LOI in Europe 2011

**holidaysong** · 26/08/2011, 3:51 PM

Pretty annoying that all of Rovers home games are 6pm kick-offs.

**DannyInvincible** · 26/08/2011, 3:58 PM

Originally Posted by holidaysong

Pretty annoying that all of Rovers home games are 6pm kick-offs.

Why is that exactly? Any particular reason?

**Acornvilla** · 26/08/2011, 4:06 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Why is that exactly? Any particular reason?

6pm on a weeknight, people have jobs and familys etc, will be a lot harder for the extra loi brigade to travel from around the country to support rovers, like for instance i'm considering doing, but getting to dublin by 6pm from limerick will be a pain in the arse

**DannyInvincible** · 26/08/2011, 4:08 PM

Originally Posted by Acornvilla

6pm on a weeknight, people have jobs and familys etc, will be a lot harder for the extra loi brigade to travel from around the country to support rovers, like for instance i'm considering doing, but getting to dublin by 6pm from limerick will be a pain in the arse

Apologies, I probably wasn't clear enough. I meant why do UEFA specify 6PM as a kick-off time? I'm in complete agreement that's it's not an optimal kick-off time.

**paul_oshea** · 26/08/2011, 4:10 PM

HAHA i knew what ye meant DI, but i thought someone would take you up literally

**holidaysong** · 26/08/2011, 4:10 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Why is that exactly? Any particular reason?

It allows for back to back EL games to be shown on Thursday nights on TV. Obviously for most of Europe on CET it's 7pm for them, so not so bad. Bit unfair though not to have one 8.05pm kick off out of the three home games.

**Charlie Darwin** · 26/08/2011, 4:10 PM

I assume they just assign the timeframes in advance so that TV stations can plan ahead.

**freewheel30** · 26/08/2011, 4:31 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Medo is some scummer.

Absolutely. Can he be cited / disciplined retrospectively I wonder. Definitely deserves some kind of ban. And the ref . . .

Looking back at Partisan they had no real leaders, didn't play as a team. Rovers, on the other hand, had common cause.

**Stuttgart88** · 26/08/2011, 4:35 PM

Gotta love this comment in response to Barry Glendinning's article in the Guardian

The 'right way'? Really? So abandoning your creditors is the right thing to do?

How many of Rovers 'fans' will be in the Aviva waiting to re-enact the disgraceful scenes at Oriel Park witnessed on live national television last season? The same 'fans' did the same at Richmond Park in the cup semi-final replay. The players themselves were no better - Twigg and McCabe in particular were thuggish and triumphalist in their attitudes towards the home support. At the very least steps should have been taken by the FAI over it, but the reports - to the best of my knowledge - have yet to emerge.

This sort of rose-tinted view of Rovers being a great aul side is a bit mawkish for fans of the other clubs in the League of Ireland. Most would like to wish Rovers well in the next round, and there's no denying the quality of Sullivan's strike (unfortunately), but the reality is there's a huge number of us who hope they take an absolute thrashing from the 3 sides in the group.

**Charlie Darwin** · 26/08/2011, 4:38 PM

The bitterness tastes so sweet. All the proper LOI fans I've heard from, including here, have been far more gracious and/or supportive.

**Trainee** · 26/08/2011, 4:42 PM

All rovers will be live on TV3/3e

**Dunny** · 26/08/2011, 4:49 PM

Has a venue been decided on? (Not arsed going through 7 pages

)

**paul_oshea** · 26/08/2011, 5:00 PM

Nope not yet Dunny.

You mean you haven't really enjoyed all these pages.

**Dunny** · 26/08/2011, 5:03 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Nope not yet Dunny.

You mean you haven't really enjoyed all these pages.

Il trawl through them later paul

Just have a football game to get to!

**Acornvilla** · 26/08/2011, 5:04 PM

Originally Posted by Dunny

Has a venue been decided on? (Not arsed going through 7 pages

)

Not yet, rovers are in talks with uefa and the local council to try and expand Tallagh to 10-12k capacity to make it eligible to host group games

**dfx-** · 26/08/2011, 5:23 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Slightly better quality highlights video that includes Rovers' celebrations after O'Donnell scores the peno

That's the stream I had, silence with Sullivan's goal...

Murray's reaction from behind the goal to the penalty is my favourite. Probably the most experienced European game player in the LOI brought to his knees..

**paul_oshea** · 26/08/2011, 6:20 PM

Rovers pro and secretary are going to have a busy few months ahead...

**Lim till i die** · 27/08/2011, 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

The bitterness tastes so sweet. All the proper LOI fans I've heard from, including here, have been far more gracious and/or supportive.

FWIW I hope Rovers lose all their group games 9-0.

Don't get the goodwill, genuinely baffled as to how anyone thinks this will be good for "the league."

**mypost** · 27/08/2011, 2:27 AM

Thanks to everyone with the positive comments. There aren't many days where we're admired by most of the LOI community, and they recognise the significance of the result for the league.

Was one of the 50 who showed up, to see history made. The aim of Summer Football was to help our clubs succeed in Europe. It's taken a while since, but the League will be noticed across Europe now for the next 3 months at least. SRFC will be shown on every UEFA-Cup gamenight by up to 50 host nation broadcasters, and other pan-European satellite stations. That's a lot of people to impress and influence. Other apparantly "superior" leagues and clubs are not so lucky this year, and have no such coverage.

On the draw, not happy to play Spurs. The game could be ruined by disinterested barstoolers and event junkies, so I'm happy to play them last at home. Happy with the fixture list, bar Kazan away. The players love playing these games, the fans love the attention they attract, and both have the belief that we can give it a go, and see what happens. And a lot has happened this year. 7 points imo are needed to stand a chance of qualifying. We can get 7 points.

Whether we will or not, is of course a different question. But tonight, Shamrock Rovers are one of the 80 clubs still left in European competition. We have 6 games to compete in and improve rankings. We are the first to make the breakthrough, but it doesn't matter who is first. What matters is we're there to do ourselves justice and the country proud. To the bitter few that still remain, we hope you see the light in time, and see the achievement for what it is. If you don't or can't, well frankly you're on your own.

**freewheel30** · 27/08/2011, 3:36 AM

Would have been nice to avoid the English teams all right (certainly Spurs, who would have a significant "fanbase" here, unlike Birmingham, Stoke or Fulham), and to avoid having the spectre of the English premiership looming over the whole thing. Seems to be the first time Irish and English football will encounter each other since that 1995 friendly.