Hakan Yakin ruled out of remaining qualifiers

**Stuttgart88** · 03/10/2005, 6:16 PM

Originally Posted by Tram_14

The reason why Mark Kinsella threw the plastic bottle that day was because Alexander Frei goaded the Irish bench after the swiss scored their second goal..... I couldn't believe it

I really hope that comes back to haunt him. Kerr should show the video to the team to get them fired up.

**shakermaker1982** · 03/10/2005, 6:49 PM

reading some of the posts above about the Swiss team makes my blood boil!!! Ireland have nothing to fear from them IMO, we could have beat them away with a bit more self belief. From what I've seen of Senderos over the past 12 months at Arsenal he is a weak link. Whether we can exploit that is upto Clinton and Robbie.

tetsujin1979 cheers for posting that, I have also been looking for the number of Swiss players on yellow cards without much luck.

**thejollyrodger** · 03/10/2005, 7:32 PM

I HATE the Swiss people and their crap international team, they are so arrogant its unbelivable. I met some of them on holidays and I wanted to give them a good hiding there and then.

the rod should be spared when we play them, some bone crunchers of tackles and a great victory will be enough to banish the pain from that night in basel

**Robitaille** · 03/10/2005, 10:06 PM

Hi all, my nick is Robitaille as you can see and I am Swiss. I came here to post 1-2 msg before. And I am back.
I read many of yr posts (as I did in the French or Israeli forums) to know better our opponents' thoughts. What can I say then?
Many of you just seem to enjoy the equation Swiss Team=Arrogant Team.
I am not here to prove you the contrary.
However, did you read your own messages? How many of you said Swiss are crap and Ireland are a (much) better team? I guess many of you. Isn't this arrogance, too?
Btw, where did you get the idea of this arrogance? In the Newspapers? Do some swiss underestimate Ireland? What then?

Some of you had bad experiences with swiss players (Frei, Chapuisat, etc..). Okay. But is this enough to say that the Swiss are all arrogant? Did never Keane make mistakes? Yes, he did some very bad fouls or things, like when he said he purposely injured a player (Haland, am I wrong?). Duff doesn't look an angel, neither. Is this enough to say that all Ireland players are arrogant?
My idea is that many of you behave like sheep, who follow what other said before..

In the end you are free to believe what you want, but many of you are GENERALIZING things, which is, in my opinion, a childish behaviour. The post of Jollyrodger say all... he is arrogant himself, ignorant and slightly racist...

**eirebhoy** · 03/10/2005, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by Robitaille

Duff doesn't look an angel, neither.

Apart from the odd dive, Duff is a role model to any young player trying to make it.

Anyway, some of the posts in this thread are ridiculous. Plenty of the players are idiots (Wicky made a few smart comments about Ireland about a year ago) but its nothing against Swiss people. Jolly will probably wake up tomorrow loving Switzerland, he has amnesia.

**Robitaille** · 03/10/2005, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

Apart from the odd dive, Duff is a role model to any young player trying to make it.

Anyway, some of the posts in this thread are ridiculous. Plenty of the players are idiots (Wicky made a few smart comments about Ireland about a year ago) but its nothing against Swiss people. Jolly will probably wake up tomorrow loving Switzerland, he has amnesia.

Well, of course I didn't mean to say Duff or Keane might not be taken as a role model.. I wanted to highlight the fact that anyone can have some bad behaviour at times, both Swiss or Irish. And the biggest mistake is to generalize.

**Junior** · 04/10/2005, 10:27 AM

We've had 4 or 5 of these thread over the last couple of years.

Frankly I find it embarassing. 'The Swiss are sh*te', 'Cocky', 'deserve a kicking', 'boring', 'arrogant'

WTF??

We are both very average teams, fine support our nation, believe we can do it - but leave the other ****e to the cavemen of the world. As far as I am concerned in the last 2 years the swiss have deserved each result they have got against us. Comments on here and on previous threads just sound very bitter.

Please god we can beat Cyprus and put in our best performance (cos thats what it will take) of the campaign to beat the Swiss by a goal or 2 at lansdowne.

**Tram_14** · 04/10/2005, 10:56 AM

I have nothing against Swiss people (obviously) & I don't think that their Team are sh!te at all, I do think that Ireland are better BUT only next wednesday will prove this.

On Frei, he is really quite "special" and having been in Basel for his embarrasing performance in front of the Irish bench, I can safely say that we don't have anyone like him in the Irish team.

Robitaille, best of luck next Wednesday, but you can understand why I never want to hear HOP SUISEE ever again in my lifetime.

**youngirish** · 04/10/2005, 5:36 PM

Irish people have absolutely nothing against Swiss people. We are far too busy devoting all our hate to the t**ts across the water.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 04/10/2005, 6:27 PM

I have nothing against the Swiss either.... even if they are a crowd of Mammon worshipping Merchant Bankers... or is that the Irish?

**concanta** · 04/10/2005, 7:14 PM

is senderos fit for saturday or our game?
does anyone know?

**wallis** · 04/10/2005, 8:39 PM

Robitaille - do us a favour and beat France please. They are not particulary great and only a moment of genius from Henry beat us. If you have any team news on your guys please post it as im sure 90% of us on here would be interested. Why not tell us how your team played after you beat France !

Best of Luck