Georgia v Ireland - 2 September

Just desserts for Ireland there. Wales full value for the win. If we don't get a result vs Serbia we're in savage trouble

Not beating an Austrian team who were without numerous starters at home and not beating Georgia this evening will be the reason we won't finish even in the playoff. I am absolutely astounded at the attitude of the team and management towards the said games.

Not a good performance or night but at the start of the campaign i am sure most would of taken the position we are in tonight. Tonights over lets get behind the team for Tuesday.

ONLY1ROVERS wrote: Not a good performance or night but at the start of the campaign i am sure most would of taken the position we are in tonight. Tonights over lets get behind the team for Tuesday.

bull. I hate it when people say that. You have to take it on the games that come. We were beyond muck today. I was actually embarressed watching us today and i never thought id say that.

The surprise for me - is that people are surprised at the way Ireland played tonight.
This team has NEVER passed the ball under MON.
They have always been a direct, long ball team who feed off scraps and second balls & set pieces.
This simply has to come from the manager. Every team that plays passing football does so as it is their managers philosophy. It is obviously not O Neills philosophy on the game.
Don't tell me that a team of professional footballers can't string a sequence of passes together. O Neill obviously instructs them to lump it forward, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Its gas if we did that on my Sunday league team our manager would lose the plot with us.
We're absolutely sh*te to watch. Absolutely dire. Several of my friends who would be football fans have stopped watching the team because they can't stand watching a team that represents our country in their own main sport playing like a bunch of bottom division Sunday morning league hackers who can barely control the ball!!

We have to win and still hope other results go our way.

greengooner wrote: Hi everyone, I can appreciate the raw emotion immediately after the game and everyone is entitled to their opinion!! So.... Was it the worst ever Irish performance i've seen - no..!! Not by a long way! Was it the worst ever Irish performance under MON - yes, i think so. Thee appeared to be lots of management and player errors throughout the 96 mins. players to blame for - the inability to pass, defend, pay attention, support and do the very basics. Manager to blame for - the team selection, performance, inability to change things when it was obvious that our defending was putting us under massive pressure. Inability to make subs earlier and overall negative attitude towards going for 3 points. When you consider we had a dream start, many good sides would have built on this, defended from the front and picked off the opposition - who collapsed when they went behind against Serbia in the late stages of that game. For unfathomable reasons, Ireland retreated and gave EVERY initiative to Georgia. With the exception of McClean (he actually led whilst virtually every other player hid by their attitude) the entire team who played and the entire management team need to reflect on that train wreck tonight. They HAVE to turn up collectively against Serbia or we will lose. All of them owe it to themselves to improve massively and put in a shift that they can be proud of, regardless of the result.  True - we didn't lose. True - we got another away point.  However, the two points we threw away could prove very costly at the end of the campaign. A very disappointing night, made all the worse by Wales' result tonight. Keep the faith!! PS -the players' body language at the end of the game showed their disappointment as well. Hopefully they will use that as a catalyst against Serbia. PPS - MONs disappointing behaviour with TOD also revealed his disappointment with the result and performance. MON let himself down badly tonight. His team were appalling and he knew it - TOD just happened to be the man with the mike!!

You can tell you're an Arsenal fan..

Roberto Baggio wrote: Why do we always make these minnows look like a good team

no we make minnows look like great teams.

We have had no interest in playing football what so ever for the last 3 matches, truly shocking run just amazing we have managed to remain unbeaten. That better change on Tuesday or else we can forget about Russia.