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The Irish National team - how do you see it

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  • #32
    DSB
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    Erin Go Brath wrote: »
    we were a hairs breadth away from finishing 6th in that group

    O RLY? Thats why we finished 3 points ahead of 6th place despite not winning any of our last 5 games. This was never really a danger in the minds of anyone but the most sensationalist. We finished the campaign about as bad as we could have, and still didn't finish there.


  • #33
    estebancambias
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    Agreed Shane..Keane needs to be dropped to facilitate a new formation.


  • #34
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,770 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    estebancambias wrote: »
    Agreed Shane..Keane needs to be dropped to facilitate a new formation.

    Did you seen Keane for Spurs today?? Running around with his arms in the air shouting "Ah ref, ah ref".

    Nothing's changed there then!?

    He should not be captain of the Ireland team.


  • #35
    estebancambias
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    Yeah at half time he was going insane..all the flem coming out of his mouth...LOL.


  • #36
    Erin Go Brath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭Erin Go Brath


    DSB wrote: »
    O RLY? Thats why we finished 3 points ahead of 6th place despite not winning any of our last 5 games. This was never really a danger in the minds of anyone but the most sensationalist. We finished the campaign about as bad as we could have, and still didn't finish there.

    What has not winning any of our last 5 games got to do with it. :confused: Do you get bonus points for winning games early in the campaign or something? If we finished 3 points lower we'd be in 6th place, we'd need 10 or 11 points more to finish second. Make no mistake we were ****e, and no amount of revisionism can cover that up!


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  • #37
    DSB
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    Erin Go Brath wrote: »
    What has not winning any of our last 5 games got to do with it. :confused:

    It means there was never really a point where we were actually that close to 6th place. We got progressively closer as we went on. But never really came all that close. Its just typical Irish sensationalism. We're worse for negative sensationalism than the English are for positive.


  • #38
    pd101
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    B) - if we could field our best 11 every time

    A) - if we have to use the rest of the squad, which is the more realistic situation


  • #39
    JPA
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    We are ****e at the moment but the manager is the most important part of any team. Look at Northern Ireland as an example. They have only a few Premiership players with the rest from the Championship and even League 1.
    You just cannot underestimate the effect of the manager.
    Any international team who can field a side of players who all play in one of the top divisions in the world should be able to give a good account of themselves.
    We were a complete shambles under Staunton and his detrimental effect cannot be understated.


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