Quote from: KevinGage on October 10, 2017, 01:01:31 AMLook, the Irish pundits even said tonight that McClean wasn't going to be the one to play intricate one-twos on the edge of the box and work an opening, but he is what he is. Seems a bit odd to bag him for technical deficiency tonight. Wales and plenty of other sides could benefit from a combative winger, it seems. I'm sure monkey boy Bale would and wee Barry Bannan would be OK with this level of failure. Ireland are nailed on for an absolute dog of a draw in the play-offs, though. Portugal or Italy away second leg would be my guess.I severely doubt if Ronaldo was even 50% fit that he would sit out a major game like last night. As much as Northern Ireland/Occupied Six are the best draw for going through, can see it leading to carnage pre and post game in Dublin and Belfast given that they are evening kick offs and everything else that goes with it.
Look, the Irish pundits even said tonight that McClean wasn't going to be the one to play intricate one-twos on the edge of the box and work an opening, but he is what he is. Seems a bit odd to bag him for technical deficiency tonight. Wales and plenty of other sides could benefit from a combative winger, it seems. I'm sure monkey boy Bale would and wee Barry Bannan would be OK with this level of failure. Ireland are nailed on for an absolute dog of a draw in the play-offs, though. Portugal or Italy away second leg would be my guess.
Yeah, and Denmark are tipped to be in the seeded lot. Slovakia are out, they finished 9th.
It was much worse than anything I've seen in the Championship. It was an abomination of a "football" match.
Quote from: eamonn on October 10, 2017, 03:03:03 PMYeah, and Denmark are tipped to be in the seeded lot. Slovakia are out, they finished 9th.Slovakia will be out if Greece win today
They played each other in 1993 and I don't recall any serious trouble.
Quote from: Nev on October 10, 2017, 02:18:32 PMThey played each other in 1993 and I don't recall any serious trouble.https://www.google.ie/amp/amp.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/billys-boys-still-cast-long-shadow-226925.htmlIt was a vile night.Let's not forget that next summer some of the Billy boys murdered six people in a pub in Down while they were watching Ireland beat Italy in the World Cup. That's the kind of history involved not to mention the FAIs recent recruitment policies and a sizeable cohort of braindead followers on both sides.
They should change the format of the World Cup into a straight annual knock out competition like the FA Cup. Put the name of every country into the world in a hat and get Ian Wright and some bloke out of Kasabian to draw the home and away teams respectively. If it's England away to Kiribati so be it. And Man U would be the live TV game.