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kdjaC
09/08/2009, 1:25 AM
Is champions League not on Weds and Europa cup Thurs ? would love to see the RTE confusion - do we show the Irish club or the Oirish club :confused:

Dinamo due to play in Bucjarest on the same night, it may be switched.
martin_rules_ie
09/08/2009, 10:36 AM
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but someone on the CCFC forum mentioned that it might be the case that Steaua's home game be played at Excelsior Rotterdam's stadium?

Is this total ****** or is there some truth in it?
Candystripe
09/08/2009, 4:17 PM
This has to be one of the best years for the L.O.I. in Europe,especially as we didn't expect the success Pats have had.

But this also has to be the worst draws for travelling to games and with only a few days or a week to plan the trips it really has been a feck up for fans.

I was lucky enough to get to Riga but it was the most expensive Euro trip I've been on and with the **** draw Sligo had along with Pats Russian trip and our couple of days notice to book for Sofia we've not exactly had the nicest of draws travel wise.

Now comes the news that Pat's game is behind closed doors which is a joke for those hoping to travel!

Here's hoping that next season the draw will be kinder for our clubs and our fans.

BTW A brilliant result for Pat's and the L.O.I. in general.
SkStu
09/08/2009, 6:17 PM
have been offline a lot lately - so i just want to say well done to Pats and Derry for their performances in Europe this year. Done the league proud. Despite the crap and negativity that surrounds the domestic game, its performances like these and Bohs going close against RBS that give me hope for the future.
pól-dcfc
09/08/2009, 6:37 PM
You are completely correct, my mistake. Celtic-Arsenal is in the CL, not the EL.

Impressive lack of knowledge about foreign leagues though! Doing us LoI fans proud. We don't give a toss about what happens accross the water.
Inside Man
09/08/2009, 6:40 PM
Brilliant stuff Pats. I was keeping in touch with the game but when they went 3-0 down i left it. Came back later that night to check the news and i actually couldn't believe my eyes. I was actually celebrating! Brilliant for the league. I'll be at the Steau game like i was at the Hertha game last year, cheering on the league.
PartySaint
09/08/2009, 7:43 PM
3 fans to a game, don't start.

And how many fans did yous bring to your European match this season???
Raheny Red
09/08/2009, 8:16 PM
And how many fans did yous bring to your European match this season???

Not sure if many travelled to Holland for the 0-0 draw against Leonidas.
mypost
09/08/2009, 10:36 PM
Also - the floodlight requirements are properly tougher at the next round (no idea what standard Rovers' lights are. Hopefully at the top of the regulatory tree).

Our floodlights are designed to host European matches. There's enormous power in those bulbs, and can blind you in 2 seconds flat.
soccerc
09/08/2009, 10:47 PM
Our floodlights are designed to host European matches. There's enormous power in those bulbs, and can blind you in 2 seconds flat.


...but your, sorry SDCC's, ground does not meet UEFA Cat 3 criteria so it's a moot point
Dodge
09/08/2009, 11:35 PM
Our floodlights are designed to host European matches. There's enormous power in those bulbs, and can blind you in 2 seconds flat.

Yep, thats easily worthy of praise in this thread about european football.

Well done!

As soccerc states, the bulbs might be quality, but the ground isn't good enough
mypost
09/08/2009, 11:35 PM
It is.

It will be shown next year.
Dodge
09/08/2009, 11:37 PM
It is.

It will be shown next year.

It might be next year. This year it isn't.

Fans of clubs looking for a ground suitable enough know these things.

Still, enjoy your bulbs!
dcfcsteve
09/08/2009, 11:46 PM
Now comes the news that Pat's game is behind closed doors which is a joke for those hoping to travel!

Or a financial god-send, depending on your view :D

I feel like I SHOULD be at every City away game in Europe. It casued me all manor of turmoil over the Sofia fixture, and saw me lose the cost of a flight without making the game.

Had the match been behind closed doors, it would've saved me all the hassle.... :)
paul_oshea
10/08/2009, 10:38 AM
There is a good article in todays independent by vincent hogan, just read it on the plane back to london this morning. Dont know if its on the website though.
Dodge
10/08/2009, 11:01 AM
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/liverpool-fanfare-shows-up-twisted-logic-of-the-masses-1855582.html
paul_oshea
10/08/2009, 11:57 AM
ya, thats it, i particularly like these two columns:

"This isn't called devotion to a team. It is enslavement to a brand. All those baby-soap complexions peering out the windows of the Liverpool team bus last week pretty much represented just the recreational arm of a great conglomerate. "

"If anything, the timing headlined the strangeness of it all. On the day 'Liverpool' came to Dunmanway, Cork City just about side-stepped a Revenue winding-up order over tax liabilities and St Patrick's Athletic secured a remarkable European victory in Russia. "

Perhaps they could at least, have had the game in Turners cross, pay in and a percentage to both;)
Dodge
10/08/2009, 12:05 PM
Letter in the Guardian's fiver on Friday


"Maybe all these gaelic games fans writing in from Ireland looking for a football fix (Fiver letters passim) might like to comment on St Patrick's Athletic's Big Vase success in Russia last night? Didn't think so. They're probably too busy studying the TV schedule for the upcoming Premier League season"

(The Fiver use the euphemisim Big Vase for UEFA cup)
paul_oshea
10/08/2009, 1:03 PM
Im assuming thats from a pats fan is it?

You posted that on the co-ef thread already i think?!
soccerc
10/08/2009, 1:03 PM
Im assuming thats from a pats fan is it?

You posted that on the co-ef thread already i think?!

hehehehehe
Sumac
10/08/2009, 1:16 PM
Is the game definately confirmed for the RDS on the 27th - And what is the story with tickets?
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere
Dodge
10/08/2009, 2:08 PM
Im assuming thats from a pats fan is it?

You posted that on the co-ef thread already i think?!

I'd assume so.
superfrank
10/08/2009, 2:38 PM
Perhaps they could at least, have had the game in Turners cross, pay in and a percentage to both;)
Except Cork City don't own Turner's Cross, the Munster FA do.
brianw82
10/08/2009, 2:45 PM
but Rafa Benitez (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Rafael+Benitez) and his boys were in Sweden (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Sweden) on pre-season chores.
Anyone with even a passing interest in the club would have been aware of that.


Weren't Liverpool in Norway? I agree with the article, but I guess it's ok that he, as a journalist, didn't know where the first team was while all those with a passing interest did. :D
paul_oshea
10/08/2009, 2:59 PM
Except Cork City don't own Turner's Cross, the Munster FA do.

and isn't donmanaway in west cork

http://homepage.eircom.net/~saintspics/dolan_special.html
superfrank
10/08/2009, 6:03 PM
and isn't donmanaway in west cork
My point was any revenue generated would go to the Munster FA, not Cork City FC.
Réiteoir
10/08/2009, 6:52 PM
Weren't Liverpool in Norway? I agree with the article, but I guess it's ok that he, as a journalist, didn't know where the first team was while all those with a passing interest did. :D

Correct - they did a marvellous thing there by hammering FC Lyn Oslo :cool:
paul_oshea
10/08/2009, 7:13 PM
My point was any revenue generated would go to the Munster FA, not Cork City FC.

I gathered what your point was, but i was suggesting they could come to some arrangement given the predicament they found themselves and there was a throng of people just 20 - 30 miles away wanting to watch football
Dodge
10/08/2009, 8:07 PM
Correct - they did a marvellous thing there by hammering FC Lyn Oslo :cool:

barstooler ;)
Kildareman
12/08/2009, 8:33 PM
I see ITV are showing Athletico Madrid v Panathinaikos in the Champions League.
If we all emailed BBC Sports Department, ITV Sports and Sky Sports asking could they broadcast the St Pats game because our national broadcaster refuses to then maybe, just maybe....
I know what you're all saying "What a daft idea". I know it is. Nearly as daft as someone from Dunmamway contacting Liverpool FC etc etc etc......
PartySaint
12/08/2009, 10:26 PM
I see ITV are showing Athletico Madrid v Panathinaikos in the Champions League.
If we all emailed BBC Sports Department, ITV Sports and Sky Sports asking could they broadcast the St Pats game because our national broadcaster refuses to then maybe, just maybe....
I know what you're all saying "What a daft idea". I know it is. Nearly as daft as someone from Dunmamway contacting Liverpool FC etc etc etc......

You never know, there is alot of Romanians living in the British and Irish isle that just might consider it
Sheridan
12/08/2009, 10:39 PM
Why do RTÉ waste their time and money covering minnows like those fellas in Limerick tonight? Surely the public would rather see Irish teams excelling on the international stage like Pat's.
dcfcsteve
12/08/2009, 11:03 PM
I gathered what your point was, but i was suggesting they could come to some arrangement given the predicament they found themselves and there was a throng of people just 20 - 30 miles away wanting to watch football

I'm fairly sure the FayeDunnaway game was to open their stadium though.

In which case, it would be strange to officially mark the opening of your stadium with a game 30miles away. At a different stadium. :)
eamoss
13/08/2009, 9:32 AM
Am I wrong in saying the Champions League game will be on a Tuesday or Wednesday and the Europa League game will be on a Thursday? So why are people talking about showing CL game instead of a EL even though they wont be on the same night?
Rory H
13/08/2009, 10:26 AM
it's foot.ie...
marinobohs
13/08/2009, 10:48 AM
It is.

It will be shown next year.

stick to the friendlies :D
paul_oshea
13/08/2009, 4:46 PM
I'm fairly sure the FayeDunnaway game was to open their stadium though.

In which case, it would be strange to officially mark the opening of your stadium with a game 30miles away. At a different stadium. :)

Dunmanaway have a stadium, fair fecks to them :) Only right they had liverpool come to town.
belfastred
13/08/2009, 10:04 PM
Dunmanaway have a stadium, fair fecks to them :) Only right they had liverpool come to town.

:rolleyes:

You could have dressed me in the Red shirt and most of the sheep would have been none the wiser
Umberside
13/08/2009, 11:12 PM
fair fecks to them :)
funny phrase :D
Dodge
13/08/2009, 11:48 PM
Oi, keep your chat about friendlies out of this thread... ;)
TheBoss
14/08/2009, 12:15 AM
Games are now confirmed on UEFA website:

First Leg (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=2000036/match=2000715/index.html)
Second Leg (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=2000036/match=2000752/index.html)
Umberside
14/08/2009, 12:21 PM
Games are now confirmed on UEFA website:

First Leg (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=2000036/match=2000715/index.html)
Second Leg (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=2000036/match=2000752/index.html)

I hate to say it but the match officials are from Russia for the first and Czech republic for the second leg. :confused:
pineapple stu
14/08/2009, 12:22 PM
And...?
dcfcsteve
14/08/2009, 12:57 PM
I hate to say it but the match officials are from Russia for the first and Czech republic for the second leg. :confused:

Thank fcuk for that.

For a minute there I thought you were gonna say they were from Dublin....

Anyone know what the Romanian is for 'Ridden Rock Solid'....?
Umberside
14/08/2009, 1:45 PM
And...?

Czech republic is next to Romania, Russia is near Romania, I don't know really what I meant
pineapple stu
14/08/2009, 1:48 PM
Most mockable post ever. ;)
marinobohs
14/08/2009, 3:17 PM
Thank fcuk for that.

For a minute there I thought you were gonna say they were from Dublin....

Anyone know what the Romanian is for 'Ridden Rock Solid'....?

...... and I bet it was that Pat fenlon that appointed the ref ;)
paul_oshea
14/08/2009, 3:18 PM
Czech republic is next to Romania, Russia is near Romania, I don't know really what I meant

The old soviet block and their love-ins, I get ya ;)

Well love-ins from their paternal side anyway :)
brianw82
14/08/2009, 3:24 PM
Czech republic is next to Romania, Russia is near Romania, I don't know really what I meant

That's for sure - Romania has Slovakia and Hungary between it and Czech Rep, and Moldova and Ukraine between it and Russia.
dcfcsteve
14/08/2009, 4:00 PM
Czech republic is next to Romania, Russia is near Romania, I don't know really what I meant

I know what you meant comrade - it's that they're all foreign !

And we know what these 'forrin' types are like. They all stick up for each other and will have one over on our boys quick as a flash.

I don't even know why we play in Europe with these filthy forrin types. You can't trust any of them. It's bad enough having to go to Donegal to play, let alone all the way to Romylvania....