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I generally despise 'classical' takes on metal songs, the likes of Apocolyptica but this is different. In trying to find words to describe the tones I can only think of Eastern European music, which is interesting when you think that Chuck Schuldiner's surname is Austrian Jewish. Very cool, love it..enjoy


https://youtu.be/faaLYTFL-Uk

Haven't had an Irish release that turned my head as much in many years. Sounds really really good. Were these lads in other bands beforehand? Loads of Enslaved in there as said before but its own thing. Some proper guitar playing, even Metallicaesque bits. The standard BM vocal is probably the only thing that slightly disappoints, though enough variety to get over it. The way they have 2 vocals playing off eachother to give a feeling of flowing water/river-esque sounds is very very cool. Will pick it up at least on Bandcamp.

Halfway through it myself..just class

There was absolutely nothing wrong with this style of football. Well drilled, effective, passionate. But of course the fantasy football bunch know better.

https://youtu.be/gVkhtit5wHw

Richard Dunne bang on the money here. You need to set up to get the most out of the players you have, not try to impose a system that should work if only you had the players to make it work. That's management. We have structural issues but should still be able to take on and beat a minnow country like Luxembourg. A properly drilled team playing within their capabilities is well capable of beating them at home.

https://youtu.be/UKWnr5n9u10

I thought Mick was doing a very good job too but he's not Hollywood enough for the Irish media.

Every country has issues. Bottom line, if you don't have talented players then you need to adapt to the opposition and find other ways to win instead of jumping on the posession football bandwagon. Tighten up and try to dig out sone results. A 0-0 would be an amazing result against a team like Portugal even if we never had a shot on goal.

Watched The Dig with Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. A nice mellow watch about finding and excavating Sutton Woo. Nice old English countryside feel to the whole.thing with strong, nicely handled performances by all involved. Well worth a watch especially on a Sunday.

Have that on my watchlist but will have to bump it up. Didn't realize Carey Mulligan was in it; she plays protagonist in Promising Young Woman too.

She's a good actress. Was good in Shame too.

Not trying to rub salt into wounds here. The only thing that strikes me is that we used punch above our weight. We used the granny rule, we were smart, we got decent managers in. And of course, we had amazing players. 1 top.player makes a huge impact but needs 5 or 6 very decent players behind him to make things happen.

If you're Jack Grealish or Declan Rice, what about Stephen Kenny would attract you to come onboard? Now some will.say fuk them the Brits blah blah blah, but I'm sure John Aldridge and the likes needed a reason to play for us back in the day. It just doesn't seem very enticing. And we need to remember that pre 88 we weren't even this bad. We fell short but we had top top players in the team. I have a feeling Paul above is right. This didn't just happen overnight, it must come from years of letting the game slide. I get the feeling that Kenny is part of that slide rather than the answer to the equation though.

Watched The Dig with Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. A nice mellow watch about finding and excavating Sutton Woo. Nice old English countryside feel to the whole.thing with strong, nicely handled performances by all involved. Well worth a watch especially on a Sunday.

Optimism is fine as long as it's not delusion and it's clear that people have made up their mind about giving Kenny a chance when most of the evidence is to the contrary. Whatever you might think about Martin O'Neill, the man had played and managed at the highest level and yet everything he did was held under a microscope and shredded to pieces. The same rule is not applied to Kenny who is nowhere near as successful as O'Neill was.

In a team that dosn't have quality full backs you cannot expect to play 3-5-2 and get away with it. If we think we are going to play Portugal using 3-5-2 we are going to be murdered..literally dismembered. John Giles always says it and he's 100% right..you have to earn the right to play that way. You don't just start tiky takying and hey presto it all falls into place. Maybe they can use this campaign to try and put some order on what they're trying to do, but starting with a proper system, get the defence right before trying to become Liverpool might allow us to grab a 1-0 here or there.

I don't think for a minute you have to resort to Pulis or the likes. There's an effective middle ground to be found. We should play to our traditional strengths. It's clear the players don't have the basic skills that Portuguese, Spanish or French players have. You just have to walk around any estate in Ireland these days and there's a fraction of kids playing football than there were when we were kids. The basics are not there and that translates into the adult game. Tiki taka works when kids are playing football constantly in the street and then bringing that to their clubs at the weekend where a philosophy/style of football is adhered to across the board. You look at a lad like Diogo Jota..we have nobody comes even close to him.

Luxembourg have won 5 games in World cup history. We're their biggest ever scalp.

This delusion is incredible. Ah Cyprus, San Marino blah blah. Luxembourg haven't won an away game in qualifiers in 13 years. We have a manager who hasn't won in 10 games trying to implement a brand of football that only works when you have top quality professionals playing for you who are used to doing it week in week out. Everybody thinks they can be Barcelona now..nonsense. They have a culture of that way of playing that was implemented all through the levels going back to Johann Cryuff. We don't, and expecting it to suddenly begin to work when players are already in their 20's is ridiculous. There are many ways to play the game and winning breeds confidence, not how many passes you can put together.

We've never been anywhere near this low. Absolute shite and intentional looking past all the failings of the current management because somehow this lad knows better than the likes of Martin O'Neill, Giovanni Trapatonni, Mick McCarthy, Charlton, who all managed at top clubs in top leagues and knew tge limitations we possess and worked with them to try and win fukin games. But everyone's an expert nowadays. Pure delusion.

There was no saying it months ago. No Irish manager has ever gotten so many passes. Kenny miles out of his depth. The idea that league of Ireland is anywhere near the calibre required is a joke. You can pass all you want but if you can't bear Luxembourg it's time to call.it quits.