FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[Capt Pat]

So a win against Austria at home at the end of the season and a Serbia win against Wales without Bale in Belgrade will leave Ireland and Serbia 7 points clear of Wales and Austria. That would mean Septembers Ireland v Serbia game in Dublin is the group decider, the winner should go to the world cup.

[yellowcard]

Horrible tackle on Coleman. Bizarre seeing Roy Keane sympathising with Taylor after he was sent off given the state of his captains leg on the floor.

[Capt Pat]

Arnautovic is out of the Ireland v Austria game with a suspension. We need all the lucky breaks we can get.

[clarshack]

Arnautovic is out of the Ireland v Austria game with a suspension. We need all the lucky breaks we can get.

Hopefully Alaba picks up a wee knock beforehand.

[clarshack]

Horrible tackle on Coleman. Bizarre seeing Roy Keane sympathising with Taylor after he was sent off given the state of his captains leg on the floor.

Maybe because Keane has been in Taylor's shoes?

[tyssam5]

Horrendous injury for Coleman.
Double leg fracture like that is a year minimum usually...will struggle to be the same player again. Terrible 

Henrik Larsson came back quickly and well from a bad break - hopefully Seamus gets some luck like that.

[ballinaman]

Horrendous injury for Coleman.
Double leg fracture like that is a year minimum usually...will struggle to be the same player again. Terrible 

Henrik Larsson came back quickly and well from a bad break - hopefully Seamus gets some luck like that.

Fingers crossed, medics were brilliant. Leg stabilised and off the pitch in under 4 minutes. He'll be having surgery tonight. Am sickened over it.

[Cunny Funt]

Christ,just seen a picture on Twitter of Coleman's leg just after tackle...Not good. Hopefully he will make a full and speedy recovery.

Hope I'm wrong but having seen the pictures he will be lucky if he ever plays the game again. It wouldn't have happened if the ref did his job and sent Bale off for a earlier terrible tackle.

[Tony Baloney]

Chris Coleman is an odious piece of shit.

[manfromdelmonte]

Christ,just seen a picture on Twitter of Coleman's leg just after tackle...Not good. Hopefully he will make a full and speedy recovery.

Hope I'm wrong but having seen the pictures he will be lucky if he ever plays the game again. It wouldn't have happened if the ref did his job and sent Bale off for a earlier terrible tackle.

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[Jell 0 Biafra]

Christ,just seen a picture on Twitter of Coleman's leg just after tackle...Not good. Hopefully he will make a full and speedy recovery.

Hope I'm wrong but having seen the pictures he will be lucky if he ever plays the game again. It wouldn't have happened if the ref did his job and sent Bale off for a earlier terrible tackle.

My thoughts exactly right after the hackjob on Coleman.

[clarshack]

if the ref did his job and sent Bale off for a earlier terrible tackle.

One of the perks of playing for Real Madrid.

[Minus15]

I don't believe Christie had a good game. Passing was terrible. Took a few long throws and that was about it. McGeady done alright for last 15 mins. At least it looked like something might come from him.

I thought Bale on O'Shea could have been a red card but it was an experienced ref who called it right in my opinion. Bale was trying to connect with the cross and did not mean to make contact. But it was high and had the potential to do damage.

Overall it is a good point. Shane Long is a trojan of a centre forward.

[Hectic]

Only saw the second half as I coach juvenilles on a Friday evening but I thought Wales were fairly putting the boot in even before the Bale and Taylor 'tackles'. Couple of very high boots in quick succession and generally seemed to be out to take man and ball in their tackling.

I listened to Coleman after and he sounded like he was almost blaming Ireland for Colemans break stating the case that we saw in the first half that Ireland were out to rough house them and that they knew that is what Ireland were going to be about. Almost to say any strong arm tactics were a response to Ireland in the first half.

Like I said, did not see the first half but Ireland must have been fairly brutal in their tackling to cause Wales to come out in the second half tackling high with studs showing all round. Or else Chris Coleman is a sc*mbag.

[yellowcard]

Only saw the second half as I coach juvenilles on a Friday evening but I thought Wales were fairly putting the boot in even before the Bale and Taylor 'tackles'. Couple of very high boots in quick succession and generally seemed to be out to take man and ball in their tackling.

I listened to Coleman after and he sounded like he was almost blaming Ireland for Colemans break stating the case that we saw in the first half that Ireland were out to rough house them and that they knew that is what Ireland were going to be about. Almost to say any strong arm tactics were a response to Ireland in the first half.

Like I said, did not see the first half but Ireland must have been fairly brutal in their tackling to cause Wales to come out in the second half tackling high with studs showing all round. Or else Chris Coleman is a sc*mbag.

I would say Ireland were robust and aggressive in the first half with the Whelan elbow on Allen (who made a complete meal of it) being the worst example. That was a yellow/borderline red tackle. However there is a big difference in being overly physical and the reckless dangerous tackles put in by Bale and Taylor. The referee bottled the Bale tackle and look at the outcome. Colemans comments afterwards were at best highly insensitive towards Colemans condition. It may well have been his instructions to rough Ireland up that created the backdrop for Taylor to lunge into such a tackle.