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I was crying out at Hunts lack of impact.

he never got enough time!

He had enough time to pass the ball directly to the opposition 3 times.

wel thats tru.

Duff and Lawrence are better players in my opinion and did quite well saturday night in the circumstances. Hunt would be a better option than Kilbane at left back.

Duff was terrible the other nite. Never attacked sagna once. Legs are gone. Lawerence defended excellent but we need to score

He's not the player he was but still better than McGeady and Hunt. I'm a fan of Hunt's but he didn't make the most of his 10 mins saturday.

No way mate. Mcgeady can create and excite the crowd! Telling u hes the answer!

Excite the crowd? Make them pull their hair out more like. Has plenty of ability alright but plays with his head down most of the time. Doesn't produce enough relative to the amount of ball he gets on and is weak defensively.

Hes not that bad defensivly. Improved a great deal while under strachan! Playmaker this year tho!

I think you might be biased.....

Am not mate i just think hes are best bet going forward to create something for robbie and doyle!

Slow eddie are u for real laurence better than aiden no chance

McGeady might be good week-in and week-out up in Scotland

International football is a bit of a step up from that

Whens laurence good week in week out

I never said Lawrence was good

So what are you saying that about mcgeady for?

Because he does not "create and excite the crowd" nor is he "the answer"

We are awful.

He does excite the crowd in fairness your codding yourself or you dont watch him playin if you think that hes should be in the team laurence is in that team because of his dead ball skills and andy reid is far better off a dead ball than him them lads sat are not the best irish 11 trap has available to him and its a joke that nothing is done about it cailin i agree but hopefully we get something wednesday

Duff skinned Sagna with that Cruff turn so I am realy unsure what that earlier comment was about! In close games of football it can take one piece of magic like that to turn a game. I think Lawrence played well, but McGeady needs to play. He can be frustrating 90% of the time but he possesses the quality we need to hurt their defence. You need to take a chance of overhaul the deficit thats why he needs to play.

Of course. I'll be cheering them on, the style and quality of football leaves me empty though I'm afraid to say.

Whatever about Andy Reid I have no idea wtf he was up to with Steven Reid.

we should have qualified from that group simple how we have no left full is beyond me as well

I'm not sure we can say we 'should have qualified from the group'. I think we looked as solid away from home as I have ever seen us. Yet, we were terrible at home alot of the time. Poor vs Bulgaria, Montenegro and Cyprus, we were 1-0 down vs Georgia until we got a very fortunate penalty decison with about 20 minutes left. We also played against 10 Italian men for 80 minutes in Bari and needed almost every minute of the the 90 to beat Cyprus away. We got second and that was what we deserved.

I would have been delighted with a 0-0 draw on Saturday because I honestly think we have been poor to woeful the entire time we have been at croker. The pitch is too big in my opinion and it doesn't have that intimidating Landsdowne factor. Yet 1-0 is not the end of the world and if someone can stick one in then we are more than back in it. France are not great and may feel the job has been done. If we take the lead they home crowd will get on top of them.

we gave the ball away so easily in second half that it was embarrassing, cannot do that at this level..**Best is a tree, zero mobility or touch surely one of the worst strikers to ever play at international level!

Mcgeady is nothing special,doing it in the spl and doing it on the big international days are very different. i wouldnt say he is the answer. Tends to put his head down too much and lets be honest, his crossing is awful. Duffs legs are gone, another who seems to find it hard to cross the ball. He never whips them in at pace, he just seems to clip them up in the air. Lawrence i think, is a good player, however he spent alot of his time defending the last night and will probably do the same the next night if selected.

What the team is crying out for is a person who can split a defence with a 30 or 40 yard through ball or something over the top. Andy Reid and Steven Ireland are the best two players for this but thats another arguement.
Chasing the game wont suit us but even if Ireland surprise everybody and score a goal does anyone really believe we can hold on to that lead? Being realistic, we need two goals.

He treats decent Irish players like retards with his sterile, bankrupt approach to the game

38% possession at home in a World Cup playoff.

Wish he would f*ck off back to continental Europe.

Invisible Knave = Steve Staunton imo

The serious question is whether he has improved the teams performance compared to Kerr, Staunton etc...

Now Staunton was a joke so throw him away but with Kerr i see no great improvement.

One of lifes great mysteries is how Don Givens is till employed as a football coach at ANY level.

If McGeady didn't play for Celtic he would not be in the Irish team I think. Quick and can get the crowd going but overall Lawrence and Hunt are much better footballers.

Hunt is worse than Galvin on his worst day. An absolute joke of a player imo.

McGeady would be fantastic if he could finish, he could probably take on any French player but what use is that if he just ends up passing to one of them in the end.
Im delighted for Lawrence though, hes proving himself as a consistent player and with more international experience he could be very very important to us for the next campaign.

When Hunt came on against Italy he managed to do what McGeady had failed to do in his spell on the pitch- put the ball in the box. We scored from that delivery as I recall. McGeady is easily the most ineffective and frustrating player I can ever recall playing for Ireland, and yes I am including the likes of David Connolly there. The guy is useless.

andy reid is the player ireland need to be starting. not having him in the squad is a joke.

I heard some French supporters were arrested in the early hours of this morning as some of them turned up at the Irish team hotel with loud speakers singing into them !! Fcukers !!

no extra time/penalties betting option on here
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Irelande are s h it te

Steveirll 18 Nov 10:12
I heard some French supporters were arrested in the early hours of this morning as some of them turned up at the Irish team hotel with loud speakers singing into them !! Fcukers !!

Trap will never pick them again! ;)

Trapattoni and Ireland showed their quality. Even the blind are struggling not to see it.