WALES Superthread

scudzilla

Couldn't find a superthread for us so here goes

GREAT win for us today, played them off the park, if we can get a result against the Belgians in June then it's 1 foot in the door, first finals since '58 when a young 17yr old Pele scored the only goal against us in the QF's

Any other taffs out there?

NIMAN

Not a Taff but really cheering you on for qualification, would be nice to see you in a major championship. I'm sure the excitement must be building as it becomes a possibility.

Great to see Bale shake off the doom of playing for Real Madrid and all the grief he's getting to bag himself a brace (and an assist too?) tonight. Like to see him do well, seems a decent spud.

Fingers crossed for the Belgium game. As the saying goes "get in t' them, they're easy".

Ulysses Gaze

Bale should be taking free kicks for Real Madrid. He's better than Ronaldo at them.

Would be delighted for the likes of Bale and Ramsey if Wales qualified.

scudzilla

Over the years we've had it tough, a team that contained Rush, Saunders, Giggs, Southall, Mark Hughes, Gary Speed and more and we never got a sniff, must have been hard for them players never getting to the biggest international stage.

Kerrigooney

Fair play lads...Ye're flying. I hope ye qualify.

Ulysses Gaze

scudzilla wrote: »

Over the years we've had it tough, a team that contained Rush, Saunders, Giggs, Southall, Mark Hughes, Gary Speed and more and we never got a sniff, must have been hard for them players never getting to the biggest international stage.

Baffles me how a team with those lads in it could not qualify for at least one tournament.

Maybe a case of talented individuals not making a good team?

mzungu

Great win for Wales. Hoping we finally get to see them on the big stage during the summer.

Mr.Nice Guy

A tremendous win for Wales and it was well deserved.

briany

Somewhere Dudu Aouate is one the ground, rolling in grief over this result.

Hopefully.

Great win for Wales. Even better that it came against Israel.

Would love to see Wales qualify for a major tournament

Nalz

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Would be delighted for the likes of Bale and Ramsey if Wales qualified.

Shout out for Williams too, who's a great centre half... Would love to have him in an Irish jersey!

The_Kew_Tour

Having lived in Swansea for couple years I do have soft spot for Wales.

Best of luck for the rest of campaign. So far so good.

brianregan09

Dean Saunders was my hero as a kid and i always thought it sucked that he never got to play on the biggest stage so i'll be rooting for Wales to qualify big time

fryup

I'm always surprised Wales never qualify for a major tournament considering all the great players they had over the years..Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Mark Hughes, Ryan Giggs, Gary Speed, Neville Southall etc etc

good luck to them, hope they don't screw it up like they usually do

Wales seem to just have the right manager this time around, they've had quality for years, but with Williams, Bale and Ramsay they really could qualify for this competition. And I certainly hope they do!

fryup

one of the greatest goals of all time was scored by a welshman, who remembers this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBWa6pUvrUg

mikeym

Hopefully the fans will flock back to Cardiff City Stadium.

Best of luck Wales!

Donnielighto

Whatever happened to G.K.?

NIMAN

Is Wales next game v Belgium?

If so, guess Kompany is out of it now?

scudzilla

NIMAN wrote: »

Is Wales next game v Belgium?

If so, guess Kompany is out of it now?

Yep

Remaining fixtures

12th June Belgium Home
3rd September Cyprus Away
6th September Israel Home
10th October Bosnia Away
13th October Andorra Home

Would take a point against Belgium, 4pts from the Sept Double header and 3/4 from the Oct double header should see us through

noodler

scudzilla wrote: »

Yep

Remaining fixtures

12th June Belgium Home
3rd September Cyprus Away
6th September Israel Home
10th October Bosnia Away
13th October Andorra Home

Would take a point against Belgium, 4pts from the Sept Double header and 3/4 from the Oct double header should see us through

Should really be looking for 6/6 from Israel at home and Cyrpus away.

Jelle1880

Might be heading over for the Wales game in June, in the away end of course

The way we played against Israel I can't see us get much of a result there, Wales were a lot more impressive a few days earlier.

scudzilla

noodler wrote: »

Should really be looking for 6/6 from Israel at home and Cyrpus away.

i know what we should be looking for, but being a Wales fan i'm used to use messing up games, so 4 and i'd be happy...ish

scudzilla

FIFA World Rankings were put out today and we're the highest we've ever been, at a lofty No.22, only 8 behind them :pac::pac:

14. England
22. Wales
29. Scotland
42. Northern Ireland
62 Rep of Ireland

Just hoping we can stay in the Top 30 as far too many times, just before a qualifying group draw we've been so low and ended up as 4th/5th seeds, which has crucified us

scudzilla

Huge game for us next week against the Belgians, a win and we can only throw the group away.

Good enough squad, the starting 11 could beat anyone on the day but i worry about the depth we have

Hennessey (Crystal Palace), Fon Williams (Tranmere),Ward (Liverpool), Williams (Swansea City - captain), Chester (Hull City), Gunter (Reading), Taylor (Swansea City), Dummett (Newcastle), Matthews (Celtic), Richards (Swansea City), Henley (Blackburn Rovers), Allen (Liverpool), Ledley (Crystal Palace), Ramsey (Arsenal), King (Leicester City), Vaughan (Nottingham Forest), MacDonald (Bournemouth), Cotterill (Birmingham City), Robson-Kanu (Reading), Lawrence (Leicester City), Bale (Real Madrid), Church (Charlton Athletic), Vokes (Burnley).

scudzilla

Big game tonight, seems like we're injury free while Fellaini is out with a groin injury.

Wales are a massive 4/1 to win with PP, gotta be worth a cheeky tenner

Jelle1880

Hoping for a good game, but if we play the way we did against France I'm pretty sure we'll win

Also, I just read in a Belgian newspaper that a bus of Belgian fans drove to Wales... in South Yorkshire

scudzilla

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Hoping for a good game, but if we play the way we did against France I'm pretty sure we'll win

Also, I just read in a Belgian newspaper that a bus of Belgian fans drove to Wales... in South Yorkshire

There's your problem and it has been for years, inconsistency.

alchemist33

1-0 up at halftime. G'wan the leeks!

scudzilla

5 more minutes, come on, 5 MORE MINUTES

whatawaster

Delighted for Wales. Thoroughly deserved.

Have to say though, Belgium are the most over-rated team in years. The way they were talked about as potential world cup winners is laughable in hindsight. Hazard is their only genuinely world class player. A lot of good players, but they are not a 'team'

Paully D

It has been a while since I've heard an atmosphere like that. Fair play.

scudzilla

YES YES YES, F****n DELIGHTED, we can only throw qualification away now,


SCUD IS GOING TO FRANCE :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Lovely Bloke

amazing result, fair play to the taffs.

Paully D

On another note, it's great to see Bale's commitment to his country despite being a big shot player. Never cries off from friendlies for example when it'd be very easy for him to do so and you can see how much it means to him.

DVDM93

Delighted for Wales, great atmosphere! Well done lads I'm jealous :P

Memnoch

Fair play to Wales. Belgium are always underwhelming on the football field despite looking so strong on paper.

NIMAN

Really delighted for Wales.

Kerrigooney

Great stuff. Congrats lads.

Caovyn Lineah

Delighted for all my Welsh family

DarkyHughes

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Delighted for all my Welsh family

Delighted for Wales to. I'm a quarter Welsh so makes it even better

Jelle1880

Fair play to Wales, they took their 1 chance.

Horrible game by Belgium, no tactics at all.

Magico Gonzalez

Fair play, thought the lack of a top class striker would hurt Wales. Great effort, hope they go on and qualify.

Ramsay and Bale were great, Xavi Allen not too bad.

efb

Woohoo go Wales! There won't be a sheep shagged in the valleys for a week!

Nalz

efb wrote: »

Woohoo go Wales! There won't be a sheep shagged in the valleys for a week!

Ugh

scudzilla

We're currently ranked #22 in the world in FIFA rankings, 16th in Europe, after last nights result we could move up 1, maybe 2 spots as we beat the #2 ranked team.

With no other games for us before the World Cup qualification draw on July 25th we could really end up in the 2nd seed pot, which would be a huge boost, too many times we've been in Pot 4 and it's killed us

SantryRed

According to the BBC, they're gonna be top seeds and could enter the top 10 in the world....

scudzilla

SantryRed wrote: »

According to the BBC, they're gonna be top seeds and could enter the top 10 in the world....

That's nuts, we're not a Top 10 team, it'd be great to get top seeding though, rules out a lot of other big names

scudzilla

We're seeded in Pot 1!!!!!!! That's amazing

Fr Tod Umptious

scudzilla wrote: »

We're seeded in Pot 1!!!!!!! That's amazing

That's great.
Now all Ireland (possible 4th seeds I heard) need to do is get drawn into that pot.

scudzilla

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

That's great.
Now all Ireland (possible 4th seeds I heard) need to do is get drawn into that pot.

Everyone in pot 2,3 & 4 will be hoping for us, but it gives us such an advantage, just have to make sure we don't fcuk it up like we've done so many times in the past

Ideal for me is

Bosnia
Greece
Estonia (but would like Ireland for the craic)
Moldova
Andorra

Nightmare would be

France
Ukraine
Turkey
Cyprus
Kazahkstan