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Starting to look like it could turn into a fight for fourth with the results and especially performances so far.

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

He took over from Stan who had a inferior panel to choose from. He also had a proper assistant manager whereas Stan's right hand man was seriously ill and never recovered.


This team is getting worse every match. We won't qualify regardless and the only reason he's staying on is because of how stupid the FAI were in giving him a premature contract renewal. These players need change instead of a stubborn past it old masochist who leaves out players who do nothing wrong.

The team played badly but it was the Germans. For me the scale of the result is most depressing and I think the players just let their heads drop seeing the quality of the opposition.

I don't have a problem with him getting a new contract. He fulfilled his job requirement and I wanted him for this campaign, regardless of the Euros. We faced three top ten sides at the Euros and another one tonight.

We're just crap, man. I think without him we would be worse. I don't see us playing much better under Mick or Coyle or whoever.

We'll be scrapping for play-off spots for a few years yet.

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

But scrapping for play-offs in a non-eye meltingly bad style of play. If you are any sort of manager at all then after narrowly beating Armenia you realize that you don't have to players for the long ball game. You do have the players for a half-decent attacking side. When they play the lone striker it's nearly always Doyle up front, who gives his all but doesn't have the physicality of Walters. Long's growth is being stunted by his lack of appearances. Remember when Trap gave him his chance and we nearly drew with Russia after being 3-0 down?

Fickle backlash I think not MNG.

Being a half-decent attacking side is great providing you are a half-decent defensive side. Ward, O'Dea, O'Shea, Coleman, St. Ledger, Dunne, Kelly. That's pretty much the defence we've got to choose from.

Central midfield? Whelan, Andrews, McCarthy, Fahey. Pretty much the options.

Okay we could attack better and maybe you could have Houlihan and Gibson in there but how is that team going to avoid being hit at the other end?

That is why we are the defensive beast that we are. One can disagree with the vision of Trap but you have to say it's gotten us somewhere. We have been in a far worse state.

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

We are no defensive beasts. Just every lucky with the standard of opposition we faced. In our last 5 competitive matches we conceded 16 goals.

And that's only being happening since the Euros. We never shipped as many goals in the past, even when they'd be played off the park by far superior opposition the scoreline would always remain respectable.

The simple fact is that any time we have played a good team in competitive matches in the past few years, we have been disposed of rather easily. Had we drawn any of the other teams in the Euro play off's, we'd have been sitting it out again.

Trap's tactics worked against the "smaller" teams, but were found out against good opposition. After that miracle against Russia, Trap should have known his luck was running out and he needed a different tactic for the better teams. He still hasnt done it and now we're getting hammered against them. Add in the fact that poxy Kazakstan were able to put it up to us and it's hard to argue that we are definitely going backwards at a rather fast pace.

That being said, I'm off to bed. Have my theory test in the morning

gnfnrhead wrote: »

The simple fact is that any time we have played a good team in competitive matches in the past few years, we have been disposed of rather easily. Had we drawn any of the other teams in the Euro play off's, we'd have been sitting it out again.

Trap's tactics worked against the "smaller" teams, but were found out against good opposition. After that miracle against Russia, Trap should have known his luck was running out and he needed a different tactic for the better teams. He still hasnt done it and now we're getting hammered against them. Add in the fact that poxy Kazakstan were able to put it up to us and it's hard to argue that we are definitely going backwards at a rather fast pace.

That being said, I'm off to bed. Have my theory test in the morning

We haven't been disposed of that easily. For 2010 qualification we got two draws against Italy should have beaten them in Bari and at home, before rattling the French in the playoff. In the past Euro campaign we only lost once to Russia 3-2 at home.

Something has happened since the Euros, the players have lost faith in Trap and his system and this is whole thing is starting to feel like the Titanic after the iceberg hit.

Good luck with the test man.

It's a glorious morning. Kinda makes me wish I owned one of the boats in the harbour here. What's everyone got planned for their weekend's then? I'm supposedn to be mixing.

gnfnrhead wrote: »

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Now a legal road user

Congrats.

CMpunked wrote: »

Well done, gnfnrhead!

(Any origin behind your username?)

It's a Guns N' Roses thing. It was in one of the cd booklets, I want to say the Live album but am too lazy to get up to check. :pac:

Furious-Red wrote: »

Hopefully i get my theory test done before x-mas . Only got the book last week

Make an account and just keep doing it over and over. You can mark anything you want for revision. It gives an explanation of the rule too in the answers. I marked any I got wrong and ended up with 84 questions marked. Went through them last night and got 71 right first time so it does work. Got the other nine first time this morning. Was delighted when I seen the real questions were a word for word match

http://www.quizglobal.com/ViewQuizByID.aspx?QuizID=161

Hashtag_HEEL wrote: »

Congrats! Remember 10 points if you open a door and a cyclist hits it

Think I might get a bike and go find some people I dont like! :pac:

10 seems awfully steep :eek:

There's a new-ish theory test now isn't there? Is it much different from the old one? I have the book about two years and never bothered to do the test so I guess I have to get the new one, yeah?