Ireland Vs Austria - K/O 7:45PM - Sky Sports 2 & RTÉ 2

newballsplease

Thecon21 wrote: »

Has full official line up been announced? Just in work here, haven't got time to have read through previous pages?

Cheers!

Same team v sweden except Whelan in for green and Salmon of Knowledge in for Keano

Cartman78

ionadnapokot wrote: »

and the Mullet...Toni Polster

Was at that game - Toni Polster was on fire that day, insofar as a striker with no pace or discernible first touch could be on fire.

Landsdowne Rd. was like a morgue at full time

The Guardian

Shane Long is not a big game player imo
This is not trolling
I watch a lot of premiership football and take particular notice of the irish lads
I cant think of any game that Long took by the scruff of the neck and scored a big equaliser, or a big winner
for me he seems to be coasting along with his career after a promising start and breakthrough with Reading
hes the kind of guy who has limited ambition and as long as the next contract is secured hes happy enough
thats fine of course

not trolling, if anyone can open my eyes for me, please do so

ebbsy

And those two defeats forced us into a playoff with Holland, where we got hammered,

shanered

That's a belly warming story! Never heard it before!

Ormus

The Guardian wrote: »

Shane Long is not a big game player imo
This is not trolling
I watch a lot of premiership football and take particular notice of the irish lads
I cant think of any game that Long took by the scruff of the neck and scored a big equaliser, or a big winner
for me he seems to be coasting along with his career after a promising start and breakthrough with Reading
hes the kind of guy who has limited ambition and as long as the next contract is secured hes happy enough
thats fine of course

not trolling, if anyone can open my eyes for me, please do so

There are only a few players in the Premiership who are able to take a game by the scruff of the neck.

Long scored against Chelsea and United in his first 2 games for West Brom. He also scored 2 in a play off semi final for Reading. It might not sound like much but he is Shane Long, not Robin Van Persie. He hasn't set the world alight at West Brom but he is a good player with a nice touch and a massive work rate. He's never gonna be as good a finisher as Keane but he is capable of scoring more goals than he has so far. In my opinion he will improve in the next couple of seasons.

Mikeyt086

Starting to get a bit nervous now. Arnautovic is a threat as are the Mainz players. Also hoping Pogatetz doesn't end one of our lads' careers.

Soups123

3-1 Ireland, Salmon to score just because we've abused him all week.

Concerned we'll draw this as that would be bang on form with how we have done over the passed two campaigns in games like this but there is a bit of youth there and they might excite themselves.

Come on Ireland

eire4

wonderfullife wrote: »

I'll stick my neck out and predict a comprehensive win for us tonight, i think we'll beat them 4-1.

Gonna go for a Shane Long brace, John O' Shea to pop up with a rare header and a Glenn Whelan deflected free kick sailing into the top corner :cool:

McClean to be named MOTM.

Heard it here first :pac:

Hope you are right. But Ireland have offered very little in attack under Trappatoni against teams of any kind of a decent level in competitive games so I would be stunned if we scored 4 goals.

Thecon21

newballsplease wrote: »

Same team v sweden except Whelan in for green and Salmon of Knowledge in for Keano

Cheers man!

Don't agree with Green exclusion anyway.. Here's hoping!

briany

eire4 wrote: »

Hope you are right. But Ireland have offered very little in attack under Trappatoni against teams of any kind of a decent level in competitive games so I would be stunned if we scored 4 goals.

I'd go and check the mushrooms I was eating earlier on.

RayCon

1-1 and that's me being optimistic.

andyman

HE LEAPS LIKE A SALMON FROM THE SEA DUDUDU!!!

Hitchens

is Robbie on the bench, or has he no hope of playing at all?

Lovely Bloke

Hitchens wrote: »

is Robbie on the bench, or has he no hope of playing at all?

out of squad

Hitchens

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

out of squad

cheers man

Johnny Utah

andyman wrote: »

HE LEAPS LIKE A SALMON FROM THE SEA DUDUDU!!!

Salmon poaches a goal and hits the back of the net!

Johnny Utah

ionadnapokot wrote: »

and the Mullet...Toni Polster

That's a beautiful haircut, how long would it take me to grow my hair like that?

Augmerson

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Just got a flash back

Andreas Ogris

Peter Stöger

and the Mullet...Toni Polster

I had that jersey.

Celly Smunt

Augmerson wrote: »

I had that jersey.

Same with myself,with that and my croatian jersey i was irresistible to women.

Al Capwned

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Just got a flash back

Andreas Ogris

Peter Stöger

and the Mullet...Toni Polster

who done this in post-mullet years!!!! :eek::eek:

Lovely Bloke

Augmerson wrote: »

I had that jersey.

I had that haircut

Professional Griefer

RayCon wrote: »

1-1 and that's me being optimistic.

Ah come on. Defensively we're solid, with the exception being the better sides, like Spain and Germany. I'd say 1-0 or else 0-0.

Hitchens

the Austrians will probably relish this cold weather

suicide_circus

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I had that haircut

so jealous :eek:

suicide_circus

Hitchens wrote: »

the Austrians will probably relish this cold weather

their cold weather is nice and dry and windless with sparkly snow

manutd

Marc Wilson passed fit and starts for Ireland

Phoenix Park

SlickRic wrote: »

Is that really you Ric? Quite the looker aren't you!

ThunbergsAreGo

Great mind games by Trap, the Austrians will now be changing their game plan as Wilson is confirmed to play!!

(Honestly glad hes playing did well on Friday)

Up for this, probably gonna be a dour game but feck it CYBIG

newballsplease

naughtb4 wrote: »

Great mind games by Trap, the Austrians will now be changing their game plan as Wilson is confirmed to play!!

(Honestly glad hes playing did well on Friday)

Up for this, probably gonna be a dour game but feck it CYBIG

Yea they have changed their gameplan, they brought in 2 young quick lads who some thought wouldnt be on.

ThunbergsAreGo

Dunphys point are all over the place here

Mr.Nice Guy

I think this is going to be a trickier game than most people reckon; it has a banana skin feel about it. Heart says we'll win but the head says we'll draw.

Don't think the Austrians should be taken lightly. I wish we had the Richard Dunne of the last campaign for this one.

Andersonisgod

Honestly if you're a kid tonight and you're watching this and you see a player like Sammon starting ahead of and technically talented Hoolahan it sends out such a wrong message. It's disgraceful the route we've gone down yet again, playing an untalented, journeyman battering ram ahead of the creative and gifted Hoolahan. As I've said, very few other countries would tolerate this nonsense.

ctrl-alt-delete

Jesus the Gardai were fighting a losing battle that day in dalymount!

willmunny1990

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I think this is going to be a trickier game than most people reckon; it has a banana skin feel about it. Heart says we'll win but the head says we'll draw.

Don't think the Austrians should be taken lightly. I wish we had the Richard Dunne of the last campaign for this one.

Most people reckon this will be a struggle!

Mr.Nice Guy

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Honestly if you're a kid tonight and you're watching this and you see a player like Sammon starting ahead of and technically talented Hoolahan it sends out such a wrong message. It's disgraceful the route we've gone down yet again, playing an untalented, journeyman battering ram ahead of the creative and gifted Hoolahan. As I've said, very few other countries would tolerate this nonsense.

Ridiculous comment. Their career paths are actually not that dissimilar. Hoolahan went from the LOI to even lower tiers of English football than Sammon.

newballsplease

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Ridiculous comment. Their career paths are actually not that dissimilar. Hoolahan went from the LOI to even lower tiers of English football than Sammon.

Reckon you missed the point there....

willmunny1990

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Ridiculous comment. Their career paths are actually not that dissimilar. Hoolahan went from the LOI to even lower tiers of English football than Sammon.

Nothing ridiculous at all about his comment, it's 100% true.

Wes is a fantastic footballer relative to Ireland's standards, Sammon is a poor man's Andy Carroll.

Andersonisgod

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Ridiculous comment. Their career paths are actually not that dissimilar. Hoolahan went from the LOI to even lower tiers of English football than Sammon.

That says more about the qualities which Irish and English football favour than it does the respective talent of both players.

Mr.Nice Guy

willmunny1990 wrote: »

Nothing ridiculous at all about his comment, it's 100% true.

Wes is a fantastic footballer relative to Ireland's standards, Sammon is a poor man's Andy Carroll.

It's not true.

It sends out a message that if at first you don't succeed, keep going. This is what Hoolahan did winding up in Scotland and then the lower tiers of English football. Sammon wound up in Scotland also and worked his way up to the Premiership (before taking a move to Derby).

What's the bad message here, then? Work hard and you'll one day get an opportunity that you can grasp like David Forde did against Sweden?

Downlinz

Showing a piece on the premiership lad who isn't playing as opposed to doing any actual research on the players who are playing.

Good stuff, RTE.

Andersonisgod

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

It's not true.

It sends out a message that if at first you don't succeed, keep going. This is what Hoolahan did winding up in Scotland and then the lower tiers of English football. Sammon wound up in Scotland also and worked his way up to the Premiership (before taking a move to Derby).

What's the bad message here, then? Work hard and you'll one day get an opportunity that you can grasp like David Forde did against Sweden?

The message is that a big, untalented battering ram who runs a lot will always be favoured over a small, creative, technically gifted footballer in this country.

newballsplease

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

It's not true.

It sends out a message that if at first you don't succeed, keep going. This is what Hoolahan did winding up in Scotland and then the lower tiers of English football. Sammon wound up in Scotland also and worked his way up to the Premiership (before taking a move to Derby).

What's the bad message here, then? Work hard and you'll one day get an opportunity that you can grasp like David Forde did against Sweden?

The bad message is a player with skill,class,ability sits on the bench when a donkey plays instead !

elefant

Jaysus the Irish coverage :rolleyes:

Showing clips on Weimann because if he's not playing, the rest of them must be good.
'I hope there's no one better than him playing'- brilliant John. It's hardly your job to know like!

PurpleSt4in

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Honestly if you're a kid tonight and you're watching this and you see a player like Sammon starting ahead of and technically talented Hoolahan it sends out such a wrong message. It's disgraceful the route we've gone down yet again, playing an untalented, journeyman battering ram ahead of the creative and gifted Hoolahan. As I've said, very few other countries would tolerate this nonsense.

Bit harsh on Sammon but I see where you're coming from. It's a problem from grassroots here. Do we play the small technically gifted player or the physically big lad?

ctrl-alt-delete

Am worried about this game myself, nervous as I've ever been.

Austria are a decent side with some very good results behind them, the team tonight only has four of the team starting that Wales beat 2-1 in February.

Just hope we can make good use of Wilson and Coleman and get at Austria, Hope McCarthy plays as good as he did against Sweden and that he drives us forward.

We cannot afford not to win this, hope to fook we do!!

Feel bad for me watching RTÉ 2 in HD on Saorview. It is literally like a scene from "The Walking Dead" except the dialogue is even worse.

Andersonisgod

PurpleSt4in wrote: »

Bit harsh on Sammon but I see where you're coming from. It's a problem from grassroots here. Do we play the small technically gifted player or the physically big lad?

I'm not having a go at Sammon as a person, he might be a great guy for all I know. However it's what his playing ahead of Hoolahan represents that disappoints me.

Being a coach of a young kids team I can assure you that from a young age it's the big lad who gets the nod the majority of the time.

Downlinz

Player for Player Austria are better than us, we should be worried and I don't feel like people respect them enough. A draw would be a big result, these guys might be more dangerous than Sweden.

ctrl-alt-delete

elefant wrote: »

Jaysus the Irish coverage :rolleyes:

Showing clips on Weimann because if he's not playing, the rest of them must be good.
'I hope there's no one better than him playing'- brilliant John. It's hardly your job to know like!

They only do their research as far as the Premier League, they latched onto Alaba because he plays for Bayern.

It was poor against Sweden too, Dunphy said something along the lines of "Olsson for Blackburn and there are a few other Chapionship players too". Olsson was the West Brom player and there was one other lad who played in the Championship.