About 500 tickets left on Ticketmaster.Originally Posted by Crosby87
Is this game going to be a sellout? I don't mean to start any bickering I'm just curious.
Unlikely, but fair fecks if it is...Is this game going to be a sellout? I don't mean to start any bickering I'm just curious.
If I remember correctly they went after Slovakia from the get-go and blitzed 'em. They don't need much encouragement! I'm all for us getting the first goal (bullet Richard Dunne header would do fine) from a set piece and enduring their response though.
Just hope they have an 'off day';they must be due one?
Especially in front of goal. They're the 5th highest scorers in Europe.
And for all his detractors, no Robbie, means no goals I reckon. Or very hard for us to come by.
Last edited by ArdeeBhoy; 10/10/2011 at 2:01 AM.
oh I'm nervous about this. Armenia are on fire by the looks of it. Robbie seems to be struggling with jetlag but hopefully he'll be well over it by Tuesday
Folding my way into the big money!!!
Armenia are the top scorers in the group (by some distance) and need to win this game. This is probably their best qualification campaign ever so they have nothing to lose in having a go at us. Given the way we are set up, Armenia are likely to have a lot of ball. Whether they can turn their possession into goal scoring chances remains to be seen. They seem to excel on the counter and given we don't push players forward we might just bore them into submission. But I'm not confident about this one. We're extremely predictable in our approach to games so if Armenia have done their homework they can win the game.
Seeing as the Sindo like to make up stuff (like yesterday's story of how the property market is about to rebound like a ping-pong ball in water), the current squad is also here. They've a couple of players playing in the Ukrainian league, and one lad with Ajax, but yeah, it's not a squad that on paper you'd be concerned about. It is a very young squad though, bar two lads who are 37 and 38 (14 of the 21 man squad are under 25), and presumably they're working off a combination of no fear at all backed up by the experience of those two older players at the back, together with those younger players being good enough for moves abroad soon.
I don't think I agree with that to be honest, Robbie looks off the pace at the moment, I'd fancy a front pairing of Long and Doyle to get us one.And for all his detractors, no Robbie, means no goals I reckon. Or very hard for us to come by.
I'm flying over for the game tomorrow, it looks like it's going to be a long hard night in the Aviva!
I fear an early onslaught from Armenia, a chance or 2 in the first 5 minutes for them. Its what happens from those chances that will determine the next 85 minutes. Shay pulls us out of the $hit and the lads get an early morning wake up call and tighten up and put a decent shift in, delivering the 1-0 victory we desire. Or Armenia put their chance(s) away and play on with a youthful confidence, the Aviva is dumbstruck and we tamely exit Euro12 qualifying.........
I am not being negative, I hope the lads can pull out a performance for us - doesnt have to be scintillating football, just everyone doing their job from the 1st to the 90th minute. If we get that, then Im sure we can get the result needed. Of course it wont be pretty but we know that already and I dont care.
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
Reading all this is making me wish the match would never come. Argh.
Right about the former, but not the latter. Their record in recent competitive games hardly inspires confidence. And our midfielders even less so.
Their record may not inspire confidence but as things stand I'd rather put money on either of those two scoring than Keano!
Completely agree re: midfield, it's a shambles, let's just hope we can get through this game (and maybe the play-offs?) and adjust it (but how and who? I don't know! Coleman? Hunt? McCarthy?)
Well you'd probably be wasting yer money, sadly?
Though it's about time the other forwards proved themselves....
You're probably right but to be honest I don't care who scores for us tomorrow as long as someone does!
You know it's bad, when during the Andorra game, the commentator refers to us missing our goal scoring threat - Richard Dunne.
anyone know armenias odds?
i reckon score draw or them sneaky armenians to grap it 2-1
While our midfields shortcomings and its lack of creative spark is often bemoaned, - its been mentioned a lot less that while we tend to cede posession, we have abandoned (or at least well watered down) the "pressing" or "putting them under pressure" element of our game.
There's been many games under Trapp where I've felt the pressure we put on the opposition when we don't have the ball has not had the same level of intensity.
The Charlton years are the obvious reference point here. We were in a tactical straight jacket creatively back then too, but our work to win the ball back was ferocious.
I the past, our pressing game, was the difference in beginning to turn a game our way - for example, Spain at Lansdowne in 1989. They just could not cope with the intensity that we exerted upon them to win the ball back. The Spanish press wrote the next day that "The Irish attacked our players like wild dogs".
I'd be heading into this game with a crumb of comfort knowing we would not let Armenia settle on the ball and warm to their task.
Quoting years at random since 1975
Cox & Doyle upfront. Just confirmed on Twitter by Dan McDonnell
Cox.....? I cannot think why he got the nod ahead of Long
Cox and not Long? - bizarre, just plain bizarre. We don't make things easy for ourselves...
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