Republic of Ireland -v- Brazil: Emirates Stadium Tuesday 8.05pm

Jigga

kmart6 wrote: »

Andrews you agro bollox!

He's a legend, doesn't take sh!t from anybody

kmart6

Gibson for Whelan
McGeadey(sp?) for Duffer

quarryman

Whelan is like a ticking clock with passes in the middle. Really growing on me as a player and seems like a genuine character.

kmart6

Jigga wrote: »

He's a legend, doesn't take sh!t from anybody

i.e. agro bollox:D

Stevecw

Most Haunted wrote: »

Do friendlys count in World rankings

Yes they do, don't have as much impact on rankings as qualifiers, but they still count.

pistolpetes11

Whelan is turning into a great player , would of like to see him finish the game but they reckon he took a little knock !

rebel girl 15

McGeady and Gibson on for Duff and Whelan, Whelan really impressed me, especially in the last ten minutes

rebel girl 15

40,082 is the attendance

pistolpetes11

Well done Kelly ,

Stand off let him do all his step overs, when he is finished he realizes that he is going no where and has to pass the ball back .

Where did the bloke doing the RTE commentary get the 15 step overs from

Stevecw

Pity to see Whelan go off, was having a great game. Didn't get what Trap saw in him at 1st, but he's proving to be a very effective mf afterall. Hope McGeady has a good 30 mins.

kmart6

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Whelan is turning into a great player , would of like to see him finish the game but they reckon he took a little knock !

Or maybe the fact he has an FA Cup game against Chelsea coming up!:rolleyes!

rebel girl 15

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Well done Kelly ,

Stand off let him do all his step overs, when he is finished he realizes that he is going no where and has to pass the ball back .

Where did the bloke doing the RTE commentary get the 15 step overs from

I was wondering the same thing, two Brazil subs coming on in a minute

kmart6

Ramires for Dani Alves
Grafite for Adriano

rebel girl 15

How did he miss it? Very lucky let off for Ireland!

kmart6

That would have been some introduction for Alves!!!:eek:

magma69

Jaysus. St Ledger was spared blushes there. Silly stuff. :rolleyes:

LeeroyJones

Well if we were unlucky with the first goal, we are even more lucky with that shocking miss from Alves! He did the hard work!

Jigga

St. Ledger didn't cover himself in glory there. Fortunately Alves missed, shocking effort!

kmart6

Robinho thinking very highly of himself:rolleyes:

LeeroyJones

James McCarthy better be on soon! Really hope its not a 5 minute job at the end for him!

Stevecw

Ledger that was bad, very lucky to get away with that.

Bring on James McCarthy now, wud be nice to see him get at least 20.

noodler

I can NOT believe Paul Mcshane is a premiership footballer sometimes.

Liam O

haha that was funny

kmart6

Lucky that didn't count!

Defense is all over the shop!

Show's how much we depend on Dunne and O'Shea!

happyoutscan

FFS what the feck are they at, that's Gibson, Ledger and McShane all caught out in the last few minutes.

redout

McShane should never wear the Green again tbh.

Baffled as to how he still gets picked.

We must be desperate.

Jigga

McShane was lucky the linesman spotted that, he's a shocking player. Come on James McCarthy!

Johner

McShane. :rolleyes:

kmart6

McCarthey for Lawerence!

Kev_ps3

noodler wrote: »

I can NOT believe Paul Mcshane is a premiership footballer sometimes.

Only sometimes? :pac:

delta_bravo

Very lucky there

Stevecw

McShane, u are so brutal. Right decision it was offside, but still McShane...shocking player.

happyoutscan

Add Keane to that list.

kmart6

Terrible stuff.....

Aidric

And that's why McShane should be nowhere near an Irish set up.

ShaneU

How have Brazil not scored? we are all over the place, especially the centre backs.

MoyVilla9

All the good work done in the second half is getting undone.
Brazil should be 3-0 up, at least.

Yakult

They are making way too many mistakes at back. Defence has falling completely. Should be about 4 nil now I say

magma69

Brazil running riot now. Ireland's muck defence is really starting to show.

quarryman

Jesus, Robinho really is a muck player.

LeeroyJones

could/should be 4 or 5 nil at this stage.... Andrews and McShane are so far from proving their critics wrong!

Bodhisopha

We're starting to play a bit more like ourselves now.

pistolpetes11

When I started playing football , the aul man always said to me " never mess around with the ball in or near your own box " I think some body needs to pass these words of wisdom on to the Irish defense

Chardee MacDennis

is it just me who thinks glenn whelan is a much better player than andrews?

Aidric

Brazil are blitzing us now, we could still nick one I reckon.

Liam O

at least this performance will lower the expectations of the team...should be 4 or 5 at least to Brazil, and it's nowhere near their strongest team.

noodler

McGeady.

Its not so much for this game alone but if he really wants to go to a premiership club at some stage in his career then he really needs to be in games.

He can go such long periods without being involved and we simply cannot afford to carry players like that.

rebel girl 15

BastardPrince wrote: »

is it just me who thinks glenn whelan is a much better player than andrews?

I'm with ya on that one! We're too loose at the back, being caught in possession too easily, lucky not to be 3-0 down

quarryman

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

, the aul man always said to me " never mess around with the ball in or near your own box "

are you sure he was talking about football though?

fullstop

kmart6 wrote: »

McCartney for Lawerence!

George McCartney declared for Republic of Ireland now too?