Drogheda v. Start

[Réiteoir]

Dammit - looks like they've blocked the European games - must be on UEFA orders

Will try to access it tomorrow afternoon

[Réiteoir]

Tried it again earlier - still blocked

Emailed FXTV - and got this reply back:

Hei!

Sorry, you can buy access to the game now. By a mistake, the game was set up with geoblocking for Norway only.



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Game is now viewable in Ireland and the UK

Anyone who wants to know how to get it - PM me

[wws]

Reitoir
whats your assessment of Starts chances?/Drogs Chances in this leg?

[Réiteoir]

Reitoir
whats your assessment of Starts chances?/Drogs Chances in this leg?

I saw Start beat Lyn on Monday 31st July (a week last Monday) in the Ullevaal - their position in the League atm is a false one (second from bottom) - they have recently got rid of their manager - Tom Nordlie, and have appointed ex-Liverpool player Stig Inge Bjørnebye in his place.

They would have won the title last season only to lose it by a point thanks to Fredrikstad beating them on the last day of the season (in fact Start had a goal incorrectly disallowed in the 84th minute for offside that led to Nordlie the Start coach doing his nut at the referee ).

They also would have taken the title even if they had lost and Odd Grenland had beaten Vålerenga the same day (FTR - that game finished 2-2)

I would be very wary of them in all fairness - and would make Start favourites to progress here.

If you get out of Kristiansand Stadion without conceding - then you may have a slight chance

[Réiteoir]

I have pictures from Kristiansand
Drogs in good voice

[Réiteoir]

Fair few Drogs fans crammed into the corner of an open stand on the far side

Not many there by the look of it - although the main stand could be full - only we cannot see it

[Réiteoir]

Start åpner slik:
Rune Nilssen, Kristoffer Paulsen, Steinar Pedersen, Lars Martin Engedal, Marius Johnsen, Fredrik Strømstad, Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim, Kristofer Hæstad, Stefan Bãrlin, Alex Valencia og Todi Jónsson

Drogheda åpner slik:
Daniel Connor, Damien Lynch, Graham Gartland, Gavin Jason, Simon Webb, Shane Robertson, Paul Keegan, Stephen Bradley, Brian Shelley, Shane Barrett og Glen Fitzpatrick

Dommer:
Sokol Jareci (ALB)

[Raheny Red]

Can you take any screenshots

[RonnieB]

Reiteoir is the game been screened on tv2 as well? By that I mean on their satellite channel as I can get a lot of the nordic stations here.

[Réiteoir]

No - it's on one of their Closed Circuit channels available only by Web

TV2 Zebra has Molde - Skonto

[RonnieB]

Aye just saw that now. Thanks.

[Réiteoir]

Start 1-0 up - didn't catch the scorer

[higgins]

F that!!!

seemed to be well on top there

[dancinpants]

Ah balls - c'mon Drogs, yis are well capable of an away goal here!!

[SPXcyan]

a 1-0 defeat would not be a bad result!! hope they can keep it that way or even get that vital away goal

[Réiteoir]

Attendance: 1,433

Fredrik Strømstad the goalscorer

[Terry]

hard luck drogs but all is not lost and hopefully ye can turn it around next week.

[diamond]

the attendance was so low as the start fans were boycotting the game. the club DOUBLED the entry prices. we paid 35euro to sit uncovered in temp seats.**** stadium. very little atmosphere. we tried tho.

[pete]

Its only natural that this game is being eclipsed by the Derry result. I think ye seem well suited to the holding style for european away games so look like will be up against it in 2 weeks time.

1,600 odd home crowd seems pitiful though.