Airtricity League of Ireland 2022

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Will rovers win tonight

I cannot predict the future my friend.

Derry is always a tough place to go, they will be really up for it as they are in 3rd place, and determined to secure European football.

Rovers are going to feel the effects of a tough away match, a long trip over and back home via Shannon, then up to Derry. Ifeel tired just thinking about it!!

I would be content with a point.

 

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I cannot predict the future my friend.

Derry is always a tough place to go, they will be really up for it as they are in 3rd place, and determined to secure European football.

Rovers are going to feel the effects of a tough away match, a long trip over and back home via Shannon, then up to Derry. Ifeel tired just thinking about it!!

I would be content with a point.

So leave them out the acca

 

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Thought St. Pat’s were very, very unlucky last night.

 

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0-0 after 40, but Derry missed a penalty on 35.

Bohs holding Dundalk 0-0 so far.

UCD 1 Harps 1

Drogheda 1 Shelbourne 1

 

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Afolabi puts Bohs ahead in injury time first half - our fiercest rivals might do us a huge favour!!!....ahhh .seems to have been chalked off.

Blinking hell - Dundalk have scored still in injury time first half!!

Different scores depending on where you look - I THINK Dundalk lead 1-0 at HT

Rovers and Derry 0-0

 

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FT

UCD 2 Finn Harps 1
Derry 0 - Rovers 0 - I will take that all day in all the circumstances. It has been a hell of a week, but securing €3.3m minimum with a free shot at Ferencvaros to get to the Europa League proper is brilliant. Bradser has really done well - I know we were quite worried in the early days - although I assure you I wanted to give him time. He is now on the cusp of a hat trick of Premier Leagues, with a shot at a second FAI Cup under his tenure. Europe has been just superb.
We have come so far since being homeless, potless, then relegated for the first time in our history.-our lowest ebb. Hopefully Everton will rise in a similar fashion from this awful tedious slumber.
Bozos 0 Dundalk 1 - no favours from our beloved rivals
Drogheda 3 Shelbourne 1 - Tough night for Duffer

Rovers' lead down to 4 but with a game in hand. Plenty still to play for - Rovers have 11 and Dundalk 10 matches. Derry 9 behind Rovers with same number of games.

Div 1

Waterford 2 Galway 1
Wexford 2 Cobh 2
Cork 0 Treaty 2
Bray 0 Longford 3

 

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Great win for Treaty, opening goal a 25 yard screamer.

 

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Shamrock Rovers away to Ferencvaros programme starting at 5.15 pm on RTE 2. I have my ticket for the second leg. Air tickets to Budapest were just too dear although I love the city.

Hopefully we can keep the tie alive with a solid performance this evening, as ticket sales are hopping for next week. South stand sold out within a coupe of days of tickets going on sale.

Meanwhile, much more important, please God Josh gets through this.....

Stephen Bradley has revealed he was ready to quit as Shamrock Rovers manager in June when his son Josh was diagnosed with leukemia but the support of his wife and family motivated him to keep going.

Bradley is now in Hungary preparing for the first leg of the League of Ireland champions’ Europa League play-off with Ferencvaros, a big tie with a significant safety net in the form of a Europa Conference League group-stage place for the losers.

It has been an emotional summer for Bradley with his eight-year-old son receiving bad news that required urgent treatment.

The Rovers manager missed a week and has admitted he would have quit everything if that was what his wife Emma wanted.

But he was urged to keep working and is now in the midst of a fine European run which he says has a deeper meaning – with Bradley placing all of that above his ambition to go higher in the managerial world.

“It gives you a real reality check,” said Bradley. “I’m so lucky to have the wife I have and the family that allow me to be here and to do this. If she had said to me at the time, ‘it’s time to walk away’, I would have done it in a heartbeat.

“I missed an away game in Dundalk. I was in on the Monday (after) and again I was only allowed to do that because my wife said, ‘this is what you do and you don’t stop, this is for him’.

“I know the players had a meeting with the staff and were unbelievable in terms of just getting on with business and their incredible support for myself and my family, which I definitely needed at that point in time. I’ll be forever grateful for that,” added Bradley.

Come ON Rovers!

 

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Besic starts for Ferencvaros !! Hope he has a stinker!!

Rovers under strength through injuries and suspension, so a test for the strength of the squad.

Ferencvaros sporting director made very disparaging comments about Rovers style of football - Ferencvaros' sporting director Tamas Hajnal has slammed Shamrock Rovers style of play as "unpleasant" and "British", and said he does not look forward to facing down against the Tallaght side. ...... GET INTO THEM !!

Shamrock Rovers Labelled "Unpleasant British-Style" By Ferencvaros Director | Balls.ie

Shamrock Rovers are guaranteed European group stage football, and will face Ferencvaros in the Europa League play-offs to decide which competition they will be...

www.balls.ie

 

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2-0 down - big dilemma for Bradley.

Yes I want to keep this alive for the second leg, but do we risk a not fully fit Jack Byrne coming on? Maybe last 15 minutes. Towell and Farrugia yes, I would get them on at HT. Hard to see us not conceding more in the second half tbh.

We have Dundalk at home on Sunday which is a huge match for the League title race.

We are already confirmed in the EL Conference group stages. What we don't need is to overstretch, get more injuries or suspensions.

Thay just don't seem to be at the races at all this half - heat, understrength, it has shown.

Ah well, A few more cold beers second half and hope for the best.

 

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OK 0-4 going to Tallaght - horrible to concede the fourth in the 4th minute of injury time.

Going to the second leg reminds me of me going to Goodison for the second leg v Bucharest 0-5 down in 05 My mates thought I was cracked, spending that kind of money on flights, hotel, etc

Can't even have a few pints next week as I will be driving.

Really understrength and not at the races all night. Still proud of them - just keep the squad as strong as possible for the league run in and the Conference league.

 

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@dublinbluenose no idea where that result/performance came from but there are pints in Cork for any Bray fan/player after that, but I will say I'm still not willing to buy one for Devlin or his cronies no matter what happens.

Add that to us coming from behind in Cobh (we didn't deserve to win the game tbh), and it looks like we have at least one hand on the trophy if not quite both yet

 

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@dublinbluenose no idea where that result/performance came from but there are pints in Cork for any Bray fan/player after that, but I will say I'm still not willing to buy one for Devlin or his cronies no matter what happens.

Add that to us coming from behind in Cobh (we didn't deserve to win the game tbh), and it looks like we have at least one hand on the trophy if not quite both yet

Yeah win came out of nowhere really. Caught Galway cold and then defended well until the last couple of minutes.

Here's the 2nd goal, real smash and grab

 

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Arguably the biggest match of the season this evening. Dundalk win puts them within a point. Rovers win puts us 7 clear. Rovers also with a game in hand.

So far so good, 2-0 to the Hoops at HT.

Come ON Rovers!

 

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Like @NeroCeasar for Cork City, do I dare to believe that 7 points clear with a game in hand we might make have one hand on a hat trick???

Ah well, Thursday looms 0-4 down. Happy to travel and pay respect to a great bunch of players. Delighted for Bradser and little Josh.

Great resto a sickened in Budapest.