Have to agree. Team looked v tense arriving and seemed like a bad case of nerves. Not like Ireland at all.

can’t argue with those ratings – ireland – i hate to say – were shite

i’ve never seen an Irish performance in a championship so bad….tactics badly lacking… no plan B – why would so many players have such a bad game and all at once? Fck me Italy and Spain are going to murder us unless we stop defending in our own box – terrible Trap…terrible!

Unfortunately this is the level we are at. The only saving grace we can get from the next two games its to try to first save face, and second, blood young fearless players… Long for doyle, gibson for whelan (just because we have no one else), give mclean at least 30 mins. Duffer for me was the only player who tried his heart out, the two center halfs were in an arm wrestle for most of the game….

Completely outplayed, but luck and decisions weren’t on our side either.

Only tiny glimmer of hope now is that the pressure is off cause the team clearly bottled it in the hype of that match. So a miracle win will at least keep our campaign mildly interesting.

awful. embarassingly bad. really not looking forward to the Spain game. on the plus side, our fans, as always were brilliant.

Given was not to blame for two of the goals were was the backs o shay was shit , keane was a joke fighting with the ref in the tunnel , Doyle shit ,the changes made made a difference in tge second half .god I hope we don’t play like that in the last two games

Trap uses the same system if it’s Germany or Andorra …at this stage that will not work …Croatia are not a great side but our system is worse…

Robbie Keane should be stripped of the captaincy…he’s a hopeless player and doesn’t inspire his players. I’m no fan of Mick McCarthy but when he was captain there wasn’t a minute where you wouldn’t hear him barking out orders. On tonights performance, it’ll be a short lived tournament for us sadly.

Paul R well said to hear the fans singing at the end was making me so proud most other fans would have left with 20 mins to go .so I give them 10/10 and they will go out on the town to night and give the Irish ppl such a good name all over the world ,,, well done lads and have a drink for me !!!!!!!!

Found out, at last, sadly.

System is sh1t, as is the squad of players. This is why I retired from (attending) international games after 37 years (;-(.

Didn’t stop me bursting my lungs shouting at the telly, or teaching the kids new swear words though!

Sad night. Onwards!

a bad dose of diarrhoea for the Spanish team might, just might, give us some fighting chance. Otherwise we r screwed.

Ireland were not shite tonight. It basically boils down to, that we are just not good enough at this level. We just dont have the quality of players to make any sort of impact. This is the hand we have been dealt and trap as our manager is playing a type of football with players that are just not good enough. Croatia are by far technically superior to us. If the game ended in a draw we would of been happy cause we know we are punching above our weight. Get realistic and wake up. Any sort of result in our next game against spain and we will be celebrating. Good luck ireland and i will be hoping that we can pull something out of the bag against the world champions.

How come no rating for Trapatoni? My opinion 1 at a stretch

have to agree with above re Kevin Doyle, any touch at all and he was on the deck. someone made a point that we dont cheat like med teams, well, look at doyles carry on. hadnt the ability to hold the ball so he cheated. worse again, if he hadnt we wouldnt have scored at all. the way the croats closed them down tonight was exceptional, when we did that under jack the whole nation loved it. Like Croatia, we had players with real ability who were willing to slave on the pitch instead if stroke it about like they wanted to. Croatia were streets ahead, first to every ball, hunted in packs, used it well and had acres of space. It is difficult to give any Irish player more than 5. They were outmuscled, outclassed and physically beaten off the pitch.

There is a certain stupidity/naivety to thinking that the same formation/team/tactics that beat Armenia will beat Croatia.
Cox coming on was a crazy call- he fell over the ball twice for godsake

please remember you cannot criticize Ireland at all ! because you’ll be accused of being unpatriotic and not getting behind “the lads”

typical irish fans… when ireland are havin a bad day, kick them in the teeth when the going gets tough. We were great a week ago but why not now? People of Ireland…its time to get behind ur team, theres a long way to go, its not over yet… Tiocfaidh ?r l?, from a PROUD IRISH fan

Trap…… -10
On yer bike….

how is glen whelan a professionally paid athlete,spends most of his time hiding in the shadows,total bluffer

Feeling very proud that we have got here but without referees being given technology to help make decisions games like this will have, or any football games, will never be just. We lost – probably deserved – but fair or unfair decisions change every sporting event in lots of different ways. Unlike many of our European and Mediterranean counterparts we (generally) don’t cheat. God help us for the spanish and Italian games.

I wouldnt pick Robbie Keane again he is past his best by a mile.