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Published 11:33 10 Sept 2018 BST
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"Too often it looks like nobody is exactly sure of their role when they go out to play the match. Tactically, the other night I would have said, 'Who is responsible for picking up Joe Allen?'https://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/brian-kerr-pinpoints-really-blame-irelands-slump-176463 "Any team, whether you were running the team, I was running the team or you were running the team, the first thing I would have said would be, 'Joe Allen and Gareth Bale are the two key players. How do we deal with Allen getting the ball from the goalkeeper when they play it out from the back?'
"Was there any plan to deal with it? No. Gareth Bale, take your chances. Let him go inside and shoot on his left foot. We might get lucky. It's not detailed enough. It's not good enough for the manager to say, 'Brian Clough, he didn't do it, he just let us go out and play'. That was 40 years ago!"You can watch Kerr here: https://twitter.com/vmsportie/status/1038864236020228098?s=12 Earlier in the show, Kerr criticised the leadership of Irish football, calling it a "shambles."
"We've had the same leadership for about 20 years now. Many of them are far too old for the modern game, to even understand it, yet they're directing operations. And right through the system, the system is failing us, we're not producing players and it needs radical action."You can watch that clip here: https://twitter.com/VMSportIE/status/1038821530602487808
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