Nadir or Underachieving

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 Cabra Hoop wrote:

 The O'Shea wrote:

 Cabra Hoop wrote:

Just had a look at tables for all 7 of the 5 team groups, groups A-G and Ireland and Lithuania with 6 points each have the lowest points total of any of the 4th placed teams, and Ireland are the only 4th place team who did not get any points from the 3 teams above them in their respective groups. 

Probably because the 3 teams ahead of us are amongst the strongest from their seeding groups. The performances have not been good enough, but the draw is the worst we've ever had for a qualification group.
 The draw was unkind which is true, but you would have hoped to get one point at home from the top 3 in the group...I think the groups we had for 82 and 88 were equally as hard.

Yes, we should have done better against Greece,and ultimately that's the reason Kenny will rightly lose his job. In saying that, they are an unusually strong 4th seed, they're clearly somewhat better than us, and they deserved their wins. I don't think losing to them exactly falls into the "nadir" bracket.