Ireland v Latvia match thread
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Topic: Ireland v Latvia match thread
Posted By: Double Maxim
Subject: Ireland v Latvia match thread
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 5:49pm
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This Wednesday also on viaplay. How's the ticket sales going for this ? Ireland v Latvia RTE 2 Ireland v Latvia (Kick-off 7.45pm). All the action from the match at Aviva Stadium. The hosts will be looking for a morale boosting result ahead of their opening Euro 2024 qualifier on Monday here against World Cup runners-up France. The sides last met in 2013, when the Republic claimed a dominant 3-0 win thanks to goals by Robbie Keane, Aiden McGeady and Shane Long. Latvia will go into the match with confidence this time around after earning promotion from Group D of the UEFA Nations League, but Stephen Kenny's men should provide a considerably sterner test for them than Moldova, Andorra and Liechtenstein did. ------------- Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world |
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Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 5:54pm
| Another in a line of minnows for friendly opposition. Nothing really to be gained from this other than giving the likes of Ferguson, Smallbone, and Johnson so game time. A win would be unremarkable, anything less is just another headache for Kenny. |
Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 6:00pm
Typical FAI decision. ------------- Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world |
Het-field wrote:Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 6:03pm
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State of Mitrovic embarrassing. ------------- Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world |
Posted By: BrendanD88
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 6:21pm
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Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 6:23pm
Whoops what a feck up ! I'm sure it made you're day for two reasons.  ------------- Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world |
Posted By: Bandwagon
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 6:24pm
To be fair there was only 6 possible opponents for us to face due to the 5 team groups. Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Estonia, Hungary or Latvia were the teams. Georgia and Ukraine we played recently and Estonia had already arranged a friendly with Hungary so it really only left Albania or Latvia. ..and it was a fixture that was required to be fulfilled by UEFA. |
Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2023 at 6:31pm
Fair enough I hadn't realised that good point. ------------- Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world |
Posted By: Bandwagon
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 6:36pm
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Team announced 3-5-2 ----------------------Kelleher--------------------- --------Collins--Omobamidele--O'Shea------- Doherty----Browne---Molumby------O'Dowda --------------------Smallbone--------------------- -------------Ferguson---Obafemi------------------
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Posted By: SC92
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 6:41pm
| Don't mind that line up. Glad Cullen is having a rest we need him against France. Hopefully Smallbone will be able to get forward to link with Ferguson and Obafemi and the WBs high as otherwise a 352 can be negative against an objectively poorer opposition when we struggle to break such teams down. |
Posted By: gally
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 6:44pm
Don't think Omobamidele will play central CB.
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Posted By: xRedmanLFCx
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:25pm
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Big nights for Smallbone and Ferguson. Best of luck to them! 🤞 ------------- "We will be galvanised and motivated, and we will bring thousands to this tournament." - MON |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:40pm
| Hopefully a 2-0 win and some good football. |
Posted By: Healy52003
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:42pm
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good too see a few new faces in the team RTE saying Kenny knows his 11 for Monday and some of tonights team might not be in it
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Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:46pm
| Interesting rendition of Amhrán na bhFiann. |
Posted By: Nialler
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:47pm
Interesting is a word alright
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Posted By: gongman
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:48pm
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anyone know a stream for this? Watching from Australia, not on the usual sports channels
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Posted By: Fitz
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:49pm
Hate when they do that, kills the atmosphere. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jimmy Raggatip
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:54pm
| good goal. that should settle us down |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:55pm
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Lovely work by Doc and Smallbone ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:55pm
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Good ball in from Smallbone. Ferguson overhit that pass to Doherty, but it worked out. KDB-esque positioning from Smallbone.
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Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:55pm
| Brilliant start. No messing about, and a very good goal. We're already improved from Malta. |
Posted By: tonyjaa
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:56pm
| Happy days |
Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:57pm
| Brilliant ball from Smallbone. A bit lucky, that loose pass from Collins would have been punished by a better side. |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:57pm
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I see nvidic is the Latvian manager ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 7:59pm
Far from a compliment anyway looks like Peter Griffin ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:00pm
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Smallbone looking a class above in the early stages here.
------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:02pm
| Molumby's aggression is his biggest strength. He's always very quick in the tackle. |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:05pm
| Ferguson > Haaland confirmed. |
Posted By: GaretFarellysNutSack
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:05pm
| Boner looks like he can actually pass the ball forward wtf |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:07pm
Doc and Boner 
------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:08pm
| Good man EF! |
Posted By: doherty
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:09pm
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Smallbone Cullen and Moulmby for France please ------------- I love beer gardens |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:10pm
Hendricks.... for Smallbone ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: tonyjaa
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:10pm
| Big Evan |
Posted By: Jimmy Raggatip
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:11pm
| poor decision making/poor finish from Browne there |
Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:12pm
| Anybody else thing Ferguson looks a bit like SK? |
Posted By: Heimatklange
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:14pm
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is this a bit of a shop window for ferguson to impress southgate? am i doing this right?
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Posted By: GaretFarellysNutSack
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:15pm
shop window for Boner too
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Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:16pm
| Hate to be a pessimist, but.. what are we learning from this? This lot might the worst side I've seen us play since Oman. They run Gibraltar very close. |
Posted By: Jimmy Raggatip
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:18pm
a confidence boost is always welcome
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Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:18pm
Absolutely but when the other team is so uncompetitive it can only count for so much
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Posted By: Jimmy Raggatip
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:18pm
Doherty looks fecked after 20 mins 
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Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:19pm
 ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
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Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:19pm
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Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:21pm
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Screamer
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Posted By: doherty
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:21pm
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Doherty's fault. Savage strike tho ------------- I love beer gardens |
Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:21pm
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Couldn’t have asked for a better start. Smallbone looking lively and Ferguson getting his goal. Now get him off t’f*ck and rest him up for Monday. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: J89
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:22pm
Who else was there to play? Georgia and Hungary wouldn't travel to Dublin as they would have wanted home friendlies since they play their first qualifiers at home. Georgia are actually playing Mongolia at home in a friendly. |
Posted By: The O'Shea
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:22pm
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How do we keep conceding these worldies ------------- We're decent enough.. |
Posted By: doherty
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:22pm
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Sorta game we shud be winning 5 or 6 nil. Is it goin to turn into a bit of hard work. ------------- I love beer gardens |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:23pm
| Let's be honest, Bazunu catches that goal. |
Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:23pm
f**k off yourself, loser.
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Posted By: Maccatacca
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:23pm
We leave massive holes in front of our 18 yard box.
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Posted By: Heimatklange
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:24pm
at least you're honest
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Posted By: GaretFarellysNutSack
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:24pm
what even tense are you speaking in? oh if he was playing. he's made plenty of mistakes this season himself. |
Posted By: 84ccfc84
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:24pm
| Brutal from Doherty |
Posted By: The O'Shea
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:25pm
The strikes are other worldly whatever about anything else, that was insane, no one in the world saving it. ------------- We're decent enough.. |
Posted By: doherty
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:25pm
Sorry guys i left my gloves in Madrid im cold. I switched off with the frost bit ------------- I love beer gardens |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:28pm
It's a joke.
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Posted By: Dunne23
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:29pm
| Great strike tbf. Am I right in thinking we've conceded quite a few similar goals in Kenny's reign? |
Posted By: doherty
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:33pm
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For a brief moment i thought we were world beaters. We lose a goal and we look nervy again. France on the breakaway could kill us. ------------- I love beer gardens |
Posted By: doherty
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:33pm
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Not again ffs ------------- I love beer gardens |
Posted By: irish_major
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:34pm
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Very good performance. Baz Coleman Egan Cullen Knight in against France. Jesus Christ kelleher ------------- Here we go again |
Posted By: E2016
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:34pm
| We are an absolute shambles defensively. Kenny has removed every ounce of defensive stability we had under Mick. Shocking. |
Posted By: GaretFarellysNutSack
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:34pm
| lol, turns out we're as bad as ever, i can't remember i've seen a visiting team this bad |
Posted By: Jimmy Raggatip
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:35pm
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deflection or not that is a howler and we've got to clear that, had plenty of chances
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Posted By: PaulYK
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:35pm
| You're kidding me! How do we do this to ourselves. |
Posted By: King_Kenny
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:35pm
Back 3 very poor. Casual and can’t do the defensive basics.
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Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:36pm
| Looked shaky at the back since the first whistle. Loose passes and touches from Collins and Andy. Did not see that coming, however.. |
Posted By: gazurtoids
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:36pm
| Load of ol bollox tbf |
Posted By: E2016
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:36pm
France are going to run absolutely riot. We've conceeded 2 at home against Latvia. That's as bad as it gets.
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Posted By: Howdo
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:37pm
| Jaysus |
Posted By: Strazdas
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:37pm
| Kelleher has been beaten a lot of times for us since he made his debut - too many for my liking. |
Posted By: thebronze14
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:37pm
No. He's a spit of the singer for Fontaine's DC though
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Posted By: djhegzy
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:37pm
Conflicted, played some lovely football but we have conceded 2 to one of the worst teams in europe 
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Posted By: GaretFarellysNutSack
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:37pm
| i'm not sure you can blame doherty's defensive howler on SK |
Posted By: The O'Shea
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:38pm
Zero he could do about the first. 2nd a big deflection, bad luck tbh. ------------- We're decent enough.. |
Posted By: Fitz
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:38pm
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Started positively, two well worked goals. Latvia coming into it a bit since that cracker of a goal. Browne had been poor-ish; Collins, for me, is questionable for inclusion against France. O’ Dowda, Obafemi and Smallbone have been our best players. Edit* more poor defending, CK a bit unfortunate, perhaps. We need to up the tempo now and not balls this up. -------------
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Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:39pm
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The 3 at the back all seem a bit too nice as a trio. Need a **** in there for diversity.
------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:39pm
| Are we a bit cursed? That's 4/5 goals we've conceded under SK that would be very very low percentage chances. |
Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:39pm
This is an interesting summation. Playing 'open' football has its perks, but like Armenia and Scotland last year it has its obvious downsides, and we simply dont have the stuff to outscore the teams we need to beat to be in with a hope of qualifying. Also, I fear this will convince Kenny to put the same lads from last year on the pitch, and hope for the best against France.
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Posted By: zizu Kilbane
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:40pm
Exactly. All 3 very young too. Expect 1 to drop out for Egan on Monday ------------- "Sometimes, sh*t happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who ya gonna call?" |
Posted By: zizu Kilbane
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:41pm
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Last seasons Rovers team would spank this lot ------------- "Sometimes, sh*t happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who ya gonna call?" |
Posted By: Strazdas
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:41pm
A good team just wouldn't concede them. You'd have to be a bit worried about how we always seem to look defensively brittle at home.
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Posted By: 10 Box
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:42pm
Conceded a fair few from outside the box alright
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Posted By: Deane
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:42pm
| First goal for Latvia was class. We tend to concede screamers against sh*te teams |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:43pm
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Who's the guy on here who used to hammer Bazunu for not keeping clean sheets? Your boy has conceded two vs Latvia.
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Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:43pm
Thats my logic, it can't just be a coincidence. There's serious concerns at the back.
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Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:44pm
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Smallbone looks excellent ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: E2016
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:44pm
And just concede normal goals against everyone else. Our defensive record is a joke, and we have some of the most dangerous attackers in world football rolling into town in a few days to fill their boots.
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Posted By: The Ham
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:45pm
| 2 nil up against one of the worst sides in Europe and we go in at 2-2. There's no real organisation, no structure and passing is poor in their half. We're playing 3 in midfield but smallbone and browne are way too wide when we're in possession. Usual laziness from Doherty, bit of naivety amongst the back 3 and an overly rash molumby. Needs to finish 5-2 for Kenny to come out of this with anything other than a hammering. |
Posted By: Deane
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:45pm
Have to agree. Best player on the pitch perhaps
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Posted By: Banjaxed
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:47pm
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Old habits Die Hard... Same mistakes and same issues remain. This performance would end in a massacre on Monday. Something just isn't clicking regarding certain, crucial aspects of our game.
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Posted By: The O'Shea
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:47pm
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Smallbone and Doherty have linked up very well. O'Dowda has played well. Molumby has initiated both both and been generally good. Ferguson and Obafemi look a good pairing. Lots of positives but they need to go out and win this second half well. ------------- We're decent enough.. |
Posted By: xRedmanLFCx
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:47pm
  ------------- "We will be galvanised and motivated, and we will bring thousands to this tournament." - MON |
Posted By: Wheelo
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:48pm
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Bar the 2 goals we let in (which I’d read nothing into as kelleher wont be playing Monday), there are positives. Ferguson and smallbone should’ve cemented places into team on Monday. O’Dowda very good too. Bazunu will be back also, etc, Won’t read anything into result tonight, conceding 2 goals like we did might give us a much needed kick up the hole for Monday. I’m positive for Monday 👍 ------------- Scousers - it’s never their fault DROGHEDA TIL I DIE!! |
Posted By: Fozz
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:48pm
Yep, on this performace so far, should start Monday. Maybe instead of Obafemi and then have Cullen and Knight also in the team. Browne needs to go.
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Posted By: Strazdas
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:48pm
Yes, we conceded six goals in our last four games before tonight - we can't keep putting this down to bad luck (and strangely, we look more dodgy at the Aviva than away from home).
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Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2023 at 8:48pm
Typical Ireland eh.. this lot are absolutely abysmal and we've let them back into it.
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