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Interesting...Another team with a superb record in qualifying in recent years...will be looking to avoid them myself! Good trip though.Originally Posted by NeilMcD
Eh, no. This is about which team you would rather draw - Sweden or Greece. How good Ireland are has nothing to do with it.
Eh, no. Again. I don't know how you define a one-off. They were one of the favourites for the tournament, had won a major tournament before, have done so since, generally qualify and generally do well when they qualify. Greece, however, were in one major tournament ever that I can think of (1994 World Cup), so it was quite clearly a one-off.
[QUOTE=Well, some people regard a comprehensive 3 or 4 goal beating as a sound walloping. Maybe you don't.[/QUOTE]
Of course I do. See eirebhoy's post.
Incidentally, you bring up Greece's last trip to Dublin as an example of why Greece are better than Sweden. Should I bring up our last meeting - in Greece in 2002, with Greece in the middle of qualifying for the tournament they would win. With Ireland managed by the person generally considered to be the worst Ireland manager at any level in a long time (Givens), with a threadbare squad necessitating the first eL player (Crowe) to start for Ireland in 20 years and with another (Hoolihan) on the bench, Ireland secured a quite comfortable 0-0 draw. Ireland, incidentally, have never won in Sweden - even when we were both rubbish.
Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm entitled - with everyone else, it seems - to rubbish it. Neither opinion matters a hoot when the draw's made, so there's no point continuing this argument. But I for one won't be scared of the nasty, noisy, past-it Greeks.
That excuse always surfaces when we play away friendlies.
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