Germany First - wise choice?!

**eirebhoy** · 22/08/2006, 9:59 AM

Originally Posted by Billsthoughts

As for Duff Newcastle were only club he was guaranteed regular football.
Anyway we are both only giving opinions.

Duff would have been a key player for Valencia, Inter and Liverpool - my opinion.

Originally Posted by Billsthoughts

I would take a wild guess that the only reason you are calling them "their second rate players" is cause you know arse all about them and have rarely seen them play. hows that for a fact. we will see in the qualifiers.....

In my case that is mostly true but I do know some SPL players like Bednar, Jarosik, Skacel and Sionko that have been part of recent squads and they don't worry me. Smicer will be back in their squad when back from injury too. Jankulovski has been a bit part player since joining Milan, starting only 7 of their many games. That can't be good for him.

This is all from me saying the Czechs are nothing special, I stick by that.

They're a good team but we should be aiming to beat them at home.

**Billsthoughts** · 22/08/2006, 10:18 AM

No I dont agree on the duff thing. And I assume ,as he went to perrenial no hopers newcastle, he didnt agree either. Take off your Ireland/celtic tinted glasses for one second. He hasnt performed for Ireland in a long while and thats by his own admission. I look forward to reading your posts after czech games. I would say we have more chance of beating Germany in the next game than in either of czech games.

So to get back to the original point -I think it was a good idea to take the germany away game first. the only problem is we should have played a few more friendlies so as to get accross the way Staunton/Robson want us to play to the players.