Wicky puts boot into “long-ball” Irish

[Condex]

What an *******. With the world class players we have in our squad (Keane, Keane, Duff, Carr, Finnan, O'Shea, Given, Miller and Ried) we will play those arrogant *******s off the pitch. The Mick McCarthy days are long gone and we'll show the Swiss a thing or two about the beautiful game.

I would not be so confident, we do not have many World Class players. Just maybe Duff and Roy Keane(thought hes on the wayout).

We will be heading to Basel with most of the players who failed the last time.
Hopefully this time we won't freeze.

[eirebhoy]

We will be heading to Basel with most of the players who failed the last time.

The starting lineup against the Swizz was:

Given, Carr, Breen, O'Shea, Harte, Duff, Holland, Healy, Kilbane, Keane, Connolly.

Breen, Harte, Holland/Kilbane (one or the other), Healy and Connolly, injuries aside, will not play against the Swizz and O'Shea will not be playing at centre half were he was atrocious. Duff will also be playing on the left this time. The team is completely changed.

BTW, whoever said friendlies were meaningless, this just proves how wrong you are. The Swizz game was our last competitive game, we have played 8 friendlies since and we now have a virtually different team. Every player in the above starting lineup are still available which shows we have improved immensely since then. I don't think that would have been the case if Mick was still around IMHO.

[gmani]

I think it is an advantage to us the way we played in last games with Switzerland - they will underestimate us - which is good and we can then expose them for the absolute cr*p they are

i think we always play better as underdogs i mean... nethrelands...brazil...

welll show em'