what a load of muck. we better pray for greece or we are going nowhere
I wouldnt read anyhing into tonights game. There wll be four countries praying they dont get dran against us on Monday, Sepp Blatter will fix the draw anyway so France and Portugal dont get us.
Utterly brutal game and the ESPN commentary to match.
But those of ye saying we've no chance in the play offs because of tonight - calm the feck down. We started 5 players short of our first XI
Thankfully the team we put out in the playoffs will be a lot stronger than this one. But it just shows that the seeding of the play-offs matters little to us, we'll always up our game against the big teams and struggle against the lesser ones.
Would you rather be winning 6-2 against Georgia but be out of the tournament?
2 quick goals for Italy there, 2-2 now.
Liam Miller has proved tonight that he shouldn't be near the Ireland squad. Very poor team, how we got this far I'll never know. Fair dues to Trap.
Thank feck that's over...
Last edited by ronburgundy; 14/10/2009 at 7:54 PM.
Bloody pitiful performance. Shameful. ****ed away or chance of getting into the second pot for the draw for Euro 2012. Id say this performance will really worry France, Portugal, Greece and Russia. Shame.
Muppets ye are. We looked tired today and we had a totally makeshift midfield. Should have been 2-0 up at halftime.
We also need a performance like this to keep our ego in check. Bring on the playoffs> I fear no team.
Dreadful game.
Take it easy lads, it was a glorified friendly.
Injury time winner for Italy, 3-2. Probably as well we didn't win the last night - how sickened would we have been if that had happened tonight after we beat them on Saturday.
This may take some explaining.
We got hammered by Australia in a friendly. We then matched Italy - maybe not a 'great' team like, for example, Spain are (they are probably the only 'great' team in international football right now, possibly Brazil too, but nobody else) but certainly a 'top' team in terms of winning the last World Cup and topping their group for the next one. Italy will be in the quarters or semis next summer at worst. Clearly the friendly result meant nothing to our next competitive game.
So drawing 0-0 while dominating the game, hitting the crossbar and generally playing reasonably well with a severely weakened side in what was clearly a game played at friendly pace means...sorry, just getting the calculator...sod all.
Go on a France or Portugal forum and find the posters saying 'I really hope we draw Ireland, they've looked dreadful in qualifying.' We've done very well, unbeaten in 10 and 2 great results against a top team. We're not muck, we're just dull and efficient. Find me Padraig O'Iniesta and Dermot FitzMessi and then we can complain about that. Until then - I repeat - take the negativity and go jump into bed with Eamon. This team and this manager deserves respect for how far it's come in 2 years. Cyprus, San Marino, Slovakia, Czech Republic. Not ancient history. We've as good a chance as anyone in the play-offs.
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