Rep of Ireland (1) vs Bosnia (1), Euro qualifier playoff 2nd leg

Alf Veedersane

homerjay2005 wrote: »

what ever about the Dutch, are you honestly comparing us to 3 of the biggest nations in the world with resources and facilities that we can only dream of?

they have 260 million people between them ffs, millions of people attending their local leagues every year and are 3 countries who have been awarded the world cup. above all else, as i have already said football is the number 1 game in their country and the number of people playing football in each is bigger than our full population put together.

people need to get real.

The numbers of people playing football isn't huge in comparison with every other sport in those countries.

That was the point.

The notion that Ireland has a huge level of competition with other sports and no one else does is a bit blinkered and irrelevant.

We achieved something great! That's far more important. We don't need to qualify our achievements-they speak for themselves.

Let's just enjoy that, eh

PTH2009

how come we always got england back in the 1980's early 90's. We drew them in Euro 88, Italia 90 and the Euro 92 qualifers and since then we only played them 3 times (1995,2013& 2015).

Anyway would love a group of England, Ukraine, Slovakia and us but knowing our luck in draws with will be Germany,Italy, Poland and us.

Speak Now

PTH2009 wrote: »

how come we always got england back in the 1980's early 90's. We drew them in Euro 88, Italia 90 and the Euro 92 qualifers and since then we only played them 3 times (1995,2013& 2015).

Anyway would love a group of England, Ukraine, Slovakia and us but knowing our luck in draws with will be Germany,Italy, Poland and us.

We drew the Dutch even more than England and lately we can't shake off Georgia

Iused2likebusts

PTH2009 wrote: »

how come we always got england back in the 1980's early 90's. We drew them in Euro 88, Italia 90 and the Euro 92 qualifers and since then we only played them 3 times (1995,2013& 2015).

Anyway would love a group of England, Ukraine, Slovakia and us but knowing our luck in draws with will be Germany,Italy, Poland and us.

England haven't beaten us since a friendly in 1985. I'd love to draw them as top seeds. I'd be fairly confident of atleast a draw against them.

homerjay2005

PTH2009 wrote: »

how come we always got england back in the 1980's early 90's. We drew them in Euro 88, Italia 90 and the Euro 92 qualifers and since then we only played them 3 times (1995,2013& 2015).

Anyway would love a group of England, Ukraine, Slovakia and us but knowing our luck in draws with will be Germany,Italy, Poland and us.

back then, competitions were smaller (only 8 teams in euro 88 for example) and the qualification groups were also less - only 32 teams qualifying as opposed to ~54 now, so the odds were much better,

eire4

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

England haven't beaten us since a friendly in 1985. I'd love to draw them as top seeds. I'd be fairly confident of atleast a draw against them.

Of all the pot 1 seeds I think England would represent our best shot at getting a result in the game.