Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

VillaMad

Lafferty makes it 7-7.

chopperbyrne

8-8 now.

Will be heartbreaking for whoever misses now.

Jesus I'm not even a rivers fan and I'm finding this stressful

VillaMad

Both keepers score! 9-9.

chopperbyrne

9-9

Keepers time!

VillaMad

11-11 now.

justshane

This is madness.

VillaMad

SAVED. Rovers with a chance to win it.

VillaMad

O'Brien scores!!! Rovers win 12-11 on penalties. Ridiculous!

ShamoBuc

Delighted for them.

Congrats rovers fans what a finish

chopperbyrne

Rovers win 12-11 on penalties.

Didn't get to see any of them.

Howard the Duck

Jaysus the stress of that.Great result with 10 men

damemcd

Get in.....

NIMAN

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Didn't get to see any of them.

Me either, followed this thread and livescore.

And even my nerves were wrecked.

NIMAN

Coleraine and Rovers thru on pens.....who said you can't practice and be good at them?

ACitizenErased

Rovers should be hammering that lot, let's be honest

howiya

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Rovers win 12-11 on penalties.

Didn't get to see any of them.

Johnny Ward had them live on his Instagram. Over 300 watching it.

Dr. Bre

Unreal shootout . Fair play Rovers

TheCitizen

NIMAN wrote: »

Me either, followed this thread and livescore.

And even my nerves were wrecked.

Watched it on live score tracker with a tick to indicate a goal and x for miss. Fascinating in its own way. Well done Rovers, nerves of steel going second every time with the shootout continuing on so long

chopperbyrne

Like I said earlier, not a lottery.

For the cup final, I knew if it went to penalties we'd win.

Felt the same tonight, but Jaysus that was stressful.

chopperbyrne

I filled in the contact form on Inplayers site, and they've processed my refund.

joeysoap

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Another Dundalk casualty

https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/home/569299/fyffes-signals-end-to-dundalk-fc-sponsorship.html

That was fairly known. Fyffes were taken over by a Japanese company who moved their distribution headquarters to Balbriggan and their office is in Dublin 7. Their premises in Dundalk is closed and on the market.


https://www.mcardleauctioneers.com/new-products/ramparts-road-dundalk-

https://www.mcardleauctioneers.com/new-products/ramparts-road-dundalk-co-louth-

artanevilla

joeysoap wrote: »

That was fairly known. Fyffes were taken over by a Japanese company who moved their distribution headquarters to Balbriggan and their office is in Dublin 7. Their premises in Dundalk is closed and on the market.


https://www.mcardleauctioneers.com/new-products/ramparts-road-dundalk-


https://www.mcardleauctioneers.com/new-products/ramparts-road-dundalk-co-louth-

Dublin 7 you say?

joeysoap

:)

Don’t forget they’re now Japanese

VillaMad

Draw for the next round of the Europa League is on Monday.

Dundalk seeded in the Champions Path. Shamrock Rovers unseeded in the Main Path.

joeysoap

artanevilla wrote: »

Dublin 7 you say?

That link didn’t work

North Anne Street

Ohmeha

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Hate this nonsense.

Penalty shootouts are not a lottery.

It's been proven that teams, and players that consistently practice taking penalties, are successful at them.

Also the enormous on the spot 'clutch' pressure penalty takers have to handle is another huge skill behind winning or losing shootouts, footballers rarely ever experience such individually focused pressure like it during a regular 90 minutes/extra time

dfx-

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Rovers should be hammering that lot, let's be honest

There's absolutely nothing to base that on. A debatable penalty and a red card is plenty of excuses to lose any game.

No hard luck stories.

It's a huge morale boost to get through. Would've been an awful mood around with the streaming debacle, recent league results and home European exit.

joeysoap

well done to Rovers and Coleraine. Coleraine got 9 yellow cards. Probably fined for that.

spoonerhead

Rovers the best team in the land, dealt with them penalties with expertise just like the cup final last year. Missing the first one turned out to be a stroke of genius! False sense of security always works well.

Thankfully one through, has to be said we could’ve had 3 teams through this week based with nothing in the games I’ve watched.

grayzer75

spoonerhead wrote: »

Rovers the best team in the land, dealt with them penalties with expertise just like the cup final last year. Missing the first one turned out to be a stroke of genius! False sense of security always works well.

Thankfully one through, has to be said we could’ve had 3 teams through this week based with nothing in the games I’ve watched.

Two through - Dundalk are also in the next round of the Europa.

DvB

grayzer75 wrote: »

Two through - Dundalk are also in the next round of the Europa.

Dropped down to, didnt progress through though, slight but important difference.
I doubt Dundalk saw themselves as going through.

Wuff Wuff

https://twitter.com/SteRudds/status/1299284088516272129?s=20

https://twitter.com/SteRudds/status/1299288024312942593?s=20

https://twitter.com/SteRudds/status/1299286848863375362?s=20

poor Stephen seems upset that people unnoficially gathered outside a stadium

Starlord_01

Wuff Wuff wrote: »

https://twitter.com/SteRudds/status/1299284088516272129?s=20

https://twitter.com/SteRudds/status/1299288024312942593?s=20

https://twitter.com/SteRudds/status/1299286848863375362?s=20

poor Stephen seems upset that people unnoficially gathered outside a stadium

Turned private :pac:

Wuff Wuff

Starlord_01 wrote: »

Turned private :pac:

always the way :pac::pac:

chopperbyrne

https://shamrockrovers.ie/2020/08/28/streaming-issues/

Howard the Duck

chopperbyrne wrote: »

https://shamrockrovers.ie/2020/08/28/streaming-issues/

Right thing to do giving refunds otherwise it would have put people off paying again. These things can happen they just need to make sure they address the problem for the next stream.

I do feel they should have addressed it during the game and told the commentary team to do radio commentary.

Corholio

Martin Connolly steps down from Dundalk board and his position as company secretary. Wasn't he one of the few Irish based directors?

Oat23

Corholio wrote: »

Martin Connolly steps down from Dundalk board and his position as company secretary. Wasn't he one of the few Irish based directors?

The only one according to Daniel McDonnell. He is staying on in his role as COO.

McDonnell has a 2 page spread about the goings on at Dundalk in the Indo tomorrow.

joeysoap

Brother of one of the previous owners

Dundalk through and through.

Prominent at every match in Oriel

Omackeral

Some goal fest in the FAI Cup tonight.

Athlone Town 5-3 Wexford

Galway Utd 2-5 Shelbourne

dan1895

https://twitter.com/SSEAirtricityLg/status/1299444090430464001?s=19

Nice finish by Rooney for Shels' fourth

Irishmale0399

joeysoap wrote: »

Brother of one of the previous owners

Dundalk through and through.

Prominent at every match in Oriel

Are they getting ready to pull out or are we going to see a major relaunch of their concept/management/team at Oriel.

That has been some week, trainer team out (new lads on 3 month contracts), 12-18 players out of contract and Martin off the board. Is he making space for someone else coming in at the end of the season?? Maybe a CEO/MD, maybe a Director of Football......or is Bill going to sign a team of players state side, manage them, train them...pick the team....manage the business side of the club from his Florida hide out.

dfx-

https://twitter.com/ShamrockRovers/status/1299632884798509056

Enjoy maybe not throughout, but definitely in the end. A couple of close ones there.

Wuff Wuff

dfx- wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ShamrockRovers/status/1299632884798509056

Enjoy maybe not throughout, but definitely in the end. A couple of close ones there.

Good timing because the stream from Thursday night is only going to penalties now

joeysoap

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

Are they getting ready to pull out or are we going to see a major relaunch of their concept/management/team at Oriel.

That has been some week, trainer team out (new lads on 3 month contracts), 12-18 players out of contract and Martin off the board. Is he making space for someone else coming in at the end of the season?? Maybe a CEO/MD, maybe a Director of Football......or is Bill going to sign a team of players state side, manage them, train them...pick the team....manage the business side of the club from his Florida hide out.

Ohmeha

Oat23 wrote: »

McDonnell has a 2 page spread about the goings on at Dundalk in the Indo tomorrow.

Just read it there fascinating read, pretty much politics, power struggles and overall just fawlty towers stuff going on. Hard to know exactly whether it's all 100% true which I'd have doubts but one way or other it's clear there is a toxic environment in that club

The story about the Celtic friendly in Glasgow is crazy apparently there were proposals to get around the 14 day quarantine including playing the under 19's against Pats, calling the Pats game off or putting the players in the YDC for the 14 days with bunkbeds installed was the most hilarious one

Oat23

Ohmeha wrote: »

Just read it there fascinating read, pretty much politics, power struggles and overall just fawlty towers stuff going on. Hard to know exactly whether it's all 100% true which I'd have doubts but one way or other it's clear there is a toxic environment in that club

The story about the Celtic friendly in Glasgow is crazy apparently there were proposals to get around the 14 day quarantine including playing the under 19's against Pats, calling the Pats game off or putting the players in the YDC for the 14 days with bunkbeds installed was the most hilarious one

Wasn't much new info in it I thought. It basically confirmed a lot of the stuff being said by others though.


Th extra.ie article by Philip Quinn on Wednesday was dismissed by many as b*llocks but I thought someone like Quinn has been around far too long to make up/repeat wild accusations. Dan McDonnell and some other respected LOI journalists are now saying a lot of the same stuff so it must all be true which is mad.

Oat23

Is this the first live game shown from Cobh apart from any streams they might have done themselves?

I think they skipped TV entirely and went from radio straight to OTT streaming :pac: