I don't think it's Doherty and Duffy launching some furious vendetta against O'Shea, but it does seem symptomatic of a problem we've had since the late O'Neill era, that in general the Irish players view internationals as a pain in the hole.
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I read it as complaining about only getting 45 minutes but maybe youre right
I’d say they’re both well aware they played absolutely shite.
Anyhoo. FAO anyone who (like me) was wondering why the feck Parrott didn’t square the ball.
Anyhoo. FAO anyone who (like me) was wondering why the feck Parrott didn’t square the ball.
Borussia Dortmund interested in signing Jake O’Brien
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...-ireland-defender-jake-obrien/a842641237.html
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...-ireland-defender-jake-obrien/a842641237.html
McClean in being childish cnut shocker
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...-for-permanent-managers-role/a2051832788.html
He'll 100% be in the squad for the England game if O'Shea gets it full time
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...-for-permanent-managers-role/a2051832788.html
He'll 100% be in the squad for the England game if O'Shea gets it full time
Does he not see O'Shea making us play the exact same way?
We don't look all that hard to beat to me.
God Ronaldo is such a fecking tosser. Why isn’t he booked for that dissent?
I was just about to say I feckin hate him so much. Not a hope of a pen there ffs
I had the exact same emotion. Went one further and started a thread about it!
We might lose this battle to Tevez according to the early tallies.
How on earth is Robbie Brady playing international football?
Oh ffs 
Crap... That's in the box
Jota dives. Good to see a PL ref finally wake up to his antics
Well done, ref. Good decision.
Don’t think that’s ever happened before. He must have been asked to look at the screen to see if it was a penalty or not? They can’t make him review a free kick decision, right?
The greasy toe rag is gonn fill his boots tonight, isn’t he?
Feck sake, letting this geriatric creep rack up his stupid record against us.
Ronaldo is still an incredible finisher.
I'm annoyed I didn't get tickets for this. Would have been nice to see Ronaldo live for one last time. And hear the Siu! Seen him 3 times and no goals in either games dammit
Is this progress? This doesn’t feel like progress.
ha ha
Does anyone think the absolute weapons running our club will manage to sign Neves? He would be such an amazing signing.
Is this progress? This doesn’t feel like progress.
Still convinced Marc 'The Spoofer' Canham will hand O'Shea the job
I like the look of Cannon.
How could you possibly think that was a penalty ?
The ref gave a foul and was going to the monitor. The contact looked to be inside the box. The possibility that ref would go "nah shut up Jota, no foul" didn't even cross my mind.
Come to think of it, the only reason we got a playoff ahead of Euro 2020 was because of some bizarre Nations League thing, nothing to do with McCarthy at all.
I'm not sure I can say anything positive about this Irish side. It's grim beyond belief.
The emergence of Evan Ferguson, our goalkeeping options and centre backs (now bolstered by Jake O'Brien) are the only real plus points. There's also some eye-catching prospects in the youth teams but as ever it's a waiting game with them.
Missed this, watched the highlights. Don't know how the game went overall.
But it seems Bruno was heavily involved is almost every chance Portugal created. 3 goals Portugal scored were all lovely finishes with an element of poor defending involved.
Ireland look like they are a million miles away from even being competitive against the top teams.
But it seems Bruno was heavily involved is almost every chance Portugal created. 3 goals Portugal scored were all lovely finishes with an element of poor defending involved.
Ireland look like they are a million miles away from even being competitive against the top teams.
It's been that way for about 20 years, hasn't it? We just don't have the players.
He's completely correct.
We need to start being hard to beat and grinding out results and get our seeding up.
Otherwise we'll never qualify for anything again.
Realistically we should be reaching playoffs and qualifying for the Euros every so often.
There's the bones of a decent side there.
We're sorted for GKs and CBs for many years.
Smallbone and Cullen are decent midfielders playing at a decent level.
Ferguson, Ogbene, Smodic are good players.
There's lots of young talent that we must hope will be playing at a decent level in a couple of years. The likes of Festy, Abankwa, the 3 Albanians.
We've nearly 10 young lads in Italy and Europe right now. Maybe more.
If 3 or 4 of them end up playing at a decent level it'll supplement the current players.
If you follow our underage teams, they've been doing well for years. Nothing spectacular like the Brian Kerr era but still doing well.
Our under 21s drew with England and beat Croatia this week, albeit in friendlies.
And yet he's backed O'Shea for the job...... If Kenny hadn't of dropped him because he'd dropped down to League 2 he'd be saying sweet FA. Kenny was well within his rights to drop him once he decided to go down to League 2. Even in our current state League 1 is pushing it
I'm not sure if Kenny was right to drop him or not but I agree with his opinion that we should get back to being hard to beat.
Really we should have 3 systems of play: a low block, defensive hard to beat style for the top sides, a more expansive style for tier 2 teams and then an attacking style for weaker teams.
We need to get back to being 2nd seeds again.
The further our seeding drops, the harder it is to qualify.
I admire Kenny's ambition to play a better style of play but realistically we didn't have the players for it.
There's a reason most of our players are lower PL and Championship.