Hi From Drogheda in Ireland

[lazooo28]

Setanta Cup Game;

Drogheda:3 Cliftonville:2

Good start!

congratulation drogheda

[#1 Drog]

Thanks guys. We've got a preseason friendly midweek against Stockport, and then the league begins with a big match against Shamrock Rovers on Saturday which you can watch on rte.ie

[Burçak]

Hi Martin This picture yesterday. from Trabzon .
and your scarf

[Drogster]

Hi Folks

I see that Trabzonspor went down 1:0 to Konyaspor over the weekend , hopefully you can bounce back and get on a good winning run!

Well as posted, the Drogs are back in action. we won our 1st game in the group stages of the Setanta Cup 3:2 against Cliftonville. We were a bit rusty, as you would except, in the 1st half and our midfield could pass the ball. The second half was much better, with a few changes made and some nice football played. We should of been out of sight with the chances we had, but their 1st goal was a great free-kick. All-in-all, a win is a win and takes the pressure off qualifying for the next round, for a while.

Saturday sees the Drogs kick-off their defence of the league title against Shamrock Rovers at 5:30 local time. It is been shown on the national tv, rte.ie. I'll try and get put up the link closer to kick-off. Hopefully we will start of with a win!

C'mon d Claret & Blue Army

[6Şafak Aydın1]

hello drogheda,

good luck

[oflubektas]

"İrish People Our İnside"

[Drogster]

Hi All,

Tomorrow sees the Drogs kick-off their defence of the league title against Shamrock Rovers at 5:30 local time in United Park. If you are interested in watching the game the link below. It should work.

Watch Drogheda United v Shamrock Rovers live on RTÉ Two and worldwide on RTÉ.ie from 5.25pm on Saturday.

http://www.rte.ie/live

Hopefully we put 3pts on the board...fingers crossed.

C'mon the Claret & Blue

[Recep Çaltepe]

Good luck to Drogheda United. A new season with new hopes is beginning. And now this time there will be harder games at league because you will be defencing the title. You are the champion and other teams are aware of that because if they beat Drogs (God forbid - that is an expression in Turkish) they will be on news.

Go Drogs Go, for the newest title and titles

[Mayls]

Good luck. I hope this season will be better than all the other seasons in the past for Drogheda Utd

[Çakır]

We are with you Drogheda! Go on moving to the top! :meşale2:

[Berat]

Drogheda:0 Shamrock:1 27th minute on game right now.. Shamrock scored by A. Murphy on 3rd minute..

[Anıl Caner]

Go Drogheda Go....

It's really enthusiastic to see you here. We are all together around of Claret & Blue.

We hope to see you top of the table and winnings honours at the end of the season...

and surely, hope to see the real Trabzonspor legend in next year .

:meşale1:

[28TS61]

drogheda scored 1-0 in the 19. min

[Anıl Caner]

finally, drogheda won the match.(3-0)

now, drogheda have 4 points and the important point is having the first win. if we can pass the derry city match.

derry city began very good to season. and if we can defeat them, it may be a start point of a new winning row.why not?

go drogheda go :meşale1:

[Drogster]

Hi Folks

I haven't been on for a while, very busy these days .

Anyway, the Drogs are 5 games into the season and so far its been a mix bag.

We have suffered a few injuries during the close season which include the retirement of one of our new players due to an irregular heart beat and our left-back (best in the league!) Webb also retired. As a result the manager has had to reshuffle the team a bit. As the weeks go on more of the injured players are getting fit and getting close to playing.

The team as a unit hasn't clicked into gear. We have won 2 games against weak teams, Cobh (Promoted last season) and Galway (who sacked their manager), but from a Drogs point of view, it gives the coach a chance to experiment and the wins builds confidence. We are current 6 points of the pace at the moment, so time to pull up our socks and improve. One or two of the players look like they have been partying to much on the close season, but that will be soon rectified!

This weekend we have UCD a well organised, young college side from Dublin. They have a new ground so hopefully we can mark the game with taking 3 points home!

The national tv station RTE have taken the broadcasting rights for the league this season and highlight show is available on their website. The show is MNS (Monday Night Soccer) and you can select the highlight clip of the game. See the link below.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/ireland_index.html

Clink on the MSN link (Left hand side menu) and select the clip.

OK back to Trabzonspor. I have been keeping an eye on your results and it looks like you have the same problem...No consistency and losing ground on the top teams. I see there is a big gap between 4th & 5th places and you have to play Galatasaray this weekend!


How many teams get into European competitions?


Best of luck for the weekend.


C’mon the Claret & Blue Army

[TSercaN]

vay be ne gurur verici birsey! vallahi sevindim! insallah bu dostluk hep boyle devam eder!!

Translate :

I am so proud of this friendship! I am so happy to see this happening! I hope our friendship will be 4 ever!

[xenit]

Hi Folks

...........We have suffered a few injuries during the close season which include the retirement of one of our new players due to an irregular heart beat and our left-back (best in the league!) Webb also retired.

it seems we dont just share our colors and crescnt we also have same fate and misfortune. I hope everything ll be good for you and you ll get better and healty players next year...

OK back to Trabzonspor. I have been keeping an eye on your results and it looks like you have the same problem...No consistency and losing ground on the top teams. I see there is a big gap between 4th & 5th places and you have to play Galatasaray this weekend!

How many teams get into European competitions?

Best of luck for the weekend.

you know we sold our spectacular player to russian team (Rubin kazan) a month ago. And we already havent so many good players in team. This year we dont have any aim after now.. we are just wating end of the season. Our chairman declared that we ll leave 12 players from present team and ll buy new quality and young 12 players for new season. So we are interesting about transfers now. if you can read in our turkish pages at forum you would see that nobody interest in matches against galatsaray tonight Most of fans are disgusting and exciting with new transfer rumors and news..

As you say there is a big gap betweeen 5th and 6th places.. And unfortunatly we dont have any chance deserve to join UEFA Cup next year.. by being 6th...

thanks for your wishes... Trabzonspor always go to pitch to beat and win....

soon everything ll be better

[Drogster]

Hi Folks,

Just a quick update, since I have been on last.

Well if you haven't been watching the results the Drogs won 3:1 away to UDC in the league 2 weeks ago.

We bet Dungannon Swifts 4:0 away, who are a poor team from the north, in the Setanta Cup, which basically means we are through to the next round, which re-commences in September. They have split the competition in two to give the Northern Irish teams a better chance this year!

We lost 2:1 at home last week against Bohs. Wasn't a good game and the ref was terrible, for both teams, even the commentators agreed, and Kelly is suppose to be the best we've got ! A draw would have been a fair result, but we didn't deserve to win it. They scored a peno in the last minute of the additional time at the end of the game!


Annywayyyy! The good news is that we travelled down to Cork on Friday night, were we needed at least a draw, considering we were 8pts of the lead!

Unfortunately I was unable to travel due to work and you really need the whole day off to make down south to Cork. Nevertheless, the Drogs put on one of their best performances in a long, long time. The manager got the tactics spot on and we attacked and put the ball on the deck and took Cork apart . We won 2:0 thanks to Baker and O'keeffe, it could and should of been more 4 or possibly 5 according to some paper reports and talking to some of the travelling fans. The last time Cork were beaten by 2 goals in Cork was over 2 years ago by Shels.

So the general opinion is that our season starts here! We are 5pts of the pace but there is a long way to go....
C'mon the Drogs.

Next up we have Finn Harps, who were promoted last season and are struggling so far...so hopefully 3 more points.

I see the Trabzonspor haven't made an improvement on catching a Kayserispor in 5th place, with a 1:0 lost to Galatasaray, a 0:0 draw with Gençlerbirliği and a 1:1 draw against Gaziantepspor .

Hopefully your luck will change and you can put together a run of victories...fingers crossed!

C'mon the Claret & Blue

[Anıl Caner]

trabzonspor finished early this season. now all the our staff are focused on transfer. we exist in matchs with our reserve players. don't worry about Trabzonspor. Everything will be different next year

Claret and Blue Army....

[Drogster]

Hi All.

I see that Trabzonspor came from behind to win 2:1 against İstanbul BB and away as well. Well done guys and girls . Next up Fenerbahçe next week ! That will be a tough one!......fingers crossed.

The Drogs also came away with 3pts on Friday night when we played Finn Harps in United Park. Wasn't a great game. Our first piece of real play lead to our one and only goal. Nice football and good finish by our midfeilder Adam Hughes, who we signed from Sligo Rovers. His first goal of the season.

We had a number of good chances in the second half, but good stops by their goalkeeper and poor finishing meant that we had to be satisfied with one, which turned out to be enough at the end of the game.

Next up we have Shels in the League Shield on Monday evening (Public Holiday in Ireland). The Shield is the lesser trophy to play for. Our Manager will probably give a run out to the fringe player of the squad.

Best of luck Folks

C'mon on the Claret & Blue

[Burçak]

Hi Martin How r u

[Drogster]

Hi Folks

First of all I see that Trabzonspor had a great win at the weekend beating 2:0 Fenerbahçe .Well done. You seem to be hitting a bit of good form lately, long may it continue!

Well over this side of Europe its been a bit less impressive. The Drogs lost 1:0 away to Bray at the weekend. UNBELIEVABLE is the only word. Not with regard to the Drogs performance, but in relation to the referee and assistants decisions. 2 minutes into the game a shot that clearly went over the goal line was scooped back out over the line by a defender with his arm/hand and no decision made. We went on to hit both posts and crossbar with efforts and squandered a number of other opportunities. So no goals and no points and we are now 9pts behind the leaders. A bit to much for my liking. The pundits reviewing the highlights couldn't believe the referee.

In fairness we should have had enough to win the game with the quality we have but after that decision going against us, it was going to be one of those nights.

Anyway we play the leaders St, Pats on Friday night, which is now definitely a must game, so fingers crossed.

C'mon d Claret & Blue

[Burçak]

[Pro-TS]

We can play a friendly match with drogheda
Hear us SAdri Şener...

[Hamdi Karamahmutoğlu]

Good luck for next game.

31/05/2008 Cobh Ramblers - Drogheda United
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