FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[An Watcher]

Serbia look some side but a draw is a great result.  Austria gone, Wales still there just about

[Capt Pat]

That is a great result for Ireland. We are now 4 points ahead of Wales and 2 ahead of  Serbia. Austria are out of it 6 behind Ireland.

[SHEEDY]

Brilliant 2nd half performance but jaysus Austria were shite. luckily the big centre forward couldn't head the ball. Wales/Serbia drawing was good result for Ireland. McClean motm for me.

[imtommygunn]

We normally gp ultra defensive on a one goal lead and are our own worst enemies. Thankfully not tonight except for the last 4 minutes where it was a bit nervous.

Agreed - austria were crap.

[straightred]

We normally gp ultra defensive on a one goal lead and are our own worst enemies. Thankfully not tonight except for the last 4 minutes where it was a bit nervous.

Agreed - austria were crap.

we are a small country by international standards but we continue to box above our weight. 10 points out of 12 having played 3 away games is a fantastic achievement. it was a 4 horse race. now its 2 and maybe 3. Great days work !

[Il Bomber Destro]

Superb result for Ireland.

You have to laugh at some of the comments here about Austria being "shite". While it might be a valid criticism of Austria last night, the same people were probably guilty of lauding the rugby side's friendly win as one of the Irish sport's greatest moments.

There always has to be an enabling factor when the soccer side pull off a big result, the team deserve immense credit for once again punching above their weight.

Six of the starting XI for Austria last night play Champions League football, not one member of the Irish squad is playing in the CL this season.

What the soccer team always give is sheer honesty of effort, you can't ask for much more than that. This is a side we should be immensely proud of.

[uimhr ocht]

Great result but still plenty of games to go,great to see the Derry boys doing well mc lean,Duffy,and of course m oneill.

[An Watcher]

I like to include our captain in that group as well.  Good to see a strong contingent from the North West

[Declan]

If we can beat Wales in March you'd have to say we could go on and top the group. Great results at weekend

[muppet]

If we can beat Wales in March you'd have to say we could go on and top the group. Great results at weekend

Massive fixture that. I would have happily taken a draw in Vienna so now I am getting kind of greedy.

But a draw means they down't catch up with us.

[shark]

If we can beat Wales in March you'd have to say we could go on and top the group. Great results at weekend

Massive fixture that. I would have happily taken a draw in Vienna so now I am getting kind of greedy.

But a draw means they down't catch up with us.

Yeah, even though it is in Dublin there is more pressure on Wales to win. They really won't want a fourth draw in a row. If Ireland win then it is down to a two horse race between Ireland and Serbia. Hopefully Austria don't throw in the towel altogether as we may need them to take points off Serbia and/or Wales.

[seafoid]

Superb result for Ireland.

You have to laugh at some of the comments here about Austria being "shite". While it might be a valid criticism of Austria last night, the same people were probably guilty of lauding the rugby side's friendly win as one of the Irish sport's greatest moments.

There always has to be an enabling factor when the soccer side pull off a big result, the team deserve immense credit for once again punching above their weight.

Six of the starting XI for Austria last night play Champions League football, not one member of the Irish squad is playing in the CL this season.

What the soccer team always give is sheer honesty of effort, you can't ask for much more than that. This is a side we should be immensely proud of.

It was effectively a friendly .It's not the same as beating France in Paris, Bomber.

Elfriede Jelinek has written extensively about the collapse of Austrian masculinity.

Her earlier work focused on the patriarchal codes in provincial Austria and the laws of marriage. Ex Nazis resumed civilian life and impregnated women, selbsverstaendlich.

i need you and i love you, says brigitte. her hair shines in the sun like ripe polished chestnuts, love is the feeling that one person needs the other. i need you, says brigitte, so that i no longer have to go to the factory, because really i don't need the factory at all. what i need is you and being near you. i love you and i need you.
The payoff for her young man, Heinz, who as an apprentice electrician is learning a trade that "one day will put the whole world at his feet," is sex, which, in Jelinek's work, is never coloured by sentiment:
Unbuttoning and into brigitte only takes a moment. and today we can announce, that something has clicked at last between these two young people [i.e., she is pregnant]...and so brigitte will not after all have to end her life in cold and loneliness, which otherwise she would have had to do.

They used to sing about women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-DgRO1SrQ

The emergence of Kim Kardashian and social media has turned the tables. Austrian men are now afraid. the prospect of a Clinton win terrified them. They cannot accept that Merkel is the king of the Germans.

Her latest book, Wienerschnitzel, deals with the shamanic aspects of male weakness and impotence in the Instagram age.

And the goal resulted from a nice pass, but there was none of the alignment of angle,  space, coherence, beauty and wonder that would typify a point in an Under 16 hurling match involving Ballingarry or indeed a rugby try

[Billys Boots]

You really need to get out of the house seafóid!

[seafoid]

Bomber has been moaning about rugby for 2 weeks

Carry on

BTW I read about the match in a Swiss newspaper
The BIG were described as solid defensively, compact, aggressive.

"They foiled every Austrian attack"

Wimmer lost the ball. The Austrians claimed a foul. The Irish continued with a diagonal pass that split the defence and the finish was out of the top drawer. The Irish had 2 chances and converted one.

Koller(Austrian manager)  spoke about a game of waiting which was driven by the defensive solidity of the Irish

"It is my responsibility , I have been in the business 20 years. It is like that"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLGWQfK-6DY

I would read that any day over Dunphy. Because it is written by people without bias. Who know their stuff.

It was a super result.

[Mayo4Sam]

Superb result for Ireland.

You have to laugh at some of the comments here about Austria being "shite". While it might be a valid criticism of Austria last night, the same people were probably guilty of lauding the rugby side's friendly win as one of the Irish sport's greatest moments.

There always has to be an enabling factor when the soccer side pull off a big result, the team deserve immense credit for once again punching above their weight.

Six of the starting XI for Austria last night play Champions League football, not one member of the Irish squad is playing in the CL this season.

What the soccer team always give is sheer honesty of effort, you can't ask for much more than that. This is a side we should be immensely proud of.

It was effectively a friendly .It's not the same as beating France in Paris, Bomber.

Elfriede Jelinek has written extensively about the collapse of Austrian masculinity.

Her earlier work focused on the patriarchal codes in provincial Austria and the laws of marriage. Ex Nazis resumed civilian life and impregnated women, selbsverstaendlich.

i need you and i love you, says brigitte. her hair shines in the sun like ripe polished chestnuts, love is the feeling that one person needs the other. i need you, says brigitte, so that i no longer have to go to the factory, because really i don't need the factory at all. what i need is you and being near you. i love you and i need you.
The payoff for her young man, Heinz, who as an apprentice electrician is learning a trade that "one day will put the whole world at his feet," is sex, which, in Jelinek's work, is never coloured by sentiment:
Unbuttoning and into brigitte only takes a moment. and today we can announce, that something has clicked at last between these two young people [i.e., she is pregnant]...and so brigitte will not after all have to end her life in cold and loneliness, which otherwise she would have had to do.

They used to sing about women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-DgRO1SrQ

The emergence of Kim Kardashian and social media has turned the tables. Austrian men are now afraid. the prospect of a Clinton win terrified them. They cannot accept that Merkel is the king of the Germans.

Her latest book, Wienerschnitzel, deals with the shamanic aspects of male weakness and impotence in the Instagram age.

And the goal resulted from a nice pass, but there was none of the alignment of angle,  space, coherence, beauty and wonder that would typify a point in an Under 16 hurling match involving Ballingarry or indeed a rugby try

Not 100% true