Ireland vs Bolivia / Wales vs New Zealand

Bounty Hunter

Wales currently a goal down to a New zealand side that in their past three games had conceded more than ten without scoring.

9pm kick off for Ireland.

Bounty Hunter

bellamy equaliser 17'

Bounty Hunter

2-1 new zealand .... no way we can expect help from wales against the czechs

radiospan

Finished 2-2.

Ireland starting XI: Nicky Colgan (Barnsley); Joseph O'Cearuill (Arsenal), Alan Bennett (Reading), Peter Murphy (Carlisle United), Stephen Kelly (Birmingham City); Joe Gamble (Cork City), Kevin Kilbane (c) (Wigan), Darren Potter (Wolves), Alan O'Brien (Newcastle United); Anthony Stokes (Sunderland), Shane Long (Reading).

eirebhoy

Team vs Bolivia announced:

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Colgan

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Murphy--O'Cearuill--Bennett--Kelly
Gamble---Kilbane--Potter---O'Brien

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Stokes----Long

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Poor team but happy with it considering.

radiospan

Great to see Gamble starting for Ireland.

Last eL player to start for Ireland?

Paul Tergat

Crowe?

Eirebhoy - will the fullbacks not play on the opposite sides? is Murphy not Left Back?

This not on rte?

applehunter

Glen Crowe vs greece.

Would have preferred to see him in the middle with Potter.

Is Stokes any good?

radiospan

I forgot that Glen Crowe had started. So Gamble is only the second eL start in 21 years.

It's only on Sky Sports 1.

I wonder what Sky's pronounciation of O'Cearuil will be?

Lemlin

plazzTT wrote:

I forgot that Glen Crowe had started. So Gamble is only the second eL start in 21 years.

It's only on Sky Sports 1.

I wonder what Sky's pronounciation of O'Cearuil will be?

They'll just call him O'Carroll I'd say.

Should be good to see Stokes and Long up front.

O'Brien is speedy too but he's a bit like Forrest Gump and needs to learn to use his speed.

zAbbo

plazzTT wrote:

Last eL player to start for Ireland?

hopefully

Big Ears

Is it certain that Gamble is on the right and Potter is in the centre ? , would've thought it'd make more sense having it the other way .

I would have preferred to see Kilbane given a rest and have Gamble and Potter play alongside each other in the centre .

tetsujin1979

I'd say that's how they'll line out, Potter played in the centre on Wednesday and when Gamble came on he played on the right.

Big Ears

tetsujin1979 wrote:

I'd say that's how they'll line out, Potter played in the centre on Wednesday and when Gamble came on he played on the right.

Ah right , didn't see Wednesdays game .

StickyMcGinty

1-1 after 14 mins, some VERY ropey defending by our lads there

radiospan

Shane Long scored our first after about 11 minutes I'd say. Stokes and Long both should have scored about a minute before it.

zuutroy

Shambles of a goal by Bolivia!

applehunter

I was really impressed by Stokes. I can't believe he's only 18.

As a Cork City fan you will forgive me if I focussed on the players I knew.

Joe Gamble - Quiet game, struggled with the pace of the game, would have preferred to see him in the middle. Wasted on the right.
Alan Bennett - Worried about him and the step up in class, but over the two games he looks like he can make the grade and is an option for centre half
Shane Long - Good goal, putting pressure on Robbie Keane hopefully
kevin Doyle - Plays with the confidence of an established star

Think its time to say goodbye to some of the players in the comfort zone in the main squad at the moment and let some of the hungry players on this trip have a go.

dardoz

I watched this game late last night. We had 1 guy on the right wing, a young lad who was full of tricks. He went past a couple of people and got a shot in on goal from closr range once but it was saved. Any1 know who he was? cos he was very promising looking for the future.

dubmick

applehunter wrote:

Shane Long - Good goal, putting pressure on Robbie Keane hopefully
kevin Doyle - Plays with the confidence of an established star

Agreed!

cousin_borat

I was at the game yesterday. As has been mentioned the defending was diabolical for large parts of the game.

Doyle continues to show that he is going to be a very important player for the team. Stokes has great potential. It was pretty hot there so it looked like some of the players were pretty knackered in the 2nd half.

eirebhoy

dardoz wrote:

I watched this game late last night. We had 1 guy on the right wing, a young lad who was full of tricks. He went past a couple of people and got a shot in on goal from closr range once but it was saved. Any1 know who he was? cos he was very promising looking for the future.

Stokes I presume. The youngest player in the squad. He'd probably be better off if he was as technically gifted as Filippo Inzaghi though. What I mean by that is because he has the skill Keane and Staunton (and Wenger) tend to play him in a withdrawn role. At Falkirk he played as an out and out striker and he was fantastic, very disciplined too. Playing off the striker he has as much discipline as Robbie Keane. He should be played as the main man up front and he'll score goals. He's excellent at beating the offside.

Zapp Brannigan

dardoz description fits a run made by Darryl Murphy aswell. (who looked very good also)

eirebhoy

Yeah maybe, I can hardly remember the match. Gamble and Stokes were the 2 players who played on the right though.