Shels 6 - 2 Glens

Very well done Shels.
Killed off the game without stretching yourselves, that was the best I've seen you play this year, 3rd and 4th goals last night were excellent.

Here's hoping Longford and ourselves can go make it a clean sweep (of course you'll have Steaua at home before that won't you?)

Here's thoseleague rankings now. Only country with four wins from four! :) Matched last year's performance (results wise) already too.

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Originally Posted by seansouth

but you can't deny that we made a great noise in Glentoran.
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Ya you could hear live on RTE shouts of 'ya fcuking feinan B**t**d's' from them last night.. :eek:

Great win by shels totally deserved Crowe and Byrne playing a blinder again... Should have been more but for a few sitters fluffed, but sure it doesn't really matter when your 4-1 up... :rolleyes:

and I thought their crowd sounded very well :D

Talking about nicey nice. I am very excited about next week with Cork and Longford. I have verything crossed for them to win. Full support behind them. As for shels, it was great to see us win a euro tie ages before the end. It was just great to see. I know it was a part-time team etc but as was mentioned it was the team we were recently. 4 wins from 4. Lets make it 6 out of 6 !!! :) COME ON CORK and LONGFORD!!

Well done Shells. A great goal by Crowe and another great performance, doing the eircom league proud.

One disappointing thing about the match was the behaviour of certain Glentoran fans. When Jayo took the peno, scarves were thrown at him (ok, they didn't get very far) and then towards the end of the game someone with a Northern accent referred to Dean Delaney as "you Fenian *******".

But 6-2 is great. What's the biggest winnig margin by an eircom League team in Europe, anyone?

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Originally Posted by geysir

Do away goals count extra in these qualifying rounds?
It would appear not if the following report is factual.
I was checking out the soccer reports on sportinglife.com about the games last night and I came across this game.
Kairat won the first leg 2-0 at home, this report is from the 2nd leg.
"Artmedia Bratislava who beat Kazakhstan's Kairat Almaty 4-1 for a 4-3 aggregate win. It was a dramatic match with goals from Balazs Borbely and Daniel Tchur scoring for the Slovakian side to level the aggregate scores. When Andrey Bogomolov scored a stoppage time goal for Kairat it looked as though the Kazakhs would progress but Jan Kozak's spot kick took the match into extra time. In the last seconds of the extra period Pavol Stano netted the decider."

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I don't know what that is on about. As far as I know that game finished 2-0 and the rest of the goals came in extra time.

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Originally Posted by Poor Student

I don't know what that is on about. As far as I know that game finished 2-0 and the rest of the goals came in extra time.

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Yes you are quite right, the Sporting Life report on that game was full of errors.
Normality returns.

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Originally Posted by superfrank

Well done Shels. A great goal by Crowe and another great performance, doing the eircom league proud.

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8-1 by Rovers against some Luxembourgese crowd in the late 70s, I think. Also 6-0 by Rovers against an Icelandic team in 1982.

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

8-1 by Rovers against some Luxembourgese crowd in the late 70s, I think. Also 6-0 by Rovers against an Icelandic team in 1982.

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For the record, 7-0 (3-0 away, 4-0 home) against Fram in '82.

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Originally Posted by DE TOWN

i know what you mean but they will outsing them even in the Ballybough, they are truly amazing when they are away from home, having seen them myself.

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The Glens fans were absolutle sh*te last night,The Shels fans weren't great either

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Originally Posted by Anto McC

The Glens fans were absolutle sh*te last night,The Shels fans weren't great either

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yeah, neither set of fans came across very well on TV :(

Great to see an EL team outclassing European opposition, it's been a long time since an EL team has had a really comfortable win. I know they scored four but I don't think Shels took enough advantage of the possession they had and I think they'll have to make better use of the chances they get against Steaua.

Both sets of fans were in the worst stands for making noise.

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Originally Posted by crc

we keep good company!

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The same can't be said for our opposition though.

28 Lithuania
29 Northern Ireland
30 Latvia
31 Wales

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Originally Posted by sirhamish

Sky Sports text gave a crowd of 6,000.

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I would say more like somewhere between 7-8,000. It was definitely the right idea giving the away fans the Ballybough end or they would have had to turn away a good few people.

What does Tolka hold? I'd say there was a good bit of room at either end of the Riverside (I was in the middle so hard to tell) and there were some empty spaces in the old stand too.

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Originally Posted by Schumi

Both sets of fans were in the worst stands for making noise.

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Exactly. The sooner we get out of the Drumcondra End the better.

Around 10,000, somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 empty seats there I would have guessed, espically as sections of the new stand were over crowded.

It's a pity really because it looks very well, it's a perfect size for Shels' singing support and all the flags around it look class.

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