The Greatest Show on Earth, and we're not there

[wws]

its all brian kerr's fault

im with my learned friend Mr WaR on this

cant understand the zillions of endless posts on this place about Ireland - endless nit picking over friendlies and potential friendlies - this is the world cup!

a feast of football - and ppl are postin over whether stan should have had a few more meaningless friendlies


enjoy all

this is gonna be great!

[CraftyToePoke]

Trust me, watching Ronaldinho, Messi, Toni, Rosicky, Adriano, Kaka, Totti, Ballack, and erm Owen Hargreaves, as a neutral is much better than watching the boys in green huff and puff against the might of Saudi Arabia from behind the back of my couch.

I'm a football fan and as such I can't wait for this to kick-off...........John O'Shea won't be missed, by me or the billions watching. FFS we treat our 3 draws and a defeat in 1990 as the greatest thing to ever happen. And then we've the cheek to slag the English over their 1966 obsession.

KOH

i can kinda see where you are coming from, there is an element of ''lets all just sit back and enjoy it'' now thet the stinging disappointment of not making it has faded a bit, and we can now do so without having to endure Ian Fuuckin Hartes ''performances'' and the prospect of the pain of that penalty debacle v 10 man spain etc etc coming round again in a differing fixture and ultimately ending in exit from the big gig.......but neither will there be the roof punching euphoria of Keanes equaliser v germany or Duffs cool as fcuk 'oriental bow' celebration v the Saudis and so on to enjoy,

i know we arent as good as the big boys of the world stage, most likely never will be, but do i want our eleven little green soldiers of mixed and sometimes limited ability, out there endeavouring to upset the odds?? damn right i do, every time.

[micls]

looking at the ivory coast flag at the opening ceremony you could nearly pretend we are there if you want......comon ivory coast

[jbyrne]

i can kinda see where you are coming from, there is an element of ''lets all just sit back and enjoy it'' now thet the stinging disappointment of not making it has faded a bit, and we can now do so without having to endure Ian Fuuckin Hartes ''performances'' and the prospect of the pain of that penalty debacle v 10 man spain etc etc coming round again in a differing fixture and ultimately ending in exit from the big gig.......but neither will there be the roof punching euphoria of Keanes equaliser v germany or Duffs cool as fcuk 'oriental bow' celebration v the Saudis and so on to enjoy,

i know we arent as good as the big boys of the world stage, most likely never will be, but do i want our eleven little green soldiers of mixed and sometimes limited ability, out there endeavouring to upset the odds?? damn right i do, every time.

good post. sums up most Irish fans feelings at the moment i would imagine

[eirebhoy]

Trust me, watching Ronaldinho, Messi, Toni, Rosicky, Adriano, Kaka, Totti, Ballack, and erm Owen Hargreaves, as a neutral is much better than watching the boys in green huff and puff against the might of Saudi Arabia from behind the back of my couch.

I'm a football fan and as such I can't wait for this to kick-off...........John O'Shea won't be missed, by me or the billions watching. FFS we treat our 3 draws and a defeat in 1990 as the greatest thing to ever happen. And then we've the cheek to slag the English over their 1966 obsession.

KOH

You don't support Ireland so I can see why you wouldn't want them being in the world cup, living in the country and all that. Nothing can match watching Ireland in the world cup for me, nothing could probably match watching Rovers in the Champions league for you.

[WeAreRovers]

You don't support Ireland so I can see why you wouldn't want them being in the world cup, living in the country and all that. Nothing can match watching Ireland in the world cup for me, nothing could probably match watching Rovers in the Champions league for you.

That's it in a nutshell...........mind you I might be waiting a while to see Rovers in the CL.

KOH

[Fergie's Son]

At least you are honest.

Very odd that you are posting on an Ireland forum though. There is an EL forum and a World Cup forum for you as well

Gutted we aren't there. I'd be in Germany right now having a few too many.

Instead, I am "watching" the first match on the Guardian's website here in the US.

[CraftyToePoke]

mind you I might be waiting a while to see Rovers in the CL.

yeah, theres the slight matter of our threatening to dissappear into the distance to deal with for a start, in the good ole eircom 1st.....

[DmanDmythDledge]

What he said, major tournaments are always better without our brand of rubbish football, rubbish fans and rubbish media. This way, I can watch the world's best footballers without every leprachaun wig-wearing idiot ruining the show for the rest of us.

KOH

We were voted best fans of the last World Cup.

[Condex]

I still think people are underestimating Kerr. If the players could lose the fear factor they'd be in Germany now.

If Kerr could have lost the fear factor we would have been in Germany now!!
He looked like a bunny in the headlights...

[Emmet]

I have a feeling if we had gotten to Germany it would have been more like 1994 than 1990 or 2002 - perhaps we would have got out of the group but we would have been properly shown up by someone sooner or later. Our current crop of players are poor (with three or four exceptions). Very Poor!

Having said that, it still hurts that we aren't there

[Superhoops]

If Kerr could have lost the fear factor we would have been in Germany now!!
He looked like a bunny in the headlights...

Without wishing to open this all up again, lets not forget that our 'big game' players did not perform consistently enough throughout the qualifying campaign, Damian Duff, Roy Keane and Robbie Keane in particular.

[Feech]

We were voted best fans of the last World Cup.

By who?

Source please.

[DmanDmythDledge]

By who?

Source please.

I read it on BBC ceefax at the time. I will look for a link now.

[Emmet]

The only thing about Kerr that really got to me was his preference for Carr over Finnan - apart from that he seemed well organised and tactically sound. The players were the ones who capitulated against Israel (twice). That is why we didn't qualify! As someone posted earlier in this thread they aren't very strong as people and probably the weakest (in terms of their mental toughness) we have had for a good twenty years.

[lopez]

I'll enjoy it even more when the tans are coming home, you're coming home, the Tans are coming home, you're coming home...

I reckon Spain will finally come good...

Ojala! hombre, ojala!

Looking forward to it more that we're not in it. Despise fake football fans.

What are you? The f*cking fan taliban?

We are sh*te and dont deserve to be there, and it'll only get worse with Muppet Stan in charge

One simple question to you son. Were you born before or after France '98?

[Dodge]

What are you? The f*cking fan taliban?

I wish...

[onenilgameover]

Have my wall-chart on the wall and I'm tryin to get into it. It stings when i get asked unbelievably stupid questions like ''are you really disappointed we're not there?'' by my girlfriend and statements like ''i can't believe we're not there'' by my sister. I was in Croatia on holiday and they we're warming up for the world cup with various stuff on tv etc etc, that made me sad too..

[Condex]

Without wishing to open this all up again, lets not forget that our 'big game' players did not perform consistently enough throughout the qualifying campaign, Damian Duff, Roy Keane and Robbie Keane in particular.

I agree the players let him down, but wouldn't call Duff a 'big game' player
can't remember the last time he played well in a match of any importance...

[Poor Student]

It pains me that we're not there. I could really have gone to this one. I'm sick of watching tournaments that we're not at. That said, I have watched every game so far and I am enjoying it. It does allow you to relax and soak it up in a different sort of way.