Ireland lose Four Nations opener

Mark McNulty was in goals and John Andrews centre half for the Irish eircom league U-21 side that was beaten 4-0 by the english side tonight. Bit of a baptismal of fire for the boys by the sound of it.

the english team were non-leaguers. throws a bit of a dampener on my belief that we have a higher standard than division three across the irish sea.

although i guess with our league going on there weren't many first team players on the irish side.

hopefully we'll beat the welsh if nothing else, memories of cymbran town :)

you have to remember that the age differance could come into it, all confrance players as far as i know they had an ex england international on goal cant remember his name and the confrance wouldnt nessesarly be better than el but this our 21`s and under so experiance played a factor i`d say