Republic of Ireland Team Talk/News/Rumours 2018/19

Turtwig · 11-11-2017 06:35PM #1

Continuing on from previous mega thread.

Rikand · 11-11-2017 06:38PM

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pjohnson · 11-11-2017 06:39PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PT65I2ny8

SomethingElse · 11-11-2017 06:39PM

Rikand wrote: »

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Positive from O'Neill there with O'Dowda starting.

OldMrBrennan83 · 11-11-2017 06:43PM

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Sin City · 11-11-2017 06:47PM

Cant complain about the team
Long to come on when the Danish legs tire

Kone · 11-11-2017 06:49PM

Solid team, no complaints

noodler · 11-11-2017 07:07PM

Patww79 wrote: »

Is Glenn Whelan dead?

Nah he's just nearly 34 and playing in the Championship.

I'll be happy if we see him at some stage as it'll probably mean we are protecting a result.

johnnyryan89 · 11-11-2017 07:15PM

Delighted with O'Dowda getting a start, said it during the week wouldn't surprise me if MON gave him a start with his form in his last three league games.

Sin City · 11-11-2017 08:35PM

Randolph being immense

Hopefully we can nick some thing
Go Cyrus

Sin City · 11-11-2017 09:51PM

Surely wes has to start on tuesday
We need some creativity

May need to drop Brady. Leave O Dowda start again

Guffy · 11-11-2017 09:59PM

I'd give my left nut to have Kerr in charge again.

allthedoyles · 11-11-2017 10:01PM

Theres no point in talking about Wes starting ...............Its obvious he is not in O Neills plans .

Sin City · 11-11-2017 10:06PM

allthedoyles wrote: »

Theres no point in talking about Wes starting ...............Its obvious he is not in O Neills plans .

We need to win
We need a threat
We need an alternative to hoofball

Sin City · 11-11-2017 10:09PM

Think long should start too

Mr.Nice Guy · 11-11-2017 10:15PM

This stat I saw on the BBC surprised me:

This is the first time that the Republic of Ireland have failed to score in an away international since November 2014. They had found the net in each of their last nine on the road.

keeponhurling · 11-11-2017 10:18PM

Guffy wrote: »

I'd give my left nut to have Kerr in charge again.

Why ?
(Sorry if I am missing something obvious here)

johnnyryan89 · 11-11-2017 10:22PM

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

This stat I saw on the BBC surprised me:

Could come back to bite us in the arse on Tuesday not getting an away goal tonight.

Banjaxed82 · 11-11-2017 10:35PM

Denmark should be ashamed of their approach when they have a player like Eriksen at their disposal.

Would have ripped us apart if they played any football.

Agent Coulson · 11-11-2017 10:37PM

Just get Paddy Power on to sponsor Bentner to score an own goal in the next game and show off his Paddy Power boxers.

Paddy can afford a few pounds to do that.

FixdePitchmark · 11-11-2017 10:43PM

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

Denmark should be ashamed of their approach when they have a player like Eriksen at their disposal.

Would have ripped us apart if they played any football.

Our players are top level pros.

Put 8 of them in front of you and you need a bit more than Eriksen.

Banjaxed82 · 11-11-2017 10:49PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Our players are top level pros.

Put 8 of them in front of you and you need a bit more than Eriksen.

Imagine if Georgia had an Eriksen.

keeponhurling · 11-11-2017 11:31PM

Not much chat about it, but Randalph was absolutely excellent again.
Well done that man.

No world class saves tonight, but dealt with everything very well. And a clear man of the match.

Rekop dog · 11-11-2017 11:41PM

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

Denmark should be ashamed of their approach when they have a player like Eriksen at their disposal.

Would have ripped us apart if they played any football.

You're really doing a disservice to how well we can frustrate the life out of an opponent. We've kept clean sheets against far better sides than them in recent years. We got tactics spot on for our extremely limited talent pool.

Banjaxed82 · 11-11-2017 11:57PM

Rekop dog wrote: »

You're really doing a disservice to how well we can frustrate the life out of an opponent. We've kept clean sheets against far better sides than them in recent years. We got tactics spot on for our extremely limited talent pool.

I haven't taken anything away from our defensive performance. I'm talking about Denmark and their tactics - hitting long balls for 90 mins when they have a world class assist machine in the middle of the park. How many long balls does it take the Danish management to realise it's not working?

noodler · 12-11-2017 12:44AM

If we don't score first on Tuesday then I would really worry.

I know that seems obvious.

I just don't see how this team, in the way it's set up, could come back from going a goal down in a situation where away goals are important.

Rekop dog · 12-11-2017 12:57AM

noodler wrote: »

If we don't score first on Tuesday then I would really worry.

I know that seems obvious.

I just don't see how this team, in the way it's set up, could come back from going a goal down in a situation where away goals are important.

We've only conceded 4 in our last 10 competitive fixtures so there's a pretty decent likelihood we don't end up in that situation.

I've every faith on management based on multiple positive results against good sides that we'll scrape through in utterly unconvincing style.

TheCitizen · 12-11-2017 05:00AM

Rekop dog wrote: »

We've only conceded 4 in our last 10 competitive fixtures so there's a pretty decent likelihood we don't end up in that situation.

I've every faith on management based on multiple positive results against good sides that we'll scrape through in utterly unconvincing style.

If we win this tie that's another higher ranking team we've got the better of under MON, there's nothing unconvincing about it.

Who will blink first on Tuesday? Martin O'Neill or Age Hareide?

My money is on MON and Ireland to prevail.

blinding · 12-11-2017 06:26AM

TheCitizen wrote: »

If we win this tie that's another higher ranking team we've got the better of under MON, there's nothing unconvincing about it.

Who will blink first on Tuesday? Martin O'Neill or Age Hareide?

My money is on MON and Ireland to prevail.

Correct me if I am wrong but I thought he who blinks first in that situation was on a downer;)

We better not give them two away goals or we will have to bring on Dumbpy’s Irish / Barcelona / Real Madrid players .:eek:

OldMrBrennan83 · 12-11-2017 06:30AM

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blinding · 12-11-2017 07:09AM

Patww79 wrote: »

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Its the great football manager ( Dumby) and all his great Irish /Barcelona / Real Madrid players that I am taking the pee out of there really .

O ‘ Neill plays Anti - Football a lot of the time and its just as well that football is decided on results and not style or artistic impression because :eek:

Daryl Murphy is what he is . One of the reasons O ‘ Neill has him in the team is for set pieces ; Offensive and defensive . Sadly he is about as mobile as a dump truck ( nearly ) We could do with Shane Long in red hot form for the way we are trying to play but sadly he is going through a bad spell ( medium to long bad spell )

For us to play a whole lot differently (successfully anyway ) with that squad we would need an Ericksen / Alaba / a quality above what we currently have .

Lets say we were playing half decent football and were out of contention in groups how much interest would there be . The purists would probably be happier and living in hope but a lot of supporters would lose interest and skedaddle . The Dumbys would be having a field day and get the manager sacked .

We are definitely one really quality midfielder (probably 2 ) and also 1 or two quality forwards short of being a good squad . With Stephen Ward no spring chicken we could do with a good left back as well .

I would not advise any neutral to watch Ireland .

Lets see how we get on the next day . If we can nullify Ericksen are Denmark all that ? If they score we are going to need 2 so we certainly are going to have the option of going attacking the next day so perhaps we will see if this team can play successful attacking football .

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