Kilkenny in as a deputy to Cullen, once he keeps his place at Bournemouth I'd say.
I'd narrow your list above to the those two, and would be on the fence for Kilkenny & Mandriou. Nothing agin any of them of course, well, almost.Originally Posted by elatedscum
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
Kilkenny in as a deputy to Cullen, once he keeps his place at Bournemouth I'd say.
What happens if Ukraine aren't able to fulfil their fixtures due to the situation with Russia?
We played Georgia in Mainz before for similar reasons, so I guess a neutral venue?
Or if they no longer exist, due to Russia. What happens then ?
I think if that happens we'll have bigger things to worry about...
Not that I think this will happen, but there actually is precedent. When Germany was unified, East Germany and West Germany just played out their campaigns as normal before the teams merged.
I think this is different!
The precedent was when we played Georgia in mainz that time. After they attack poor little Russia!
I meant the precedent if a country no longer exists, they still play games.
There’s no way Ukraine will not be in existence. Worst that will happen, geographically, is that part of it will belong to Russia (besides bloody and terrible war of course)
Well this scenario seems terrifyingly more likely than two months ago...
Russia should be expelled from the WC 2022
They have Poland in a Play off. the Poles should get a by
Or let the game go ahead so the whole planet can cheer on poland.
Then if russia win expell them!
Although I said it, it was half what if & half in jest. A scenario on the outer sphere of the various possible outcomes if you will. I don't think anyone fully appreciated what a heady mix of fully insane & massively ****ed off ol Vladimir truly is. Particularly those who's one job it was to guage this.
I think technically Russia are already banned from the World Cup anyway due to the doping scandal, though FIFA are allowed to overturn that. So that gives them a fairly easy way to expel them.
Of course the issue then is do you risk annoying ordinary Russians, who would then conversely support Putin more?
It's a very tricky one...
Its not tricky imo
They've invaded this is happening.
I'm sorry for the average Russian football fan, but its a dictatorship so their opinion good or bad doesn't matter to putin
It will annoy him that's for certain !
I think you have to consider how Putin could use any actions for his own propaganda as well though. There's plenty a dictatorship been brought down by populist pressure before.
Personally, I'd have no problems with Russia being the new South Africa over this (although nothing similar happened when they invaded Georgia in 2008 - granted, this already looks a huge step above that, but there were similarities too, including Georgia's desire to join NATO), but dealing with Putin is inherently tricky. I'm not sure he's insane like Crafty suggests; he's more a psychopath, which is a lot more dangerous I think.
But I think it is convenient that there seems to be a nice way to ban them as things stand.
UEFA have - not surprisingly - confirmed that all Ukraine's matches are to be played at a neutral venue until further notice.
Same goes for Russia.
Champions League final moved from St Petersburg (Putin's home city) to Paris.
Not sure where to put this. But the Fai have said 15000 season tickets have sold already this year. That's interesting because when I first got a "number " with them about 17 or so years ago it was up late 14000s, so they must never have got higher before now.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Back in the USSR?
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