I'm going to have to go walk the dog at halftime. I can't deal with listening to Dunphy and co. moan about this. They'll be 100% right but the miserableness will be beyond belief!
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 take six points in these games and I'm not too bothered either way
Haha I know, it's not looking good for us. I frigging love the Irish so I'm glad for your lot
We've played Georgia in tournament qualifiers about one hundred million times and though it's not always easy we've literally beaten them every single time. We should not be playing a team like this so fecking terrified, we look awful.
Not watching the match or the starting 11, but teams like Georgia or Macedonia while not being very popular, they do have some players who play in Russia or Netherlands, don't know if their keeper today is Makaridze who I know from Portugal, not a world beater, but a decent keeper for this level.
The first half ends.
Ah it is. The way we play has been the same shite since Trap. Give up the ball, try score on a long ball knock down or set piece, completely ignoring any and all midfielders in the build up. Standard template is score early, sit back and concede possession, momentum and a goal before a "valiant" fightback where we remember what a football looks like in the last 15 minutes. If we're lucky, we'll nick a winner.
Feck sakes what's Trap doing back in charge?
Get Wes on, at least he'll show some semblance of trying to play football.
Get Wes on, at least he'll show some semblance of trying to play football.
Thing is, is this what the management want? I doubt it. Take out Hendrick, Hoolihan and the wheels come off.
300+ passes for Georgia. 62 for Ireland. Wow.
Georgia completed passes - 330.
Ireland completed passes - 62.
Ireland completed passes - 62.
How are Iceland looking? I'd be very surprised if Finland managed to sneak a win.
Well I am not watching, tbh Serbia and Austria won there, but they do picked a point in Wales, 6 matches with 3 defeats and 3 draws, they are not the Faroe Islands tbf.
Regarding O'Neill, well maybe different times when he coached Celtic with Larson, Hartson or Sutton, is he playing with 3 at the back?
You mustn't have watched the recent games against Uruguay, Austria, Serbia and Wales. We're far from Barcelona or Classic Brazil but we've not been as bad as today in as long as I can remember. Dunphy agrees with me and he has a list of miserable Ireland memories which he reads to himself every morning before he gets out of bed.
So you are not Irish? Didn't think an Irish person would call the country "Eire". I am a bit confused by this post, I confess, but it's probably just me. When you say 'I'm glad for your lot' who do you mean, exactly? Georgia?
Austria, in Dublin, where we were terrible for 75 minutes before Walters scored? Serbia, where we scored early then surrendered the game until the last 15 minutes when we were 2-1 down? This kind of performance is very much normality.
My biggest problem is it shouldn't be. We showed at times against Austria, and Serbia that we can play football. We can keep it down and create actual attacks we just don't do it for the majority of matches.
They scored a wonder free kick from 30 yards out, in off the bar.
Iceland have been fine. Alfreð Finnbogason been pretty bad and should have scored 1v1 against the keeper. Lucky to still have his leg intact though. Brutal challenge.
Wouldn't mind him trying that if we were playing France or Germany or whatever, but its not as though we're San Marino, all of our players are of a decent enough lower premier league/high championship level, Georgia are no team at all we should go at them and at least try to play.
I agree with @diarm - never that shit for a while. We had some good performances/results over the last few years.
New players coming in to the squad?
I stopped following Serbian national team but saw your question and googled quickly, officially he doesnt fit in vision of system of current national coach. Think thats bullshit and something else is in question, also think this year Lazio didnt give green light to Savic to take part in some tour for young players, not sure what it was.
I put money on ireland. How are they doing?
Maybe never this shit, but it's a normal type of performance for us. We had a great chance to punish them after the goal and we sat back and surrendered the ball. Which happens far too often for us. There's absolutely no reason the players on the pitch can't complete more than three passes in a row, but we seem to be instructed to boot it up at any and all opportunities.
Very poorly. Need a massive improvement second half if they're going to win
Crap. Georgia should be even up.
No team at all and 5 times more the number of passes? Not Malta or Andorra tbf.
What a dumb cross by Ward. Ffs.
God awful.
Yep thats bullshit alright he's the sort of player you build a team around and it was the euro U21s
One of the worst things is they haven't even been pressing that hard, and we're just ignoring open players to hoof it long.
This is shocking stuff from Ireland today. Harried and pressed for the first 6mins, got a goal and then nothing. Giving the ball away for fun, no shape whatsoever and no real sense of game plan.
Yeah they're alright, but nothing special at all and we make them look outstanding.
Albania up.
Drat! The shampoo sachets in the hotel were infused with a chemical that makes you allergic to spherical objects.
Wouldn't mind if we actually had players up, but Shane isn't a magician he can't do it on his own.
Yea it is, gave up from that shit show of national team long time ago, now i just watch our players as much as i can and hope they do good for their clubs. Watching u21,u20,u19 here and there because they are still unknown and not corrupted but the moment they turn senior, they switch off for national team and those 2 weeks of internationals they take as vocation.
What's Shane meant to do when there's no one within 10 yards of him when he does go for a long ball? Crazy tactics imo.
Christ! Georgia must have 99% of possession 
tbf we're making Jano look like the Georgian Messi he was hyped up to be when he was 17
Austria in Vienna when we won. Then again in Dublin when we were pushing well for much of the second half before Walters scored. Serbia when we earned an excellent result and looked to pass the ball. As we did against Wales and Uruguay recently.
Yes we can often be too defensive and negative, and we're never a great footballing side, but to say it's normality to simply hoof every ball aimlessly up the pitch the second we get on it is not true. Being more tactically astute than this has been a feature of the O'Neill/Keane era.