just getting on my flight to vegas... what a party im having tonight!
Going to Pacman fight tomorrow too! great weekend!
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just getting on my flight to vegas... what a party im having tonight!
Going to Pacman fight tomorrow too! great weekend!
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Originally Posted by JGKyne
I am not sure, is it possible that the slate could be wiped clean for the finals? I vaguely recall talk about that sometime but I am surely wrong.
Anyhow, given we were 4-0 up would it not have been sensible for players on yellows to have got themselves booked deliberately so they
missed the second leg, rather than carry a yellow card through to the finals?
Buzzing! Too wired to sleep but I'll give counting chickens a go. Thank feck it's saturday (now). 1 goal conceded in 10 games and probable qualification for a major finals on the back of a big playoff aggregate margin. Happy days.
I think he had a bit o' the 'spirit of Paris' about him tonight. Won't ever be accused of being a playmaker but some savage determination.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Shocking dive from Duffer. Barely touched him. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Andrews best game for Ireland. Super performance, took responsibility to get forward from first whistle.
Just a word of warning, one thing I have noticed quite often in the Premier League is that a team has a big win, ie 4-0 or 5-0 and
then goes and loses the next match by a similar score line!!!
I can't provide any example of this right now but I am pretty sure it has happened a few times!
I will see if I can find some. Might just be my imagination though or just that you notice on the very rare occasions it does happen.
A very good night for Irish football. Estonia looked overawed by the situation and we did our job effectively. It's been a long wait. Too long.
Found one already!
http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/b...derers/2010/3/
21. Round 09/03/2010 19:45 A Sunderland AFC Sunderland AFC 0:4
30. Round 13/03/2010 15:00 H Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic 4:0
So there you have Bolton (ie Estonia ;) ) losing 4-0 then winning 4-0 against fairly similar opposition!!
I mean you can just see it, Estonia have nothing to lose and go flat out on the attack whilst we are resting on our
laurels, 0-1, well they deserve a consolation goal, 0-2, time we tightened it up a bit at the back, don't want to let them get back in, 0-3, bloody hell!!! 0-4 oh ****!!!
http://images.cheezburger.com/comple...6211834256.jpg
With all due respect tricky, feck off :DQuote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
I expect a tight game on Tuesday but... no no I can't even type it yet... you know what I mean!
Great win, absolutely fantastic!
A not unexpected response!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by koneinc
Just out of interest, when was the last time we lost 4-0 at home?
I can't remember anything worse than a 2 goal defeat at home although I do recall a 3 goal defeat in Cyprus.
Actually there was Republic of Ireland 0-4 Holland in 2006 but that was a friendly
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/4795339.stm
But enough of the pessimism, I don't want to destroy the feel good factor before Tuesday!!
No, but it's closeQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
We beat Liechtenstein 5-0 away in 1996 - http://www.soccerscene.ie/sssenior/m...ils.php?id=324
all 5 goals came in the first 20 minutes!
I can't wait until it's 24 teams, surely even we can't fail to qualify for that. It should have been 24 this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
No sympathy for the opposition. They insulted us after the draw, indicating we were a pub team like the Nordies and tonight, with their Union Jacks in abundance.
Great night for everyone connected with Irish football. Wonderful lift for the nation. Football will be all over the back pages (and front) next June showing who is boss, while the rugger buggers kick air on a tour of some kip called Fiji or something.
For everyone who put up with San Marino, Switzerland, Moscow, and Montenegro amongst others, for those who put up with local FA's wrecking their travel plans in the past 10 years, this night is for you. Safe journey home, and enjoy the party on Tuesday.
There is not a hope of us losing this tie. Estonia were limited. They showed that. They ended up with 9 men as a result of their inexperience and indiscipline.
That's their fault. Not ours.
On Tuesday we will deal with them in a professional way and kill the tie. The pessimism is completely unfounded ya mentalists!
Come on you boys in Green!!!
Absolutely needed this. Delighted. Have been a fan for 30+ years and this was a good one. Keep the head on Tuesday (will be at the match) and we're golden.
Very pleased and proud tonight. That is all.
:ball: PP
I guess the guy who thought up the Union Jacks idea is probably floating down the Pirita River right now!!!
The "i feel sorry for Estoina" brigade needs a kick up the hole.
Soft mick's :( Feck off ta hell,yis dopes,pity it wasnt 6/7/12 eleventeen nil,soft,very soft lads & i'm trying to be good here. ;)
Over here in Koh Samui Thailand (for my sins), couldnt watch game live so was waiting to watch relive game today, couldnt wait to watch game to get the result, Its been annoying me all nite.
What a result, we never used to do it the easy way, At least now we are all but sorted. Time for ticket scramble, pleasant change for our lot, lol
Delighted by tonights result, can hardly believe it, it just felt so satisying to see the lads deliver so conclusively when it really mattered in a game. It has been a while, very enjoyable.
Just woke up hungover as hell. Don't care even a little bit. Still buzzing. Put 'em under pressure will pretty much be on a loop today.
I reckon it's time for another song. Football teams releasing songs for tournaments, cup finals, etc is surely so unfashionable it's bound to be retro by now.
David Kelly of the Irish Independent is a clown. He doesn't seem to have much time for Robbie Keane either. Very negative slant taken in some parts of his article today.
Andrey Stepanov compounded an earlier indiscretion on McGeady with an attempted decapitation of Keane. No matter that Keane's efforts had already been of the headless variety.
Continuing to intelligently track the play, he loitered patiently as McGeady and Keane interlinked, the former's shot allowing the captain to find his partner with a speculative lobbed cross.
David Kelly seems reluctant to give Keane any credit bar: Keane's assassin-like predatory instinct was the cue for Ireland's supporters to delve into depths of feeling that have remained reserved for so long and also.
This reporter seems to have knives out for Keane and Trap. What his problem?
Hes an arseholeQuote:
Originally Posted by legendz
I'm delighted we're now likely to qualify while the Euro's are still 16. There is respect in qualifying for the tournament prior to the expansion to 24. A number of countries will be in the bracket of being there because of the expansion. Thankfully we are not like to be one of them! :) Barring a Devon Loch nightmare. :ball:
Whatever gets us through, I don't care. If it's 8-16-24-32 teams, so be it.
The top 2 will qualify out of the group, and a number of 3rd places. In the finals, 16 of the 24 sides, including the 4-best 3rd placers will make the knockout phase, so we have a great chance of going quite far.
Legendz, Kelly has it in for Trap and Keane and has done for ages. His article comparing Keane to O'Driscoll recently was a joke, but lots of similar guff has preceded it.
Well, how is everyone this morning?
:cool:
There's been a few mentions on the thread about the union jack flags in the stadium, and Ken Early mentioned in the build up to the game on Newstalk that one of the flags is a permanent fixture in the stadium, so I checked it out.
The black, white and blue union jack is the flag of the Estonian navy, known as the naval jack - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Navy
According to this post on Ready To Go (Sunderland fan site) - http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showpos...63&postcount=2 - St George's Day is the anniversary of a revolution in Estonia, the St George's Night Uprising - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George's_Night_Uprising - so it's nothing to do with England
There's a link on that post to this (rather long) article on the history of St George's Day in Estonia - http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/nr1/georg.htm
Hungover, but yet with that wonderful spring in my step that I had when I got laid for the first time.
The panel last night were miserly in their appraisal of McGeady's cross to Andrews. Sure Andrews met the ball perfectly and did all the work to turn the chance into a goal, but McGeady's lob to his head, over two covering players, was as good as could be done in the circumstances, by even the most skillful player.
If most of the songs for 2002 (and even 1994) are any indication, I think we can do without any new songs.Quote:
Originally Posted by backtowalsall
Yeah... Thought that myself. Was a good cross in a difficult situation I thought.
Was delighted fro Ward, Andrews ande Keane. Walters done well.
Not keen on Duff on the right wing any more though..
I've never seen David Kelly and 'Blake Steidler' in the same room. Just sayin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
Still high as a kite. Hardly any rest and don't feel any worse for it. Mighty stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
Yep that cross has seen McGeady soar in my estimations, it is what is know as 'end product' so I don't think we can say he has no
end product any more, and I think he played a key part in the second goal. Seems like the move to Russia has done him good.
"In soviet Russia product ends you". :p
What a game. What a night. Thank you.