Scotland V Republic of Ireland - Friday, 14th November 2014 - Euro 2016 Qualifier

[geysir]

Gibson has made more headers in this game than in all his career previous.

[shakermaker1982]

Also how many times will our defenders fall for the one trick
Anya has?

[geysir]

I love these type of games, reminds me of a street league game from way back when, where the hated opposition were taken home on stretchers.

[Irish_Praha]

I love these type of games, reminds me of a street league game from way back when, where the hated opposition were taken home on stretchers.

Well it's anything but boring anyway :) Which we can't say about a lot of games we have played in the last 5 years.
Will be happy as long as we don't lose.

[Colbert Report]

Great cross in by McGeady.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

McGeady really needs to keep it simple..

[gastric]

Keogh is a spitting image of Sean Hughes the comedian!

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

No, stevi ritchie out of X Factor.

[Irish_Praha]

Better. Hope we can keep it going for more than 15 mins this half.

[Charlie Darwin]

McGeady really needs to keep it simple..
Doing a little better this half, seems to have calmed down and letting his normal game come out a bit more. We still need to get our foot on the ball though, we're being outplayed.

[geysir]

We're a 2nd half team

[Irish_Praha]

Keogh is a spitting image of Sean Hughes the comedian!

Looks more like Roger Daltery

[Colbert Report]

Time to yank McClean off for Brady, he hasn't done much at all tonight.

[tricky_colour]

http://www.rte.ie/sport/player/#!/live/41/

I take it you're not in Ireland? It's Ireland-only I think, so download Hola to set your location and watch it.


Thanks that is brilliant :encouragement:

Yes I have hola and it works great, HD!! :smug:

[Colbert Report]

Can't see us getting anything out of this, we should be 2-0 down at this point. Desperately need a substitution to switch things up.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Keogh's anticipation not good enough.

[Paddy Garcia]

Is Ward on the field?

[pineapple stu]

Is Ward on the field?
He's getting mentioned an awful lot anyway!

Quinn and Brady on. But no Keane (yet), interestingly.

[Colbert Report]

Quinn on for Gibson and Brady on for Long. Interesting. Would have brought Hendrick off as he's on a yellow.

[pineapple stu]

Could Quinn look any more like a leprechaun?

[Colbert Report]

Coleman and Keogh getting visibly upset at each other on the pitch after that mix up

[tricky_colour]

Could Quinn look any more like a leprechaun?

Needs a hat

http://fromtheslowlane.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/leprechaun-22.png

[osarusan]

We're hoofing it away too much, even when there are players available.

[pineapple stu]

Best piece of skill in the whole match. :(

[osarusan]

Wow, super goal.

[Irish_Praha]

Shiiit

[Irish_Praha]

yes great goal - worthy of a winner

[pineapple stu]

Keano on.

[Charlie Darwin]

Best piece of skill in the whole match. :(
Only piece of skill in the whole match.

[irishultra]

We suck.

[pineapple stu]

Only piece of skill in the whole match.
Has to be said, it was about the one time all match our defence completely went to sleep as well. Quite annoying.

[Colbert Report]

Looked like a great dive from Keogh

[pineapple stu]

Irritating thing about modern football #143 - the man of the match has to be from your team. Heaven forbid an opposition player get it.

[pineapple stu]

Aargh!

[irishultra]

We were muck

[tricky_colour]

Well first time I get to watch Ireland in HD and they lose! It sucks!

[tricky_colour]

Let's face it we didn't deserve any better. Mediocre all round at best.

[swinfordfc]

That was a joke - O'neill set up that team to just get a draw and he deserved what he got - nothing!

McGready did nothing all game! - we miss Whelan in the midfield as we totally lost the middle of the park.

Now the pressure is all on us - I cant see us beating Poland in March and we have to!

[Metrostars]

ah feck it

[irishultra]

That was a joke - O'neill set up that team to just get a draw and he deserved what he got - nothing!

McGready did nothing all game! - we miss Whelan in the midfield as we totally lost the middle of the park.

Now the pressure is all on us - I cant see us beating Poland in March and we have to!

They gonna walk it imo.

We were really awful, one of the worst performances I can remember by Ireland

[Charlie Darwin]

That's more or less cancelled out the good result in Germany, or more. Very few positives to take from that, except we now known Keogh can step up in a competitive match. Tactically, though, we were outdone and they look a much better-coached side than us and they played the occasion much better.

[irishultra]

We made Mulgrew look like Xavi.

[passinginterest]

If anything that really proved that 2 in the middle is pretty much redundant in international football.

[pineapple stu]

Poland and Germany will ease to qualification I think. Even though Germany are still flattering to deceive (4-0 against Gibraltar only)

Great result for Poland tonight.

Between us and Scotland for third. And I think the Scots have the edge. They're just one campaign further down the rebuilding trail than we are.

[mark12345]

That was a joke - O'neill set up that team to just get a draw and he deserved what he got - nothing!

McGready did nothing all game! - we miss Whelan in the midfield as we totally lost the middle of the park.

Now the pressure is all on us - I cant see us beating Poland in March and we have to!

Yeah, we really missed Whelan, didn't we. What a statement. You can't be serious.
We were poor all round as a team and could not string two passes together in their half.
Scotland far the better team. Held the ball, played with purpose. Didn't hoof it long like us (with a few exceptions).
Disaster for the goal. Hendrick was sold a dummy, Ward stood off the shot. And that's what you get.
But in all honesty, Scotland were the better team.
And McGeady did quite a bit in an attacking sense, but not enough obviously. But to say he did nothing.......

[irishultra]

I just see Ireland regressing more and more, while previously insignificant countries on the European stage eclipse us.

[mark12345]

"We know that Keogh can step up in a competitive match"

Step up to what - buy drinks at the bar in the players' lounge?
He is not of international standard at all. He is a free kick waiting to happen and 90 per cent of his passes were from his own penalty box into Scotland's.
Do you really think we should bring him to France, that is if we make it?

[abcd]

Really poor stuff. Hate when we make subs and you see Walters isolated on his own, you can pretty much guarantee we will be completely under the cosh. Was glad to see Brady come on but we had regressed into our shell completely. When you are defending as much as we were you will give up chances. The goal was poor but it should have come earlier. The whole incident came about due to Jeff Hendrick's stupidity. Really after the goal apart from right at the death Scotland were extremely comfortable.

Uphill struggle from here on in just for 3rd. Wins over Poland and Scotland at home now essential.

Even with losing tonight its looking good for NI with Faroes winning in Greece who look to have imploded completely since the World Cup.

We've been a bit unlucky with the group but unfortunately we are the 4th best team in this group.

[Colbert Report]

Keogh is simply not up to the standard we need. We really missed Wilson, McCarthy and Whelan today.

[swinfordfc]

Yeah, we really missed Whelan, didn't we. What a statement. You can't be serious.
We were poor all round as a team and could not string two passes together in their half.
Scotland far the better team. Held the ball, played with purpose. Didn't hoof it long like us (with a few exceptions).
Disaster for the goal. Hendrick was sold a dummy, Ward stood off the shot. And that's what you get.
But in all honesty, Scotland were the better team.
And McGeady did quite a bit in an attacking sense, but not enough obviously. But to say he did nothing.......

He cross one good ball - thats all in did in the whole game! ....... 90mins of football ... robertson clean him as he went forward at will and he could not help out coleman - sometimes coleman had 2 now his wing and McGready was just jogging back .... crap!