Like they did last year?Originally Posted by The Lep
Cumann Peile Dún Dealgan - Champions 2015 (too many accolades to be typing)
Termonbarry Athletic TID!
Well done sligo...delighted for you. Also as one of our fans said on facebook they were the only team to beat mons in cup games and they won them both.
Was watching it when my aunt and uncle from Holland arrived and they watched penos with me. Was a great ad for the league seeing a great crowd in a great stadium.
Our league and clubs may be the nesissary inconvienience but it was clear today that international football hasnt a patch on league of ireland clubs when it comes to support, passion and bringing atmosphere to the aviva. The FAI are backing the wrong horse as will be seen on Tuesday night? against norway. Anthem was ****e, pa was non existant at times and bar staff need a good root up the hole and work. Nice ground, if the shed wasnt at the end of it and it didnt cost so much for being so small.
Not a chance. They played well today and deserved it over the 90 minutes.Like they did last year?
Sligo played some great football at times. Gary McCabe is a smashing player
Come On You Saints!!!
Taking credit!
He did the same thing at Bray, waited out on the touchline until everyone forgot about him, then suddenly picks the ball up in acres of space and starts being a menace.
And Magicme, spreegt u Nederlands?
Geen want ik ben dik.
I think they infiltrated all sections..including my bus home..
The Model Club
Tell all the Bohs you know
that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
Ah nee, ik ben zeker dat is niet waar!
Well done Sligo. Deserved the win.
If YOU are not part of the solution,
YOU ARE part of the problem
How great too see two LOI teams play a game in a fine stadium with a brilliant crowd. Oh, if we could only have this more often! Hope future Cup Finals can continue like this. Sligo well deserving of win. I've rarely seen a LOI team retain possession of the ball so well.
great game, one of the best i seen in a long time. to win the league we need 2 strikers IMO, only shams can stand in our way now of total domination...........no world domination!
Indeed, I hope the FAI remember how well the ticket promotion worked out.
In terms of league development, maybe the clubs would be well served by cutting ticket prices and wages in order to build up the attendances over the course of a few seasons. I'm sure plenty of people would sacrifice the excellent bar service at Bohemians if the tickets were under €10.
If you come near Jake Kelly...
Last edited by peadar1987; 15/11/2010 at 9:18 AM.
nobody is safe now from us....even twiggy.haIf you come near Jake Kelly... >
The crowd was high for threee reasons:
(a) Many people (and I know a number) went to see the Aviva Stadium for the first time.
(b) Shamrock Rovers were playing in the final and the ground was awash with old Hoops fans (like myself) there to see the renaissance of the club.
(c) The relative low cost of the tickets.
I am not sure there will be a crowd like that again as it was a unique occasion but it was also great to see the Sligo fans travel in such large numbers.
As for the Final itself, Sligo, other than for two fifteen minute spells in each half, bossed the game and played some lovely football. The Hoops were always second best. SLigo players also seemed much fitter - didn't see any going down with cramp and I wonder did this affect the penalties.
The trouble about the low ticket cost of course is that it won't have generated much money for either club or the FAI. That said it is better to have 36k at the game at €10 a head than 16k at €20k a head.
A great occasion though
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
I would be a lot more positive than you.
A large FAI cup final like this tells lapsed fans that it is OK to go to a LOI game. They are not going to be ridiculed by the pro-English football media.
Several people I spoke to this morning are regretting that they didn't go. That fact that the game meant something and wasn't the usual non-competitive friendly with 22 disinterested players added to the excitement.
As to the crowd I thought there were more Sligo fans than Shams fans. When one considers that there are about 30,000 people (men, women and chidren) in Sligo town, that is some achievement.
I actually understood that without cheating! Am ashamed to say my dutch uncle has been a family member for 25 years and I have learned very little dutch.
Great crowd yesterday but lets not get carried away with the effect it will have . Both teams have decent crowds by loi standards and should be praised for this but i cant help but remember our cup final in lansdowne v cork , over 25 ,000 at that game which was one of the biggest in years . It had little of no effect on league attendances the next year . Its big day out syndrome and unless other issues are sorted out attendances at league matches will continue to be crap .
Terrible way to lose a cup final and i felt sorry for Shams. Credit to the shams supporters who stayed behind and the rovers fans where i was standing applauded shams off the pitch.
Great day for us and my personal greatest as a Rovers fan.
Alot of ****e is written on these boards between Rovers and Shams fans but truth is there is a healthy respect for Shams in Sligo. We are the same supporters that went out on the pitch at Milltown in 87.
This league needs clubs like Rovers and Shams, the large attendance was a credit to both clubs. Its a reality of an Irish supporting public that its unlikely to affect league attendances, we are event junkies.
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