Dunphy tells the ROI manager to grow up!

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Coming from motormouth himself, this takes the biscuit. He has been tossing his toys out of the pram forever ......... even when he's been sober/not coked up. Why do people listen to this buffoonic merchant of doom with a chip on his shoulder?

Dunno. Why do you?

He's right. Twit was being needlessly defensive.

CaptainInsano wrote: »

Eamon Dunphy insults current Ireland Team manager shocker.

He has been doing that since Eoin Hand. Non story from a serial attention seeker.

Agricola wrote: »

He is right though. You didn't see Trap getting shirty with Tony O' Donoghue in interviews and he had plenty of reason to.
They are professionals getting paid handsomely to do a job, of which dealing with media criticism is a part of.

He did lose the head a couple of times actually. But yeah, he should have been at bit more patient although I can see why he'd be mad.
Even my granny could see we were sh1te last night and she's half blind, so I'm sure O' Neill knows that it was a piss poor performance too. Don't see why we can't be grateful for the win without asking those kind of questions yet, everyone could see the problems, obviously he's going to try and fix them. Instead he's after winning the game and still coming under fire and like he said it's early days, give him a few more competitive games before we start talking about tactics and questioning him in that way.
Now he has Dunphy trying to stir up a storm just for added pressure, imagine if we had of drew the game.

Ole Ole Ole

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Isn't it time they had some younger blood on the panel?

Christ, I was waiting for this crap to start.

No. No it's not time for younger blood on the panel; depth of experience and aged wisdom is what they have and what we need.

Dunphy wants his bum chum Keane to be manager and thinks attacking O'Neil will help

Yamanoto wrote: »

Sadlier always strikes me as a bit of a know it all & Kenny Cunningham sounds like a type of industrial grinding apparatus that can't be shut off.

Sadlier does his research so he doesn't do something stupid like complainant an Argentinian defender who literally does not exist for half the tournament, or refer to the team with the best defensive record in South American qualifying as "headless chickens with no idea what defending is". I kind of like that, personally.

Billy86 wrote: »

Completely agree, he has gone rating about that before using matches. Lots of time for him as a person, he's very interesting to listen to when giving "back in the day stories about Leeds, the Irish team or famous players he played against etc. But the game passed him by a long, long time ago, and it shows that he does very little research in terms of the two teams in whatever game he is covering.

Yep, if I have to hear about honesty of effort or the halcyon days where nobody ever shirked a challenge or misplaced a pass I'll go mad.

Dunphy and Giles have about as much experience or knowledge of modern top level football as the average punter and significantly less than anybody who watches even one continental game once a blue moon. Half the time you get the impression the only football they watch is a highlights reel about 10 mins before they go live.

They've had their day. In fact the extraordinary scope they are given by RTe to call it as they see it is wasted on them, they do no research, never actually back up their analysis with anything other than vague assertions and rarely get taken to task for the erroneous drivel they spout. The new blood on The RTE panel that manage to stick around seem to become negative sycophants like whelan and houghton. The guys who present a different view point tend to never be heard of again.

They used to at least be amusing but even the trolling is tired at this stage. In an age when guys present excellent, insightful and fact based analysis online for a hobby, these guys are redundant.

I'd keep Brady though, smart, informed has an involvement in football more recent than the invention of the rubix cube.

DeanAustin wrote: »

Ah no, Giles still knows how to analyse a game.

He doesn't though. He is quite good at assessing the attributes of a player (but onmy a certain type of player) but he doesn't know much of anything about the modern game, and the sport has undergone massive changes on the pitch over the last 15 years or so.

Completely agree on everything you said about O'Neil (including be g a bit sceptical of him being named manager). He has played more or less exactly like we did yesterday through his whole career. It is a kind of dated model and not too much fun to watch, but it has also done well for him. The upside for Ireland is that we are not a very talented team as you say, so at least it can help us grind results better. But it's not going to look a lot different from Trapp's football, though the tempo may be a bit higher. People who were clamoring for MON and still expected us to come out playing free flowing, open, possession based attacking football frankly deserve the disappointment they are getting.

On the bright side, Brian Kerr is one of my favourite sports commentators around these days. Didn't like him as a pundit, but he's just complete entertainment behind the mic. Don't know if he was doing it yesterday, watched the match in the pub so wasn't focusing on the audio.