Lauda got shot in 1983, causing a nationwide manhunt for an unhinged Murray Walker.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Lauda got shot in 1983, causing a nationwide manhunt for an unhinged Murray Walker.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Shot in Sarajevo, leading to the outbreak of WW1. Do I get a prize :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
No, what seems deep and knowledgable to Paul is bread and butter to the rest of us. What part of Sarajevo was he in when he was shot? Why did it cause WW1?
On franz ferdinand bridge of course stutts! :rolleyes: :P
Are you referring to the serbs and trying to blame them? To be fair it was a chain of events really but this was the final cog.
I wonder as the assassin rotted away in prison did he have any regrets over his action as he witnesses millions slaughtering each other on the battlefield ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
So who will be our Gavilro Princip on Saturday to bring down the House of the Habsburgs? Arter perhaps with a sneaky shot from outside the box?
Are the Hapsburg's the dynasty that died out due to inbreeding?
or what type of hat was he wearing? For some reason I remember our leaving cert history book describe him as wearing a plumed feather hat on that fateful day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Which brings me in one fell swoop to the upcoming fateful day where I think Austria will prevail. I don't think we have anything close to the mettle of the type of team that would beat Austria 2-1 :)
Perhaps an ugly draw, but another performance like that away to Serbia won't do it again, there would have to be something of an improvement.
You mean an improvement to get a draw?
Got tickets for this one......amougst the Austrian fans! :( Look for the geezer with the M&Ms green hat and the tri-colour in among the Austrians! :)
Actually one quick question............if we beat them........would this be the first time we beat a team higher than us in ranking (away from home) since Scotland in 1987? They are 3 places above us: http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranki...ing-table/men/
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I don't care what the record books say -we laid that curse to rest in Paris in 2009.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deckydee
when we beat Lithuania in 1997, we were ranked 55, they were 42ndQuote:
Originally Posted by Deckydee
O'Kane is out. I repeat O'Kane is out.
I having a feeling McClean will start up front with Walters and Mcgeady on the flanks
If Walters does start it should be up front.
He clearly doesn't have the legs to play wide anymore.
I loved this in The Examiner
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...nt-430007.html
Very good article, although McGeady is hardly keeping Horgan out of the team at the moment.
Hitler, Atilla the Hun, Hermann MaierQuote:
Originally Posted by geysir
id be with you on this. This is a game for Jonny Walters to stick his arse into their centre halves to hold it up to bring our ball players in wes and mcgeady into it and play from there. I love long but his hold up play has not been greatQuote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
That's the most Tets-like post that ever did Tets.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
McGeady got a chance of starting? I really hope not.
Nobody picked Alaba even though he's buried us twice. I suppose that's because he's a class player who demands respect, unlike Polster who looked like a washed up porn film actor........eh so i'm told.Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
Did you never see Polster?
Eh Stutts, of course i've seen the mulletted wonder, but (unlike you perhaps) I would not know what a porn actor looks like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
There's only 5-6 million of us though. Burying 5 million people isn't all that remarkable for an AustrianQuote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Toni PolsterQuote:
Originally Posted by geysir
http://media.philly.com/images/RonJeremy.jpg
I always thought Stoger was the pornstar. Polster looked more like a fairly sound biker dude that just happened to make us cry.
Stop ruining everyone's fun Delorean.
(plus you're a bit wrong)
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Originally Posted by SkStu
David Seaman?
Well played TOWK. :)
I don't feel great about today's game. Going with a comfortable 2-0 to the Austrians.
Jeez... and I'm the one ruining everybody's fun ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
1 nil us,Arter to score a beauty! Too easy.
They'll have to come at us pretty strong. Whelan's going to be really important (which worries me) but hopefully we can frustrate them and the crowd and grow into it. Anything can happen then, they seem flaky enough which is the one thing we're not.
It's as if it's a game where there aren't great expectations of getting anything, therefore we just might do a something special performance.
Visions of Austrians celebrating have gotten dimmer overnight.
Haven't beaten Austria since 1963, that's the longest since the last win over any side, second is Belgium haven't beaten them since 1966
The match report on that game says there was 40,000 at Dalymount. Austria equalised in the 85th min and Noel Cantwell hit the winner from a penalty in the 89th min, must have been very sweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
This team is not tied by history, Ireland had never ever beaten Germany in a competitive game before we did beat them in 2015.
The big factor is this is an away game.
AZ Alkmaar keeping tabs on Horgan supposedly, although a move to Holland should probably be considered a near impossibility.
Reading, Newcastle, Ipswich, Aston Villa and Melbourne City the other - more realistic - transfer destinations on the horizon.
There's a list of scouts attending the game here: https://twitter.com/benjmnblake/stat...12317444050945
Of course, they could be watching anyone
A very interesting team selected with Wes and Harry starting.
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