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0-0 at half time.
Glens have had a few chances, but Shels are clearly the better side. Shels had a great period after half an hour when they should have scored 2 or 3 goals.
Anyone who can't watch it on RTE 2, can listen to it on BBC Radio Ulster. (Click on Live Glentoran v Shelbourne - underneath Wycombe Wanderers v Chelsea :rolleyes: )
PS - its 1-0 to L'pool after 17 mins.
:ball: 1-0 Shels
Jason Byrne 55mins.
LiverPOO 2 - 0 TNS
:ball: 2-0 Shels
64mins Jason Byrne (pen)
a good penalty
Have to say they are looking very good and have dominated the match. The tie is looking like it is only their's to lose.
:ball: 2-1
Sean Ward 77mins - a bit lucky to get a second bite at it, but well hit in the end.
1-2 sean ward
considering glendinning and melaugh are absent and the glens have had only 2 weeks pre-season they're hanging in ok.
more pressure from glens now
2-1 Shels FT
Glens came back into it in the end and nearly got an equaliser, but Shels were clearly the better team.
I suppose they will take that, but 2 nil was so much more better than 2-1, the tie is still alive now. Should be a cracker in Tolka though :)
I'm just happy that Shels have just won the eL 3 points in the UEFA co-efficient league. Another win at Tolka and that will be 6 points. That's a good start to making up Bohs' Aberdeen & Kaiserslautern points that we will lose after this year.
What a smashing game of football - Bravo Shels for such lovely football and also to the Glens for a stirring fightback.
After this game and Setanta, we must have a league emcompassing the clubs from north and south. So what if a few "suits" and "blazers" are made redundant. :)
Dont think its three points. 1 win equals 1 point, divided by no. of european entrants (3 - Shels, Longford, Cork) is 0.333 points to our coefficient.Quote:
Originally Posted by crc
Improvement on last year. None of last year's entrants won a game in the first qualifying round.
Should've been more. Glentoran were sub-par and we shouldn't have let them back into the game. Also Glen Fitzpatrick played abismally when he came on, Crowe would want to have been absoluted wrecked to warrant him being taken off. Their keeper stopped a rout. Would want to win at home, would be dissapointed with anything else. As for Steau.....
I wasn't able to get to the game so watched on the TV.
Shels were far better than the 2-1 scoreline suggested, but the way we fell back and let Glens back into it was pathetic. Byrne off Crawford on? Joke decision. Really we should have put the thing beyond any doubt whatsoever, but unless we play very poor in the return leg we should beat them in Tolka Park espically with Ndo back in the team, we were by far the better side. If we can get two wins it's good for the co-efficent, already we have equalled what we got in the first round last year.
Good luck to Cork and Longford tomorrow.
Cracking game; fair dues to Glentoran for making a game of it for the last quarter of an hour, though the game should have been buried by then. Referee, incidentally, was appalling (again... :rolleyes: Wasn't it the same lad from the Ireland-Israel game last month?) - Glentoran should have had three red cards - one for the elbow, one for the penalty (last man) and one for McCallion for deliberate handball when he was already on a yellow (and Hoolihan was booked for the exact same thing just minutes before). Ref bottled it on every single occasion.
Why didn't Ndo come on? He played against us, which is a few weeks ago now, so he must be fully fit by now. He'd have been perfect for a game like that against tiring and demoralised part-timers - would have torn them apart.
I can only assume Ndo is injured or Fenlon has lost his marbles. He should walk into our side, if he picked Baker ahead of him he needs his head checked. I really hope he was injured.
Why would he be on the bench if he was injured though?
when is the 2nd leg? 1 week won't do much for glentoran's fitness or match readiness but 2 weeks might.
Next week (Wednesday), live on RTÉ also.
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The ref was Greek what can you expect?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
All credit to Shelbourne the return leg should be interesting. Glentoran have to over come 2 away goals easier said than done.
a deserved shels win a match where both keepers played very well , i thought the scoreline flattered glentoran some bit though
what did people think of the punditry ? thought dolan and matthews came across really well
He was according to your official site + no mention of him being injured in the build up.
Yes Dolan is an excellent pundit. Mattews brought a seriousness to the occasion. Don't think Dolan gave Shels enough credit though and played too much emphasis on the fitness issue. The fitness was a big difference but Shels were the better team overall.Quote:
Originally Posted by exile
Really enjoyed the game. Even my mother enjoyed it. :confused:
That doesn't sound like him :eek: :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by harry crumb
have to say enjoyed it as well it still feels wierd though enjoying a match involving an el team from the comfort of your own home :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by harry crumb
I thought Dolan was an arse, especially the post-match comments. We all know that given free reign Pat would spend his way to oblivion and has nearly managed it on a few occasions. So what if the Glens aren't a fulltime team? Try showing Roy Coyle your trophies Pat...
Its a fine line between informed analysis and preaching, and he danced right through that line.
He's like a chocolate cake, alright every once in a while but you get sick of it if you have it every week.
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Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
and quote of the week goes too ................ :D
I know I'm a bit slow but what was that crack he made about spam?? :confused:
I would have thought Dolan himself was a living refutation of that principle.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
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Originally Posted by sirhamish
Their was an advertising board saying spam on it , and whats with all these advertisment board's in the irish league having jesus on them, the one in portadown had jesus loves you ......... (insert witty remark here)
You are what you eat...so it just adds further credenceQuote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
:D
Enjoyable enough game. Play was poor from both sides in the first quarter of the game with Shels dominating. Shels put some nice moves together in the latter part of the 1st half and should have been ahead. Glens were severely unimpressive. For the main part of the 2nd half Shels dominated and played some nice stuff carving out some nice chances. Great work by Crowe for the 1st goal. Winning the ball with his determination and bravey, drove forward strongly into the Glens end and picked out Byrne well who stuck it home perfectly. Also did well to win the peno perfectly placed and hit by Byrne. Disappointing to let Glens back into it. Was a well placed goal though. The referee was poor. I counted two red cards for Glens, the elbow and the peno (last man back). Shels were impressive, pity they have left the result so tight for next week. They really stepped it up compared to their performance against Pat's at Richmond. They should do it in Dublin but who knows? The Irish League sides did show in the Sentanta they can potentially take an eL side on their day no matter where the game is played.
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Originally Posted by exile
I suppose that's how good the game was - I didn't notice any sideline adverts. I'll leave the witty remarks to your good self - I've suffered enough at the hands of you Corky Boys on Footie with your witticisms already. :D
Thanks exile for the info in any case. ;)
I think I read here before that the Free Presbyterian Church is responsible for these.Quote:
Originally Posted by exile
Using your logic, Shels #15 should have been off, having attempted to con the ref on two separate occasions.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Also, there was a time towards the end of the first half, when the Glens were all over Shels, and had won a throw deep in Shels territory. In order to kill the obvious momentum we had generated by that point, Shels #3 decided to simply sit on the ground and demand treatment, rather than walk all of TWO YARDS to the sideline! Fair play to the official for catching on to his little game and telling him to get up.
Sadly, the poor fella was "unable" to, and allowed the game to be held up while the stretcher bearers were forced to make their way to him from the other side of the pitch, just to carry him that whole TWO YARDS!! He wasn't the only Shels player who seemed to have a problem staying on his feet either!
As for the game itself, there is no doubt Shels were better, and that we rode our luck at times. The reason for Shels superiority is quite clearly because of their match fitness. Had the Glens been at the same stage in our season, I believe we would have won, and fairly convincingly at that. No question, Shels are a good side, but by no means are they excellent. I would just love to see a game between our sides when we're both in the middle of our seasons.
Bottom line- this tie is far from over. If Shels think it's over, they have another thing coming.
That "fella" was Crawley who I believe subsequently had to be taken off as he could not complete the game. I think he had been whacked by a tackle of one of your players a few mins earlier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Forza Glentoran
If you think the only difference between the sides out their was merely fitness and had Glentoran been mid season they would have 'won, and fairly convincingly at that' you're fairly deluded. You played Longford in your season and would have lost on away goals, the time of the season starting wouldn't change a completley one sided game into a completley one sided game the other way, that's completley and totally daft.
Fitness helped, of course, but there was a hell of alot more between the sides than that.
Wasn't there some Glens fan on here talking about how they were training intensely for the first half of the season?
they said on the box tonite that they came back for training 2 weeks ago mattews and dolan reckon that thats not good enough for a team hoping to progress