Toepoke Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 4 minutes ago, kumnio said: Cant believe Poland havent scored yet, hope to god that NI dont sneak a goal. Impressive timing! Ulster are certainly the poorest team we've seen so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JECK Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Take it Will Grigg has been extinguished? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumnio Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 2 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Impressive timing! Ulster are certainly the poorest team we've seen so far... I know Its a tragedy the NI have qualified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JECK Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 At least we definitely know now that the teams in NI's qualifying group were a shambles for that period at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 3 minutes ago, kumnio said: Its a tragedy the NI have qualified. They qualified out of arguably the easiest group. Saying that, I think they're better then they're showing tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 16 minutes ago, kumnio said: Its a tragedy the NI have qualified. I was gonna say it's a consequence of going to a 24 team Euros, but they won their group and would have qualified for the old style finals too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassrubber Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Poland never played this shit against us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Woeful from Northern Ireland, against a team that isn't all that good. Their only shot on goal in 90 minutes a 25 yard overhead kick that went 15 yards wide. Still, they got a few throw-ins and managed a few 60 yard long-balls. Plucky minnows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 5 minutes ago, Brassrubber said: Poland never played this shit against us Probably coz we didn't stop them playing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanatyk Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Phew, that was easy Scotland miles ahaed of NI in every department BTW. Shows you the importance of the qualifying group you are drawn into. BOOM BOOM we got 3 points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 27 minutes ago, fanatyk said: Phew, that was easy Scotland miles ahaed of NI in every department BTW. Shows you the importance of the qualifying group you are drawn into. BOOM BOOM we got 3 points Pretty much sums it up.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 (edited) Now Poland have got that first win monkey off their back they look like they have the firepower to go a fair distance in the tournament. N. Ireland looked like they were at the start of the competition, a Pot 5 team. Edited June 12, 2016 by Toepoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 2 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Now Poland have got that first win monkey off their back they look like they have the firepower to go a fair distance in the tournament. N. Ireland looked like they were at the start of the competition, a Pot 5 team. Northern Ireland's performance was one of the worst I've seen at any major international competition, anywhere. They looked like a desperate English non-league side. Germany and Ukraine will tear them apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 We would have been just as poor if we had qualified Id actually go as far as saying Northern Ireland are every bit as good as we are if not better They are certainly better at getting results in qualifiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 1 minute ago, Ally Bongo said: We would have been just as poor if we had qualified Id actually go as far as saying Northern Ireland are every bit as good as we are if not better They are certainly better at getting results in qualifiers Probably, although we were much better against a Poland side that has a weakness in defence. Northern Ireland just looked terrified to even attempt to play football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JECK Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 7 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said: We would have been just as poor if we had qualified Id actually go as far as saying Northern Ireland are every bit as good as we are if not better They are certainly better at getting results in qualifiers do you mean getting results from the set of teams they got in their qualifying group or just any qualifying group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 17 minutes ago, JECK said: do you mean getting results from the set of teams they got in their qualifying group or just any qualifying group? There is absolutely no evidence that we could go to Windsor Park for a competative game and get 3 points never mind go away to Hungary and Greece and win which they did We would not have got out of their group - Hungary, Romania, Greece and Finland With the exception of Germany (who were absolutely shit the whole qualifiers apart from one game at Hampden) there wasnt much between the footballing ability in both groups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewolf_1980 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Northern Ireland played like we did in Italy the other week with the exception that we had one chance. Fair play to them for qualifying but, barring a Jackie Charlton-esque recruitment campaign in the future, I suspect that's their lot for another 30 years. And I'm a 'hun' who wasn't supporting them so that should blow your generalisations. Ambivalent against everyone, other than those who play England, Wales and Eire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu101 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Some of the generalisations on this board are great Couldn't care less about NI, just usually support the underdogs- though I did wish a few folk following them good luck. If anything, i'm a bit jealous that they are in France and we are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 5 hours ago, fanatyk said: Phew, that was easy Scotland miles ahaed of NI in every department BTW. Shows you the importance of the qualifying group you are drawn into. BOOM BOOM we got 3 points Enjoy it, tell that ##### robert that he owes me money though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossman4 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 10 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: There is absolutely no evidence that we could go to Windsor Park for a competative game and get 3 points never mind go away to Hungary and Greece and win which they did We would not have got out of their group - Hungary, Romania, Greece and Finland With the exception of Germany (who were absolutely shit the whole qualifiers apart from one game at Hampden) there wasnt much between the footballing ability in both groups Their group was full of defensively minded teams, none of them really like or liked to have a go. The top 3 scored 38 goals between them in qualifying, the top 3 in our group managed 39 and that is discounting the Gibraltar goals. Greece imploding really made a big difference to that group though. Agree there isn't anything to suggest we would have got anything from Windsor Park, in fact our down fall in a group like that would be down to playing defensively minded teams and our inability to break teams like that down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellyman Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 On 12/06/2016 at 9:59 PM, Ally Bongo said: There is absolutely no evidence that we could go to Windsor Park for a competative game and get 3 points never mind go away to Hungary and Greece and win which they did We would not have got out of their group - Hungary, Romania, Greece and Finland With the exception of Germany (who were absolutely shit the whole qualifiers apart from one game at Hampden) there wasnt much between the footballing ability in both groups There is no evidence that they would have qualified out of our group !! - they are now playing with the big boys and are way short of competing with them. It will interesting to see how far the 3 teams from our group and the 3 teams from the NI group get in this competition, so far the ones from our group have 2 wins and a draw, the NI group have have 2 defeats ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 On 6/12/2016 at 9:59 PM, Ally Bongo said: We would not have got out of their group - Hungary, Romania, Greece and Finland Greece who lost twice to the Faroe Islands, that Greece? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) 54 minutes ago, Parklife said: Greece who lost twice to the Faroe Islands, that Greece? Yep Playing Scotland is a fillip for many a team that is out of form Scotland would not have won in Athens I also sincerely doubt that we would win in the Faroes either at the moment Edited June 14, 2016 by Ally Bongo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 2 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Yep Playing Scotland is a fillip for many a team that is out of form Scotland would not have won in Athens I also sincerely doubt that we would win in the Faroes either at the moment You're stating your opinion as a fact and ignoring the evidence that a weaker side than us did win in Athens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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