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MikeH72 said:
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9LeagueTitles5FACups said:
Evan Ferguson, so long as he doesn't switch allegiance (which is unlikely).
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Honestly, I'd hate to know so little about football, that I'd still believe this can happen.

It can't, for two reasons, 1) The rule book does not allow it and more importantly 2) he is an Irish man who has absolutely no desire to play for anyone other then the country of his birth.

Stop clicking on nonsense articles and educate yourself, ffs
 

There is a good crop of decent players coming through but they're being let down by the management of the senior team. The association has also been horrendous in terms of its stewardship of the game for over a decade (if not more).

There's quite a number of players going to play on the continent since brexit stopped U18 year olds going into UK academies en masse.

There are still some fairly crap players getting a lot of game time though. John Egan and Shane Duffy are no where near good enough for International football and hopefully a new manager wont select them along with James McLean.

We should be doing bettee with the linited player resources we have, other countries do, but we've had over a decade of sliding down the coefficient now so qualifying is getting harder - happened to Scotland a while also but they've recovered really well.

Hopefully Evan Ferguson will ignite the next qualification cycle and we'll kick on. We've some decent keepers and wide players coming through but they eeally need a good management team. Kenny is out of his depth and horrendously slow to react to solve problems in games. Holland we're there to be besten last night but they changed at HT and we didnt react until it was too late.

Hey ho.
 
dublinbluenose said:
There is a good crop of decent players coming through but they're being let down by the management of the senior team. The association has also been horrendous in terms of its stewardship of the game for over a decade (if not more).

There's quite a number of players going to play on the continent since brexit stopped U18 year olds going into UK academies en masse.

There are still some fairly crap players getting a lot of game time though. John Egan and Shane Duffy are no where near good enough for International football and hopefully a new manager wont select them along with James McLean.

We should be doing bettee with the linited player resources we have, other countries do, but we've had over a decade of sliding down the coefficient now so qualifying is getting harder - happened to Scotland a while also but they've recovered really well.

Hopefully Evan Ferguson will ignite the next qualification cycle and we'll kick on. We've some decent keepers and wide players coming through but they eeally need a good management team. Kenny is out of his depth and horrendously slow to react to solve problems in games. Holland we're there to be besten last night but they changed at HT and we didnt react until it was too late.

Hey ho.
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Need to take the last few and next few qualifiers on the chin. It has and needed to start at ground zero. Many wont know about the history of the FAI and how resources were used, it essentially was burned to the ground 3 years ago and its only in that short time resources have been used properly. We wont see the benefit of that for a decade to come in my opinion.

That said we are still producing lads like Ferguson, Grealish and Rice. lol Its gone full circle now England's top players like to the afore mentioned and Kane and Bellignham are essentially Paddies for the want of errand boat ride. Prior to that we were taking who they didnt want.

Culturally we are seeing a shift, we are seeing the vanguard of our eastern European and African communities come to the fore and this will contrive and continue to grow and become more diverse.

Ultimately though international football is a bit of fix in my opinion. Its hardly like for like and a level playing field. I think of it like leagues, we are country of five million people, France have close to 70 mill, i mean they should be stuffing us and shouldn't really be in the group in all honesty. We are in a league with the likes of Scotland, Wales, Norway, Croatia population wise granted we are awful, but France Gernamay, Italy, Spain and England - should be judged on their competitive success against each other given their populations - we arent in that sphere - its not judging like for like. Uefa anf FIfa are corrupt in my opinion, they give those countries fairly easy routes to make finals, so the big population markets get to the finals - so they can sell Big Macs, Carlsberg advertising to the biggest markets. Its not really about competitive sport any more - its more about advertising. If i was about growing football, they seed the groups based on populations and equality of resources - each country playing like for like.

To be honest historically we do pretty well with what we produce, our population and the fact that Football wouldn't be the national sport here like it would say in the likes of the UK - considering that, no way we should we be doing what we did in the likes of 88, 90 and 94 - against teams with 20 times our population. Pound for pound we punch harder then some who should be winning major titles - who never do. We are at a transitional low base at the mo, but for countries like us its cyclical given the population.

Same with Rugby to really, unreal we are the top ranked side in the world - what is it the fourth most popular sport here.
 
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