[🦄 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 v 🇮🇪 Ireland 🍀 - 24th September]

Can't say i heard too much booing of the anthem or McClean from the away end to be honest.

On the game itself, disappointing result and we threw it away - i've never been convinced by Matt Doherty in an Ireland shirt and he let Christie breeze past him. Will be having nightmares about that Parrott 1-on-1 for a long time! On the whole happy with the performance from what is still a young squad, we could have won it on another day, and think we're going in the right direction. Best of luck against Ukraine 

[🦄 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 v 🇮🇪 Ireland 🍀 - 24th September]

3 hours ago, The Algebraist said:

You would presume and so do I, however this could be a verbatim quote from just about the whole fanbase before the last game. 

Watched most of the match last night by virtue of there being no other football whatsoever on the telly last night, very good performance from Scotland and we expect a tough game. I'm confident of us putting in a good performance so we'll see who edges it then.

Heading over for this one myself, haven't been to Glasgow since the 2014 game in Parkhead, looking forward to it!

[Ireland v scotland]

Dreading this - the Armenia game, we generally did dominate but they were happy to sit in deep against us and break, it worked, we lost. We looked good for 25 minutes against Ukraine and then they won it fairly handily.

 

Something drastic needs to change if we are to get anything from the match tomorrow because if we turn up like we did the last two games we'll take another beating.

[UEFA Nations League: Group B1]

23 hours ago, HuttonDressedAsLahm said:

It's a fairly open group.  Previously to February, Ukraine would likely have been favourites.  I suspect Scotland now probably edge that, if purely down to the uncertainty around the Ukraine squad and how well placed its players are for a UNL triple header in June, and again September.

It's difficult to gauge the strength of Ireland.  On one hand they lost to Luxembourg in March 2021, but then have lost once in 12 since then.  Then again, those games have all been against weak opposition with the exception of a second-string Belgium side and somewhat fortuitous draws against Serbia and Portugal.

They are going through a transitional phase, and likely on the climb back up.  Their team is experienced in defence, but has become almost entirely an English Championship side.  Somehow, they only now have three Premier League starters, with one being relegated with Burnley for next season.

I would fancy them for three points in Armenia, and put up a good account for themselves at home against both Ukraine and Scotland.  It's not incomprehensible that in a group like this, and with Scotland and Ukraine distracted, that they could make a decent shot at winning it.

My prediction would be Armenia 4th, and a relatively tight spread of points between the other three.  If going to form and strength, then ROI to finish 3rd.

Broadly accurate on us there. We're not too concerned with having less PL starters because our players in the PL were always the functional lads rather than the skill players since around the time Robbie Keane retired, and when your team is entirely made up of those you find it hard to do much of anything. 

The Luxembourg game was a real low point but the team has turned it around since then - and i would say our draw against Portugal was actually fairly unfortunate as we weren't threatened by them and had a goal ruled out very harshly (or to be frank, wrongly) at the death.

We're probably still 3-4 years away from this group's full potential - lads like Nathan Collins and Michael Obafemi are really starting to hit form in the English leagues, Bazunu looks like he'll be an absolute star, Knight should be a PL regular next year and they're all a long way before their peak. It's a young, exciting squad with their best years largely ahead of them and more good prospects in the underage groups, but it's probably fair to say we're not fully 'there' yet. We are very well coached and a very positive side at this point, Scotland and Ukraine are better than us on paper unquestionably, but there's a lot of optimism going into this set of games, we have a technically accomplished starting 11 with crisp passing and a lot of speed and the team has really got the fans on board again. We wouldn't expect to win the group, but we certainly wouldn't see it as unachievable.

[Ireland v scotland]

On 20/05/2022 at 10:31, John Lambies Doos said:

On 18/05/2022 at 11:53, Gordopolis said:

Dumb question maybe, but won't there be some form of Armenian and Irish live telly coverage?
 
ETA: see the nordic streaming thread for an update on this - looks like they will be on the telly after all 

Yes, RTE show all the Ireland games. You can stream this easy on the RTE player, just download a free VPN.

Don't - the RTÉ player is absolutely shite even without a VPN. You'd be better off finding a stream of RTÉ online which is fairly easily done