World Cup Qualifying Group 8

[Qwerty]

Bulgaria has given us a 2 point advantage by drawing with Georgia, and perhaps more importantly they don't look like world beaters and were lucky to get a draw. Kudos to the FAI for removing home field advantage for our 'away' game with Georgia, that could end up being the difference at the end of this campaign

If we can beat Georgia and Bulgaria next year we will be in great shape.

[Adrianovic]

Great result for us. Bulgaria have dropped points. Cyprus will be a handful for a lot of teams.

We just need to beat Georgia at home and then Bulgaria will need to come to Ireland looking for the win.

Agreed. I'd like to have ten points from the first four games when Bulgaria come to town. It'd represent what would be, collectively, an excellent start.

Lads, it's been a long time since I've felt this confident about the Irish team. OK, it wasn't spectacular tonight, but we're winning games while our rivals aren't.

[Duggie]

ya we should be looking to top this group. 2nd place is to much of a lottery with play off and one group isnt even guaranteed that. italy are no world beaters. georgia did us a huge favour last night against bulgaria.

[Montenegrin]

We lost to Italy 2-1.It was equal game.We had five great chances(when I say great I mean that,one on one with goalkeeper and in one situacion one on one with only Zambrota) and also two dangerous free kicks.Italy had four great chances and four or five dangerous shoots from distance.Only difference is that they scored twice and we scored only once.In the last 20 minutes I think that Italians spent at least ten minutes lying down on the ground.They and Bulgarians are same concerning that.When they have result they are droping like flies and when they dont have result you can not bring them down whatever you do.
The worst think abou this match is that Vucinic got yellow card(his second)so he will not be able to play in next match against same opponent in Podgorica.
We really don not have any luck.

[Maroon 7]

Was over on the Tranny Army website earlier on and the sweaties reckon whoever comes 2nd in our group will be the lowest placed 2nd and won't make the playoffs.

Then again they could just be trying to make themselves feel better.

[gspain]

Was over on the Tranny Army website earlier on and the sweaties reckon whoever comes 2nd in our group will be the lowest placed 2nd and won't make the playoffs.

Then again they could just be trying to make themselves feel better.

Way too early to call this.

Norway have already lost at home to Holland and only drawn with Iceland and Scotland so they could well be the worst 2nd placed team.

[tetsujin1979]

the Tranny Army website

The what??

[Maroon 7]

The what??

Tartan army in layman's terms.

[paul_oshea]

and tets, sweaties are sweatie socks as in jocks. its mockney rhyming slang.

[Metrostars]

Actually Scotland is currently in last place of the second place teams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FI...d-placed_teams

We're in 6th place but only having played 2 games against the top 5 teams in our group while the others all have played 3.

[Montenegrin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvoJ36vAQ0o
Some of the highlights of the Italy-Montenegro game.Esspecially our two chances you can see near the end of clip.Also,you can see how stupid our defence is.
This video does not include two great Italian and one our chance.I dont know why.

[Donegalcelt]

Actually Scotland is currently in last place of the second place teams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FI...d-placed_teams

We're in 6th place but only having played 2 games against the top 5 teams in our group while the others all have played 3.

Is that not wrong cos the only team we've dropped points against is the bottom ranked team and it shouldn't count?

[Colbert Report]

I could be wrong, but I think the results against the BOTTOM team in the final group standings don't count, not the lowest ranked team going in. I hope this is the case. Montenegro will likely not finish last in the group. They've already drawn Bulgaria and Ireland at home and I'd say they'll take four points off Cyprus and six off of Georgia.

[Schumi]

It's points against the bottom finishing team that don't count for play-off purposes. Doesn't make sense for it to be the bottom ranked team, especially with new teams coming in.

[Wolfie]

A refreshing change to hear a manager unafraid to at least have aspirations on the top spot.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...i-1544077.html

[Morbo]

I could be wrong, but I think the results against the BOTTOM team in the final group standings don't count, not the lowest ranked team going in. I hope this is the case. Montenegro will likely not finish last in the group. They've already drawn Bulgaria and Ireland at home and I'd say they'll take four points off Cyprus and six off of Georgia.

You hope the results against the team the finishes bottom doesn't count, why? Surely it would be better for Ireland if it was the results against the lowest seeded team that didn't count, since we have already dropped 2 points to the lowest seeded team Monty, but we should take maximum points against Georgia who will most likely finish bottom, i.e. we would probably be at least 2 points better off it the results against Monty didn't count rather than Georgia

[ifk101]

Bulgaria are currently losing 6-1 away to Serbia.

[Noelys Guitar]

Bulgaria are currently losing 6-1 away to Serbia.

Serbia ****ed two different peno's in the first 15 mins. Could have been 8-1.

[OwlsFan]

Cyprus won again. Beat Belarus. We'll need to be at the top of our game to get anything from a visit there.

[Wolfie]

Bulgaria are currently losing 6-1 away to Serbia.

This isn't great news for us. Could bring their current Managers tenure to an end quite quickly.

Bulgaria could well be under new management - with renewed effort and resolve - when we play them.