April 8-12 Fixtures

[Dodge]

Harps absolutely battered Pats. Brush made a howler for the first, second from nothing and it completely knocked the stuffing out of Harps.

Steep learning curve for this squad at Premier Division.

Was it half an hour before Harps had a shot on target. Could have been 2 down at that stage with Byrne's opening minute effort and a clear pen not given

Had 15 minutes of flurry before Pats scored but game over when the second went in

(That's a mates response. Said Pats the better team for most of it (in a very poor game))

[Sam_Heggy]

Was it half an hour before Harps had a shot on target. Could have been 2 down at that stage with Byrne's opening minute effort and a clear pen not given

Had 15 minutes of flurry before Pats scored but game over when the second went in

(That's a mates response. Said Pats the better team for most of it (in a very poor game))

Pats had a chance in the opening mins but poor finish. Pen appeal was very debatable, looked more of a dive to me (and obviously the ref)

Pats honestly didnt get out of their half until a booted clearance was knocked out for a corner. A easy catch normally for Brush was dropped onto a Harps head and in for an og.

I guarantee Pats would have been delighted with a point before the OG.

[nigel-harps1954]

Was it half an hour before Harps had a shot on target. Could have been 2 down at that stage with Byrne's opening minute effort and a clear pen not given

Had 15 minutes of flurry before Pats scored but game over when the second went in

(That's a mates response. Said Pats the better team for most of it (in a very poor game))

First half was pretty poor from both sides.

Second half one way traffic. Pats corner came from nothing, Brush made a meal of it and bounced it off a defender into the net. Second goal again out of absolutely nothing, through ball, slot under Brush.

They were Pats only two clear chances of the second half. Harps hit the crossbar, and couldn't finish in the final third.

Your mate needs to double check his eyesight if he thinks Pats were the better side for any more than maybe 15 minutes tops, and I say that without any hint of bias and with total honesty.

[venkman]

Worrying run of results for Harps. Decent result for Pats

[D24Saint]

First half was pretty poor from both sides.

Second half one way traffic. Pats corner came from nothing, Brush made a meal of it and bounced it off a defender into the net. Second goal again out of absolutely nothing, through ball, slot under Brush.

They were Pats only two clear chances of the second half. Harps hit the crossbar, and couldn't finish in the final third.

Your mate needs to double check his eyesight if he thinks Pats were the better side for any more than maybe 15 minutes tops, and I say that without any hint of bias and with total honesty.

Thought we were slightly the better side in the first half , Conan Byrne should have scored early on.The second half was mostly harps they had a great chance off the bar but we got the break with the og.Id say dropped points like tonight could cost harps at the end of the season.

[joey B]

Really unlucky not to take something tonight,Pats could have been 1 up after a minute but did very little after that and played long balls all night for Fagan to run on to and somehow managed to be 2 up,I've seen them twice in 3 days and they look like a side who are not quite sure what they're trying to do or how they want to play.

We lacked a finish again after showing real fight in the 2nd half even after going 2 down, we really need to start taking our chances because hard luck stories doesn't keep you in this division.

[Dodge]

Kev McLaughlin the Derry reporter says Pats shaded the first half. Goal was scored on 69 so maybe Harps dominated for 20 minutes? Hardly the battering spoken of in the first post

That's football though. All about goals. They're the only stat that matters

[D24Saint]

Seeing a game is different to only hearing about it second hand, we got the win but the first goal was pure fluke but I'll take it.The second half was mainly harps & they should have got something out of the game.They didn't & that's their problem but I won't delude myself that we were brilliant just because we got the three points in a low quality game.

[sulywaterfordfc]

Bad weekend for us. Dropped points in both games. Need to start picking up points at home - none from our two home games. We've been poor at home the last couple of years needs to change. We've Shels at home Friday and to make matters worse we've struggled in the last 15 years to beat them. Probably won won 4/5 games against them in that time. They always seem to get a result against us no matter what.

- As soon as we went three up Friday things started going wrong. Lead cut to 3-1 and a man sent off just before half time. As if missing out captain, number one keeper and manager weren't bad enough. We missed numerous one-on-one's in the second probably should have put it to bed. When Athlone pulled it back to one goal we suffered a double whammy and our keeper got injured (second choice) which led to us having to play our third choice keeper. And from there the feeling and expectation of an equaliser was there and of course it happened. Ultimately the red card just before half time cost us the win. We should have won it handy.

- Tonight was just a bad night overall. We never really got going. Didn't play near the level we're capable of. Our passing was poor all night, O Leary and O Brien didn't have the affect we would of liked. We conceded two badly defended goals. We equalised thru Philly Gorman two minutes after Cobh went 1 up. Hard defeat to take. Was expecting us to win. Should have gotten something from it but unfortunately didn't. Gorman went off injured too which didn't help matters. Officiating was awful all round too. Worst I've seen this season for a game involving us.

Its typical of the LOI that tonight was just our second home game after three aways on the bounce in the league. And we're at home for our next two league games too.

Attendance - 420. Expected it to be half that tbh. So wasn't too bad. Our attendances been 720 & 420 this year. Shows the affect of a game been on a Monday over a Friday. I'm hopping the attendance is 500+ Friday a home to Shels.

[Charlie Darwin]

Cheers, means a lot. 5 lads in the army, 4 at college, 2 working in Lifestyle Sports, 1 working in Woodies and the rest in different jobs. All playing for expenses and the love of the round ball

No postmen? You'll never get on 101greatgoals with a set-up like that?

I wasn't in Derry but sounds like Nutsy was apoplectic with the performance. With the gurriers we have in the team, there should be no excuse for the lack of fight. Here's hoping there'll be a huge reaction at Bohs, but given our recent record they really have our number. This time last year, Drennan was a huge loss going to Dalymount but this year I'm hoping he doesn't play. Strange how things go.

[Charlie Darwin]

Bad weekend for us. Dropped points in both games. Need to start picking up points at home - none from our two home games. We've been poor at home the last couple of years needs to change. We've Shels at home Friday and to make matters worse we've struggled in the last 15 years to beat them. Probably won won 4/5 games against them in that time. They always seem to get a result against us no matter what.

- As soon as we went three up Friday things started going wrong. Lead cut to 3-1 and a man sent off just before half time. As if missing out captain, number one keeper and manager weren't bad enough. We missed numerous one-on-one's in the second probably should have put it to bed. When Athlone pulled it back to one goal we suffered a double whammy and our keeper got injured (second choice) which led to us having to play our third choice keeper. And from there the feeling and expectation of an equaliser was there and of course it happened. Ultimately the red card just before half time cost us the win. We should have won it handy.

- Tonight was just a bad night overall. We never really got going. Didn't play near the level we're capable of. Our passing was poor all night, O Leary and O Brien didn't have the affect we would of liked. We conceded two badly defended goals. We equalised thru Philly Gorman two minutes after Cobh went 1 up. Hard defeat to take. Was expecting us to win. Should have gotten something from it but unfortunately didn't. Gorman went off injured too which didn't help matters. Officiating was awful all round too. Worst I've seen this season for a game involving us.

Its typical of the LOI that tonight was just our second home game after three aways on the bounce in the league. And we're at home for our next two league games too.

Attendance - 420. Expected it to be half that tbh. So wasn't too bad. Our attendances been 720 & 420 this year. Shows the affect of a game been on a Monday over a Friday. I'm hopping the attendance is 500+ Friday a home to Shels.

Fourth-choice keeper with Birdsall ineligible too. What happened there?

[Dodge]

Seeing a game is different to only hearing about it second hand, we got the win but the first goal was pure fluke but I'll take it.The second half was mainly harps & they should have got something out of the game.They didn't & that's their problem but I won't delude myself that we were brilliant just because we got the three points in a low quality game.

To be fair, no one said Pats were brilliant.

[PartySaint]

Pats had all the ball in the first half but didn't trouble us.
Every time we got the ball into the box though Pats were all over the place.

That basically sums up our season so far.

Not really sure how we're only 3 points off Dundalk, we're a mid table team. Thank Christ for Christy Fagan.