much like Trap had with Brady.

Without balance, it's 3 auld ones moaning and I get enough of that around in the mother-in-laws. At least there I get tea and cake!

Didi is a great pundit

Is Duff still awful as a pundit?

Het-field wrote: Irish2011 wrote: Great to see Brady off the panel, he's defending of Trapatoni was disgraceful and kept him in the job after Euro 2012. The difficulty was that Trappatoni divided opinion greatly, and I actually think Brady was a sample of those who saw us as having a World Class manager, that we could never actually do better in terms of who we could find to manage the country.

Didi s the man, always has makes a point worth listening to with a balanced view

Het-field wrote: Trappatoni's system unravelled before our eyes in 2010 against Russia, before we spent a full year getting beaten, and beaten heavily in some games.

Interesting, let's do a results check.

Since October 2010:

v Slovakia (a) Vital point
v Norway (h) Narrow loss
v Wales (h) Comprehensive win
v Macedonia (h) Early goal, important win
v Uruguay (h) Entertaining game, narrow loss.
v you brits in green (h) Demolition job
v Scotland (h) First trophy won in 25 years
v Macedonia (a) Revenge for 99
v Italy (n) Great win
v Croatia (h) Draw
v Slovakia (h) Vital point, head to head advantage
v Russia (a) Historic point
v Andorra (a) Job done
v Armenia (h) Play off qualification

So before our eyes, several historic results another year unbeaten away from home, no competitive defeats, 6 months unbeaten, a trophy in the cabinet, and rocketing rankings, which then allowed us to go to Estonia and hockey them in their own backyard to qualify us for our first tournament in 10 years. Contrary to the above quote, it was a highly successful year.

Contrast that to the recent Euros where losing half the games, conceding double more than scored, suffering one of the heaviest defeats in just 20 minutes, and being "tired" with 20-30 minutes of games remaining, constituted a "great tournament".

Give me the 2011 year any day.

planning wrote: Het-field wrote: Trappatoni's system unravelled before our eyes in 2010 against Russia, before we spent a full year getting beaten, and beaten heavily in some games. Interesting, let's do a results check. Since October 2010: v Slovakia (a) Vital point v Norway (h) Narrow loss v Wales (h) Comprehensive win v Macedonia (h) Early goal, important win v Uruguay (h) Entertaining game, narrow loss. v you brits in green (h) Demolition job v Scotland (h) First trophy won in 25 years v Macedonia (a) Revenge for 99 v Italy (n) Great win v Croatia (h) Draw v Slovakia (h) Vital point, head to head advantage v Russia (a) Historic point v Andorra (a) Job done v Armenia (h) Play off qualification So before our eyes, several historic results another year unbeaten away from home, no competitive defeats, 6 months unbeaten, a trophy in the cabinet, and rocketing rankings, which then allowed us to go to Estonia and hockey them in their own backyard to qualify us for our first tournament in 10 years. Contrary to the above quote, it was a highly successful year. Contrast that to the recent Euros where losing half the games, conceding double more than scored, suffering one of the heaviest defeats in just 20 minutes, and being "tired" with 20-30 minutes of games remaining, constituted a "great tournament". Give me the 2011 year any day.

Irish2011 wrote: planning wrote: Het-field wrote: Trappatoni's system unravelled before our eyes in 2010 against Russia, before we spent a full year getting beaten, and beaten heavily in some games. Interesting, let's do a results check. Since October 2010: v Slovakia (a) Vital point v Norway (h) Narrow loss v Wales (h) Comprehensive win v Macedonia (h) Early goal, important win v Uruguay (h) Entertaining game, narrow loss. v you brits in green (h) Demolition job v Scotland (h) First trophy won in 25 years v Macedonia (a) Revenge for 99 v Italy (n) Great win v Croatia (h) Draw v Slovakia (h) Vital point, head to head advantage v Russia (a) Historic point v Andorra (a) Job done v Armenia (h) Play off qualification So before our eyes, several historic results another year unbeaten away from home, no competitive defeats, 6 months unbeaten, a trophy in the cabinet, and rocketing rankings, which then allowed us to go to Estonia and hockey them in their own backyard to qualify us for our first tournament in 10 years. Contrary to the above quote, it was a highly successful year. Contrast that to the recent Euros where losing half the games, conceding double more than scored, suffering one of the heaviest defeats in just 20 minutes, and being "tired" with 20-30 minutes of games remaining, constituted a "great tournament". Give me the 2011 year any day. You are either Trap Junior or Liam Brady?