They gave it their all but fell short at the final hurdle.....pity , they are a very good team and I agree there is an honesty about their game. A breath of fresh air..
The girls in Green.
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I respectfully disagree , Katie McCabe should undoubtedly have been sent off .
Before the yellow card she should have been booked for kicking the ball away and after the yellow card she committed two further bookable offences - one for a late tackle and one for diving .
The Welsh tried every trick to waste time particularly the goalie & both benches were constantly at odds.
Ireland were all perspiration and little inspiration and the defending in particular for the second goal was naive in the extreme with too much emphasis on attack leading to the calamitous 2nd goal.
All in all a pretty below par performance.
I watched the 1st half and chickened out on the 2nd 45 minutes as I feared the worst. Ireland were magnificent for 20 mins or so, lots of half-chances, and then seemed to lose their way. Well played and apologies for my cowardice and lack of faith. Phew!
The Belgians were excellent in the first half. Two excellent goals including the keeper being chipped. The half time whistle sounded and Belgium committed the gravest of errors walking to the dressing rooms. They high fived each other with smiles you’d see amongst the freebie seated celebs at a Rod Stewart concert. Who did the Belgians think they were? - Cork Hibs when they did a their lap of honour in Flower Lodge before the match and being beaten by a ten man Waterford who claimed the league title?
The Belgian HT celebrations would have leaked into the Irish dressing room and somebody said “To Hell with That” and decided to play out of their skin in the second half scrapping a goal in the dying seconds. B is for Belgium and they can keep high-giving themselves in the B league as far as I’m concerned.
The Belgian HT celebrations would have leaked into the Irish dressing room and somebody said “To Hell with That” and decided to play out of their skin in the second half scrapping a goal in the dying seconds. B is for Belgium and they can keep high-giving themselves in the B league as far as I’m concerned.
I was even worse. Gave up with 5 minutes left and went to fill the dishwasher!
Back in 1972, bless! Those halcyon LoI days; but what else was there for us to do on winter Sunday afternoons back then? (I had to be in Milltown at least half an hour before kickoff to get a good spot on the terraces.)
Still, at least Miah's hat trick denied Waterford the double the following Sunday! (I was at that one.)
I was at both games (League decider and Cup Final)). John O’Neill was the main Waterford hero that day. I was late entering and missed the famous lap of honour by Hibs just before kick-off. The following week I was at the end where Miah Dennehy scored the 2nd half hat-trick. A year or two later Hibs beat Shelbourne in a Cup Final replay at Flower Lodge, Paddy Roche kept goal for Shels and let in a howler.
Incidentally, Flower Lodge was used for some X-Channel Div 1 league games that were moved to Cork because of harsh weather conditions in the UK. There was no Premiership back then. I saw Man Uts, Birmingham play in Flower Lodge (now Pairc Ui Rinn).
Incidentally, Flower Lodge was used for some X-Channel Div 1 league games that were moved to Cork because of harsh weather conditions in the UK. There was no Premiership back then. I saw Man Uts, Birmingham play in Flower Lodge (now Pairc Ui Rinn).
That's a tough one! Scrappy auld goal but they all count. I feel they had better chances early in the 1st half but that's football.
Yep, I Saw it on the news earlier. I felt a bit sorry for the Belgian defender who slipped and fell over - but c'est la vie!
I'm pretty sure that this is not accurate. These games were friendlies.
i think I'm dead accurate Jimmy . probably shows my age - back then very few (if any) of the top teams in England had undergrass heating. In fact some of the football fields there were almost threadbare (look up some U-Tube videos where you'd hardly see green on the playing field). In a prolonged cold/snow spells many games were called off causing a heavy backlog of games. Consequently, a couple of First Division matches were played in Flower Lodge which was one of the best playing surfaces in GB and Ireland. Some friendlies were played there too
Added Later:- I’m now not certain that all these were anything other than friendliest.
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2027 Women's World Cup qualifying draw:
Ireland's group: France, Netherlands, and Poland.
The Women's European Qualifiers league stage will be played on the following dates in 2026:
Matchday 1: Tuesday 3 March Matchday 2: Saturday 7 March Matchday 3: Tuesday 14 April
Matchday 4: Saturday 18 April Matchday 5: Friday 5 June Matchday 6: Tuesday 9 June
Seemingly, we're guaranteed a qualification play-off no matter what may happen in the pool games.
