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

tupac_healy

Lads I'd say we could well be in trouble here with this crowd, if someone like Weimann can't get in the team they must be handy enough no?

RikkFlair

1-0 Ireland, goal coming off Sammons arse.

COME ON!!!

tupac_healy

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

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.

His Brother? Blackburn Olsson, can't remember his first name

ThunbergsAreGo

Downlinz wrote: »

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.

Your right was just about the post this. I spent 5 minutes researching them the other day on google, which appears to be five minutes more than the "panel".

No players in a second tier team, few players in the champions league. Its an uphill task for us today.

I wish more of our players would test themselves in mainland europe, though its understandable why they dont (family etc)

Downlinz

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

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.

Didn't even mention Fuchs who they'd have footage on from the knockout round of the champions league this. Not even comprehensive within their own narrow comfort zone.

stiffler123

I really hope we scrape a 1-0 tonight. I'm worried about Sammon starting but fairly happy with the rest of the team.

Downlinz

naughtb4 wrote: »

Your right was just about the post this. I spent 5 minutes researching them the other day on google, which appears to be five minutes more than the "panel".

No players in a second tier team, few players in the champions league. Its an uphill task for us today.

I was more of our players would test themselves in mainland europe, though its understandable why they dont (family etc)

It definitely would be good for us, being a technically lacking team that are disciplined, strong and with a bit of pace is the English system in a nutshell. We'll never be the full package without spreading our players to different academies and leagues.

ctrl-alt-delete

tupac_healy wrote: »

His Brother? Blackburn Olsson, can't remember his first name

There is Martin and Marcus at Blackburn, both Swedish but neither were in the squad.

Jonas Olsson of West Brom played.

Imhof Tank

People taliking about this as a must win are way off the mark.

A win would be great naturally but this is really a "must not lose". Ourselves, the Swedes and the Austrians will be locked in a mini group for 2nd. 4 home and away draws agaimst our direct rivals, and then beat all the mimmows home and away - that should be the plan.

Lose tonight and we are out of the mini group - must not let that happen.

Johnny Utah

Great atmosphere here in Lansdowne Road.

Come on ye Boys in Green!

tupac_healy

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

There is Martin and Marcus at Blackburn, both Swedish but neither were in the squad.

Jonas Olsson of West Brom played.

Ooh... Thought Martin and Jonas were brothers

Downlinz

Imhof Tank wrote: »

People taliking about this as a must win are way off the mark.

A win would be great naturally but this is really a "must not lose". Ourselves, the Swedes and the Austrians will be locked in a mini group for 2nd. 4 home and away draws agaimst our direct rivals, and then beat all the mimmows home and away - that should be the plan.

Lose tonight and we are out of the mini group - must not let that happen.

Yep, must remember that Austria have already dropped 2 points to Kazakhstan. Sweden might have gained 1 to Germany but we still get to play them at home. 2 draws against Austria would be fine, we've always made playoffs by hanging in there and let someone else knock out the competition.

Rhys Essien

Will people get off Sammons back

He is actually Irish.(as opposed to a few England rejects in the team)

He was top scorer in Scotland a few years back.

He has made only 2 appearances so far for Ireland.

He came from the League of Ireland.

Give the lad a chance.


As for Whelan and Green,they are another story.

Quazzie

tupac_healy wrote: »

Lads I'd say we could well be in trouble here with this crowd, if someone like Weimann can't get in the team they must be handy enough no?

Nice of you to join us John.

ciaeim

i know its sacrilegious but stuck 50 on austria . hope i lose

Your Airbag

C'mon the boys in Green.

baldbear

Fingers crossed we don't make a Fuchs of it!

Nuri Sahin

Looking forward to watching Arnautovic, Alaba, Harnik and Junuzovic in the same line up.

Downlinz

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Looking forward to watching Arnautovic, Alaba, Harnik and Junuzovic in the same line up.

Arnautovic is class, a real goal threat from deep.

andyman

Whelan and McCarthy giving it away softly. Fantastic start this is

racso1975

is the rte player working for everybody else

Lapin

Good man Forde !

Stevecw

ciaeim wrote: »

i know its sacrilegious but stuck 50 on austria . hope i lose

Stuck them into my accumulator...hope I fail too

ctrl-alt-delete

andyman wrote: »

Whelan and McCarthy giving it away softly. Fantastic start this is

I thought Whelan had recovered it well, only to make it worse

newballsplease

After 3 mins... Im worried

andyman

1...2...3... HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!!

average_runner

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Will people get off Sammons back

He is actually Irish.(as opposed to a few England rejects in the team)

He was top scorer in Scotland a few years back.

He has made only 2 appearances so far for Ireland.

He came from the League of Ireland.

Give the lad a chance.


As for Whelan and Green,they are another story.

Whelan plays at premier league level, that's alot higher than sammon.
Sammon plays at same level as green which is not much.

Downlinz

Alaba looks like he could have some fun in the Aviva tonight... Ominous start.

andyman

Shane well on there.

missingtime

Bad call there.

OneColdHand

Uugh. Listeing to Brian Kerr on 2fm is going to be painful.

Austria have a centre called 'Pogo-thatch' apparently.

andyman

Long is such a nuisance. Doesn't give a defender a split-second

Your Airbag

More hoofing than usual. The ball will come down with snow on it one of these times.

Amirani

Few useless long balls already, hopefully it won't be as such all night.

Nailz

Ireland playing some really aimless hoof balls these past few minutes.

irish bloke

Roll on the England game

Johnny Utah

Really enjoying the big game here @ the Aviva. Fantastic atmosphere, hopefully we can get the win!

andyman

That's much better. McCarthy started all of that.

Jimmy Iovine

OneColdHand wrote: »

Uugh. Listeing to Brian Kerr on 2fm is going to be painful.

Austria have a centre called 'Pogo-thatch' apparently.

Blasphemy.

Brian was amazing behind the mic during the Euros.

Would listen to him every day of the year ahead of Ronnie ****ing Whelan.

Paully D

Why is McClean taking corners? Awful delivery almost every single time.

ctrl-alt-delete

Fcuk you Clarke

DDC1990

FFS, stupidity from Clarke.

_Kaiser_

Well that's that...

Downlinz

Embarrassing by Clark

RikkFlair

Jesus ****ing Christ

Stevecw

FFS Clark, disaster

ciaeim

ffs clarke

Quazzie

Clarke you ****ing tool. What was he thinking.

Rubbish from Clarke, really really crap.

Paully D

Clarke is about as useful as an underwater hairdryer.