Should we give up football?

Left foot wrote: I think kenny completely messed up today but I think the players let us down badly too. Set piece specialist hourihane was again poor in all aspects of the game. Molumby and connolly haven't been playing football for months but we're thrown in. Mcclean is a tryer but clearly technically poor. His crossing today couldn't even beat the first Azerbaijani. Truly pathetic. I've Kenny is sacked you have to say fair enough at this point. My only fear is we get a mercenary like allardyce and results don't improve... then what?

Left foot wrote: I think kenny completely messed up today but I think the players let us down badly too. Set piece specialist hourihane was again poor in all aspects of the game. Molumby and connolly haven't been playing football for months but we're thrown in. Mcclean is a tryer but clearly technically poor. His crossing today couldn't even beat the first Azerbaijani. Truly pathetic.

Edited by You Tell Me - 04 Sep 2021 at 8:16pm

Left foot wrote:  I have no idea what the formation was towards the end.

it was a mess. last 10 mns Coleman was playing RW with Horgan behind him. f**k knows how that made sense. Looked like Coleman just went wild and figured he had to be the hero and Horgan was clued in enough to realise someone had to track back. Only other thing that makes sense was that Coleman was goosed and didn’t have the energy to get back. Either way it looked like a decision the players made than the manager

Lets see how it goes Tuesday. We tried hard tonight and it just didn't work out. We were getting close but just not to be. I was watching the game tonight thinking to myself "they are trying here, it's almost there, just not clinical enough.....imagine Robbie Keane was there". And that just reminded me that one thing this team misses is an out and out star, leader, hero like Robbie or Duff. It would have made all the difference this campaign I would feel

sid waddell wrote: Jack Charlton himself said that the way his teams played suited the Irish temperament because it was the sort of game the Irish expected from their own Gaelic players He was right As a sporting nation the "get in amongst them" mentality has always been ingrained into us, or if you like, "put 'em under pressure" It's why the image of Packie Bonner grimacing and gritting his teeth before hoofing it down the pitch before Sheedy's goal against England is so iconic It's shown in the way the crowd roared on the big days and nights at Lansdowne Road, whether it was to unsettle the "soft Spanish fancy dans" in '89, to greet Roy Keane's tackle on Overmars in '01 or to put it right up the Germans with route one in 2015, it's why James McClean and Shane Duffy are the personification of modern day Irish football And to deny otherwise is sort of to erase history

It's so painful it's almost funny. 

We should ditch Republic of Ireland and use our actual name of Ireland.

But what do we do in our spare time? What do we rant against?

We've parasitised off the English game for a long time, and it's not working any more.

Edited by Terzino - 20 Nov 2022 at 10:06pm