U21 VS Holland, Wednesday 6th 2012

[Charlie Darwin]

Emmet Malone on twitter is providing updates: http://www.twitter.com/emmetmalone

[Dodge]

Various Irish journos and friends at the game on twitter

[tetsujin1979]

extratime.ie are doing a live match tracker here: http://extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/107/2015/18807/1/

[Charlie Darwin]

3-0 now, penalty from Forde. Surprised O'Brien wasn't given the chance to seal his hat trick.

[tetsujin1979]

3-0 now, penalty from Forde. Surprised O'Brien wasn't given the chance to seal his hat trick.
O'Brien was taken off injured before the penalty

[Charlie Darwin]

Finished 3-0. Could have scored a few more by all accounts.

[DeLorean]

Ireland 1-0 up through Mark O'Brien.

edit: Aiden O'Brien

Speaking of which, why was he not involved?

[tricky_colour]

So how does that rate as a result? Are Holland's U21 rubbish or do we face a bright future?

[Charlie Darwin]

They topped their qualifying group for the Euros so they're a pretty big deal.

[TrapAPony]

Supposedly it was more or less a Dutch B team

[Supreme feet]

That was an excellent result. Even if it was a weakened Dutch side, our team wasn't exactly at full strength either, missing Cunningham, Hendrick, Egan, Brady and Henderson. If that U-21 team had gone away to a lower-ranked European side and lost 3-0, there would surely be murmurings of discontent and concern around these parts.

[DeLorean]

Mark O'Brien - Speaking of which, why was he not involved?

Ignore. Just read that he had to withdraw from the squad. Slight groin injury I think.

[Dodge]

Supposedly it was more or less a Dutch B team

We had as many debutants as they did apparently

[CraftyToePoke]

Weakened Dutch side or not, this is a fine win, delighted with the result.

[geysir]

Normally I wouldn't be into reducing an excellent 3-0 win against the Netherlands,
but I see they were playing in Croatia last night, beating the home team 3-2.

[tricky_colour]

Bit tough for them 2 games in 2 days???

[gastric]

Summary of game from RTE.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/irish/2013/0206/366519-irish-under-21s-shine-against-netherlands/?utm_source=NewsWhip

[Nagger]

Supposedly it was more or less a Dutch B team

Ireland u21 was actually playing the Dutch beloften elftal. Which is a team of players not yet ready for the U21 team, but to good for the u19 squad.

[geysir]

Then, basically the Dutch had their first choice squad out in Croatia and we played some other bunch of underage players.

[Kingdom]

Yeah but most of our first choice were scrubbing it for the Seniors, or were injured.

Positive's Geysir, positives. The sun must be due to rise again soon enough up there yeah?

[tetsujin1979]

few lads passed me in the stadium last night in Dutch tracksuits, presumed they were part of the u21 team?

[elroy]

If we win, we're not happy. If we lose, we're not happy. So all in all we cant win. QED

[geysir]

Yeah but most of our first choice were scrubbing it for the Seniors, or were injured.

Positive's Geysir, positives. The sun must be due to rise again soon enough up there yeah?
As I said, it goes against my grain to be a reductionist. The Dutch u21 squad was in Croatia, minus their u21 stars who were in the Dutch senior squad.
We played some other team. However, without doubt, there's a welcome different groove in the air with the u21's.
And daylight is grand these days in the northern extremes, we have daylight at 18.00 and our best friend, the Gulf Stream, still flows around the shores.
Save your caring and thoughtful sentiments for SkStu, who is truly in a dire straights situation and showing all the signs of it :D

[SkStu]

the storyline of the guy getting dressed by the door is me... :)

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