Ireland v France match thread

That was Cullen's error. Knight had already turned, nothing he could do there.

tetsujin1979 wrote: Can anyone identify the fan in this photo? The photographer is looking to make contact https://twitter.com/OisinKeniry/status/1640695625313288200

Had anybody thought of the children/asthmatics first?

Assume you'd be falling over asthma exacerbations and flare-burnt kids in Vincent's today.

4-3-3 with Smallbone as one of the midfield 3 is how we should set up vs Gibraltar. I'd be wary of doing so away to Greece (or at least starting that way vs Greece). Greece are a team that are likely close enough to being on a par with us, but we will need the guile of Smallbone there too in a 3-5-2 or whatever it might be. Molumby and Knight are great midfielders in a game where you expect to have a lot less of the ball, if we intend to try and have 50/50 possession vs the Greeks then we will need midfielders who are good with the ball.

That fella is in a photo at every single match.

Won't be hard to find...

I'd say lansdowne rd security are dying to find out as well.

I think people have been giving Kenny time as there are a lot of things people are seeing that they like and also believe in giving a fair chance. We have always given managers a full WC campaign and a EURO campaign other than Stan. He was on the brink here and there but pulled the nose up at crucial times.

Think everyone accepts though that if he doesn't qualify us for Euros then would be hard for him to stay on again unless it can be shown on the pitch that we are punching above our weight on a consistent basis during the group and we only just fell short because it was Netherlands and France

Kerr doesn’t need to air his grievances (not so) subtly but I do think Stephen Kenny has been given a soft time considering the overall direction of his results so far.

 If Mick Mac had the results of the WC qualifying campaign/2 Nations League Kenny has manufactured so far people would want his head on a spike. 

You Tell Me wrote: darman28 wrote: I don't get this "France didn't move into 2nd gear" crap. That Irish team worked really hard to not allow France to get into second gear. Maybe give the players credit for that. They kept one of the best teams in the world with some of the best players in the world, playing for the best clubs in Europe, quiet for large periods. Ireland had the sane amount of changes on goal as the France too. Easier to beat down your own a suppose. The dynamic of the game played a part in that though. Any game where there's only a goal in it in the last five minutes always has that element of risk for the team in the lead, but it's something most teams are used to dealing with, as France did last night. But if for some reason France had to win that by 2 or 3 goals I'd say they would have done, they'd have just pushed on more after the goal.  So for that reason we didn't really force out the best of France, a 1 goal win was as good as a 4 goal win for them. Generally that's how France do it away from home in qualifiers. They do what they have to do and no more, they rarely hammer teams away from home, even weaker teams than Ireland. It works for them.

I think your attitude is highly disrespectful to the Irish players who left it all and everything on the pitch last night. That is all you can ask from them as supporters. Just a mistake and a brilliant save away from a result last night. those are the inches you are dealing with in football.