View Full Version : PD/FD PLAY OFF game 2nd leg - Finn Harps v Drogheda United (0-1)
ToberonaTornado
01/11/2019, 12:46 AM
fascinating match set up and well poised at 1-0 to drogs seems to be still anyones game.
Went for Harps earlier and i'm sticking to it.
Martinho II
01/11/2019, 8:14 AM
Think this will be Drogs year. Harps form has gone downhill the last few weeks. Very impressed with Drogs this season and for Kevin Doherty as he was harshly let go by us when Alan Mathews got the bullet.
sbgawa
01/11/2019, 8:27 AM
That goal was vital to state the obvious. I still fancy harps but they need to take their chances (to state the obvious again) the recent match against rovers they should have scored at least 2 if not 3.
Still think they will do it, even on best form we were lucky to win 1 nil up there.
marinobohs
01/11/2019, 9:10 AM
Harps have a slight advantage with being the home side (late goal in Drogheda makes it interesting) and with playing Premier Division all season, they know they have played better teams there this season.
Given Harps less than prolific form all season, Drogheda will reckon if they can score once it may well be enough and they are capable of scoring. Would maybe make Harps slight favourites but very slight. Hope the supporters (both sets) get out and make it an occasion.
ToberonaTornado
01/11/2019, 9:39 AM
Harps have a slight advantage with being the home side (late goal in Drogheda makes it interesting) and with playing Premier Division all season, they know they have played better teams there this season.
Given Harps less than prolific form all season, Drogheda will reckon if they can score once it may well be enough and they are capable of scoring. Would maybe make Harps slight favourites but very slight. Hope the supporters (both sets) get out and make it an occasion.
One of the Harps guys said - next goal wins - i reckon that's right.
I was at the Drogs v Harps match on Monday - it was mental ...for about 90 secs.The last 90 secs.Terrible for the rest.
Two labouring sides .... the last 2 mins magic and typical of LOI 1 sides.
Neither have much going for them.Would just rather Harps cos i fcking hate the Drogs and everything they are.
I just hope it's a good game and everyone enjoys themselves.
joey B
01/11/2019, 10:43 AM
Rumours I was hearing on Monday in Drogheda was this could be Ollie Horgans last game in charge,if that is the case hopefully we can go out with a bang,also a good chance this could be Raff Cretaros last game in League of Ireland aswell so same applies for him! I think it could be a play off too far us,momentum is a big thing in football and Drogheda coming off the last 2 results have that,but hopefully it can be a special Finn Park night again!!!!
EAFC_rdfl
01/11/2019, 2:43 PM
Come on the harps!
sbgawa
01/11/2019, 3:10 PM
Come on harps!!
Second best away trip
kksaints
01/11/2019, 3:14 PM
Is this on any of the local radio stations or extratime.ie?
EAFC_rdfl
01/11/2019, 3:57 PM
Highlandradio.com should have it, I think extra time.ie have it too
MattB11
01/11/2019, 4:21 PM
Same as the first leg its live on highland, extratime and lmfm
thebronze14
01/11/2019, 4:41 PM
I'm ruddy nervous
Dalymountrower
01/11/2019, 6:56 PM
Great start for Harps .1-0
EAFC_rdfl
01/11/2019, 8:47 PM
Gone to extra time
sbgawa
01/11/2019, 9:22 PM
I was never worried 😁
wonder88
01/11/2019, 9:30 PM
Well done the Harps, important result in relation to the geographical spread of the league.
sbgawa
01/11/2019, 9:32 PM
Hope that wasn't ollies last game.
EAFC_rdfl
01/11/2019, 9:36 PM
Too many harps fans constantly putting the boot into ollie, be no surprise if he walks away from it all now,unfortunately
ToberonaTornado
01/11/2019, 10:21 PM
hope shelbyville rot in the 1st division - well done harps.
thebronze14
01/11/2019, 10:35 PM
What a night!we were fantastic first half. Could have been a couple up. As conditions worsened any semblance of football disappeared. We still looked more dangerous at set pieces. Thankfully that paid off when unsung hero Ascroft headed in the winner. When we had 2 points after something like 12 games it was hard to envisage a night like tonight so full praise for Ollie and the lads. Up the wee Harps💙
sbgawa
01/11/2019, 10:41 PM
Fantastic job keeping harps up in a ten team league, when it was 12 teams harps were favourites to go down.
placid casual
01/11/2019, 11:26 PM
Congrats Harps. A welcome addition to the league in my view.
Does this result highlight a bit of a gap in quality between Premier & 1st division ?
anyway, commiserations drogheda, there's always next year.
nigel-harps1954
02/11/2019, 12:57 AM
I do like football sometimes.
Horrendous conditions for a game of football. But delighted to get over the line.
Breifne
02/11/2019, 4:27 AM
Took the spin to Ballybofey for the game this evening. Raff Cretaro’s last LOI game and he was buzzing like a debut making teenager afterwards.
Awful game of football, the crowd were subdued for most of it but boy did they enjoy the two goals. The surface was horrendous and cut up seriously through the game. The ball never came near the ground though so at least there was that.
Great first goal from a well worked set piece and we had picked out Ashcroft as the weakest link who didn’t look like he even wanted to play through any of 90 minutes. Slightly miffed he scored the ‘winner’ would have love someone who actually seemed to care about the result or performance to have that honour.
Delighted for Harps though, Ollie has done some job keeping them up. Will be interesting to see if they can improve in the regular season next year. Can’t see Cork or Waterford being as poor next year or Shels having as poor a season as UCD did this term. I’d be surprised if all 3 North West sides survive bottom 2 next season (and I’m not talking about Derry!)
Finn Harps are the play off specialists. They have a great record coming through these games. Any progress on their long delayed new stadium?
SeanDrog
02/11/2019, 6:49 AM
Congrats Harps, all the best for next season.
Obviously I’m devastated we did not get up this time but now it’s time to focus on next seasons push for promotion and build on this season - Clancy has done a great job and now some fine tuning to strengthen the side will make us real contenders next season to win the division.
thebronze14
02/11/2019, 9:03 AM
Took the spin to Ballybofey for the game this evening. Raff Cretaro’s last LOI game and he was buzzing like a debut making teenager afterwards.
Awful game of football, the crowd were subdued for most of it but boy did they enjoy the two goals. The surface was horrendous and cut up seriously through the game. The ball never came near the ground though so at least there was that.
Great first goal from a well worked set piece and we had picked out Ashcroft as the weakest link who didn’t look like he even wanted to play through any of 90 minutes. Slightly miffed he scored the ‘winner’ would have love someone who actually seemed to care about the result or performance to have that honour.
Delighted for Harps though, Ollie has done some job keeping them up. Will be interesting to see if they can improve in the regular season next year. Can’t see Cork or Waterford being as poor next year or Shels having as poor a season as UCD did this term. I’d be surprised if all 3 North West sides survive bottom 2 next season (and I’m not talking about Derry!)
Very harsh on Ascroft. Been fantastic since he came in and was more than comfortable all night. Didn't take any risks which I agree with on that pitch
White Horse
02/11/2019, 10:10 AM
Congratulations to Finn Harps. I remember what it is like, nothing but pain all season while waiting for a play off game that usually turns on one mistake or one chance.
Sorry for Drogheda but remember the last time they had a good young team and came up? The team was taken apart and they went down anyway and lost all their management team.
SeanDrog
02/11/2019, 12:05 PM
Sorry for Drogheda but remember the last time they had a good young team and came up? The team was taken apart and they went down anyway and lost all their management team.
That’s a very fair point.
Martinho II
02/11/2019, 12:16 PM
Ollie Horgan did some job with Harps this season considering it took them 12 games to win their first match and they were nine points behind UCD at one stage. Its the first time since 2013 that a Premier Div side won the playoff and that was when we lost to Bray!
What was the attendance there last night does anyone know? Caught the last few mins on Highland Radio-great service they have there!
Congrats to Harps btw i was looking forward to making the trip for one of our games next season which will have to wait another year unless we meet in the Cup that is.
Poor Student
02/11/2019, 3:41 PM
Congratulations to Harps. They looked dead and buried behind us early on in the season but kept going. Hopefully we'll next meet in the Premier Division.
marinobohs
02/11/2019, 8:35 PM
Congrats to Ollie and all at Harps. Great result for them after a really tough season.
See you next year !
I honestly feel sorry for Drogheda. Finding yourself in the football equivalent of the battle of Verdun against an Ollie Horgan team at Finn Park can't be any fun. It never stopped raining throughout, seriously bad night. Any pitch wpuld cut up in that weather. Drogheda never gave in but Harps bodies were there to foil everything they tried.
Next year will be the hardest yet. But we are the Harps and f#7k your odds.
ciaraa
02/11/2019, 11:47 PM
I honestly feel sorry for Drogheda. Finding yourself in the football equivalent of the battle of Verdun against an Ollie Horgan team at Finn Park can't be any fun. It never stopped raining throughout, seriously bad night. Any pitch wpuld cut up in that weather. Drogheda never gave in but Harps bodies were there to foil everything they tried.
Next year will be the hardest yet. But we are the Harps and f#7k your odds.
Fair play Harps - playoff specialists & always knew we were up against it. Have ye ever lost a playoff game at home??!
Thought our best chance was to go up automatically and avoid the trip to Donegal but alas the 1-3 loss to bohs sunk us when it mattered. Ah well there's always next year *sighs*.
Nesta99
03/11/2019, 4:59 AM
Fair play Harps - playoff specialists & always knew we were up against it. Have ye ever lost a playoff game at home??!
Thought our best chance was to go up automatically and avoid the trip to Donegal but alas the 1-3 loss to bohs sunk us when it mattered. Ah well there's always next year *sighs*.
I see the 1st Division trauma is setting in - Shels no?
marinobohs
03/11/2019, 8:37 AM
Fair play Harps - playoff specialists & always knew we were up against it. Have ye ever lost a playoff game at home??!
Thought our best chance was to go up automatically and avoid the trip to Donegal but alas the 1-3 loss to bohs sunk us when it mattered. Ah well there's always next year *sighs*.
Wow we are so good we played in both divisions 😃
Presume you mean Shels. They are still a separate club (for now 😜)
Have ye ever lost a playoff game at home??!
Lost to Longford back in 2001/02. We were 1-0 down from first leg in Longford then won the 2nd leg 3-2 but lost (5-6) on penalties. If memory serves we went 1 down in the 2nd leg too
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Great first goal from a well worked set piece and we had picked out Ashcroft as the weakest link who didn’t look like he even wanted to play through any of 90 minutes. Slightly miffed he scored the ‘winner’ would have love someone who actually seemed to care about the result or performance to have that honour.
Very harsh on Ascroft granted it took him a while to get match fitness and was a bit rusty for his first few game but was very solid in the final quarter of the season and scored a few important goals in that time so I was delighted that he got the winner, judging a player on one game (especially a game played in awful conditions) is a tad fussy to say the least
Ollie Horgan did some job with Harps this season considering it took them 12 games to win their first match and they were nine points behind UCD at one stage. Its the first time since 2013 that a Premier Div side won the playoff and that was when we lost to Bray!
What was the attendance there last night does anyone know? Caught the last few mins on Highland Radio-great service they have there!
Official attendance was a bit over 2,100 but that figure wouldn't include kids or the clubs underage teams who get free admin, I say it was well of 2,500
ciaraa
04/11/2019, 10:29 AM
I see the 1st Division trauma is setting in - Shels no?
meh - same thing
Fair play Harps - playoff specialists & always knew we were up against it. Have ye ever lost a playoff game at home??!
Thought our best chance was to go up automatically and avoid the trip to Donegal but alas the 1-3 loss to bohs sunk us when it mattered. Ah well there's always next year *sighs*.
We have lost quite a few playoffs- at one time our record in them was atrocious, but in terms of home legs our record is something like 11 wins and 2 draws.
Another thing against Drogheda was the schedule, the third tough game in a week (the Cabo game may have been a big win but was in doubt well into the game) and then it goes to extra time. We were able to rest a lot of players for last Friday which was a help to us. As for the gap between the last league game and Drogheda's first playoff- that's just insane.
marinobohs
04/11/2019, 10:31 AM
meh - same thing
I guess its been a long, long time in the First ;)
Martinho II
04/11/2019, 1:02 PM
Lost to Longford back in 2001/02. We were 1-0 down from first leg in Longford then won the 2nd leg 3-2 but lost (5-6) on penalties. If memory serves we went 1 down in the 2nd leg too
Yeah Neish Eric Lavine scored an absolute screamer for us down in Ballybofey. Think that was the first goal to that night also!
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