I always said Trap the man for us ;)

Can't really understand why you doubted him.

Course you did Malcolm

I think the fact that he stopped selecting the likes of Kilbane (great servant but he's well past it now), Mc Shane and Green (no need for me to elaborate) has really stood to us.

Due to the fact he has done what was asked of him i.e get us to a major Finals i can no longer have any complaint over Trapatonni. I have had to eat a very large slice of humble pie and it tasted good!!!!!

This is a very good article summing up all of Trap's critics and critics of Irish Football in general...

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/silencing-the-chorus-of-boos-2940131.html

"One night on RTE Eamon Dunphy said that we had some of the best players in Europe. Poor Liam Brady nearly fell off his chair."

" There can be no arguing with the magnitude of Trap's achievement. Ireland were the lowest ranked team to qualify. At the time the draw was made we stood 25th in Europe. The next lowest ranked team to make it through were the Danes in 16th. Switzerland (13), Serbia (14) and Turkey (15) won't be there but Ireland will."

Larrybarginsbucket comparing our rankings to the rest of Europe shouldn't come into it imo unless we played them teams which we didn't. The only teams we should be compared to are the ones in the group we had and at the time that group was made I think everyone was very happy and very confident off getting second at least and then the luck ( luck we deserved) of Estonia getting second ahead of Serbia which resulted in us being second top seads and drawing Estonia gave us one of the

The easiest chances in years for us to get to a major.

Now I believe the easy work is done and imo Trap Will only be proven to be great if we get out of our group in the summer, which means winning one game and getting two draws. I don't fear us losing any game but also i think we will struggle to win any game also.

On a final note Trap deserves his contract till 2014 when he gets it.

Trapatonni like Mc Carthy and Charlton has restored confidence to this side. This will stand to them at the Euro Finals.
That said if we get a group of death we could still end up loosing all 3 matches even if we play well!!!