Republic of Ireland V Gibraltar - Saturday, 11th October 2014 - Euro 2016 Qualifier

So if FIFA rejected Gibraltar's application for membership, would it be correct that Ireland (or anyone else in the group) won't earn any coefficient points from a victory? I'm sure they wouldn't be worth very much anyway, but am curious all the same - apologies if that's been asked before.

And as to the result, if Ireland can't comfortably win a game like this, we don't have any right to talk about making the play-offs. This should be a non-contest, and it's up to us to get over our national anxiety about being the favourites, to show a little faith in ourselves for once.

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Originally Posted by DeLorean

It's the European Championships so FIFA have jack sh!t to do with it really. They're part of the tournament so whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant. I know it was a friendly but they still got a decent result against reasonably good opposition. San Marino in 2007 wasn't a friendly and we nearly came unstuck, I presume you didn't foresee us taking until the fifth minute of injury time to win that one? Or predict the draw in Vaduz?

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Was in San Marino and Vaduz, both embarrassing but away games, v.legitimate countries. And as others have said, we'll win!
Get over it...

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

No the singing section is the whole lower stand and the FAI told me its sold out.

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Amazed, if so, FAI trying to sell the dearer seats first I reckon, a ***** trick.
Try Slattery's, it's the new Ybig.ie meet-up or their site, be a load of spares tomorrow for such a mickey mouse game.

Could be a tough match, their defence is rock solid.

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Was in San Marino and Vaduz, both embarrassing but away games, v.legitimate countries. And as others have said, we'll win!
Get over it...

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Hopefully... with Hendrick on the left wing and Whelan recapturing his Stockholm form we should do it alright.

Even a team of Stephen Wards would beat that shower.

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Even a team of Stephen Wards would beat that shower.

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That's not that much of a handicap. If you were to have a team of just one player's abilities, then Ward would be one of our most versatile.

I think we're gonna win...

http://i.imgur.com/HvMihyf.jpg

Because of the Fat bloke, top right?

Someone needs to start a thread about ROI vs Gibralter.

Ireland could have called up a First Division best XI (without any Shelbourne and Galway players as they are preparing for the playoff) and still win.

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Originally Posted by The Fly

I think we're gonna win...

http://i.imgur.com/HvMihyf.jpg

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The guy with the No. 7 beauty bag isn't seriously smoking a cigarette, is he?!

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

The guy with the No. 7 beauty bag isn't seriously smoking a cigarette, is he?!

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Why wouldn't he? It never did Zidane any harm!!!

On a serious note it's not really the done thing for professional athletes in this day and age. But the rub is that he isn't a professional athlete.

Is that a trace of a beer belly too?! Even a semi-pro shouldn't have a paunch in this day and age.

I'd like to see some good passing and possession, some well-worked goals, and good individual performances from the midfield/attacking players, but it'll probably be a slog. This really is a no-positives affair.

We win comfortably? It's only Gibraltar.
We win by only one or two goals? We really are dreadful, there's nothing MON can possibly do with these players.
Anything less than a win? Abbotstown burned to the ground. Soccer abolished in Ireland.

Are they even Semi-Pros?

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Originally Posted by amaccann

So if FIFA rejected Gibraltar's application for membership, would it be correct that Ireland (or anyone else in the group) won't earn any coefficient points from a victory? I'm sure they wouldn't be worth very much anyway, but am curious all the same - apologies if that's been asked before.

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You pose an interesting question and it's not one I've seen asked yet. Just to be clear, the national team co-efficient usually refers to a UEFA ranking of European teams, towards which results against Gibraltar will count. I gather it's the FIFA ranking to which you're actually referring though. I would have to assume that FIFA simply won't acknowledge the results against Gibraltar for their ranking purposes. To be honest, it'll probably be to our benefit. If I recall correctly, France complained they'd been unfairly treated in terms of seeding for the World Cup 2014 UEFA qualifying play-offs as the determination as to which teams would fall into the two respective seeded and unseeded pots had been based upon the FIFA rankings. France had just finished second in the solitary group of five teams, so the FFF argued that all the other play-off teams had had two more competitive games than them allowing the others to accumulate more ranking points. I'm pretty certain, however, that France were actually shown to be better off without two games against sixth-pot minnows as avoiding such fixtures had meant there was no reduction in what was an average rather than purely accumulated calculation. The ranking points gained from such fixtures towards the overall total would have been so measly, they would have dragged the average over a set number of games down. I'm open to correction on that, but pretty sure that was the gist of it.

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

The guy with the No. 7 beauty bag isn't seriously smoking a cigarette, is he?!

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Yes I think as has been mentioned by others it is not unknown for top players to smoke.

It won't do you any harm, at least not in the short term I don't think, long term
is a different matter.
I seem to remember a while back there was a British female running athlete, medal
winning IIRC and I remember her saying her coach wanted her to stop smoking!!

Actually I think nicotine is a stimulaent so it might help, however it is pretty short acting
I think so you would have to be actually smoking whist on the pitch for it to have a positive effect.
It also causes a decrease in appetite which could have a real benefit if it helps control a persons
weight.

Oh and bye the way, when it is 0-0 after 50 mins.......

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Ballotelli http://foot.ie/images/smilies/friendly_wink.png

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Rooney and Berbatoov

Look at it this way, if smokes and gets picked he is probably their best player!!!

Gibraltar starting XI announced: https://twitter.com/GibraltarFA/stat...80289820971010

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Starting XI v @FAIreland J. Perez, Wiseman, R.Casciaro, R.Chipolina, J.Chipolina, Payas, R.Bado, B.Perez, Walker, Gosling, L.Casciaro

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