March Friendlies
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Topic: March Friendlies
Posted By: VanBosch
Subject: March Friendlies
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 12:05am
| there are two games in the March window which I assume we will use for Friendlies - any rumours on who we will play and do people expect an away game? |
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Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 12:24am
| Nations !eague draw is December so those date will likely be NL games. |
Posted By: VanBosch
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 12:45am
| nations league has 4 games in June and 2 in September. |
Posted By: Borussia
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 9:34am
| No friendlies will be finalised until after the NL draw |
Posted By: ConorMac77
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 10:03am
NL not starting till next June. March games will be World Cup play-offs and friendlies for those teams not involved in play-offs. ------------- The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!! |
Sham157 wrote:Posted By: lassassinblanc
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 10:14am
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Did hear that we do have the option of a home game against England as part of the deal to play them last November. So I'd say a Home game against them might be on the cards
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Posted By: Donegalman
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 10:17am
| Think we still have an away friendly against the Dutch from their 2016 game. Was talks of it around or before Covid. |
Posted By: lassassinblanc
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 10:21am
Yeah there was strong rumours we were going to play them in March 2020
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Posted By: TBWRA
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 11:16am
Please make it Happen  ------------- "The Football Grounds of Europe" about Dalymount that :- "You walk down lanes you'd expect to find a backstreet mechanic only to stumble onto a national stadium steeped in tradition and history" |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 11:37am
Bollix oops. For some reason, i completely forgot about playoffs
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Posted By: irishmufc
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 11:44am
Ah ffs no thanks. Another battering from them (in front of our own fans this time) is just what we need.
 ------------- Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been. |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2021 at 11:19am
Not something we have to worry about   ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2021 at 2:48pm
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Posted By: VanBosch
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 12:58pm
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Dan McDonnell reporting it will be two home Friendlies in March with at least one “big gun” like England or France in the mix. No Oman gags - please.
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Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 1:02pm
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Please not England. They may be turning over everyone but honestly can't ever remember more boring a team. Absolute Buzz Killingtons the lot of them. France be nice.
------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: The White Cafu
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 1:25pm
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no aways until June
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Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 1:39pm
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I am not sure but was it was the reverse of the England game when we played them over there that we would have a game in Lansdowne as part of the deal ? ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |
Posted By: wanderer
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 1:42pm
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Philip Quinn in the mail saying Italy were due to be the big team for the March friendlies but that because they failed to qualify directly that ended that. Expected to approach Belgium, Holland, Spain and England
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Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 1:44pm
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Hope to f**k it's not England. Will attract the gobsh*tes a la Portugal ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:01pm
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Bums in seats is the big thing here for the FAI. Which is fair enough I think ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:37pm
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any body but England , away games easier for me in June ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Artie Ziff
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 4:56pm
Exactly they will be keen to get 2 home full houses. Not such a good idea for seedings and morale if we lost both games. Maybe one top tier team game v someone around our level like Norway, North Macedonia etc ------------- It would damage this forums' reputation |
Posted By: VanBosch
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 5:13pm
Sell it as a double
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Posted By: irelandfan
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 6:01pm
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Reckon we would get 40k against anyone at the minute personally. ------------- I'm the gaffer whatever I say goes. |
Posted By: gspain
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 10:37am
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Italy would have been ideal particularly as by the current records they are considered our first ever opponent and indeed our second. They were also our opponents when we first started to use Lansdowne for bigger games (1971). I appreciate the 1927 game was also played there but Dalymount was our home after that even after Waterford started playing big games at Lansdowne. The Sky reporter in San Marino had stated England would have two home friendlies in March. That would almost certainly have come from the FA. I think a glamour friendly is needed to celebrate the centenary and it would certinly help sell season tickets. Hopefully we will play on different nights to the playoffs as well as they will make for great tv.
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Posted By: E2016
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 11:39am
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I had heard from somebody connected to the FAI that one of ours was going to be England at home, though Germany are trying to get England to come to Germany too and they will only do one away. |
Posted By: Trigboy 10
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 11:50am
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Posted By: Dalymount79
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 12:00pm
| I can’t see England playing away unless it’s in Dubai or somewhere ME against Brazil or Argentina. Their fans haven’t had an away day for a while so a trip to Dublin or Berlin would attract all sorts of knuckleheads. |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 12:01pm
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Italy at home would be class. European champions. Big crowd. As was said above though it will sell well regardless. Bigger the team the more they can charge though. And we need €€€! ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: ConorMac77
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 12:11pm
Problem there is that Italy will be in the play-offs so we can't play them. Can't get any of the South American teams either as they will be finishing their qualifying group. France or Spain would be good. ------------- The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!! |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 12:36pm
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it will be one of the teams that won their group. Belgium Spain France Germany Netherlands Denmark Croatia Switzerland Won’t be England or Serbia I don’t think. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 12:40pm
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Would like to see us play Spain or Belgium. ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 12:49pm
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Spain or Belgium be nice. Haven't played Spain in Dublin since 1993 if I'm not mistaken. 97 was the last time we played Belgium at home. Both overdue a visit ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: Dalymount79
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 12:50pm
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Posted By: gspain
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 2:41pm
We have played 4 home friendlies v England in the history of the FAI. Only 2 of those have been in the last 50 years and only one of them was completed.
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Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 3:09pm
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------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: horsebox
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 3:32pm
Why? We would be be well beaten - and if your your trying to blood new players in on top of that it would be even more difficult. I'd rather continue to play teams in around our level where we will be competitive. ------------- It was far across the sea, When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
Posted By: Trigboy 10
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 3:35pm
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Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 3:52pm
------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Bandwagon
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 4:05pm
We'll be doing that in the Nations League sure. We seem to play above ourselves when we play better opposition like Portugal and Serbia. Id like to avoid Belgium and Germany though, they do tend to hammer teams even in friendlies but Spain or France would be decent. Looking back at their campaigns for the most part they only won or lost games by a single goal against opposition of our caliber. Spain v Sweden 1-0 win, 2-1 loss. Spain v Greece 1-1 draw, 1-0 win. France v Ukraine 1-1 draw x2 France v Bosnia 1-0 win, 1-1 draw France v Finland 2-0 win x2 Croatia similar.
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 4:47pm
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Welcome Oman ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Lenny82
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 5:37pm
| Important Under 21 qualifiers in March so may leave a few lads out of the squad to play there. |
Posted By: Donegalman
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2021 at 5:58pm
| Give the fans what we want! An away friendly or we boycott the home one! |
Posted By: Charlton's Child
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2022 at 3:30pm
| Anyone heard anything ? |
Posted By: kevincronin2000
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2022 at 4:13pm
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id imagine staff only back this week, so hopefully we will here something next week. Also the possibility of crowd restrictions are to be reviewed by the end of the month but if the 5000 limit was still to be in place ( which I can't see happening myself) maybe we could play a game in England where there are no crowd restrictions. ------------- time is the stuff that life is made of, don't waste it. |
Posted By: EireDub
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 4:19pm
| England have announced two friendlies, one against the Swiss and the other one TBC. They’re both at Wembley |
Posted By: wanderer
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 6:20pm
Unless there's a complete 360 from the FAI, the TBC won't be us as they've been looking at 2 home games. They'd want to be making some sort of announcement soon along with season tickets
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Posted By: Dalymount79
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 6:47pm
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Posted By: Bandwagon
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 7:22pm
It already is, every other association outside of UEFA are playing qualifiers in the March window so it has to be teams from UEFA. Austria, Wales, Scotland, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Czech Rep, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Macedonia are all involved in World Cup playoffs so cant be them. (Unless we play a knocked out team on the 2nd date) We've Scotland, Ukraine and Armenia in the NL come June so wont be any of those 3. Estonia, Cyprus, Moldova and Kazakhstan will be playing Nations League playoffs so wont be them. Other friendlies already scheduled 24th Mar Hungary v Serbia 25th Mar Norway v Slovakia 26th Mar Netherlands v Denmark Germany v Israel Spain v Albania 29th Mar Denmark v Serbia Norway v Armenia Netherlands v Germany Spain v Iceland Northern Ireland v Hungary. Only "big names" left are really France, Belgium or Croatia if its not England. |
Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 7:45pm
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hope it’s France. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 9:05pm
Yeah that would be nice ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: colemanY2K
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 9:13pm
FTR Armenia have two home friendlies lined up in March against Montenegro and Norway. .
------------- "One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942. |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 9:49pm
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Belgium I'd say.
Forgot about the game in Euro 16  ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2022 at 9:51pm
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Italy were supposedly lined up until they made a bollox of their qualifying. Kenny apparently wants one or two games at the end of May before the NL. Wonder will they get them over then
------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: TBWRA
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 3:53pm
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https://www.msn.com/en-ie/sport/american-football/fai-struggling-to-set-up-aviva-stadium-glamour-tie-in-march-international-window/ar-AASTjqp?ocid=entnewsntp" rel="nofollow - FAI struggling to set up Aviva Stadium glamour tie in March international window (msn.com) ------------- "The Football Grounds of Europe" about Dalymount that :- "You walk down lanes you'd expect to find a backstreet mechanic only to stumble onto a national stadium steeped in tradition and history" |
Posted By: Donegalman
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 4:37pm
Looks like he read a few posts in this thread before putting the article together.
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 4:44pm
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anyone else think we have unfinished business with Oman? ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: VanBosch
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 5:12pm
They’d be better off playing away to those teams than at home I’d say. Although, we got a great crowd v Qatar but there was a novelty factor to being able to go to an Ireland game. Maybe Belgium want a home game - that could be an option too
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Posted By: Badgersboys9
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 7:17pm
Why's that?
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Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 7:39pm
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Feel good factor is there anyway so I think it will be a good crowd regardless But getting a bit sick of waiting, I need to book my days off ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: VanBosch
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 8:35pm
Was just thinking a low crowd might cost them money but maybe not if they got 25-30,000.
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Posted By: Lenny82
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 10:27pm
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Posted By: Hotlips_Hoolahan
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2022 at 10:31pm
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Ali Al-Habsi has a testimonial coming up in March? ------------- You know Spider, you're a f**kin' mumbling stuttering little f**k. You know that? |
Posted By: Artie Ziff
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 2:08am
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Is the March window any two games between these dates Thursday 24th and Wednesday 30th? ------------- It would damage this forums' reputation |
Posted By: colemanY2K
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 8:14am
------------- "One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942. |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 1:55pm
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Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 6:09pm
Hummmm could do with a Saturday night in Dublin  ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 6:51pm
Are these dates nailed down? Where'd you see this Sham? ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 6:53pm
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Sorry my mistake. Thought that was the game dates rather than the window ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: irishmufc
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 6:53pm
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edit: I see the playoff dates are the 24th & 29th of March. ------------- Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been. |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 6:56pm
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Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 7:56pm
Oh great! Where were they confirmed? Need to book time off and hotels! ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2022 at 8:28pm
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Posted By: lassassinblanc
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 9:49am
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Tough one alright I'd love to see us play say Malta and Kosovo one to hopefully gain some confidence another to tick of the list of teams we've played. But I get that neither would really attract the crowd the FAI would be looking for....though given how long matches were behind closed doors who knows. As people said Qatar drew a decent crowd
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Posted By: wanderer
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 10:43am
| Not England anyway, Ivory Coast is their 2nd game now |
Posted By: EireDub
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 11:47am
| Surely we can draw a decent crowd regardless, Qatar drew 25k and you could say that were in a better place now than we were then. |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 11:52am
Was never going to be England. Both their games are in Wembley and we only played them there in November 2020
------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: wanderer
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 1:49pm
Yeah it was never going to be them, had just seen a few people suggesting them as a possibility
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Posted By: Dalymount79
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 1:54pm
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Posted By: craiglen
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 2:09pm
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This is dragging out something fierce. Have we ever had to wait this long for a fixture announcement? ------------- Fan's game record: 5 Caps, 1 goal, 2 assists, 140 km covered |
Posted By: Fanny MaGee
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 4:53pm
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Hopefully they're working on France/Belgium/Croatia. According to the link below, which is always accurate and updated quite quickly, Belgium are free for the 1st match of the window and France and Croatia have no games announced yet. https://www.espn.com/soccer/fixtures/_/date/20220324/league/fifa.friendly" rel="nofollow - https://www.espn.com/soccer/fixtures/_/date/20220324/league/fifa.friendly ------------- Ask MaGee |
Posted By: Bandwagon
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 5:45pm
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I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they're planning for us to play a loser of a playoff semi final. Some big hitters in there like Italy, Portugal, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Turkey, Russia, Czech Rep etc.. that could potentially become available for our 2nd fixture. |
Posted By: VanBosch
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2022 at 11:46am
And wait until they lose the semi before announcing? Giving 3 days notice?
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Posted By: Cabra Hoop
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2022 at 11:49am
------------- " BFC always gives me a laugh........ " |
Posted By: wanderer
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 2:11pm
| Belgian media reporting they will be playing in Dublin on the 26th March |
Posted By: ColemanKillybegs123
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 2:17pm
Source? ------------- We're on the one road! |
Posted By: TBWRA
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 2:21pm
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Thats a great game to get , be amazed it it didnt sell out ------------- "The Football Grounds of Europe" about Dalymount that :- "You walk down lanes you'd expect to find a backstreet mechanic only to stumble onto a national stadium steeped in tradition and history" |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 2:25pm
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what are the march dates again ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: wanderer
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 2:26pm
https://twitter.com/WillDowningComm/status/1485977163333570564?s=20" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/WillDowningComm/status/1485977163333570564?s=20 As the report say's unlikely to include players with over 50 caps, that's just what Belgium seem to do for friendlies
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Posted By: ColemanKillybegs123
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 2:28pm
Thanks Mate, yeah they're due to play on the Monday also, possibly 2 different squads ------------- We're on the one road! |
Posted By: EireDub
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 3:29pm
| Lithuania on the 29th of March at home too |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 4:17pm
| locking this. Theres a thread in the correct section as both games are home. |