Euro 2016 Playoffs

[tutankamun]

Watching the Bosnia v Ireland game, what a farce with the fog, why has it not been abandoned?

[RAZOR]

Good dra for Ireland.

[Redforever86]

Water Sweden vs Denmark last night, decent game. Second tie should be close and exciting hopefully.

[The Cockney Don]

In the past i would have cheered for almost anyone to beat the paddys, that "football rivalry" for me went out the window after i stopped following england 10 year ago.

Hope they get through, not a big fan of countries like bosnia and serbia anyway.

 

Have a feeling it could be a high scoring 2 - 2 draw though, unfortunately putting ireland out.

[Reed or deed]

I watched a bit of the Ireland game . Couldna see a fucking thing .

[The Boofon]

I watched a bit of the Ireland game . Couldna see a fucking thing .

 

 

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt with this one but read that again.

[Reed or deed]

 

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt with this one but read that again.

I did , i watched it. I watched the fog lol.

[Dynamo]

Are the tattie munchers playing tonight?

Reminds me of an old joke...

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman? None. Waaaay.

[The Boofon]

Are the tattie munchers playing tonight?

Reminds me of an old joke...

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman? None. Waaaay.

 

 

 

Hope they get knocked out.

[rumpus]

How do you confuse an Irishman?

 

Put him in a room full of shovels and tell him to take his pick.

 

Hope they get humped.

[RAZOR]

Hope Scotland win tonight

[tup]

Hear the one about the Irish footballer who scored a goal?

 

He missed in the action replay.

 

Come on Bosnia.

[dave_min]

Hear the one about the Irish footballer who scored a goal?

 

He missed in the action replay.

 

Come on Bosnia.

 

Would be funnier if they hadn't beaten us to the play-offs.

[tutankamun]

1-0 Ireland. extremely fortuitous penalty for hand ball.

[Bluto10]

Don't think it's a big deal if any of these playoff teams get through.

 

8 times out of ten they'll only suffer group game defeats.

 

It's Nae like euro92. Proper big game stuff.

[dave_min]

It's Nae like euro92. Proper big game stuff.

 

Did all the games KO at 3pm?

[The Oxford Don]

So we are literally the only home nation not to have made it.

 

Thank fuck the Isle of Man don't have a team.

[tutankamun]

So we are literally the only home nation not to have made it.

 

Thank fuck the Isle of Man don't have a team.

 

Ireland are not a home nation

[The Oxford Don]

Ireland are not a home nation

Pedant - they're a part of the British Isles so are a home nation in any meaningful sense.

[Sonoftherock]

Hopefully this finally puts to bed the ridiculous notion that we're too small/don't have the players to qualify for a finals series.

 

Plenty other small nations, with very limited player pools, have qualified for these Euros.

 

It's totally unacceptable that we won't be in France and it's just laughable that Strachan has been rewarded for this abject failure.

[tup]

Strachan out. Useless little ginger Celtic fuckwit.

[Dynamo]

"There's only one Gordon Strachan" sang the tartan army.

 

Thank fuck.

[Bluto10]

Hopefully this finally puts to bed the ridiculous notion that we're too small/don't have the players to qualify for a finals series.

 

Plenty other small nations, with very limited player pools, have qualified for these Euros.

 

It's totally unacceptable that we won't be in France and it's just laughable that Strachan has been rewarded for this abject failure.

Why is it a acceptable that we aren't there?

We aren't better than Germany. And we don't have a Lewandowski.

So we were always in a fight with the RoI for playoff place.

It's hard to argue that we a superior side to them.

 

But certainly the mgr wasn't able to inspire us to play above our level.

[dave_min]

Why is it a acceptable that we aren't there?

We aren't better than Germany. And we don't have a Lewandowski.

So we were always in a fight with the RoI for playoff place.

It's hard to argue that we a superior side to them.

 

But certainly the mgr wasn't able to inspire us to play above our level.

Idiot.

[Sonoftherock]

Idiot.

 

+1

[Jocky Balboa]

Hopefully this finally puts to bed the ridiculous notion that we're too small/don't have the players to qualify for a finals series.

 

Plenty other small nations, with very limited player pools, have qualified for these Euros.

 

It's totally unacceptable that we won't be in France and it's just laughable that Strachan has been rewarded for this abject failure.

 

As I said elsewhere (Gordon Strachan thread) there has been a very fine line between success and failure here. While I share your disgust at yet another failure to qualify, the cold hard fact is that we punched our weight with the players we have, in a VERY tight group. We are roughly at the level of RofI and Poland (worth noting we were UNBEATEN against them both in 4 games) and so the group would always be tight and punish any mistakes, as we found to our cost in Tbilisi.

 

The situation was not helped by Eire taking an incredible 4 points from the world champions, but ultimately, it came down to our blunder in ONE GAME. If not for that one dreadful result in Georgia, in a repeat of 2007's scenario, we would have comfortably made the play-offs and, very probably, have beaten Bosnia and qualified. What would people be saying about the manager then? Would the (albeit steady and incremental) improvements made under him compared to the last decade and a bit have been lauded, rather than discarded? Would people be calling for a change based on his mediocrity, or would the euphoria of qualification for the first time since 1998 have masked these shortcomings?

 

Look, I'm not happy with his team selections either (and Craig Brown's new article on young players is laughable and insulting, considering he was as guilty as Strachan and the SFA of not giving youth a chance) but who else can come in and do a better job? If someone shows me a better (realistic) candidate then I'll back calls for his appointment, but until then...

[The Oxford Don]

Time to bite the bullet and go for the Brendan Rodgers/Davie Moyes dream-team.

 

Strictly for the lolz, you understand.

[Redforever86]

Get Strachan to fuck, I'm sure out of the all the folk that apply there will be a candidate willing to give youth a chance.

 

Strachan isn't just away to fuck up the next qualifying campaign he's away to fuck up at least the next three.

 

You don't keep a bad employee in a job just because you haven't hired someone knew yet.