Ireland vs Columbia, bitter Brian Kerr tells Il Trap to tone it down.

Gavin "shels" · 30-05-2008 3:12pm

Not sure if anyone posted this but George Hamilton said "We have come to the end of the domestic season but we have plenty of international football still to come".

What a fecking tool.

eirebhoy · 30-05-2008 4:55pm

As 90% said our problems last night were almost completely in central midfield. How in gods name a premiership player can't take up good positions to receive a pass I'll never know. You can talk about football intelligence but you don't have to be a genius to stand in a free spot on the pitch so you can take the pass from a teammate. Thankfully Reid and Reid have a bit of positional sense.

Pigman II · 30-05-2008 5:00pm

Gavin shels wrote: »

Not sure if anyone posted this but George Hamilton said "We have come to the end of the domestic season but we have plenty of international football still to come".

What a fecking tool.

Another funny one was Kielys post-match interview where he clearly couldn't rememeber whether the next qualification group was for the WC or EC.

Went along the lines of "All I can do is my my best and hope that'll be enough to put me in contention for the upcoming ..... eh.... qualifiers".

eirebhoy · 30-05-2008 5:00pm

DesF wrote: »

McShane is a definite weak spot, and people bigging him up surely now realise that he isn't up to international friendly standard, never mind competitive games.

McShane was easily our best player in the 2nd half. Outstanding and won everything. First half he was ok like the rest of the defenders. Good performance from someone who Trap says is very low on confidence. Can't wait to see himself and Dunne full of confidence.

Mitch Connor · 30-05-2008 5:21pm

eirebhoy wrote: »

McShane was easily our best player in the 2nd half. Outstanding and won everything. First half he was ok like the rest of the defenders. Good performance from someone who Trap says is very low on confidence. Can't wait to see himself and Dunne full of confidence.

McShane would probably be a decent shout to play against teams that will be all over us - cause he will put himself in front of everything. It is on the odd occasions that we are on top and we need our defenders to keep their concentration and positioning that McShane will possibly be a liability.

Vokes · 30-05-2008 5:26pm

eirebhoy wrote: »

McShane was easily our best player in the 2nd half. Outstanding and won everything. First half he was ok like the rest of the defenders. Good performance from someone who Trap says is very low on confidence. Can't wait to see himself and Dunne full of confidence.

Thought he was very poor in the first half in comparison to the other defenders. Very nervous. One occasion, he laid a back pass on for a Colombian forward.

jameshayes · 30-05-2008 8:58pm

Gavin shels wrote: »

Not sure if anyone posted this but George Hamilton said "We have come to the end of the domestic season but we have plenty of international football still to come".

What a fecking tool.

I could be wrong but I tought he said;
"We have come to the end of the domestic season for these players but we have plenty of international football still to come".

/edit/ no, no, you're right - he was talking about euro cup - i'm a tool too!!

~Rebel~ · 30-05-2008 9:03pm

eirebhoy wrote: »

As 90% said our problems last night were almost completely in central midfield. How in gods name a premiership player can't take up good positions to receive a pass I'll never know. You can talk about football intelligence but you don't have to be a genius to stand in a free spot on the pitch so you can take the pass from a teammate. Thankfully Reid and Reid have a bit of positional sense.

exactly, receive the ball, pass the ball, move to a position to receive the ball - repeat. Its really not rocket science, schoolboy stuff one would have thought.

Michael Collins · 31-05-2008 5:02pm

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

And an easy target for journalists bitter that he refused to play their game?

Yep, this is very true. The media were clearly annoyed with him ever since he put pay to McCarthy's idea of daily press conferences. I clearly remember members of the media giving out that he wasn't available everytime they rang up. Well suprise suprise, being an international manger does involve you actually spending time with the team, you know.

Having said that, there was no need for a negative article that was undoubtedly going to cause trouble...

soccerc · 31-05-2008 8:48pm

Syke wrote: »

saw that, I thought that Ireland was spared that kinda crap.

Here is a pic I took of the happy couple,looks like he dropped the ball!

Pigman II · 31-05-2008 8:58pm

thimblefull wrote: »

Here is a pic I took of the happy couple,looks like he dropped the ball!

Two balls. He's getting married.

estebancambias · 04-06-2008 12:29pm

Sorry for bumping this, but France beat Colombia last night 1-0 through a Ribery penalty. And the Colombian side we faced was their full strength team as they have WC Qualifers in 2 weeks.

By my logic, we are now as good as France.

Pigman II · 04-06-2008 12:48pm

No, we're better than France (they needed a peno).

Ireland vs Columbia, bitter Brian Kerr tells Il Trap to tone it down.

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