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Originally Posted by DeLorean
I've done malmo to Copenhagen. easy journey and you get to drive over that cool bridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Agreed Tricky. But I've seen more than 1 of our players miss the entire pitch with simple passes. If Randolph got his head over it and thumped it it would take some saving the way he hits them.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
I was disappointed by the presale. Long gone by the time I got there.
Don't worry, I'm sure you can go back and pick up McGoldrick or Maguire.Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
Superb work CDQuote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Anyone up for trying this pizza place in Copenhagen? It has great reviews the internet over and a few on yelp.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/pizzeria-ma...t_by=date_desc
I only eat pizza at Skinflint.
What is that?
It's where Crackbird used to be. You'll never come home at this rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrisLetang
Some injury updates on Coleman, Walters, Duffy and Maguire from O'Neill yesterday: http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/socc...onder-11359467
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Originally Posted by Paul O'Hehir
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Originally Posted by backstothewall
Especially if it goes over the bar!
On the plus side Darren has never missed a penalty, however he has never scored one either as, as far as I know he has never taken one.
This would seem to confirm.
https://www.transfermarkt.com/darren...wettbewerb_id=
So he is an unknown quantity as far as penalties go.
When I was thinking about penalty takers the name Jeff Hendrick sprang to mind, he is an unknown quality too though.
I think he would be pretty good at them, as to why well I think could offer this as evidence, he beats two defenders and the keeper at 1.17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6sXRc_BgE
Not the same as a penalty though but he looks a pretty cool customer there under pressure.
I could be massively wrong of course, they need to sort out the penalty takers in practice, to at least weed out the ones
who are hopeless in practices. We will find out who are hopeless as the real thing should it come to penalties.
Perhaps of more importance as far as Randolph is concern is his penalty saved record is, which is according to this
8 in 39. That is 20.5%
What however is of significance is Colin Doyle record of 6 save in 19 that is 31.5% saved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=0ireKCJTqA8
Some impressive bouncing on the line there!!
Hence something to consider there if it looks like it is headed for penalties is whether to sub Doyle at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjsy0YFrh7k
V Jaun Mata, Mata is not very good at penalties, missed 4 in 14.
Mind you 2 of those 4 were v Doyle! So more or a credit to Doyle than a discredit to Mata perhaps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjWqGB3dUik
Mata showing he is crap whatever side he puts it! :indecisiveness: (0.50 ish)
Direct flights from Dublin to Copenhagen and back are now £492: https://www.skyscanner.net/transport..._prevPrice=492
Madness.
Is that the rate that he saved them or the rate the other player missed? In either case, 20.5% is around the average or slightly above.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
That is the percent he saved, which will be the rate the other player missed now I have thought about it lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Yea I thought it seemed about average, however Colin Doyle record of 6 save in 19 is 31.5% saved which is quite impressive
so I think it should be a consideration as to whether we can sub Doyle on if the opportunity arises, some keeper tend to have
a knack of stopping penalties, it is a bit of a specialised skill I think, more mind games than anything else perhaps?
Doyle is nearly 1 in 3 so he might do 2 in 5 perhaps. Randolph looks more of a 1 in 5 man.
Well not all missed penalties are saved - I think about 4% are off-target (I can look it up tomorrow).
It's certainly something a manager could do before a shoot out. Paul Cook did it in the FAI Cup final in 2010 when he brought Ciaran Kelly on for Brendan Clarke a minute from the end and Shamrock Rovers missed all four penalties. Louis Van Gaal did the same and brought on Tim Krul for Jasper Cillessen in the World Cup semi in 2014.
According to this, bookings will be carried into the play-offs.
Happy to see Eriksen is on a booking there. So, how can we go about ensuring he gets another one in the first leg? :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil O'Riordan
Is there a list of our players who are on bookings?
Think it was the quarters against Costa Rica where he did that. LvG had used all three subs a little way into extra time so couldn't repeat the trick in the semi final. Incidentally the Dutch had a big advantage in the Costa Rica game, as the Costa Rican's had gone to penalties in their R16 match vs Greece and 4 out of the 5 takers for them that day also took penalties against the Dutch. The Dutch then had this happen to them as 3 of the 4 takers vs Argentina had taken PKs vs Costa Rica.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Hopefully someone somewhere in the FAI is taking a look at where the likely Danish players put their penalties, and seeing if there are any clues on placement in the run-ups of the takers. Kasper Schmeichel has saved 17 and not saved 48, maybe they could take a look at if he biases a certain side, or say always dives (leaving the top middle of the goal as an option) - if we have a very technical player (Hoolahan or Brady) they could then try and go for the other side (or down the middle).
That's nuts. I was lucky enough to get mine at a relatively decent price (aided by a tip off)Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
On the penalties missed/saved thing, I'm inclined to view penalties as a mental duel between goalkeeper and penalty taker. If the player misses the target I'm happy for the goalkeeper to get the credit for doing something to put him off.
The layout of Lansdowne Road should help us in the event of a shootout. One would imagine it will have to be at our end for the benefit of the extra spectators in that stand.
Actually home teams do have a slight advantage on penalties.Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
http://business-analytic.co.uk/blog/...for-penalties/
I would speculate that this maybe due to the ref favouring the home team as regards to whether a penalty needs to be retaken?Quote:
the scoring http://www.mindanews.com/buy-accutane/ rates home and away are much of a muchness; 77.3% for home teams and 75.0% for away teams.
How many of the four match ups would you think will come down to penalties...can i bet on that? I'll say two. Ire and NI.
If history is anything to go by none. If I have read it correctly none of the European play off in 2014 or 2016 went to penalties.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrisLetang
None even went to the away goals rule.
However that is all history, I think we may be due a match going to penalties, doubt it will be two.
What would the odds be that it was all four? Would you take that bet at 5000-1 Tricky?
1p at 5,000-1 would leave tricky quids in. Literally 50 quid.
Whilst I think anyone should be allowed to basically say anything on here I would like to say that the constant references to gambling odds bothers me a great deal.it serves to legitimise a remorselessly destructive industry,particularly in its online form.the big gambling companies are up there with big tobacco and big alcohol,they are a cancer on society generally but particularly in sport.they have irretrievably taken over virtually all sport and commercialised it beyond recognition.apologies if a little negative on a Saturday morning but I felt it had to be said
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Originally Posted by Fizzer
I've left a few references slide, in future keep all betting discussions in the betting forum
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Originally Posted by Fizzer
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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
So does this mean we can't talk about the price of pints in Copenhagen etc, because someone might feel uncomfortable reading posts about alcohol?
It's a bit ridiculous lads.
This is foot.ie lads, sure you can't be going off topic in a thread on here. No way. Never.
We've been through this before, all betting discussions are to be kept in the betting forum
Thats a bit silly, its really not that bad......:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
it was discussed by the mods the last time this came up, and we agreed that any betting discussion would be kept to its own forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
If anyone has a problem with this, open a thread in the support forum to change it
Some Interesting points by Eamonn Sweeney in the Sindo. One I never realised is that the Danes failed to qualify for the Euros after coming second to Albania in their group and subsequently losing to Sweden in the play-offs. He actually lends a bit of context to the ability of their players and their relative clubs also. He probably focuses a bit on negative of such players.
There's also a bit in the paper on the front page that MON remaining on isn't a done deal like that we had been previously led to believe. It's from Colin Young though and I'm not particularly familiar with his work so make of that what you will. Colin seems to think that Martin inhibits a slight desire to return to club management. A lot of the article appears pretty baseless. He reckons the links for MON to the Leicester job "come at the wrong time". That's probably utter rubbish because the odds are against us qualifying so he'd be available in a month. A lot of baseless tripe in this one if you ask me... I'm not saying it's signed, sealed and delivered but the reasoning in this article is poor, from what I can see.
I watched most of those playoffs and distinctly remember the Sweden V Denmark games. Over the two legs, Denmark were poor but the real difference was Zlatan. The second leg was in Denmark but they were second best that night. They got two late goals to make the overall aggregate score look decent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
I don't think Denmark are any better than what we faced in our group. Debatable if they are even as good as Serbia. On paper, they have a better team but then so did Bosnia.....
Don't know much about Denmark. They were seeded, and Eriksen will be the best player on the park, so give them a slight edge on paper. We have the advantage of playing home second. Anyone feel strongly (either way) that this tie is not 50/50?
is this really an advantage to us though? first legs are usually cagey enough and if we fail to score away then i fear denmark will score in the 2nd leg leaving us needing at least 2. not sure i can see this happening on our recent home form. think id rather playing at home first where even taking a nil all to denmark would leave us in a decent position given we have scored in all the games against wales, austria and serbia away in our group.Quote:
Originally Posted by boysingreen