Yeah, never a penalty!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
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Yeah, never a penalty!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Ger O' Brien could be James Beattie's identical twin!!
Hancock did his best to ruin that game today. He was pathetic once again.
We were poor, but Bohs were very limited in all honesty.
Great to be heading to the Aviva again but the disappointment of the league still lingers a small bit.
Very small home crowd today I thought. Sad to see.
Careful now... saying you find that something relating to Bohs to be sad might get you into all sorts of trouble... gook luck in the final... will you bring as big a crowd as last year ?Quote:
Originally Posted by dong
You'd think with 11 groundskeepers that the pitch would've been in better condition
Careful now....Ya racistQuote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
:D
Poor match yesterday. Very disappointed in Sligo. But a win is a win.
To be fair Bohs did defend well and were quick to break up play. Found it a better game than the Pats one to be honest.
Fair dues to RTE, for a change. Three LOI games in a week, wow that felt good
Due to suspensions (will clubs ever change that rule ?) and injury Bohs were down to bare bones and were very limited in attacking options (Brennan was clearly not fit) and Sligo -without ever playing well - deserved the win. Overall a poor game with very few chances for either team. Sligo (especially in second half) looked more likely to nick a goal. No surprise either that it was a sloppy enough goal when it came.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
best of luck to Sligo in the final (FAI Cup is fast becoming to them what League Cup is to Derry :))
Does that mean we can finally say that Rovers are the Cup specialists again?Quote:
Originally Posted by marinobohs
Thats why I stressed SLIGO, Stu :D. In recent years Sligo's FAI Cup record is beyond compare (3 finals in a row). Is there a criteria to be reached to qualify as "cup specialists" ?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Winning it 6 years in a row would lend itself to the monicker.
Is it tonight yet?
Come on!!!!!!!
Atrocious stuff from Hancock, both sides were poor on the ball, but the referee exacerbated it.
Hard to say. I think we will bring a similar amount judging by the interest the semi final generated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
Hope Pats win the cup just cos they have Kav.
will there be any radio coverage or anything for this?
Pats fan commentary on ustream is the only audio (they've been trialling pictures too, so maybe you'll get that too). No TV
Out of interest how is it decided who is the home team. Didnt matter last couple of seasons but the teams in the final playing in red it will be an issue!
Agree with all of that except for the crowd bit, biggest attendance in Dalyer in a long time and possibly for the last time. Will be far lower on Friday.Quote:
Originally Posted by dong
Also think we would have had a far better chance if Burns, Flood and Fagan had been available. Although the defence did very well considering we were playing 2 left backs and 2 right backs.
1 all shels v pats replay and Garry rodgers sent off for pats
The commentary is gas http://www.ustream.tv/channel/st-pats-live-commentary
NSFW and you wont need much volume either ;)
2-1 Shels...this is interesting.
Shels to get to the final, lose and end up in the playoffs, losing to Galway in the process.
That would be priceless
the two lads sound like they are about to throw themselves under a bus
FairPlay to Shels if they pull it off.
after they threw the game against Sheriff?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
3-1 up now anyway
3-1 !!!!
I think there is a good chance that if Shels win, they will get European Football (License Pending obviously).
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Originally Posted by Jofspring
Done it-3-1 Shels.
they will only get into Europe if they win the cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
The European spot for winning the cup is a higher "seed" than the second or third place in the league. So if Sligo win the cup but finish second or third then they will take the Cup spot and the additional place will revert to the league
''However, the losing cup finalist does not get the Europa League cup-winner spot, but gets the last available Europa League spot of that country''Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
ah balls anyway!
This is on wikipedia anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
If a team qualifies for European competition through both winning a cup and league placing, the "spare" UEFA Europa League place will go to either the cup runners-up or the highest placed league team which has not already qualified for European competition, depending on the rules of the national association.
Always thought the FAI did it that the league place would get it before a cup runner up (if Shels don't win it)
I was told it goes to the best placed league team with we don't win the final.
True but that was never proved and they still had two more rounds to get through before the final and managed to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Just shows the quality to compete that the top first divisions have. Not much of a gap anymore with a lot of premier quality players playing first division football.
Every year that FAI Cup slaps me in the face!!
There was a fair old gap while it was 11 v 11.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
Easy win for Shels in the end, Kavanagh was awful, really really awful. MacMillan was Pats' best player. Great finish by Cassidy, the chip reminiscent of that 2nd goal against Bohs :cool2:
Pats couldn't do the business when it was 11 vs 10 in their favour Friday night so it shouldn't take away from Shels doing the business against 10 man pats.Quote:
Originally Posted by dfx-
No there wasn't. We were well in the game and I thought we were unlucky to concede. Besides Pats had the man advantage on Friday and made a mess of it. Tonight we made far more effective use of the man advantage.Quote:
Originally Posted by dfx-
I didn't see Shels scoring or equalising..