The charade needs to end. This is not the worst Irish squad I’ve seen in my lifetime
The leaders of international teams I played on from 1997 to 2011 always set the tone. The grit required to carve out results in places like Greece and Scotland comes from the everyday culture of a group.
Leave Robbie Keane up top without a pass for two possessions and he’d ignore the play to scream at me or Mark Kinsella or whoever decided that lateral play was the sensible approach. The equation is not complex. Experience plus desire equals a ruthless team. The essential traits needed to fill the green shirt are meant to be passed down the ages from Robbie Keane to Evan Ferguson, from Shay Given to Gavin Bazunu.
The good times can come again, and soon, if a ruthless team is built around Bazunu, Nathan Collins and Ferguson. Liam Scales has been decent for Celtic in the Champions League and Duffy is starting for Norwich City in the EFL Championship but Nathan Collins is the better player.
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