This is great to see. A packed Turners Cross will host a great atmosphere and will be great to see another international played outside Dublin.
Quote:
Originally Posted by FAI
Printable View
This is great to see. A packed Turners Cross will host a great atmosphere and will be great to see another international played outside Dublin.
Quote:
Originally Posted by FAI
Good to see matches being moved outside of the capital. Realistically though, only Cork and Limerick are in a position to host games, unless the GAA changes their rules.
Belfast...
I remember going to the Australia friendly in Thomond. Terrible atmosphere. Might have had something to do with the score though.
Or the opposition. Australian matches always ted to be grim. I remember being bored stupid playing them at Lansdowne years ago. Clinton scored a ridiculous goal in that game too iirc.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
I still can't take Oz seriously at soccer.
I'm all for provincial grounded games.
Walsall, I'd think in that hairy scenario Derry is getting first dibs on that game.
Yeah, was at that too and was so excited to see Ireland in Limerick and ended up very anticlimactic, it never lifted at all, dragged my father along, he wasn't converted.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
A fine concept. Where would you play it ?Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
Windsor wouldn't be likely to be available but Ravenhill has held football matches before and the facilities are more than adequate
Great how the forum just refuses to recognize backtowalsall becoming backstothewall. It's like Dingle v An Daingean.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
In fairness, can't say he wasn't warned ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid
I've become a human form of Lansdowne Road.
I have to admit it makes me smile every time
You were always known as Backs-To-The-Wall to me.
I've been thinking about this today. There's no reason at all why a game couldn't happen in the North. We have played in London many times with no difficulties.
The usual suspects will have a problem, but they are easily ignored. We have a lot of fans in Limerick so we have taken games there. We have a lot of fans in London so we have taken games there. We have a lot of fans in Belfast so why not take a game there. Those usual suspects will have a hard time explaining why Belfast is different from London.
I would suggest Belfast first instead of Derry simply because if you have done it in Belfast, going to a League of Ireland ground in Derry wouldn't be remotely controversial. If you start in Derry though you have to go through the nonsense twice.
In the long term I think the nonsense would be worth going through though.
Could always just play Northern Ireland in Windsor Park?
That's actually compelling logic. And don't forget we've played other teams in the States and Italy in Belgium!Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
I suggest we get ourselves nominated as the away side to really rub it in!!!
If the IFA have to sign off on it (I believe they do, as it's their jurisdiction, but I might be wrong), I can't imagine it ever happening.
I suppose they would have some say on who plays in the place alright, now you mention it :) there must be some clause or sub paragraph in the rules of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Danny ? You are up I believe
First they came for our players, then they came for our fans etc ad infinitum forever.
It won't happen, and us up here would be the ones who'd have to listen to it over and over again.
Lick.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
But they done do that anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton
Further to this playing in the territory of the IFA:
http://resources.fifa.com/mm/documen...en_neutral.pdfQuote:
Originally Posted by Section 83.2 of FIFA's statutes state:
Page 58
So yeah, IFA approval needed.
It would have to be in Windsor Park then. The only possible way to get the IFA to agree would be if the Linfield mafia were pushing it. It sounds unlikely but they would be the ones getting paid for the rental of the ground, so maybe not impossible.
There isn't a hope in hell of getting the IFA to sanction a home game in Windsor against any international team other than Northern Ireland.
Well, yes, probably, but it would be funny to make them say no publicly to the request all the same and watch them falling over their words. These kind of intrusions from their neighbours aren't their strong point like.
If you ask often enough you never know. They relented to letting Derry join the League Of Ireland eventually
If you comedians want a (suburban) Belfast venue, the Carrickfergus International Arena may be available- but you'll have to install 4G and do car parking deals with the Health Centre and Prince Andrew Swimming Pool.
On a similar theme, how many of your projected Euros squad have actualy lived in the country?
Like a moth to the flame there GR, welcome, always welcome here. You must have heard us calling you :)
Aye, I look in most weeks for a welcome trolling/ mopery treat ;)
PS answering my own question, I'll guess at 15.
I am guessing, as you have raised this a few times you know exactly, and in some headcount of Irishness you are claiming in this instance to be more Irish then we as you have more in yours ?
You Sir, may have that one if it be the case & how you wish to quantify it :)
What if we proposed playing Northern Ireland in Windsor but letting us be the home team?Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Black hole swallows everybody except the pig flying overhead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Well obviously I don't know exactly, I doubt Mad Mart does at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
But yes, it's a fairly safe bet you'll have about twice as many English and Scots in your squad as we will. Not to mention cross-border emigrants from up here.
Sorry to repeat myself, I though it was obligatory on this thread?
Maybe in a few years time they will actually have sorted out the redevelopment of Casement and it could be played there and sure no need to worry about FIFA/IFA just play a club team or even the Basque or Catalan 'National' teams and that wouldn't be an issue then :DQuote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
That is a novel idea but given the send off Cliftonville fans got from the locals on Tuesday night, I don't think that idea would go down too well with them and they would no doubt throw an even bigger sh*tfit complete with even more bottles and fireworks for good measure!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gather round
Sorry to hear that SR. Hope all made it out of town safely.
I can't see a large stadium being rebuilt on the Casement site in the foreseeable future, especially after Caral n. C's recent difficulties.
I'm not sure they'd have to say no publicly. I don't think there has been much/any publicity to accompany the FA's approval of our games in England. Perhaps a like in the announcement that the games were going ahead. The only time I recall any publicity was when they were apparently a bit bemused by the first of such applications for friendlies nearly 20 years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
I suppose it could become public if the FAI made it become public by publicising the planned game and application for approval, and thereby generating interest in a public response from the IFA. But I can't imagine that even they are so stupid as to create publicity over something that would only make them look like idiots. Although maybe they are that stupid...
I hope your tongue is welded to your cheek.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gather round
Can we move on from any discussion on a hypothetical friendly in Belfast? Please and thank you.
Using the squad I would pick 16Quote:
Originally Posted by Gather round
Given (Donegal), Randolph (Wicklow), Forde (Galway), Coleman (Donegal), Duffy (Derry), O'Shea (Waterford), Wilson (Antrim), Ward (Dublin), Brady (Dublin), Whelan (Dublin), Hoolahan (Dublin), McClean (Derry), Hendrick (Dublin), Keane (Dublin), Long (Tipperary), Murphy (Waterford)
The others are Christie (England), Keogh (England), Clark (England), McGeady (Scotland), McCarthy (Scotland) & Arter (England).
I appreciate you'll probably want to have a moan about the lads form the 6 counties. There isn't a lot I can do about that and I'm not discussing any issue around that situation on this thread but the answer is that 16 or there abouts will qualify by virtue of birth without having to claim nationality by virtue of a grandparent etc.
Hopefully Westwood for Forde will shift the balance closer to the Brits.
Lets hope Judge doesn't keep Arter out then!Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Are Conor Washington, Jamie Ward, Oliver Norwood, Lee Hodson, Billy McKay and Paul Paton in with a shout of making the NI squad I wonder? Self-professed Ireland supporter, Niall McGinn, surely will anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall