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Croftman
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Some people just deserve a slap
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Left foot
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Not sure how true this is as I'm only pulling from a comment from the42 but would be amazing it true nations league games pass completion percentages so far top 5 Spain 90% Ireland 88% Belgium 88% Germany 87% Portugal 87% |
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15687 |
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Ahhhh come on Muskie don't get upset .
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15687 |
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LF is there anyway you can find out what are the percentages in the final 3rd of the pitch ? Sometimes stats can be misleading .
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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Left foot
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Thats a fair point of course Murph and I wouldn't imagine it to be very high. The percentages don't really tell us much and should be taken with a pinch of salt but none the less interesting.
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Borussia
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A Centre back knocking the ball back to his keeper - Completed pass. A Centre back under no pressure passing across to the other centre back - Completed pass. On their own, this statistic tells us nothing.
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Maccatacca
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Noel King sprouting utter sh*te again. Why on earth did the St*r give that **** a column?
Edited by Maccatacca - 15 Oct 2020 at 12:37pm |
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pre Madonna
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Sounds painful.
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Donegalman
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Ballybrack hardly get special treatment from the Fai? No surely that wouldn’t happen at all no all by the book I’m sure.
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Donegalman
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The things ex players/ management do/say to keep relevant is shocking. He’s a clear agenda King does and at least everyone sees him for what he is, an absolute joke of a manager when he had the u21s and bitter Kenny done more than him in half a campaign than he done in 8 or however many years it was.
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GoneToShowgies
Ray Houghton Joined: 28 Jul 2010 Status: Offline Points: 3973 |
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Completely agree. Memories in this country are way too short (look at politics as a prime example). For the first time in a long time I looked forward to the Ireland games. Of course I was pi$$ed off with the results but to see a team willing to play a bit of football and seeing young players being given a chance was such a breath of fresh air. As you said, we have done feck all in the last NL and the Euro qualifiers so why people would expecting anything different by reverting to same I dont know.
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Stickittotheman
Liam Brady Joined: 15 Sep 2015 Status: Offline Points: 2289 |
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I would agree with this somewhat but by the same token zero goals and zero wins in the first 5 games is not great. It has been good to see us actually play some decent stuff but to be honest I would prefer hoof ball and results a la MON 2015-16 rather than good football and nothing to show for it. I hope we can get the balance right.
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Walters coming back from an offside position but Shane Long was definitely onside- Shane Lonnggggggg.... has done it!!!!
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TooOldForThis
Liam Brady Joined: 07 Sep 2020 Status: Online Points: 1154 |
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From Richard Dunne:
"I’d love to see us play possession-based football and that we win the game. At the moment, we just haven’t got over the line and finished off the chances we’ve created. I get that there’s a change and a new style we want to get, but it can’t sort of overtake the fact that we need results and for us to progress and qualify. We need results, not performances"
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This is the first time I have ever seen Ireland play a passing game and look like they actually trained together . Far better to watch than some of the mind warping dross we have endured in the past . I would back Kenny to carry on for a few tournaments and see how he does . To the much respected well travelled fans on here I would say dont worry lads , what your seeing from the team is football . What you have become accustomed to is sh*te . Back Kenny and that will encourage the team ,,ok then.
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We are Shamrock Rovers we"re Irelands number 1 .
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15687 |
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Sean Dyche grossed £3,952,000 last year , i think includes everything .
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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Left foot
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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It seems to me that some people have actually forgotten how bad we've been for the last few years?
I remember when we beat Gibraltar 2-0 that there was real frustration about how desperately bad we were in possession of the ball. It actually felt like we lost the game. We won the game but it was clear that we were in a terrible mess and the comments on here reflected that. Contrast that with the Finland game, we lost and its sickening but I feel we're going to get better. As people have stated, its a results game, but with better performances come better results.
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Terzino
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The results have been disappointing so far, but the performances have been encouraging. For the first time in ages you can feel optimistic about the future.
And to me, the argument over passing versus long-ball is redundant, because we are passing the ball up the pitch quite well. A long-ball may get the ball forward quicker, but you have a very good chance of losing possession. We don't have a traditional target man either. So what would be the point of going direct? Also, long-ball is judged on how many chances you create. But that is not our problem at the moment. Our problem is putting away the chances we make. So we need to find the right personnel to fill the forward roles. The criticism of Brady's set-pieces is also something I don't get. He put two corners onto the heads of Doherty and Duffy, and the Duffy chance should have been scored. In other areas of his game he can be a bit mixed, but his set-pieces are still good. Overall, the team is clearly moving in the right direction. Kenny needs to tweak some things. He doesn't need to revert back to a more direct style in an effort to get results.
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Bru
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I agree, It was painful turning up to the Aviva watching that month after month for the past few years. We are creating good chances at the moment instead of these 50-50 crosses and punts up field. Stick with it !!!
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