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greenmachine68
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 11 Jul 2011 Status: Offline Points: 171 |
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Good to see him get a game, most patient man in football.
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15740 |
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Yep did what he had to do really but only playing against ten men helped . Still clean sheet and not much more you can really say .
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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thebronze14
Jack Charlton Derry City Til I Die Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Location: Dublin/Donegal Status: Offline Points: 7170 |
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no that's Stuart Taylor...Look at his career stats
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longford claret
500 Club la la la Joined: 31 Dec 2016 Location: Longford Status: Offline Points: 553 |
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Played a great game. Kept Deeney and Gray quiet.
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longford claret
500 Club la la la Joined: 31 Dec 2016 Location: Longford Status: Offline Points: 553 |
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Kevin playing again tonight
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bogball88
Liam Brady Joined: 16 May 2016 Location: Throne Status: Offline Points: 2674 |
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Starts tonight
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longford claret
500 Club la la la Joined: 31 Dec 2016 Location: Longford Status: Offline Points: 553 |
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Plays well again.Clean sheet and a win. Upto 4th.
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Stickittotheman
Liam Brady Joined: 15 Sep 2015 Status: Offline Points: 2290 |
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Mad that MON has so little faith in our players. There is Burnley with Ward, Hendrick, Brady and now Kevin Long all in the first 11 showing they are very decent players when set up right. When you have guys like Coleman, McCarthy, Duffy supplementing that MON shouldnt be downplaying our guys every chance he gets. In regards to Long great to see him getting some game time lets hope it continues. |
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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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HuntysCousin
Jack Charlton Joined: 26 Sep 2011 Location: Waterford Status: Offline Points: 5241 |
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What better way to congratulate the lad on his performance than take a pop at the manager that has given him all his international caps... |
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DeclanDaly
Ray Houghton Joined: 17 Oct 2013 Location: Boston, USA Status: Offline Points: 3254 |
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It’s true. The logic doesn’t add up. The common perception is that premier league football is superior to international football. So how can our players be good enough for the premiere league but not good enough for international football? |
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You asked if I'd be anyone from history, fact or fiction, dead or alive:
I said "I'd be Tony Cascarino, circa 1995" |
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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 939 |
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Where would the Ireland team be in the table if they were a premier league side though? Count up the number of goals scored by our players in the last couple of years in the prem and tell me that adds up to anything other than relegation?
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coyne
Paul McGrath Joined: 17 Aug 2013 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 15881 |
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Because it's the hipster thing in European football to go 5 across midfield and play on the counter, the appalling amount of games in the Euro's proved that. I think every team used the exact same mindset except from Spain and Germany. It takes a Manager with balls to break the current trend with a newer one which counters that, as Conte did with 3 at the back, he didn't invent it but he certainly made it the thing to do amongst the big teams in the EPL.
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Maccatacca
Ray Houghton Joined: 01 Jun 2016 Status: Offline Points: 4214 |
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I don’t know where we would be in the table, but I know that Seamus Coleman would be far and away Burnleys best player, while the likes of Duffy, and a fit James McCarthy would be vying for starting places. |
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DeclanDaly
Ray Houghton Joined: 17 Oct 2013 Location: Boston, USA Status: Offline Points: 3254 |
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Exactly - that’s the point. Our players are evidently good enough to be 4th in the table. Why shouldn’t we compete at international level if our players are used to competing with some of the worlds best players on a weekly basis. The answer I think is organization. Premier league teams play with each other every week. Teams like Iceland have brought that institutionalized system to international football and have succeeded because of it Edited by DeclanDaly - 13 Dec 2017 at 1:54am |
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You asked if I'd be anyone from history, fact or fiction, dead or alive:
I said "I'd be Tony Cascarino, circa 1995" |
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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 939 |
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To be able to qualify for world cups though you need to have players who can create and score goals against quality teams. Republic of Ireland players have scored 7 goals this season and created 5 in the permier league . That doesn't put you fourth in the league it puts you last.
That's why we rely on such negative tactics to, not because our players are less familiar with each other than other teams.
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DeclanDaly
Ray Houghton Joined: 17 Oct 2013 Location: Boston, USA Status: Offline Points: 3254 |
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That is also true. We do lack regular goalscorers, even (to continue in the Burnley theme) a couple of the standard of Chris Wood or Sam Vokes. |
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You asked if I'd be anyone from history, fact or fiction, dead or alive:
I said "I'd be Tony Cascarino, circa 1995" |
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pre Madonna
Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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No. A couple of our players are good enough to be playing in an overachieving side, just because they are doing so does not mean we must be doing better. It is a constant argument on here and one that is completely illogical, yet people run with it anyway. Judging players on the league position of their clubs appears to be very much an Irish thing, I just assume it is a form of clutching at straws? We would also be a much better side if we had a few of the non-Irish Burnley players available to us. With no disrespect to Sam Vokes, it kind of shows where we are when we are desperate for a striker like him. |
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alihau41
Liam Brady Joined: 10 Mar 2016 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 1702 |
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agree here. also, kevin long is only now starting to get a run of games in the burnley side. considering he's been bench warming for most of the season, why should he be in the starting XI for the national team? the attack on MON is nonsensical, much like that to when Declan rice got into the west ham starting XI. young lads that need to concentrate on establishing themselves at club level before they can look to playing international matches.
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