LOI in Europe 2011

**PartySaint** · 15/09/2011, 9:03 PM

Originally Posted by bullit

O'Neill: "Would ya ever fcuk away off Roddy yee waster,now weeeeers that boddle o' Scotch i was promised" !!!

Kerr: Why the **** is Roddy waering Monaghan United slippers??

**born2bwild** · 15/09/2011, 9:13 PM

Disappointing night to be honest. That first goal was so soft.
Ok atmosphere in the ground (We were behind the goal). I saw a few lads in Fingal jerseys too!
Music played at half time was funny - the first track frightened the bejesus out of me - I thought the sound of the jet taking off at the beginning of Back in the USSR was a real feckin plane about to hit the deck - you never know with them mad Russkies.
Ronan Finn was very disappointing - I reckon they need to play Mc Cabe instead of him from now on and keep Ronan for the league.

**hoops1** · 15/09/2011, 9:31 PM

Really enjoyable night tonight. They were a serious outfit and I think we should be happy with a 3-0.
I have been following LOI the best part of 30 years and think they would have beaten any sides in LOI I have seen in that time.
They never really hit top gear but yet looked streets ahead.

**Jicked** · 15/09/2011, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by R�iteoir

Not really - got hammered 3-0 in front of a sparse crowd of which quite a few were leaving on 86 minutes (according to Extratime).

From the bloke who's been going around for months with a Copenhagen or Belgrade avatar, just hoping Rovers got hammered in Europe. In the end you have to settle for us being outplayed by a team who've split four games with Barca, in the group stages of the Europa League, and its still a better result than Bohs managed against Total Network Solutions.

**mypost** · 15/09/2011, 10:29 PM

Yes, bohs fans are lecturing us about crowd sizes these days.

You have to laugh.

**BonnieShels** · 15/09/2011, 10:58 PM

MON: Nah Rod, that won't fit wee Brian the way he's clenched, and besides, sure didn't cha always say you never go down?
RC: No, not, no, I said "never relegated". Ya roigh' Brian?

**BonnieShels** · 15/09/2011, 11:04 PM

This was the tagline on the main sports' page on BBC.co.uk

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says his side should have been awarded a penalty against PAOK Salonika as British and Irish teams endure a night to forget in the Europa League.

Great to see 'Irish' there despite the result and the context. Too often has that tagline been English and Scottish teams. Huzzah.

**dfx-** · 15/09/2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Jicked

From the bloke who's been going around for months with a Copenhagen or Belgrade avatar, just hoping Rovers got hammered in Europe. In the end you have to settle for us being outplayed by a team who've split four games with Barca, in the group stages of the Europa League, and its still a better result than Bohs managed against Total Network Solutions.

Go easy on him, he has a tough decision to stick with a Kazan avatar or change to the next club in-line.

On the game, I thought the result flattered them a bit. Two great strikes, two missed penalties, Rovers created a fair bit with two upfront and were in reasonable control of the game in the first half after the early scrappy goal. Which in fairness, Martins did react well to get there first. Even Alan Shearer would miss a penalty down the Car Park End. SOD can miss as many as he likes in the group stages, he scored the important one.

Not especially bothered about any of these six results, the exposure and build-up, anticipation is enough now. Rubin are easily the best side to come to Tallaght in three seasons.

**Dodge** · 15/09/2011, 11:24 PM

Better than Real madrd? Probably...

**bullit** · 15/09/2011, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by dfx-

On the game, I thought the result flattered them a bit. Two great strikes, two missed penalties,
.

The result didnt flatter RK at all, and dont try to flatter Shams,who were 2nd to every ball,were 2nd in 75% of the tackles.
RK never had a need to up their game at any time during the match and ran out easy winners at the end.
I am delighted for Shams to get this far but.... the gulf in class was apparrant.As M'ON said post match,it is a "huge learning curve for Shamrock Rovers".I wish yee the best, but that performace this evening was "C+". at most.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 15/09/2011, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by dfx-

Go easy on him, he has a tough decision to stick with a Kazan avatar or change to the next club in-line.

On the game, I thought the result flattered them a bit. Two great strikes, two missed penalties, Rovers created a fair bit with two upfront and were in reasonable control of the game in the first half after the early scrappy goal. Which in fairness, Martins did react well to get there first. Even Alan Shearer would miss a penalty down the Car Park End. SOD can miss as many as he likes in the group stages, he scored the important one.

Not especially bothered about any of these six results, the exposure and build-up, anticipation is enough now. Rubin are easily the best side to come to Tallaght in three seasons.

There's a huge amount to be gained from the exposure with the chance of getting new fans etc but that will be totally lost if they keep getting beaten as easily as they were tonight

**dfx-** · 15/09/2011, 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by bullit

The result didnt flatter RK at all, and dont try to flatter Shams,who were 2nd to every ball,were 2nd in 75% of the tackles.
RK never had a need to up their game at any time during the match and ran out easy winners at the end.
I am delighted for Shams to get this far but.... the gulf in class was apparrant.As M'ON said post match,it is a "huge learning curve for Shamrock Rovers".I wish yee the best, but that performace this evening was "C+". at most.

Not a whole lot to disagree in that. Except that it wasn't exactly a siege on Thompson's goal either. I can think of maybe two saves he had to make from open play, both straight at him. Two wonderful strikes massaged the scoreline. Rovers should've had at least one in the second half from open play alone and they didn't deal with Kilduff very well at all.

**bullit** · 16/09/2011, 12:09 AM

I said it on-thread that if yee had have scored the pen,that it would have given yee a huge lift,but once it was missed the chance was gone & the Shams heads dropped.
Best off Oirish v Spuds,Jaysus i wud just love it if you could beat them,just love it ......

**Charlie Darwin** · 16/09/2011, 1:03 AM

Just home now. Disappointed by the goals conceded (two great finishes but all caused by naive defensive lapses) but proud of the effort and the style of the performance.

To all the naysayer, I'm going to bed now and when I wake up tomorrow Shamrock Rovers will still be in the Europa League.

**Spudulika** · 16/09/2011, 4:11 AM

I think Rovers can be happy with their performance, sure they might have played better, but Rubin just upped the ante every time they needed. What the numpties in the Irish meeja don't realise is that this team have been consistently one of the best teams in the Russian League and without wasting vast amounts of cash to do so. My colleagues were all impressed with the atmosphere in Tallaght but it was strange that we saw so many empty seats. The Russian commentators gave a fair amount of respect to Rovers, before the match kicked off (they don't do panels here) the commentator said that the worry was that Rovers would score early and defend.

Well done Rovers, well done LOI, check out Sovietski Sport today for some interesting photos!

**SkStu** · 16/09/2011, 6:46 AM

now im a bit jealous...

**BonnieShels** · 16/09/2011, 7:48 AM

Her scarf is broken.

**Shelsman** · 16/09/2011, 8:05 AM

Well done Rovers -great performance overall. Pity about the missed chances by Rovers (two headers, the saved penalty, Chris Turner's sitter from 6 yards that he never took). The difference between the sides, much as wirth the Copenhagen games was the finishing -the opposition took theirs but Rovers didn't. The balance of play and the number of chances were even -Rovers are well able to play ball (and fair play to them for going about it that way, it's sooooo much better than watching Fenlon take a side into Europe where he plays 4-5-1 Long Ball against anything other than a team from the wee North).

Not sure about ye lads, but Pat Dolan drove me F****** NUTS last night -it seemed like he was up for the Russians?????

Also, the host and panel weren't great -what a shame RTE didn't get the rights.

**BonnieShels** · 16/09/2011, 8:07 AM

RT� didn't .want them.

**pineapple stu** · 16/09/2011, 8:20 AM

Originally Posted by dfx-

On the game, I thought the result flattered them a bit.

I got the feeling that if Kazan hadn't scored those two crackers, they'd have scored two others. They took the foot off the pedal the last 20 minutes and Rovers did their best to take advantage in fairness. Good to see Killer having a stormer. Dunno what Ronan Finn was doing on the right wing?

Spurs v Salonika line-ups are here; possibly sets a record for the highest cumulative shirt number total. There was talk of Spurs being fairly stretched by injuries, so maybe their weak team was due to that rather than 'Arry not taking the competition seriously.

(And as an aside, the Metro Herald today has a quite amazing report of that match. "Spurs hold on for point in Ukraine", is the headline, followed by references to gaining a good point in Greece before hitting the Italians' crossbar

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