Republic of Ireland V Bosnia and Herzegovina - Saturday, 26th May 2012 - Friendly

[geysir]

We beat Holland when they were warming up.

[Cuyahoga]

I'm looking forward to this. Bosnia were unlucky not to qualify and it should be a good test of the lads. The side is well settled at this stage and everyone knows their role and the system, so maybe, just maybe, Trap will take the chance to have a look at some other options. Would love him to start with something like

-----------Forde-----------

Foley Sledge Dunne Ward

Duff Whelan Gibson McClean

------ Keane Walters ------

It's Bosnia Herzevogina the Herzevoginians will be upset not to get a mention.

[geysir]

We beat Holland 1-0 in April '94 as well (not sure if that's technically a warm-up or not).

Nah, I'd only count those games played by the Final's squad, just before the tournament begins.

[tetsujin1979]

Yep, a calculated risk. I'll miss this game as Im up in Edinburgh to do the marathon on Sunday. I promised the kids ages back I'd take them to see the pandas that aren't mating. I'll record it and watch on Monday.

the match or the pandas?

[paul_oshea]

The Edinburgh marathon, that's the downhill marathon isn't it?

In theory, Bosnia are good opponents considering we have the matter of Croatia looming.
Usually we lose these type of games when we are going to the Finals and win when we aren't?

Berlin would be more downhill, where i believe stutts set a course(marathon) record.

Stutts real name, for those who haven't already met him is Haile Stuttselassie.

[DeLorean]

It's Bosnia Herzevogina the Herzevoginians will be upset not to get a mention.

They'd be more upset with that spelling

[Stuttgart88]

the match or the pandas?

Pandas will probably be more interesting.

Yeah, I forgot the Germany and Holland away victories. They were fun. Can't remember Czech game at all.

[boysingreen]

Is this game on TV?

Trying to figure out if there will be streams about.

What time is kickoff?

The RTE website, under the live section, mentions the game at 7pm... but it says "Duration 60 mins." So might just be highlights?

[Stuttgart88]

SKy Sports on Sat at 3pm. Not sure which number.

[boysingreen]

Looks like a 3pm kickoff, so that 7pm on showing on rte.ie must be just extended highlights.

[geysir]

That spelling had me fooled.

But it is a truism, that whenever a poster pulls another up over some error, they themselves invariably commit some error.

[Cuyahoga]

They'd be more upset with that spelling

They wont be, thats the correct way to spell it.

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Listen/ˈbɒzniə ən hɛrtsəɡoʊˈviːnə/; Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Bosna i Hercegovina, Cyrillic script: Босна и Херцеговина), ...

[paul_oshea]

Go back and look how you spelt it though....hint you got vo and go(or v and g) mixed up!!

But it is actually Hercegovina ; )

[BonnieShels]

POS on another "X" vs. "C" vs. "Z" buzz/buxx/bucc.

[Cuyahoga]

Go back and look how you spelt it though....hint you got vo and go(or v and g) mixed up!!

But it is actually Hercegovina ; )

I did get my v an g mixed up. Though it was a six marker spelling word. The natives probably use a c as the 4th letter and everybody else a z.

[geysir]

Only by a net 40 or 50m, which over 26 miles ain't that much,. There's also a strong headwind. Anyway, do you want to try it?.

Nah, I have enough headwind here without travelling a distance to find some more, so you're welcome to it.
I'm sure you'll make light of it, good luck in the run.

[Charlie Darwin]

Bit of a comical press conference today by all accounts, with Trapattoni confusing everyone by mixing up "will" and "wants to".

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...316551159.html

[SwanVsDalton]

Sledge now a doubt for Saturday too - McShane could be drafted in.

[Closed Account]

So with the wounded/semi-wounded/doubtful list including:
Given, Foley, O'Shea, Dunne, St Ledger, Fahey, Keane
and Trap suggesting he will give gametime to Westwood, Gibson, O'Dea, and Cox

Westwood
????-Kelly-O'Dea-Ward
Duff-Gibson-Whelan-McGeady
Cox-Doyle

There's only one man for the job

or Seamus Coleman.....

[BonnieShels]

Dun dun duuuuhhhhhhnnnn...

http://m.rte.ie/sport/touch/soccer/i...-bosnia-match/