How do Man Utd get away with their sidelines? There's a very steep drop just before the perimeter fence.
It's always been very tight in Terryland too, Jimmy Nolan broke his leg colliding with it years ago.
Pats have played alright. Melia should have had a hattrick and didn't hit the target any of his opportunities.
Their keeper is in shambles and definitely should have been sent off for carrying the ball outside the box, couldn't believe the linesman didn't flag for it. Really poor officiating.
He wouldn't get sent off for handling outside the box...
Can really see why Pats have struggled this season, they're in danger of getting caught on the counter as the opposition have real pace up front when they get their act together.
Pats need to take a lead for the 2nd leg or it'll be more regrets
Keeper clearly looked to be outside the box with the ball in his hands. Hard to believe the officials missed that.
Santa Coloma of Andorra 3-0 up away to Borac Banja Luka (last 16 of the Conference League last year) at halftime is a bit mental
I’m only dipping into Pat’s game on UEFA but they look fairly dominant on the match tracker. Goals always an issue for them.
On a side note. Finnish football continues to slide. Clubs getting beat home and away by sides from the Faroes. HJK taking a battering.
https://www.camel1.live/home
A good streaming site for watching games, if anyone's interested
1-0 thanks to a Keena penalty. How he is not starting is beyond me.
Pat's finally got their goal in the end. Eerily similar game to the Shels one Wednesday. Loads and loads of possession and pressure and eventually turned that into a 1-0 home win against teams that really don't look like they are up to much.
Of all the talk of the league's progressing and standards, etc, I think we can really see it in this round of Europe. I've been watching LOI games in Europe for a long time and you can clearly see the LOI has gone up a level vs the competition.
Part of it is obviously due to the changes in structure of the conference league and there being only the smaller teams in the first round, but our teams do look like the dominant side in ties which used to be 50/50s.
Would be a disaster for either side not to progress after being so much better than the opposition in the home leg.
Poor results for Armenian's this evening are great for our Europa league spot in 27/28 also.
Thank Jaysus for that. Melia had 3 great chances and Baggley with another one or 2. Didn’t get that bit of luck with McClelland’s cross hitting the bar too. Baggley who has had more than his fair share of bad games this season was man of the match for me tonight, excellent all night. More confident they can get the job done over there next week, looking forward to the trip over
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Hegelmann were comfortably the worst side we've played this season I thought, but in keeping with how we've been playing of late it felt like a penalty was the only way we'd actually put the ball in the net despite our dominance. Can only hope we don't live to regret it next week.
Side note but a nice, albeit initially confusing moment was a couple of Hegelmann players at full time went around to applaud the home fans as well as their own. They got a nice reception back after some skeptical looks at first!
Yeah they didn’t seem up to much. Having obviously watched recent Pats matches and saw the inability to break down defences, their game plan was to come and be compact and hit long balls to the Cameroonian number 11 up top but he had very little impact and couldn’t make the ball stick long enough for them to get bodies up and around him. The Brazilian number 15 Leo Ribeiro looked head and shoulders their most talented player, he’s got a serious turn of pace about him and will certainly need to be kept a leash on next week. They didn’t/couldn’t get the ball to him enough for him to hurt Pats tonight but there were a few flashes from him to know that he looks a serious player if given time on the ball. As for the rest of them they looked pretty ordinary players.Originally Posted by Jack B
Comical moment of the night for me was when they were on the break on what was looking like a dangerous counter attack from a Pats corner and 2 of their players ran for the same ball and ended up running into each other and falling over allowing Pats to regain possession and start another attack
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Melia hasn't impressed me at all, can't see how he could be a Premier League player. Noonan and Elding have looked far better IMO. What do Pats fans think?
If a 17 year old with 14 senior league goals in his career and man of the match performance against Istanbul Basaksehir hasn’t impressed you at all it’s probably a good job you’re not a scoutHimself and Noonan have scored the same amount of goals this season. Elding has 2 more than both but is also 2 years older than Melia and 3 years older than Noonan and was nowhere near at the level of the either when he was their age. Melia has struggled for form recently but that will happen with a 17 year old, there’s no doubting his ability
Last edited by 2 Year Contract; 11/07/2025 at 10:02 AM.
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I think the tough patch he is going through will only benefit him. He is only 17 and has the talent to have a good career. If he can go to the highest level will only be revealed in time.
As you said we’ll see what level he ends up at in time. Despite his transfer fee being a record for a LOI player, it’s peanuts for Spurs so it’s definitely worth the gamble for them. Worst case scenario they develop him to a level that they sell him for a slight profit on what they paid as they did with Troy Parrott, although that was a good bit more than just a slight profit, but the point still stands that they benefited from signing him despite him not cutting the mustard as a first team Spurs player
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Controversial statement maybe but i think Melia got his transfer off the back of a few good performances and as someone said a punt from Spurs...i suspect he will disapear on loan to some lower league clubs and end up back here fairly soon.
Hopefully im wrong but he has never impressed me and ive been watching him playing against Rovers underage teams for the last 4 or 5 years
The last time he played a game of underage football was in 2023 when he was 15. The game I mentioned above against Istanbul Basaksehir, he was 16 years old and gave non stop problems to the centre back pairing of Leo Duarte, who AC Milan had spent 10 million quid on before he moved to Turkey, and Senior Ghana international Jerome Opoku. He also ran Roberto Lopes and the rovers back line ragged several times last season. Surely those examples are more relevant than the handful of games you saw him play between the ages of 13 and 15.
Spurs have signed him as an academy player, he will no doubt go out on loan to lower league clubs as is the norm with most academy players, such as Josh Keeley going to Barnet and Leyton Orient and doing well. The likelihood of Melia or Keeley for that matter making it as a regular in the spurs first team is very very slim but they can still make a good career of it in England or elsewhere off the back of doing well in those loans. The problem for young lads in academies over there is that picking the right club(s) to go on loan to can be an absolute minefield that can make or break their career, so there’s a lot of luck involved
Last edited by 2 Year Contract; 11/07/2025 at 12:25 PM.
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I think you missed my point, obviously i have seen him play the senior games my only reference to the underage stuff was that he was never a standout at underage and while he has shown some good form at senior level nothing spectaculer that other players hos age and younger arent doing as well. Hes Irish so i hope he does well but i am still mystified as to how Spurs picked him out as worth the money.
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