Rep. of Ireland -v- England - Sunday June 7th 2015 1pm, Lansdowne Road

Rikand

adox wrote: »

Ha good man Scholes : "A waste of an afternoon " :pac:

Glad to read that. In my in laws and they only have the bog channels. I was ragin to miss the game but not anymore

RoyalCelt

I feel sorry for anyone who paid €70 or €90 for that match. What a let down. At least the Scotland match will be good and fairly priced at that too.

GLaDOS

Feel sorry for anyone who paid money for that

keeponhurling

A decent warm-up for Scotland, possibly, but where are the goals going to come from ?

Also none of the guys who aren't regulars particularly impressed

efb

They should have put the football on ITV4 and left the Tennis on ITV for the whole match

thelad95

I don't know what people expected tbh. It was a friendly and both sides treated it as such. The tickets were overpriced but that's simple Economics.

tayto lover

Sterling was very poor again today.
Nobody will buy him.

Richard Hillman

John Delaney had his hired goons out again to confiscate any banners speaking ill of him

Awful game.

The highlight was when the camera panned to Jack Charlton and Paul Mc Grath

efb

Richard Hillman wrote: »

John Delaney had his hired goons out again to confiscate any banners speaking ill of him

€5mill gets a good few hired goons- and a nice gf

tayto lover

tayto lover wrote: »

Sterling was very poor again today.
Nobody will buy him.

Bigtime

niallo27

England are on a great run and put average teams like us away very easy usually so it's a great result really.

Iused2likebusts

A very predictable draw. 30 years and counting since they beat us.

Berserker

RoyalCelt wrote: »

I feel sorry for anyone who paid €70 or €90 for that match. What a let down. At least the Scotland match will be good and fairly priced at that too.

Just back from it and it was woeful. Atmosphere was dreadful and booing GSTQ and Sterling was pathetic.

niallo27 wrote: »

England are on a great run and put average teams like us away very easy usually so it's a great result really.

Did you see the game? It was awful. I have been to hundreds of football games all over the world and that was a very good candidate for the worst.

niallo27

Berserker wrote: »

Just back from it and it was woeful. Atmosphere was dreadful and booing GSTQ and Sterling was pathetic.



Did you see the game? It was awful. I have been to hundreds of football games all over the world and that was a very good candidate for the worst.

It was rubbish but it was still a good result against a top team.

Celly Smunt

I can't believe i waited 20 years for that. I did enjoy how you could almost here the players whisper however.

Ulysses Gaze

niallo27 wrote: »

It was rubbish but it was still a good result against a top team.

England are not a top team. Not anymore.

niallo27

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

England are not a top team. Not anymore.

They are top of their group and qualify easily for every championship. They are a top team. Not the highest level but let's not pretend they are not a serious team.

blinding

niallo27 wrote: »

They are top of their group and qualify easily for every championship. They are a top team. Not the highest level but let's not pretend they are not a serious team.

I kinda agree with you but they were rubbish a year ago in the world cup.

They normally qualify well for tournaments but they are in a very easy group this time.

I think I talked myself into thinking they are good to middling .

Its hard to work out what they are but they are a long way off Germany and Spain of a few years ago (and probably soon again) But who else is that Good.

niallo27

blinding wrote: »

I kinda agree with you but they were rubbish a year ago in the world cup.

They normally qualify well for tournaments but they are in a very easy group this time.

I think I talked myself into thinking they are good to middling .

Its hard to work out what they are but they are a long way off Germany and Spain of a few years ago (and probably soon again) But who else is that Good.

They qualify because the beat average sides like us easily. That's why I thought today was a good result.

NufcNavan

Ireland fans booing Sterling was extremely embarrassing. Some people need to get a life.

NufcNavan

NufcNavan wrote: »

Ireland fans booing Sterling was extremely embarrassing. Some people need to get a life.

Agreed.

Grown men that boo in general look a bit ridiculous

TheCitizen

Berserker wrote: »

Just back from it and it was woeful. Atmosphere was dreadful and booing GSTQ and Sterling was pathetic.



Did you see the game? It was awful. I have been to hundreds of football games all over the world and that was a very good candidate for the worst.

It was a friendly warm up match and it wasn't half as bad as you make out. In the 1st half Ireland played well, tapered off in the 2nd half - that's normal for friendly internationals.

thelad95

Depsite all the hype, it really wasn't #morethanafriendly

RoryMac

Berserker wrote: »

Just back from it and it was woeful. Atmosphere was dreadful and booing GSTQ and Sterling was pathetic.



Did you see the game? It was awful. I have been to hundreds of football games all over the world and that was a very good candidate for the worst.

The booing of GSTQ didn't really come across on Setanta, was it widespread?

Hulk Hands

Just shows that nearly all levels of atmosphere are directly related to drink. We were the best fans in Poland because we were all constantly out of our tree. Stoke has a fiercer atmosphere than Arsenal because its a working class town with a drinking culture before matches, whereas the Emirates has a high % of middle class Londoners driving in for the game. If the game was on at 7pm it'd have been completely different. Probably as well that it wasn't. Next week is the big one

Hulk Hands

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Just shows that nearly all levels of atmosphere are directly related to drink. We were the best fans in Poland because we were all constantly out of our tree. Stoke has a fiercer atmosphere than Arsenal because its a working class town with a drinking culture before matches, whereas the Emirates has a high % of middle class Londoners driving in for the game. If the game was on at 7pm it'd have been completely different. Probably as well that it wasn't. Next week is the big one

Plenty of truth in that sadly

NIMAN

Some people need drink in them to sing songs and chant along.
Otherwise they get embarrassed and don't do it.

The_Kew_Tour

Next week is all that matters. Played well for about 65minutes, but next week determines if MON is good enough to be Irish manager or time for change.

keeponhurling

NufcNavan wrote: »

Ireland fans booing Sterling was extremely embarrassing. Some people need to get a life.

Who was booing Sterling, and why ?
Didn't quite get that

Irish or English fans ?

Dozen Wicked Words

keeponhurling wrote: »

Who was booing Sterling, and why ?
Didn't quite get that

Irish or English fans ?

Irish, presumably Liverpool fans upset over his desire to leave. That's the only reason I can think of.

keeponhurling

NIMAN wrote: »

Some people need drink in them to sing songs and chant along.
Otherwise they get embarrassed and don't do it.

maybe drink is a factor, but also fans respond to what they see.

If the match was competitive, or if the match was exciting, the atmosphere would have been better

Very few real chances in the whole match, for either side

keeponhurling

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Irish, presumably Liverpool fans upset over his desire to leave. That's the only reason I can think of.

Then that truly is sad
Can they not just be Irish fans for a day

blueser

brevity wrote: »

https://twitter.com/br_uk/status/607544882996092928

Painfully true, that. Why would he want to play for either Ireland or England? Neither of them are going to pull up any trees any time soon.

hidinginthebush

RoryMac wrote: »

The booing of GSTQ didn't really come across on Setanta, was it widespread?

Yep. During the anthems at the start it wasn't too bad, but when the English fans sang it during the game it was quite widely booed. Quite embarrassing. We were laughing to ourselves saying why people couldn't sing over them rather than boo them.

Highlights of the game were big jack at the start, and then English fans chanting about how sepp bought our stadium.

That_Guy

keeponhurling wrote: »

Then that truly is sad
Can they not just be Irish fans for a day

TimRiggins

Don't get all the negativity. England had a full strength team out and we have an experimental side with a diamond formation that probably won't be used when we play Scotland. We had a few chances to win the game, Murphy firing wide and O'Shea's header from a corner it could have been 1-0 and would have been a great result.

blueser

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

England are not a top team. Not anymore.

Haven't been a "top team" for a long time now; Italia '90, perhaps?

Left Back on the Bench

Berserker wrote:

Did you see the game? It was awful. I have been to hundreds of football games all over the world and that was a very good candidate for the worst.

Do you watch junior games or just the lucrative one's?

nice_guy80

TimRiggins wrote: »

Don't get all the negativity. England had a full strength team out and we have an experimental side with a diamond formation that probably won't be used when we play Scotland. We had a few chances to win the game, Murphy firing wide and O'Shea's header from a corner it could have been 1-0 and would have been a great result.

England did not have a full team out

Right Turn Clyde

RoryMac wrote: »

The booing of GSTQ didn't really come across on Setanta, was it widespread?

No, and the Irish fans were doing it with a smile on their face. I was near the English support and they could see we were only laughing and taking the piss. It was all good humoured.

padd b1975

blueser wrote: »

Haven't been a "top team" for a long time now; Italia '90, perhaps?

Should really have won Euro 96, pretty ordinary at the business end of tournaments since then.

extra gravy

RoryMac wrote: »

Not a chance, the ball swerved but that brought it back closer to Given, he should have stopped it.

:pac: The ball was travelling at 69mph, he probably didn't even see it going past him never mind be able to save it.

Nalz

Kinda weird what ad came up in the middle of this discussion - see attached

RoyalCelt

thelad95 wrote: »

I don't know what people expected tbh. It was a friendly and both sides treated it as such. The tickets were overpriced but that's simple Economics.

The match wasn't sold out so it's not simple economics. Next time we play England in a friendly a lot of people won't pay that money again for such an overhyped fixture.

Nalz

nice_guy80 wrote: »

England did not have a full team out

Who were they missing? Walcott, Baines, Welbeck and Sturridge are the only players I can think of that could have started if fit that didn't.

They had perfectly good enough replacements and you could argue that two of them wouldn't start anyways

obezyana

obezyana wrote: »

A boring 0-0 today followed by a win next week and no one will care how todays game went. And Ulster football is just as boring as the soccer match.........tune in for the Deise win over Cork later....now that will be entertainment

Ulster football is absolute dogsh*te. My point being that today's game almost made it look entertaining by contrast

Cantona's Collars

England fans today: "He paid for your ground,he paid for your ground,Sepp Blatter,he paid for your ground":pac::pac:

cson

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

England are not a top team. Not anymore.

Was gonna say; you'd love to get them as your #1 seed in a qualifying group. We'd actually have a chance of getting a couple of results.