Republic of Ireland General Discussion Thread 2026

Every time you give an opinion that a team might lose its "writing them off"

Every time a team does lose its "a bottle job".

Some people even ones who watch sport all year can't actually talk about it and just spout clichés.

I wonder if Manning will pull out of the Macedonia game. Don't think our fans will give him any stick but he probably doesn't want to be the elephant in the room either.

after the night I'm sure Heimir knew it was possibly too much with the quality of players missing.

Its actually quite likely none of the subs that came on last night would have come on at all if he had a fully fit squad available. His options were slim to none.

When you go 2 nil up, the last thing you want is to give away something so cheap. But sadly that’s what happened. Silly pull.

Either way though, we simply don’t have the players to really expect World Cup qualification.

Last time we qualified we had the likes of Roy Keane, Robbie Keane, Duff, Given, Finnan, O Shea and a good few other very decent players

It's good to have a team to be proud of again tbh. Stephen Kenny nearly destroyed us, and set us back a long way.

Hopefully we can get up the rankings now and have a chance of qualifying for the Euros.

The next world cup is in Saudi, (puke).

He's definitely retiring at the end of the season.

He's fit but never plays.

I'd imagine he'll stay on at Everton as a coach. Maybe we could get him in with one of our youth teams.

Oh I think he would get some stick. His stupidly really cost us. I suspect he wont be involved though on Tuesday

It "literally" wasn't, but you're entitled to your opinion.

The 2 penalties missed by Browne and Azaz were pathetic efforts.Casual preparation before a lazy run up that you wouldnt see in your local park.

Disappointing,the penalties outcome was always a strong possibility and Heimar didn't do much preparation on it.

A home Euros on the line next time out. We have to qualify or the game here will be in a new dark place. The FAI really needs it too. Another angle to defeat yesterday is it keeps the FAI finances in a precarious state.

Not qualifying for tournament after tournament is badly hurting the game here.

We don't have enough for a world cup yet but we have enough to qualify for the Euros.

Devastating to go out on penalties. Lack of options in one or two key areas proven costly. This team has made great strides though in recent months under Hallgrimsson. No going back to the turgid football where we would barely score a single goal in most matches. I think we probably were the better team overall or at least played better football. Plenty to build on for this team and squad.

Gutted for Coleman as it was his last chance. He’ll probably retire after this dead rubber game v Macedonia on Tuesday.

Scales will start. I think he was missed. He’s not the most technical of players but he’s exactly the type you want in a battle like last night.

2 nil up after 25 minutes. It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact

Practising penalties is a bit of a myth, are you going to practice after 120 minutes of a physical demanding game, with sirens and fans cheering for you to miss. Are you going to practice with the extra knowledge of knowing you might put your team through, or out or up in the shootout. You can practice all you want but then might not be on when the penalties come around. I'm sure Smodiczs was brought on with one eye to taking a penalty, these things happen and hope he's ok. So I think people put too much into practising penalties. Saying that, if in doubt, if your legs are tired, if the nerves are kicking in, then put your boot through it and smash it down the middle…outside of who took our 5 I'm not sure who was next up, defenders all looked shot, young lad on his debut…maybe Kelliher could have taken one, but you needed him to focus on saving them…

We got loads of soft frees for barging. Plenty that shouldn't have been given.

The way I read it it's who has the higher position in qualifying and not the rankings.