Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

Oat23 · 15-07-2021 8:16pm

Shocking stuff from us earlier. Dominated the first half. Threw away several chances and then FH score with their first chance due to poor marking from a set piece. It shouldn't have even been a freekick but still. We should have defended it better.

Second half starts and within 2 minutes we give away a penalty in the corner of the box for no reason.

Very rarely football leaves me raging but I'm absolutely sick after waiting 10 months to see us back in Europe and they serve up that sh*te over 180 minutes. So many players let themselves down.

Bohs have started similar to us. Well on top so far in their game. Hopefully they make their chances count as none of our sides should be losing to mid table Icelandic teams.

prodsc · 15-07-2021 8:22pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117616704#Comment_117616704

agree totally as Bohs go 1 up...good luck.

kksaints · 15-07-2021 8:44pm

Bohs have been the better side and deserve their lead but they have a bit of an issue with Feely on a yellow card and looking nervous. They might be advised to take him off and bring in Cornwall before he lunges in and gets another yellow.

DrumSteve · 15-07-2021 9:02pm

Well deserve to be 2 up.

Great atmosphere here in the aviva.

If I did a shot everytime the announcer asked the South stand to sit down I would be a very drunk man.

kksaints · 15-07-2021 9:49pm

Great win for Bohs. There was around 10 minutes at the start of the 2nd half where they were shaky but once the 2nd goal went in they were in cruise control. Devoy was brilliant, he looks top quality. Fans made what seemed like a great atmosphere for such a small number of them in a large stadium but the lads in behind one of the goals gathering together was a bit frustrating to see. The Covid risk outside like that is lower but to be breaking the guidelines and regulation so flagrantly won't help them if they try and get another trial event in the Aviva next round.

Dillonb3 · 16-07-2021 8:05am

Very good win for Bohs and important for the league which has been sliding down the UEFA rankings. Dundalk and Bohs both have winnable ties next round against Levadia Tallinn and Dudelange

GLaDOS · 16-07-2021 9:30am

Great win last night, and great to be able to attend a game again. Stjarnan were a poor team, but made themselves tough to break down. Once we got the breakthrough and they had to come at us we picked them off easily enough.

Pawwed Rig · 16-07-2021 10:03am

Was there an actual reason that people should have been sitting down or was it a case of thems the rules?

All of the best games I have attended had people standing for large portions of the game.

joeysoap · 16-07-2021 1:21pm

I don’t think there’s an issue with the standing as such it’s standing ‘together’ that’s the issue. Specifically behind the goals. anyway we’ll done Bohs. Hard luck Sligo. Rovers were probably unlucky.(where was McGraith when they needed him?)

joeysoap · 16-07-2021 1:21pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117619612#Comment_117619612

joeysoap · 16-07-2021 1:23pm

I hate the new boards,

joeysoap · 16-07-2021 2:52pm

Like the ‘old’ days. ( this might change)

dundalk vs Finn Harps - 17 july

dundalk vs Levedia -20 july

treaty vs Dundalk - 23 july

levedia vs Dundalk 28/29 July

sligo vs Dundalk - 31 july

can see a few youngsters playing

DvB · 16-07-2021 3:22pm

Rumours of a covid outbreak in the Rovers squad, talk of a large number of the u19's being called up for tonights game. Potential disaster for Rovers if its true, I guess we'll see later who's in the matchday squad if its legit or BS.

chopperbyrne · 16-07-2021 8:04pm

Do Derry have no commentators at all normally?

DvB · 16-07-2021 8:06pm

Stream from the Derry game is very poor, worst I've seen on the loitv platform so far. Freezing constantly.

chopperbyrne · 16-07-2021 8:08pm

Was freezing for me at first, but the video is steady now, just no audio, except for some guy having a conversation about the audio not realising his mic is live.

And Derry have just scored.

joeysoap · 16-07-2021 8:40pm

I think junior has scored the same number goals with Derry as Dundalk (1)

joeysoap · 16-07-2021 8:40pm

howiya · 16-07-2021 8:49pm

The Athlone stream tonight is very good. Different angles, replays etc. Their media partners must be better than ours...

Shels leading 2-1 at the break. Good response to going down to an early goal.

chopperbyrne · 16-07-2021 9:02pm

2-2 now up in Derry.

The changes Bradley made at half time have made a huge difference.

chopperbyrne · 16-07-2021 9:07pm

3-2 Rovers now.

Absolute cracker from Gaffney.

joeysoap · 16-07-2021 9:15pm

in fairness that’s some turnaround

chopperbyrne · 16-07-2021 9:20pm

4-2 now.

Rovers have been very good in this half, and Derry have been poor. Just switched off completely defensively.

Oat23 · 16-07-2021 9:22pm

The Derry game was better without commentators. Why is the main fella so far up Shams hole? Weird behaviour for a City fan 😆

Drumpot · 16-07-2021 9:35pm

How do Athlone have replay facility on TV? Bad mistake for shels 3rd…. Shels marching on…

how did the away fans get in? I thought we couldn’t go to them?!

howiya · 16-07-2021 9:45pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117621937#Comment_117621937

Tickets were on general sale online.

Good win. Still baffled by how Morris uses subs. Hottest day of the year and first sub on after 80 odd minutes. Good contribution from McManus in the lead up to the goal even though he was just on. Would like to see more of him

kksaints · 16-07-2021 9:59pm

Great win. We were comfortable for most of the match and Drogs created nothing after we scored. Burns missed two great chances but still had a great performance. McClelland did a terrific job at left back, he's certainly looked a much better player this season. Defense was very solid as a whole and kept a well deserved clean sheet.

Darkglasses · 16-07-2021 11:14pm

What to say about Cork. I honestly can't believe how low their self-confidence must be, not to even try to attack Wexford in the second half. Down to 10 yes, but surely you go out and try to win it anyway? I feel quite sorry for Cork fans, what on Earth is the story there

Hodors Appletart · 16-07-2021 11:49pm

feeling sorry for foras fans is a bizarre thing really, proper icarus club and they all told us on numerous occasions that they were the new model club

meanwhile Shels continue to prove that a 18 game season was an absolute travesty - there are definitely worse teams than shels currently ploughing fields in the premier

Jim Gazebo · 17-07-2021 12:54am

Lol cork city are **** 🤣🤣

howiya · 17-07-2021 9:55am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117622512#Comment_117622512

Maybe if we'd played better in the 19th game we could have stayed up.

We deserved to be relegated unfortunately

Pawwed Rig · 17-07-2021 10:23am

Over 18 games they flagged for a number of them due to poor discipline and sloppiness. This may have been resolved in the second half of the season with perhaps a team like Finn Harps going through a rocky period.

That said it is what it is. They knew what they had to do and couldn't do it so deserved the relegation. Is it too early to look forward to next season?

osarusan · 17-07-2021 10:32am

Good win for Treaty. UCD played us off the park the first time we played them, but very different last night.

Shels will win the division easily, but there's nobody else Treaty should fear.

Superb stuff from Tommy Barrett.

joeysoap · 17-07-2021 12:30pm

I think I’ll pass on boards for now,

hard to log on

cant see button for follow or unfollow

cant see how to amend posts

can’t see half my threads ie prediction league

can see a lot of ‘old threads’ ie price of hearing oil. Cork City, Galway, Ryanair etc

life is too short

What happened to ‘ if it’s not broken, don’t fix it’

Oat23 · 17-07-2021 1:03pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117623627#Comment_117623627

The new site is fine tbh.

Bookmark this to take you to the soccer forum: https://boards.ie/group/151-soccer

The prediction league is at the top.

dfx- · 17-07-2021 3:37pm

Sloppy Rovers defending again in the first half, but Watts and Kavanagh back is a good sign. Watts broke down at home to Derry and form plummeted for a series and the team is goal shy, he comes back with two wins from two and seven goals...

Zico ! · 18-07-2021 9:37am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117622383#Comment_117622383

Where do I start -might as well start with not having a pot to p1ss in , inexperienced board followed by crap managerial appointments woeful signings a takeover collapse and covid.Still should be beating some of the dross around us in that division new lows every week.

Pawwed Rig · 18-07-2021 10:30am

Dross is a bit disrespectful don't you think?

Wilberto · 18-07-2021 11:08am

Wexford have improved a lot since our 5-0 win against them at home, and even at that, that was mainly down to some dodgy keeping by a guy who was never to be seen again!

It was extremely disappointing though considering that we had seemed to have turned a corner. The last 4 performances were pretty decent (apart from conceding the sickening equaliser against Bray last week in the dieing minutes) in comparison to what went before.

I can only hope that the heat combined with the fact that we were down to 10 for the entirety of the second half had more of an impact than expected although I'm not sure.

Oat23 · 18-07-2021 1:07pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626606#Comment_117626606

There was a fella here a few weeks ago claiming you had money to spend and were never broke. Does anyone know the real truth down there?

Ferris_Bueller · 19-07-2021 9:00pm

Only re-discovered the soccer forum today, thought it was gone or hadn't transferred over yet. I'm assuming a lot of others haven't found it either considering it's fairly quiet.

Anyway - Rovers got a good draw in the Europa Conference League today. They will play the winner of Teuta (Albania) v Inter Club d'Escaldes (Andorra), you would think they've a good chance there. Dundalk and Bohs not so fortunate, if they are both to progress then Dundalk will be against Vitesse Arnhem and Bohs against PAOK.

DrumSteve · 19-07-2021 9:22pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117634460#Comment_117634460

Apparently up to 12k allowed in the aviva for the return in the next game, so hopefully we get near that amount. Must have been based on the last game selling out thought would give it a go.

I would fancy our chances against PAOK more than Dundalk against Vitesse...bad draw there.

Eggs For Dinner · 20-07-2021 6:57am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626834#Comment_117626834

I think Wexford would have had a better chance of a win if it stayed 11 v 11. We didn't have the guile to break down the parked bus and time wasting tactics from Cork. Our keeper spent most of the 2nd half hanging around the centre circle

Drumpot · 20-07-2021 3:53pm

Any Shels fans here ? Got an email at 2.37 saying there was a few tickets for the UCD game away, but by the time I clicked on it (just there) there was nothing on the link , am I correct in saying these tickets are snapped up quickly and I just missed the boat ?

artanevilla · 22-07-2021 12:10pm

Bohs V Dudelange sold out within 90 mins of going on general sale. 8k in Aviva should be good. Hopefully we can get some semblance of a result this evening so it's not a damp squib.