Euro 2016 Group C, Poland v Northern Ireland, 5pm

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What's to be said about this one? Northern Ireland will surely get schooled through the tournament. I'm going 5 - 0 to Poland. Lewandowski hatrick.

Mec27

Poland to win 3-0, first hammering of the tournament.

Harry Palmr

All eyes on Zielinski this afternoon.

Tomagotchye

Surprise draw. C'mon N.Ire! They're on good form coming into the tournament. Think teams will under estimate them and they will be frustrated.

Love to see Lafferty get a goal. The womanizing, wild irishman he apparently is according to his former Serie B club owner

Mr.Nice Guy

I think Poland will win but I don't think it will be a hammering. I'll go for a 2-0 victory.

hawkwind23

This will be an intense match , ill go with 2:1 to Northern Ireland

Gringo180

Should Spain not be up next considering there in Croatia and Turkeys group?

irishguitarlad

Gringo180 wrote: »

Should Spain not be up next considering there in Croatia and Turkeys group?

Tomorrow before us

SantryRed

Poland 8/11 to win. Completely overpriced for me.

Gringo180

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Tomorrow before us

Yeah I know that but its usually teams out of the same group play on the same day or one after another.

Cantstandsya

It's interesting where people's loyalties lie with this one.

A lot of us down south have Polish friends or work with Poles who've come over in the past few years. At the same time, with the thaw in relations and the, supposedly, better vibe and lack of sectarianism in Windsor Park these days a lot of southerners are shouting for the North.

After debating it in my head for a while I think I'll be hoping the Poles do it... but once the game kicks off I'll probably swing towards the underdog.

BoJack Horseman

Cantstandsya wrote: »

A lot of us down south have Polish friends or work with Poles who've come over in the past few years. At the same time, with the thaw in relations and the, supposedly, better vibe and lack of sectarianism in Windsor Park these days a lot of southerners are shouting for the North.

Can't vouch for the corkonians or Kerry folk, but here in the East we are looking forward to NI playing & hopefully doing well.

Johner

Poland will beat them easily. Northern Ireland will suffer the same fate as we did in Euro 2012, 3 comprehensive beatings.

martyos121

Great bunch of fans they are:

https://twitter.com/br_uk/status/741975349626568704

Catchiest football song I've heard in a long time, best of luck to them in the match too.

tinpib

Lewandowski is 6ft 4", didn't know that. The perfect player to stick on corner taking duty :pac:

Mr.Nice Guy

Cantstandsya wrote: »

It's interesting where people's loyalties lie with this one.

A lot of us down south have Polish friends or work with Poles who've come over in the past few years. At the same time, with the thaw in relations and the, supposedly, better vibe and lack of sectarianism in Windsor Park these days a lot of southerners are shouting for the North.

After debating it in my head for a while I think I'll be hoping the Poles do it... but once the game kicks off I'll probably swing towards the underdog.

The anthem they use bugs me. It's not credible to claim they want to make it inclusive for northern nationalists and cling to an anthem that they well know winds up a huge chunk of their community. So much for the shared society.

We had to bring in Ireland's call for the rugby and they haven't bothered to attempt to do similar. It's hard for me to warm to them with that being the case.

Having said that, I do like Michael O'Neill and some of their players. I guess I'll be conflicted to be honest.

Francie Barrett

I will be rooting for our closest neighbours, a lovely bunch of people who we have a great affinity with. Let's go Poland, beat the British!

irishguitarlad

Not going to bother watching this, actually this group is the group I am least interested in as a I dont really like all four teams.

Mec27

McShane looks like a generic German goalkeeper.

briany

Much as I don't think Ireland should take Sweden lightly, given the presence of Ibra, I don't think NI should be taking Poland likely, with the presence of Lewandowski. If either shows up on their respective day, it's trouble for their opponents.

Mr.Nice Guy

Line-ups (via The Guardian):

Poland: Szczesny, Piszczek, Glik, Pazdan, Jedrzejczyk, Blaszczykowski, Krychowiak, Maczynski, Kapustka, Milik, Lewandowski.

Northern Ireland: McGovern, McLaughlin, Cathcart, Jonny Evans, McAuley, McNair, Norwood, Davis, Baird, Ferguson, Lafferty.

GreNoLi

High scoring draw.

BoJack Horseman

GreNoLi wrote: »

High scoring draw.

6 or 7

Be specific

Toobz

Botched line ups on bbc

Hopefully lewandowski doesn't play act like he did against us

As good as he is, He's a divil for diving and feigning injury

ERG89

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Line-ups (via The Guardian):

Poland: Szczesny, Piszczek, Glik, Pazdan, Jedrzejczyk, Blaszczykowski, Krychowiak, Maczynski, Kapustka, Milik, Lewandowski.

Northern Ireland: McGovern, McLaughlin, Cathcart, Jonny Evans, McAuley, McNair, Norwood, Davis, Baird, Ferguson, Lafferty.

Hope Kerr does this match he'll really struggle with those Polish names

GreNoLi

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

6 or 7

Be specific

Tree tree.

GreNoLi

ERG89 wrote: »

Hope Kerr does this match he'll really struggle with those Polish names

Probably did a Polish course in preparation.

El Chapo

There won't be a drop of diesel laundered for a month if Norn Iron nick this.

Godot.

United Ireland XI

Randolph
Coleman - Cathcart - Evans - Brady
Walters - Davis - McCarthy - McGinn
Hoolahan
Long

duffman13

The NI keeper will be a busy man, hes not a great keeper either. Looks like they've picked 4 Center backs almost, id fancy Poland to top this group.

marno21

WILL GRIGGS ON...... the bench

Qiaonasen

German TV interviewing a man covered in loyalist tatooes while playing traditional Irish dancing music in the background. Also struggling with the pronunciations.

Cantstandsya

Qiaonasen wrote: »

German TV interviewing a man covered in loyalist tatooes while playing traditional irish dancing music in the background.

Interesting, just shows how parochial the rubbish here is.

Paully D

SantryRed wrote: »

Poland 8/11 to win. Completely overpriced for me.

Got them at 3/4 earlier. Couldn't believe it.

Pyjamarama

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Hopefully lewandowski doesn't play act like he did against us

As good as he is, He's a divil for diving and feigning injury

Literally every single player in world football does this now. The sooner people accept its part of the game now the better.

GreNoLi

Pyjamarama wrote: »

Literally every single player in world football does this now. The sooner people accept its part of the game now the better.

No they don't, Lewandoski is an expert proponent of the dark arts of being a muppet.

Pyjamarama

Pyjamarama wrote: »

Literally every single player in world football does this now. The sooner people accept its part of the game now the better.

Literally every single player?
Eh no
And people should accept it?
Eh definatly no

awec

Heart says we'll cause an upset, head says we'll lose but not badly.

GreNoLi

Stephen Alkin? BBC it is then.

Duff

G'wan, lads! Ye wee Fcukers!

Mec27

Go save the queen, ****ing lol

Toobz

Why can't will griggs on fire just be the anthem?

Mantis Toboggan

Mec27 wrote: »

Go save the queen, ****ing lol

Hope Poland stuff them

murpho999

Hard to watch NI with that anthem.

No wonder every foreigner I meet thinks Ireland is the same as Britain!

The Talking Bread

Nothing political but its odd Scotland and Wales have their own anthem whilst North haven't adapted one yet? Any reason?

RobertKK

Wales and Scotland have their own anthem, NI still singing that God needs to save the Queen.

martyos121

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Literally every single player?
Eh no
And people should accept it?
Eh definatly no

I'm not saying I condone it either, but just look at Spanish football. They carry on like that and they win everything. Of course there are some quality teams over there but it's no coincidence.

A Primal Nut

Mec27 wrote: »

Go save the queen, ****ing lol

You could separate the Nationalists from the Protestants by who was singing it! No wonder so many Northern Irish players declare for the republic.

What did they do when England played Northern Ireland in a qualifier a while back? Did they just play God Save the Queen twice?

The Talking Bread

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Hope Poland stuff them

here we go................................. Big Polish fan, I assume....

Mec27

RobertKK wrote: »

Wales and Scotland have their own anthem, NI still singing that God needs to save the Queen.

Well they are proud to be British.