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Curaçao qualified too. Fair play to them. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8369 - 19/11/2025 11:31:03 2645264 Link
Replying To peiledoir20: "Scotland had a similar frantic finish in their game last night - great to see them qualify after 28 years. If we don't qualify I'll be rowing in behind them given our close ties and mutual glee in seeing the English beat!" Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back. WeGoAgain (Donegal) - Posts: 112 - 19/11/2025 11:57:19 2645268 Link
Replying To peiledoir20: "Scotland had a similar frantic finish in their game last night - great to see them qualify after 28 years. If we don't qualify I'll be rowing in behind them given our close ties and mutual glee in seeing the English beat!" England defeats are getting fewer though, and farther between. They seem to be oozing with talent at the moment. Reaching two euro finals on the bounce is new territory for England. They've upped their level in the last 3-6 years imo. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4480 - 19/11/2025 12:59:40 2645276 Link
Replying To REDANDBLACK30: "It's a real farce that the North even have a shot of going to the World Cup by virtue of winning a group in Nations League 3. It is very unfair system that teams in League 2 will miss out on a play off because they didn't win a group containing much better teams. San Marino were next in line for a play off because they won a league in Nations League 4. It's definitely not a fair system. In the same campaign the Republic of Ireland would have to have won a group containing England to get a play off via this method. The Republic of Ireland stayed in League 2 but they would almost be better off getting relegated to League 3 to boost their chances of a play off going forward. Crazy system." Fully agree with you, imagine a 3rd Division team in the GAA qualifying for the final stages of the All Ireland football group stages by winning the Tailteann Cup. Poor. Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2480 - 19/11/2025 13:39:55 2645286 Link
Replying To WeGoAgain: "Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back." I'd agree with that. Hard to believe we beat them 3 0 a few years ago alalalalalum (USA) - Posts: 105 - 19/11/2025 13:43:02 2645290 Link
Replying To WeGoAgain: "Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back." Aye and the biggest bluffers going about how much they hate the English and all. They literally had a vote for their own independence but their own tightness wouldn't allow them to do it! Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 10138 - 19/11/2025 13:51:36 2645292 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Ah yes, the Grants rowed here in a corach 2500 years ago ;-)" Currach? ;) Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2599 - 19/11/2025 14:07:10 2645298 Link
Replying To WeGoAgain: "Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back." "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether" Brilliant! That gave me a good auld chuckle. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8369 - 19/11/2025 14:33:47 2645302 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "England defeats are getting fewer though, and farther between. They seem to be oozing with talent at the moment. Reaching two euro finals on the bounce is new territory for England. They've upped their level in the last 3-6 years imo." Tuchel is doing well with them. He's content to bruise a few egos and leave some,so called, superstars, unhappy on the bench. He doesn't want a team that picks itself and be over-reliant on Bellingham and Kane. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8369 - 19/11/2025 14:51:34 2645303 Link
Replying To WeGoAgain: "Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back." For all the Scots talk about hating the English when they had a chance to vote for their independence enough of them wouldn't take it, they thought they might be a few bob worse off and they were too scared to break the umbilical cord to London, I know big Celtic fans over there who wouldn't vote for Scottish independence yet they go around with tricolours and sing Ra songs and profess to hate all things English, total hypocrites imo. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3573 - 19/11/2025 15:11:08 2645312 Link
Replying To Bon: "Currach? ;)" Sorry Bon predictive text again! Some of our lads play for a soccer club called the Corach Ramblers, named after the local river :-D Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17564 - 19/11/2025 15:38:27 2645316 Link
Replying To Lockjaw: "Aye and the biggest bluffers going about how much they hate the English and all. They literally had a vote for their own independence but their own tightness wouldn't allow them to do it!" As a fella said to me- "They're all Braveheart until they see a polling station". streaker (Galway) - Posts: 567 - 19/11/2025 15:42:38 2645317 Link
Replying To streaker: "As a fella said to me- "They're all Braveheart until they see a polling station"." Isn't that their entire history in a sentence? Even going back to before they had a vote? They very rarely stood together against the English. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17564 - 19/11/2025 15:52:37 2645321 Link
Just a wild guess at tomorrow's World Cup Play Off Draw... Italy v North Macedonia Denmark v Sweden Turkey v Romania Ukraine v Northern Ireland Wales v Republic of Ireland Poland v Albania Slovakia v Kosovo Czech Republic v Bosnia Herzegovina. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2758 - 19/11/2025 16:06:05 2645326 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Sorry Bon predictive text again! Some of our lads play for a soccer club called the Corach Ramblers, named after the local river :-D" Im only winding you up Viking! :) Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2599 - 19/11/2025 16:35:28 2645329 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "England defeats are getting fewer though, and farther between. They seem to be oozing with talent at the moment. Reaching two euro finals on the bounce is new territory for England. They've upped their level in the last 3-6 years imo." They're very consistent now, but even in their recent good runs, they've had a fair bit of fortune with the draw and some results. They've generally lost whenever they came up against a good team. On their run in WC 2018, they lost twice to Belgium and then to Croatia. In Euro 2020 (2021), they ended up on the much softer side of the draw again, got Ukraine in the quarters, Denmark in the semi-final and a soft penalty to win that. In WC 2022, they were put out by France in the quarters. In the last Euros they were very fortunate to get past Slovakia in the round of 16, edged past the Swiss on penalties and probably played their best match in beating the Dutch after extra-time. Spain were too good for them in the final. They are generally beating the teams they should be beating, and that can get you a long way in tournament football. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2633 - 19/11/2025 16:46:26 2645331 Link
Replying To WanPintWin: "They're very consistent now, but even in their recent good runs, they've had a fair bit of fortune with the draw and some results. They've generally lost whenever they came up against a good team. On their run in WC 2018, they lost twice to Belgium and then to Croatia. In Euro 2020 (2021), they ended up on the much softer side of the draw again, got Ukraine in the quarters, Denmark in the semi-final and a soft penalty to win that. In WC 2022, they were put out by France in the quarters. In the last Euros they were very fortunate to get past Slovakia in the round of 16, edged past the Swiss on penalties and probably played their best match in beating the Dutch after extra-time. Spain were too good for them in the final. They are generally beating the teams they should be beating, and that can get you a long way in tournament football." Yeah they're definitely contenders, but I still wouldn't back them in a knockout games against a Spain or a France for example. If Harry Kane gets injured it'll be like a house of cards collapsing I reckon. They have a heap of class #10s but they can't all play. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 10138 - 19/11/2025 18:05:12 2645340 Link
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "For all the Scots talk about hating the English when they had a chance to vote for their independence enough of them wouldn't take it, they thought they might be a few bob worse off and they were too scared to break the umbilical cord to London, I know big Celtic fans over there who wouldn't vote for Scottish independence yet they go around with tricolours and sing Ra songs and profess to hate all things English, total hypocrites imo." Those from an Irish Catholic background were always traditionally Labour in Scotland. And although the SNP got a broader more friendly appeal in the recent past, I think there was a strong anti Catholic element to them years ago when they were a more marginal party. That meant a lot of Catholics of Irish background did not trust them and by extension maybe didn't trust what an independent Scotland would be like ruled by the SNP. The SNP have changed a lot but old fears die hard. FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 484 - 19/11/2025 18:22:05 2645342 Link
Replying To WanPintWin: "They're very consistent now, but even in their recent good runs, they've had a fair bit of fortune with the draw and some results. They've generally lost whenever they came up against a good team. On their run in WC 2018, they lost twice to Belgium and then to Croatia. In Euro 2020 (2021), they ended up on the much softer side of the draw again, got Ukraine in the quarters, Denmark in the semi-final and a soft penalty to win that. In WC 2022, they were put out by France in the quarters. In the last Euros they were very fortunate to get past Slovakia in the round of 16, edged past the Swiss on penalties and probably played their best match in beating the Dutch after extra-time. Spain were too good for them in the final. They are generally beating the teams they should be beating, and that can get you a long way in tournament football." Since 1990 they have a brutal World cup record. Every time they've played a big team in a knock out game they've lost. They made that semi final in 2018 purely because they got a very soft side of the draw. And sure as Keano said they were on about the final then before they had even won the semi :D FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 484 - 19/11/2025 18:40:14 2645344 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Isn't that their entire history in a sentence? Even going back to before they had a vote? They very rarely stood together against the English." I suppose our own history is similar, it was always the few who stood and fought the invaders, though if we had a chance to do it at the ballot box I have no doubt there'd be a massive vote in favour of reuniting Ireland. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3573 - 19/11/2025 19:14:44 2645348 Link