Ireland v Gibraltar match thread

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 Green Devil wrote:

 pre Madonna wrote:

You can't blame McCarthy for that. His remit was to try and get us to the Euros, he is hardly going to start bringing lads through. If anybody has been short-sighted it is the FAI. 

If memory serves me right, both yourself and I were in the minority who wanted this campaign to be used strictly for blooding young players, implementing new tactics and a style of play while ignoring results to a point.

Thus far we've had one good performance (Georgia), an acceptable one only because we got a result as we were blessed to come away with a point imo (Denmark) and two mediocre ones in 4 games (Gibraltar home and away)

Our luck is going to run out sooner or later and these lucky results will finally dry up because it's been going on for the best part of 3 years now since after the Euro's when you really break down and look at how bad our performances have been.

I'd have agreed with that too, but there was never a chance the FAI were going to pass up even a 1% chance of making the Euros, hence the short term appointment of McCarthy, an experienced and pragmatic manager who is a little bit more positive than the last dinosaur. 

Why they made that appointment was to try make the Euros at all costs, why they need to make the Euros at all costs is their perilous finances, why their finances are in a perilous state is down to the stewardship of the last CEO and several costly, ruinous decisions made relating to long term ticket sales and managerial contract renewals, all the while paying himself twice what the leader of any European country earns. This was all signed off by a board who are now due to resign en masse next month, but some think will be re-elected to go & do much the same things as they always have done, but with a different name or 2 in charge. 

These things are all related, and its important that people continue to see the links (not directed at ye 2, I know ye are fully aware of all that) and why we are exactly where we are football wise. Because there was some on here not too long ago, and the subject that angered them most was the cost of the tennis ball protests. Anyone continuing to think along those lines should zoom out a little. 