The poor lad must be gutted, and probably set a new record in doing so.....
Well done Drogheda.:mad:
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The poor lad must be gutted, and probably set a new record in doing so.....
Well done Drogheda.:mad:
Fair-Play Drogheda and supporters,done the league proud.Chin up Gartland,these things happen,man of the match
Poor kid. :(
However, the one cardinal rule of penalty shoot-outs is that you never, ever permit a player who's carrying a knock to take a kick if you can possibly help it, no matter how much he fancies it. Allowing him to go first was criminal. Would have expected Connor to get hands on more than 1/12 too.
True,he was knackered and took a knock.Don't understand it really
You have to feel for him. But look, Peno's are tough. The only solice id Derry progress, but it would have been sweet to see Drogs in the draw too. Any draw for Start tomorrow will sicken Drogs fans.
It just shows how far we've come in europe,two teams in 1st round proper would've been great but that's football.Gartland's a very good player and he'll bounce back
Well done Drogs. You may be out but did the coefficients proud.
I understand he was first up & missed that. Did Drogs have to nominate him for the 12th penalty too? Unless they forced to was strange to pick him.
Technically Drogs won the game so adds to what now is long list of wins against scandanavians in recent years.
It had to be the same order second time round.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
I feel really sorry for Gartland, so unlucky that he was the only Drogheda player to miss. I'm sure that the Drog fans won't hold it against him.
Yeah has to go in the same order unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
Hard luck Graham. You and your club did the league proud.
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Fair play to the fans, sounded fantastic. As disappointing as it is, a night to be proud of being an EL fan once again.
Thanks again to Gareth and the shesweb team. Top class
fc malmo
djgardens
start
goteborg
some good teams there. good indications that we are indeed on the up... now if only the crowds would cop on
Well done Drogheda, great performance
Drogheda did their town and the league proud. Superb performance. Tough on GG but he should still walk tall.
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Originally Posted by dynamo kerry
Don't forget HJK and Shels did beat Odense in the home leg.
too true ger
when these teams were making the group stages in the 90s we said we should be like them. .. times have changed and big money makes the CL group stages now but there's no reason we can't be at the uefa cup group stages in a couple of years..
great days to be an EL fan if you ask me
Whatever happened to best player 1st? Gartland sadly probaly set some sort of record there :(
kdjac
Patricks Reject...
was it not Bradley or someone who had to play on injured?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Could've been.Sports tonight don't even show derry goals,ffs.
Definitely gartland, went down after the Drogheda goalQuote:
Originally Posted by BohsFans
Great value for my 12 euro was nearly 11pm when i got out of Dalymount. Hard luck Drogheda what a cruel way to go out. Had the same feeling walking back to the car than i did when we got knocked out by Spain in the world cup and im not even a drogs fan. Great fans great team.
PS fair play Derry, havent seen the goals yet, missed sports tonight, is there anywhere online i can see them??
He got his hands on 3 or 4 of them. He nearly saved the 11th he touched on to the underside of the barQuote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Agonising. So close to winning it.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Dyl10
So unlucky, couldn't have been closer in the end.........
Well done to all though, ye done yourselves proud...
It's amazing the difference between winning and losing.If the ball had hit the bar and bounced out you would've had at least two more huge games,more income from games and probably tv rights,it would've been the greatest night in europe for the league.I'm really sickened for all loi supporters and especially the drogs support and gartland.
we lose out too!Quote:
Originally Posted by nshoop
At least Gartland's had a very good career thus far in Ireland.
Is he the only player to win 3 FAI Cups in a row?
Add a league cup & a setanta cup to that and it's not a bad haul for 5 yrs work!
I know we got the co-eff points and they had a good campaign but it still puts a sour taste on a sweet night,f*cking sickened
Hard luck Drogs. The radio was absorbing (when it was working) and made the journey back to Dublin from the Brandywell go much quicker.
Terrible way to go out but the fans sounded brilliant, singing right to the end and not missing a beat when the final penalty went in.
Mine went right dodgy at the very end....I thought I was going to miss out. It was the most exciting radio I've ever listened to. Well done to Gabriel Egan and Eoin Hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
What a night for Drogs, team and support.The big break through is imminent.The list of teams beaten by EL opposition is impressive, Malmo,Odense,Start, Djurgardens, Split,Gothenburg[3 times],Ekranes,Aberdeen.Remember its not that long ago that Pats lost 10 nil over 2 legs to Eastern European opposition....Doubt ya Drogs...
It was really a great game to be at - I mean, the quality of the play was not great (both teams completly lost their shape for most of the second half & much of extra time), but just to be there for the 24 pennos - I was in the Des Kelly stand, right behind the goal, where you could see the whites of their eyes! The quality of the pennos was top class - the 3 that were saved were really the only 3 that could have been saved - Connor got his hands to one of the best shots too (but could only palm it into the top corner:( )
The atmosphere was great & fair play to all the Drogs supporters who never let up with the chants, songs & clapping
A great night:ball:
just not the right result
was glued to the Sky box listening to commentary when i heard there was a penalty shootout in progress. hard luck to Drogs, would have been great to see them in the draw. gutted for Gartland too, so unlucky. wonderful commentary from RTE too.
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Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
Sorry for Gartland, very good player. However, as far as I know you DO NOT have to go in the same order. Once all 11 players have taken a penalty, they can change the order for the second set of penalties.
Drogs were unlucky alright. Great atmosphere at the game-the Drogs lads kept the volume up for the full 120+mins. Fair play.
I felt physically sick listening to the penalties....my son and I were on the edge of our seats. God was gutted for them....Poor Garto.
Want to add my congrats to all the Drogs fans for their creation of athmosphere. They are such a nice bunch of lads & deserve the congrats.
Cheers for the kind words folks.
Totally gutted after that. I thought that once it went to peno's that luck would be on our side. But I have to say that the quality of the peno's were outstanding. IK Start's peno's were top class, all their players were very cool, same as us really.
Garto can hold his head up high. He was immense last night and has been all season. Unfortunately someone was going to be dealt a bad card and last night was him.
The atmosphere was great again, another reason why more people should go to EL games.
We'll bounce back and hopefully this will be a springboad to challenge for the league.
Comiserations Drogs fans, like the rest of the ground I was sure for a split second that Dan had kept out the penultimate one. Great night, fair play to the crowd in the shopping centre end of the Jodi, kept singing all night. The barstooler I brought to the game was gutted coming out - said he hadn't expected the game to be so good. The Start players celebrated like they'd won the world cup - definitely Norwegian teams will show a lot more respect in future I think.
At least there was a coefficient point out of it, so there are plenty of positives after the perfomances from both Irish teams.
Yeah, mine too , think when the line went (again) during the shootout they went to mobile phone thats probably why it sounded crap but at least we didn't miss out.Quote:
Originally Posted by joeSoap
Disappointed for Drogheda, mixed feelings for Connor but kept expecting him to save another one every time Drogs scored. Cruel way to go out but credit for the victory.
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Originally Posted by Dodge
Idiot:rolleyes:
How so? He was at Pat and at the time wasn't good enough. Therefore we rejected him (played one league cup game, never played in the league)
(Not denying I'm an idiot mind...)
poor crowd, only 4124, ie half the ground empty.
Thought there would have been way more than that at it.