FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[grounded]

Fantastic result for the lads, worked their socks off. After the Scotland game, qualification looked very unlikely, so great turnaround.

[BennyCake]

Scotland took 4 points off Ireland,Ireland took 4 points off Germany!

And Germany will get 4 points trillion off everyone!

[mylestheslasher]

Rte sound bucked or just my TV?

Ronnie's high pitched voice has blew the sound system.

he's goddamn awful hard to listen to.

Crazy not giving Walters Man of the match.

Yeah, does not matter anyways!

Jesus it as bang on for me, Brady was by far our best player. Walters scored a penalty and finished the 2nd well but he was a bit quiet by his recent standards. Every bit of football played by Ireland originated with Brady and he also stopped the threat that Bosnia had on their right wing.

[laoislad]

https://vimeo.com/145924358

[Il Bomber Destro]

Fantastic results.

Really shames those rugby meats along with it to make it all the sweeter.

[From the Bunker]

This has a little more detail!

We look to be a 4th seeds which means no derby games v NI or Wales!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2016#Final_draw

[An Watcher]

Brady undoubtedly motm. Walters excellent too.

[ashman]

Fantastic results.

Really shames those rugby meats along with it to make it all the sweeter.

This was the equivalent of the rugby crowd beating Italy .  The soccerball mob qualified beating a poor Bosnia  team for a dumbed down tournament . 

[Captain Obvious]

[From the Bunker]

Fantastic results.

Really shames those rugby meats along with it to make it all the sweeter.

This was the equivalent of the rugby crowd beating Italy .  The soccerball mob qualified beating a poor Bosnia  team for a dumbed down tournament .

And what would be the Rugby equivalent of beating Germany?

[laoislad]

Fantastic results.

Really shames those rugby meats along with it to make it all the sweeter.

This was the equivalent of the rugby crowd beating Italy .  The soccerball mob qualified beating a poor Bosnia  team for a dumbed down tournament .

And what would be the Rugby equivalent of beating Germany?

Who cares really.
At the end of the day rugby will never bring the same level of excitement to the whole country like the soccer can.

[T Fearon]

Irish rugby can't fulfil its potential on the World stage,whereas Irish soccer over achieves.

[From the Bunker]

Fantastic results.

Really shames those rugby meats along with it to make it all the sweeter.

This was the equivalent of the rugby crowd beating Italy .  The soccerball mob qualified beating a poor Bosnia  team for a dumbed down tournament .

And what would be the Rugby equivalent of beating Germany?

Who cares really.
At the end of the day rugby will never bring the same level of excitement to the whole country like the soccer can.

In Fairness Rugby has given us some good days over the last couple of years and got the country going in it's own right. Just the way our Soccer lads get a rough deal on their results in a more competitive sport, bugs me!

[ashman]

Irish rugby can't fulfil its potential on the World stage,whereas Irish soccer over achieves.

Irish rugby punches its weight .  It is a minority sport here and in the world in general .  The irish soccer team was decent from 1988 to 2004 and has been mediocre ever since bar a "blip " .

Both sports are over reported by a jokeshop media .

The ROI have reached a 24 team euro championship . Wow !!!

Bosnia were shite and ROi looked marginally better . 

[Pub Bore]

Hats off to O'Neill, Keane and the players. We looked dead in the water three quarters of the way through the group.