U21s v England

[eirebhoy]

I'd say Garvan and O'Toole will compliment each other well. O'Toole is quite combative. Garvan will probably sit deep enough spraying the passes around.

[FootballsKing]

think apart from mark noble and arron lennon perhaps, anthony stokes and owen garven will be the best players on show tonight. theo walcott has got to be one o the most overhyped players in the world. fancy ireland to do better than most expect in this

[Stuttgart88]

Mark Noble would walk into our senior team. And his granny is Irish!

[NeilMcD]

Come on Ireland get stuck into them.

[geysir]

"serious claims for a penalty" I quote.
JJ O´Toole held back on his way to direct another bullit header to the back of the net.
Irish boys looking good so far.

[paul_oshea]

irish lads look very fluid, but i think thats cos englands midfield is non-existant. jjotoole looks like a really good player on the ball. not seen garvan or clarke do much...

[mypost]

Just checking the trains from London to Southampton for Tuesday's game.

Getting there in time after work should be easy enough for me, getting home trickier.

Where in Southampton is St. Mary's?

Is Southampton Central the best station? How far is it from the ground?

The last train from Southampton Central back to London is 10.00pm (unless you take the slower train which takes 2.5 hours).

Is anyone driving back to London?

Count yourself fortunate that you have transport to travel home after the game. It's practically impossible to get public transport home at night after long distance games here.

[geysir]

It should be noted that the Irish anthem appeared to be very well respected by the capacity crowd (unless of course the crafty Sky techies switched off all their mikes).

[NeilMcD]

I think O Cearuil is going to be a great signing for St Pats.

[geysir]

Owen Garvinho

[boovidge]

garvan skill

[NeilMcD]

Mc Caffrey is a much better tactician than Givens anyway, the team are set up much better than in Cork even though its the same formation in theory.

[gustavo]

. theo walcott has got to be one o the most overhyped players in the world.

Who has overhyped him?
No one I can think of

[gwhite]

Are we playing this good because the lads are pumped up for playing against England or is McCaffrey just a much better manager than Givens? Makes you think.

[NeilMcD]

They were playing England in Cork and they played well but they were let down by a couple of individual errors and a bit of bad luck but also because they got exposed time and time again down the righ channell which they are not tonight.

[shakermaker1982]

playing very well. Our back 4 look solid and if Garvan had scored....that would have been replayed for years! They don't look out of their depth and they are up against some 'big name' players

[Fergie's Son]

Is it on the interweb at all?

Sounds like we're doing ok.

[geysir]

Garvan's pull back got a great oooh out of the crowd.

[NeilMcD]

Yeah playing well I must say, I like O Toole he seems to be able the physical side of the game which is good and our 3 in midfield are keeping it better than the English.

[eirebhoy]

Passing the ball as well as we did by this stage against England at home with the difference being we're not 3-0 down. The main reason for that would be a central midfielder in O'Toole playing instead of the attacking Jim O'Brien. It was a crazy attacking lineup Givens went with in the home tie but this is a lot more balanced.

Garvan looking the most established player on the pitch imo. O'Toole looks good beside him. Quinn as always is good on the ball but too lightweight. Stokes is playing too deep for my liking (by instruction).