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ShamtheRam
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Never a penalty
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Roberto Baggio
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Agree, wasn't a pen. The ref was pretty good i thought. Was shocked that Cullen wasn't given a yellow for an early foul when he blatantly tripped Muani i think to stop an attack, and Knight was fouled once on the edge of our box after turning his man, but other than that can't complain
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Fireball07
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I would agree. I don't think we can pick the same team/setup and while I wouldn't be hanging all my hopes on Smallbone, he is a little bit different to our other midfielders. Johnston aswell could be useful, he looks good running at defenders in tight spaces. I think Kenny got his setup, personnel & subs right last night. He now has to repeat that for the rest of the campaign.
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JoxerDaly
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Watching the replay there O'Shea turns his back on the shot for the goal, poor defending from him but he will learn from it.
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dangere_here
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Aside from Kerr's bitterness towards his own Ireland spell, the only other connection would be that they worked together at Pats in the 90s for a while, Kerr as manager and Kenny as u-21 manager before he took the Longford job. Hardly worth holding a grudge for over 25 years though.
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darman28
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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.
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No inside info but Kerr clearly strongly dislikes Kenny. I'd say only the two men know what is going on there (or perhaps only Kerr himself) but it doesn't reflect well on him at all.
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kevin100
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I wouldn’t read too much into this. I think it simply stems from the fact that Brain Kerr isn’t gone on the fact Kenny has popularity/adulation as an Ireland manager with a LOI/FAI background that Kerr was never quite granted.
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.
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tetsujin1979
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Kerr was welcomed like no manager I've ever seen, and was supported by pretty much everyone in the press at the time of his appointment. His relationship with the press soured as his reign continued, and had deteriorated completely at the end. Kenny is criticised, maybe not to the same degree, or Kerr feels it's not to the same degree, so he had to stick the knife in
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t_rAndy
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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
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tetsujin1979
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Can anyone identify the fan in this photo?
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darmack
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I'd say lansdowne rd security are dying to find out as well.
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The dark side.. And the light
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counterlock
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Maccatacca
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That fella is in a photo at every single match. Won't be hard to find...
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Hatsoff
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Kerr's 70 years old. You'd think he'd have a better perspective on life. We are more resentful of peers than others so maybe that's all it is. He views Kenny as a younger version of himself and resents the positive feeling towards him despite the results. Nothing wrong with critical analysis but it should be balanced. You highlight the good and bad of a performance. All we can ask of managers is make the most of resources and give us a bit of hope and something to shout for. It's only a game but is part of our identity and pride. Hopefully we beat Greece away and then we'll have that glimmer of hope.
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John Nice
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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.
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The Huntacha
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Had anybody thought of the children/asthmatics first? Assume you'd be falling over asthma exacerbations and flare-burnt kids in Vincent's today.
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