Lex Foutish
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+1 I hope they get some big teams in the group stages.
Shamrock Rovers get Spurs in their group. Should be a nice payday!
To think 6 years ago we were in examinership and now we're going to Monaco to watch the draw for the group stages....words can't express what this means.
ROVERS! ROVERS!
FAO Lex....I have a similarly low opinion of Cork fans that I've met down through the years, particularly the hundreds who used gather outside the Horseshoe to 'greet' us after games, but appreciate the sentiment.
Hope you get up next year, looking forward to beating youse again....
I've always detested the Shams as did my father & grandfather & all my mates - bred into the genes in Waterford I guess - ironic really when you think that Waterford gave Rovers their best ever player in the late great Paddy Coad & other great players like Jim Beglin & Noel Hunt .
However I gladly put these views aside when any LOI side compete in Europe - well done Rovers & here's to a good draw in the qualifiers.
Lex , you're quite right about some Rovers supporters but having worked & played football over the years with Rovers fans - there are a huge number of genuine fans out there , although I can remember lying in wait for Rovers fans to step off the train in Waterford station back in the day
An absolutely amazing result and fully deserved, beating Partizan and the Ref away was superb.
Was at the home leg and the Flora Tallinn game as well, my first time seeing them "at home" since the game against Honved in Milltown, was a great atmosphere and Tallaght is a great little stadium, great to see so many kids there too.
If they do decide to switch some games to the Aviva, I hope they follow the lead of the FAI* (in charging only a tenner in to the Cup Final last year) and fill the place!
*never thought I'd ever write that sentence!
All games have to be played in the same stadium (UEFA rules) so they will play all games in Tallaght. They would struggle to make money with the Greeks and Russians in the Aviva and with the Spurs game at home being the last of the 6 played that may not fill the aviva either.
I am sure they will put in more seating into Tallaght to bring the seating up to 8,000 (as per UEFA rules) and they should sell out for all home games.
As a Cork City FC fan im delighted for Rovers. Great job.
....I can remember lying in wait for Rovers fans to step off the train in Waterford station back in the day
You were carrying a big "welcome to Waterford banner"and wanted to suprise em Deise?
I well remember the night when Shamrock Rovers played Bayern Munich in Germany back in the 1960s. Philip Greene's radio commentary was legendary. They put up a great show then and surpassed this week. Well Done Rovers!
Association Foodball has always been about money. Have no doubt the "all-games-to-be-played-in-the-same-stadium" rule will somehow be discarded when Tottenham Hotspur come to Dublin.
But, for soccer fans in Ireland, savour the flavour of top-class football to come.
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