Ireland vs England friendly

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Originally Posted by finlma

That's a ridiculous argument. How is it risky to lose to us or anyone else? If they play no games then they can't lose - maybe thats a better idea. The whole point of a friendly for them is to get some practic in before the World Cup. Every friendly is usually a farce. I can't see where you're coming from here.
Also, its a deisgnated friendly weekend so the clubs have no choice but to release their players.

Some of the arguments against the game on this thread are stupid.

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Errrr.... right. So with the world cup only three months away the english FA and SGE are going to look at organising a friendly with a team full of fellow premiership players ??? The policing alone would be a headache for all concered let alone Erikson and England opening themselves up for a humiliating defeat.

If England play Canada in March and lose no one will care - if they play us and lose everyone will care. It will be a seriously taken "friendly" . Would England arrange to play Scotland perhaps ?? maybe Wales ? how about a 'friendly' with Northern Ireland ??

"clubs have no choice but to release players " ? - catch yourself on !! How many English players will declare themselves fit for this match ?

It would be a farce- us against a premiership reserve team. Why waste both sides time ?? Id rather see us play Spain, Italy or the Dutch where there is a good chance some top players will play.

Wait for the WC draw , find out who has been drawn with England and take a friendly against them. Pitch it to the them that playing us is similar to England.

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Originally Posted by finlma

Lets give up playing altogether so. We have to challenge ourselves against the better nations be it England, Brazil, Italy, whoever.


Highly unlikely. England are doing a decent job of controlling hooliganism and not many Irish are going to head over there looking for trouble.

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The Garda said pretty much the same thing before the game in 95 even though PC Plod over here told them otherwise, and look what happened.

I don't see why we should play them and give them a test after the way their fans behaved the last time we played:mad: , let them cause trouble with someone else.

We don't play any away friendly's in Turkey or anywhere else where theres a risk, so why do we feel the need to play them. I love seeing Ireland take on the best teams in the world in friendlys, in the past two years we've done that totally in taking on Brazil, Italy etc, but I don't think we owe them a game, after what happened. The Scots don't play them in Friendly's for those reasons so niether should we.