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ratinakeg

Another 0-0 draw for Bray!
Hope they find their scoring boots soon!
Not a bad away draw though!

Kingp35

Ah it's a great draw away to Drogs. Tough game and it's great to pick up points on the road. At least we know the defence is well drilled this season!

Double Top

hey lads, just wanted to let you know there is a weekly darts tournament in the ivory bar in dalkey, co.dublin. its only the second week and its goin well (won both weeks:cool:). if anybody is interested in a good night of darts and a good craic you should head down

ratinakeg

What night is it on next?
Is it near the Dart station?
And cheers for the info!

Kingp35

Double Top wrote: »

hey lads, just wanted to let you know there is a weekly darts tournament in the ivory bar in dalkey, co.dublin. its only the second week and its goin well (won both weeks:cool:). if anybody is interested in a good night of darts and a good craic you should head down

I didn't know anything about this. Why wasn't I told?

What time and day is it on and I will definitely be there.

Double Top

Kingp35 wrote: »

I didn't know anything about this. Why wasn't I told?

What time and day is it on and I will definitely be there.

it's on every thursday and sunday. best day is sunday more people.
€2 in, be there for around 8pm. first and second get prizes.

this is just a starting point there will be a bigger comp if this one is successful

hope to see you there next week king:D

ratinakeg

Watching the Man City match at moment, into extra time at the moment.
Hope it goes to penalties as I love peno shoot outs (once Liverpool are not involved), I've already seen two in the last week!

Kingp35

ratinakeg wrote: »

Watching the Man City match at moment, into extra time at the moment.
Hope it goes to penalties as I love peno shoot outs (once Liverpool are not involved), I've already seen two in the last week!

Was watching this myself but I fell asleep just before the peno shoot out, very annoying

Liverpool V Chelsea again in the Champions League. They always seem to draw each other!

ratinakeg

Kingp35 wrote: »

Was watching this myself but I fell asleep just before the peno shoot out, very annoying

Liverpool V Chelsea again in the Champions League. They always seem to draw each other!

Tell me about it!
Murder in my house again:D
C'mon the pool!

ratinakeg

Brilliant Ireland!:D



A piece of history folks!
:D:D:D:D............!

greened

absolutly. Nail biting. Brilliant game.

ratinakeg

This is a great day!
Ireland win,
Utd lose,
Chelsea lose
and Bray's very own Katie Taylor wins her fight! (well I hope so)

scunner

What a day for Irish sport yesterday and last night. The rugby boys were excellent and Bernard Dunne showed some heart to win the world title. It was edge of the seat stuff all day yesterday. Thanks lads for a day not to be forgotten:)

Kingp35

I'm not a big Rugby fan, find the sport boring if I'm honest but it was a great achievement on saturday although they did everything possible to try and lose it. Three good fights saturday night too and three Irish wins. Dunne really gave it his all and he did everything right. Was fantastic stuff.

ratinakeg

Yes Dunne was brilliant the other night! I never thought he would win but fair play!

http://www.rte.ie/sport/other/2009/0322/dunne_fight_av.html

Brilliant stuff!

ratinakeg

Masters Football is on at the moment comprised of All Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Ireland are already through to the final but have rested all their players for the final match in which they have lost 2-1 to Wales. If Ireland won England would've qualified, Ireland now meet Wales again in the final. Brilliant stuff!:)

ratinakeg

Ireland won 2-1 in the final!
Ireland were booed throughout the final as a result of what happened in final group match!
Peter Beagrie was nearly crying as he commentated on the final!:D

Kingp35

Who played on the irish team?

ratinakeg

Kingp35 wrote: »

Who played on the irish team?

Kelvin O'Hanlon GK
Steve Stuanton (Stan The Man;))
David Kelly
Jason McAtear
Owen Coyle
Mark Kinsella
Curtis Fleming
John Durnan

Ian Nolan

ratinakeg

How did your team get on tonight dionsiseire?

ratinakeg

I'm so p!ssed off with Irelands result!:mad:

Maybe the early goal put us off :rolleyes:!

Kingp35

Yeah i was at it. We were terrible in the first half and slightly better in the second. McGeady should have buried his chance and Doyle at the end should have scored too. I thought Keane and Hunt had very poor games.

Very disappointing result.

ratinakeg

I'm so bored that I turned on Extreme Sports to watch Pro Bull Riding which is actually very entertaining!:eek:

Brazil are on Sky at 10pm, I will be watching that!

ratinakeg

Ireland Under 21's losing 2-1 at the moment!:(
Only 5 minutes left!

ratinakeg

Damn you goal.com it finished 3-0 to Turkey!:mad:

Kingp35

Don Givens is an absolute clown. How that man is stil employed by the FAI I will never know!

ratinakeg

Kingp35 wrote: »

Don Givens is an absolute clown. How that man is stil employed by the FAI I will never know!

+1

Yeah he told Keith Treacy he will never play for Ireland again just last week, how many players has he done that with now? Givens out!:mad:

greened

Jobs for the boys. Good old FAI.

fingers crossed for tommorrow.

ratinakeg

Yeah can't wait for tomorrows match!

The butterflies are starting to build up in my belly already!

Just hope we get something from the game!

greened

I hope so to but cant really see it. After sitting through 90 minutes of that crap on wednesday I dont hold much hope. Only one good think they have going for them is that they always play better against better teams. that is they never have the ball so dont need to think about what they should do with it. And this is from someone who goes to all the home games. Often wonder why but just cant keep away!

dionsiseire

ratinakeg wrote: »

How did your team get on tonight dionsiseire?

We did well, we won 4-2 in the end

went 3-0 up
then i was up to play liam redden (dublin county player), i gave him a good game but lost 2-0, literally like in the second leg i hit 100, 81, 81 to leave 52 and i didnt even get a shot

they won the next one but we won the last to progress to the semi finals

We play Anto Caldwells men next (think their team name is Micheal Collins, Anto Caldwell being another dublin county player)

Colmchiles A are in the other Semi Final, Potentially an All ColmChilles Final

ratinakeg

dionsiseire wrote: »

We did well, we won 4-2 in the end

went 3-0 up
then i was up to play liam redden (dublin county player), i gave him a good game but lost 2-0, literally like in the second leg i hit 100, 81, 81 to leave 52 and i didnt even get a shot

they won the next one but we won the last to progress to the semi finals

We play Anto Caldwells men next (think their team name is Micheal Collins, Anto Caldwell being another dublin county player)

Colmchiles A are in the other Semi Final, Potentially an All ColmChilles Final

Unlucky dionsiseire in your game but fair play to you and your team!
Best of luck!

Kingp35

Looking forward to the game tonight. i honestly think that we have it in us to grab a draw out there. The one thing Trap's system allows us to do is defend well and the Italians are not exactly known for there silky attacking skills. A 0-0 bore fest would suit me fine. McGeady being out is a play but Keogh isn't given enough credit for what he does, he puts in a great shift whenever he plays and is much stronger defensively than McGeady.

I'm not a fan of Trap's tactics or selection policy but it could definitely work in our favour tonight. We desperately need to keep it at 0-0 for the first half hour then anything can happen.

ratinakeg

Bulgaria v Cyprus is on at 3.45 on Setanta Ireland!
C'mon Cyprus!

Degag

Kingp35 wrote: »

Looking forward to the game tonight. i honestly think that we have it in us to grab a draw out there. The one thing Trap's system allows us to do is defend well and the Italians are not exactly known for there silky attacking skills. A 0-0 bore fest would suit me fine. McGeady being out is a play but Keogh isn't given enough credit for what he does, he puts in a great shift whenever he plays and is much stronger defensively than McGeady.

I'm not a fan of Trap's tactics or selection policy but it could definitely work in our favour tonight. We desperately need to keep it at 0-0 for the first half hour then anything can happen.

I backed a 0-0 draw at 8/1 on paddypower... Heres hoping, although i wouldn't mind losing my stake if they won!

Kingp35

bulgaria 1-0 up at half time. Very bad decision by the ref at the end of the half, he booked the Cypriot player for diving when it could easily have been a red card for the Bulgarian player. Cyprus definitely have the ability to score so hope they can nick a goal!

dionsiseire

Bulgaria win 2-0, last minute goal to seal the win

ive the following down

5e on draw at HT/ ireland win FT @ 14-1
5e on John o Shea first scorer
5e on Ireland to win 2-1
and if it ends 0-0 PP will refund the second 2 so 10 back if we get the 0-0 draw everyone thinks we might get

Kingp35

I hope your a few quid richer tonight dionsiseire.

dionsiseire

You and the rest of the country

its not even about the money, i'd take a draw or win for ireland even if they dont match the bets

matty84

Kingp35 wrote: »

bulgaria 1-0 up at half time. Very bad decision by the ref at the end of the half, he booked the Cypriot player for diving when it could easily have been a red card for the Bulgarian player. Cyprus definitely have the ability to score so hope they can nick a goal!

Yeah watched this match myself the ref botlled on giving him the red card, it was a blatant professional foul the cypriot lad was in and would of scored:mad:How on earth the cypriots didnt score in the 2nd half was beyond me:eek: they at least deserved a draw and ireland will find it tough out in cyprus there no world beaters but neither are we:mad:

Wonder what dunphy and co will think of traps line-up tonight:rolleyes:

ratinakeg

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5e on John o Shea first scorer
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He must be around 50-1!
Best of luck!

ratinakeg

Brilliant result but I thought we could have won that. Dunphy is seriously getting on my nerves talking awful crap again , he contradicts himself all the time, I hate the man! He's a clown!

Degag

Great result... its kind of amazing to be unhappy with a draw at the end though! I don't think Shay had a save to make and we definately dominated the game. However we were missing a definate lack of creativity in midfield and out final ball was very poor. Our set pieces were also pretty poor. I wonder how the game would have finished had the italians not had pazzini sent off.

I think Dunphy is right in what he says. We have some top class players in our team. And to be very honest as a big ireland fan i hate it when i see Andy Reid and Lee Carsley ommitted when there is n doubt in my mind that they could do a better job than Whelan and Andrews. I also think that if a proper effort was made, stephen ireland would come back. I think he is one of the best players in the PL at the moment and he'd make a massive difference. Hopefully Steven Reid will be back soon.

iseethelight

I was dreading that match fancied we'd get beaten 2-0. Lucky I'm no gambler.

ratinakeg

Degag wrote: »

Great result... its kind of amazing to be unhappy with a draw at the end though! I don't think Shay had a save to make and we definately dominated the game. However we were missing a definate lack of creativity in midfield and out final ball was very poor. Our set pieces were also pretty poor. I wonder how the game would have finished had the italians not had pazzini sent off.

I think Dunphy is right in what he says. We have some top class players in our team. And to be very honest as a big ireland fan i hate it when i see Andy Reid and Lee Carsley ommitted when there is n doubt in my mind that they could do a better job than Whelan and Andrews. I also think that if a proper effort was made, stephen ireland would come back. I think he is one of the best players in the PL at the moment and he'd make a massive difference. Hopefully Steven Reid will be back soon.

Great result!

Stephen Ireland has to cop on to himself!
What age is Carsley?
Steven Reid will not be available until at least June/July!

How can anybody agree with Dunphy?
Andy Reid is a lazy so and so!
We have to look to the future!

In my and most people's opinion (who I know) Dunphy is a clown!

iseethelight

I wouldn't have Andy reid. I agree with you he's overweight and lazy. I know Carsley's old but I'd have him in. He's playing well.

Degag

Degag wrote: »

Great result... its kind of amazing to be unhappy with a draw at the end though! I don't think Shay had a save to make and we definately dominated the game. However we were missing a definate lack of creativity in midfield and out final ball was very poor. Our set pieces were also pretty poor. I wonder how the game would have finished had the italians not had pazzini sent off.

I think Dunphy is right in what he says. We have some top class players in our team. And to be very honest as a big ireland fan i hate it when i see Andy Reid and Lee Carsley ommitted when there is n doubt in my mind that they could do a better job than Whelan and Andrews. I also think that if a proper effort was made, stephen ireland would come back. I think he is one of the best players in the PL at the moment and he'd make a massive difference. Hopefully Steven Reid will be back soon.

ratinakeg wrote: »

Great result!

Stephen Ireland has to cop on to himself!
What age is Carsley?
Steven Reid will not be available until at least June/July!

How can anybody agree with Dunphy?
Andy Reid is a lazy so and so!
We have to look to the future!

In my and most people's opinion (who I know) Dunphy is a clown!

Ah come on, i can't see how anyone could not agree that our midfield is a shambles. Whelan and Andrews simply arent close to being good enough and Hunt is a very good impact player but nothing else. If Andy Reid was playing tonight, he could have been the difference between winning and drawing as we did. He is a great passer of the ball and a good deliverer of a dead ball, two vital aspects that we were missing tonight. Yes Stephen Ireland needs to cop himself on but we are extremely foolish to not try harder to get back one of the best midfield players of his generation. He really is a fantastic player... anytime i have watched him recently, he has literally ran the show.

ratinakeg

Degag wrote: »

Ah come on, i can't see how anyone could not agree that our midfield is a shambles. Whelan and Andrews simply arent close to being good enough and Hunt is a very good impact player but nothing else. If Andy Reid was playing tonight, he could have been the difference between winning and drawing as we did. He is a great passer of the ball and a good deliverer of a dead ball, two vital aspects that we were missing tonight. Yes Stephen Ireland needs to cop himself on but we are extremely foolish to not try harder to get back one of the best midfield players of his generation. He really is a fantastic player... anytime i have watched him recently, he has literally ran the show.

I thought Whelan played well tonight. I agree with you the sooner the better Steven Reid is back! Stephen Ireland is a great player but what do we have to do to make him play for us again, I for one will not kiss his arse! Hunt is not a midfielder he's a winger.

Dunphy has not got a clue and I'll never take him serious no matter what anybody thinks!

dionsiseire

The Biggest problem i had with Dunphy tonight was his comment that Gibson came on and did nothing

Bollock to that, Gibson came on and was responsible for most of the flowing football we played in the second half, his passing was great and we pushed forward with more purpose and penetration when he got involved.

Gibson FTW

ratinakeg

Caleb Folan was brilliant tonight, he should start the next match. Ireland always need a target man!

Agree with you a 100% dionsiseire about Gibson.