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dominicfiend

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Gareth Barry... absolutly 'mazing! Can McLaren drop him after that performance? More to the point, should he change the formula at all?

And what about the Jocks??? Despite all Scots lapping up every England failure, I'm always pleased to see them do well.
 
And what about Heskey? Who'd have thought? He and Owen look especially threatening together... Heskey holding up the ball or knocking down long passes (like that 2nd goal), Owen regaining his poise and speed. Good stuff.

Although, it must be said, the usually very dependable Berezutsky brothers (both defenders from CSKA, reigning Russian champions) were having a very bad night by their standards.

Oh, and that million dollar question: do you bring back Rooney now?!
 
RESIGN STAUNTON YOU ABSOLUTE CU*T :evil:

i'm fuming here, once again we are not in the European Championships and the blame lies firmly with that donkey Steve Staunton (and the FAI for appointing him in the first place ) just because he was a good player in his day doesn't mean he was to become a good manager and i along with thousands others were scratching their heads in disbelief when he was appointed as manager despite having NO managerial experience unless you count being assistant manager at Walsall experience.

The man basically has not got a clue about how to select a team,some of his selections were bordering on the insane,of course the players need to shoulder the blame as well, a bunch of overpaid donkeys, there was no creativity or will to win in that team, no soul at all, you could pick on one hand the amount of half decent players on the team right now, certainly no world class players.

If this clown Staunton has any decency he will do the right thing and tender his resignation before he is actually hounded out.

A massive massive dissapointment for Irish Football again.
 
Another very competent performance, Endland look balanced, poised, excellent, even weathered a mini comeback in the 2nd half.

Barry/Gerrard
Richards/Wright Phillips
Owen/Heskey

3 partnerships I would not want to break up!!!
 
jjinit said:
Richards/Wright Phillips
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Did very well in the match-up against Zhirkov, one of Russia's best (and fastest) players, and another from CSKA. They forced him back to defend quite a bit, though he got around them a few times.

SWP covered well when Richards ventured forward. Definitely a good partnership. who needs Neville?
 
i thought we were massively better again but defensively we were sh!t last night, russia created a lot of chances throughout the game, even to the extent that in the first half they looked dangerous every time they attacked.

i can think of at least half a dozen chances they could or probably should have been goals for the ruskies.
 
chewie_oo7 said:
ashley cole, you are the weakest link... goodbye
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Agreed... had a stinker.

This may ruffle a few feathers, but I thought Gerrard wasn't his usual best. Seemed like he was trying too hard. (Still pick him over Frank any day of the week).

Also Johnny, The Czech Republic are a very good team. Going to their gaff, its not a dead cert to get 3 points!
 
Jonny68 said:
RESIGN STAUNTON YOU ABSOLUTE CU*T :evil:
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Thats a bit harsh calling him that. He has had to make do with a very poor selection of players and frankly should never have been in the position anyway. As Eamon Dunphy correctly put it, the only thing Staunton is guilty of is being ambitious. Yes he doesnt have the managerial experience yet and some of his selections have been a bit questionable but the fact is we do not have the players at the moment to compete at the highest level.
Out of last nights team, I think we only had two players (Given and Dunne) who you would say could challenge to get on a worldclass team. The rest are either very poor or too young and inexperienced.
If you want to blame anyone, it has to be the FAI, but isnt that the case everytime. These guys just seem to have this perennial habit of getting everything drastically wrong.

For whats its worth, considering the team we had out there last night I thought we did well and we deserved a draw, even with 10 men. For the first 25 mins I thought we were going to get hammered but then we got into the game and looked the better team at the end of first half and during the second half.

This group was lost in Cyprus last year which is very unfortunate as I dont think this Czech team is that good. Looking at the other groups, this was an easy group. The press and everyone else will be looking for Stauntons head now and he will probably go, but in all honesty we need some new players before we can challenge again.
 
grego said:
i can think of at least half a dozen chances they could or probably should have been goals for the ruskies.
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I am unbelieveably happy you guys won by 3 goals because if it had been 1-0 I would have been forced to spend the next month listening to constant moaning about the conspiracy to keep Russia out of the Euro finals by disallowing what (according to at least a couple of UK press reports I read this morning) was a perfectly good goal :!: :?
 
I thought we played well, at a good tempo!! Its good to see those with a chance step up, but like in any Tournament, you needa strong squad, not just 11 players!! I think we have that!! Barry played really well, controlled the midfield, and used the ball simply & wisely!!
A long way away the finals, and it has to be positive that we can add the likes of Rooney Lennon Neville Lamps King to that squad!!
Maybe McClaren aint such a muppet afterall!!
 
spunkymonkey said:
Thats a bit harsh calling him that. He has had to make do with a very poor selection of players and frankly should never have been in the position anyway. As Eamon Dunphy correctly put it, the only thing Staunton is guilty of is being ambitious. Yes he doesnt have the managerial experience yet and some of his selections have been a bit questionable but the fact is we do not have the players at the moment to compete at the highest level.
Out of last nights team, I think we only had two players (Given and Dunne) who you would say could challenge to get on a worldclass team. The rest are either very poor or too young and inexperienced.
If you want to blame anyone, it has to be the FAI, but isnt that the case everytime. These guys just seem to have this perennial habit of getting everything drastically wrong.

For whats its worth, considering the team we had out there last night I thought we did well and we deserved a draw, even with 10 men. For the first 25 mins I thought we were going to get hammered but then we got into the game and looked the better team at the end of first half and during the second half.

This group was lost in Cyprus last year which is very unfortunate as I dont think this Czech team is that good. Looking at the other groups, this was an easy group. The press and everyone else will be looking for Stauntons head now and he will probably go, but in all honesty we need some new players before we can challenge again.
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Perhaps calling him a cu*t was a bit harsh but like any Irish football fan (except the pi**ed up ole ole's ah sure lets have the craic anwyay:roll:)im bitterly dissapointed that we are out of the Euro Championships and the buck lies firmly with Staunton,of course the FAI should have never appointed a man with no managerial experience,but how and ever he was given a chance and failed miserably, i don't necessarily think the group was lost in Cyprus, all we had to do was to keep on winning games and i believe we would've qualified,but utterly bizzare team selections coupled witht the fact that we lack creativity, there was no desire or will to win or any soul in the team,Richard Dunne himself an average player has been a shining light,if an average player like Dunne has been Ireland's best player you know your in trouble.

Sure at times we played well last nite but realistically only the last 10 mins of the first half and the second half in patches, the referee was a complete joke and that was never a sending off.

We can keep going over it but the facts remain we are now a poor side compared to what we before, there needs to be a massive rebuilding process in Irish Football, get rid of the dead wood (i include the FAI in that) and start from scratch, it'll be painful watching the Euro Championships again when we're not in it.
 
Surely it shows fat Frank and Gerrard simply cannot play together and should never be picked to play both central midfield spots again?

Apparently there is a bit if a divide (north/South?) amongst the squad and with some 'senior' players out injured they did look a lot more balanced, up for it, working for each other, etc.

Also shows Sven up to be the muppet he truley was...walcott instead of Heskey, No SWP, etc. (And thats not jumping on a bandwagon because they had a good game!) :lol:
 
I have to agree with Buckley here....it was a two footed challenge (with venom) and in the rule books thats a sending off. Although I wonder whether the ref was going to give him just a yellow until the Czech players got stuck into him.
I do agree the referee was a bit of a joke though as to me it looked like he thought he made a mistake with that decision and started giving everything to Ireland after that. He made very strange decsions all night.

FYI, you probably know this but he was the same ref who sent off Liam O'Brien in the match against Israel two years ago when that goalkeeper (Dudu Awat) was lucky to get out of Dublin alive. Similar situation, Liam O'Brien should only have gotten a yellow but the Israeli players surrounded the ref so he decided to give red.
 
Buckley said:
Completely objectively, and if anything I'd like to see Ireland do well because my parents are Irish Jonny, but that was a cast iron straight red.
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seriously man you cannot sit there with a straight face and say that was a sending off, even the Czech manager said it was a bad decision.8O


http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/mhcwqlojqley/

Staunton slammed the decision and he was backed up by veteran Czech boss Karel Bruckner, who described Vassaras’ decision to bring a premature end to Hunt’s night as “unnecessary”.
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