Republic of Ireland General Discussion Thread 2026

We didnt have any meaningful attacks. Our only forward didnt even stay upfield to keep the defence honest or chase a long clearance when we were defending.

Its hard to keep any good team from scoring even when youve 11 behind the ball.....and most likely to leak a goal late in the game when players are tired.

I said that about Obafemi years ago, calling him a headless chicken who didn’t know how to use his attributes. No football brains. When he was much younger. Predicted he would go down levels at clubs. I was jumped on here as some viewed Obafemi as the Messiah of Irish football.

As far as I see there is only one player with real drive and energy that Ireland has in attack. That is Ogbene. Ferguson just seems like a “nice lad” has no drive or fire in him.
In my mind the Irish team are like son in laws any father would be proud his daughter brought home. But there is no fire or determination there, just meek quiet individuals. Unless you include Coleman an auld defender but he would be out to grass in any other era. I don’t know how you make a team out of lads that look like they are going to cry in post match interviews.

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It was only luck that got us to USA ‘94, Denmark must have been still on the Carlsberg as they started their qualifying campaign with three 0-0 draws, Latvia, Lithuania and us. That cost them a place at the USA World Cup in the end. The goal that Spain got v Denmark that allowed us to get in the back door should never have been allowed, we couldn’t even beat a mediocre N Ireland on the same night.
Spain humiliated us at home also. We only picked up 3 points out of a possible 8 in the four matches v Spain and Denmark. We weren’t that good really. As I said Denmark blew it.

Anyway. Do yous think we'll win on Tuesday? At least if we do and Hungary lose we're still in it somewhat.

You never know what we will do.

The reason I was annoyed with a poster last night was that we did everything that was right last in the terms of effort. We were never taking Portugal on. We needed a game plan and to work not as hard as our opposition but harder. I was bitterly disappointed that they came so close but folks on here just wanted to tell us all how sh*t we are.

I was highly critical of the team away to Armenia due to the lack of intensity, work rate and resilience. Its was an awful performance.

I hope we don't suffer after putting in that shift last night to another flat performance.

Let's be honest we would all love to have a competitive national team to get behind.

I'm going with a positive result on Tuesday.

We are definitely the worst team in the group sad to say but we are.

Back to that ref he was a 12th player for Portugal he reffed Spurs Europa league game and got things wrong there aswell .

We should win, I don’t they’ll cope with our aerial threat …. not with that keeper anyway. They’ll pack their defence so long balls over the top is our best option. I just want us to get an early goal so they don’t grow in confidence as we become increasingly frustrated.

Yes Kew it was a good Denmark side but they thought they just had to turn up v Latvia and Lithuania in their two openers, their arrogance was their downfall and they got what they deserved.