"You have to take every game... on it's.. eh.. merits... eh.. eh.." "It's Darragh" "..eh.. eh.. Bill" "Darragh" "eh.. Bill - er- Darragh" "Yeah" "If ya put... eh... eh.. the young fella..." "You mean Ronaldo? He's not young" "eh... Messi" "Ronaldo" "er- .. Ronaldo... up front... you get an extra... eh.... quality" "ok, thanks John."
The RTE player is a heap of shit, it doesn't put the analysis all together as one chunk and I couldn't even play the snippet videos because it wouldn't load, despite having just installed the latest flash player.
Eamon D is a stupid old fool. no perspective or realism when it comes to judging DK...Thinking Ireland was the only team tl blame, yes perhaps..but they were outplayed, outfought and outbattled...instead of giving DK the benefit, he talks dk down...what a fool...
The contributions from the RTE panellists were always brilliant.They gave fantastic insights and always great angles on the game.Dunphy did sometimes speak a lot of rubbish but he was never afraid to give an opinion.Analysis of football is for the most part pretty dire now.
It was hard to watch Dunphy that night, it was clear his emotions ran high and he wanted us to win so badly. And I'm beginning to believe he may be dead by the next World Cup and whether or not we're there. Just heartbreaking
Come on the Irish had to make 2 goal for a win in 2half, they had to try something.. Eriksen was just amazing! Right foot, left foot, right foot. Top Class goals!
easy to look world class when you get that sort of time on the ball...good player but he had an easy time last night got 3 free attempts and made ireland pay with every one
but they never had to work for the 3 goals he got.. ward handed him two goals on a plate first by trying to go past a player when he was deepest outfield player causeing a 3 v 2 with erikson the last player to receive the ball .. the second gift failing to control an easy ball and presenting it to erikson to score .. it was a sad joke the danes did not have to play well .. the first danish goal down to the irish team not sending two players to stop a short corner shocking stuff schoolboy error football.. all 6 goals were gifts even the irish goal was down to bad danish defending. the germans hammered ireland 6-1 years ago but that was down to good football.. this was about an irish team that choked worst way to loose a game by the way best of luck to denmark in the finals
I agree, he needed a miracle, and wes and Mcgeady to perform it, Wes well that was reasonable, but McGeady? That is too much Wes needs defenceive support. McGeady rarely deleivers anyway.
Just scrap the whole FAI, we are never going to qualify for any major tournament ever again, we haven't performed well ever, we celebrate getting to quarter finals 20 odd years ago, Darren Randolph is an amazing goalkeeper and we still got beat 5-1 that's how bad some of the players are, would be less embarrassing to not have a national football team.
Did these guys even watch the match? I'm Swedish and was cheering for Denmark but Ireland put in a great effort up until 3-1. They almost made 2-0. Once Denmark equalized 1-1 Ireland had to take some chances defensively to score because of the away goal rule. Ireland kept fighting at 2-1 but slowed down at 3-1. Denmark and Eriksen in particular was just incredibly efficient last night. Both teams put in a good effort and Ireland did well during the qualificiation. Incredible performance by Denmarrk turning around the match despite of going 0-1 down early. This was more of a case of a good performance by Denmark than a bad one by Ireland.
ireland were terrible ffs 4 of the goals were gifts.. irish team were all over the place gibraltar would have put on a better show had it not been for the goalkeeper it could have been 1-8
I agree with you about this match, except Ireland did make some bad mistakes, and also Ireland played really bad for the games against the poor teams. But yeah, the panel is too critical for me and Dunphy is an idiot.
I'm danish and I agree with this. Ireland could've closed the match with the two big chances they created after the first goal. It was both a delight and also quite scary to see the Irish team turn up with fire in their eyes. Don't think that the danish team was prepared for that. The plan was obviously to score two quick goals and then go back in defense mode. Because of the the two quick danish goals Ireland was forced into plan b which they were never comfortable with. I don't think that the scoreline tells the true story tbh.
Am scottish and am gutted for us and republic of Ireland plus northern Ireland and Wales that we never qualified with england to go to the world cup 2018 who knows maybe one day we will all be there with teams to make us aww proud
On a positive note our dire football won't be on show for the world to see and shake their heads in amazement at. Football should be somewhat entertaining should it not, you don't tune in to watch 90 mins of utter shite. Time for big changes, team like Iceland showing what can be done with a talent pool many times smaller. I wonder if Keane got the job (if he'd even want it, probably not) whether he would implement changes that O'Neill might have been reluctant to try.
Right from the KO it was plain to see Denmark's players were technically far superior. They can talk all night about right or wrong tactics but if you resort to hoofball and can't string three passes together you're always on a hiding to nothing. Until we begin to develop players with better technical and skilful attributes we'll always be also rans. The same goes for England, NI, Scotland and Wales.
Rubbish, England are in the World Cup because they deserve to be there, Ireland failed because they weren't good enough and that's because they haven't got any World Class players like Erickson.
Thing is that Ireland have been poor at underage for ten years or more now, the LOI is in a dire state while the FAI’s Chief Executive pays himself several hundred k per year. If you want change you have to demand it, but we don’t do accountability in Ireland, so I don’t expect much to change, sadly.
maybe, but it's also true that mc carthy had a far superior squad to work with. How many top tier premiership level players did we have then vs now? Its night and day
McCarthy had the best squad Ireland ever had.....if Keane a more tempered ego we could of maybe got to the semis.....but of course we will never know now!!
People wondered how ireland would fare if they had to come out and play instead of playing their usual cagey one dimensional game? Well tonite we found out - they were demolished. After a result and performance like that it would be astonishing if o'neil keeps his job. His coaching methods and managerial style are out of the ark. PS is there any chance of bbc or itv employing dunphy as a pundit during their world cup coverage - no other pundit is as brutally frank or right on the money as he is.
Dunphy is right?I wouldnt even go so far as to say hes frank,more like spewing malice unable to control his anxiety attacks.You should listen to his views on Pep Guardiola calling him average manager or some shit all because he was putting pieces together last season at Man City.Man is biased and deluded af,no sense of reasonability.AHAHAHA
Bitterly bitterly disappointed. So many things were wrong with tonight's game. O'Neill and Keane got the team selection and the tactics completely wrong. I think their time is up.
J Culley Yes there's no denying it's in bad shape right now. However, I still feel the players we do have are well capable of playing better football than we did last night. Just don't think O'Neill and Keane are getting the best out of them.
we will get up soon, ireland is the sleeping giant of football, irish folks are missed in every world cup,. best fans in the whole world better than the argentinians by a mile!!
Let me tell it like it is, Denmark; Sweden loves you. A heartfelt Congratulations! A nice addition to the whole thing is that none of the Nordic teams will face off in the groups. If one go down, we have two more. It'll be hard. It'll be gritty. But with some luck and furious vengeance any one of us might get to the playoffs. Sweden vs Denmark in the finals? What do you say? I mean, we might as well, while we're at it. We'll already be in the neighborhood, we got the football-shoes on. We might as well meet in the finals.
Id only moved to Edinburgh at the time.. Watched it with me mate and was devastated.. Stayed up a lomg time after that reflecting on it..what is it with certain managers that don't seem to care.. Martin O'Neill is one keane aswell standing over that muck that night.. We were useless and the changes he made killed us
When Roy Keane walked out of the World Cup in 2002. I wonder did he think 16 years later we are still not there. A World Cup we would have went a long way if he just played.
You're confusing "would" with might. After all the outrage over him leaving, the reason why he left got completely buried and that reason has had further reaching implications than maybe doing slightly better in a single tournament ever would have . We have an unprofessional and incompetent FA and" a sure we did great, we turned up and had a bit of craic" small nation mentality and he was right. We will never progress as a football nation, because we lack ambition. We prioritize great memories and let rose tinted nostalgia cover over the cracks of mediocrity time and time again. It started with Jack and it hasn't stopped since.
I'm german and saw the game with neutral eyes. I don't want to say that Ireland was better but Denmark had very much luck with their first two goals. And after that Ireland had to play much more offensiv and so they got three more goals. Without Denmark's luck the game could have ended the other way, so the Irish Players need not worry so much. So now good luck to Denmark for the World Cup.
Pit A. I get you think the first goal was kinda lucky since he had a bad touch on it, but i cant see how the second goal was lucky at all? If anything this was an error from ireland defence and denmark took advantage of it. Good finish from eriksen aswell.
always liked Jack as a character, but he's the worst thing that ever happened to us. He created the template for the mediocrity, lack of ambition and emphasis on the result on any given day over the long term picture, that still permeates every area of Irish football to this very day. Under Jack we didn't play the game any different to how we did under Trap or do now under MON and with respect to Jack, he had much much better players than either of the latter two did, to the point where he could have undeniably played better football and got similar or shock horror even better results. As always though with Irish football, scraping a few good results over the years and creating some nice memories is always enough and the bigger picture never get's looked at. Jack was involved in more of those memories than perhaps anyone else in our history, so therefor perspective goes out the window, he's considered an infallible deity and anyone who questions this suffers death by crushing public disapproval. I mean forget Wes Hoolahan and his troubles, Liam Brady was a good enough playmaker for Juventus, one of the few Irish footballers who for a time could have been classed as being truly top level, but he couldn't get near a Jack Charlton team, because he had ambitions to actually play football and according to the likes of Jack, Trap, Mon and large sections of the Irish public, we as a nation are just not good enough to do that, not then, not now and as a consequence likely not ever. What people fail (or choose) not to remember is that the Jack era was the same stone age long ball tactics and it was just as dire to watch most of time and anyone who watched those games and doesn't acknowledge that is just being disingenuous, but hey, rose tinted glasses and all that. We've produced some great footballers in this country over the years and I'm sure we'll produce many more, but I fear they will always be let down by a lack of ambition and small nation mentality that for some reason is built into our footballing DNA The Irish rugby team produce a world beater in O'Driscoll and it goes from strength to strength producing great players year in year out, getting more and more professional and showing more and more ambition every year until we're at a point where we fear no one and expect to beat the best. Arguably the best footballer we've produced in the last 25 years in Roy Keane calls out our lack of ambition/small nation mentality and half the country disowns him, because he let the nation down by picking up his ball and going home and of course the issue itself becomes irrelevant, because we might of done better in that one football tournament, meanwhile 15 years later and nothings changed. Look at Jack Byrne for instance, a player of great potential and ambition. He says he feels he's as good as anyone in the Irish senior team and how does MON respond? By saying well I'm sure some of the senior players will give him a good kicking for that and never mentioning him again. I mean how dare he have the gall to think he's as talented as the likes of Glenn Whelan. What he needs is to have the confidence and ambition kicked out of him. I'm not saying he would achieve as much as BOD did in rugby, but at least he has the ambition to. Irish rugby might be in a completely different place to day, if when BOD came along the manager told the senior players to go out and physically hurt him simply because he thought he was good. This attitude is typical of Irish football and it sickens me. We will not progress as a football nation, because we have no ambition to and that's just the truth.. Anyway watch me get slammed in the replies for speaking the truth and daring to throw water on the fires of peoples nostalgia. "we don't have the players" "we tried to play tonight and look what happened" ect ect ect.
you also forgot that the best fans in the world don't support their own football clubs, if they did those clubs would have the resources to develop the youth, but no they expect another country to do it for us. they will say that the league is shit and not worth paying the money to go see, but have spent the past ten years paying money to watch caveman stuff with the national team the mental gymnastics is mind boggling. the irony is Dundalk are much better value for money.
Zim Zimma I cannot let these comments go unchallenged. Big jack is the problem? Why? The man is a legend. He got Ireland to our 1st ever tournament at euro '88 and came within 10 minutes of the semi-final. He got Ireland to the quarter final of the world cup in 1990 and to the last 16 of USA '94. Under eoin hand Ireland lost 7-0 to Brazil. Jack's team beat them 1-0. In 1985 Denmark then as now hammered Ireland to qualify for the world cup. When Jack was in charge he qualified for the world cup at Denmark's expense when they were the European champions. Liam Brady played for Ireland under jack Charlton. In fact he scored against both Belgium and Brazil when Jack was the manager. The reason why he lost his place in the team was because old age had caught up with him. When eoin hand was in charge Brady, lawrenson, O'Leary, Stapleton, Whelan, Galvin and sheedy were all at their peak and Ireland played an expansive game and Ireland never qualified for anything. Jack lost these classy players within a few years and he had to inject fresh talent into the squad. He also made Ireland hard to beat. Ireland went 6 years without defeat at home under him. Ireland beat teams like Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal, all strong teams. The success of jack resulted in many Irish kids taking up football as their sport too. Jack resigned in 1995. His successor mick McCarthy changed the style of play to a passing game. Jack cannot be blamed for any mistakes made by his successors.
You've proven the majority of my points. Firstly "Big jack is the problem? Why? The man is a legend." and then you've listed a lot of results and memories. The point from my original post was, "As always though with Irish football, scraping a few good results over the years and creating some nice memories is always enough and the bigger picture never get's looked at. Jack was involved in more of those memories than perhaps anyone else in our history, so therefor perspective goes out the window, he's considered an infallible deity and anyone who questions this suffers death by crushing public disapproval." Speaks for itself really I dared question the deity and you've accused me of blasphemy. Let's look at the results argument. Martin O'Neill has taken us further than we've ever been at the Euros's and was one game away from taking us to the world cup, we beat the world champions Germany and we beat the second most successful international nation of all time Italy. By your logic Martin is not quite there yet, but must surely be approaching legend status for this no? Surely if we had got to the world cup and maybe knicked a result or two, legend status for you and large sections of Irish fans would have been assured, but his luck ran out, he fell at the final hurdle and with the prospect of no memories to create, people are seeing his approach for what it is, negative and ambitionless and there in lies the problem. We have a small nation mentality, we only care about the bigger picture when the ends fail to justify the means. Which doesn't take much to do, because again we lack ambition. It doesn't take one iota of tactical noose to park 11 players in your own half and defend zonally and pray for a goal on the counter attack, a Sunday league manager could set a team up that way. When it's successful as it has been for Martin on occasion you have to ask, where does luck factor in on a given day or with results elsewhere going our way in terms of a group? Ask yourself this, did it work because of him or in spite of him? You can't be relying on the likes of Scotland to capitulate in every qualification campaign. Inevitably though one dimensional negatively and playing not to get beat always gets found out, as it has for Martin, did for Trap and I'm sorry to break this to you, did for Jack to. It's clear as day if you go back and watch the games again, but several players and even Jack himself have publicly stated numerous times that Jacks strategy was to press press press and when you win it back, kick the ball into the corners and press some more and try and force mistakes. When in possession they swung balls into the box from anywhere and tried to win the second ball or again hope for a mistake. The only difference between that and what Martin does is Martins team don't press as much and Jack had better players who were more consistent at implementing the strategy. What you failed to mention when you started spouting off results, is the failure to break teams with players of less talent down, because of there being no plan B other than these tactics, again no different from Martin O'Neill or Trap. In the world cup the likes of Egypt in 1990 and Norway in 1994 spring to mind. In qualification for 1990 goalless draws with the likes of the North and Hungary, narrow painful to watch wins against a bunch of taxi drivers from Malta. Again in 1994 narrow 1-0 win in a god awful game against Lithuania. While some I'm sure would make a case for Trap and Mon not having the players to open up and blow the lesser nations away (personally I don't buy it) even the biggest pessimist would be hard pressed to say Jack didn't have the players to do so, but yet he didn't, because he had no ambition to. Only he could say why, but logic would suggest that he felt we weren't good enough. Judging by your assertion that Eoin Hand played a more expansive game and failed, am I to believe that you also feel this way? Personally I think that's an absolute cop out on a number of levels. Firstly you're working under the assumption that a team has to play one way or another, for example teams in the lower leagues of English football prove this to be false on a weekly basis, let alone international teams. Good managers at every level set their teams up differently every game depending on the opposition, they don't just set their teams out to play one way in every single game and hope for the best like MON,Jack and Trap did. Secondly just because Hand tried to play more expansive and failed that somehow means that every group of Irish players from then until the end of time is incapable of doing so, including as you said yourself the fresh talent that Jack put into the team? Come on! Also let's be realistic here, more expansive? it was the late 70's and early 80's, every team in Britain and Ireland, played 4-4-2, some teams hoofed it and some teams passed it. It was the tactical dark ages, things have moved on. Never mind Pep Guardiola, the likes of Chris Hughton or even Stephen Kenny's application of a more expansive game would make Eoin Hand's or god forgive me for saying, Jack Charltons's, interpretation of an expansive game look like checkers to their chess. I stand by what I said, we will never progress as a football nation, because we have no ambition to. Our football culture is stuck in the stone age and we have small nation mentality that was ingrained in us by Jack Charltons historically relative period of success. Being "hard to beat," put em under pressure and all that other nonsense is the only template for success and therefor attempts to do anything else that end in failure will be met with cries of we're not good enough and a swift revert to type. Progress takes time, if we start focusing on the long term picture and getting the team to try and play football, to go out and at least attempt to win games and not just be hard to beat and hope we get lucky, this is what will actually filter down to the next generations. Look how much Georgia....fucking Georgia have improved by attempting to play football, which we are well capable of despite what some people would tell you. Yes we might fail to qualify for several tournaments, but we invariably do that anyway, so why not attempt to create an environment that when we do get there it won't be, because of dogged determination and a bit of luck, but rather our ability to go out and win games rather than just survive them.
It appears we have a very different outlook on things. I stand by everything I said and feel my points still stand. We'll have to agree to disagree I suppose
bardo0007 Problem is not the players Problem is manager Martin O'Neill who tells players to play goofy longball goofball! O'Neill as a coach makes Fred Flintstone looks like a tactical genius! Ireland if you want to get respect in future start by sacking O'Neill who belongs in 5 million years B.C. and bring in a modern professional passing and pressing coach! FAI if you keep O'Neill then prepare for a lot More pain.
All this talk about mistakes at the first Danish goal. Have a look at the poxy defending by Nikolaj Jørgensen, setting up the Ireland goal. Mistakes happen and they are punished. Flawless teams would never have any goals scored against them. The scoreline of 5-1 was perhaps a bit too much, but Denmark were clearly the better side.
As an Irish fan I am of course gutted, but the best team won. Ireland has some good players but overall we were 'exposed' by an excellent Denmark team. We did very well to get this far but were the beaten by the best team on the night. If you have a player that you can field on such an important night that scores a hat-trick away, your team has the ultimate differentiator, and we don't have an Erikson since Robbie Keane retired. It's a pity we won't be there to share a beer with their fans, but that's football. Now Ireland must pick themselves up and plan for the future. Congratulations Denmark and best of luck in Russia.
Jesus I was gutted. Taking off Meyler and Arter at HT effectively ended the game because there was no one left that could take the ball from the Danes. It was so easy for them. We couldn't get near them. Tactics, decisions and mistakes aside we just don't have the players. Murphy and Long have a couple of goals between them this year.. The Danes technical ability is far superior. The Irish will always give everything they have but it'll only get you so far... It's the hope that kills us. Fair play to Denmark though. Just gutted. #COYBIG 🇮🇪
Came up in my feed today and decided to have a look but how bad was the team that oneill put out.How cud u not start long uptop one of our best strikers and he was playing in the pl.Not starting hoolahan was mad aswell.Bad decisions
I wouldn't really call it a humiliation. We're just not good enough. We don't have the quality. people can talk about tactics all day long, but realistically we just don't have the players and we're not producing any.
I take your point about population size, but regardless of that, they're just better. Ireland don't have a player like Eriksen. If we did have even one player at that level who could create a moment of magic, then we things could be different. If we'd lost to San Marino for example...I'd definitely be humiliated.
The thing is, if he hadn't put on those attacking players, it might've stayed 2 - 1 and it might've looked less humiliating but it was also less likely that he would've won, by making the gamble he might've got a goal back or he might've let in 3 more, that's the gamble. The scoreline doesn't really tell everything.
Patrick Doherty I remember players like Ronnie Whelan, john Aldridge, ray Houghton,pat Bonner,Kevin sheedy,mark lawerson,Roy Keane,Paul McGrath... Why can't Ireland produce players like that now?
More supporters go to one Republic of Ireland game than all the league of Ireland fixtures in a weekend. Can we really expect to have such high expectations?
We gave Erikenson for too much space and the fact we never truly believed we could beat them in Denmark shot us in the foot. O'Neill was a great manager at Celtic and Villa and I had big respect for him but since then his style of play is stone age inept tactics. Regardless of your squad you have to think positively and I don't think we ever do in the national team. Look at smaller nations Iceland Wales huge success in tournaments recently it shows it can be done we are too afraid to play shows something is wrong. I also read somewhere that Iceland with a population of 300,000 spends more on football then Ireland it's a disgrace the mentality need changing in Irish football from grass roots level instead of our hoofball. The fai are too corrupt and it is showing in our domestic league and national team no top players coming through anymore. Fai need to get the finger out and train kids and young coaches from young age to play the game the way it should be played but with scumbags like Delaney in charge future looks bleak.
It was men against boys. The problem is they have the wrong O'Neill in charge of the team. It's a wonder he didn't say his team was astonishingly brilliant... LOL
Been trying to get an answer from the Irish people without luck so I'll try here as well.. :) Can someone please explain how Irish fans got the idea that Denmark is a bad team or that the two teams are "equal on paper" or whatever? I've seen it on several videos talking about the game between Ireland and Denmark and I don't get it. It seems like Irish people only knew about Eriksen and Schmeichel ahead of the game. I mean, look at the Danish team... You probably know that Schmeichel is a fairly good GK I would imagine. Christensen - Right back is a young talent from Chelsea who was loaned out to Gladbach and managed to get 62 Bundesliga games while there. He's only 21. Larsen - Left back from Udinese in Serie A. Central back Kjær is playing in Sevilla (prev. Fenerbahce, Lille, Roma etc), and Bjelland is playing for Brentford and previously spent several seasons in FC Twente. We're lacking in that position atm. but he's alright. The three people on the midfield are Eriksen (You know him) and two absolute workhorses with Bundesliga experience (Delaney is still playing there now, while Kvist moved back to Denmark as he got older). Up front there's Nicolai Jørgensen, last year's top scorer in Eredivisie who helped Feyenoord win the league title for the first time in ages. Also came second in assists. Sisto who's leading the assist rankings in La Liga for Celta. Yussuf Poulsen who's got 130+ games for RB Leipzig in Germany at age 23. Finished second in the Bundesliga last season. On the bench there's Mike Jensen (Captain for Rosenborg) and Bendtner (Top scorer in Norway for Rosenborg) who both helped their team knock Ajax out of Europe recently. There's Lasse Schöne who's the vice-captain of Ajax with more than 150 games for the club, Braithwaite from Middlesbrough (130+ games for Toulouse in France), Lerager from Bordeaux, Cornelius from Atalanta, Lössl and "Zanka" Jørgensen from Huddersfield, Vestergaard from Gladbach, Knudsen from Ipswich, Ankersen from FC Copenhagen (last years champions) and Rønnow from Brøndby IF (currently looking like favorites for the title this year.) who's expected to be picked up by a bigger club in one of the coming transfer windows. Talented young keeper. Denmark has other players from La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Eredivisie etc. who weren't even called up for these two games. Most of Ireland's team are Championship players (And quite a few "old" and "slow" ones) and they're playing against a team representing Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Eredivisie etc. and people still make it sound like Ireland should be expected to win?! How do people even see it as a "close one" on paper? Talk about having high expectations for your team. To me Denmark should have won both matches without much trouble, and the 0-0 in Denmark was most certainly not seen as a "decent result" or whatever by the Danes. It was a disaster. The first game in Denmark was the shocking one honestly, not the second one in Ireland.
A good analysis I can't talk for everyone but I thought the only chance Ireland had was to defend after taking the lead. Before the game I thought if Denmark scored even once then that would be the end of it. There is no doubt the better team won. I can remember Denmark beating Ireland easily in 1985 to qualify for the world cup and I just hope Ireland respond in the same way now.
There's no one doubting the difference in class between the Danish and Irish sides but a bunch of stars doesn't always a team make (look at the many failed attempts of brilliant Argentinian squads before this year) and the fact that we got a draw in Denmark and were then playing you at home bolstered our confidence, hopes and belief. It would be a very boring game if the better team always won, thankfully that doesn't always happen. I mean compare Morocco to the talents of Spain and Portugal in the world cup just gone by, yet Morocco knocked them both out and got to the semi finals.
organised defence>>>>> last night there was none.. team was all over the shop.. first goal from a short corner told everything one irish player came out to take on two danes would not see that at non league level
lknow about Bloody Sunday, (for which the UK govt has formally apologised) and about Dresden and Coventry, Hiroshima, Warsaw. The Luftwaffe also bombed Dublin, repeatedly. It goes on and on. Most of us weren't even alive in 1972 for heaven's sake. Oh just realised. Danegeld. Bloody Vikings. Come on boys in green!
mike joyce Yeah and you crowd won't do much better either. Plus ur fans are gonna riot as usual.. ENGLAND play kick and rush football, are tactically inept and just athletes. Enjoy ur world cup. You'll need it. .!😄
mike england are shit as well and you know it you always had some of the worlds greatest players but you get no where you were knocked out by iceland the last time maybe it will be another shit teams that knocks you out it wont be the irish cause that shit team is already out
joycer denmark would beat england no problem as england has no balls they are gonna get no where in the world cup .they have great players but you need balls which is what english teams have never had since the 1960s they have no hope.
Think we have proved we are just the better team, we were at the time and we have proved it since. While Ireland have proved since that they are just not really a good enough team. Struggles to score against even the weakest team.
Martin O'Neill is the Fred Flinstone of international soccer coaching! The failure is 100% with O'Neill not the players! If players can't accurately measure long passes then for goodness sake play much shorter passes!
Completely agree he has to go. He has made the most baffling decisions throughout his reign time and time again, not just last night, in pretty much every game. Look at the first leg for example. Can anyone explain the logic of playing O'Dowda a championship WINGER with 6 caps in a holding midfield role in the most crucial game of the campaign? He just makes it up as he goes along, there's no rhyme or reason to anything. It just seems to be well this might work and if it does I'll look like a genius and if it doesn't well I'll just fall back on our small nation mentality bullshit and say we did very well to be in this position we tried our best, were unlucky tonight and then boast about some ride your luck 1-0 win we had against a nation higher than us in the rankings. He's so arrogant and his mentality belongs in a different era and not just tactically. Remember when Jack Byrne was doing well on loan and looked like pretty much our only genuinely promising player coming through? He trains with the senior team and says I feel I'm as good as any of the senior players and what's MON's response? "Well I'm sure some of the senior players will give him a good kicking in training" and then dropping him back to the under 21's and never speaking about him again. He actually suggested that a bunch of physically stronger journeymen should literally kick the ambition out of a teenager for the crime of showing a bit of confidence! He needs to go and a large section of the Irish public need stop letting the odd "nice memory" paper over the cracks of continuing mediocrity. We'll never progress as a football nation, unless we gain some ambition to and that goes right through from the FAI all the way down to large sections of our football public.
I ALWAYS loved listening to Giles & Dunphy is always worth watching/listening
"You have to take every game... on it's.. eh.. merits... eh.. eh.."
"It's Darragh"
"..eh.. eh.. Bill"
"Darragh"
"eh.. Bill - er- Darragh"
"Yeah"
"If ya put... eh... eh.. the young fella..."
"You mean Ronaldo? He's not young"
"eh... Messi"
"Ronaldo"
"er- .. Ronaldo... up front... you get an extra... eh.... quality"
"ok, thanks John."
@@mickmickymick6927... Pr1ck mick
Really appreciate the great uploads. Lifesaver when living overseas. Much appreciated. Great channel.
The RTE player is a heap of shit, it doesn't put the analysis all together as one chunk and I couldn't even play the snippet videos because it wouldn't load, despite having just installed the latest flash player.
Rob liddle left his wife and ran away with a young one
Ffs !! Lol !!!
Eamon Dunphy is paid to have an opinion. He's not afraid to be blunt/dramatic. He CAN be wrong but he always gives an interesting angle
No shit
@@Eoin-gg9tz yes shit
@@stjimmy1642 good one
Yes shit. He’s right. Too many pundits are afraid to criticise. Dunphy says it how it is, as does Roy Keane. Legends
He's never interested in another's opinion as he continually interrupts.
Eamon Dunphy brilliant anaylsis🙌
Eamon D is a stupid old fool. no perspective or realism when it comes to judging DK...Thinking Ireland was the only team tl blame, yes perhaps..but they were outplayed, outfought and outbattled...instead of giving DK the benefit, he talks dk down...what a fool...
If wes hoolahan starts both games we go to the world cup
Love to Eire from Denmark.
The contributions from the RTE panellists were always brilliant.They gave fantastic insights and always great angles on the game.Dunphy did sometimes speak a lot of rubbish but he was never afraid to give an opinion.Analysis of football is for the most part pretty dire now.
Beginning of heartache
John Giles was spinning in his grave at this result. And he isn’t even dead.
It was hard to watch Dunphy that night, it was clear his emotions ran high and he wanted us to win so badly. And I'm beginning to believe he may be dead by the next World Cup and whether or not we're there. Just heartbreaking
He'll be dead by the time Eire qualify again, and so will I
when you consider it has been 30 years since the last world cup everyone who is an irish fan suffered a lot that night
@@mrmc2465 it’s been 19 years 2002 we lost on penalties to Spain?
@@mrmc2465 2002, what are you bullshiteing about
Dunphy is still here, baby.
Come on the Irish had to make 2 goal for a win in 2half, they had to try something.. Eriksen was just amazing! Right foot, left foot, right foot. Top Class goals!
ODIN'S Ø no doubt about that, but to take off Meyler and Arter was suicidal
5-1 or 2-1... both scorelines lead to the same outcome so why not gamble? In the end it backfired but it’s better than wondering what might have been.
easy to look world class when you get that sort of time on the ball...good player but he had an easy time last night got 3 free attempts and made ireland pay with every one
but they never had to work for the 3 goals he got.. ward handed him two goals on a plate first by trying to go past a player when he was deepest outfield player causeing a 3 v 2 with erikson the last player to receive the ball ..
the second gift failing to control an easy ball and presenting it to erikson to score ..
it was a sad joke the danes did not have to play well ..
the first danish goal down to the irish team not sending two players to stop a short corner shocking stuff schoolboy error football..
all 6 goals were gifts even the irish goal was down to bad danish defending.
the germans hammered ireland 6-1 years ago but that was down to good football..
this was about an irish team that choked worst way to loose a game
by the way best of luck to denmark in the finals
I agree, he needed a miracle, and wes and Mcgeady to perform it, Wes well that was reasonable, but McGeady?
That is too much Wes needs defenceive support. McGeady rarely deleivers anyway.
Can only bring myself to watch this now. Great TV. Again thank you for your regular uploads. All relevant
Basically we ain’t got the talent at international level in soccer
The far more technically superior side, all very capable on the ball, won.
Irish football will be in the gutter for 20yrs I'm afraid.......thats our reality.
In 2021 it’s really not looking good we’ve reached an embarrassing low
16 left to go
Just scrap the whole FAI, we are never going to qualify for any major tournament ever again, we haven't performed well ever, we celebrate getting to quarter finals 20 odd years ago, Darren Randolph is an amazing goalkeeper and we still got beat 5-1 that's how bad some of the players are, would be less embarrassing to not have a national football team.
You were fairly prescient with that comment :(
I agree with them completely on the half-time subs, they should have kept Meyler on instead of McGeady and swapped Wes for Arter.
Did these guys even watch the match? I'm Swedish and was cheering for Denmark but Ireland put in a great effort up until 3-1. They almost made 2-0. Once Denmark equalized 1-1 Ireland had to take some chances defensively to score because of the away goal rule. Ireland kept fighting at 2-1 but slowed down at 3-1. Denmark and Eriksen in particular was just incredibly efficient last night. Both teams put in a good effort and Ireland did well during the qualificiation. Incredible performance by Denmarrk turning around the match despite of going 0-1 down early. This was more of a case of a good performance by Denmark than a bad one by Ireland.
ireland were terrible ffs 4 of the goals were gifts.. irish team were all over the place gibraltar would have put on a better show had it not been for the goalkeeper it could have been 1-8
I agree with you about this match, except Ireland did make some bad mistakes, and also Ireland played really bad for the games against the poor teams. But yeah, the panel is too critical for me and Dunphy is an idiot.
I'm danish and I agree with this. Ireland could've closed the match with the two big chances they created after the first goal. It was both a delight and also quite scary to see the Irish team turn up with fire in their eyes. Don't think that the danish team was prepared for that. The plan was obviously to score two quick goals and then go back in defense mode.
Because of the the two quick danish goals Ireland was forced into plan b which they were never comfortable with. I don't think that the scoreline tells the true story tbh.
O'Neill made a balls of it taking off 2 holders giving eriksen the freedom of lansdowne..eriksen must have been rubbing his hands coming back out
Ireland have done extremely well for a team that simply lacks world class quality...
You'd never have thought that Liam Brady would have ended up looking like a football club chairman, apart from an expert footballer's brain.
You must of been up all night thinking of that comment
Well done Denmark you were the better team. Good luck at the world cup!
Top man for posting this so quick. I actually enjoy listening/watching quality analysis & controversial opinions from the panel.
I like it when the bloke in the middle shuts the host up by bringing some reality into the conversation at 26:00
Wish you Irish had a decent/ great team - you fans deserve it
Why do they deserve it?
@@brooklyniron1999 for taking so much crap over the years
@@brooklyniron1999 cos we've the best fans in the world.
@phuckweed best? No chance. Awful fans
Well done Denmark deserved to go through
Wes should have started in Copenhagen when Denmark had to go for a result.
Am scottish and am gutted for us and republic of Ireland plus northern Ireland and Wales that we never qualified with england to go to the world cup 2018 who knows maybe one day we will all be there with teams to make us aww proud
On a positive note our dire football won't be on show for the world to see and shake their heads in amazement at. Football should be somewhat entertaining should it not, you don't tune in to watch 90 mins of utter shite. Time for big changes, team like Iceland showing what can be done with a talent pool many times smaller. I wonder if Keane got the job (if he'd even want it, probably not) whether he would implement changes that O'Neill might have been reluctant to try.
Right from the KO it was plain to see Denmark's players were technically far superior. They can talk all night about right or wrong tactics but if you resort to hoofball and can't string three passes together you're always on a hiding to nothing. Until we begin to develop players with better technical and skilful attributes we'll always be also rans. The same goes for England, NI, Scotland and Wales.
Why do you keep trying to drag the rest of us down with you? Speak for yourselves ffs
Dafydd Williams because you're all shite
Rubbish, England are in the World Cup because they deserve to be there, Ireland failed because they weren't good enough and that's because they haven't got any World Class players like Erickson.
Are you usually so polite ?? !!
I wasn't intending to be polite I was just telling the truth and sometimes that hurts.
Roy Keane brings fuck all to the table.
I think these pundits are excellent!!!
It started in the qualifying campaign the points we dropped against Georgia away and Wales at home
I like how the best players in the Ireland team are both in the championship and both from the same team lol
Thing is that Ireland have been poor at underage for ten years or more now, the LOI is in a dire state while the FAI’s Chief Executive pays himself several hundred k per year. If you want change you have to demand it, but we don’t do accountability in Ireland, so I don’t expect much to change, sadly.
Four years on and what has changed? Nowt.
Maybe Mick McCarthy wasn’t the tactical mug Roy Keane painted him as after all.
maybe, but it's also true that mc carthy had a far superior squad to work with. How many top tier premiership level players did we have then vs now? Its night and day
McCarthy had the best squad Ireland ever had.....if Keane a more tempered ego we could of maybe got to the semis.....but of course we will never know now!!
Dunphy also claimed he was a tactical mug, notice the pattern with Dunphy with every irish manager.
Colin O'Riordan no he didnt jack charlton had.
No, he was just a wanker.
People wondered how ireland would fare if they had to come out and play instead of playing their usual cagey one dimensional game? Well tonite we found out - they were demolished. After a result and performance like that it would be astonishing if o'neil keeps his job. His coaching methods and managerial style are out of the ark. PS is there any chance of bbc or itv employing dunphy as a pundit during their world cup coverage - no other pundit is as brutally frank or right on the money as he is.
well he played 23 times for his country - a lot of players dont get to play for their country once.
O'neill is not the issue its the players they are shite
Dunphy is right?I wouldnt even go so far as to say hes frank,more like spewing malice unable to control his anxiety attacks.You should listen to his views on Pep Guardiola calling him average manager or some shit all because he was putting pieces together last season at Man City.Man is biased and deluded af,no sense of reasonability.AHAHAHA
Leigh Richards i
We call it parking the bus. Mourinho is usually successful implementation this tactic. But Ireland lack quality players I think. Or prioritize poorly.
Was this Dunphy’s last ireland game on RTE?
Bitterly bitterly disappointed. So many things were wrong with tonight's game. O'Neill and Keane got the team selection and the tactics completely wrong. I think their time is up.
J Culley Yes there's no denying it's in bad shape right now. However, I still feel the players we do have are well capable of playing better football than we did last night. Just don't think O'Neill and Keane are getting the best out of them.
J Culley yeah totally agree. Heartbreaking to admit it.
4 years later and we are still shite
sadly yes.. even worse than back then :-|
we will get up soon, ireland is the sleeping giant of football, irish folks are missed in every world cup,. best fans in the whole world better than the argentinians by a mile!!
Let me tell it like it is, Denmark; Sweden loves you.
A heartfelt Congratulations! A nice addition to the whole thing is that none of the Nordic teams will face off in the groups. If one go down, we have two more. It'll be hard. It'll be gritty. But with some luck and furious vengeance any one of us might get to the playoffs.
Sweden vs Denmark in the finals?
What do you say? I mean, we might as well, while we're at it. We'll already be in the neighborhood, we got the football-shoes on. We might as well meet in the finals.
fuck you and fuck sweden islam is shit
Well, that was a relevant comment 😂
We are still muck
Id only moved to Edinburgh at the time.. Watched it with me mate and was devastated.. Stayed up a lomg time after that reflecting on it..what is it with certain managers that don't seem to care.. Martin O'Neill is one keane aswell standing over that muck that night.. We were useless and the changes he made killed us
When Roy Keane walked out of the World Cup in 2002. I wonder did he think 16 years later we are still not there. A World Cup we would have went a long way if he just played.
You're confusing "would" with might. After all the outrage over him leaving, the reason why he left got completely buried and that reason has had further reaching implications than maybe doing slightly better in a single tournament ever would have . We have an unprofessional and incompetent FA and" a sure we did great, we turned up and had a bit of craic" small nation mentality and he was right. We will never progress as a football nation, because we lack ambition. We prioritize great memories and let rose tinted nostalgia cover over the cracks of mediocrity time and time again. It started with Jack and it hasn't stopped since.
John Brett He's a arrogant arse.
Maybe he is, but why does it matter? He was right.
He was asked to leave.
You ignorant shite. He didn't fucking walk out .. he was sent home.
We need robbie keane
I'm german and saw the game with neutral eyes.
I don't want to say that Ireland was better but Denmark
had very much luck with their first two goals. And after that
Ireland had to play much more offensiv and so they got
three more goals.
Without Denmark's luck the game could have ended the other way,
so the Irish Players need not worry so much.
So now good luck to Denmark for the World Cup.
Pit A. I get you think the first goal was kinda lucky since he had a bad touch on it, but i cant see how the second goal was lucky at all? If anything this was an error from ireland defence and denmark took advantage of it. Good finish from eriksen aswell.
Really believed we could do it when Duffy scored #COYBIG
It's okay lumping it into the box when you have Niall Quinn
always liked Jack as a character, but he's the worst thing that ever happened to us. He created the template for the mediocrity, lack of ambition and emphasis on the result on any given day over the long term picture, that still permeates every area of Irish football to this very day. Under Jack we didn't play the game any different to how we did under Trap or do now under MON and with respect to Jack, he had much much better players than either of the latter two did, to the point where he could have undeniably played better football and got similar or shock horror even better results.
As always though with Irish football, scraping a few good results over the years and creating some nice memories is always enough and the bigger picture never get's looked at. Jack was involved in more of those memories than perhaps anyone else in our history, so therefor perspective goes out the window, he's considered an infallible deity and anyone who questions this suffers death by crushing public disapproval.
I mean forget Wes Hoolahan and his troubles, Liam Brady was a good enough playmaker for Juventus, one of the few Irish footballers who for a time could have been classed as being truly top level, but he couldn't get near a Jack Charlton team, because he had ambitions to actually play football and according to the likes of Jack, Trap, Mon and large sections of the Irish public, we as a nation are just not good enough to do that, not then, not now and as a consequence likely not ever.
What people fail (or choose) not to remember is that the Jack era was the same stone age long ball tactics and it was just as dire to watch most of time and anyone who watched those games and doesn't acknowledge that is just being disingenuous, but hey, rose tinted glasses and all that. We've produced some great footballers in this country over the years and I'm sure we'll produce many more, but I fear they will always be let down by a lack of ambition and small nation mentality that for some reason is built into our footballing DNA
The Irish rugby team produce a world beater in O'Driscoll and it goes from strength to strength producing great players year in year out, getting more and more professional and showing more and more ambition every year until we're at a point where we fear no one and expect to beat the best. Arguably the best footballer we've produced in the last 25 years in Roy Keane calls out our lack of ambition/small nation mentality and half the country disowns him, because he let the nation down by picking up his ball and going home and of course the issue itself becomes irrelevant, because we might of done better in that one football tournament, meanwhile 15 years later and nothings changed.
Look at Jack Byrne for instance, a player of great potential and ambition. He says he feels he's as good as anyone in the Irish senior team and how does MON respond? By saying well I'm sure some of the senior players will give him a good kicking for that and never mentioning him again. I mean how dare he have the gall to think he's as talented as the likes of Glenn Whelan. What he needs is to have the confidence and ambition kicked out of him.
I'm not saying he would achieve as much as BOD did in rugby, but at least he has the ambition to. Irish rugby might be in a completely different place to day, if when BOD came along the manager told the senior players to go out and physically hurt him simply because he thought he was good. This attitude is typical of Irish football and it sickens me. We will not progress as a football nation, because we have no ambition to and that's just the truth.. Anyway watch me get slammed in the replies for speaking the truth and daring to throw water on the fires of peoples nostalgia. "we don't have the players" "we tried to play tonight and look what happened" ect ect ect.
you also forgot that the best fans in the world don't support their own football clubs, if they did those clubs would have the resources to develop the youth, but no they expect another country to do it for us. they will say that the league is shit and not worth paying the money to go see, but have spent the past ten years paying money to watch caveman stuff with the national team the mental gymnastics is mind boggling. the irony is Dundalk are much better value for money.
Zim Zimma I cannot let these comments go unchallenged. Big jack is the problem? Why? The man is a legend. He got Ireland to our 1st ever tournament at euro '88 and came within 10 minutes of the semi-final. He got Ireland to the quarter final of the world cup in 1990 and to the last 16 of USA '94. Under eoin hand Ireland lost 7-0 to Brazil. Jack's team beat them 1-0. In 1985 Denmark then as now hammered Ireland to qualify for the world cup. When Jack was in charge he qualified for the world cup at Denmark's expense when they were the European champions. Liam Brady played for Ireland under jack Charlton. In fact he scored against both Belgium and Brazil when Jack was the manager. The reason why he lost his place in the team was because old age had caught up with him. When eoin hand was in charge Brady, lawrenson, O'Leary, Stapleton, Whelan, Galvin and sheedy were all at their peak and Ireland played an expansive game and Ireland never qualified for anything. Jack lost these classy players within a few years and he had to inject fresh talent into the squad. He also made Ireland hard to beat. Ireland went 6 years without defeat at home under him. Ireland beat teams like Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal, all strong teams. The success of jack resulted in many Irish kids taking up football as their sport too. Jack resigned in 1995. His successor mick McCarthy changed the style of play to a passing game. Jack cannot be blamed for any mistakes made by his successors.
You've proven the majority of my points.
Firstly "Big jack is the problem? Why? The man is a legend." and then you've listed a lot of results and memories. The point from my original post was, "As always though with Irish football, scraping a few good results over the years and creating some nice memories is always enough and the bigger picture never get's looked at. Jack was involved in more of those memories than perhaps anyone else in our history, so therefor perspective goes out the window, he's considered an infallible deity and anyone who questions this suffers death by crushing public disapproval." Speaks for itself really I dared question the deity and you've accused me of blasphemy.
Let's look at the results argument. Martin O'Neill has taken us further than we've ever been at the Euros's and was one game away from taking us to the world cup, we beat the world champions Germany and we beat the second most successful international nation of all time Italy. By your logic Martin is not quite there yet, but must surely be approaching legend status for this no? Surely if we had got to the world cup and maybe knicked a result or two, legend status for you and large sections of Irish fans would have been assured, but his luck ran out, he fell at the final hurdle and with the prospect of no memories to create, people are seeing his approach for what it is, negative and ambitionless and there in lies the problem. We have a small nation mentality, we only care about the bigger picture when the ends fail to justify the means. Which doesn't take much to do, because again we lack ambition.
It doesn't take one iota of tactical noose to park 11 players in your own half and defend zonally and pray for a goal on the counter attack, a Sunday league manager could set a team up that way. When it's successful as it has been for Martin on occasion you have to ask, where does luck factor in on a given day or with results elsewhere going our way in terms of a group? Ask yourself this, did it work because of him or in spite of him? You can't be relying on the likes of Scotland to capitulate in every qualification campaign. Inevitably though one dimensional negatively and playing not to get beat always gets found out, as it has for Martin, did for Trap and I'm sorry to break this to you, did for Jack to.
It's clear as day if you go back and watch the games again, but several players and even Jack himself have publicly stated numerous times that Jacks strategy was to press press press and when you win it back, kick the ball into the corners and press some more and try and force mistakes. When in possession they swung balls into the box from anywhere and tried to win the second ball or again hope for a mistake. The only difference between that and what Martin does is Martins team don't press as much and Jack had better players who were more consistent at implementing the strategy.
What you failed to mention when you started spouting off results, is the failure to break teams with players of less talent down, because of there being no plan B other than these tactics, again no different from Martin O'Neill or Trap. In the world cup the likes of Egypt in 1990 and Norway in 1994 spring to mind. In qualification for 1990 goalless draws with the likes of the North and Hungary, narrow painful to watch wins against a bunch of taxi drivers from Malta. Again in 1994 narrow 1-0 win in a god awful game against Lithuania. While some I'm sure would make a case for Trap and Mon not having the players to open up and blow the lesser nations away (personally I don't buy it) even the biggest pessimist would be hard pressed to say Jack didn't have the players to do so, but yet he didn't, because he had no ambition to. Only he could say why, but logic would suggest that he felt we weren't good enough.
Judging by your assertion that Eoin Hand played a more expansive game and failed, am I to believe that you also feel this way? Personally I think that's an absolute cop out on a number of levels. Firstly you're working under the assumption that a team has to play one way or another, for example teams in the lower leagues of English football prove this to be false on a weekly basis, let alone international teams. Good managers at every level set their teams up differently every game depending on the opposition, they don't just set their teams out to play one way in every single game and hope for the best like MON,Jack and Trap did.
Secondly just because Hand tried to play more expansive and failed that somehow means that every group of Irish players from then until the end of time is incapable of doing so, including as you said yourself the fresh talent that Jack put into the team? Come on! Also let's be realistic here, more expansive? it was the late 70's and early 80's, every team in Britain and Ireland, played 4-4-2, some teams hoofed it and some teams passed it. It was the tactical dark ages, things have moved on. Never mind Pep Guardiola, the likes of Chris Hughton or even Stephen Kenny's application of a more expansive game would make Eoin Hand's or god forgive me for saying, Jack Charltons's, interpretation of an expansive game look like checkers to their chess.
I stand by what I said, we will never progress as a football nation, because we have no ambition to. Our football culture is stuck in the stone age and we have small nation mentality that was ingrained in us by Jack Charltons historically relative period of success. Being "hard to beat," put em under pressure and all that other nonsense is the only template for success and therefor attempts to do anything else that end in failure will be met with cries of we're not good enough and a swift revert to type. Progress takes time, if we start focusing on the long term picture and getting the team to try and play football, to go out and at least attempt to win games and not just be hard to beat and hope we get lucky, this is what will actually filter down to the next generations. Look how much Georgia....fucking Georgia have improved by attempting to play football, which we are well capable of despite what some people would tell you. Yes we might fail to qualify for several tournaments, but we invariably do that anyway, so why not attempt to create an environment that when we do get there it won't be, because of dogged determination and a bit of luck, but rather our ability to go out and win games rather than just survive them.
It appears we have a very different outlook on things. I stand by everything I said and feel my points still stand. We'll have to agree to disagree I suppose
I hate to say this but lets be honest for neutral fans the world cup will be a better watch without Ireland in it.
Kevin Kennedy Back in your box Butters!
quite good comments on this too
Bring back Martin O'Neill
Problem for irish is youth development, they have passion but no skill
danijel novokmet Ireland don't develop players they get the dross that's left from Britain.
Irish players are not good enough , it got nothing to do with the manager.
bardo0007 it’s both.
Nothing is good enough at the moment. How Roy Keane can sit and watch that bullshit is beyond me. If he didn't walk out in Saipan he would be gone now
bardo0007
Problem is not the players
Problem is manager Martin O'Neill who tells players to play goofy longball goofball!
O'Neill as a coach makes Fred Flintstone looks like a tactical genius!
Ireland if you want to get respect in future start by sacking O'Neill who belongs in 5 million years B.C. and bring in a modern professional passing and pressing coach!
FAI if you keep O'Neill then prepare for a lot More pain.
There's nothing wrong in playing like Burnley if the players are up for it. Ireland can never play like Spain or Portugal.
the manager trains the players! soooo it doesn't have nothing to do with him...??
How the best player in Denmark team, no one cover him his all alone
All this talk about mistakes at the first Danish goal. Have a look at the poxy defending by Nikolaj Jørgensen, setting up the Ireland goal. Mistakes happen and they are punished. Flawless teams would never have any goals scored against them. The scoreline of 5-1 was perhaps a bit too much, but Denmark were clearly the better side.
The intro music alone made me subscribe..... J Dilla-ish.....
RIP Dilla
Our problem is we have no decent striker shane long is a waste of space
Wat r u talking about hahaha one of the few playing regularly in the pl
As an Irish fan I am of course gutted, but the best team won. Ireland has some good players but overall we were 'exposed' by an excellent Denmark team. We did very well to get this far but were the beaten by the best team on the night. If you have a player that you can field on such an important night that scores a hat-trick away, your team has the ultimate differentiator, and we don't have an Erikson since Robbie Keane retired. It's a pity we won't be there to share a beer with their fans, but that's football. Now Ireland must pick themselves up and plan for the future. Congratulations Denmark and best of luck in Russia.
I thought Denmark’s finishing was outstanding. If they got a 1/4 chance they took it.
Jesus I was gutted. Taking off Meyler and Arter at HT effectively ended the game because there was no one left that could take the ball from the Danes. It was so easy for them. We couldn't get near them. Tactics, decisions and mistakes aside we just don't have the players. Murphy and Long have a couple of goals between them this year.. The Danes technical ability is far superior. The Irish will always give everything they have but it'll only get you so far... It's the hope that kills us. Fair play to Denmark though. Just gutted. #COYBIG 🇮🇪
Came up in my feed today and decided to have a look but how bad was the team that oneill put out.How cud u not start long uptop one of our best strikers and he was playing in the pl.Not starting hoolahan was mad aswell.Bad decisions
Not to many passport Irish these days
Denmark are going to Ireland again tonight
There is always the spirit of the Irish international soccer but systemic quality well,,,hmmmm,
I wouldn't really call it a humiliation. We're just not good enough. We don't have the quality. people can talk about tactics all day long, but realistically we just don't have the players and we're not producing any.
I take your point about population size, but regardless of that, they're just better. Ireland don't have a player like Eriksen. If we did have even one player at that level who could create a moment of magic, then we things could be different. If we'd lost to San Marino for example...I'd definitely be humiliated.
The thing is, if he hadn't put on those attacking players, it might've stayed 2 - 1 and it might've looked less humiliating but it was also less likely that he would've won, by making the gamble he might've got a goal back or he might've let in 3 more, that's the gamble. The scoreline doesn't really tell everything.
I would call it a humiliation
Patrick Doherty I remember players like Ronnie Whelan, john Aldridge, ray Houghton,pat Bonner,Kevin sheedy,mark lawerson,Roy Keane,Paul McGrath... Why can't Ireland produce players like that now?
More supporters go to one Republic of Ireland game than all the league of Ireland fixtures in a weekend. Can we really expect to have such high expectations?
i hear the FAI are going to give Irish fans a refund for their match ticket.
Never mind at least you lot, Scotland and Wales will have at least 3 teams to support in England's group during the world cup LOL
if dey da had roy keyne we wudda won dey wurld cup
We gave Erikenson for too much space and the fact we never truly believed we could beat them in Denmark shot us in the foot.
O'Neill was a great manager at Celtic and Villa and I had big respect for him but since then his style of play is stone age inept tactics.
Regardless of your squad you have to think positively and I don't think we ever do in the national team.
Look at smaller nations Iceland Wales huge success in tournaments recently it shows it can be done we are too afraid to play shows something is wrong.
I also read somewhere that Iceland with a population of 300,000 spends more on football then Ireland it's a disgrace the mentality need changing in Irish football from grass roots level instead of our hoofball.
The fai are too corrupt and it is showing in our domestic league and national team no top players coming through anymore.
Fai need to get the finger out and train kids and young coaches from young age to play the game the way it should be played but with scumbags like Delaney in charge future looks bleak.
give freddie boswell the job
We just didn't keep the ball well enough
Videos getting higher quality
and today again we are wondering what should have been when a world cup is gone its gone
alan dalton English will be out by mid June
brazil will beat england
alan dalton yep or France.
Ireland needs Robbie Keane, Roy Keane, Shay Given, Damien Duff, Ian Harte, Richard Dunne, Irwin Carr, Kilbane, Holland, etc.
It was men against boys. The problem is they have the wrong O'Neill in charge of the team. It's a wonder he didn't say his team was astonishingly brilliant... LOL
James O'Neill for the Ireland job, couldn't agree more
roy keane has loads to say about others..what about a comment on that performance from us?
He'll probably blame it on not enough passion, that's why he did so well as a manager, oh no wait he was shit.
Mick he's favourite to take over if MON decides to leave
boom
much better team won.
no shame in being beaten by a superb team.
youd only of gone to Russia for the craic anyway....
you'd only HAVE gone.........learn some fucking English.
@@GetOnTheFloor82get a a grip ffs
Been trying to get an answer from the Irish people without luck so I'll try here as well.. :)
Can someone please explain how Irish fans got the idea that Denmark is a bad team or that the two teams are "equal on paper" or whatever? I've seen it on several videos talking about the game between Ireland and Denmark and I don't get it. It seems like Irish people only knew about Eriksen and Schmeichel ahead of the game. I mean, look at the Danish team...
You probably know that Schmeichel is a fairly good GK I would imagine.
Christensen - Right back is a young talent from Chelsea who was loaned out to Gladbach and managed to get 62 Bundesliga games while there. He's only 21.
Larsen - Left back from Udinese in Serie A.
Central back Kjær is playing in Sevilla (prev. Fenerbahce, Lille, Roma etc), and Bjelland is playing for Brentford and previously spent several seasons in FC Twente. We're lacking in that position atm. but he's alright.
The three people on the midfield are Eriksen (You know him) and two absolute workhorses with Bundesliga experience (Delaney is still playing there now, while Kvist moved back to Denmark as he got older).
Up front there's Nicolai Jørgensen, last year's top scorer in Eredivisie who helped Feyenoord win the league title for the first time in ages. Also came second in assists.
Sisto who's leading the assist rankings in La Liga for Celta.
Yussuf Poulsen who's got 130+ games for RB Leipzig in Germany at age 23. Finished second in the Bundesliga last season.
On the bench there's Mike Jensen (Captain for Rosenborg) and Bendtner (Top scorer in Norway for Rosenborg) who both helped their team knock Ajax out of Europe recently.
There's Lasse Schöne who's the vice-captain of Ajax with more than 150 games for the club, Braithwaite from Middlesbrough (130+ games for Toulouse in France), Lerager from Bordeaux, Cornelius from Atalanta, Lössl and "Zanka" Jørgensen from Huddersfield, Vestergaard from Gladbach, Knudsen from Ipswich, Ankersen from FC Copenhagen (last years champions) and Rønnow from Brøndby IF (currently looking like favorites for the title this year.) who's expected to be picked up by a bigger club in one of the coming transfer windows. Talented young keeper.
Denmark has other players from La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Eredivisie etc. who weren't even called up for these two games.
Most of Ireland's team are Championship players (And quite a few "old" and "slow" ones) and they're playing against a team representing Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Eredivisie etc. and people still make it sound like Ireland should be expected to win?! How do people even see it as a "close one" on paper? Talk about having high expectations for your team. To me Denmark should have won both matches without much trouble, and the 0-0 in Denmark was most certainly not seen as a "decent result" or whatever by the Danes. It was a disaster. The first game in Denmark was the shocking one honestly, not the second one in Ireland.
A good analysis I can't talk for everyone but I thought the only chance Ireland had was to defend after taking the lead. Before the game I thought if Denmark scored even once then that would be the end of it. There is no doubt the better team won. I can remember Denmark beating Ireland easily in 1985 to qualify for the world cup and I just hope Ireland respond in the same way now.
There's no one doubting the difference in class between the Danish and Irish sides but a bunch of stars doesn't always a team make (look at the many failed attempts of brilliant Argentinian squads before this year) and the fact that we got a draw in Denmark and were then playing you at home bolstered our confidence, hopes and belief. It would be a very boring game if the better team always won, thankfully that doesn't always happen. I mean compare Morocco to the talents of Spain and Portugal in the world cup just gone by, yet Morocco knocked them both out and got to the semi finals.
"You'll Never Beat the Irish" Denmark: "Hold my beer"😉
2200bronx Every team but the worst team in the group - "Hold my beer"...
I'm Irish and I say Ireland is the worst team in the world.. And the fans are retarded thay not football fans..
A ragged mess that sum,s up Ireland under O neill and the fuckers in the FAI gave him a new contract
Roy keane is hiding.oops.
Such clowns. The irish calls the danes disrespectful, but i will not forget how they were slacking off the danes before the game
YOU was Warned....!!!!
AND NOW we will meet again.....!!!
YAS DM WON :DDDDDD
Do you not think it a tad ironic you use a picture of Ché, renowned internationalist, with the Irish national flag on his face? Maybe read a book?
Che's mom was Irish
ireland and Argentina twin countries,,,,alexis macallister?
We need Brian Boru playing centre forward...
Jimbobjim jim and Fionn McCumhaill out the wing.
And Cú Chulainn at cb
Brian Boroimhe at Cluain Tarbh 23 April 1014
How can a team, with more or less the same players, beat World champions Germany and then lose 1-5 to Denmark?
Sam Spade Denmark beat Poland to
organised defence>>>>> last night there was none.. team was all over the shop..
first goal from a short corner told everything one irish player came out to take on two danes would not see that at non league level
Cause Germany played shit that day
its football
Sam Spade, pure luck ...
Why don’t you show goals
Rights.
I DO wish they'd stop going on about James McClean. Thanks to him, Ireland aren't my 2nd fave team any more. (England fan)
The McClean hate is really pathetic. Educate yourself about his reasons for not wearing the poppy. Go on wikipedia and research bloody sunday.
lknow about Bloody Sunday, (for which the UK govt has formally apologised) and about Dresden and Coventry, Hiroshima, Warsaw. The Luftwaffe also bombed Dublin, repeatedly. It goes on and on. Most of us weren't even alive in 1972 for heaven's sake.
Oh just realised. Danegeld. Bloody Vikings. Come on boys in green!
no excuses please ireland is a pub team i could play better need a new fucking team with none of them in it.
So happy that Denmark won, Ireland would bring nothing but defective football to the World Cup. From a England fan 🇬🇧🇩🇰
mike joyce Yeah and you crowd won't do much better either. Plus ur fans are gonna riot as usual.. ENGLAND play kick and rush football, are tactically inept and just athletes. Enjoy ur world cup. You'll need it. .!😄
Conor Browne at least we’ll be there 😂😂😂
bansheewhiskey England have never been knocked out of a World Cup in the first round, any more lies?
mike england are shit as well and you know it you always had some of the worlds greatest players but you get no where you were knocked out by iceland the last time maybe it will be another shit teams that knocks you out it wont be the irish cause that shit team is already out
joycer denmark would beat england no problem as england has no balls they are gonna get no where in the world cup .they have great players but you need balls which is what english teams have never had since the 1960s they have no hope.
Cff
Think we have proved we are just the better team, we were at the time and we have proved it since. While Ireland have proved since that they are just not really a good enough team.
Struggles to score against even the weakest team.
Historically it seems like if Ireland gets 1-0 against Denmark at home it's going to be a bad day at the office 😁😎🙏
Listening to Dunphy is no different than listening to paul gascoigne
I laugh because the experts is very smart 😂. Again denmark put irland out😂
b-cuz they can stay smart, even when bitter..
Ireland aren’t out of the Euros yet to be fair. Remember 1993? ;)
There is an e in Ireland .
Martin O'Neill is the Fred Flinstone of international soccer coaching!
The failure is 100% with O'Neill not the players! If players can't accurately measure long passes then for goodness sake play much shorter passes!
Martin o Neil time is up clueless
We were 4th seeds in the group. If McClean scored we'd be in Russia
Stephen listen mate don't him we where set up badly and brought on players too late should of started with wes and long and pressed them
Completely agree he has to go. He has made the most baffling decisions throughout his reign time and time again, not just last night, in pretty much every game. Look at the first leg for example. Can anyone explain the logic of playing O'Dowda a championship WINGER with 6 caps in a holding midfield role in the most crucial game of the campaign? He just makes it up as he goes along, there's no rhyme or reason to anything. It just seems to be well this might work and if it does I'll look like a genius and if it doesn't well I'll just fall back on our small nation mentality bullshit and say we did very well to be in this position we tried our best, were unlucky tonight and then boast about some ride your luck 1-0 win we had against a nation higher than us in the rankings.
He's so arrogant and his mentality belongs in a different era and not just tactically. Remember when Jack Byrne was doing well on loan and looked like pretty much our only genuinely promising player coming through? He trains with the senior team and says I feel I'm as good as any of the senior players and what's MON's response? "Well I'm sure some of the senior players will give him a good kicking in training" and then dropping him back to the under 21's and never speaking about him again. He actually suggested that a bunch of physically stronger journeymen should literally kick the ambition out of a teenager for the crime of showing a bit of confidence! He needs to go and a large section of the Irish public need stop letting the odd "nice memory" paper over the cracks of continuing mediocrity. We'll never progress as a football nation, unless we gain some ambition to and that goes right through from the FAI all the way down to large sections of our football public.
Mark Kenna he's a good manager just has fuck all to work with
SAFC R&W army he has took us as far as he could we a attacking minded manager
Lol