Yerrah, you can go more fun places than that!
(No offence to Welshies, cos Wales is quite nice).
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Yerrah, you can go more fun places than that!
(No offence to Welshies, cos Wales is quite nice).
Precisely.. tisnt about location tis about co-efficients xD
A trip to Wales would be great, they have two clubs going into the draw for a start, prob best chance of progression for us and also great opportunity for fans to travel in big numbers to the away game. However there might be a few problems if we draw anyone with a decent away support though (from any country) as we will only have around 3,000 seats less the usual not for sale/press allocation.
I think this reduces us to a limit of 2,500 paying punters, maybe less, so a lot will be disappointed. But at least we have the game at home and hopefully can add to the seating capacity at a later stage.
The trip we had to Rhyl a couple of years ago was pretty good - as it allowed those who couldn't normally afford to go halfway across Europe the chance of an away trip
http://www.airtricityleague.com/inde...ir-play-table-
no extra spot for Irish teams through fair play this year unfortunately.
Am i the first to say, i hope every Irish club in europe, gets knocked out in their first game?
Oh and stick your co-efficent up your hole
Not the first. Plenty of others feel the same
Not the first but it means that much more when you say it ha ha ha ha...your great grand kids might like the co-efficent maintained but then again they might not be too botherd either ha ha ha ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
Summer season was brought in so that we would regularly have a team in the group stages of the CL or later the Europa league. It has failed miserably,now lets forget about playing games in youknowicanistan etc and pay more attention in promoting and developing our own league. IMO a return to the traditional season is a must. Take the Rovers feelgood factor out of the equation and crowds are desperate. It would be great to see BOEEZ do well in the CL, but at the end of the day ,Bill, does it put bums on seats in Ballybofey/Waterford/Limerick/Galway etc
Who said that was the reason for summer football? I've never once heard about any targets...
Crowds were desperate before, and will be in the future. The impact of either summer or winter football on this will be minimal.Quote:
Originally Posted by corkharps
Group stages of the Champions League? Nobody seriously thought that could happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by corkharps
such a backward attitude. i laugh at people who are against summer football, as if the crowds were there before. it was brought in to improve our results in europe which it has done. result! how anyone could wish for a rainy bog pitch in dec over summer football is beyond me.Quote:
Originally Posted by corkharps
Ollie and the two Gerries?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I've no desire to go back to winter football either, but I'm not sure how much impact summer football has had on LOI teams' European performances. I'd say that full-time football and the training that goes with it had a bigger part to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
Crowds are down during the summer months when the old season would've been closed, the european progress just happened to coincide with full time clubs, and I forgot it only rains in December. It's been great conditions for the last few cup finals though, I'll give you that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
But the point really is they never put in place measures of what exactly summer football was supposed to do. Every reason for moving can be argued, or explicity shown to have been false, but since there's (deliberatley) no planned target to measure it against then we have this debate every few weeks.
There's a reason why other leagues, such as the league of wales, have looked at what we've done and seen it's crap and not changed!
if we didnt have summer football we would be going into europe out of season. why would anyone want to go back to that.
eh id like to think our ambitions are a bit more advanced than the league of wales!!!Quote:
There's a reason why other leagues, such as the league of wales, have looked at what we've done and seen it's crap and not changed!
No reason you couldn't do a July-March season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
How does that counter the point made?Quote:
eh id like to think our ambitions are a bit more advanced than the league of wales!!!
The Scottish league have been looking at it too and not changed anything.
Will Shamrock Rovers go directly into the 2nd round of the Europa League and if so why? It'd be good if they started in round 1 with a fairly handy game rather than going straight into a potentially tricky 2nd round tie.
The Europa league group phase is definitely more accessible these days, just look at some of the teams who got to the group stage last year, we'd fancy our top teams against them.
Also,I think the Croatian team(one of the Zagrebs I think) who Red Bull Salzburg edged out in the 3rd qualifying round last season qualified for the group phase.
Yes Rovers start in the second qualifying round. The higher in the rankings a nation gets, the later in the competition their teams enter, hence the reason that Rovers are into the second qualifying round. See here for where clubs enter for the different countries: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/...ccess2010.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by abcd
The League of Ireland is ranked 30th for the allocation of places in the 2010/11 competitions. In that chart in the Europa League, Fingal are 'CW', Rovers 'N2' and Dundalk 'N3'.