Friendly international being announced at 1pm

ringerbell wrote: LHurlz wrote: Sham157 wrote: valo88 wrote: An awful lot of people are failing to see this is just a marketing stunt by the FAI that seems to be working. <font size="7">IT IS NOT FREE! There has ALWAYS been 6 games on a season ticket. Last year they added an extra to bring it to 7 against Holland. Fair enough, great stuff from the FAI, praise where is praise is due etc.. But the current season ticket was reduced to 5 games AND prices upped without much complaint from anyone. The 'extra' game is now being dressed up as freebie. All this fair play FAI comments are doing my head in. maybe so, but we all bought the ST as a 5 game ticket. We now have an extra game. PR or whatever, its still an extra game and increased the value of the ST from what we all intially thought. What's the extra game? I thought it was gonna be the 3 WCQs, Oman+Iceland? Uruguay isn't free for ST holders is it? Nope the season ticket covered the 3 WCQS, a June friendly and the Oman game. The June friendly was confirmed as Uruguay few weeks back. The Iceland game announced today wasn't mentioned in the fixtures when we bought season ticket more was a March friendly so that makes Iceland the free game being included on the ST

Oh that's not too bad then, I was under the impression that Uruguay wasn't free because they never mentioned anything about ST holders when they announced it.  Or did they and I missed it?

LHurlz wrote: Sham157 wrote: valo88 wrote: An awful lot of people are failing to see this is just a marketing stunt by the FAI that seems to be working. <font size="7">IT IS NOT FREE! There has ALWAYS been 6 games on a season ticket. Last year they added an extra to bring it to 7 against Holland. Fair enough, great stuff from the FAI, praise where is praise is due etc.. But the current season ticket was reduced to 5 games AND prices upped without much complaint from anyone. The 'extra' game is now being dressed up as freebie. All this fair play FAI comments are doing my head in. maybe so, but we all bought the ST as a 5 game ticket. We now have an extra game. PR or whatever, its still an extra game and increased the value of the ST from what we all intially thought. What's the extra game? I thought it was gonna be the 3 WCQs, Oman+Iceland? Uruguay isn't free for ST holders is it?

Nope the season ticket covered the 3 WCQS, a June friendly and the Oman game. The June friendly was confirmed as Uruguay few weeks back.

The Iceland game announced today wasn't mentioned in the fixtures when we bought season ticket more was a March friendly so that makes Iceland the free game being included on the ST

Happy with this friendly vs Iceland

Trap junior wrote: Anyone else disappointed it's not Oman?

valo88 wrote: An awful lot of people are failing to see this is just a marketing stunt by the FAI that seems to be working. <font size="7">IT IS NOT FREE! There has ALWAYS been 6 games on a season ticket. Last year they added an extra to bring it to 7 against Holland. Fair enough, great stuff from the FAI, praise where is praise is due etc.. But the current season ticket was reduced to 5 games AND prices upped without much complaint from anyone. The 'extra' game is now being dressed up as freebie. All this fair play FAI comments are doing my head in.

Sanity has returned to the forum

Some moaning going on .

Mid week game and a chance to meet up with a few lads for pints . Watch a bit of ball and go home and throw the leg over the missus . What's not to like ?
In reality if we were to play Brazil .. how many superstars would they take with them to play us . Their best 11 would just about beat us so an under strength Brazilian team would be no match for us . Remember the Germans hammered them 7-1 and then the mighty Germans got a hiding off us .
I'm happy with the opposition and can see a decent crowd turning up to watch

Anyone else disappointed it's not Oman?

Newryrep wrote: I wonder on the Icelandic forum are they going 'bloody hell not Ireland and their sh*tty weather, overated bars'

EDIT: deleted. need to try be more positive.

Edited by eire77 - 21 Oct 2016 at 5:00pm

Darrener wrote: greenlad wrote: I can see them selling this as a dual ticket with the wales game to non st holders to try and get the tickets sales up for it. Not the most attractive fixture tbh but a step up from Oman. That would be a disgrace. Meaningless friendlies should never be coupled with competitive matches. If people want to go to friendlies fire away but don't let that discriminate and cost those that don't.

Seeing as you are a super part time fan you can have my ticket for Vienna and all the matches you want to pick and I'll just go to the others