Countries can go from not qualifying for tournaments to being respectable level national teams in 6-8 years but it’s hard to see that happening for Ireland.
@@nicholastricarico2957 ik that’s why you said not right now, but you can’t possibly say it’ll be 3 decades off. it could be 4 years from now for all we know just like how canada rose so much in a short time. time in football passes fast, and irish guy could still be bang on about irelands future but idk enough about their NT to actually back anyone up
My mate had a bet on this game so I watched a bit of it. Died laughing at Armenias defence making seamus Coleman look like cafu. Did you see the state of their keeper? how tf did Ireland lose to them lol
@@DheloneZone259 It's assumed considering how many are have made it to big clubs around Europe. In fairness, a golden generation for us only has to make it to the knockout stages of a world cup. It's not a particularly high bar for other countries
Thank fuck I'm not the only person saying that Kenny is a wet pudding of a coach. Even with the lack of quality we have we shouldn't be in the state we are in now. The fact that his only competitive wins are against Azerbaijan and Luxembourg is a disgrace. Note to the FAI, don't bring in LOI quality managers
My mate had so much trust for Stephen Kenny saying that him extending a contract is a sign of greater things to come for our national team 😭 not going as planned.
@@BigSmokeMUFC To be fair he has inherited the worst team in living memory League One and Championship players, either completely inexperienced or don't get regular game time. We weren't scoring before he arrived, more chances are being created and we're still not scoring them. It's not entirely his fault but I do think he's very naive with his team selection and tactics against park the bus teams. I don't know if you remember Mick McCarthy's first tenure? He inherited a far better team but it was still spent and it took 6 years to build a team from youth.
@@icemanire5467 ye that’s true. And I think we can improve slowly in a few games time maybe. But I wasn’t born during Mick McCarthy’s first stint as Ireland manager. But I do know a little bit about it.
As a romanian I can only feel for u as we are in the same boat as you, we lost to Armenia too in the last qualafiers, he haven t qualified to a world cup for almost 24 years and currently sit on 0 points in the Nations League after losing to Montenegro and Bosnia:(
Our team is a real shambles. Losing to Luxembourg in Luxembourg was bad but I could handle it. Losing to Armenia was one step too far but then losing to Ukraine at home is absolutely crap. The fans in the stadium should be ashamed because the Ukrainian fans were louder than us when we’re stereotypically meant to be one of the loudest fans in the world. We’re absolutely shite. Get Stephen Kenny out immediately. We’ve fallen a long way since Charlton. Now onto the players. Our players are also awful. We used to have players in the top teams of the Premier League now there are no Irish players in the top teams of any league
It's systemic. Ireland doesn't produce the calibre of player anymore. It's not exactly the mangers fault. There are good players out there but they're all in the championship. Nothing wrong with that. A championship team should beat Armenia if it was allowed. People in Ireland have been calling for a change for years. At this point, its looking like a total review, uprooting and development that could take years to change. IMO that's what needed. Top down. Delaney has been at the head for along time and player quality has been devolving. There are plenty of good players in Ireland and that have declared for Ireland. They are not the quality as of before, it happens. I'd like to add. He shouldn't have been appointed, not because he was a successful Loi manager but because he had no real experience in a top or even mid level job. Big jump going from LOI to National.
Dyche is an absolutely perfect fit for the Ireland job. Made championship players for half a decade at Burnley Prem players and massively overachieved and got European football with them one season somehow. Reckon he'd do similar things getting Ireland to a Euros...
@@BigSmokeMUFC doubtful tbh, he could definitely get a decent championship job and potentially a Prem job if a team was in trouble! Not much for him to gain by managing Ireland either you'd have to feel
@@billmolloy4053 Ireland are never gonna play a pretty style of football. A rugged manager like him to shithouse some wins is exactly what a team like yours is all about
As an Armenian this is fantastic it is revenge from 2011 where we were screwed out of Euros by Ireland...the older players remember the travesty of reffing in that game.
@@krisgordon3116 basically in the 13th minute the Armenian keeper was given a straight red for hands on the ball outside the box and "denying a goal scoring opportunity" well video replay showed that it went off his chest and he was fouled by the Irish attacker. Well they had to throw in an inexperienced keeper ended up losing 2-1. Had they won they would have made their first Euros.
@@felixsoheili1154 So you admit it wasn't Ireland that screwed you, it was a bad decision. Were you expecting Ireland to say "no wait, we've just watched the TV and he didn't handball it"?
Alfie’s video on how broken the Irish FA sheds a lot of light on why the national team is so ineffective. Prioritizing money over development of players and hiring managers with actual experience.
I'm English, but it's sad to see when most of the Ireland squad and its best players are ones who only chose to play for Ireland because they wouldn't get into the England National Team. I understand that if you have the chance to play for multiple countries that you try to choose the best one to further your career and to try to win trophies. But I do feel that Grealish and Rice should be playing for Ireland, not England. The quickest way for Ireland to improve is for these players who are most likely trained at English clubs from when they were young to choose to represent Ireland and not England. Long term wise, the standard of Irish League football needs to be raised by getting enough investment into the Irish Football league system. I know its not so simple but that's the way to get long term results with higher quality players playing for Ireland in my eyes.
Armenia play better without him tbf. He is world class but his problem is he refuses to defend at any point. It was why he left Jose at Man U and Roma.
As a Faroese, I feel proud being brought up by the Irish guy in a video. my country is a laughing stock. we have no business playing international football and yet, Germany narrowly beat us 2-1 and in that match, we were a nose hair away from a 2-2 draw when in the dying minute we hit the post with one of our few attempts on goal that didn't go in. but still. this is a team that has lost 8-0 to Yugoslavia in the past. we are a joke. and yet, are closer to Ireland in the Rankings than they are to England lol!
I mean, our approach to non-Irish enterprising sports in this country is an abomination really. Lots of funding for Gaa, lots of funding for Rugby, sports that Ireland have some kind of large presence in (Gaa being associated with Aussie Rules, Rugby isn't played by many and bar a small number of emerging nations it is shareholded by just a few countries, including us). The Jack Charlton years were a fever dream, where across the pond they had not become crowded with foreign players, foreign players were a small contingent of squads, now they'd be in the dominant %s for any premier league team, Brentford for example is probably 30% Denmark, 30% England, 40% others. Manchester United recruited Roy Keane and Denis Irwin while also having Kanchelskis and Schmeichel, and the rest was English/Scottish. In those days instead of scouting some cosmopolitan name Alex Ferguson would first try closer to home invite himself over to some prospects house have a cup of tea and get them signed. That would never happen now, and he was the best and could turn his nose up at that simplicity if he wanted but he never did. Irish players back in the day were left on their own to make it or break it and they had s much better chance of making it as they were close by. At most clubs now they have invented dozens of jobs for people involved in player recruitment and they take it seriously as if y'know, it was a job that had to be done well. Roy Keane basically isn't going to turn up at the door of a legendary figure like Brian Clough anymore and hash things out, they have to go through meeting after meeting after meeting 'networking' around the right people just to even be considered. As they don't get much help they find their way into League 2 which is not a very stable division, one year your team could be doing decent and then the next it could be the shits. If it's the shits everybody in the squad looks bad. The Irish FA don't have as much chance of a share of the market in a game that is welcomed by loads and loads of cultures where the most successful nations are leaps and bounds in the ascendency. There is little incentive to invest when Irish sport sits sweetly in our more home based affairs. And thus the FAI accordingly does not give the single littlest shit about our performance in football. The League of Ireland is amateur and anyone who gets out of it has to hit the ground running at their first English/Scottish club because they are woefully unprepared to be competitive professionals. I'm far from surprised at our current dearth.
I'm loving seeing some of the younger lads go further afield than the UK. Josh Cullen at Anderlecht seems to have been the first but Ebosele going to Udinese and Cathal Heffernan at AC Milan seem to be trailblazing what is hopefully a new attitude amongst the underage players. Apparently Jorge Mendes is the agent of a decent amount of LOI players too, so it looks to be something really promising
How come your league is amateur? You have more residents than Croatia, and our league is professional even though most clubs are watched only by few hundreds spectators on average
@@anteveic327 Corruption in the FAI and incompetence throughout. HITC Sevens did a good video on John Delaney, who was the worst of them in the FAI, showing how he is responsible for a good bit of what's currently wrong with Irish football, as well as touching on the culture of business in the FAI. Ultimately the FAI chiefs felt they deserved to be paid more instead of using the money properly to fund the leagues and fund youth development, the standout reasons among many others that a football association exists for. Until some actual accountability is placed upon those in the management positions of the FAI, we'll probably never see a better standard in our domestic game. Terrible really
When I was a kid I remember rooting for Ireland other than my national team, since I'm Italian and Trapattoni is a legend, plus our flags are similar so I followed some Ireland matches. And I also remember Trapattoni winning you a Nations Cup trophy.
5:25 The Netherlands did, with Danny Blind starting as assistant under Guus Hiddink, and replacing him after the Euros. We promptly failed to qualify for the Euros, even though 24 countries including the likes of Albania and Northern Ireland did, and then failed to qualify for the World cup as well, so you can tell just how well that turned out.
At the same time, I do kind of get the Blind decision in a certain way. I don't know how much of this is true/valid, seeing as I'm just copying things I picked up on the internet, but Blind had been assistant-coach for 3 years, and the KNVB had the same idea as the German national team in mind with Joachim Low, have him gain experience as an assistant coach and eventually take over after Hiddink left when Holland qualified. The difference was, though, that Low had proven to be a competent coach before, and the only thing Blind did as a proper manager was guide Ajax to fourth in the Eredivisie.
The League of Ireland needs investment, we’re relying on players from league 1 and the championship. I know GAA will always be more popular, but football is huge here too. If proper scouting was implemented and if the FAI properly invested into our own league, we could produce great talent.
Don't worry mate, I'm from slovakia and we are going down together, from 15th place in 2016 down to 45th, lost to kazakhstan and struggling to beat azerbaijan... the state of our football is shambolic at the moment
Belgium did waste years of our "golden generation" on a Belgian coach: Marc Wilmots. Even when after a major tournament we heard from players that we didn't even train set pieces.
@@jamesvaughan7473 because they've won nothing. Semi-final of a world cup, yeah we actually already did that in 1986. Look, undoubtedly we've had a great generation the last 10 years, but what does "golden" mean?
Hey we aren't that bad we drew against Croatia. But also lost 9-0 to Norway because out Skip broke his arm, a red card both full backs got injured and we had a striker playing CB by the end of the game.
Duffer has brought Shels to 6th a third of the way through the season currently ahead of Bohs, Drogheda, Harps & Ucd. We've picked up massive points against Derry & Sligo and recently won 4 outta 4 until we were unfortunately beaten by Rovers. Duffer is a quality manager, we currently have no out and out number 9 and again we're 6th. Duffer master class Ireland would be lucky to have him as manger. Hopefully he stays with us at shels but 1 day he will be ireland manager cause he's actually class
Irish Guy... I feel your pain. Thanks for the Trinidad and Tobago mention. We must be the worst ever world cup team. Zero goals in the 2006 world cup, 4th place in CONCACAF and that was historically our greatest performance. 😂
@@aricato4399 True. I guess I'm venting a bit. But when this is the greatest thing that we can achieve in football and we're good with that... I just think that we need to strive for better. I can empathize with the Irish Guy because he wants better for Ireland too. Winning is fun. Participation is fun but winning is better! We have to start with the attitude of winners and it doesn't appear that we want to.
I'm Scottish so I can relate to Ireland a lot in terms of International football. The first thing I've noticed is Irish people genuinely seem to have very high expectations for their national team and with greatest of respect I'm not 100% sure why. You don't have a strong domestic league, you don't have a great reputation for producing great players consistently, your tournament pedigree was a long time ago and I'm not even 100% sure football is the most popular sport in Ireland. You need to accept that anything you may have achieved in the past isn't the standard, it's a massive over achievement not the normal. I also think you have a generation of people like the Irish Guy himself probably who've grown up watching nothing but EPL and UCL, incredibly financially doped football so they think all football is like that. You don't watch average football on a weekly basis so you're expecting standards that can't be delivered. This isn't me having a go, Ireland are always an asset to tournaments and I hope you get back soon and I'm aware that you'll probably beat us on Saturday now purely as a result of me typing this. :)
I don't think the expectation is that high, certainly not for me anyway. Like all we want to see is a bit of effort and the odd shock result against a bigger team, but that should be hand in hand with beating weaker sides. We've got players who are playing at a higher level than the likes of Luxembourg and Armenia (overall I should say, I know there's a few UCL players for them), so we should be beating them. After the last 2 games, the players said the same thing about how passing isn't quick enough. Add to that the confusion about how to defend set pieces, needless long bouts of ball carrying, and the senior experienced players falling off a cliff and we're just fed up. It's a core of senior players who aren't good enough anymore and play badly every game, fed by management continuing to select them every time regardless. Stephen Kenny seems to want to implement a system, but is doing it as if it's a club team. Shane Duffy isn't Thiago Silva and Hendrick isn't Pirlo. There's not gonna be any expansive, front foot displays with this squad, but he seems almost stubborn about it. Very annoying
I think he has earned the game against scotland after the performance against Portugal and Belgium, if obefemi starts and Hendrick is benched we could win
Don’t knock the fact that Cheio Ogbene plays for rotherham, he’s been the biggest breath of fresh air to that Ireland side since that great run in 2016
Tbf, with Belgium and Martinez, I have to disagree with you saying he's done an ok job. The players they had, most of which all hitting their peaks at the same time, many actually being world class, they should have at the very least gotten to a final. Reaching a final would have just about qualified Martinez as having done an ok job, but they really ought to have actually won a tournament, especially one of the Euros. It's a crime that they didn't. Martinez was a failure for Belgium, and I can't believe he's been allowed to be in charge for as long as he has done.
@@sukhdevr3489 I'd actually put Everton's current woes partly on him. He was supposed to elevate them, with a new expansive playstyle after their time with Moyes, but instead he put them on a path of mostly wasted money on average players and no club identity.
@@sukhdevr3489 Silva definitely wasted more, sure, but that's what I mean by saying Martinez started that culture, as he got the ball rolling. Players like McGeady, Alcaraz, Niasse, even Lennon in the end didn't do much for the club. Certainly wasn't the big money that was to be wasted in the coming years with their current owner, but it didn't do anything to help them.
@@metalswifty23 Yes. He even benched Kevin Mirallas, who was a brilliant winger when used right, for his Wigan boys out of position like Cleverley and Kone A. At least McGeady was great on Fifa lol.
weve went 11 unbeaten in 12 games and were robbed in the loss vs Portugal and 2 losses and everyone wants him gone, then a huge 3-0 win to Scotland a 1-1 vs the strong Ukrainian team away from home with 5 big names for us missing i think hes made up for it, in his last 15 games, hes lost 3, i say give him the qualifiers, Kenny In
You think being Irish is depressing? As a Romanian I have just seen my country loose 2:0 to Montenegro and we had no shot on their goal while our biggest rival Hungary won against England. In the last two years we have also lost to Armenia and Georgia. Watching Ireland must be sad but trust me, seing the Romanian national team play is the most depressing thing
from el salvador here. haven’t been to world cup in 40 years and we barely scraped a draw to grenada in the nations league(ranked 170 something) 2-2. so embarrassing to watch
El Salvador will be a force in thd future if your country stabilises and the economy keeps growing. Tbh the best thing about the economic crisises is that less developed countries will get closer to more developed. Greetings from New Zealand
hitc football it’s now called. Just like a weak person after they’ve been dumped, they made a total makeover of the channel hoping to get noticed. And revboii, a half irish, half english boy but an England suporter will always rub Michael the wrong way. Anyway, the channel in almost unwatchable now. They even removed James again for a reason I don’t know. He was the only one that was worth watching.
spent the first 10 minutes of this video thinking "cor, if only sean dyche was irish, he'd shore up that defense" only to have my mind read. honestly, seems ideal- better than any other gig he's likely to receive (until november when some premier league manager inevitably gets fired a few months into the season). snap him up
I have no clue how Ireland lost, I was at the Scotland game yesterday and it felt like we should of won about 5-0. Never felt like Armenia were in the game. Can’t wait for September if Ireland will keep playing like they are 🏴🎉
I’m chilean but the problem with Ireland it’s that the players are englands left overs nobody play’s for the badge or the flag they play because they need international football I’m ok with players choosing the nationality of their loved ones but it’s shameful to see so many and already with poor management by the Irish fã the boys in green look doomed
Totally agree. That's what annoys me most about this group of players. It's not that there awful (which they are) it's the fact they just don't actually give a shit what happens to Ireland. In the Ukraine game the only bit of passion I saw was from Nathan Collins he was class and literally sprinting to take throw ins like. Nice to see at least someone who cares
I’ve said it since he was even hired that kenny was out of his league and shouldn’t have even been named in the running for the job and whenever I said this my family would just say “give it time. Give it time” now I’m laughing at them for not listening to me
Give the job to Vera Pauw on an interim basis? She actually knows what she's doing. Moreover if one wished to employ additional lateral thinking to the Irish manager situation, let us consider Wayne Rooney or Vincent Kompany? Sean Dyche is a good fit however.
Give the job to Robbie Keane who you're still paying anyway..bring back "squad activities" and just pick the 23 maddest lads you can up for pints & put em under pressure
The almost guaranteed one-per-video uncle jokes really make me wonder..... It's either based on a real history... or a real jealousy and sadness that he didn't receive that kind of affection when one of his siblings/cousins did
I was at the Aviva Stadium for the 1-0 win against Germany it’s amazing how far Ireland have fallen Northern Ireland beat Greece 3-0 that night to qualify for the Euros they’ve also fallen away
Haha , as a Latvian I feel your pain our team is full of scrubs without discipline and coached by a gym teacher. They call themselves 11 wolwes it's more like 11 chihuahuas on the pitch. But the root is your Fa that same of ours consists of wet teabags that don't know how to operate.
And Irish guy thinks Ireland have a chance of winning the world cup in 8 years.
Countries can go from not qualifying for tournaments to being respectable level national teams in 6-8 years but it’s hard to see that happening for Ireland.
Tbf a lot can change in 8 years, fucking Montenegro might become the powerhouse for what we know
Dorkarma bet u a fake fan u only support the team that constantly wins cups
I have the hope Bulgaria will qualify for World Cup in 40 years but I'm so optimistic.
Rugby World cup most likely.
Didn't he before make a video about how this was Ireland's "Golden Generation"?💀
Irish guy is just the gift that keeps on giving
To be fair, that was about a team that is hypothetically 6-8 years in the future, but right now? Seems like at least 3 decades off.
Well he predicted Ireland to have a golden generation in 4-5 years so for his health sake I hope he is right
@@nicholastricarico2957 time passes fast and a few years before belgium or wales emerged (wales to a lesser extent) they were horrible teams
@@fidelramirez5173 That's why I said right now, it looks at least 3 decades off.
@@nicholastricarico2957 ik that’s why you said not right now, but you can’t possibly say it’ll be 3 decades off. it could be 4 years from now for all we know just like how canada rose so much in a short time. time in football passes fast, and irish guy could still be bang on about irelands future but idk enough about their NT to actually back anyone up
My mate had a bet on this game so I watched a bit of it. Died laughing at Armenias defence making seamus Coleman look like cafu. Did you see the state of their keeper? how tf did Ireland lose to them lol
because it's Ireland. Nobody can fail like the Irish can.
I mean Armenia has beaten Iceland, Romania, North Macedonia, all of this teams are stronger than Ireland
@@alexandernisipeanu7062 you say that but we’ve been punching above our weight in the last 30 years
Seamus Coleman is cafu tf ate you saying
@@arthur0023 iceland has been terrible
new upload from The Scottish Guy...
"LOSING TO IRELAND IS A DISGRACE"
Ireland's golden generation is scary only in the same way a certain Icelandic Everton player is
Our golden generation is in the underage sides currently. There's only 2 or 3 in the senior side
How can you call a generation golden that hasn’t played internationally yet in a full team
WHY GYLFI WHYYYYYYY
@@DheloneZone259 It's assumed considering how many are have made it to big clubs around Europe. In fairness, a golden generation for us only has to make it to the knockout stages of a world cup. It's not a particularly high bar for other countries
@@EOR2742 a golden generation for you is qualifying for a World Cup
Thank fuck I'm not the only person saying that Kenny is a wet pudding of a coach. Even with the lack of quality we have we shouldn't be in the state we are in now. The fact that his only competitive wins are against Azerbaijan and Luxembourg is a disgrace. Note to the FAI, don't bring in LOI quality managers
My mate had so much trust for Stephen Kenny saying that him extending a contract is a sign of greater things to come for our national team 😭 not going as planned.
@IIvelocityII What? We've been always good. We've always been pinching above our weight. We've been to a world cup quarter final...
@@BigSmokeMUFC To be fair he has inherited the worst team in living memory League One and Championship players, either completely inexperienced or don't get regular game time.
We weren't scoring before he arrived, more chances are being created and we're still not scoring them. It's not entirely his fault but I do think he's very naive with his team selection and tactics against park the bus teams.
I don't know if you remember Mick McCarthy's first tenure? He inherited a far better team but it was still spent and it took 6 years to build a team from youth.
@@icemanire5467 ye that’s true. And I think we can improve slowly in a few games time maybe. But I wasn’t born during Mick McCarthy’s first stint as Ireland manager. But I do know a little bit about it.
As an Armenian, this puts a smile my face :)
Fair Enough, coming from an Irish fan
Yep, fair play lads
I hope you enjoy it so someone benefits from my pain
@@4tyu3318 lol love the humble people, unlike the neighbouring country
How?
Love the Irish National Team vids, need to talk more about them and the SPL or Championship but love the content every single video either way❤️
As a romanian I can only feel for u as we are in the same boat as you, we lost to Armenia too in the last qualafiers, he haven t qualified to a world cup for almost 24 years and currently sit on 0 points in the Nations League after losing to Montenegro and Bosnia:(
We should have won that group... If we continue to play like this, we will relegate to League C surely
@@adrianmusetoiu202 if we continue like this they need to make a League E where we play against U10 teams because otherwise we can't beat nobody
@@decebalus321your back in the euros now which is good
Our team is a real shambles. Losing to Luxembourg in Luxembourg was bad but I could handle it. Losing to Armenia was one step too far but then losing to Ukraine at home is absolutely crap. The fans in the stadium should be ashamed because the Ukrainian fans were louder than us when we’re stereotypically meant to be one of the loudest fans in the world. We’re absolutely shite. Get Stephen Kenny out immediately. We’ve fallen a long way since Charlton.
Now onto the players. Our players are also awful. We used to have players in the top teams of the Premier League now there are no Irish players in the top teams of any league
Actually the loss against Luxembourg was in Dublin 😅
There’s a pretty legitimate reason why Ukrainian fans are as passionate as they are
Our best player literally plays for Rotherham United, speaks volumes about what kind of a squad we are 😭
Armenia is way better than Luxembourg
@@EscEric-Loup I must’ve erased that fact from my head or at least hoped we were beaten away
It's systemic. Ireland doesn't produce the calibre of player anymore. It's not exactly the mangers fault. There are good players out there but they're all in the championship. Nothing wrong with that. A championship team should beat Armenia if it was allowed.
People in Ireland have been calling for a change for years. At this point, its looking like a total review, uprooting and development that could take years to change. IMO that's what needed. Top down. Delaney has been at the head for along time and player quality has been devolving.
There are plenty of good players in Ireland and that have declared for Ireland. They are not the quality as of before, it happens.
I'd like to add. He shouldn't have been appointed, not because he was a successful Loi manager but because he had no real experience in a top or even mid level job. Big jump going from LOI to National.
Dyche is an absolutely perfect fit for the Ireland job. Made championship players for half a decade at Burnley Prem players and massively overachieved and got European football with them one season somehow. Reckon he'd do similar things getting Ireland to a Euros...
Question is, will he actually accept the job?
Not a chance, Internationals team below us left that style of football behind a long time ago and have success, we can't go backwards 🤷
@@BigSmokeMUFC doubtful tbh, he could definitely get a decent championship job and potentially a Prem job if a team was in trouble! Not much for him to gain by managing Ireland either you'd have to feel
@@billmolloy4053 Ireland are never gonna play a pretty style of football. A rugged manager like him to shithouse some wins is exactly what a team like yours is all about
@@jakobward6983 That's what they said about the teams below us in the rankings and yet they still did and have done well doing it 🤷
As an Armenian this is fantastic it is revenge from 2011 where we were screwed out of Euros by Ireland...the older players remember the travesty of reffing in that game.
I'm not aware of this. What happened in that match? I know Ireland won.
@@krisgordon3116 basically in the 13th minute the Armenian keeper was given a straight red for hands on the ball outside the box and "denying a goal scoring opportunity" well video replay showed that it went off his chest and he was fouled by the Irish attacker. Well they had to throw in an inexperienced keeper ended up losing 2-1. Had they won they would have made their first Euros.
@@felixsoheili1154 Ah. OK. Thank you very much.
@@felixsoheili1154 good thing it was the nations league than. tinpot county🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@felixsoheili1154 So you admit it wasn't Ireland that screwed you, it was a bad decision. Were you expecting Ireland to say "no wait, we've just watched the TV and he didn't handball it"?
Stephen Kenny makes Southgate look like Jürgen Klopp.
Alfie’s video on how broken the Irish FA sheds a lot of light on why the national team is so ineffective. Prioritizing money over development of players and hiring managers with actual experience.
Reminder:Armenia was TOP of their WC qualifying group for a few matchweeks.
They could be in major tourements in the near future.
That group has Germany in it btw
Please dont give us hope they always disappoint me
Yeh, I’m disappointed as well. Kenny just doesn’t haven’t the players, #kennyout , he has to go blud
I'm English, but it's sad to see when most of the Ireland squad and its best players are ones who only chose to play for Ireland because they wouldn't get into the England National Team. I understand that if you have the chance to play for multiple countries that you try to choose the best one to further your career and to try to win trophies. But I do feel that Grealish and Rice should be playing for Ireland, not England. The quickest way for Ireland to improve is for these players who are most likely trained at English clubs from when they were young to choose to represent Ireland and not England. Long term wise, the standard of Irish League football needs to be raised by getting enough investment into the Irish Football league system. I know its not so simple but that's the way to get long term results with higher quality players playing for Ireland in my eyes.
I'm English and it's great to see...
Thanks mate just got over pat fenlon being hibs manager and that small clip has brought the PTSD
As a Latvian I feel your pain
Ha, vēl kāds no LV šo skatās? Jauki 😃
Without Mkhitaryan, too. Impressive.
Armenia play better without him tbf. He is world class but his problem is he refuses to defend at any point. It was why he left Jose at Man U and Roma.
Never mind, he retired this year from international football. That explains his absence.
@@felixsoheili1154 world class💀💀💀💀
@@felixsoheili1154 he's a striker he rarely has to come back anyways
As a Faroese, I feel proud being brought up by the Irish guy in a video. my country is a laughing stock. we have no business playing international football and yet, Germany narrowly beat us 2-1 and in that match, we were a nose hair away from a 2-2 draw when in the dying minute we hit the post with one of our few attempts on goal that didn't go in. but still. this is a team that has lost 8-0 to Yugoslavia in the past. we are a joke. and yet, are closer to Ireland in the Rankings than they are to England lol!
I mean Yugoslavia had some world class players, it's like saying losing 8-0 to the Netherlands nowdays, which wouldn't really be a shock result
Klaksvik did beat Xisco's Dinamo Tbilisi 6-1 that one time...
faroe islands have been improving recently though
@@cotnesiradze3520 that is true and it was a shock to everyone here I think :)
Your country isnt real you are danish
I mean, our approach to non-Irish enterprising sports in this country is an abomination really. Lots of funding for Gaa, lots of funding for Rugby, sports that Ireland have some kind of large presence in (Gaa being associated with Aussie Rules, Rugby isn't played by many and bar a small number of emerging nations it is shareholded by just a few countries, including us).
The Jack Charlton years were a fever dream, where across the pond they had not become crowded with foreign players, foreign players were a small contingent of squads, now they'd be in the dominant %s for any premier league team, Brentford for example is probably 30% Denmark, 30% England, 40% others. Manchester United recruited Roy Keane and Denis Irwin while also having Kanchelskis and Schmeichel, and the rest was English/Scottish. In those days instead of scouting some cosmopolitan name Alex Ferguson would first try closer to home invite himself over to some prospects house have a cup of tea and get them signed. That would never happen now, and he was the best and could turn his nose up at that simplicity if he wanted but he never did.
Irish players back in the day were left on their own to make it or break it and they had s much better chance of making it as they were close by. At most clubs now they have invented dozens of jobs for people involved in player recruitment and they take it seriously as if y'know, it was a job that had to be done well. Roy Keane basically isn't going to turn up at the door of a legendary figure like Brian Clough anymore and hash things out, they have to go through meeting after meeting after meeting 'networking' around the right people just to even be considered. As they don't get much help they find their way into League 2 which is not a very stable division, one year your team could be doing decent and then the next it could be the shits. If it's the shits everybody in the squad looks bad.
The Irish FA don't have as much chance of a share of the market in a game that is welcomed by loads and loads of cultures where the most successful nations are leaps and bounds in the ascendency. There is little incentive to invest when Irish sport sits sweetly in our more home based affairs.
And thus the FAI accordingly does not give the single littlest shit about our performance in football. The League of Ireland is amateur and anyone who gets out of it has to hit the ground running at their first English/Scottish club because they are woefully unprepared to be competitive professionals.
I'm far from surprised at our current dearth.
I'm loving seeing some of the younger lads go further afield than the UK. Josh Cullen at Anderlecht seems to have been the first but Ebosele going to Udinese and Cathal Heffernan at AC Milan seem to be trailblazing what is hopefully a new attitude amongst the underage players. Apparently Jorge Mendes is the agent of a decent amount of LOI players too, so it looks to be something really promising
How come your league is amateur? You have more residents than Croatia, and our league is professional even though most clubs are watched only by few hundreds spectators on average
@@anteveic327 Corruption in the FAI and incompetence throughout. HITC Sevens did a good video on John Delaney, who was the worst of them in the FAI, showing how he is responsible for a good bit of what's currently wrong with Irish football, as well as touching on the culture of business in the FAI. Ultimately the FAI chiefs felt they deserved to be paid more instead of using the money properly to fund the leagues and fund youth development, the standout reasons among many others that a football association exists for. Until some actual accountability is placed upon those in the management positions of the FAI, we'll probably never see a better standard in our domestic game. Terrible really
Glad Ireland is learning how we feel in NZ.
@@anteveic327 it's not
When I was a kid I remember rooting for Ireland other than my national team, since I'm Italian and Trapattoni is a legend, plus our flags are similar so I followed some Ireland matches. And I also remember Trapattoni winning you a Nations Cup trophy.
We are forever grateful for that nations cup as it puts us on 1 international trophy since 1966 and England have 0
@@macs6557 AHAHAHAH only respect for you Irish
5:25 The Netherlands did, with Danny Blind starting as assistant under Guus Hiddink, and replacing him after the Euros. We promptly failed to qualify for the Euros, even though 24 countries including the likes of Albania and Northern Ireland did, and then failed to qualify for the World cup as well, so you can tell just how well that turned out.
At the same time, I do kind of get the Blind decision in a certain way. I don't know how much of this is true/valid, seeing as I'm just copying things I picked up on the internet, but Blind had been assistant-coach for 3 years, and the KNVB had the same idea as the German national team in mind with Joachim Low, have him gain experience as an assistant coach and eventually take over after Hiddink left when Holland qualified. The difference was, though, that Low had proven to be a competent coach before, and the only thing Blind did as a proper manager was guide Ajax to fourth in the Eredivisie.
The League of Ireland needs investment, we’re relying on players from league 1 and the championship. I know GAA will always be more popular, but football is huge here too. If proper scouting was implemented and if the FAI properly invested into our own league, we could produce great talent.
Irish people spend 100 million a year traveling to the UK to watch football games
I've been waiting for this since saturday
Nice, the irish guy finally crossed 130k subscribers. A couple of years ago we fought here, now i am rooting for him
The Kenny joke and the RevBoii diss 😂😂😂
Don't worry mate, I'm from slovakia and we are going down together, from 15th place in 2016 down to 45th, lost to kazakhstan and struggling to beat azerbaijan... the state of our football is shambolic at the moment
As a romanian i can feel your pain
Thank the Irish guy for the Revboi dig
Belgium did waste years of our "golden generation" on a Belgian coach: Marc Wilmots. Even when after a major tournament we heard from players that we didn't even train set pieces.
Why you put quotation marks when saying golden generation it's the truth
@@jamesvaughan7473 because they've won nothing. Semi-final of a world cup, yeah we actually already did that in 1986.
Look, undoubtedly we've had a great generation the last 10 years, but what does "golden" mean?
@@jorisdegeest9621 you don't have to win things to be considered a golden generation pal
Our God damn team is a joke
How on earth do you lose to God damn Armeina ffs
I mean, Armenia is a decent team lately tbh
They did not score even though they dominated the majority of the match
Hey we aren't that bad we drew against Croatia. But also lost 9-0 to Norway because out Skip broke his arm, a red card both full backs got injured and we had a striker playing CB by the end of the game.
Hahaha dude try losing 6-1
Armenia is better yknow
Duffer has brought Shels to 6th a third of the way through the season currently ahead of Bohs, Drogheda, Harps & Ucd. We've picked up massive points against Derry & Sligo and recently won 4 outta 4 until we were unfortunately beaten by Rovers. Duffer is a quality manager, we currently have no out and out number 9 and again we're 6th. Duffer master class Ireland would be lucky to have him as manger. Hopefully he stays with us at shels but 1 day he will be ireland manager cause he's actually class
Irish Guy... I feel your pain. Thanks for the Trinidad and Tobago mention. We must be the worst ever world cup team. Zero goals in the 2006 world cup, 4th place in CONCACAF and that was historically our greatest performance. 😂
Thank Don Leo Beenhakker for that!
Boyyy... the way I was excited just to hear us mentioned in a video about football that wasn't about corruption in FIFA...*whistles in Jack Warner*
But you guys actually got a point aganist Sweden in the World Cup. Didn't you?
@@aricato4399 yes they have.
I watched the match!
@@aricato4399 True. I guess I'm venting a bit. But when this is the greatest thing that we can achieve in football and we're good with that...
I just think that we need to strive for better. I can empathize with the Irish Guy because he wants better for Ireland too. Winning is fun. Participation is fun but winning is better! We have to start with the attitude of winners and it doesn't appear that we want to.
We’ve all being waiting for this 😂😂
I've been waiting for this one 😂
Imagine Mourinho managing Ireland. Irish Guy’s wet dream
Are you kidding that was the greatest moment in football
incoming response video from the armenian guy
We lost 5:2 to Georgia.. Yeah we actually suck.
It's okay, North Macedonia feels the same ;)
Now you drew 1-1 with Gibraltar... 😬
When perukata is still in charge of the BFU there is no chance for Bulgarian football to improve
To be fair I've been reading all the comments about how the "Golden Generation" was fake, but obviously we weren't playing 16 year olds
I'm Scottish so I can relate to Ireland a lot in terms of International football. The first thing I've noticed is Irish people genuinely seem to have very high expectations for their national team and with greatest of respect I'm not 100% sure why. You don't have a strong domestic league, you don't have a great reputation for producing great players consistently, your tournament pedigree was a long time ago and I'm not even 100% sure football is the most popular sport in Ireland. You need to accept that anything you may have achieved in the past isn't the standard, it's a massive over achievement not the normal. I also think you have a generation of people like the Irish Guy himself probably who've grown up watching nothing but EPL and UCL, incredibly financially doped football so they think all football is like that. You don't watch average football on a weekly basis so you're expecting standards that can't be delivered.
This isn't me having a go, Ireland are always an asset to tournaments and I hope you get back soon and I'm aware that you'll probably beat us on Saturday now purely as a result of me typing this. :)
I don't think the expectation is that high, certainly not for me anyway. Like all we want to see is a bit of effort and the odd shock result against a bigger team, but that should be hand in hand with beating weaker sides.
We've got players who are playing at a higher level than the likes of Luxembourg and Armenia (overall I should say, I know there's a few UCL players for them), so we should be beating them.
After the last 2 games, the players said the same thing about how passing isn't quick enough. Add to that the confusion about how to defend set pieces, needless long bouts of ball carrying, and the senior experienced players falling off a cliff and we're just fed up. It's a core of senior players who aren't good enough anymore and play badly every game, fed by management continuing to select them every time regardless. Stephen Kenny seems to want to implement a system, but is doing it as if it's a club team. Shane Duffy isn't Thiago Silva and Hendrick isn't Pirlo. There's not gonna be any expansive, front foot displays with this squad, but he seems almost stubborn about it. Very annoying
Football is Ireland 4th sport behind gaelic football, hurling and rugby😅
Not a chance we beat Scotland. Your national team is so clear of ours currently, we’d be happy with a draw
Nah we have no chance against Scotland. McTominay will even get on the scoresheet ffs.
I’ll put it to you- would you be angry if Scotland lost to Luxembourg and Armenia?
That South Park joke was so good, because Kenny always dies.
Dark indeed 🙈😂😂
I knew this was coming after full time
"Having your manager be the same nationality as your club is a fantasy."
*Laughs violently in The Netherlands*
I think he has earned the game against scotland after the performance against Portugal and Belgium, if obefemi starts and Hendrick is benched we could win
We only beat Italy as they had already qualified out the group and didn't really have to play or try
So?
Feel your pain man, it is the same with Bulgarian national team
The good thing is our expectations are so muted now its going ro be pretty easy for a new coach to impress.
Don’t knock the fact that Cheio Ogbene plays for rotherham, he’s been the biggest breath of fresh air to that Ireland side since that great run in 2016
3:41 That Iceland is familiar to me... Is that in Whitley Bay?
Now imagine how we (Poles) must’ve felt while we were 78 in the ranking and we were losing to Estonia
Tbf, with Belgium and Martinez, I have to disagree with you saying he's done an ok job.
The players they had, most of which all hitting their peaks at the same time, many actually being world class, they should have at the very least gotten to a final. Reaching a final would have just about qualified Martinez as having done an ok job, but they really ought to have actually won a tournament, especially one of the Euros. It's a crime that they didn't.
Martinez was a failure for Belgium, and I can't believe he's been allowed to be in charge for as long as he has done.
He's an atrocious manager. He finished 11th twice in a row with Everton teams that could've finished 5th.
@@sukhdevr3489 I'd actually put Everton's current woes partly on him. He was supposed to elevate them, with a new expansive playstyle after their time with Moyes, but instead he put them on a path of mostly wasted money on average players and no club identity.
@@metalswifty23 It was more Silva who wasted the money but yes he tried an expansive style and failed.
@@sukhdevr3489 Silva definitely wasted more, sure, but that's what I mean by saying Martinez started that culture, as he got the ball rolling. Players like McGeady, Alcaraz, Niasse, even Lennon in the end didn't do much for the club.
Certainly wasn't the big money that was to be wasted in the coming years with their current owner, but it didn't do anything to help them.
@@metalswifty23 Yes. He even benched Kevin Mirallas, who was a brilliant winger when used right, for his Wigan boys out of position like Cleverley and Kone A. At least McGeady was great on Fifa lol.
“Omg they killed Kenny”
It’s safe to say that the highlight of my international football life was when Scotland drew 0-0 with England at the euros
You mean beat?
@@sukhdevr3489 no I mean drew
@@jackwilson5305 The joke is that Scotland fans celebrated it like a win.
The Dig at Revboi aka his HITC successor or one of. Notice he never roasts James hope to see him collab with Irish Guy
Just wait till Saturday mate, well pump yous
Ireland : Loses a game*
Irish Guy : ITS A DISGRACE!! ITS A FVCKING DISGRACE!!
weve went 11 unbeaten in 12 games and were robbed in the loss vs Portugal and 2 losses and everyone wants him gone, then a huge 3-0 win to Scotland a 1-1 vs the strong Ukrainian team away from home with 5 big names for us missing i think hes made up for it, in his last 15 games, hes lost 3, i say give him the qualifiers, Kenny In
Would be cool if we could get the guy who won the Euros with Greece in '04.
had a feeling this vid was coming when i saw the result.🤣🤣
Could've sworn I've heard this tune before against Luxembourg
The Trinidad and Tobago mentions keep coming. We are actually massive.
Well at least we’ve still got the Eurovision
*Ireland doesn’t qualify since 2018*
Oh crap
Don’t forget, Irish guy called this the “golden generation” and he was snagging off England too.
This is not the year he was on about you fool. In 6-8 years.
@@theirishmadman313 You're Ireland. You'll never recapture the heady heights of 2002.
@@Jim-so3zm that wasn’t our peak, we peaked back in 1990 in Italy when we made it to the quarters of the World Cup
7:58 best Irish guy moment for ages💀💀😭
"25 places lower than Peru"
I guess we now have the usual Group D World Cup dark horse for Qatar 2022
You think being Irish is depressing? As a Romanian I have just seen my country loose 2:0 to Montenegro and we had no shot on their goal while our biggest rival Hungary won against England. In the last two years we have also lost to Armenia and Georgia.
Watching Ireland must be sad but trust me, seing the Romanian national team play is the most depressing thing
Same with us Bulgaria. We lost 2-5 against Georgia at home and we drew 1-1 against Gibraltar...
As a Latvian I feel you .
from el salvador here. haven’t been to world cup in 40 years and we barely scraped a draw to grenada in the nations league(ranked 170 something) 2-2. so embarrassing to watch
El Salvador will be a force in thd future if your country stabilises and the economy keeps growing. Tbh the best thing about the economic crisises is that less developed countries will get closer to more developed.
Greetings from New Zealand
Love the Irish guy and his videos, something tells me he has something against my country (Peru) haha I find it hilarious 😂🤣🤣
Peru is just not a very good footballing nation 🤷♂️
@@TOM.AFC123 not really, they’re actually getting better, better than Ireland
@@dvzero123 they are atm but not overall
Please do a video about the league of Ireland
2:57 “then clearly you’re about as popular as revboi”
Irish guys been off HITC Sport for two months and he’s already trying to start some beef
hitc football it’s now called. Just like a weak person after they’ve been dumped, they made a total makeover of the channel hoping to get noticed. And revboii, a half irish, half english boy but an England suporter will always rub Michael the wrong way.
Anyway, the channel in almost unwatchable now. They even removed James again for a reason I don’t know. He was the only one that was worth watching.
Watching this a day after we beat Scotland 3-0
Hi from Latvia. Our football's gone massively downhill. Sadly. Also, most popular sport here is hockey, by far. :/
Nah mate we have the goat uldrikis
spent the first 10 minutes of this video thinking "cor, if only sean dyche was irish, he'd shore up that defense" only to have my mind read. honestly, seems ideal- better than any other gig he's likely to receive (until november when some premier league manager inevitably gets fired a few months into the season). snap him up
"About as popular as RevBoi"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💔💔
I have no clue how Ireland lost, I was at the Scotland game yesterday and it felt like we should of won about 5-0. Never felt like Armenia were in the game. Can’t wait for September if Ireland will keep playing like they are 🏴🎉
You don't have to wait til September your playing us the weekend
I’m chilean but the problem with Ireland it’s that the players are englands left overs nobody play’s for the badge or the flag they play because they need international football I’m ok with players choosing the nationality of their loved ones but it’s shameful to see so many and already with poor management by the Irish fã the boys in green look doomed
Totally agree. That's what annoys me most about this group of players. It's not that there awful (which they are) it's the fact they just don't actually give a shit what happens to Ireland. In the Ukraine game the only bit of passion I saw was from Nathan Collins he was class and literally sprinting to take throw ins like. Nice to see at least someone who cares
I’ve said it since he was even hired that kenny was out of his league and shouldn’t have even been named in the running for the job and whenever I said this my family would just say “give it time. Give it time” now I’m laughing at them for not listening to me
Second greatest after saying no to my uncle.
Lol that made me cry.
In 2016 watching shaun maloney score the winner against Ireland at parkers
Give the job to Vera Pauw on an interim basis? She actually knows what she's doing. Moreover if one wished to employ additional lateral thinking to the Irish manager situation, let us consider Wayne Rooney or Vincent Kompany? Sean Dyche is a good fit however.
Give the job to Robbie Keane who you're still paying anyway..bring back "squad activities" and just pick the 23 maddest lads you can up for pints & put em under pressure
Kenny makes Steve Stauation look Like a managerial genius
Tonight's result - Republic of Ireland 3-0 Scotland. Well then.... 😂😂
The almost guaranteed one-per-video uncle jokes really make me wonder.....
It's either based on a real history... or a real jealousy and sadness that he didn't receive that kind of affection when one of his siblings/cousins did
Heeeyyy trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 up in here!!!
Please Irish guy do a video calling out the PFA guys for not selecting Heung-Min Son in the POTY nomination and PFA TOTY
As an armenian fan this is one of the few football games that dosent make me want to kill myself good job boyysss
Irish Guy's prediction strikes once again
I was at the Aviva Stadium for the 1-0 win against Germany it’s amazing how far Ireland have fallen Northern Ireland beat Greece 3-0 that night to qualify for the Euros they’ve also fallen away
Before playing against Deportivo, Shelbourne eliminated club from my city and it's considered one of the biggest disgraces ever for our club
He did it😂😂👏👏
If you DO sack Kenny who are going to appoint? For me if you want just Irish people then it’s either Chris Hughton or Brendan Rodgers
Well at least i am not the only one who has to see his national team decline. It's hard being romanian nowadays...
6:55 Wait did Giovanni Trapattoni manage the Vatican City national team? Actually on his Wikipedia page if u look it up 🤣
Haha , as a Latvian I feel your pain our team is full of scrubs without discipline and coached by a gym teacher. They call themselves 11 wolwes it's more like 11 chihuahuas on the pitch. But the root is your Fa that same of ours consists of wet teabags that don't know how to operate.