Why do ireland always blow it?

Basically, cos were sh ite. Traps done as well as he could with the average squad he's got.

We don't have the players with the technical ability to beat teams. Our team/squad is made up of journeymen pros, none of whom are Champions League standard. We are basically a 3rd tier team whose main hope is to make the playoffs and get a good draw.

Simply do not have the players, we can complain about Trap and i think the football under him has been terrible but he has done boarder line well on what he is working with. I have to laugh when you think back about Dunphy's crazy claims that we had lot of world class players.

lads wat r or chances of qualifying. wer 3.0 to and i wud be a layer of that if im honest.

If we can scrape a draw tonight and then Russia & Slovakia DON'T draw their match in October then we should get 2nd in the Group and another play-off spot

51 time scorer Robert Keane got a bit of a pasting from those clever chaps on newstalk last night.

He should have done better on Friday. Maybe he will rescue us YET AGAIN tonight.

just a pity long wasnt fit giving his start to th league

Russia are no great shakes either to be fair, could well scrape a draw,  but wouldn't bet on it.