Shamrock Rovers vs Rubin Kazan - Europa League - 17:30 on TV3

chopperbyrne

This deserves a match thread.

Come on Rovers!

Kerrydude1981

Best of luck Rovers

Jax Teller

Heading to this I am won tickets yesterday

Nalz

mon Kazan!!

Just kidding all the best to the Shams tonight, be great to kick things off with a win

listermint

Looking forward to it!, try to get of some minutes early. Dam 6 o clock games

flahavaj

Will be a tough game, a step up from what they have faced so far I think. If Kazan score early it could be a long night. the longer it stays 0-0, the more Rovers will fancy getting the draw or even nicking one.

/cliche.

roryc

**joins bandwagon**

Would love to see Rovers get a result tonight.

That_Guy

TV3

The_Kew_Tour

Best of luck to Rovers.

stesaurus

Screw Rovers! I have money on Kazan

IRISHSPORTSGUY

Is Trap attending this? He should be.

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IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »

Is Trap attending this? He should be.

Why?

Why is the game on so early?

Joekers

Des wrote: »

Why?

Why is the game on so early?

Possibly to accomidate the russian timezone ?

stovelid

Be very very surprised if we sneaked a draw from this, Think they're something like 50 places above Partizan in the UEFA rankings.

As somebody else said, the qualification, revenue and publicity (for tonight and all the other nights) was enough for this year. This is all just insane bonus territory.

Jax Teller

Joekers wrote: »

Possibly to accomidate the russian timezone ?

Doubt it all rovers group home games are at 6

super_furry

Hoping for a draw, expecting a hiding. This is a team that beat Barcelona in the Champions League two years ago.

roryc

And yet we are offering strange odds on this. Would have expected Rovers to be a lot longer...

Rovers to win: 5/1
Draw: 3/1
Rubin Kazan: 8/15

Bearing in mind Milan were 12/1 to beat Barca the other night, and 5/1 to draw...

bohsman

roryc wrote: »

And yet we are offering strange odds on this. Would have expected Rovers to be a lot longer...

Rovers to win: 5/1
Draw: 3/1
Rubin Kazan: 8/15

Bearing in mind Milan were 12/1 to beat Barca the other night, and 5/1 to draw...

As with the Rooney/ Van P debate there's always a big differential between home and away games, would expect Rovers to be similar/bigger than Milan in the away leg.

legendary.xix

Rubin have won just one of their last nine European away games (W1 D3 L5 in that spell), beating FC Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 in this season's UEFA Europa League third qualifying round first leg.
UEFA

legendary.xix

There's so many EL games, they are split 6pm kick-offs and 8.05pm kick-offs. It allows stations to show two games on EL nights. It's 7pm and 9.05pm for the most of Europe so it's not a bad time for the two games.

roryc

Still would have expected them to be higher, would love if Rovers got something from this game but I'm really expecting a hammering if Rubin make an effort.

As much as I hate to bet against Rovers, 8/15 is a massive price imo...

super_furry

roryc wrote: »

As much as I hate to bet against Rovers, 8/15 is a massive price imo...

been thinking the same myself.

That_Guy

I think the reason why it's on so early is that possibly the floodlights aren't to UEFA's standards??? I dunno. Rough guess.

Predalien

That_Guy wrote: »

I think the reason why it's on so early is that possibly the floodlights aren't to UEFA's standards??? I dunno. Rough guess.

Floodlights are fine, it's just to get as many games on tv as possible.

BERBA

That_Guy wrote: »

I think the reason why it's on so early is that possibly the floodlights aren't to UEFA's standards??? I dunno. Rough guess.

its purely for tv purposes , so games can be shown at 6pm and 8pm

LeixlipRed

Gonna get tanked. Might grab some popcorn on the way home

Mint Sauce

Good luck tonight Shamrocks. Shame I'm missing the match.

Xavi6

Kazan to win 3-0 and Obafemi Martins to become the oldest man to score in the Europa League aged 56.

dfx-

super_furry wrote: »

been thinking the same myself.

It's free money on paper..

stovelid

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Gonna get tanked. Might grab some popcorn on the way home

Go all out and ruin the thread squabbling on petty first division issues with Cork fans later too.

cherryghost

Best of luck to Rovers this evening. Hope the true Rover fans get something to celebrate tonight, and the rest of us get a good show. They'll do us proud!

Rubin Kazan has sported 2 draws against Barcelona and one against Inter Milan in recent years. My money would be on a draw tonight. If we come out with that I'd be happy.

Johner

cherryghost wrote: »

Best of luck to Rovers this evening. Hope the true Rover fans get something to celebrate tonight, and the rest of us get a good show. They'll do us proud!

Rubin Kazan has sported 2 draws against Barcelona and one against Inter Milan in recent years. My money would be on a draw tonight. If we come out with that I'd be happy.

They beat Barca 2-1 at the Nou Camp a few years back didn't they?

cherryghost

You're right! 2-0. Completely forgot about that

LeixlipRed

stovelid wrote: »

Go all out and ruin the thread squabbling on petty first division issues with Cork fans later too.

Should you not be on your way to the stadium already? It's a long walk from Milltown :pac:

dfx-

For anyone going (and I'm about to)...

http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/news/35-news/2195-europa-merchandise

Most importantly this line:

Please support the club and do not buy from street side hawkers, any garments of merchandise sold outside of the Megastore is not official and is counterfeit.

stovelid

LeixlipRed wrote: »

stovelid wrote: »

Go all out and ruin the thread squabbling on petty first division issues with Cork fans later too.

Should you not be on your way to the stadium already? It's a long walk from Milltown :pac:

My phone allows me to post from all over the country. Have you ever tried it?

You'll be homeless yourself soon enough.

mal1

Got to love the match preview on their Rubin Kazan website. I don't know Russian or why the hell bono and U2 make an appearance (0.46 seconds in):

http://rubin-kazan.ru/en/video/other/7628.html

I'm a bad LoI fan, just making about 5 random games a year but hopefully games like tonight will get people like myself out to more games.

Oat23

Maccabi Yehuda, brilliant Brian.

JONJO THE MISER

Good luck Shamrock Rovers, do Ireland proud.

NufcNavan

More sh*te coverage from TV3. The usual scripted questions from the token blonde female presenter who doesn't have a clue what she is talking about.

JONJO THE MISER

What are there chances?

Pinturicchio

I can't see anything but a win for Kazan unfortunately.

Pat Dolan and Roddy Collins on the same programme. :mad:

scruff321

Link for the match? Mon Rovers!!!

busyliving

Quiet a few empty seats

woodyg

any streams for this as dont have tv3 here

joe123

Disappointing to see so many empty seats for a European match. If I was anywhere near Dublin I'd def go.

Yakult

Knew I should have put money on Rubin, ****!!!

joe123

Awful defending

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have they scored already?

skeleton_boy

Why so many empty seats!

chopperbyrne

Don't UEFA insist on empty sections to segregate fans for European matches?

Plus, it's at the stupid time of 18:00. I'd say it could be full for the second half.