Comments on: Cyprus (0) – Ireland (1)

By: andcurve.weblog » Tarnation, what a weekend!

andcurve.weblog » Tarnation, what a weekend! — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:01:40 +0000

[...] I also spent plenty of time trying to get Garret out to watch the football game on Saturday afternoon. The idea originally was to help him with painting and assembling the odds and ends he needs to finish for their (himself and Nora, his girlfriend) house. We didn’t get too much done, and with a bit of economy of truth I got him out of the house over to Kenny’s, where we watched the Irish team put on a remarkable display of not doing very much against the Cypriot team who, while not being a fantastic team, did their best to play a game of football. In fact, they would have won by a comfortable margin if it hadn’t been for the Irish goalkeeper, Shay Given, who put on a performance worthy of the Matrix movies in keeping Ireland in the game, leaping diving and generally defying gravity. This is all the more interesting in light of the fact that Cyprus is already out of the tournament on points; in other words, for them it was a matter of honour rather than staying in the tournament, and they could have gone home having lost 10-0 and it wouldn’t have made any odds to them. Nonetheless, they put up a spirited fight to the end which is more than can be said for the Irish team. It’s a moderately contentious issue with Ireland fans. It was after that, when we went to do something more interesting which was hang out in the Dice Bar, when I cleared off for the previously mentioned night of bedlam. [...]

By: Kevin T

Kevin T — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:56:34 +0000

Tony: I have to agree a good bit with Trev there, the players aren’t bad but Kerr doesn’t look like he’s getting them to attack, he’s getting them to play safe and play for time, even when they could be getting the shots in. That’s not their decision to make, unless they’re making their own plans in which case he’s a crap manager for letting that happen.

Sure after France scored against Ireland the Irish team started playing for time, what the hell was that?

By: trev

trev — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:43:37 +0000

you’re right it was the players, and not the tactics, same as the israeli games same as all our bloody draws wake up tony, the man plays tyrone football, everyone behind the ball.

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:12:13 +0000

Trev: I don’t think it’s tactics at all. They just got lazy and sloppy after they scored.

By: trev

trev — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:39:30 +0000

garisson sports, foreign games, get out ye brits….

it’s not the team thats the problem it’s brian kerrs terrible tactics, he plays 11 man defence
“score a goal robbie, then drop back to the edge of the are for the rest of the game ok son,” “the edge of their penalty area gaffer?” “jaysus, no son, the edge of ours”

By: Kevin T

Kevin T — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:25:47 +0000

That performance by the Irish team was pants. I believe that the team isn’t by any means a bad one… But what the hell were they doing out there? Is anyone somehow claiming that what we were watching was football? No way, that was some sort of bizarre performance art geared towards wasting everone’s time.

Dear Lord, make them stop it now. That is what I thought while watching that match.

I agree about Given though, he really was the man out there. Given for Taoiseach I say!