Who do we want to get in the play-offs?

**French Toasht** · 12/10/2011, 5:23 PM

Who do you think they want in Estonia, Turkey, Montenegro and Bosnia?

My guess is that all 4 are praying for Ireland.

**DannyInvincible** · 12/10/2011, 5:31 PM

Originally Posted by Acornvilla

take a bow son

Terrible cross.

**MeathDrog** · 12/10/2011, 5:36 PM

Trappatoni would have a wet dream if he saw that goal.

**Bayern Munchies** · 12/10/2011, 5:36 PM

Originally Posted by French Toasht

Who do you think they want in Estonia, Turkey, Montenegro and Bosnia?

My guess is that all 4 are praying for Ireland.

Everyone would rather face Estonia then us, they lost 4 games in qualyfing we lost 1 to the team who went on to win the group we also conceeded 7 goals in the process compared to Estonias 14...We also on paper have a better selection of players then they do.

People are starting to under-rate Ireland becuase of style of play which is fair enough I suppose but I know for a fact that no side will pull us apart in the play offs so I do't think any side bar estonia would want to face us first...maybe second choice though

**French Toasht** · 12/10/2011, 5:40 PM

Originally Posted by Bayern Munchies

Everyone would rather face Estonia then us, they lost 4 games in qualyfing we lost 1 to the team who went on to win the group we also conceeded 7 goals in the process compared to Estonias 14...We also on paper have a better selection of players then they do.

People are starting to under-rate Ireland becuase of style of play which is fair enough I suppose but I know for a fact that no side will pull us apart in the play offs so I do't think any side bar estonia would want to face us first...maybe second choice though

I think the seeding system has been lost on you.

**Bayern Munchies** · 12/10/2011, 5:45 PM

Originally Posted by French Toasht

I think the seeding system has been lost on you.

How so?

**tricky_colour** · 12/10/2011, 5:51 PM

I hope we don't get Armenia

**French Toasht** · 12/10/2011, 5:55 PM

Originally Posted by Bayern Munchies

How so?

Because I asked who the unseeded teams (Estonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Turkey) would like to draw from the seeded teams.

And my guess is that they would all prefer Ireland as opposed to Portugal, Croatia and Czech Republic.

**legendz** · 12/10/2011, 5:58 PM

When FIFA did the draw for the World Cup play-offs, a separate draw was made for home and away venues. Ireland were the only unseeded team that were drawn to play the second-leg away from home.

**Bayern Munchies** · 12/10/2011, 6:19 PM

Originally Posted by French Toasht

Because I asked who the unseeded teams (Estonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Turkey) would like to draw from the seeded teams.

And my guess is that they would all prefer Ireland as opposed to Portugal, Croatia and Czech Republic.

D'oh ...I'll give you a 5r to delete your posts and for me to edit mine so I don't look such a tool

**DannyInvincible** · 12/10/2011, 6:23 PM

Originally Posted by legendz

When FIFA did the draw for the World Cup play-offs, a separate draw was made for home and away venues.

It appears that the same will be done tomorrow: http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2011/...a_ireland.html

**IsMiseSean** · 12/10/2011, 7:14 PM

Everyone seems to want the 2nd leg at home. I'd prefer to play at home first, our system is suited more to away games. Its imperative we don't concede at home though.
As to who we get drawn against Estonia are the probably the weakest team so its the most favourable, but I have a feeling we'll be playing Montenegro which isn't a bad drawn either.

**Sullivinho** · 12/10/2011, 7:34 PM

Originally Posted by French Toasht

Who do you think they want in Estonia, Turkey, Montenegro and Bosnia?

My guess is that all 4 are praying for Ireland.

I'm guessing the same. What I'm sure of is that they'll all want to avoid Portugal and Croatia.

**legendz** · 12/10/2011, 7:39 PM

Originally Posted by JGKyne

Everyone seems to want the 2nd leg at home. I'd prefer to play at home first, our system is suited more to away games. Its imperative we don't concede at home though.
As to who we get drawn against Estonia are the probably the weakest team so its the most favourable, but I have a feeling we'll be playing Montenegro which isn't a bad drawn either.

I'd agree at times but for this one I want a home game. Ireland have drawn the short straw too often with away games for the second leg. It'll be great to see a tie alive coming back to Dublin. Hopefully with a bit of luck their could be an electric night at Lansdowne Road with Ireland going through.

**Crosby87** · 12/10/2011, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by French Toasht

Who do you think they want in Estonia, Turkey, Montenegro and Bosnia?

My guess is that all 4 are praying for Ireland.

I dunno French.
Many here are (sometimes understandably) hard on the team but we rarely concede and are almost unbeatable at home vs that sort of opposition which is to say not the tops. From afar it probably offers a different outlook, fans of those other teams are as prone to overreaction as we are-- remember people on here making Pandev sound like a combination of Pele and George Best when this draw first came out? Our players suck, their players are amazing, etc... I don't think many people in Turkey are thinking that the team is a sure thing in Dublin. They dont have a Richard Dunne. (I say that on purpose as a joke knowing ten people will tell me they have the best player ever back there.) (But if said player played for Ireland they would deem him a stupid waste of time.)

**mypost** · 13/10/2011, 12:15 AM

They're hard on the team because they don't look at the results. Too busy going through every misplaced pass, every long ball, every possession statistic etc, and drawing their conclusions on that basis rather than see whether we actually won or not. Apparantly Spain scored from a 42-pass move last night. Who cares? We scored from a tap-in off someone's waist, but they all count.

We didn't scrape into the playoffs like other teams have done. We've been consistently top or top two in this group the whole way through. We've scored a fair amount of goals, and conceded relatively few. The team is very hard to beat, with just 1 group phase defeat in 4 years, against teams from every spectrum of the game. We're there on merit, and we've every chance of going through.

**DannyInvincible** · 13/10/2011, 3:37 AM

Just had a look at Turkey's results through their group and I wouldn't say they're anything to fear if it did happen we draw them. The one result of note was a home victory against Belgium, but other than that they were fairly average, losing even to Azerbaijan. Germany beat them convincingly twice; 3-0 in Germany and 3-1 in Turkey. Still, I'd rather avoid a team with Hiddink in charge. It's also a notoriously hostile place to go. Estonia has to be the dream really. I'd fancy us against Montenegro as well.