Richey Edwards Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Surely this is up there with the greatest results in our history? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 It's up there with the wins against France in 89, 06 and 07 certainly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie adie Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 That France 89 game was excellent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Richey Edwards said: Surely this is up there with the greatest results in our history? WC holders England in 1967 (A)... Euro holders Czechoslovakia in 1977... Netherlands at WC 1978... Spain in 1984... Belgium in 1987... France in 1989... were at greater heights of their power. Akin to France in 2006 + 2007 (A) IMO. Edited March 28, 2023 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: WC holders England in 1967 (A)... Euro holders Czechoslovakia in 1977... Netherlands in 1978... Belgium in 1987... France in 1989... were at greater heights of their power. It's akin to France in 2006 + 2007 (A) IMO. I was at that Belgium game in 1987, and I wouldn't put it alongside the others to be honest. I know they'd been WC semi finalists a year earlier, but they weren't a huge power. We were already virtually out by then too, so the crowd was small and it didn't feel significant. Tonight's was big, but is perhaps slightly diminished by coming so early in the campaign. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General dissaray Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Tonight ranks up there with beating France in recent or fairly recent times I'm sure,but the eighties fame with Spain when Mo Jo got two doesn't loom as large now for this side Cos they showed they can gi toe to toe,yes the back four never played together before but who cares that takes nothing away from this achievement and its Spain they got top players they guys tonight should grasped the nettle and tried harder As the gaffer told them its 6 points and 6 points doesn't take us to finals,so lets not get carried away If we want to be like the team that beat France we need to win in Madrid and beat Georgia away,we do that we can be excited that is me saying that AM 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self-raising Lazarus Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Up there with the 3-1 game against ukraine and the 3-2 game against Israel. If we back it up with 4 points in June it's era defining. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 1 minute ago, Self-raising Lazarus said: Up there with the 3-1 game against ukraine and the 3-2 game against Israel. If we back it up with 4 points in June it's era defining. Beating Spain surely outstrips squeaking past Israel? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Willie adie said: That France 89 game was excellent. Who can forget it? 4-1 to us with Pettigrew, Dalglish and Lineker on the scoresheet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General dissaray Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: Who can forget it? 4-1 to us with Pettigrew, Dalglish and Lineker on the scoresheet. Lineker? Sure that wasn't France V the rest off the world? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self-raising Lazarus Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 7 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: Beating Spain surely outstrips squeaking past Israel? That game kept us on course for a play off, after coming from behind late on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, Self-raising Lazarus said: That game kept us on course for a play off, after coming from behind late on. Yes, but are we not ranking particular results in relation to the stature of the opponents? If it's just the importance of results, then the shoot-out win in Belgrade would have to trump everything for decades. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 16 minutes ago, General dissaray said: Lineker? Sure that wasn't France V the rest off the world? Never you mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git-intae-thum Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 This Spain team are a long way off what they were. It was a good solid home result. That is it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Depends whether you factor in the overall outcome of the campaign, which obviously in this case we don't know yet. This Spain team are obviously some way off the class of 2008-12 but in isolation it's probably behind the two France results in 06-07 when they were clearly one of the top 2 or 3 teams in the world. I get there's an element of me getting older but there were half a dozen guys in that Spain squad i had never heard of whereas I would guess 90% of the French team back then were widely known and world cup finalists. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Certainly top three material in my lifetime. Many of our other notable results came in qualifying campaigns that were already in the bin. I'd have it up there with the 2-0 vs France in 89 and McFadden's winner in Paris. If anything this was better, in that we fully merited that win. It wasn't a desperate backs-to-the-wall performance by any means. The win in France felt like a fluke, this absolutely wasn't. I can't remember the 2-0 game in 89 tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YassinMoutaouakil Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 33 minutes ago, General dissaray said: If we want to be like the team that beat France we need to win in Madrid and beat Georgia away That sounds nothing like the team that beat France 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2426255 Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Pissed as a fart but it's up there with how I felt after Serbia and Denmark in recent memory. Rodri really topped it off for me though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Just now, Benjamin_Nevis said: Certainly top three material in my lifetime. Many of our other notable results came in qualifying campaigns that were already in the bin. I'd have it up there with the 2-0 vs France in 89 and McFadden's winner in Paris. If anything this was better, in that we fully merited that win. It wasn't a desperate backs-to-the-wall performance by any means. The win in France felt like a fluke, this absolutely wasn't. I can't remember the 2-0 game in 89 tbh. I was at both France games in 06/07 and the away game felt more comfortable, though that may have been due to 3 days on the piss beforehand. The home game I'm sure they absolutely battered us, had a couple of goals disallowed for offside (one of which I think was wrong) and we scored with our only chance, whereas the away game was them having lots of possession but not doing much, albeit their keeper should have saved Faddys shot. Tonight, though it didn't feel it at the time was really comfortable in the second half, closest they got in the last twenty was Hanley nearly shanking an OG in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSJ.84 Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 That Spain team were absolutely awful, but take nothing away from this, that’s up there for me. I think the France games stand on their own - and rightly so - this is a pretty close third. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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