Group D: Poland, Netherlands, Austria, France

[Vintage]

What you think to rte mate.

They have Hamann on their football panels mate so don't think much of rte

 

[carlos21]

They have Hamann on their football panels mate so don't think much of rte

They should have premier league games on there next season.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

That was coming.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Poland are in every tournament and I can’t ever remember enjoying watching them. Send them home.

 

[Obes]

Decent header but far too easy.

 

[Papa Shango]

Poland are in every tournament and I can’t ever remember enjoying watching them. Send them home.

They were really good in the late 70's and early 80's.

Done next to nothing since then.

 

[stipe]

Austria no big stars but you can really see manager hand, press, press, press

 

[Drico]

Poland are in every tournament and I can’t ever remember enjoying watching them. Send them home.

They have a similar population to Spain and yet have achieved precisely nothing at major tournaments since 1982. They are the biggest paper tiger in European football, a country with a great football tradition seemingly incapable of producing much more than a team of large grocks to compliment one world-class player - their only world-class player since Zbigniew Boniek. A disgrace.

 

[polish]

They have a similar population to Spain and yet have achieved precisely nothing at major tournaments since 1982. They are the biggest paper tiger in European football, a country with a great football tradition seemingly incapable of producing much more than a team of large grocks to compliment one world-class player - their only world-class player since Zbigniew Boniek. A disgrace.

This is true.

 

[Papa Shango]

They have a similar population to Spain and yet have achieved precisely nothing at major tournaments since 1982. They are the biggest paper tiger in European football, a country with a great football tradition seemingly incapable of producing much more than a team of large grocks to compliment one world-class player - their only world-class player since Zbigniew Boniek. A disgrace.

Lack of money/funding mainly, same as most of the former Eastern Bloc nations.

 

[Drico]

This is true.

And I'm sorry to say it. Genuinely. Poland were marvelous to watch from 1974 to 1982: Lubanski, Deyna, Lato, Zmuda, Smolarek, Buncol, Boniek...

A fine side - in fact, a couple of fine sides. Tomaszewksi and Mlynarczyk to boot. Great players.

 

[polish]

Lack of money/funding mainly, same as most of the former Eastern Bloc nations.

And lot of corruption in the 90's.

 

[Drico]

Lack of money/funding mainly, same as most of the former Eastern Bloc nations.

Agreed - but even Bulgaria and Romania - far poorer nations - have produced brilliant players and teams in the interim. Certainly the Czechs have.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Belting stuff, 1-1

 

[Runub]

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