Rossy Posted June 14, 2016 Author Share Posted June 14, 2016 5 hours ago, weekevie04 said: Dave, what do you think of RTE and 3's coverage? I have been watching quite a few games at work via them, and find them a much more informative and better watch than anything the 'British' pundits offer on UK tv. I have enjoyed Petit and Bilic so far. Keith Andrews has been an excellent co-commentator and certainly knew a lot about the non UK based players in both the UKR-GER and ENG-RUS game. Thought the game today was quite poor. Surprised to see such a poor Swedish side. First touches' awful, poor passing - from both sides. Heard good things about Granqvist, but he looked an absolute carthorse today. Zlatan wasn't exactly great either he seemed to just wrestle about before giving the ball away. Olsson played well after a shaky start, and Guidetti actually looking not bad when he came on. Ireland played quite well. Whilst it isn't that attractive to watch. It is effective, and they had Sweden on the ropes for long periods of the game. Fair dues to MON too for trying to go for the win. We'll see what happens, but possibly both sides could end up with 1pt and whoever is third one of the worst ones who does not advance. Then again, I wouldn't bet against the Irish getting a result against Belgium or Italy, the Irish are a very hard-working team who have the balls - some may say luck, I wouldn't - to grind out fantastic results against big teams. Seen Sweden in a few qualifiers, and didn't impress. Humped by Austria, although they did look good last week against Wales B team in a friendly. The group could go either way really. Belgium should be strong enough on paper to qualify, but I am not sure. They had them on the ropes up until the point that Ireland scored. After that the only team that looked like they could win the game was Sweden (who were as you said, poor). Ireland made the classic mistake of easing off after going 1-0 up....within 2 minutes they'd handed the initiative back to the Swedes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 15 hours ago, Rossy said: Two pretty average teams, you've got to imagine that one of them will be leaving after the group stages. Based on last night's games I can see both of them going out on 1 point. Blinded by the Ibra factor I had fancied Sweden as an outsider, but they looked very ordinary... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armitage Shanks Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Did an Irishman pump Rossy's granny when he was younger? Or does he just hate the fact they are a brave country and we are a pathetic pro monarchy pro union failures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 1 hour ago, Armitage Shanks said: Did an Irishman pump Rossy's granny when he was younger? I doubt it, or Jack Charlton would've capped him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted June 14, 2016 Author Share Posted June 14, 2016 6 minutes ago, sbcmfc said: I doubt it, or Jack Charlton would've capped him. I am Mark Lawrenson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted June 14, 2016 Author Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Armitage Shanks said: Did an Irishman pump Rossy's granny when he was younger? Or is it just the fact they are just another foreign country that means nothing to him ? Fixed it for you... Edited June 14, 2016 by Rossy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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