[QUOTE=âThe Selfish Giant, post: 1158837, member: 80â]The YBIG traitors think Sid is gas
http://www.ybig.ie/forum/new-campaign-new-songs-needed_topic48453_page21.html[/QUOTE]
How twee.
Whoever wrote those songs is bang on the money. Splendid wordsmithing.
Sid
You must have a helluva lot of free time !!!
Sid, while you clearly have serious issues which all of us here hope you address, I did giggle at Hey John Delaney.
Iâm comfortable with those issues.
[QUOTE=âThe Selfish Giant, post: 1158837, member: 80â]The YBIG traitors think Sid is gas
http://www.ybig.ie/forum/new-campaign-new-songs-needed_topic48453_page21.html[/QUOTE]
That Sid Waddell is one sad bastard. :oops:
Seems like a bigger loser than his TFK namesake.
The wonderful moment post-match yesterday when an emotional PJ welcomed @Rocko back to The 51 after his long illness related absence. Two of my favourite people in the world right there:
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Bandage
Did you drink 2 gallons yesterday .
I sure wouldnât want to be sid waddell right now, whoever he is.
[QUOTE=âRocko, post: 1158650, member: 1â]Well that was hopeless.
Havenât read most of this thread yet but Iâll start by laying into Coleman. He was disgraceful. Cowardly on the ball and hopelessly inept when he eventually got his crosses in. And thatâs been about his usual standard in an Irish shirt.
The defending for their goal looked atrocious. Stood off them and then Given and OâShea reacted like pensioners. Not sure if Brady had any culpability (havenât seen it properly since: it came from his side but he canât be responsible for everything inside) but he was our only competent player in the back 5 all game. His set pieces were terrific.
Our defence decided to take a breather for the last 10 minutes bizarrely. They were pathetic on the ball all game, taking no responsibility. But they took that to new depths near the end with nobody even prepared to launch a long ball forward. Everything went lateral, slowly, before being stroked carefully back to Given who insisted on taking a half dozen little shuffle taps of the ball for some reason before launching a mighty hoof up field that would usually fall short of the halfway line.
Whelan and McCarthy had their usual competition to see who could be more ineffective in the middle. I think maybe McCarthy shaded it for his imaginatively unambitious range of passing. Hendrick was slightly better in being a minor threat going forward but he was quiet for long spells. Hoolahan showed well when he was on and at least looked interested in trying to unlock their defence - but it says much when his absence later was lamented given the sum total of his effective contributions amounted to very little.
Walters had a poor game, and heâs had a few of them in this campaign now. He wasnât particularly effective in the air, looked a bit unsure about how wide he should play and the end result was that we were far too narrow. The absence of McGeady hurt us in that respect but we shouldnât have needed to wait for the introduction of McClean for someone to recognise the space out on the flanks.
Murphy battled away trying to make something of aimless punts forward but thought he had tired long before he was withdrawn. Or maybe he was just acting to instructions but he wouldnât show down the flanks in the second half when there was plenty of space there (until just before he came off when he robbed one on our left flank)âŚ
All in all it wasnât a very convincing performance at all. We donât have a great squad of players but we donât look as organised as we did under Trap. His team was extremely predictable but at least it appeared to have a strategy that was easy to predict. We seemed unprepared for the absence of McGeady, playing Murphy up front and causing them problems from crosses but playing nobody about wide. Again, maybe weâd have been an awful lot better if Coleman hadnât been rotten but it was hard to see how we intended to work situations to put crosses into the box, other than Bradyâs corners and Coleman occasionally going far enough forward to put a ball into the stand.
Finally, it is to my eternal shame that I wasnât ejected from the stadium last night. I hurled every ounce of vitriolic abuse I could think of at Naismith, unfortunately it wasnât enough to earn more than a talking to from a steward.[/QUOTE]
Agree with most of that. It was a great atmosphere in the first half-shame they scored when they did. We had zero urgency in the last 10 minutes which was bizarre. McCarthy is a coward and rarely showed for the ball. Thought Hoolohan, Brady and Wilson were our better players. Colemanâs final ball was an embarrassment. It was fucking sickening listening to those skirt-wearing cunts after the game and there were several unpleasant exchanges between myself and some of their drunken hordes in Dublin 4 most of which were started when one of these cunts roared in my face and I responded with yes or no you cowardly cunt. I drank 6 cans of Cobra, 5 pint bottles of Bulmers, 4 or 5 gin and tonics and most of a bottle of red wine. I also got told to calm down a couple of times by a man behind me for roaring sectarian abuse at Naismith when he went down easy for about the 5th time and then again when he squared up to McLean.
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Faroe Islands are up to pot four for the WC 2018 Qualifiers as things stand.
Wales are currently in Pot 1 with Italy in Pot 2.
o_O
Greece in pot 3 despite losing to Faroes twice
I believe they work off the last three qualifying campaigns.
Italy are unbeaten in 45 qualifying games.