Hi From Drogheda in Ireland

[#1 Drog]

The links for watching the match on Friday night are:

http://www.tg4.ie/Bearla/Spor/comp.htm

or

http://www.tg4.ie/Bearla/Spor/spor.htm

[Drogster]

Hi Folks

Well since I was on last we have played the last in the first series of league games. It was against the bottom team Longford and as posted earlier "On paper we should come away with a win, and bag a few goals at the same time, but it doesn't always work that way".
The less said about the game the better. We give away a penalty early on and dominated the second half but only managed to get a 1:1 draw thanks to Stuart Byrne finding the equaliser.

As #1 Drog has posted, the Drogs play Bohs, at home in the second round of the FAI Cup. The Drog fans are hoping for a good cup run, as last year we were dumped out of the cup at the first round following a replay against Limerick. This after winning the cup and the Drogs First Cup the previous year (2005).

It has been raining heavily for the last couple of days here in Drogheda, which should make things interesting under foot, not that the teams will need any incentive, as it is second (Drogs) V Third in the league standings.
Reading some of the reviews, they favor the Drogs marginally, due to them being at home. Should be a good game and hopefully we will progress to the 2nd round.

Hope that you are all keeping well, and that you get a chance to check out the links posted up to watch the game tonight. I'll bring my Trabzonspor scarf for the TV cameras!


C'mon the Claret & Blue

[dlel]

hi all,

havent been on in a while and just had to look to see where you finished in your league.well done on finishing fourth after the bad start.as the lads have said tonight we play bohemians in our cup and hopefully we get the result we want

[Samet Berber]

I ' m very bad ...

[dlel]

hi lads,

sadly we lost against bohs last friday in the cup one nil,a very bad game we didnt play well at all.this friday we are away to derry in the league where we really need a win to get back on track

[Drogster]

Hi All,

As posted the Drogs were dumped out of the FAI Cup by Bohs last week.
I was a really bad game and bad performance by the Drogs, a combination between the players not producing the goods and the manager panicking. No shape of balance to the team! Apologies to any of you who may have watched the game over the internet .

Anyway, back to the league tonight and a 3 hour ( if the traffic is kind) trip to Derry. Derry have a stand-in manager, one of their older defenders. They have not lost or won in seven games. The Drogs have only 13 players available for selection, between injuries and 2 players suspended!

A draw would be a good result, looking at it on paper, but you never know, we might sneak a 1:0 win....fingers crossed!

C'mon the Claret & Blue

[cınar#7]

@Drogster

Do you have good Left Back in your team?

We want to left back because we havent good a left defender in Trabzonspor...

Maybe we sing a player from Drogheda...

[Drogster]

@Drogster

Do you have good Left Back in your team?

We want to left back because we havent good a left defender in Trabzonspor...

Maybe we sing a player from Drogheda...

Hi All

Well at the moment we have one of our right backs playing at left back (Damian Lynch). Simon Webb our 1st choice left back is out injured, with an ankle injury and our stand-in left back Stephen Gray is filling in as a central defender. Sorry guys can't help you.

Well the Drogs traveled to Derry last Friday. We had 8 played out injured and two suspended, but we were still able to field a decent team. We had a better shape and balance to the formation, then in the last 2 or 3 games previous. And it showed. Right from the off we peppered the Derry defence and Sami, one of our oldest players received a ball from Zayed, with his back to the goal, turned and held of the defender and struck home a great strike to give the Drogs the lead. We had numerous chances throughout the 1st half and we started the 2nd half in the same manner. Derry made a double substitution and they came more into the game and had a couple of weak chances with Dan our keeper making a couple of good saves. It finished 1:0 to the Drogs, which made the trip home more enjoyable.

That result on Friday Night means, that if we win tonight against Bray (at home, United Park) we will go top of the league by a point. We have two players coming back from suspension (Graham Gartland, central defender and Shane Robinson, Left winger) and O'Keeffe (who came on with 10mins left on Friday) is getting closer to match fitness each day. So the injury crisis has eased a bit and we should a few more back for the UFEA Cup game in July.

So 3pts is a must tonight.

C'mon the Claret & Blue.

[#1 Drog]

Well the good news is that tonight, Drogheda beat Bray Wanderers 4-1!

James Keddy scored a free-kick on 4 minutes to start us off, and Graham Gartland, Gavin Whelan and Sami Ristilla scored the rest.

We performed excellently tonight, miles better than the last few weeks. In particular Sami Risitla who had an amazing game, pity Paul Doolin kept him on the bench for so much of the season.

We now look forward to the UEFA Cup draw on Friday, and hope we get an easy (enough) team!


Forza Claret And Blue

[Tunga]

Good news

As far as I remember, you have made to the 2nd elimination round last year. This year we would like to watch Drogheda's UEFA Cup group matches.

Why not?

:meşale2:Claret and Blue Forever :meşale2:

[#1 Drog]

And I forgot to mention, we arw noe top of the lague!!

[Gamze]

:meşale2: Congratulations Drogheda :meşale2:

[Murat']

I hope you will win the league.........

[Burçak]

Congratulations Drog

[Cabri61]

Congratulations Drogheda.i hope it will continue.