Justice is seen to be done.
Spoiling football for away fans is unforgivable.
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Justice is seen to be done.
Spoiling football for away fans is unforgivable.
Good
delicious.
Ive seen better football from my local pub team
I spare a thought for the ordinary good people of Ireland who do what all of us do - optimistically and enthusiastically support their country, but Martin O'Neil? .. :wave:
I am delighted the FAI have gotten their comeuppance tonight.
Great result.....love seeing the Irish lose
Didn't watch the game.... but now I want to :biggrin:
Feckin hell Niall Quinn even mentioned the loss of Robbie Keane. Hes about 40 isnt he.
Good
I really don't get the animosity towards Ireland. Why? Because they didn't roll over and let us win?
Because it was the most atrocious win imaginable. It was all hoofing it back and slicing clearances in to the crowd, they couldn't string 2 passes together and forgot that it wasn't a game of Gaelic football. If a team beats us (as most do) fairly and with decent football with gifted/organised technical players then I don't think anyone would begrudge them.
But that Irish side and performance were disgraceful and thankfully they were found out. Football was definitely the winner last night!
Taylor's tackle was a shocker though and he was recently red carded playing for Villa after another one. Taylor's displays since the Euros in a red shirt are a microcosm of the decline in some Welsh players in the last year and a half. Someone mentioned him, Ledley and King as examples of players who are not as effective in a Welsh shirt as they once were on my blog and, as it turned out, they were the three players I had in mind when I talked about how some of our players were not that old in years, but were well into the veteran stage in terms of the international football mileage they'd clocked up.
Throw in that decline with how average, by their standards, Bale and Ramsey were for too much of the qualifying campaign and we have Wales being nowhere near as good as they were in the Euros in a group which I thought was tougher than some in this thread portray it as being.
Before the Play Offs began, I spoke of the teams from both Northern and Southern Ireland being boring and how I hoped they'd both lose, but I ended up supporting Northern Ireland against Switzerland because in the second leg they played with a spirit, resilience and skill that Wales have lacked in the past year and a half - I don't think we could have dominated the Swiss on their own patch like the very impressive Michael O'Neill's side did in the last half an hour on Sunday.
As for the Republic, apparently Martin O'Neill bristled at suggestions that his luck had finally run out after their thrashing (a result that I certainly did not see coming) against Denmark, but I believe that to be true - the Republic are pretty good when they have something to defend normally, which is why I thought they had done the hard part when they were able to take an early lead last night. However, Denmark really laid their limitations bare in the same manner as the Republic did to us when they came here needing to win and managed it fairly comfortably - Ireland's embarrassing failure really puts where we stand currently into perspective.
Agreed. With those three back and fit, Davies etc plus the new youngsters, AND given a licence to play attacking football, then we will do well, through this weird UEFA league thingy.
I'm just not sure Coleman can take us any further but I also fear who else the FAW might be looking at...
The Wolves message board will be pissing themselves at this thread
Future looks good for Wales and another good Euro campaign I’d say should occur if everyone’s fit.
Didn’t expect Ireland to be thrashed, I was expecting a 1-0 to Denmark to be honest.
Must be getting older but I live with the disappointment easier these days. After the France play off I was raging for weeks. Pissed of with henry but more that Ireland should have finished off chances in the second half of that game.
Thats life, back to Le championship...
I liked them up until we played them
The number of comments on social media laughing at wales for not being a country even after they won. The worst winners I've ever seen
The "best fans in the world" myth grinds as well. They were average away supporters. Completely average.
But, I'm generalising massively and the majority of them are probably good eggs
Pleased Ireland didn't go to the world cup after their two performances against us. They were as cynical as I can remember, and they benefitted from some very weak refereeing, I don't think they would add anything to the tournament. Much rather see someone like Eriksen get to show what they can do on the world stage (or it'd be pretty funny if Cornelius scored a hat trick against Brazil). Ireland would only bring world class timewasting.
I won't hold a grudge for the next tournament though, they've had their just desserts, and that's it.
Exactly what I was thinking. Ever since they beat us, fair and square, it's been laughable the reaction towards them. Meyler was better than any Welsh player that night, and we created nothing. Taylor broke their best players leg in the first game between us, what did they do that was worse than that. They outsmarted us and Coleman flapped it not using the youngsters, who are clearly quicker and more effective than an unfit ledley and Dave Edwards etc
In the league this season to date - Cardiff have 26 yellow cards and 1 red card; Bristol City have 30 yellow cards and 1 red card.
http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-...pline/fairplay
The level of irony (and stupidity) in your post has really broken the scale.....!
She knows this is true. We destroyed Leeds with fast flowing passing, they got destroyed by the same Leeds team at home. I’d hazard a guess that we would have gone on to win if we’d had 11 men. Still, it must be unbelievable for those wurzels to see 3rd place. The dizzy heights, it might never get this good again.