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Nope on Celtic - 8 games.
Levadia Tallinn is an interesting one. I have six games for them, four for FCI Levadia Tallinn, and two for Levadia Maardu. Wiki suggests they might actually be all the same club though. In which case that's our new leader with 12 games
So good call on that. But still leaves us looking for the other club that's played LoI sides 10 times.
Yeah they’re all the same club, they underwent a few name changes which is quite common in Eastern European football. I had a look there and forgot Drogheda played them too so you’re right with 12 gamesQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
What about St Pat's beating some outback side in Russia around 15 years ago?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
They lost in Russia. But by coming back from 3-0 down to lose 3-2, they went through on away goals.
Molde? Seems like we’ve seen a LOT of them over the past few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
The Cork city of their league
Eight games times in the past 12 years alright, but nothing before that. I guess 10 if you include UCD v Molde in the Youth League, but not the one I was thinking of.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Getting closer though.
Djurgardens or Legia Warsaw maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Rosenborg?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Very good shouts. Slovan Bratislava have had quite a few ties too. I can remember at least 3. Rosenborg have had plenty too. We’ve also had a lot of draws against Iceland in recent years, but their teams don’t repeat as often - maybe Stjarnan?Quote:
Originally Posted by kksaints
There we go.Quote:
Originally Posted by OMTY
And against five different clubs too - Shels in 2000, Bohs in 2003, Sligo in 2014, Dundalk in 2017 and Cork in 2018
On the other clubs mentioned, Djurgardens and Legia have only played six games, and Slovan have played eight. Stjarnan have only played four games (again you can include a UCD Youth League tie too) - but we've played 11 different Icelandic sides, none more than four games/two ties.
Good shout!Quote:
Originally Posted by OMTY
I can think of a few Hamstrung Strikers with fairly Spartan returns over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
If the Lisbon international tournament of 1985 counts in some fashion as European competitive then Rovers have already achieved the best result against a Portuguese team. Rovers drew with Benfica and beat Sporting Lisbon to win the cup. There was some drama when the cup was being presented to the Rover's captain (forget name) but the nob presenting the cup was very reluctant to loosen his grip on the cup, didn't want to let it go to a 'minnow' club and the Rovers captain had to use some force to loosen the grip and grab the cup.
Ahem...Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
"Glentoran’s greatest moment in Europe came in a 1967 European Cup tie against Benfica. In the first leg at The Oval, Glentoran took an early lead with a penalty before football legend Eusébio equalized in the 87th minute, ending the match 1–1. In the return leg at Benfica’s Estádio da Luz, part-time Glentoran defied expectations with a 0–0 draw. Although Benfica advanced on away goals, Glentoran became the first team eliminated by this rule and the first to prevent Benfica from scoring at home"
Benfica - Eusebio, Simoes, Graca, Coluna, Torres and all - went all the way to the final that season, losing to Man U at Wembley.
And of course Glentoran were the first British team ever to win a European trophy when they won the Vienna Cup in 1914 :wink:
That's some great football history. I'd have heard about that tie before. Glentoran vs Eusebio being the first instance of away goals being used to decide a tie is a great piece of trivia.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
And there was me thinking Bohs were the only European trophy winners.
If it's not on a shirt, it never happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
At a wild guess - because there's nowhere called Hamrun in Ireland? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
I wouldnt bet agaisnt it with some of the townland names we get away with but if there isnt then we should and automatically enter then to LoI!Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Harmonstown Spartans maybe
No surprise to see RTE are not covering the Rovers or Shels games on Thursday,with Premier sports picking up the baton showing the shels game at least.
RTE ,along with their "cultural" buddy the grab all association are a malignancy on Irish society.
Rangers v Brugge is a massive draw to viewers sure!
The current Head of Sport at RTÉ is Declan McBennett a one-time Monaghan junior footballer of the year with his club Oram, McBennett is still heavily involved in GAA at club level!
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Dan McDonnell has a tweet up, can't find it now saying RTE showing Rovers was never a runner due to the costs involved with the quick turnaround, and extra costs for var etc
I can't feed the tweet but it seemed a very strange one to me
Surely Rovers will have it on LOITV or Solidstream?
Rovers is on LOITV. It was on the league twitter in the last hour.
Is the game going to sell out? I saw tickets were still available yesterday.
Assuming there'll be next to no away fans which makes it that bit harder to sell out I guess.
Tickets available for the North stand, West & South are sold out , no away fans and East stand unlikely to open for "neutrals" so I'd say a crowd of just under 8k expected
read in irish sun earlier that Premier Sports are showing the Linfield Shels game.
the East is open, with tickets available (as well as in the North)Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
You could have read that here first thing this morning!Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Celtic out of the CL after losing on penalties to Kairat. Maeda missed chances in both matches and then misses the final penalty. But celtic mossed 3 of them. Wasteful.
About €45m worth of wasteful, spectacular stuff tbh even with Celtic's previous bananas skin momentsQuote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
From a co-efficient pov, the Kazakh's have jumped right into our mini league of countries vying for Europe league football over the coming years.
You could tell from the game yesterday that Kairat were a few levels above anything we have here so I would fear that their league is coming back strong after some pretty shocking years in Europe.
Only seen bits and pieces of the game, whilst Celtic were wasteful Kairat offered very little but were very dogged and determined nobody is going to want to go there in the league stageQuote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
What is Shels allocation for their Belfast trip!
If they were absolutely muck I dont think anyone would want to go there really. I thought they were a bit like a LoI side in Europe but better and without the calamity goal and Celtic werent absolutely ruthless. I dont think they were at a level that a LoI couldnt attain which should mean that CL groups are not a never.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neish
Assuming there's no live stream of the Athlone Women's Champions League tie available?
7,200 sold as of yesterday morning. Attendance should be 8,000 plus easy I'd say.Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
It's on LOITV.Quote:
Originally Posted by yurt