what a load of muck. we better pray for greece or we are going nowhere
what a load of muck. we better pray for greece or we are going nowhere
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Originally Posted by Eirambler
I wouldnt read anyhing into tonights game. There wll be four countries praying they dont get dran against us on Monday, Sepp Blatter will fix the draw anyway so France and Portugal dont get us.
Yeah, what a disgrace, within 2 minutes of winning the World Champion's group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evertonian
Take the negativity and shove it up Dunphy's ****. Too many of this type on here at the moment.
Utterly brutal game and the ESPN commentary to match.
But those of ye saying we've no chance in the play offs because of tonight - calm the feck down. We started 5 players short of our first XI
Thankfully the team we put out in the playoffs will be a lot stronger than this one. But it just shows that the seeding of the play-offs matters little to us, we'll always up our game against the big teams and struggle against the lesser ones.
Would you rather be winning 6-2 against Georgia but be out of the tournament?
2 quick goals for Italy there, 2-2 now.
Liam Miller has proved tonight that he shouldn't be near the Ireland squad. Very poor team, how we got this far I'll never know. Fair dues to Trap.
Thank feck that's over...
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Originally Posted by shaneker
get real and comment on whats in front of you, or is it now the fashionable thing to say wer brilliant and anyone that says otherwise is a dunphy lover??? italy are not a great team. they have topped the group easily by playing terribly
Bloody pitiful performance. Shameful. ****ed away or chance of getting into the second pot for the draw for Euro 2012. Id say this performance will really worry France, Portugal, Greece and Russia. Shame.
Muppets ye are. We looked tired today and we had a totally makeshift midfield. Should have been 2-0 up at halftime.
We also need a performance like this to keep our ego in check. Bring on the playoffs> I fear no team.
Dreadful game.
you are obviously a footballing geniusQuote:
Originally Posted by Brendan 82
Thanks. Now pish offQuote:
Originally Posted by ronburgundy
I laugh when I hear that. No one fears getting us in the play-offs. Only Slovenia would arguably be a better draw as far as the seeded teams are concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by centre mid
Take it easy lads, it was a glorified friendly.
Injury time winner for Italy, 3-2. Probably as well we didn't win the last night - how sickened would we have been if that had happened tonight after we beat them on Saturday.
good one:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brendan 82
This may take some explaining.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronburgundy
We got hammered by Australia in a friendly. We then matched Italy - maybe not a 'great' team like, for example, Spain are (they are probably the only 'great' team in international football right now, possibly Brazil too, but nobody else) but certainly a 'top' team in terms of winning the last World Cup and topping their group for the next one. Italy will be in the quarters or semis next summer at worst. Clearly the friendly result meant nothing to our next competitive game.
So drawing 0-0 while dominating the game, hitting the crossbar and generally playing reasonably well with a severely weakened side in what was clearly a game played at friendly pace means...sorry, just getting the calculator...sod all.
Go on a France or Portugal forum and find the posters saying 'I really hope we draw Ireland, they've looked dreadful in qualifying.' We've done very well, unbeaten in 10 and 2 great results against a top team. We're not muck, we're just dull and efficient. Find me Padraig O'Iniesta and Dermot FitzMessi and then we can complain about that. Until then - I repeat - take the negativity and go jump into bed with Eamon. This team and this manager deserves respect for how far it's come in 2 years. Cyprus, San Marino, Slovakia, Czech Republic. Not ancient history. We've as good a chance as anyone in the play-offs.
im sure if they needed the result italy would have hammered cyprusQuote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
well said. its sad how far up our own arses we have goneQuote:
Originally Posted by youngirish