World Cup 2018 Qualifiers
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
We need Wes.
Pretty sure we just completed 4 passes in a row for the first time this match.
76%Christ! Georgia must have 99% of possession
I'm Welsh, the guy I was quoting is Irish, I like Ireland though so I want them to qualify, just not over Wales
I'm pretty drunk so if I'm not making sense that's why Anything in the rules to stop your assistant manager coming on?
Bringing on McGeady in place of a midfielder? What the feck? Seems we don't want the ball at all.
Needs to come out of retirement lol
No improvement so far I guess?
Nope. Still a pile of old shite.
Horrible. Literally all we do is hit and hope.
We didn't look to pass it in Serbia, we didn't complete 100 passes that night. Apart from the 2nd half in Vienna, the football played by us in this group has been really poor (you're right that a couple of the friendlies have been better) and have been disappointing given the positive signs show at the Euros. Apart from going direct, relying and "putting them under pressure", we've really not offered much throughout this campaign.
Look at the positive side, 1 point is not the end of the world.
Little bit better there from McClean and Christy
Wow, that was the worst yet.
What are they doing in the Irish Federation regarding the development of youth players?
Two crucial misses from heading opportunities. McClean and now Long.
Not sure about now, but 10 years ago they were doing sweet feck all. It's sink or swim and hope an English team spots you.
This Georgia v Ireland match is horrible. God I hate international breaks
I honestly wouldn't know too much about it, but I wouldn't say its that hot. More of a gaelic man myself anyway.
In fairness to McClean, he's giving it his all as usual, plenty of heart. Pity he seems to be the only one.
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Hmm, praying that a English Academy develops your players? Not sure if that is a good idea tbf.
I wouldn't say it's changed much in 10 years.
If you want to be a professional sportsman here you're better off looking to rugby, golf, swimming, sailing or boxing. You've as much chance of winning the lottery as you do being big, strong and still technically enough to survive Irish youth football for long enough to be noticed by an English club.
You have to remember that GAA (hurling and football) are the main sports over here, add to that rugby as well and you can see the issue, especially with our small population and also the fact of having 2 teams on the island.
Slightly better at grassroots level now.
Quite a few of our age groups at U19 and below have some really talented players coming through.
We're starting to reap the benefits from being a multicultural country. The children of the immigrants who moved here in the late 90's and early 00's are adding to our ranks. A bit like how England has seen an influx of players with African descent.
Just checked Serbian roster... Gudelj plays, what on fecking earth
Still 1-1?
There's no standard to kids football here and the League of Ireland gets very little in the way of help. Clubs here are more interested in physical attributes and how hard you can kick the opposition when I was more involved.
I wouldn't feel confident enough to say what it's like now but I do know that the LOI is criminally underfunded and forgotten about and that cuts the legs off a lot of development that could be happening.
2-0 Albania.
Iceland down to 10 - two quick yellows for a player just subbed on.
Gislason, what a turd.
Our last midfielder off. That says it all.
Like have they not learned at all in this match, if you go straight at them its actually not that hard to get through to their goal instead of just lumping it in.
Iceland are joke.
Yeah we've seen a couple of passes go through them. We've responded to that he literally getting rid of midfield and playing four wingers and two strikers ahead of the defence lol
Fair enough, 3 or 4 million people is always hard, unless you are Uruguay.
If it can help to regain the level of the late 80's to the mid 90's that is good news. Why not learn something with Iceland model?
I really had high hopes for Nastasic, Mitrovic 3:0, not sure why Newcastle didnt sell him.
3-0 Serbia and game over. Ireland does really need to win.
Cus who needs midfielders anyway.
Sometimes looking from the outside 1 forgets your situation is not the same as England or Scotland regarding professional football, more similar to Northern Ireland or Wales, even if your recent results are better than Scotland tbh.