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Thread: Wales v. Republic of Ireland - Monday, 9th October 2017 - World Cup 2018 Qualifier

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    Pretty sure its going to be the latter .
    I'm not so sure anymore, with no long to spring from the bench he may well go for it from the start

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    Randolph

    Christie Duffy Clark Ward

    Brady Meyler Hendrick McClean
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    Murphy

    I’m hoping Wes doesn’t miss out. Probably at expense of Arter/O’Dowda. The latter could be the wildcard MON plays. Brady isn’t a number 10. If he has 2 or 3 rubbish set pieces then he should be taken off them.

    Got to target their wing backs and double up on both sides. Push them back and get the crosses into Murphy. He’s on fire at the moment and will score if he gets a sniff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diggs246 View Post
    I'm not so sure anymore, with no long to spring from the bench he may well go for it from the start
    We will be watching very nervously . I hope we do make it but it ain’t going to be easy .

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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    Shane Long out according to Nathan Murphy: https://twitter.com/nathanmurf/statu...21144612655104
    Opens up the door for my 'dream' tandem of Hogan and Maguire

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    We will be watching very nervously . I hope we do make it but it ain’t going to be easy .
    It will be a nervous evening - you are correct about that.
    But my nerves will evaporate if I see an Irish team sheet I don't like. I'll crawl back under my rock of pessimism at that point.
    O'Neill has a massive part to play tonight. His 'performance' in the dressing room before kick off (in putting the correct players on the pitch from the off and giving them the proper instructions) will be monumental towards the outcome.
    I will not tell him how to do his job, but merely hint that the initials 'WH' have to be on that team sheet.

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    I thought it would be 4-3-3 before Long's injury.
    Randolph
    Christie, Duffy, Clark, Ward
    Hendrick, Meyler, Brady
    Long, Murphy, McClean.

    I have no idea what MON will do now.
    If we're going to do it I think it'll be a 0-1 job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    Pretty sure its going to be the latter .
    Yeah, me too, but i hope not.

    I know Hoolahan can last an hour at most, but if the game is close at all with 30 minutes to go, Wales are probably going to get more and more defensive anyway, and we'll likely end up whacking balls into the box. Don't need Hoolahan for that.

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    I'm well up for this tonight lads. I just went into Tesco's and caught a big bunch of leeks and threw them onto the ground.

    Then went to the daffodil section of the local garden centre and bought 200 packets of daffodil bulbs - I'M NOT GOING TO PLANT A SINGLE ONE!

    COME ON IRELAND!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid View Post
    I'm well up for this tonight lads. I just went into Tesco's and caught a big bunch of leeks and threw them onto the ground.

    Then went to the daffodil section of the local garden centre and bought 200 packets of daffodil bulbs - I'M NOT GOING TO PLANT A SINGLE ONE!

    COME ON IRELAND!!!!!!
    Perhaps we could do with a flower growing out of our backside.....to paraphrase a Spanish manager when it was said that his team had been lucky against Ireland....he replied that it was the Irish that had a flower growing out of their backside .

    So perhaps you could “ plant “ one of those bulbs for tonight .

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    Perhaps we could do with a flower growing out of our backside.....to paraphrase a Spanish manager when it was said that his team had been lucky against Ireland....he replied that it was the Irish that had a flower growing out of their backside .

    So perhaps you could “ plant “ one of those bulbs for tonight .
    Ach - just a bit of humor - its a very tense day - made all the more tense really by the fact that we are massive underdogs going into this. At least the nervousness in the lead up normally you can expect to get a result - but I fear with the players we have missing - we are going to get a hiding tonight. Hope I'm wrong of course and Seani bags the winner. But can you imagine 12 months ago going into this game and needing a win without Coleman, McCarthy, Long and Walters ? I think the optimism is misplaced.

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    I don't understand the narrative that we have "nothing to lose". I've read it on here and seen/heard it elsewhere. We have World Cup qualification to lose, same as Wales do.

    Not only that but, considering the brilliant position we were in, it would be nothing short of a disaster if we don't even make the playoffs. If anything, Wales are the ones going into this in a bonus territory of sorts, given the difficult situation they found themselves in before the last round of matches.

    Just because we're the slight underdogs doesn't mean we have nothing to lose... we have everything to lose. It's not like we're travelling to play Spain or something with no expectations.

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    Any chance of McGeady starting now Long is out? He has been performing at club level, O'Neill trusts him, and he could be given a free role between Murphy and midfield.

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    Randolph

    Christie Duffy Clark Ward

    Brady Meyler Hendrick McClean
    Wes
    Murphy

    The above is probably what I'd go with too.

    What I expect is;
    Randolph

    Christie Duffy Clark Ward

    Brady Meyler Arter Hendrick McClean

    Murphy

    Also possible that he'll stick with O'Dowda and play McClean or Brady off Murphy. Brady has been lost any time he gets a free or central role so I hope he's left out wide. McClean can play that second striker role but wouldn't be there for creativity. Possible he might go ultra conservative too and start Whelan over Arter or Wessi.

    Expect Wessi, McGeady and McGuire off the bench in the last 15 if we're chasing it/

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    That is, or should be, the only call MON has to make. Arter or Wes.

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    Ireland's record vs Wales: https://twitter.com/irish_abroad/sta...58857567068161
    Games: 14, Wins: 5, Draws: 4, Losses: 5
    All goals, yellow and red cards tweeted in real time on mastodon, BlueSky and facebook

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    No clamor for Glenn to return? He's been blanked out of every possible permutation here as if he never existed.
    A case of rapid, benevolent repressed memory syndrome?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diggs246 View Post
    I'm not so sure anymore, with no long to spring from the bench he may well go for it from the start
    We have enough threats to put the ball in the Welsh net - Robbie Brady from free kicks, Duffy / Clark / Ward from corners, Hogan or Maguire with a direct run at their defense (something Wales will not be expecting to be honest). It is keeping the ball out at the other end which scares me. STOP RAMSEY AND ALLEN AND YOU STOP WALES.

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    Quote Originally Posted by passinginterest View Post
    Randolph

    Christie Duffy Clark Ward

    Brady Meyler Hendrick McClean
    Wes
    Murphy

    The above is probably what I'd go with too.

    What I expect is;
    Randolph

    Christie Duffy Clark Ward

    Brady Meyler Arter Hendrick McClean

    Murphy

    Also possible that he'll stick with O'Dowda and play McClean or Brady off Murphy. Brady has been lost any time he gets a free or central role so I hope he's left out wide. McClean can play that second striker role but wouldn't be there for creativity. Possible he might go ultra conservative too and start Whelan over Arter or Wessi.

    Expect Wessi, McGeady and McGuire off the bench in the last 15 if we're chasing it/
    Murphy on his own up to is just not going to do it - Ashley Williams and James Chester will be bored for the ninety minutes.
    And if MON picks that type of team he will deserve every failure that comes his way.
    Remember this is a game where we have to go for it - he has said it himself (ie we have to carry an attacking threat).

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    Quote Originally Posted by geysir View Post
    No clamor for Glenn to return? He's been blanked out of every possible permutation here as if he never existed.
    A case of rapid, benevolent repressed memory syndrome?
    I'm not a Whelan fan at all but I'd have no great preference for Arter starting tonight, truth be told. He's looked indisciplined and a bit of a headless chicken for us so far. Whelan might be the more obvious choice to deal with the threat of Ramsey.

    Preferably Hoolahan would just start though but can't see it happening after the amount of game time he got on Friday.

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    For those in U.K. who don't have Sky, you can watch the game live on S4C. It's on Freesat, Virgin and also live on the iplayer. Think it's Welsh language commentary though.
    JERRY: But are you still master of your domain?
    GEORGE: I am king of the county. You?
    JERRY: Lord of the manor.

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