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James Collins: 'We can bounce back from poor start'

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Stephen Kenny's Ireland remain pointless after their first two Group A qualifiers.
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James Collins is refusing to give up on his World Cup dream despite a disastrous start to the Republic of Ireland's qualifying campaign.

Ireland emerged from Wednesday night's 3-2 defeat in Serbia in the Group A opener with some credit, but that was blasted out of the water in Dublin on Saturday evening when they were humiliatingly beaten 1-0 by Luxembourg.

With Portugal and Azerbaijan waiting in the wings when the campaign resumes in September, Stephen Kenny's men are already staring elimination full in the face, although Luton striker Collins insists nobody is throwing in the towel as they turn their attention to Tuesday's friendly against World Cup hosts Qatar.

"There's no point in dwelling on tonight. You've got to accept it, we've got to digest it and we've got to be men.

"We've got to move forward. I can totally understand the point of view of the fans and everyone watching, it's not good enough. But we will do our best to rectify that."

The defeat left Kenny without a single win in his first 10 games and provided fresh ammunition for those who believe he is not the right man for the job.

However, Collins was adamant that it is the players who must bear the brunt of the criticism.

He said: "It's not the manager's fault, that performance tonight, the responsibility lies with the players. We're out there and we were the ones on the pitch putting in that performance, so I fully back the manager and all the staff.

"We should look at ourselves as players and try to do better and I'm sure that will be the case."

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