QuoteThere isn't a hope in hell of getting the IFA to sanction a home game in Windsor against any international team other than Northern Ireland.
It would have to be in Windsor Park then. The only possible way to get the IFA to agree would be if the Linfield mafia were pushing it. It sounds unlikely but they would be the ones getting paid for the rental of the ground, so maybe not impossible.
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There isn't a hope in hell of getting the IFA to sanction a home game in Windsor against any international team other than Northern Ireland.
Well, yes, probably, but it would be funny to make them say no publicly to the request all the same and watch them falling over their words. These kind of intrusions from their neighbours aren't their strong point like.
If you ask often enough you never know. They relented to letting Derry join the League Of Ireland eventually
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If you comedians want a (suburban) Belfast venue, the Carrickfergus International Arena may be available- but you'll have to install 4G and do car parking deals with the Health Centre and Prince Andrew Swimming Pool.
On a similar theme, how many of your projected Euros squad have actualy lived in the country?
Like a moth to the flame there GR, welcome, always welcome here. You must have heard us calling you
Aye, I look in most weeks for a welcome trolling/ mopery treat
PS answering my own question, I'll guess at 15.
I am guessing, as you have raised this a few times you know exactly, and in some headcount of Irishness you are claiming in this instance to be more Irish then we as you have more in yours ?
You Sir, may have that one if it be the case & how you wish to quantify it
What if we proposed playing Northern Ireland in Windsor but letting us be the home team?Originally Posted by osarusan
Black hole swallows everybody except the pig flying overhead.
Well obviously I don't know exactly, I doubt Mad Mart does at this stage.I am guessing, as you have raised this a few times you know exactly, and in some headcount of Irishness you are claiming in this instance to be more Irish then we as you have more in yours ?
You Sir, may have that one if it be the case & how you wish to quantify it
But yes, it's a fairly safe bet you'll have about twice as many English and Scots in your squad as we will. Not to mention cross-border emigrants from up here.
Sorry to repeat myself, I though it was obligatory on this thread?
Maybe in a few years time they will actually have sorted out the redevelopment of Casement and it could be played there and sure no need to worry about FIFA/IFA just play a club team or even the Basque or Catalan 'National' teams and that wouldn't be an issue then
That is a novel idea but given the send off Cliftonville fans got from the locals on Tuesday night, I don't think that idea would go down too well with them and they would no doubt throw an even bigger sh*tfit complete with even more bottles and fireworks for good measure!
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Sorry to hear that SR. Hope all made it out of town safely.
I can't see a large stadium being rebuilt on the Casement site in the foreseeable future, especially after Caral n. C's recent difficulties.
I'm not sure they'd have to say no publicly. I don't think there has been much/any publicity to accompany the FA's approval of our games in England. Perhaps a like in the announcement that the games were going ahead. The only time I recall any publicity was when they were apparently a bit bemused by the first of such applications for friendlies nearly 20 years ago.
I suppose it could become public if the FAI made it become public by publicising the planned game and application for approval, and thereby generating interest in a public response from the IFA. But I can't imagine that even they are so stupid as to create publicity over something that would only make them look like idiots. Although maybe they are that stupid...
Last edited by osarusan; 08/04/2016 at 10:08 AM. Reason: confused FAI and IFA!
I hope your tongue is welded to your cheek.
Using the squad I would pick 16
Given (Donegal), Randolph (Wicklow), Forde (Galway), Coleman (Donegal), Duffy (Derry), O'Shea (Waterford), Wilson (Antrim), Ward (Dublin), Brady (Dublin), Whelan (Dublin), Hoolahan (Dublin), McClean (Derry), Hendrick (Dublin), Keane (Dublin), Long (Tipperary), Murphy (Waterford)
The others are Christie (England), Keogh (England), Clark (England), McGeady (Scotland), McCarthy (Scotland) & Arter (England).
I appreciate you'll probably want to have a moan about the lads form the 6 counties. There isn't a lot I can do about that and I'm not discussing any issue around that situation on this thread but the answer is that 16 or there abouts will qualify by virtue of birth without having to claim nationality by virtue of a grandparent etc.
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Hopefully Westwood for Forde will shift the balance closer to the Brits.
Lets hope Judge doesn't keep Arter out then!
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Are Conor Washington, Jamie Ward, Oliver Norwood, Lee Hodson, Billy McKay and Paul Paton in with a shout of making the NI squad I wonder? Self-professed Ireland supporter, Niall McGinn, surely will anyway.
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