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Wesser had a mare !!
Totally left Lille go at them in the first .... Shels improved in the second and probably would have deserved something if they had played like that all game. They didn't deserve to draw but fair play for doing so !!
C'mon City !!
Well done Shels. Great fighting spirit - Lille looked a class side and really up for it in the first half.
A bit lucky ok but Shels will reap the benefits of this for the next 5 years once they qualify for Europe and our champions will be seeded next year whether it is Shels, Drogheda, Bohs or Cork - probably Shels.
Fair play to Shels last night.
No matter what anyone might think of the club, to keep going and get a draw in a game where they could easily have been 4 or 5 down at half time, is a great result and was some achievement by those players.
If "Lucy Lu" waas any use at all, he could have had a hat trick in the first half, alone.
Fair play to the team, and with Byrne and Moore to come back in, Shels are still in with a great chance.
they had like about 2/3 weeks to install new floodlights after the depor match... any improvements could have easily been done in the time they had.... the floodlights have to be fixed sometime!!! more than lightly they will have some euro matches next year...will they be played in lansdowne also???? they should improve tolka in the close season or start making good plans to built a proper 12,000 -> 15,000 seater stadium, which can be used by all el teams in europe... shels do things much too slowly... its a company not a charity... ye are all full time... now start to look like it...plzQuote:
Originally Posted by ShelsTim
In fairness theres no way you could do it in that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
Why do i get the feeling you didnt mean that as a pun?Quote:
more than lightly they will have some euro matches next year...will they be played in lansdowne also????
ok you have lost me...where's the pun...didnt mean to have oneQuote:
Originally Posted by eoinh
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Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
you don't get away with much round hereQuote:
Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
There's already plans for a new stadium, we wont be in Tolka for too much longer. That's the rumour anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
**** performance from Shels to be fair for the first 80 minutes but in a strange way, if anything, that can be used to our advantage. We played rubbish and still drew with them and we've two of our most influencial players to come back. We paid Lille too much respect and yet still carved them open at times, there's no doubt at all that if we go at Lille we can create chances. Lille will be favourites, but if we go and play as well as we can and have in the past we're capable of getting the result imo. If we play like that again we'll be destroyed though.
You saw it in the last ten minutes. We went from dead and buried too still very much in contention. I agree it was lacking for the rest of the game though, if we can get it together for the whole of the away leg we could do well.Quote:
happened to the spirit shown against Hadjuk Split and Depor?
1. 2/3 weeks isn't enough to install floodlights and I think we had less than that with CHF and DerryQuote:
Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
2. We don't exactly have money to be chucking around on spanking newe floodlights
3. We're moving soon anyway so there's no point improving Tolka too much before then.
4. 'which can be used by all el teams in europe', can you imagine Bohs, Longford or Cork playing in Shels' home ground for European games?
5. We're the ones who have made the breakthrough in Europe considerably faster than all the other eL teams, bar Cork but they're only in the InterToto (no offence to Cork).
Shelbourne's and Cork City's results in Europe are just a continuation of the preformances of recent years.
Shelbourne's "breakthrough" is by getting into the CL's 3rd qualifying round, they've opened up a whole new oppurtunity to play a bunch of matches in Europe and win points for themselves.
With UEFA's introduction of more and more clubs in European competition in the 1990's. League of Ireland clubs were finally able to reverse the
nosedive started in the mid-1980's when Irish clubs went 4/5 years without scoring a goal.
Slowly, slowly eircom League clubs have progressed through the rounds of the different competitions. Shels and City are just taking the next step.
Other positives, City continued their great European home record and Shels are unbeaten at home this year.