ROIs playoff for 2010 World Cup.. teams to avoid?

CHD

Xavi6 wrote: »

Rumour has it he was at the draw today

It's official now.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1120087.html#play+octet+learn+their+fate

Hank Scorpio

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The Insider

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

So Portugal because of one player, and Russia because it might be cold??

Russia play on a plastic pitch which wouldn't be easy IMO

Redzer7

I heard a strong rumour that Bertie Ahérn Is due to play upfront with keane whilst Brian Cowen Drops to left back, is this correct?

Nalz

France Squad List
Goalkeeper:

* 30 Steve Mandanda
* 1 Hugo Lloris
* 16 Lionel Letizi
* 1 Sebastien Frey
* 1 Gregory Coupet
* - Mickael Landreau
* 16 Ulrich Rame

Defender:

* 15 Jonathan Zebina
* 2 Francois Clerc
* 22 Gael Clichy
* 3 Bacary Sagna
* - Lilian Thuram
* 15 Zoumana Camara
* 3 Nicolas Gillet
* 12 Rod Fanni
* 4 Jean-Alain Boumsong
* 5 Philippe Mexes
* 6 Franck Jurietti
* 5 Gael Givet
* 3 Patrice Evra
* 4 Sebastien Squillaci
* 20 Anthony Reveillere
* 22 Eric Abidal
* 2 Willy Sagnol
* 10 William Gallas
* 18 Mikael Silvestre

Midfielder:

* 6 Lassana Diarra
* 2 Abou Diaby
* 7 Franck Ribery
* 8 Yoann Gourcuff
* 20 Hatem Ben Arfa
* 24 Rio Mavuba
* 5 Mathieu Flamini
* 4 Claude Makelele
* 6 Ousmane Dabo
* 28 Jeremy Toulalan
* 5 Mathieu Bodmer
* 4 Alou Diarra
* 17 Benoit Pedretti
* 25 Jerome Rothen
* 15 Florent Malouda
* 14 Bruno Cheyrou
* 15 Olivier Dacourt
* 14 Patrick Vieira

Attacking Midfielder:

* 8 Samir Nasri

Striker:

* 11 Andre-Pierre Gignac
* 9 Steve Savidan
* 10 Karim Benzema
* 21 Bafetimbi Gomis
* 19 Jimmy Briand
* 14 Sidney Govou
* 17 David Trezeguet
* 7 Ludovic Giuly
* 39 Frederic Piquionne
* 9 Daniel Moreira
* 8 Peguy Luyindula
* 39 Nicolas Anelka
* 6 Sylvain Wiltord
* 14 Thierry Henry

Savman

Redzer7 wrote: »

I heard a strong rumour that Bertie Ahérn Is due to play upfront with keane whilst Brian Cowen Drops to left back, is this correct?

Recession Stephen in Goal. Nothin' get past him.

AARRRGH

Villain wrote: »

Anyone got any ideas on getting there cheaply?

Become an average first division soccer player and make the Ireland squad?!

Hank Scorpio

Trilla wrote: »

France Squad List
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Some squad in fairness, lucky for us they have a clown of a manager

briany

Oh they are loving this on the Northern Ireland Our Wee Country forums, their board got a whole two replies!

Carroller16

IRELAND - FRANCE (IRELAND WIN)
PORTUGAL - BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA (BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA WIN)
RUSSIA - SLOVENIA (RUSSIA WIN)
GREECE - UKRAINE (UKRAINE WIN)


you heard it here first

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mike65 wrote: »

If the French FA had any balls they'd sack Raymondo today and install Laurent Blanc.

Does Blanc want the job?

If I was the Bordeaux manager I wouldn't leave.

chughes

Redzer7 wrote: »

I heard a strong rumour that Bertie Ahérn Is due to play upfront with keane whilst Brian Cowen Drops to left back, is this correct?

Bertie didn't play upfront against the Tribunal so I don't expect he'd be any good in that position. Cowen would be more of right of centre than any left sided position.

COME ON IRELAND !!!!!!

delija_sever029

France is terrible on free and corner kicks and thats a fact!
Ireland should definitly concetrate on that,pray that Domenech wont put Mandanda on a goal coz Lloris is completely lost case in this team,he is having lack of communication with defense and he is usually flying into empty space off the ball all the time,sometimes it looks ridiculous...

IRISHSPORTSGUY

Their first XI is pretty strong but their overall squad is nowhere near the likes of Spain, Brazil, England etc. Still expect to get hammered mind.

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IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »

Their first XI is pretty strong but their overall squad is nowhere near the likes of Spain, Brazil, England etc. Still expect to get hammered mind.

Trapattoni teams don't get hammered.

Spud83

Des wrote: »

Trapattoni teams don't get hammered

....in competitive games, before someone mentions Australia.

mike65

Des wrote: »

Does Blanc want the job?

If I was the Bordeaux manager I wouldn't leave.

Well I'd make him an offer he couldn't refuse with an option to return to Les Girondins after the WC (ie pay Bordeaux to keep the job open)

Savman

No hiding the fact, it's a horrible draw.

joe123

Reading some of the comments im just glad some of the posters here dont play for the Ireland squad. Fair enough its going to be tough.

But comments such as "its gunna be over before kick off" and "still think well get hammered" are disgraceful to be honest.

Carroller16

pessimism isn't going to help anything lads... come on lets gear ourselves up for the battle

Eire-Dearg

If "horrible" is the word to describe this draw, what would be used for Portugal or Russia?

2nd best draw we could get, out of 4.

Royale with Cheese

France wouldn't scare me, Portugal might have... Russia definitely. France are beatable, going to be very tough, but not impossible.

Nalz

AARRRGH wrote: »

Become an average first division soccer player and make the Ireland squad?!

or stay unattached for sometime until you move to Scotland

or

dont play the banjo at 3am

or

dont be a decent FB or Midfielder and good at long throws

or

dont look like an egghead and play regular for Birmingham

or

dont ever play more than a wet week in the LOI unless your Kevin Doyle

heck dont acknowledge the LOI at all

IRISHSPORTSGUY

Des wrote: »

Trapattoni teams don't get hammered.

*coughs* Australia

In fairness it was a friendly though. If they get a goal early I fully expect a long night.

GavRedKing

With France anything is possible although I do see us going through by putting in a huge effort over the two legs.

When it comes down to it both teams will be doing there upmost to qualify, France through attacking and great technical players on us through resolute defending and great spirit. If Trap has thought us anything the most important part of his approach is the result, if we can manage to pip them at Croke park I believe we can go to France and hold on.

Failing that I can see us drawing at Croke and getting a score draw in France to go through.

Come on lads, ye can do it.

zuutroy

lol at the comments on the LeMonde site:

"Allez l'Irlande ! Débarassez-nous de Raymond Domenech !"

Redzer7

alanmurphy83 wrote: »

....in competitive games, before someone mentions Australia.

IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »

*coughs* Australia

:rolleyes:

Spud83

zuutroy wrote: »

lol at the comments on the LeMonde site:

"Allez l'Irlande ! Débarassez-nous de Raymond Domenech !"

For the non french speaking people here.

Go Ireland! Get rid us of Raymond Domenech

Mr.Nice Guy

Just checked the sports section of French news site LeMonde and there's a poll with the following question...

Do Les Bleus have the weapons to beat Eire in the play-off for the 2010 World Cup?

Yes, they are the favourites and have the individual and collective quality to go through - 45.9 %

No, the Irish have more desire and the tactical knowledge of Trapattoni will be the difference - 54.1 %

That's after 1319 votes so far.

zuutroy

Yeah but the French are super negative so thats standard.

Rondolfus

France have scored in ALL of their qualifying games. Which suggests we will almost certainly have to score at least 2 goals over the two legs. Not beyond the realms of possibilty considering we scored 3 against the Italians over two games. Personally I think Italy have a better defence than the French.

lisbon_lions

I dont think the French are overly happy with the draw either, going from LeMonde and LEquipe.

briany

That is one scary scary pic of Robbie Keane on that Lemonde site. Nice chompers.

everdead.ie

zuutroy wrote: »

lol at the comments on the LeMonde site:

"Allez l'Irlande ! Débarassez-nous de Raymond Domenech !"

French is rusty but ~"Go Ireland and get rid of Raymond Domenech"

BaZmO*

Savman wrote: »

Yeah, he's only half world class now.

Yeah.....YEAH! He ain't no Kevin Doyle.

Ah, blind faith, only in Ireland!

I don't get an attitude like this. What's the point in supporting a team if you don't believe they have a chance of winning. Fair enough if we were a team like San Marino that wouldn't have a chance in hell of beating France, but at the very least we have a chance to beat a French team that haven't been playing well lately.

I was there in 2005 when Henry scored and effectively knocked us out of the World Cup and I would Kevin Keegan love it and we put one over them this time!

Villain wrote: »

Anyone got any ideas on getting there cheaply?

Cheaply? Not a hope! Airlines have put their fares up already. :rolleyes:

delija_sever029 wrote: »

France is terrible on free and corner kicks and thats a fact!
Ireland should definitly concetrate on that

It's one thing that Ireland have been very strong at for this campaign so no worries there.

luckylucky

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Just checked the sports section of French news site LeMonde and there's a poll with the following question...

Do Les Bleus have the weapons to beat Eire in the play-off for the 2010 World Cup?

Yes, they are the favourites and have the individual and collective quality to go through - 45.9 %

No, the Irish have more desire and the tactical knowledge of Trapattoni will be the difference - 54.1 %

That's after 1319 votes so far.

And also how many immature Irish like me voted for Ireland there

Mr.Nice Guy

briany wrote:

That is one scary scary pic of Robbie Keane on that Lemonde site. Nice chompers.

COME ON YA CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS!

BaZmO*

briany wrote: »

That is one scary scary pic of Robbie Keane on that Lemonde site. Nice chompers.

I'M SPARTAAAAAAAA!!!!!

me-skywalker

France havnts scored that many goals,, Gignac is still learning his trade on international scene and i reckon big richie dunne can handle his agression like he done well with drogba theo ther day..

Henry has struggled with niggly injuries and might not be ready to make the big impact needed

anelka well... le sulk says it all he drifts in and out of games


diarra and toulan = our version (albeit better) whelan/andrews not great at going forward...

we can well do it lads comon!!

TheDoc

Cant see us getting through this one

One thing I've noticed is any team with a bit of guile or craft against us will take us nice and easy I feel.


Without all the french guys firing on all cylinders, they have enough craft and creativity on the flanks to ahnihalate us.

Evra, Ribery... I dont even want to continue.

And I cant see us scoring at home or away.

2-0 win for france in croker

Then depending how they feel id say another 2-0 in france.

briany

I can see the headlines in today's paper already :"Trap's luck runs out!".

IRISHSPORTSGUY

Des wrote: »

Trapattoni teams don't get hammered.

If we go one down early to a top team like France what's Plan B? I doubt we'll be as lucky as the Italy match where they got a man sent off early and the French are not cautious by nature like the Italians. We just don't creativity to break down teams like that, unless we get set pieces perfectly spot on.

gandalf

LOL well me and the French Wife and in-laws are going to have an interesting couple of weeks !!!

If we do beat them I may not be welcomed over there at Christmas this year

TheJesusWarrant

joe123 wrote: »

Reading some of the comments im just glad some of the posters here dont play for the Ireland squad. Fair enough its going to be tough.

But comments such as "its gunna be over before kick off" and "still think well get hammered" are disgraceful to be honest.

well i did say it will be over before kick off, in paris. I'm only going on history, when was the last time we beat a decent side? We can't seem to beat any side by more than a goal, we can't defend a lead, we have no midfield. how many irish players would make the french side? You can call it negativity, all i'm saying is there's very little evidence to simply believe it will happen.

Adamcp898

That's right it's war!

everdead.ie

Dammit i just realised that Birmingham have already played united would of been a good bet kieth fahey could have got them to do a job on evra for us:pac:

Rondolfus

Don't worry about it lads. Its in the bag. I've looked through the French team and don't recognise even one of their players.

briany

I says on the RTE website that Paddy Power have France as the raging hot favorites at 1-3.

me-skywalker

TheDoc wrote: »

Cant see us getting through this one

One thing I've noticed is any team with a bit of guile or craft against us will take us nice and easy I feel.


Without all the french guys firing on all cylinders, they have enough craft and creativity on the flanks to ahnihalate us.

Evra, Ribery... I dont even want to continue.

And I cant see us scoring at home or away.

2-0 win for france in croker

Then depending how they feel id say another 2-0 in france.

completely disagree with everythign you've just said!!
they didnt do it last time and they're worse this time.

Heisenberg.

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