Celtic tournament?

**Andyh** · 14/12/2006, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by livehead1

...and to the millions of people around the world who don't adhere to Britain being in the north of Ireland

I didn't know Britain was in the North of Ireland, I thought it was the big island beside it...ah well.

**Qwerty** · 14/12/2006, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Awful idea. Replace friendlies against good teams with Scotland, Wales and the North? No thanks.

Yeah like we are so hot oursleves! Apart from a fluke win over Holland at Lansdowne Road in 2001, the previous win over decent opposition was a 2-1 win over Yugoslavia in 1999. What is all this crap about Lansdowne being a Fortress? As as is well known we haven't beaten a decent team away from home since beating Scotland before the last Ice Age. Man, we suck.

**Schumi** · 15/12/2006, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by Qwerty

Yeah like we are so hot ourselves!

All the more reason to have decent teams for friendlies. Imagine Ireland v Scotland every year.

**NeilMcD** · 15/12/2006, 12:05 PM

Yeah I disagree with this for 2 reasons. One I dont think we would learn anything about different styles of play etc so that when we play Albania or Latvia or Cyprus away we would not be used to it. Secondly it would be crap away trips. I dont wanna go to Glasgow and Cardiff and Belfast every second year. Give me Amsterdam, Prague, Bratislava, Copenhagen any day of the week.

**RogerMilla** · 15/12/2006, 12:34 PM

its the competitive element of the whole thing i am interested in , our current friendlies are muck , we read too much into it when we win and also when we lose , we can blood the young players in the heat of combat rather than seeing a great performance in a friendly and then a flop in a competitive fixture

**BobtheDrog** · 15/12/2006, 2:19 PM

the only use that could come from this tournament would be if the countries involved's respective B teams took part.

**tetsujin1979** · 15/12/2006, 2:41 PM

I was thinking an U-21 tournament would be better than a senior team tournament alright. We're not going to learn anything from playing Robbie Keane, Duff, Doyle, Given in threse games that we don't already know, so why not use it to see what Quigley, O'Donovan, Garvan, Clarke, Gavin, etc can do in competitive action?

**Qwerty** · 15/12/2006, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

All the more reason to have decent teams for friendlies. Imagine Ireland v Scotland every year.

Friendlies are a waste of time, these games would at least be more likely to be competitve particularly as they wouldn't be one off, bragging rights are at stake. I'm not exactly trilled but I see a benefit.