The Dublin Decider 17.00 KO (Liverpool v Celtic)

mike65

On BT Sport 1

Or Celtic v Liverpool. (is that why they called it such a daft name?)

Anyway Celtic bunk off school to play Liverpool in their final pre-season friendly. Expect something close to the Stoke starting 11 with the likely proviso of Sturridge playing no more than 45m, maybe less.

The Scottish Champions appear to have sent a pretty weak side, here is them training




Liverpool travelling squad announced: Jones, Johnson, Enrique, Toure, Alberto, Gerrard, Aspas, Coutinho, Assaidi, Henderson Sturridge, Coates, Downing, Lucas, Mignolet, Allen, Borini, Sterling, Kelly, Flanagan, Ibe, Wisdom

Celtic travelling squad announced: Izaguirre, Balde, Fisher, Irvine, Findlay, Stokes, Kayal, Lustig, Matthews, McGeouch, Mouyokolo Henderson, Herron, George, Atajic, Watt, Forster, Zaluska

The_Kew_Tour

A full stadium for weakened team?

Ouch if true.

klose

I hate the name of it!


Should be a good game in any case

Grayditch

Gwan Liverpool. Gwan Celtic. Oh Jesus. I can't Dublin decide.

Augmerson

What does it decide?

Anyone

Isn't it De Dublin Decider?

Richard Hillman

The sporting highlight of the Irish summer.

Francie Barrett

Have tickets for my son and I - really looking forward to this.

Grayditch

They should get Joe Duffy to commentate.

"And c'mere to me, what's that there is that the ball, yeah? That's the ball, ok. And yer man is after passing it there, and tell me this, does this kind of thing happen frequently, Mary, the passing and the ball and the running on the good grass?"

prettyboy81

Stupid name for the event but it will make a lot of kids day & adults too. Up in Premium Section with prawn sandwich brigade & be good too see few players in the flesh.

AgileMyth

Augmerson wrote: »

What does it decide?

Which team is the most Irish.

Eirebear

Diasporatastic.

Francie Barrett

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The sporting highlight of the Irish summer.

It's been a pretty barren Summer for soccer in Ireland alright.

super_furry

So exactly what is it that's up for decision?

RasTa

Some amount of Jersey's around town. Spotted the that woman who Rodgers was caught taking a peek. Not bad.

Coillte_Bhoy

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

A full stadium for weakened team?

Ouch if true.

Why??

Dempsey

lennon said 7 of the first team hasnt travelled. they be still recovering from the qualifier the other night.

liverpool see this as a preseason, celtic see it as a moneyspinner. id say this will be comfortable for Liverpool, given celtic are fielding a team that will be similar to the teams we fielded on the german tour.

The_Kew_Tour

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Why??

Ah well people I'm sure we're hoping to see some of the better players at Celtic no?

Lovely Bloke

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Ah well people I'm sure we're hoping to see some of the better players at Celtic no?

Well then they'd be idiots, Celtic have started their season already, anyone hoping to see anything like a "full strength" Celtic team are fools.

The_Kew_Tour

For the price of tickets than yes lot of them must be.

Coillte_Bhoy

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Ah well people I'm sure we're hoping to see some of the better players at Celtic no?

Tough CL qualifier during the week and a huge one to come, was never going to be a full strength side imo. Liverpool of course have no such concerns

Lovely Bloke

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

For the price of tickets than yes lot of them must be.

I don't disagree.

Dempsey

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Well then they'd be idiots, Celtic have started their season already, anyone hoping to see anything like a "full strength" Celtic team are fools.

celtic fielded a very strong team this time last year against real madrid over in the states. tickets were sold a long time ago, it was anyones guess to what team they could field today

Lovely Bloke

Dempsey wrote: »

celtic fielded a very strong team this time last year against real madrid over in the states. tickets were sold a long time ago, it was anyones guess to what team they could field today

Big wow. It's as obvious as hell what the main reason for this game is - gouging money from idiots stupid enough to pay the price for the tickets. "The Dublin Decider" - give me strength.

You are right in one respect, it is "anyone's guess" who is going to play, given they'll probably be a bunch of unknowns (unknown to normal people, obviously Celtic nerds will know the, but the majority of the Irish Celtic jersey brigade won't have a clue) from the reserves and U19s.

Alias G

super_furry wrote: »

So exactly what is it that's up for decision?

The Guinness world record wankathon attempt.

Dempsey

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Big wow. It's as obvious as hell what the main reason for this game is - gouging money from idiots stupid enough to pay the price for the tickets. "The Dublin Decider" - give me strength.

You are right in one respect, it is "anyone's guess" who is going to play, given they'll probably be a bunch of unknowns (unknown to normal people, obviously Celtic nerds will know the, but the majority of the Irish Celtic jersey brigade won't have a clue) from the reserves and U19s.

im going to dublin to watch celtic, it doesnt bother me one bit that its not the strongest squad possible. im lookong forward to seeing them play. I went to parkhead to see a full strength celtic team play ****e so it wont upset me or most fans.

seems something has you upset, dry your eyes

GTR63

RasTa wrote: »

Spotted the that woman who Rodgers was caught taking a peek. Not bad.

Claire Rourke, nice.
Bet she didn't interview him on the way over.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Alias G wrote: »

The Guinness world record wankathon attempt.

That's in Switzerland, this is in dublin...

Best thing about this thread is the posters moaning about the title :pac::pac:

Francie Barrett

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Big wow. It's as obvious as hell what the main reason for this game is - gouging money from idiots stupid enough to pay the price for the tickets. "The Dublin Decider" - give me strength.

Well you can hardly blame people when they're so starved of decent football in their own country.

Lovely Bloke

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Well you can hardly blame people when they're so starved of decent football in their own country.

Cool.

Francie Barrett

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Well you can hardly blame people when they're so starved of decent football in their own country.

uh oh....

Francie Barrett

rarnes1 wrote: »

uh oh....

I'm being a bit tongue in cheek :pac: obviously, but when you get called an idiot for taking your son to see his favourite team, how do you expect people to react?

League of Ireland fanboi's coming in here having a go is really laughable. They're the first ones to complain about "barstoolers" who don't watch their team play. Yet when a match between two of the biggest supported teams in Ireland (a fact they bitterly resent)) takes place, they're the first people to call fans idiots for wanting to attend. You just can't win.

Lawrence1895

May I ask, is there any good cause behind the match? Parts of the gate money going to charity?

super_furry

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Well you can hardly blame people when they're so starved of decent football in their own country.

As this friendly is the answer to that?

RasTa

Most accents I heard where English. More Celtic jersey's around at that hour in the morning.

witnessrenegade

Would loved to have gone myself to this, should be a good day out, will watch it later to see how LFC are doing coming into the start of the season

dan1895

Lars1916 wrote: »

May I ask, is there any good cause behind the match? Parts of the gate money going to charity?

Helping to pay off the FAI's massive debts.

Lawrence1895

dan1895 wrote: »

Helping to pay off the FAI's massive debts.

And when the debts are paid off, will the access go towards the LOI clubs? Or will this be a FAIlure, before they even consider an idea like that?

Lars1916

Lars1916 wrote: »

May I ask, is there any good cause behind the match? Parts of the gate money going to charity?

Does some money from friendlies usually go to charity?

RasTa

lol guessing by face value it's just for seats

http://www.adverts.ie/sports/the-dublin-decider-liverpool-v-celtic/3560140

witnessrenegade

rarnes1 wrote: »

Does some money from friendlies usually go to charity?

Think the shirts from the match are given to charity's to auction off for money

dan1895

Lars1916 wrote: »

And when the debts are paid off, will the access go towards the LOI clubs? Or will this be a FAIlure, before they even consider an idea like that?

Once the debts are paid off the FAI will find something else to piss money away on and Irish clubs at all levels will be left fighting over the scraps.

The Internet

Francie Barrett wrote: »

It's been a pretty barren Summer for soccer in Ireland alright.

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Well you can hardly blame people when they're so starved of decent football in their own country.

Francie Barrett wrote: »

I'm being a bit tongue in cheek :pac: obviously, but when you get called an idiot for taking your son to see his favourite team, how do you expect people to react?

League of Ireland fanboi's coming in here having a go is really laughable. They're the first ones to complain about "barstoolers" who don't watch their team play. Yet when a match between two of the biggest supported teams in Ireland (a fact they bitterly resent)) takes place, they're the first people to call fans idiots for wanting to attend. You just can't win.

Some people might think it's you who has a problem and not the LOI fans

DaveyCakes

Strange that Celtic are able to cancel a league match in order to play in a friendly....no doubt they'll be whinging about fixture congestion at some point later in the season.

dan1895

DaveyCakes wrote: »

Strange that Celtic are able to cancel a league match in order to play in a friendly....no doubt they'll be whinging about fixture congestion at some point later in the season.

Celtic, whinging? Never!!

AgileMyth

DaveyCakes wrote: »

Strange that Celtic are able to cancel a league match in order to play in a friendly....no doubt they'll be whinging about fixture congestion at some point later in the season.

None of their matches matter anyway. They could just give them the league title now and save the hassle.

Lawrence1895

AgileMyth wrote: »

None of their matches matter anyway. They could just give them the league title now and save the hassle.

...and Liverpool could just give up on winning the title?

Coillte_Bhoy

AgileMyth wrote: »

None of their matches matter anyway. They could just give them the league title now and save the hassle.

yes because national leagues are all about who wins them, nothing to do with the other clubs, their fans, their rivalries blah blah blah. lets juts have a 4 way play off for the epl why dont we? :rolleyes:

Coillte_Bhoy

DaveyCakes wrote: »

Strange that Celtic are able to cancel a league match in order to play in a friendly....no doubt they'll be whinging about fixture congestion at some point later in the season.

No actually it's not strange if you knew what you were talking about which obviously you dont

Broxi_Bear_Eire

DaveyCakes wrote: »

Strange that Celtic are able to cancel a league match in order to play in a friendly....no doubt they'll be whinging about fixture congestion at some point later in the season.

Clubs in the top league have been allowed to have one weekend off to play friendlys because they start early with European qualifiers