2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

[tetsujin1979]

If it was any earlier, nobody would have been able to go because of work.

[Eirambler]

I can remember a packed out Lansdowne in the middle of a weekday afternoon when there were no floodlights, so I don't think that's true. Not everyone is tied to their desks 9 to 5 Monday to Friday thankfully. And for those that are, a 5pm kickoff will mean an early work finish anyway. A 4pm kickoff would have led to a higher attendance - committed fans would have been able to go to both games, people taking a day off to travel to Dublin could have got two games for their time spent etc.

But it would have been better again to take that aspect out of it completely and just play the game in Cork.

[JR89]

What nick is Turners Cross pitch in? Was poor this time last year and has been poor on a few occasions just for the U21s nevermind the younger age groups.

[Acornvilla]

I only caught the game in patches, very frustrating, clearly the far better team but couldn't get it done. Few lapses in judgement, but also a bit of overplaying it, and dribbling in to crowds when it was probably better to keep the ball moving, especially in the last 10 minutes, they're young and will learn, unsure how many of this cop will make it to senior level, but they're still in with a shout, you'll take 2nd and a playoff if it comes at this point, but there's always the chance of something magic.

[joey B]

What nick is Turners Cross pitch in? Was poor this time last year and has been poor on a few occasions just for the U21s nevermind the younger age groups.

Looked ok when I seen it recently,did the pitch in Tallaght look poor on tv to anyone else or just me?

[Acornvilla]

Looked ok when I seen it recently,did the pitch in Tallaght look poor on tv to anyone else or just me?

It definitely looked a little squishy for want of a better word.

[JR89]

Looked ok when I seen it recently,did the pitch in Tallaght look poor on tv to anyone else or just me?

Only caught the last few minutes but was on a small TV in a pub with the picture looking ****. The grass somehow had a luminesce green glow off it.

[nigel-harps1954]

Looked ok when I seen it recently,did the pitch in Tallaght look poor on tv to anyone else or just me?

Definitely thought it looked remarkably poor, which to be fair, is unlike Tallaght Stadium.

Agree though it should either have been in Cork or a 4pm kickoff. Would possibly have swayed my decision to travel from Donegal if there were a chance of getting both games in without a mad panic between. You could see a gathering of people standing at the gates ready to leave from about 60 minutes on the TV too.


For what it's worth, it was a much better watch than the senior game. Really should have battered Latvia and got sucker punched with two preventable goals.

24 attempts on goal and a draw to show for it. 10 corners and barely an attempt on target from any of them.

On another day that would have been a 6-0 or 7-0.

[elatedscum]

The reason it was played in Tallaght was due to the quality of the pitch in Turners Cross and them thinking they wanted the best playing surface. Turners Cross has always looked awful for the 21s.

Tallaght looked worse than it normally does yesterday.

FWIW if it had been played at 4.15 or whatever, I would have gone to both games. Thought about it and decided it was too stressful with traffic trying to do both.

[rebelmusic]

I'm nut sure on the rules but would there have been any option to play them both in the Aviva as a double bill?