ESTONIA V IRELAND

Best we could have hoped for in fairness.

If we were to pick it ourselves we could not have done a better job.

brilliant i might even make that trip...

^^ counting his chickens before the eggs hatch again! nearly as good as donating the money he was gonna win in the tipping comp.

Did you see the guys face when he touched the 2 steaming hot balls Ireland and estonia were in

ire 2.85 away to estonia with bwin too big

Great Draw!. Are we away for the first leg?

I couldn't back Ireland to win away to anyone

Estonia's 5 home games in the qualifiers were

Estonia 2-1 Faroe Islands
Estonia 1-2 Italy
Estonia 4-1 Northern Ireland
Estonia 1-1 Serbia
Estonia 0-1 Slovenia

That's not a bad record.

UEFA marked the Irish and Estonia balls because they were terrified if Ireland got anyone else bar Estonia the whole nation would be screaming the draw was fixed so they fixed it for Ireland instead.

Ireland away 1st leg home for 2nd...couldnt have hoped for better.expect ireland to score away.do away goals count as 2 if its a draw...i presume so

You're always screaming about something greaser.

It was said with a bit of tongue in cheek zipi

I presume we will without Kevin Doyle for at least one of the legs, if not both

Armenia filed complaint against Ref and want a replay ... where are your sporting Armenians now Greaser [:p]

Damien Richardson said that it would be better if Ireland hadn't been seeded as we play better against the good sides. Wonder if he punts on Betfair ?

Well it seems zipi we spawned a monster then?

i had to laugh when i saw on telly John Delaneys smug head laughing when we got Estonia .....Sorry john but guess who else were delighted with the draw ESTONIA .......you d swear we were spain ..... Now  I know feck all about soccer but take given and dunne out of the irish team and it would be touch and go between Ireland and Shamrock Rovers to win the league of ireland ( sorry workrider ) ..How he can leave talented irishmen like seamus coleman at home and pick garden knomes like glen whelan  is beyond me ........
We defo got the best draw allright but the tie has got penalty shoot out written all over it

The facebook campaign has started Greaser

They're entitled to a little moan zipi somehow you doubt it will be like a cacophony of whinging chainsaws unlike our proud nation.

They're entitled to a little moan zipi somehow you doubt it will be like a cacophony of whinging chainsaws unlike our proud nation.

You're doing a fair impression of a 'whinging chainsaw' yourself in fairness Greaseball.

dinglemick,Trapp won't go the games to watch "new" talent coming through,he has fixed ideas about players and will never ever think of a change,as I said on another thread Whelan would have to be either hospitalised or suspended for Trapp to drop him.

Kevin Kilbane has been a great player for us but should be retired from the National squad and has no business being in the starting 11 which he would be in only for injury.

In Trapps mind Coleman is a right back and he doesn't have a spot for one of those.

Wes Houlihan remids Trapp of Andy Reid so he'll never get a call

Yes you could not ask for a better draw. We got the draw we wanted and Estonia are saying same. We were probably given Estonia just to make up for the Hand of Henry in Paris. A fella at work was saying this all f**king day yesterday ''they'll give us the Estonians just to make up for it'', 11/4 he got on it.

if we can't beat Estonia there's no hope for us.

after we win in estonia i think we'll be j/favs for the competion....

I'm very confident of a an away/home win! Sure we beat them well in the Eurovision this year-Every reason to be confident!!

Polska here we come!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KABUQxllGbk&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL90DF5D82F66C597E

If we can't beat Estonia we don't deserve to be there. I think we'll win and go thru in front our our own fans in the Aviva. I am going to go with that this will be the best sporting atmosphere ever seen in Ireland as the Aviva is a proper cauldron of a stadium and seems to hold all the noise is which is quite impressive.

Best sporting atmosphere?

The stadium will be over half full of "supporters" that have not turned up at any of the qualifiers, but will jump on the bandwagon now.

There was a great atmosphere there the last night, and there was 45,000 fans at it, so if you hang on to your ticket you're guaranteed a ticket for the Estonia match. So that will ensure against that thankfully

Good to see the FAI looking after the hardcore first !

How does that work Rocket? Will they contact you ?

I'm not 100% Zipi as it's my mate who organised the tickets. But i know from this type of thing before Zipi, i was on a database and i just rang up they checked it out said fine and i got my tickets.

Says in site they will contact in next few days

Ah well then, fair play, you going Zipi?

For sure, can see us needing to win on night

pre sale tickets at 3pm Friday Rocket

Cheers Zipi

was over in estonia this year watching the mighty rovers playing,great play for a few drinks and molloy malones is a great pub,the owners a guy from tallaght didnt rip us off,and after the game he came into the pub and told us the pub wont be closed,the national ground is just outside the city walking distance or short trip in a taxi,so if anyone thinking off going over they will have a great time,and the local women are out off this world aswell[;)]

Away goals wont count,hopefully Ireland will secure a draw away and finish the job at home.

Away goals do count....

Cheers i stand corrected on the away goals

Holland have lost ground on Spain in the FIFA world rankings following a 3-2 defeat to Sweden in a Euro 2012 qualifier earlier this month.

The Dutch still occupy second place behind Spain, who recorded a 23rd consecutive home victory, beating Scotland in their final qualifying match.

But Bert van Marwijk’s side suffered the biggest points drop of any nation in the rankings – losing 146.

The Republic of Ireland, who face Estonia in a qualification play-off next month, are up four places to 25th, Scotland managed to move up one place to 51st despite missing out on qualification after their defeat to Spain, while Northern Ireland dropped 14 places to 84th.

The biggest gain was made by Wales, who ended their Euro 2012 qualifiers on a high with victories over Switzerland and Bulgaria. Gary Speed’s team earned 245 points, enough to move them up 45 places to 45th.

England moved up one place to seventh, while Greece nudged up three places to sit in eighth after booking their qualification for the Euro 2012 finals in Poland and Ukraine next summer.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/dutch-dip-as-ireland-rise-fo...