LOI in Europe 2011

**bullit** · 29/07/2011, 2:19 AM

Originally Posted by mypost

As for us next week, I hope we get chances like these, only take them. They're from Drogheda's tie in Kiev in 2008. Drogheda put up a great fight, but the two misses on 1'50" and 3'00" turned out to be 2 of the most expensive misses in LOI club football.

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Apologies for the local language commentary.

Ahh the doomed Drogheda 2million Euro squad.
Someone remind me what happened there ??

Are yee not the �2m part-time side also going in the same direction

**legendz** · 29/07/2011, 8:27 AM

Originally Posted by mypost

Tel Aviv won the tie in 2001, then got thrown out the next day for fielding an ineligible player, and Haka were awarded a 3-0 win. Liverpool went to Helsinki for the CLQ to play in front of Liverpool-supporting Finnish fans and won 9-1 overall to make the group stage for the first time.

As for us next week, I hope we get chances like these, only take them. They're from Drogheda's tie in Kiev in 2008. Drogheda put up a great fight, but the two misses on 1'50" and 3'00" turned out to be 2 of the most expensive misses in LOI club football.

Apologies for the local language commentary.

I remember watching that game. The miss by Hughes was the main chance really. It was very disappointing that they didn't claim that scalp. It would've been a huge result. The defeat was nearly as disappointing as Ireland's near misses in qualifying.

**legendz** · 29/07/2011, 8:34 AM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Next Thursday, I see Setanta Ireland are to broadcast Hajduk Split-Stoke City...

If true, that is a disgrace. They should rename themselves Setanta England.

**Duggie** · 29/07/2011, 9:01 AM

Originally Posted by corkharps

Needless to say RTE's coverage on the News was .............................

sure they were doing us a favour just letting us know the score..pathetic station

**paul_oshea** · 29/07/2011, 10:42 AM

Ya i remember that game i mentioned it, robinson missing a sitter kinda like kirbys yesterday. How you can hit over the bar from 2 yards out is actually more difficult I really don't know how they do it.

Ceirtlis, I agree that the decision making and the decisions have to be instinctive you don't get the time in Europe to be in anyway hesistant. A cool, assured decision is needed. However I do think that this can be learned to an extent too, through experience, and Pats have plenty of that now.

Even if Rogers is a bog standard LOI keeper, I'd expect a bog standard junior league keeper to make that first one. There is absoloutely no excuse and this is the stuff that gets me, and it is a factor that would put others off watching it, its always the stick that football fans in Ireland who watch their local sides or whatever else, use to beat it.

DI, in my fit of negativity and disbelief, i never spotted he was offside. Great spot. Unlucky for the second goal, i still think though Rogers could have done better with the initial shot.

**gustavo** · 29/07/2011, 11:02 AM

Very proud of the lads great performance once we got up to speed with the Ukranians. Some of their diving was hilarious. Thought Joseph Ndo was superb amongst many great performances. No way that 2nd goal should have been disallowed. I'd say if the keeper had caught the ball instead of making a balls of it it wouldn't have been a foul. Looking forward to the 2nd leg now.

**geysir** · 29/07/2011, 12:31 PM

Was N'do that influential before he went to Sligo or are Sligo just using him properly?

**dublinred** · 29/07/2011, 12:46 PM

Think N'do has matured now he is the main man now all the other players look up to him Cook plays him in the centre and he appeears to be loving it , he is a really good influence on and off the pitch even trains like a tropper and goes for runs in his spare time hard to believe considering some of the comments of what we were expecting rom the pats fans.

**MeathDrog** · 29/07/2011, 1:16 PM

6 away games in Europe this term for LOI sides, only 1 away goal. For all the progress made this year, that is a poor return. Really need to take the chances away from home.

**DannyInvincible** · 29/07/2011, 1:59 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Tel Aviv won the tie in 2001, then got thrown out the next day for fielding an ineligible player, and Haka were awarded a 3-0 win. Liverpool went to Helsinki for the CLQ to play in front of Liverpool-supporting Finnish fans and won 9-1 overall to make the group stage for the first time.

As for us next week, I hope we get chances like these, only take them. They're from Drogheda's tie in Kiev in 2008. Drogheda put up a great fight, but the two misses on 1'50" and 3'00" turned out to be 2 of the most expensive misses in LOI club football.

Apologies for the local language commentary.

I remember watching that in a completely empty Irish pub in Tenerife. My brother and I were so distracted by the crushing disappointment of what we'd just witnessed that we left the bar in disgust genuinely forgetting to pay for our food and drinks. The barman did chase us out on to the street, mind, and we were very apologetic, although I think he suspected we were trying to pull a fast one.

**WindmillWarrior** · 29/07/2011, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

I remember watching that in a completely empty Irish pub in Tenerife. My brother and I were so distracted by the crushing disappointment of what we'd just witnessed that we left the bar in disgust genuinely forgetting to pay for our food and drinks. The barman did chase us out on to the street, mind, and we were very apologetic, although I think he suspected we were trying to pull a fast one.

You'd wanna try being at the bloody game! Maddest end to a game I've ever been at. I nearly had a couple of heart attacks! There was a wide range of emotions in the Drogs crowd that day, very funny when you look back. I remember turning around to see one auld fella just roaring up at the sky, arms and fist raised, like he was calling God out or something!

Actually did many Pats and Sligo fans make the journey over does anyone know?

**BonnieShels** · 29/07/2011, 2:42 PM

I lost my voice shouting at the tv for that game.

The raw emotion of the LOI in Europe is really something.

**DannyInvincible** · 29/07/2011, 3:09 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I lost my voice shouting at the tv for that game.

The raw emotion of the LOI in Europe is really something.

The barman was probably glad to see the back of us by the end of it, to be honest. There were loud profanities echoing around the bar per second in those dying moments.

**redobit** · 29/07/2011, 3:52 PM

Adam 'I slipped in the shower' Hughes. Tosser.

**BonnieShels** · 29/07/2011, 3:53 PM

Great isn't it. It was like me in O'Garas the other night watching Shams.

**BohsFans** · 29/07/2011, 5:21 PM

Originally Posted by MeathDrog

6 away games in Europe this term for LOI sides, only 1 away goal. For all the progress made this year, that is a poor return. Really need to take the chances away from home.

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**legendz** · 29/07/2011, 5:26 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

The raw emotion of the LOI in Europe is really something.

I agree with that. Around the country I think there's a good number of people with that emotion who aren't lucky enough to have a local LoI club.

**BonnieShels** · 29/07/2011, 5:40 PM

Originally Posted by legendz

I agree with that. Around the country I think there's a good number of people with that emotion who aren't lucky enough to have a local LoI club.

Still don't see why they can't adopt one while they wait.

Not sure where you are in Kerry but I would say there's a fair few Lims heads potentially in and around Listowel and Athea.

I get your point however.

**legendz** · 29/07/2011, 6:28 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Still don't see why they can't adopt one while they wait.

Not sure where you are in Kerry but I would say there's a fair few Lims heads potentially in and around Listowel and Athea.

I get your point however.

For adopt I would say passing interest. I do have a passing interest in Limerick but it's not the same. Watching the Kerry League take on Waterford United was a good buzz.