New thread as the last thread seems to be broken.
Sorry but they are not remotely comparable. There are about 10-12 nations who take rugby seriously. There are 6 teams in the European championship you are talking about, and no qualifying. Despite supposedly being the best team in the world at times, they have never got beyond a WC quarter final, again something they pretty much quality for by default. Now compare the level of competition to football…
He’s limited, but he’s an out ball in a game like that with his pace and power he can get us up the pitch. Not many in the squad you can say that about
'We are no better then rugby lads now happy with this "moral victory'
The rugby lads have been European champions 3 out of the last 8 years, 2018, 2023, 2024. Beating world powers like New Zealand, France, South Africa and England regularly. We should never demean another national sport.
Football in Ireland needs a major overhaul. Pulling down rugby for losing to one of the top 2 sides in a WC finals achieves nothing and is petty.
The few times he did cross he overhit it.
He is a very one trick pony player who Portugal had in their pocket.
See FAI showing pictures of penalty safe.
We are no better then rugby lads now happy with this "moral victory"
We lost and not only lost were absolutely pathetic going forward and could not string 2 passes together when under any pressure.
But hey we saved a penalty, life's good. Its pathetic.
It should been 3 or 4 only for open goal miss and actually felt Portugal were well below average.
We will struggle Tuesday
A terrible call I felt. Clearly hit O'Shea in the chest.
Mam, what are you doing on here?
I'm delighted for the update on your unbelievably exciting life.
P.s. I played county😅 I won't be here on Tuesday, I'll be working.
Looking at the ridiculous penalty decision once more, refs and VAR officials should not be permitted to take viagra when reffing a Portugal game.
I don't mind Ronaldo, but the fawning over him from officials is ridiculous.
If the penalty was the other way around, would it have been given?
If they can do what we didn’t and win in Yerevan then they’ve earned second place, good luck to them.
very surprised by the performance last night. For me Ebosele was man of the match. its just a pity there was no one to cross the ball to when he tried. we really need to find strikers, ferguson isnt it, total passenger last night, for a big lad he is way too easily pushed off the ball. id rather have had callum robinson playing last night.
I just don’t understand why Ireland can’t find some good players when there’s so much interest in soccer , sure isn’t there loads of money spent in the game.
I actually logged off as believe it or not I'm off now to my club to bring my team out. Last year in management in the DDSL.10 years with my team. Brought from academy level. I'm looking forward to retirement 😀
Well aware an intercounty match is 35 minutes
Club matches is what I was talking about.
I'm guessing everyone who was posting last night on the Irish match never played an intercounty match in their lives
Will catch up with you on Tuesday 😆
Im just so tired of investing time into Irish football. Basically watching a team who have finished in the relegation zone every season for the last 10 years.
Last night was an excellent defensive performance, so well organised and gritty. I was very pleased with it. Actually thought we passed the ball really nicely in spells without ever actually looking threatening but it really helped to take the pressure off at times. Added to this we had a ref who clearly wanted to get Ronaldo’s jersey afterwards and it makes the performance all the more commendable.
People saying we were crap because they had all the ball and the shots etc is a ridiculously harsh rhetoric. Of course they had all the ball and the shots, look at the players they have, absolutely top class players in every position and the greatest goal scorer of all time up front.
If a team at our level gets a result against a team of their level it will take a heroic defensive effort and that’s what we got last night just we couldn’t quite hold out. And to be fair outside of the penalty which was a joke their goal was about their only clear cut chance outside of Silvas miss.
Now having said that in ways those sort of games are almost easier for us than Tuesdays will be against a similar level opponent when we need to force the issue and win the game. Last night we had to defend deep and be really organised and gritty and that suits us. Nathan Collins being a perfect example. Outstanding last night in that set up but looked dreadful in Yerevan when he had to play much higher up the pitch and defend much larger spaces.
But hopefully we get the job done Tuesday and it keeps our faint hopes alive.
Im calling bs on a couple of those...Trump win yes, a terrorist attack on America maybe but how would you have known about Gavin unless you had inside information 🤔
Maybe but he done so well on the peno save. Cant sly him for it, its either or.
We may need old VAR😅
I told lads down the pub.
Fair play😊 Have you proof though, I've old boards posts😀
I predicted Trump being elected, 9/11, the crash, Jim Gavin's fall from grace, the McConnaissance and numerous Rose of Tralees.
I hope you're right.
No. It's much deeper than that😉
We'll scrape a win against Armenia.
It's do or die so I hope the players play like that.
If Portugal beat Hungary by 2 or 3 goals, it'll give us hope going into the last game.
A moment of self indulgence?
They're really not.
They're an average 2nd tier European country.
We're 3rd tier unfortunately though.
Predictions went right for me tonight. I think Tuesday with Armenia will be 1-1.
It's being a good year of sports predictions for me, and I'm not a betting man! Picked Tipp for the hurling All Ireland in April. And Argentina to beat The All Blacks in August. Just said I'd say that.
It could perhaps be rephrased as "Their performances aren't much better than Irelands". Because they're not. Were lucky to leave Dublin with a draw, did well in attack against Portugal but on the other side they were torn asunder over and over again to concede 3 at home, and today were very unconvincing at home against Armenia.
They've a squad - and especially a few great players - to play good stuff, but they've not been doing the business on the field for a while. Even beyond this campaign, they got smashed 6-1 by Turkey in their nations league playoff tie, and got smashed by both Germany and Holland in their NL campaign away ties (conceding 9 between those two games). So in reality, on grass, they're not to be feared right now.
Hungary are miles better than Ireland and have been capable of playing good sides for several years now. Genuinely stupid to say Hungary aren’t much better than Ireland
