So to qualify for Rio...

sdanseo

Working this one out in my head.

We need:

• Austria to beat Sweden by as few goals as possible.
• Faroe Islands to beat Austria.
• Germany to Beat Sweden
• Ireland to beat Germany
• Ireland to Beat Kazakhstan
• Ireland to beat Austria and Sweden on goal difference (currently Ireland +0 Sweden +6 Austria +8), meaning at the bare minimum, we need to score 9 goals more than we concede in the next two games.

It's a bit of a long shot. Worth €1 at 1,000 to 1? :cool:

NIMAN

Let it go, ain't going to happen.:(

But as some old farts used to say, its a funny old game.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

You're only getting 1000 to 1 on it? Poor odds.

sdanseo

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

You're only getting 1000 to 1 on it? Poor odds.

I was guessing, but it turns out Paddy is a bit more confident :P

ArmaniJeanss

sdeire wrote: »

Working this one out in my head.

We need:

• Austria to beat Sweden by as few goals as possible.
• Faroe Islands to beat Austria.
• Germany to Beat Sweden
• Ireland to beat Germany
• Ireland to Beat Kazakstan
• Ireland to beat Austria and Sweden on goal difference (currently Ireland +0 Sweden +6 Austria +8), meaning at the bare minimum, we need to score 9 goals more than we concede in the next two games.

It's a bit of a long shot. Worth €1 at 1,000 to 1? :cool:

Could also add

[*] Need to avoid being overall 9th best runner-up who would miss playoff.

[*] Need to win play-off against higher seeded team.

DerekDGoldfish

I think the only way we qualify is if Sweden and Austria go to war, as do one or two other counties in 2nd place in other groups so we don't end up as the worst second place team.

There has got to be a load of confiscated IRA semtex somewhere we can use to start a few wars

roanoke

I think if you just write the "must happen" results down as simple 1-0's ....

(ie 11Oct Sweden 0-1 Austria, Germany 0-1 Ireland ; 15Oct = Sweden 0-1 Germany , Faroes 1-0 Austria )

.... then Ireland are left having to beat Kazakhstan 8-0 on the final day.

So there you go. We only need four unlikely match results to occur (in a row) and to then follow that up by achieving our joint-ever biggest victory in a international match in order to have a chance of still being in the mix .... for a play-off game.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Jesus only 150/1 . PP taking the piss a bit there. There's a better chance of the Kildare GAA team winning the Champions League.

dan1895

Waste of a euro. Better spent on a euro saver burger.

Moneymaker

sdanseo

roanoke wrote: »

I think if you just write the "must happen" results down as simple 1-0's ....

(ie 11Oct Sweden 0-1 Austria, Germany 0-1 Ireland ; 15Oct = Sweden 0-1 Germany , Faroes 1-0 Austria )

.... then Ireland are left having to beat Kazakhstan 8-0 on the final day.

So there you go. We only need four unlikely match results to occur (in a row) and to then follow that up by achieving our joint-ever biggest victory in a international match in order to have a chance of still being in the mix .... for a play-off game.

The only two things there that are totally off the rails are Faroes beating Austria (or anyone for that matter) and the 8-0. We're capable of beating Germany, even if it is tremendously unlikely.

As for all six things happening in a row... Yeah, we need to start planning for 2016. World cup simply isn't happening.

NIMAN

Just read that Germany need 2pts from 2 games to qualify.

Now, I am guessing they just might be thinking "that game in Sweden might be a toughie", and could possibly be a null points for them.

If so, they need to get the 2pts versus us, and they will. Easily.

DubDani

Taking the GD in consideration 1 point will be enough for Germany. I doubt Sweden will be able to make a 15 goal difference up in the 2 games against Germany and Austria.

Saying that, considering the players Germany is missing there might be a small chance for an upset. Mario Gomez, Miroslav Klose, Ilkay Gündogan, Marcel Schmelzer, Lukas Podolski, Lars Bender, Sven Bender and Marco Reuss are all out. You probably can add Goetze to the list, as he will be playing for 20 minutes at most.

kevpants

Unless a group of us can foster some form of apartheid, resulting in an international boycott in at least 3 of our group members we're goosed.

We know the Germans and Austrians might be up for it but there's no way you'll get the Swedes to play along. Tolerant ba5tards!

major bill

1 thing though

we don't play the Faroes again!!!

sdanseo

major bill wrote: »

1 thing though

we don't play the Faroes again!!!

whoops, duly edited. Meant Kazakhstan

Boskowski

DubDani wrote: »

Taking the GD in consideration 1 point will be enough for Germany. I doubt Sweden will be able to make a 15 goal difference up in the 2 games against Germany and Austria.

Saying that, considering the players Germany is missing there might be a small chance for an upset. Mario Gomez, Miroslav Klose, Ilkay Gündogan, Marcel Schmelzer, Lukas Podolski, Lars Bender, Sven Bender and Marco Reuss are all out. You probably can add Goetze to the list, as he will be playing for 20 minutes at most.

I'd say something like this is very possible

Starting:
Neuer
Lahm Mertesacker Hummels Jannssen
Khedira
Schweinsteiger Kroos
Mueller Oezil Draxler

Options
Boateng, Westermann, Goetze, Schuerrle, Kruse, Kiessling

klose

DubDani wrote: »

Taking the GD in consideration 1 point will be enough for Germany. I doubt Sweden will be able to make a 15 goal difference up in the 2 games against Germany and Austria.

Saying that, considering the players Germany is missing there might be a small chance for an upset. Mario Gomez, Miroslav Klose, Ilkay Gündogan, Marcel Schmelzer, Lukas Podolski, Lars Bender, Sven Bender and Marco Reuss are all out. You probably can add Goetze to the list, as he will be playing for 20 minutes at most.

Loew has only chosen one striker, kruse whos fairly untested and he still wont pick kiessling over their little feud.

Their midfield and attack will probably be something like this

---

Khedeira-schweinsteiger
Muller--kroos/ozil--draxler

---

kruse


Hopefully it wont be as ugly as it was in dublin...

electrobanana

Maybe if we ask them nicely this time they might let us be the 33rd team.

Boskowski

electrobanana wrote: »

Maybe if we ask them nicely this time they might let us be the 33rd team.

No need for that kind of bitterness. Let go man, let it go...

Guy:Incognito

Rio 2016 maybe.......

Captain Havoc

sdeire wrote: »

Working this one out in my head.

We need:

• Austria to beat Sweden by as few goals as possible.
• Faroe Islands to beat Austria.
• Germany to Beat Sweden
• Ireland to beat Germany
• Ireland to Beat Kazakhstan
• Ireland to beat Austria and Sweden on goal difference (currently Ireland +0 Sweden +6 Austria +8), meaning at the bare minimum, we need to score 9 goals more than we concede in the next two games.

It's a bit of a long shot. Worth €1 at 1,000 to 1? :cool:

I'd say you're a glass-half-full kinda guy

Oranage2

So does anyone know what we need to do now to qualify?

Mint Sauce

Oranage2 wrote: »

So does anyone know what we need to do now to qualify?

We hammer Kazakhstan, and Austria lose to The Faroes.























































And Germany and Sweden get disqualified for betting irregularities.

Kerrigooney

Oranage2 wrote: »

So does anyone know what we need to do now to qualify?

Ask UEFA to change the rules to suit us. Wouldn't be the first time.

Mint Sauce

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Ask UEFA to change the rules to suit us. Wouldn't be the first time.

But we had good grounds to complain that time.

:P

roanoke

Oranage2 wrote: »

So does anyone know what we need to do now to qualify?

We need to ask FIFA if we can be the 55th team at the World Cup.

roanoke

roanoke wrote: »

We need to ask FIFA if we can be the 55th team at the World Cup.

There's 54 teams next year? It's gonna be a long one!