Ireland v Wales MATCH thread

Yeah I feel the same. Chance to bury Wales hopes and us to take a massive step to Russia and we blew it. McGeady should gave come on with minimum of 30mins left to play imo. Only the last 10 to 15 mins did we look threatening.

Edited by Trap junior - 25 Mar 2017 at 2:03am

At the end of the first half with the tackles from whelan and long you could see the welsh players getting more aggravated. It was obvious they were going to come out after half time with some tough challenges after the ref letting the irish players away. I thought it would be Long who would get clattered by one of the welsh back three. While its good to see a ref let the game flow if he starts letting elbows go unpunished the opposition will react with stronger challenges and unfortunately its has ended up with a broken leg. Im not excusing Taylor but I was not 100% shocked to see a bad challenge come in from a welsh player in the second half

Edited by Doyler1993 - 25 Mar 2017 at 2:45am

Wales and Austria going into the meat grinder soon but I can certainly tell you that if it comes down to ourselves or Serbia, Serbia will be finishing ahead of us most likely. Sorry but its de truth. 

Cabra Hoop wrote: Overall a draw was fair enough. We are very limited without Wes or Robbie....can't argue with effort or commitment. Thought Whelan had a decent game. As for the Welsh fans...embarrassing How English they are pouncing around in their stone island and retro casual gear. Simpletons....

Actually thought I could hear fake cockney accents for some of the chants... They booed Coleman coming off too.

lads  who was the irishman who gave away the ball  when ireland was all out attacking  and his idiotic touch allowed bale  to get away and  he almot curled  a winnner........can you say if it was  keogh or oshea ...

OnTheOneRoad wrote: Home now.....i think that when keano said we were 'mistaken' if we thought we were gonna play for the draw, it was him that was mistaken. From minute 1 to 90 we set about nullifying them. and we did. and it was relatively easy. but we created f**k all. i dunno, i presume a result such as this may prove valuable. but we were at home. i know they had a sort of last chance saloon feel to it, and its good they made no ground on us tonight, but the lack of ambition we showed was seriously disappointing. This group is there to be won. Serbia are terrible at the back and we have a 4 point advantage on the other incredibly ordinary teams.

Strazdas wrote: OnTheOneRoad wrote: Home now.....i think that when keano said we were 'mistaken' if we thought we were gonna play for the draw, it was him that was mistaken. From minute 1 to 90 we set about nullifying them. and we did. and it was relatively easy. but we created f**k all. i dunno, i presume a result such as this may prove valuable. but we were at home. i know they had a sort of last chance saloon feel to it, and its good they made no ground on us tonight, but the lack of ambition we showed was seriously disappointing. This group is there to be won. Serbia are terrible at the back and we have a 4 point advantage on the other incredibly ordinary teams. I don't think we played for a draw though. It's just that we were struggling to be creative or gain any sort of a foothold in the game. Wales had a lot of possession in the first half and looked comfortable on the ball. I'm not sure we were good enough to win that match to be honest (and Wales didn't do enough to win it either, a draw was a very fair result).

The tactic was nullify them and don't commit too much going forward. I think that is ok when it was 11 vs. 11 and wales were having the better of the game.
However, as soon as it went to 11 vs 10 mcgeady should have come on. I would have also thrown on Horgan for last 10.
Mcgeady coming on for last 10 and not using another attaching sub was a mistake.

He will probably point to the Bale chance as an example of what can happen if you go too attacking but that was all down to a silly mistake

Chris Colemans comments after the match were a f**king disgrace about how Ireland were no angels either