Republic of Ireland vs. France WC Playoff Sat/Wed 14/18 November **K/Os 8 PM/9 PM**

TheMilkyPirate

Come on ireland!

:D

df1985

reckon there'll be many tickets going around croker this evening?

Vokes

manutd wrote: »

In todays Irish Independent, its sayes if the following players get a yellow tonight, they will miss the second leg.

Ireland
Given
Mc Geady
Andrews

France
Evra
Gallas
Abidal
Sagna
Gourcuff

Wow. Given the wet surface and with Duff and maybe McGeady running at their defence, there's a whole lot of yellow card potential for their back 4 missing the 2nd leg.



Damn, so nervous now. But we can do it - am very confident in Trap and his team. Ever the optimist, im thinking 1-0 to us tonight.

dizzywizlw

df1985 wrote: »

reckon there'll be many tickets going around croker this evening?

Yeh, all the vast majority of them fake, I wouldn't bother.

Tom65

Someone on Football Focus (Matt Holland, iirc) pointed out that France had conceded goals at home to Romania, Serbia and Austria. Obviously we have to do well tonight, but it's something I hadn't thought about. A couple of yellow cards for their defence tonight and I'd be much more confident going to Paris.


That said, we have to get a result tonight

mink_man

c'mon ireland

dizzywizlw

Tom65 wrote: »

Someone on Football Focus (Matt Holland, iirc) pointed out that France had conceded goals at home to Romania, Serbia and Austria. Obviously we have to do well tonight, but it's something I hadn't thought about. A couple of yellow cards for their defence tonight and I'd be much more confident going to Paris.


That said, we have to get a result tonight

The Cheese eating Surrender Monkeys will crumble

FreeOSCAR

CYBIG!

redout

Did they decide McGeady or Lawrence yet ?

dizzywizlw

redout wrote: »

Did they decide McGeady or Lawrence yet ?

Don't think we'll hear until 45 before KO

Mr Magnolia

2-0

GLaDOS

Been a while since I've looked forward to an international match as much as this. I'd take any score that involves us getting a clean sheet, hell I think I'd take 0-0 over 2-1. No point worrying about it though.

Mr Jinx

is this game on the radio ?

manutd

It on BBC Five Live, RTé and a good lot more.

Spiritoftheseventies

Tellox wrote: »

already chewing at my nails here - going to head pub bound at around 6pm and get the nerves good and settled

Would be happy with 0-0, and a bit of scoring wizardy within the last 30 seconds (to prevent us from leaving another goal in too quick), and we're well set

What you need is a steady stool that wont rock. My guess you will be falling off after the fifth pint!

Col200sx

As has been already mentioned on this thread, I've not been this excited before an international match since the 2002 WC.

Ireland to win 1-0 and Richie Dunne to score.

I've stuck a cheeky fiver on Dunne to score first at 25/1:D

C'MON IRELAND

SlickRic

180 minutes to go...

MementoMori

Anyone heard anything about the state of the Croker pitch?

ntlbell

Can't bloody wait!!!

Love these days, all club rivalry goes out the window for a day the headshot's the mr alan's all on the same side

FOR VICTORY THEY WERE SET! RAY HOUGHTON GOT THE BALL AND STUCK IN THE NET!

COME ON IRELAND!!!!!!

manutd

MementoMori wrote: »

Anyone heard anything about the state of the Croker pitch?

Say it is good state, its good the soccer game is before the rugby game tomorrow, other way around it would be a mess.

dannydiamond

MementoMori wrote: »

Anyone heard anything about the state of the Croker pitch?

The concrete is almost dry.

Anything to throw the French off their stride.:)

ntlbell

MementoMori wrote: »

Anyone heard anything about the state of the Croker pitch?

yea, it's going to be rampant with irish celebration's

OLE OLE OLE OLE

:rolleyes:

BaZmO*

Lads I'm in the pub before the match. Can anyone confirm the teams?

Mmcd

BaZmO* wrote: »

Lads I'm in the pub before the match. Can anyone confirm the teams?

Ireland and France

manutd

Its 2 and half houres away.

kincsem

2-4 looks nailed on. :eek:

kincsem

IRELAND
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

ArmaniJeanss

ntlbell wrote: »

Can't bloody wait!!!

Love these days, all club rivalry goes out the window for a day the headshot's the mr alan's all on the same side

Boggles and MrAlan hugging each other as Robbie Keane completes his hattrick.... I can see it now, it'll be like Christmas Day in the trenches in 1914.

C'MON IRELAND

redout

I'm heading off to Croker now. Hope to god we win. Best of luck lads.

K4t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CopOXfetMGs

Spiritoftheseventies

1-1. We will score inside ten minutes, Hamilton will put his foot in it by tempting fate with the French scoring in a one one with five minutes to go. Word you will be looking for is Merde!

briany

Jeez! In other news, the Northern Irish fan site our wee country has changed it's forum banner to "Our oui country" for the time being. God, talk about being bitter or what! Attachment included in case it was changed back. http://www.ourweecountry.ipbhost.com/

BaZmO*

Mmcd wrote: »

Ireland and France

Haha. Very good. But seriously, can anybody cofirm the line up of each team?

Xavi6

Just got in from my own football club's end of year bash and headin out shortly to a house party for this.

Feckin 4am kick off is killin me, though if we win it'll be all worth it.

Sr. Pirotecnic

B O'Driscoll on six o'clock news there, asked will the team be watching Ireland tonight and he says yeah blah blah we hope they win or the vast majority do. What did he mean by this? Some northern unionist members of the team or what?

GLaDOS

Sr. Pirotecnic wrote: »

B O'Driscoll on six o'clock news there, asked will the team be watching Ireland tonight and he says yeah blah blah we hope they win or the vast majority do. What did he mean by this? Some northern unionist members of the team or what?

Maybe they just don't give a crap about football. For instance, I'd like the Irish rugby team to do well, but I wouldn't really care if they didn't.

~Rebel~

briany wrote: »

Jeez! In other news, the Northern Irish fan site our wee country has changed it's forum banner to "Our oui country" for the time being. God, talk about being bitter or what! Attachment included in case it was changed back. http://www.ourweecountry.ipbhost.com/

christ those guys really suck.

Spiritoftheseventies

redout wrote: »

I'm heading off to Croker now. Hope to god we win. Best of luck lads.

Caption.
Brady- Say you're prayers Michel, the past was yours, the future is ours
Platini- Silly leetle Irish man, just wait till I become president!

ntlbell

This is what we need today lads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXTSsT5Hbcc

Eire-Dearg

redout wrote: »

I'm heading off to Croker now. Hope to god we win. Best of luck lads.

There's a young Dan Aykroyd.

ntlbell

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

There's a young Dan Aykroyd.

lies, dan aykroyd was never young.

tis a myth.

briany

christ those guys really suck.

Well they're not doing much for any sort of "Hands across the border" initiative anyways. I wouldn't mind if it was a few small minded bigots posting there (on both sides mind) but they are not doing much for their image by temporarily changing the name of the site to goad Ireland!

Anyway, good result for Slovakia tonight, they only lost two one in Moscow and I'd say they are quietly confident they could do something in the return leg. Hopefully we do not do something similar by leaking a goal to France but of course I do hope we win!

Diabhal Beag

Never been so nervous before a match I'm not playing in. Hope to God we win in Croker at the very least.

Éirinn Abú

Xavi6

briany wrote: »

Well they're not doing much for any sort of "Hands across the border" initiative anyways. I wouldn't mind if it was a few small minded bigots posting there (on both sides mind) but they are not doing much for their image by temporarily changing the name of the site to goad Ireland!

Anyway, good result for Slovakia tonight, they only lost two one in Moscow and I'd say they are quietly confident they could do something in the return leg. Hopefully we do not do something similar by leaking a goal to France but of course I do hope we win!

Slovakia are already through, twas Slovenia

nkay1985

Come on Ireland!!!!!!!

Mr.Nice Guy

briany wrote: »

Jeez! In other news, the Northern Irish fan site our wee country has changed it's forum banner to "Our oui country" for the time being. God, talk about being bitter or what! Attachment included in case it was changed back. http://www.ourweecountry.ipbhost.com/

Shame they didn't rearrange the word 'country'. They could start by losing the letter o and go from there.

big_show

Lawerence in

Bobalicious93

I swear to God I just heard Tony O'Donoghue say Trap plans to bring on McGeady and Han Solo when the French full-backs tire...

Eire-Dearg

Unrest just before the game in the French camp, say the RTE boyos.

kincsem

Our team looks good but Kilbane a worry.