Games weekend 12th to 16th April

[Kingswood Rover]

Rovers first 11 if fit is imo
Pohls, farrugia. Cleary, pico, Grace, clarke, O'Neil, byrne, mcaneff, Burke, gaffney. That is as good a team as has played in ireland in last ten years. Getting them on the pitch is the challenge

For me Josh H is ahead of Cleary, but hard to argue against that selection. Burke can wreck your mallet but has been excellent recently, I am a big big fan of Kenny and Towell a good 12 and 13. Funny that Towell has never got the loving arm around from our fanbase. I am not sure that he has starred in any of the ditties penned by the South Stand.

[joey B]

Longford 3 down at home to Bray,still think they’ve a better squad on paper at first division level than what they’re producing…..

[The Bowler]

Longford wouldn't survey in LSL Senior 1 Sunday the way they are playing. Watched 30 mins, literally didn't string 4 passes together once in a half hour

[oriel]

Double Post

[Shearer]

Wonder if Hendo will get the bullet after that result. Turning into a nightmare season.

[culloty82]

Certainly seem to have plenty of experience in their squad - personally feel that once a manager is appointed, it's probably best to stick with them until the end of the season, but Longford fans' patience with Henderson must be nearing breaking point, if it hasn't snapped already ...

[oriel]

Poor aul game up in oriel, both sides weren’t helped by the wind rain and pitch. Dundalk seemed to have picked the tools back up again and put in some hard work now that the serpent has been shown the door but they lack any quality in attack. Shelvey got them a point with a great save in both halves, particularly the second have save from Melia's 1 on 1. Mulraney hit the post in injury time also

Not a great game, thought we were the better side for a lot of the second half, but Pats were the only team who looked like scoring and they had two big chances to win it, probably end of day a draw a fair result.

That spell mid way second half we at least looked like a mid table PD side, not scoring and a club record now of 5 in a row at home not scoring is the stuff that has relegation smell all over it.

Maybe a new manager will get a bounce in series 2, but this is the worst Dundalk front line since the relegation play off win season of 2012 under McCaffrey, (who was sacked mid season) and the year just before SK arrived.

Thought Pats were good, but nothing special.

Derry again are the frustration this season, almost and already offering little challenge to Rovers, I don't think and never did think Higgins is a good manager, he falls under the 'very good coach' label for me, honestly think a good manager and more higher profile / experience is their only chance to win the league, they have the players.

[Onapointoforder]

Longford wouldn't survey in LSL Senior 1 Sunday the way they are playing. Watched 30 mins, literally didn't string 4 passes together once in a half hour

Watching that, Bray are only a bit ahead of them

[ger121]

Certainly seem to have plenty of experience in their squad - personally feel that once a manager is appointed, it's probably best to stick with them until the end of the season, but Longford fans' patience with Henderson must be nearing breaking point, if it hasn't snapped already ...

He doesn’t seem to get as much flak as you would expect. Maybe there is a feeling that they stick with him as they have **** all money to spend and it’s not like they are going to get relegated.

[outspoken]

He doesn’t seem to get as much flak as you would expect. Maybe there is a feeling that they stick with him as they have **** all money to spend and it’s not like they are going to get relegated.

Hes getting pelters online, it probably feels to the outside world like there's not much talk about him but let's be honest, it's because we've a very small fanbase and the media doesn't really talk about the first division

[legendz]

Bray are up to 5th after tonight's win. Bray are home to Treaty 6th next. A playoff six pointer.

[Jd2793]

Hes getting pelters online, it probably feels to the outside world like there's not much talk about him but let's be honest, it's because we've a very small fanbase and the media doesn't really talk about the first division

yeah small fan base helps in the regard. grim enough aul existence though, feel for the couple of hundred that go to games. small town, poor team and ye no real chance to grow imo.

[da bishop]

Decent game at the MF,Treaty started with positive intent which as the game progressed slowly ebbed away despite hitting the post and having the bright opening.Fact is Kerry started to dominate end of first half ,taking over completely in second half playing easily through Treatys midfield.Kerry will rue some simple missed chances and Chambers in Treatys goals with vital saves.No win in six for Treaty,not playing like a win is coming either and at times had no where near the quality football Kerry produced,Well doneto Kerry support ,never stopped all game.

[brendy_éire]

Can say the obvious about Derry being negative, players being restricted to playing slow, predictable football, but it's been done to death.
We probably played decent stuff for about 15 minutes towards the end of the first half. Had that continued into the second, you'd imagine we'd have won comfortably.

One novel change is that our defending has gotten worse. Two poor goals to concede on Friday night, especially the second. Four defenders standing around inviting the shot.
That's about four or five really poor goals conceded over the past half dozen games. We wouldn't normally have been like that.

So, no win away from home, nor any back to back wins this season. If anything is to come of this season, something needs to change.

[Another Bohemia]

One novel change is that our defending has gotten worse. Two poor goals to concede on Friday night, especially the second. Four defenders standing around inviting the shot.
That's about four or five really poor goals conceded over the past half dozen games. We wouldn't normally have been like that.

This is one thing that really does my head in as a football fan. Even bad teams can be defensively solid. Its why Harps under Ollie were such a pain to play, they were defensively sound. Theres no reason for the well resourced teams in the league to not be defensively sound other than poor coaching.

That level of defensive frailty was one of the signals for the end of Longs tenure at Bohs. We might have been able to score 3 or 4 in some games but we were just as likely to concede the same amount. That improved slightly under Devine but we were still far too nice and prone to giving away silly goals by not closing players at the edge of the box. Fingers crossed Reynolds figures it out but it is looking a little better on the "too nice" front

[Stuttgart88]

Despite missing the usual quality players , vintage performance from us this evening ( married to a good few unenforceable errors by Pico) led by Burke who was unplayable and Greene who chipped in with two goals and shows why( again) he’s still such an asset…. Could have easily of been 6-0 … Sligo had one chance late on from a poor back pass by Cleary who was saved by a brilliant recovery tackle by Pico ; aside from that they were very poor with McGinty and luck saving them from a hiding

I thought Pohls made a very good late save too tbf. Pretty good from Rovers but still alarmingly careless at times - mostly at 0-0 - and just asking to get hit on the counter, something we've been vulnerable to in the past 3 seasons and already so far this season.

[sbgawa]

Bohs dundalk 10 mins left nil nil. I guess dundalk happier if it finishes like this

[sbgawa]

Jinxed them bohs score

[joey B]

3 goals for Akintunde since Devine left,he seemed to be used very little by him which I found odd,decent player….

[Dermobohs]

We were awful. Stole that.