The problem lies in Abbotstown - the FAI have zero interest in producing players - there is no reinvestment in national league or youth levels! The FAI would rather bring in players from other countries!! The League of Ireland teams need to break away from the corrupt FAI for our homegrown players can be developed!

I mean don't talk about shite you don't know....

Ireland became woke by taking in non whites to the team to represent the diversity protocol.

Tbh i think that the best path we couldve taken was to scrap the league of Ireland in the 90s and join the premier League. There would be so many more irish teams if they were in thw premier League and woudl have way more viewers

Good video. I’ve been saying that for years and always get shouted down in the pub. If you want your country to do well you have to have a good home league. Stop buying Man U and Liverpool shirts and give your money to your local team. People who complain that Ireland are crap and at the same time support foreign teams are hypocrites. Also the reason rugby and GAA games are more popular is because they are well run. Simple. It’s an attractive entertainment. The football in Ireland story is a sorry tale of the foreign leagues being more attractive and the criminal running of the FAI by Delaney. What a crook.

The primary focus should be on Futsal or 5 a side football. How many times have 11 a side underage teams struggled to make a team on the weekend before a match outside of Dublin? In Futsal each player will get more touches and is involved in every play, thereby developing quicker. In 11 a side, especially underage, you may only get about 2 seconds of actual ball time, not to mention the poor goalkeeper. There are proven systems in countries with similar populations - Croatia, Belgium and Iceland. ZERO attempt to learn from them or acquire their expertise has been made. BTW the FAI are the same group of cronies since Delaney's time, just extended cronies but there's links between all of them. Disgusting organisation that is using tax payer's money.

The premier League happened that was the real reason

Player's in our heyday would role up their sleeves and get stuck in. Not now! These players are pure dross and not good enough to wear the shirt...The FAI are still lining their own pockets as recent events have shown... The League of Ireland is growing year on year, no thanks to the FAI... National TV seems to have caught on, but alas they give pittance to the Clubs for broadcasting their games. I'll go watch the Drogs and leave the FAI to sort out the mess they continue to Can kick down the road!!?

There's more. You should look up the history of the city of Utuado. It was founded by Sebastián de Morfi, which actually translates to Sebastian Murphy, who was an Irishman.

They ran out of English players

A couple of things to set you straight on. (1) The Irish national team is heavily dependent on the English game - that's correct. But it is not to the detriment of the game at home. No, the prize for the abject failure of the game at home goes directly to the people involved in it. If you think differently, just imagine Jack Charlton having only LOI players to work with during his tenure. He would have got us to 2 World Cups and European Championship? Yeah right. (2) John Delaney and the FAI in general can be blamed for a lot, an awful lot to be honest. But despite their shenanigans there was no one ever stopping any coach in Ireland from coaching our kids the correct way. I mean you can go to the poorest countries on the planet and they coach their kids the correct way - technique, technique and more technique. And then tactics. We don't know how to do this in Ireland - simple as. (3) And that brings up coaching. Oh that's right, we don't have any - proper coaches capable of teaching the above to our kids, that is. Where would we be likely to find proper coaches who can teach children the fundamental skills from the earliest age? Try basically any country in South America or Africa where the FAI could have imported the services of youth coaches for next to nothing. (As an aside........why is it left to punter like me on the internet to offer a solution to the coaching problems which beset Irish football?) (4) And finally, for a bit of background, I played at LOI level myself (back in the day). Emigrated to America and learned more about the game in 6 months in America than I did in my whole young life in Ireland. Why? Because I began playing against Italian, Brazilian, Polish, Portuguese teams etc. They had and still have a whole different approach to the game. I would like to think that in the years since I left Ireland, things have changed with Irish football. But it seems there is never any progress towards a team that plays like a functioning team (ie. defends robustly, creates from midfield and finishes opportunities created). And if you think it can't be done, then look at Croatia, look at Chile, look at Belgium and Uruguay. The great Irish creative players and finishers over the years were Brady, Hoolahan, Keane Roy, Givens, Keane Robbie, Stapleton, and, at a stretch, Niall Quinn. Not great is it? So in essence the problem that needs fixing in Irish football is coaching - we need to teach the young kids how to beat a man, how to finish a chance, how to trick defenders with feints etc. But unless we have someone who was actually able to do that in their time, we're wasting our time.

A couple of things to set you straight on. (1) The Irish national team is heavily dependent on the English game - that's correct. But it is not to the detriment of the game at home. No, the prize for the abject failure of the game at home goes directly to the people involved in it. If you think differently, just imagine Jack Charlton having only LOI players to work with during his tenure. He would have got us to 2 World Cups and European Championship? Yeah right. (2) John Delaney and the FAI in general can be blamed for a lot, an awful lot to be honest. But despite their shenanigans there was no one ever stopping any coach in Ireland from coaching our kids the correct way. I mean you can go to the poorest countries on the planet and they coach their kids the correct way - technique, technique and more technique. And then tactics. We don't know how to do this in Ireland - simple as. (3) And that brings up coaching. Oh that's right, we don't have any - proper coaches capable of teaching the above to our kids, that is. Where would we be likely to find proper coaches who can teach children the fundamental skills from the earliest age? Try basically any country in South America or Africa where the FAI could have imported the services of youth coaches for next to nothing. (As an aside........why is it left to punter like me on the internet to offer a solution to the coaching problems which beset Irish football?) (4) And finally, for a bit of background, I played at LOI level myself (back in the day). Emigrated to America and learned more about the game in 6 months in America than I did in my whole young life in Ireland. Why? Because I began playing against Italian, Brazilian, Polish, Portuguese teams etc. They had and still have a whole different approach to the game. I would like to think that in the years since I left Ireland, things have changed with Irish football. But it seems there is never any progress towards a team that plays like a functioning team (ie. defends robustly, creates from midfield and finishes opportunities created). And if you think it can't be done, then look at Croatia, look at Chile, look at Belgium and Uruguay. The great Irish creative players and finishers over the years were Brady, Hoolahan, Keane Roy, Givens, Keane Robbie, Stapleton, and, at a stretch, Niall Quinn. Not great is it? So in essence the problem that needs fixing in Irish football is coaching - we need to teach the young kids how to beat a man, how to finish a chance, how to trick defenders with feints etc. But unless we have someone who was actually able to do that in their time, we're wasting our time.

Extremely simplistic take

Acquiring talent via "The Granny Rule" only went so far....the LOI was indispensable as well and the Premier League owes them a sizeable debt....Roy Keane being the most obvious one but also John Giles, Liam Brady, Tony Dunne, Paul McGrath, David O'Leary, Kevin Moran, Frank Stapleton, Ronnie Whelan and of course our new interim manager John O'Shea....some of the best players to ever grace their pitches, we gave them on a silver platter.....John Delaney let LOI atrophy over the 20 years he was in charge...causing it to lose that core function of developing dangerous players that go on to ply their trade in the neighbour's garden and when they're called up for international duty, they're locked and loaded because they have the experience of playing both with or against many of their opponents in the World Cup and the Euros....

Irish football's biggest problem is its own football league. Just look at those countries that don't have a competitive football league like Estonia or Moldova. Irish football remains in the European League B because there are the English who have the Irish grandfather and those few talented pure Irishmen play in the premier league.

You ignore the fact playing for england instead of ireland has huge funancial gain these days. International football is 2nd to club football these days.

Pigs will fly when Ireland win a cup

the rise of support for LOI teams in the last few years is promising but until the fai get their act together nothing will change unfortunately.. up the bohs ⚫🔴

Soccer just isn't well supported. Almost every GAA club in the country has their own ground and is the heart of every community.

cuireann siad an milleán ar an gaa...

I would never called Ireland football giants, never

The Saipan affair poisoned the well. When the "feel good" factor was taken out of the equation the Ireland set up became a less attractive entity to be around (both for fans and prospective players). Ireland could go into a future world cup as bookies favorites to win and I don't still think the Irish public would even care as much as they did back in the Charlton/McCarthy years, because there is now a disconnect between the public and the players.

3 letters. FAI

I reckon if there was a United Ireland Football Team like the rugby team, they would become a real good team. Might be alright now.. but overtime theyd get better and better and not as many English fuckers would leave us.

Back in 2002 it was all soccer everyone wanted to go pro these days we focus on the IRFU

LOI and FAI had ample opportunity to market and fund the game here, but couple that with the reign of John Delaney means we are where we are and probably decades from having a proper competitive team again. The Argentine FA was on the verge of bankruptcy as well and nobody wanted the job around 2018 until it was thrown at Scaloni. But look at the constant conveyer belt of talent coming through?! Kids from impoverished backgrounds hungry to succeed. It’s far more nuanced and highly complex but JD well and truly fucked football in this country along with poor governance, funding and management across the board from grassroots up. But the one country Ireland could definitely devise a case study on is Uruguay. Their Baby Futbol program is the reason why they churn out world class talent almost every year as the grassroots level of football in that country is highly professional and funded properly. A country with a smaller population than us, and doesn’t necessarily have other sports, if any, picking up talent. We are without a doubt probably still relying on some old crusty Guinness farts Padjo with a file-o-fax and dusty fax machine waiting for leads instead of building up contacts outside these isles. Facts. P.S. I’d love to see the Irish team like the Slovenian one - virtually the whole squad dotted throughout Europe instead of us lobbing all the eggs in one basket and hoping for a team in the lower leagues in England. Unfortunately because of cultural ties and language most kids are off to England whereas jaunts further afield would without a doubt improve a child’s development just the same if not even more in the UK [albeit more and more kids are going to continental Europe in the last decade].

Ireland are not bad at all, one of the few European countries to reach a world cup 1/4 final...

Multi culturalism in england finished off the Irish at pretty much everything. The big clubs in the premier league wouldn't look at the good irish players anymore, much easier to sign players from other countries. Same with the building sites im England, the look to eastern europe, asia and africa to find employees, ireland gets ignored

Aldridge etc played for Charlton as much as for Ireland ☘️

I believe a personality like Jack Charlton was still in charge we would have grealish rice etc playing for Ireland 🤔

Very good video, brief but gives all the useful information. I wouldn’t be surprised if I blinked and you went from 311 subscribers to 311,000

1:33 "They give everything and that's what counts" ... "I'd like to say Hello to my mother"

great video

Nah, we just had a 5 year period where we weren't embarrassingly poor

The curse of the cult of so called coaching - targeting first gifted midfielder to yield creative autonomy or else! Enter the era of obedient midfield stiffs, expanding ultimately to 11stiffs now.

STOP

Hopeless team they're awful

Caomhin Kelleher won the premier league in 2019/20 with Liverpool

The FAI are as corrupt as the government. Charging 100e to see a bunch of amateurs who have no 1st class facilities to develop and blossom..Brown envelopes everybloodywhere

kenny in

To many potatoes 🥔

What about Caoimhin Kelleher? Didn't he win the Prem with Liverpool in 2019/20?

What has happened to us we used to produce talented names such as Roy Keane, Paul Mcgrath, Dennis Erwin, Robbie Keane and Damien Duff now the only good one we have is Ferguson but he is young and cant carry us to a world cup *sigh* before i die i just wanna see us in a world cup tournament im 20 so i have a long way to go so hopefully 🤞 anyways brilliant video on the issues irish football is going through top stuff 👍

Many factors into the mix but another for me is the current obsession with these what I would call systems over everything type managers. Many of them are like cookie cutter managers coming out with their UEFA licenses. They know all the nice cute drills and passing sequences. They bring it onto the training ground and think they can be the next Pep. They must play short and out of the back etc etc. Its all so one dimensional. If you want to go back to the idea of total football and the great Ajax side of the past, they were a side who could play short, direct, long, pretty, ugly, dirty. The clue was in the name. They could adapt and do what they had to win. It didnt always have to be 5 yard passes side to side. Now we have midfielders who wont spread the first time ball to the wing when a player is free to attack. They will play 3 passes nice and safe to get it to the player and the space is gone by the time it gets there. And we will hear about the fantastic passing stats and ball possession. This is the metrics they currently worship. Overcoaching is killing natural instinct and restricting talent to play the game as they see it in the moment. You still have tactics and structure with this of course but you dont micromanager players down to them being so robotic. I am getting sick of the direction the game is heading in tbh. There is nothing wrong with being real with the group you have in front of you and playing to their strengths. Sometimes that means looking at the group and being good with going direct. It doesnt mean it is caveman football. The beauty of this game is there are so many ways to skin the cat. Its somewhat ironic that the group Big Jack had could have played Kenny's football brilliantly and the group kenny has would be more suited to Big Jacks football. Ireland need to go back to being pragmatic and drop the idealism. Put some fight back into the performances, show the so called fighting spirit that used to be on display. Technically they will be better than us but they wont outwork us.

Great video mate, I enjoyed that

Oh man, that point about the FAI improving has not aged well

Keep em up. Just came across this channel.

I literally just heard of Americans wanting to invest €90 million into league of Ireland but FAI declined it. morons that’s just what they needed

Ireland wasn’t a British colony

A good percentage are Celtic supporters as well and the north has alot of rangers and Celtic, alot of celtic an rangers season ticket holders are based in Ireland aswell.