That may the the case if your knowledge and experience of Ireland goes back little further than the qualifiers for WC '02 or Euro 2000. (And let me repeat once again, I started this thread NOT to talk about the 'any given day' scenario. On 'any given day,' Ireland can beat Italy, draw with Lichtenstein or lose to Macedonia. I really don't care about those one-off results as they tell very little about the capabilities of the team. I started this thread to talk about whom the team can consistently expect to beat.)
Really? I may not have been around during those times that you speak of, but I have read about them and tried to understand what was going on. Sorry I don't have the esteemed knowledge that you have about Ireland, but I am only 16. So please tell me, because I obviously don't have any knowledge past past Euro 2000 and WC 2002 when was Ireland not an "any given day" team?
The answer to that is Ireland, if they keep trying to sit on a one goal lead like Kerr has been doing.
Though the pressure is on, you will previal. Ireland, the Suerte of the Ecuadorians is with you. https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131427&page=21&pp=15
Crossing was abysmal and he missed an open goal from 3 yards. Relatively decent maybe, in reality, pish.
No, that was the point I was making. I would say that Ireland are a better team but I would certainly not expect to be beaten "everytime" we played them. In fact, if we were to play now, especially at Hampden, I'd be fairly confident of not losing.
Although Belarus have got a £10 million player who has just signed for Arsenal. Not such an easy place to go to these days. Moldova was just classic B*rti, hopefully those days are behind us now. The regular embarrasing results were too much! I reckon right now Ireland would beat Scotland about 5 out of 10 times, drawing 3 or 4 times as well though in that. Ireland have a very strong squad at the moment...it won't last forever though, never does with countries our size.
Amazing how down everyone is...... I think ireland is one of the most dangerous teams in the world. I am sure most teams would rather face germany,portu,spain, rather than this irish team. You kicked out Holland from the '02 WC qualifiers and you went far in the WC without Roy Keane. You tied in paris,,,,, the french play a 4-5-1 or 5-4-1 ,,, maybe it would keep them 0-0 in paris but not in dublin,,,, in a national stadium. The Swiss tied you 1-1,,,, they lucked out,,,,, I am sure after that and the past euro game,, ireland will come out with a thirst for goals. I don't know how that china friendly went,,,,but the chinese are known to find ways of screwing everyone over. Israel on the other hand,, prepared for Ireland and got some luck thrown there way too..... they did the same against france and the swiss. If ireland played brasil...........I'd put my money on ireland..... in a heart beat.
lol..... I hope brasil face ireland in the WC....... so you can see ireland win. I am not a brasil fan and I know if anyone can kick their butts it's ireland and Roy Keane.
If they are, it's very marginal. And you couldn't beat them once. On that evidence alone, I doubt you could beat Scotland 9 from 10. We are 'bouncing ' back, we haven't 'bounced' back yet. After Berti, a lump of shite as manager would have us going in the right direction.
Oh dear, care to look up the last game between Scotland and Moldova, I think you'll find we won. Are all bets back on?
We didn't beat Belarus in Minsk, I suspect we'd be in good company on that one. Belarus are better than Israel.
You're obvoiulsy just a football illiterate Plastic Paddy Yank, I'm going to stop bothering about what you say.