Cup final

[red arrow]

let us bring the cup home. hope everybody enjoy's the occasion & show the league what supporting a team is all about. best of luck to paul, gerry and players.

[red metal]

Ya good luck to the lads!Just heading out the door now!

[oldrover]

Whatever the result lets show.... what Sligo Rovers means......Cmon the bitored

[Shedend83]

Best of luck lads !

[Fabrizio]

I hope the lads play to their ability and ive no doubt they can win! for the likes of Peers, Cretaro, Ventre, Boco etc i would love to see them win it, they deserve it , Cook also!! A good game and 3-1 rovers!! CMON THE BIT OF RED!will be brilliant atmosphere!!

[Fivesilver]

Going to be attempting to watch/listen to this in a dodgy internet cafe in Rajasthan - probably the only time in my life I'll ever truthfully say "I wish I was in Tallaght".

Come on the Bit o' Red!

[apo11o]

"No penalty"

[dong]

Just back. In shock after that. We were poor I thought. Not one player you could say really had a good game.
Magnificent support. Looked savage with the massive banner moving across the stand at the start.
Fingal were worth their win I thought. We switched off after Cretaro had to go off and thay created as much as we did, probably more.
Penalty may have been debatable but no major injustice was done.
Was a ****e day for football (in more ways than one)
Sad day but we'll have our chance again. Let's hope we don't have to wait as long.

[Brian Boru]

Just back. In shock after that. We were poor I thought. Not one player you could say really had a good game.
Magnificent support. Looked savage with the massive banner moving across the stand at the start.
Fingal were worth their win I thought. We switched off after Cretaro had to go off and thay created as much as we did, probably more.
Penalty may have been debatable but no major injustice was done.
Was a ****e day for football (in more ways than one)
Sad day but we'll have our chance again. Let's hope we don't have to wait as long.

Well summed up. I'd add that Conor was a huge loss. He possibly would have made the difference.

[sligo23]

Not one player you could say really had a good game.

Eoin Doyle did.

[Well Red]

Heart broken it was there for the taking, just hope all those Sligo supporters get home safely, conditions were brutal for the fans and your heart goes out to them. We have the best fans in the country and we deserved a bit more than we got but fair play to Fingal for taking their chances.

[boris]

just want to say that sligo fans were a credit to the club today and i can only hope the someday fingal will get such support. extra time would probably have been fairer to both teams who at least attempted to play football and it really could have gone either way. until next season

[oldrover]

Shattered. So near and yet so far.

I thought we didnt play well in first half but improved a lot at start of second. Penalty dubious but Fingal took chances well.

Sligo support tremendous. Any chance we can build on this and ensure it is not 14 years before we get back to Final again.

Cmon the bitored.

[red arrow]

just back am very dissapointed. my heart goes out to the fans especially the ones in the north stand. i feel that fingal were sharper & defo our midfiled lacked bite. for me keane & doyle were our best players. but i won't be critical it was a great cup run. hopefully we can go into next season with a clean bill of health financially but we will have to cut cloth according to measure. tallaght is a lovely stadium when full but i think the fai should learn from their mistakes & play the cup final two weeks earlier. also the ticket debacle still ranks with me, i blame the fai. for a crowd of 8100 that turned out today (in extremly bad weather conditions) they should never have put us through the mill. we had 6500 supporters ther today who travelled far & wide and show that the league & fai cup have genuine support in soccer stronghold such as sligo. i'll say no more

[Guts&Glory]

Devastated, Shocked, Depressed and then Jedward get voted out of the Xfactor, worst day of my life.

Seriously though it is not time for recriminations - no matter what happened today I was delighted we were in the final - devastated to lose but proud to get there given the season of ups and downs we had.

Red Arrow - I was in the North Stand to say it was awful would be an undertstatement. We had to send two kids and their mum to the Hotel for warmth at half time the young lads were frozen and soaking wet. They are Super Reds and go to all the home and some away games and as you say it rankles with me also that they were out in the elements whilst some (many?) less frequent followers were in nice shelter in the stand.