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John Nice
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It will indeed, it will tell us that FIFA forcing a friendly on us against a team that absolutely nobody has any interest in whatsoever is a stupid f**king idea. It's a disgrace that Qatar are even hosting the World Cup imo so I wouldnt attend this game even if we were topping the group. There are plenty of reasonable arguments for dismissing Kenny, the attendance at the Qatar game will not be one of them. Defeat away to Azerbaijan however will certainly leave the knives sharpened. Let's see how we get on away to Azerbaijan and how many attend the game vs Portugal.
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irishmufc
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As much as I think finishing anything below third is unacceptable, if we finish 4th in the group and the players are still 100% behind Kenny to be in charge for the NL 2022 & EURO 2024 campaign, then like most supporters I'd would have no issue with that.
I do think the outcome of the next 3 games will be hugely defining whether the players have confidence in Kenny and then stick with him. I think failure to beat either Azerbaijan and Luxembourg could not be justified no matter how pro-Kenny someone might be and will be another nail in his coffin tbh.
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Jimmy Raggatip
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also I think putting an expectation of 3rd place on Kenny at this moment in time is harsh, its out of our hands almost. Agree that 3rd should have been the aim pre qualifying but not now. We can beat Lux and Azer and still finish behind Lux
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Jimmy Raggatip
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No to Hughton thanks. He had a massive budget at Newcastle and Brighton compared to the rest of the league in the Championship ask Brighton fans if they regret for one second getting rid of him
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Claret Murph
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I think whatever the score is with Azerbaijan the gate we have at home to Qatar will tell it's own story .
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reddladd
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There are still people who don't want to mix because of Covid so the idea of going to a Stadium wasn't appealing. Parents with young kids mightn't have been keen to have them mixing in a big crowd.
Can't compare things until such time as Covid is out of the reckoning. We wouldn't have sold out Georgia in the past either.
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I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
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E2016
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We didnt sell out the Azerbaijan game with half a stadiums capacity on a Saturday evening, probably the best kick off time we have had in years. If we are losing games the average joe isn't going to be coming to the Aviva. We have had plenty of examples of this through the years. Thinking otherwise is naive in the extreme.
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gufct
Jack Charlton Trapattoni could manage me any day! Joined: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 6518 |
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will Chris hughton do the job on a much reduced salary ?? I doubt it .
Bringing in a new man is not the solution we are where we are because of 20 years of the Fai being run as a personal fiefdom which has left us lagging behind every other country in terms of development of the game and proper structures.
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Sham157
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Fruice
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Football is a sport first and foremost if you want go see the beautiful game then international football isn’t for you. The most important thing is to be competitive and try and win the game. You set your team out to best suit what your team is good at and you adapt from there. We struggle to score so any rightminded manager Would firstly make us hard to score against. Since Kenny has come in wee have become worse at the back and most likely we need to score twice to win a game. And obviously from the fact we have only won one game in this period we clearly aren’t able to do this. So unless he can get us scoring more which he looks like he can’t he needs to go look at how he sets us up At the back in order to start picking up wins. |
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You Tell Me
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Recent evidence suggests otherwise - we didn't sell out the Azerbaijan game despite the ground being restricted to half capacity. If the team start winning games, that will fill the stadium - you only have to look at the Charlton era to see that. The football was one dimensional but the ground was packed. Playing pretty football and not winning will only empty the place further.
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E2016
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The people on here will go regardless but nobody else is going to support an Ireland team that cant win a competitive match. Ticket sales are going to he the opposite of what you think. And we certainly would have a good chance of qualifying for Euro 2024 if we had a good manager like Hughton in.
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horsebox
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In previous games, we've always played well in the 1st game and kinda struggled to match that level of performance in the next game (Serbia then Luxembourg - Portugal then Azerbaijan).
The next fixture will be Azerbaijan away - so if we can repeat what we did before - we should beat these - and probably under perform a little against Portugal. The same for the Luxembourg game too. So hopefully we can get at least 6 points - the other key game will be Azerbaijan v Luxembourg - where if Azerbaijan get any result - it should allow Ireland to finish 3rd on a whopping 8 points. |
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t_rAndy
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No goalposts moving. In previous managers, nearly everyone was going about how sh*te we are to watch. The amount of horrible games. The stadiums have been emptying out long before Kenny arrived.
The two games back so far with fans, despite the disappointment of result against Az, we got our money's worth. We went home smiling against Serbia. Give me this style of play while trying to win matches with a limited squad over going mote direct over and over while trying to win matches with a limited squad every day of the week
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B6 6HE
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The system is right but the players are wrong? The ever moving goalposts
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Bukowski
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To the forum members who would be happy to see the back on Kenny - football is entertainment, it's show business. The football was so bad under MON people stopped watching. Wasn't much better under McCarthy. Now under Kenny more people want to see the team play. They will buy tickets to the Aviva. We might not qualify for as many tournaments as we have in the past, in fact no way will we, so that money is not going to be coming in. But we wouldn't qualify with MON or McCarthy or another "pragmatic" manager either. We just don't have the attacking players. 3/4 of the team was very decent against Serbia, but McGrath and Browne were not up to it, and I'm not sure yet about Idah. They're not up to the sort of counter-attacking football Kenny seems to favour.
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"The third path to wisdom is experience, and is the most bitter."
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planning
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You've made it a work of art since you registered. I doubt you're going to stop, so why would anyone else? A European Cup standard player, beat us at Lansdowne. Our only European Cup squad player is considered inferior to the Portsmouth No. 1 atm. So the goals are flying in, only at the wrong end, as our own Championship level strike force are as lethal at this level as a paper spoon. Boasting about beating Gibraltar is about as relevant as boasting about beating Andorra. We have won 10 games in 5 years. As far as results are concerned, we are exactly where we should be.
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t_rAndy
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I agree with most of that, good response. I have reservations too about certain things especially his motivation ability (I did hear from one ex player off record that it is not a lot to be desired) so not sure if he is the man to lead the team but I think as a package with coaching staff too that it has potential and I just feel changing manager again and starting again is not a sure thing and there are some signs in there that it could come together and I would tend to put my eggs in that basket and hope and pray it comes off versus trying something else out and hoping that comes off instead. Last few games are of utmost importance |
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