I think we have the nucleus of a very solid side. If you look at sides like rangers last night and celtic in the champions league, teams can be successful without having the best players in the world. We need a manager who can organise the side, install a never say die spirit and help get us results. In finnan, dunne, given, duff, carsley and keane we have players who we can build the side around, all experienced senior pros. then there are the less experienced players such as ireland, mcgeady, mcshane, doyle, long, hunt, o'brien who can help us push on. We have solid players but we also have some flare in there aswell with duff and mcgeady, and perhaps keane if he can regain his spurs form. all in all i feel we should EXPECT to qualify for the world cup if we get a favourable group, look at Scotland, we have much better players, it just shows that it can be done!
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