Half hour gone

**backstothewall** · 24/03/2007, 2:41 PM

Uninspiring so far.

Finnan and O Shea are both trying to come inside onto their natural feet far to often, but it is to be expected given they are playing on the oppisate flanks to where they are used to.

Keane is pulling out left, right, deep, everywhere but where he should be really if he is to play up front as the lead striker (which he has to be if Duff is his partner). result of this is no real presence up front, demonstrated perfectly by when their keeper got in trouble and there was no one in the middle to exploit it

Distinct lack of width which would surely have been something to exploit on the big pitch.

Poor fare so far. At least Given got up

**strangeirish** · 24/03/2007, 2:46 PM

1 up. How ironic that a lad from Cork scores!

**backstothewall** · 24/03/2007, 2:46 PM

Well shut my mouth...

Good finish by the lad

**German_Tim** · 24/03/2007, 2:47 PM

Great goal from Steven Ireland after a superb pass from Robbie Keane!

PS: The game is live on German free tv

**Qwerty** · 24/03/2007, 2:47 PM

Ireland has class. Quality finish.

**strangeirish** · 24/03/2007, 2:49 PM

Listening to it on the Radio. Crowd seems into it. Hard to gauge how we are playing from the commentary.

**German_Tim** · 24/03/2007, 2:50 PM

The atmosphere isn't that good in my eyes...

Unfortunately no comparison with Celtic Park.

**German_Tim** · 24/03/2007, 2:52 PM

Half time

1:0 Eire

**backstothewall** · 24/03/2007, 2:52 PM

No comparison to the rugby fixtures either

**plasticpitch** · 24/03/2007, 2:53 PM

Originally Posted by German_Tim

The atmosphere isn't that good in my eyes...

Unfortunately no comparison with Celtic Park.

german tv ...what channel??

**Raheny Red** · 24/03/2007, 2:56 PM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

Listening to it on the Radio. Crowd seems into it. Hard to gauge how we are playing from the commentary.

Have you got the right frequency?

- the atmosphere is shocking

**strangeirish** · 24/03/2007, 2:57 PM

Originally Posted by Raheny Red

Have you got the right frequency?

- the atmosphere is shocking

They must be playing a background track from the rugby game.

**Qwerty** · 24/03/2007, 2:58 PM

The game is pretty flat really. Wales will have to change things at half time, we'll see how we cope with their changes.

**laurent** · 24/03/2007, 3:01 PM

Originally Posted by plasticpitch

german tv ...what channel??

it's on ARD.

**Emmet** · 24/03/2007, 3:03 PM

The build-up play and finish for the goal apart there has not been too much for the crowd to cheer about! It has been fairly flat but the game has been pretty dull and mistake-ridden so far. Hoping for a better second half!