QuoteOh don't get me wrong. Your lot are terrible and will be relegated unless you change something. But we scored 7 goals in about 40 minutes against Waterford with less than our strongest teamOriginally Posted by Martinho II
Great draw for some of the non league teams - Letterkenny Rovers could beat Athlone
Interesting to see if Crumlin will bring many up to the hills of Donegal
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We are the SR the SRFC.......
Part time Finn Harps too :)
Oh don't get me wrong. Your lot are terrible and will be relegated unless you change something. But we scored 7 goals in about 40 minutes against Waterford with less than our strongest team
We put out basically our U19 for the second half howeverLongford will batter us!
Classic League of Ireland talk.
"We're ****"
"We're worse"
I think it would be a big ask, but sure ye never know.
Happy enough with our draw. Would only have wanted an away game if it was against a non-league team. Will be interesting to see what Drogs are like this season.
You also scored six against Longford in an actual important game, albeit with a strong team.
We also have a goalkeeper who likes to let the ball through his hands on a regular basis. We win
I'm happy enough with our draw. Winnable tie for us imo. Beat a more or less full strength Longford side in preseason too which was the last LOI side we beat at home. We've been hot and cold this year showed we're more then capable of competing but our defending has been a shambles so far. We've fallen apart since Roddy got suspended we were on a three game winning streak and since we've not won in the league and got thumped by Cork in the league cup.
had forgotten ye had beat us towards the end of preseason!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Yep and it was a full strength side bar Duffy and Rhys. Waterford have every chance
I thought Conor O'Donnell was with UCD?
The ball is round and has many surprises.
Hey - did you not see the game on Friday?
Same one that saved a penalty against Limerick the other night?I thought Conor O'Donnell was with UCD?
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Hey - did you not see the game on Friday?Oh well if he saved a penalty that definitely proves he's turned into David De Gea.
Stopped clock, twice a day lads.
I honestly, hand on heart, think O'Donnell is the worst first choice keeper I have ever seen play LOI. The odd reserve keeper (generally 16 or 45 years old) might have excelled even more at ineptitude in short spells but the guy never showed even a hint of goalkeeping fundamentals over the half season or so that he shone so brightly as a harbinger of doom who could bring chaos to even the calmest of situations with us.
I did laugh long and hard at the penalty save though, twas practically written in the stars.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
In fairness, he didn't put a foot wrong for the rest of the game either; another two or three great saves to keep us in it.
I did have a laugh when he was getting ready to come on as a sub though - someone threw him his water bottle, and he dropped it.
Conor O'Donnell has put in brilliant and horriffic performances against City at Turners Cross. The worst goalkeeping performance I ever saw was Conor Winn for U.C.D. against Galway United in Terryland Park a few years back. Apparently hes doing reasonably well for himself now. Maybe O'Donnell is just young and inconsistent, and suffered from a series of poor performances which affected his confidence. It wouldn't suprise me if he turns into a decent keeper in a few seasons.
Mark McNulty was a terrible keeper as recently as 6 years ago, and was pretty poor even 4 years ago and theres an argument to be made that hes been the best keeper in the league since 2014.
Conor Winn never played for us - do you mean Conor for Galway against UCD?
I've seen O'Donnell pull off some spectacular saves alright - a 4-2 win in Derry a couple of years back stands out for a pretty much impossible point-blank double save - but then drop crosses almost into his own net.
Easy for a keeper like that for the drops to take over, and you have a complete loss of confidence, which I presume is what happened in Limerick last year.
O'Donnell looked good when he started out at UCD - was always capable of some great saves.
Might have been for Galway against UCD. It was a crazy game with shocking goalkeeping at both ends. 4-3 I think it finished. I met yourself and Mr. A that evening. 2011 maybe? We were playing Harps on the Saturday and said we'd break the journey up with a trip to Galway on the way the day before.
O'Donnell was absolutely astounding against City in a game in 2014. Incredible feat of goalkeeping, its not an exaggeration to say we could have had 7 or 8.
http://extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/20348/2/
Reading that I count 10 specific saves that they mention him making.
Ah yes; I remember that one!
Could even have been 5-4. Mad game. Don't remember the keeper's performance tbh, but that doesn't mean you're wrong obviously. Ger Barron was in nets for us that day.
The 4-2 against Derry is below from YouTube; the double save on 56 minutes is up there with the best save I've ever seen in LoI (it's not that easy to see on the video unfortunately - we all know what the view in the Brandywell is like)
He saved a penalty there the following season as well.
But he does have a clanger a game in him, and I can well see how that could affect his confidence. I was only saying to Gary Spain on Friday that UCD might be well suited to him - no home fans to get on his back over stuff like that.
Edit - you're right, it was a 4-3 win for us. Greg Fleming was in nets for Galway apparently. Never heard of him! Seems he's back in the Scottish leagues now, with Ayr.
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