Thankfully Pats have seen sense and downed the prices from the €25 tickets for the Sabah game to €20 for the Istanbul game
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Thankfully Pats have seen sense and downed the prices from the €25 tickets for the Sabah game to €20 for the Istanbul game
Our League match with Bohs has been rescheduled from Friday 30th August to Sunday 1st September at 11:30 a.m.
Very decent of them to accomadate us ;)
The tickets for the home game will €20 for adults and €15 plus €2 fee when they go on sale.
I remember some early KOs in my time but 11:30 has to be the earliest. Coldplay to blame it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
That KOtime will be a challenge for the hippster wing of your support who wouldnt be used to getting up early in the morning
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Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
right move IMO as well, people arent flush with cash and ironically the most loyal STH are the ones who feel the pinch of having to pay for entrance
Only just over 6000 at the match announced last night for Rovers v Celje (unless i heard wrong)
Seems very low compared to previous round which was a sell out and this was for a place in the groups.
Maybe the fans didnt come because we lost away but it seemed strangly low to me.
Will be interested to see how the seeding pools shake out in the ECL if Rovers lose to PAOK. If all ties go the way of the seeded side they'll go into pot 4 (out of 6). A couple of upsets could see them sneak into pot 3.
Seeding don't mean much at this level at the same time since weak sides who qualify for Europe regularly build up a decent co-efficient despite being much weaker than clubs from mid-ranked nations.
24/36 teams qualify for the knock out rounds so if they were to draw a couple weak teams they've have a mighty chance of reaching the knock out phase
Sorry if this has been asked before, but in the event of Rovers (and hopefully Pat's and Larne) drawing a big team in the groups would it be possible to move the game to a bigger venue?
I know Dundalk played in Tallaght and the Aviva last time but I'm sure covid times were different.
AFAIK you have to play all your matches in the one venue to maintain the "integrity" of the League.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
The idea is it would be unfair on some of the teams you choose to play in a packed out Tallaght and hopefully beat if you decide to go and play in the AViva and lose because a big name might fill the AVIVA.
Perfect for your supporters though, many of whom will have been up early anyway to watch their favourite Sunday morning cartoons.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
It's inclusive in the league stage money. You don't get the qualification money once you make the league stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
Minimum for them is €3.26m.
- €3.17m for getting to the league stage
- minimum €85k from value pillar
Page 7 on this document explains it a lot more:
https://editorial.uefa.com/resources...2024_13_en.pdf
Played you in Tallaght at that time on a Sunday 2010 after we’d played away to Juve - the game where we had Pat Flynn sent off but still won 3-0 including one by Twigg when marked by two players (Oman and Heary) with his back to the the goal he flicked the ball over them , turned and volleyed it past Barry Murphy - always felt that was a major turning point as we went on to win the league that season - I can understand why your memory blanked thatQuote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Your lot can’t get out to a euro game at 745 ffsQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
I remember that one now. Few of us sitting down to a fry, hanging from the night before. Was on tv as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
One thing about Bradley, he never lets things go.
Always seems to have that bitter side to him.
https://m.independent.ie/sport/socce...029052895.html
Its reaction to the Celje boss comments over in the away leg and before the match:Quote:
Originally Posted by pateen
https://x.com/SouthStandColl/status/...xzvxHp0BC1vVng
I know.
However after a great win, you'd think he'd be more grown up than that, move on and start talking about the next task ahead.
He doesn't though. He just can't let things go.
He was interviewed about 10 mins after the game. Even at the final whistle these no mark slovenians were throwing shapes so I'd hazard a guess it was near the front of Bradley's mind.
Bradley was well within his right to reply. You could be a bit critical for him repeating himself, pushing the point and showing that the attitude got under his skin, that he felt disrespected and said it was motivation. Just for that reason I think showing contempt would have had a greater impact. Maybe something like who won, who lost, who's bitter, who's better, next question, or just laugh with a yeah he is some craic isnt he, or (if) they have a better squad maybe they need a better manager. Giving air to the length of response would/did look like the mind games hit their mark.
Far be it from me to defend Bradley but he's right. Absolute gibberish from Riera.
I would love to know where teams like Celje get their arrogance from and what is it based on? Dont these players realise if they were actually as good as they think they are they wouldnt be playing in Slovenia would they?
It was the same with Mura in 2022 when they played Rovers and I remember Forrester more or less making the same point as Bradley after the game.
Riera is a clown. Had form for talking **** as a player and then looking a fool. He was doubling down in the post match press conference too.
Only people have said that he was top player I wouldnt know, have no recollection of him at Liverpool or in the Spain side and I dont have my head totally buried in LoI. If he fell through the cracks in my memory he wasnt that big a deal!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Thin Reira was playing for Liverpool around time Rafa Banitez was mgr think it was 05/06Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
He was in and around the Liverpool team that came semi close to winning the league in 08/09,it was Gerrard and Torres mostly and nothing to do with him!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
He fell out with Rafa and was gone not long after. He seemed to not last long at clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Tickets appear to be going well for Thursday. The West and East stands are nearing full up. I had a look at the istanbul basaksehir vs alanyaspor match yesterday. They have some very good wide players that can put quailty balls into the box. I wasn't as impressed with them at the back they looked a bit sluggish at times. Hopefully we show up on Thursday and put in a good performance.
I see the Dundalk v Pats league game confirmed now as expected, Sunday 25th August, 3pm. Correct decision.
This shouldn't really impact Pats too much, a one hour trip up the M1, back in plenty of time for the flight out to Türkiye on Monday.
The centre forward Piatek looked like he was going to be a superstar at one stage when he signed for Milan , but his career seems to have drifted since then .
Why is Pat's second leg on a Wednesday and not Thursday?
When there is only a six day turnaround, it is harsh that the Dundalk clash in-between cannot be postponed. A six day European turnaround is where a postponement should be accomodated.
Funny yoi should bring up thay name. Watched him play for Hertha Berlin... An absolute bluffer of a player. The signing that really got Hertha eventually relegated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glen Of Aherlow
If they were going to have a game on a Wednesday it should have been tonight and then there probably wouldn't have even been any talk of fixture postponements. I do think the way it has fallen could put Pat's season in an absolute tailspin again if the week goes badly. Playing Dundalk and Drogheda right in between and after the 2 biggest games of the season, 2 wins and they're back around the fringes of a shot at Europe with next year. I fully expect them to lose both legs in Europe, a draw at home would be an incredible achievement.Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
I'd be more hopeful of Rovers doing something, but if they got a draw in either leg it's also probably a solid effort.
At a guess I'd say its because Besiktas are playing at home Thursday but that's only a guessQuote:
Originally Posted by legendz
Saw today that he was signed for €25m by Hertha, having been signed for €35m by Milan before that! Scored in the euros against Austria this summer but didn’t play in either of Poland’s other gamesQuote:
Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa
City clash. Besiktas play Lugano in Istanbul on Thursday. I do think that UEFA rule is a bit stupid when it comes to cities as massive as Istanbul is - the biggest in Europe with a 15m population!Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
Agreed where we are playing is over an hour from my hotel in the old city on the metro the city is ginormous. The rules should make an allowance for bigger cities. The quick turnaround with the Dundalk match thrown into the mix makes an already daunting task even harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
He was on over €100,000 a week at Hertha too, and they just could not shift him off the wage bill when things went south. Amazing what one good season at a top league can do for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Hertha is a hilarious club , and a great example of what not to do in professional football. They have one of the best youth academies in Germany, yet lose all their best young talents for pennies, while overpaying average players.
Massive club though.
Did Pat's push for the first leg on Wednesday? Wednesday to Wednesday with Dundalk on Saturday would have been fair enough.
Except it's not in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ropean-cities/
30 goals in a Serie A debut season is a bloody good return in fairness! Weird how he didn't recreate that in the next four seasons at four different clubs. But he's better than a goal every other game for Basaksehir since joining, including 4 in 4 in the Conference League this season, and I'd say it's short odds he'll score one against Pat's, whose defence isn't quite as stingy as your average Serie A one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa
PAOK got 16 points in the Conference League groups last year, and Basaksehir got 16 points in the groups the year before. I think any results for Rovers/Pat's are going to be very good achievements.