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11 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

With the field now set, the head to heads for competing nations across 23/24 is:

 

 

The men seem to have had a significantly higher number of games compared to the women and most of the nations seem reasonably well matched. 

 

Hopefully Ireland will have opportunity to arrange a couple of test matches against the higher ranked nations because outside of this week's Olympic Qualifiers, they haven't competed against any top competition since the start of 2023.

Ireland is in the Pro League so will have matches against the top nations which should help with Olympic preparation. What an achievement for this team to make it to the Olympics, they’ve had to completely rebuild in recent years and it all came good at the right time  

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The Irish women's hockey team for the Olympics has been announced:

 

https://olympics.ie/hockey-team-announcement/

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So there is my dose of reality of being an Irish fan.... it sucks,, in the most cruel way as always. Congrats to everyone else.

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No words. 

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I feel sick.

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Second time in a row that China's women's team qualify to the Olympics on a sudden death shoot-out... they beat Ireland in a shoot out to qualify for Rio.

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6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Canada drew Ireland in both. Maybe we can harness the luck of the Irish ? 

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Canada v Ireland in hockey.... thank the Lord it's not on the ice

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Thanks for the info, and hopefully the home advantage will get us over the line.

 

China beat us on penalties 4 years ago to go to the Olympics. Would be funny if they were drawn against each other again.

I think Belgium would beat Ireland and the USA used to always beat us until recently when we turned the tables. Not sure I’d want them as the opposition either even if they are probably weaker now.

 

Edited June 15, 2019 by OlympicIRL

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2 hours ago, LDOG said:

Ireland and Korea have qualified from tournament 1 to olympic play-offs (as expected).

 

Tournament 2 started today in Hiroshima. Japan and India are favorites but Chile is really close to their level and could sneak in that top 2. Remember Japan making top 2 won't automatically qualify the 3rd place here, the quota will go to World ranking.

 

Do you have any idea of the sort of quality of opponent Ireland might have in the play-off? I wouldn't be overly optimistic of our chances, well I would be cautious maybe is a better way of saying it.

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6-0, and a really tough lesson from the Dutch girls. Still super proud of our team, a team of amateurs who apart from a couple of players, all have full-time jobs outside of the sport. And they had to make huge sacrifices and pay their own way in order to compete.

A silver medal is a fantastic achievement

 

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Ok, time for the medal ceremony now....

 

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Irish commentator:

 

"So, the end of Quarter 1, and yes the Dutch have scored..... but it's only one!"

 

Summing up the mood quite well 

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Time for the anthems

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Juste maintenant , dcro a déclaré:

 

I just did.

 

 

No, no, no.... with a reaction like that you were clearly dreaming of @heywoodu's lost clothes scenario. 

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Juste maintenant , dcro a déclaré:

 

I don't think so, they played well. Though I don't remember how it ended.

 

I demand you go back to sleep and inform me what happens!! 

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Juste maintenant , dcro a déclaré:

 

I had a bean salad, so perhaps that's your explanation.

 

I see

And we still lost 5-6 right?

 

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Juste maintenant , heywoodu a déclaré:

It made a lot of Dutch people, including me, hate Jos Verstappen: he was sort of a national hero due to his F1 podium many years before (as only Dutchman ever) and in the A1 he would finally race in Zandvoort. Around 110.000 people got tickets (considering Zandvoort is full to the limits when there's 90.000 people that's quite a lot)....and then the week before the event he was like "nah the team manager didn't pay my salary, I'm not driving"  Luckily his replacement (Jeroen Bleekemolen) had one of the best races of his career and more than made up for Verstappen's "fuck you" in terms of excitement.

 

Anyhow, this is getting a little off topic  

 

I remember that the Irish and Dutch mechanical teams used to co-operate with each other (not on the track )

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il y a 2 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

This says you get 2.28 times your stakes if the Netherlands win while taking the 'handicap' in account. This is usually a half number of goals, so in the case of a Dutch win with one or two goals difference (or of course an Irish win), Ireland +2.5 wins, whereas with a Dutch win by three or more goals, the Netherlands -2.5 wins  

 

Basically in this specific case the bookmakers are saying Ireland is more likely than not for Ireland to keep the difference in check (no more than three goals), but a two goal win for the Dutch team seems the most likely outcome.

 

Cool, thanks for the explanation. 

 

Awaiting a 10-0 drubbing now

 

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il y a 5 minutes, dcro a déclaré:

I had a dream tonight that Ireland was leading Netherlands 5:1 at the end of Q3.

 

What kind of cheese were you eating last night??  

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Juste maintenant , heywoodu a déclaré:

Don't mind me, I am just sad it died a slow, painful death because I enjoyed it  

 

It was amazing, my favourite Motorsport event and I am saying that even before we won. I loved it, even my Mam loved it too

 

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il y a 5 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

 

 

 

 

I don't understand betting. So does this suggest a Dutch win by 2.5 goals is the most likely?

 

Edited August 5, 2018 by OlympicIRL

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Juste maintenant , heywoodu a déclaré:

A1GP  Too bad Ireland won that right in the year when there were fewer and fewer teams and several rounds were cancelled due to a lack of interest, but still  

 

Although I wouldn't count that as a true team sport, just like snooker and golf  

 

Yeah but all the best teams still competed, right? Or in other words, shut up

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il y a 9 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

 

I am 100% sure stranger things have happened than a 12.50 odd team winning a match  

 

Which scoreline had the shortest odds?

 

Edited August 5, 2018 by OlympicIRL

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Il y a 1 heure , De_Gambassi a déclaré:

 

 

 

Well in that case we won the Snooker World Cup 3 times in a row and also the Golf World Cup twice. A1GP World Cup of Motorsport too (I guess it's a team sport since there was a background team and not just the driver involved ).

 

But you get the idea, first final in a major / Olympic team sport

 

Edited August 5, 2018 by OlympicIRL

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il y a 3 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

Well I'm rooting for them to go all the way now and write some more history  

 

The chance is probably at 1% but then again, before the tournament, the chance of us making the World Cup final probably stood at something like 0.1% so our chances have improved considerably

Edited August 4, 2018 by OlympicIRL