FAI...New Manager Hunt continues

[Denn Forever]

Tough group.  Fun game for management team against Italy.

[AQMP]

Ole, Ole, Oh shit, Oh shit...

[Mayo4Sam]

Spain are the best team in the world and Croatia are savage. Also Italy could be a different team next summer, they never do too badly in major tournaments

[brokencrossbar1]

Spain will beat all 3 so it will be down to how the games go against each other.  Reckon that both teams are very beatable and would not fear them.

[Capt Pat]

Spain are the best team in the world and Croatia are savage. Also Italy could be a different team next summer, they never do too badly in major tournaments

What happened in the last major tournament for Italy?

[BennyCake]

Damn! I wanted England!

Italy are no big shakes. Neither are Croatia. Easy enough group!

[ross4life]

The three in our group are all better than russia & they should have beaten us twice, if we get out of that group i would fancy ourchances to win it!

[Capt Pat]

Group of death
Holland
Germany
Denmark
Portugal

[GalwayBayBoy]

Everyone in Group A will be delighted. Pretty much the worst team in each pot (apart from ourselves). Jammy b**tards.

Group B the group of death. Should be great to watch though.

Tough draw for Ireland to say the least but hey we're there. Not very likely they were going to get a handy group from pot 4 anyway.

England seem delighted with their group having avoided Spain and Holland from the top seeds but without Rooney that group will be no walkover for them.

[Declan]

Great draw for us I think. Locations perfect and 3 great games to look forward to

[From the Bunker]

Spain are the best team in the world and Croatia are savage. Also Italy could be a different team next summer, they never do too badly in major tournaments

What happened in the last major tournament for Italy?

World cup 2010

Italy 1 – 1 Paraguay

Italy 1 – 1 New Zealand

Slovakia 3 – 2 Italy

out in group stage!

[charlie stubbs]

agree italy are no great shakes i would fancy croatia to finish second in the group.  if ireland get to last game with chance of qualifying they have a chance as trap will know italy inside out.  in theory, spain last would have been good because i would imagine they would have qualified but who knows. 

Of the rest of the groups, A should be boring and all the teams will be delighted to get this group.  expect russia and anoter to come through.  b is the group of death some great games to look forward too! the germans v dutch be tasty and the potugeuse are capable of great stuff.  handy enough draw for england, though the form of darren bent or whoever up front will need to be good to get them out of group. 

think spain v germany final with the germans to win!

[GalwayBayBoy]

On the bright side Ireland have a very good record against Italy over the past two decades. They haven't beaten us for 22 years and even recently we drew with them twice in qualification and beat them in a friendly only last summer. Trap will know them inside out and that will likely be a very cagey game.

[andoireabu]

Great draw for us I think. Locations perfect and 3 great games to look forward to

Have these been sorted yet? Might be needing a wee route planned

[SHEEDY]

10 june ireland v croatia  1945ko  poznan

14 june ireland v spain    1945ko  gdansk

18 june ireland v italy      1945ko  poznan


dont think the draw is as bad as it first looked. think italy and croatia are beatable. 4pts is definitly achievable. looking forward to it already.