Tonights Latest 5/8/11

[sligoman]

Kevin Devaney gets a debut goal to put Harps 1 up Vs. Mervue.

[bullit]

Meannwhile in Donegal..................Harps 1 up.

[Mr A]

Stop bringing football into this.

2-0 Harps :)

[bullit]

Blaine Curtis scores for harps and with a handle like that he must also be some kind off LUVVY actor :)

[placid casual]

Easy peasy win for the Champions against a mediocre plucky mid table side.
We should have scored in the 1st minute from billy Dennehy but it was a controlled performance from Rovers for long periods of the match.
They tired towards the end, due to exertions on Tuesday but Rovers were full value for the 3 points.

I have no interest whatsoever in the minutes silence debate - I'll leave that to others to expunge their largely ill-informed opinion.:loser:

and nice one Carkies- Hope youse manage to come up this season.

tatty bye bri.:ball:

[sligoman]

Any Harps fans at the game, how did Devaney and McGoldrick play?

[Sam_Heggy]

Any Harps fans at the game, how did Devaney and McGoldrick play?

McGoldrick was never really in the game.

Devenney was poor for the most part in general play but scored an absolute beauty, put in some good deliveries from set pieces too.

[sligoman]

Expect our run of clean sheets in the league to end tonight, 2 (Keane & McGuinness) of the normal back 4 out.

[dong]

We could struggle alright.

[Ezeikial]

It will be interesting to see if Mark Griffin or Jason Byrne starts up-front.

Foster not used to having a choice!

[Guinney]

It will be interesting to see if Mark Griffin or Jason Byrne starts up-front.

Foster not used to having a choice!

Its hard to pick. Depending on Byrnes fitness personally I'd go with him. The Dundalk team is relatively young and Byrnes experience could be a useful addition. Futhermore Byrnes aerial ability in the set piece is something Dundalk have been missing in recent weeks. That said Griffin deserves his place. His goal scoring record and all round play has been excellent but in this case I'd go with the more experienced option. That said if Griffin doesn't start I'd expect him to feature at some stage. But its great to see finally we have options in attack. Even Johny Breen has shown in a recent friendly (he scored a hat trick) that he is pushing for a place.

[bullit]

DUNDALK: Cherrie, Madden (C), Bennett, McHugh, Gaynor, Ward, Bolger, Maher, Kearns, Quigley, Griffin.
SUBS: P Murphy (GK), Byrne, Breen, Foley.

SLIGO ROVERS: Clarke, Ventre, Peers, Foran, Powell, Ryan (C), Ndo, Dillon, Davoren, Russell, Doyle.
SUBS: Kelly (GK), Cretaro, Kirby, Blinkhorn, Greene.

http://www.dundalkfc.com/laptop-live-dundalk-v-sligo-rovers

[thischarmingman]

UCD, you lovely, lovely people. Great result.

[Candystripe]

Some come back from UCD. 2-2

[gufct]

Any word on the crowd in Inchicore just to see what damage midweeks standoff has done.

[Candystripe]

Live comentary from Oriel.

Always good for a laugh.

http://delicast.com/radio/Ireland/Dundalk_FM

[kdjaC]

Mad game in Richmond, ref lost the plot a bit.

[Candystripe]

Player sent off for Sligo, don't know who yet lol

Danny Ventre it was who got sent off. two yellows, 2nd for diving.

[Redzer]

Tom Connolly the kunt. A stonewall penalty for Rovers, and he sends Ventre off for diving. And his first yellow was never a yellow card.

[bullit]

Tom Connolly the kunt. A stonewall penalty for Rovers, and he sends Ventre off for diving. And his first yellow was never a yellow card.

You Reckon !!!!

[QUOTE][/Q - Red Card - Ventre walks for diving in the box. He ran on to a neat ball from Dillon and played it beyond McHugh and then made sure that he hit the defenders leg and went down. 2nd yellow and off, the Sligo bench are incensed, personally I'm fed up seeing players looking for contact and going down and I'll applaud you Mr Connolly.UOTE]
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/12631/1/

[Redzer]

You Reckon !!!!

[QUOTE][/Q - Red Card - Ventre walks for diving in the box. He ran on to a neat ball from Dillon and played it beyond McHugh and then made sure that he hit the defenders leg and went down. 2nd yellow and off, the Sligo bench are incensed, personally I'm fed up seeing players looking for contact and going down and I'll applaud you Mr Connolly.UOTE]
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/12631/1/

Watch MMS. I reckon!!!!

[hoops1]

[QUOTE=Redzer;1516773]



Watch MMS. I reckon [QUOTE]

I will watch it on Television thanks very much.

[Redzer]

[QUOTE=Redzer;1516773]



Watch MMS. I reckon [QUOTE]

I will watch it on Television thanks very much.

That's probably a very good place to watch MMS:rolleyes:

[hoops1]

[QUOTE=hoops1;1516774][QUOTE=Redzer;1516773]



Watch MMS. I reckon

That's probably a very good place to watch MMS:rolleyes:

You are to stupid to joke with.

[DaveyPats]

UCD at the very least deserved the point. They could have been three of four up at half time. Pats players just didn't turn up at all, absolutely shocking perfomance.

Dave McMillan scored a goal of the season contender.

Tomney's decisions were laughable today, what a clown.

Glad to see the back of this week.....

[Candystripe]

Cretaro for Sligo with late goal.

[bullit]

Sligo hit the front :(

[Redzer]

Top of the League and having a laugh with 10 men. How's that for a joke???????

[Candystripe]

Injury time pen for Dundalk..........................................a nd Quigley scores. 1-1

[bullit]

Top of the League and having a laugh with 10 men. How's that for a joke???????
Yoy keep digging a big hole for yourself LOL :)

[monkey9]

Top of the League and having a laugh with 10 men. How's that for a joke???????

You tell us!!

[Candystripe]

Top of the League and having a laugh with 10 men. How's that for a joke???????

Along with Derry and Shams ;)

[hoops1]

Top of the League and having a laugh with 10 men. How's that for a joke???????

Sorry Foot just went down there for 3 mins, I have it linked to my personnel happyometer.
Its back up now.
Up yours.

You really want to edit now dont you?

I predict the next 35 posts from Sligo fans will contain the following

Referee Tommy Connolly mweeeeeeeh mweeeeeeh mweeeeeeeeeeh

[Redzer]

Along with Derry and Shams ;)

Along with Shams and Derry. Have to say a definate penalty for dundalk.

[bullit]

The always excellent DundalkFC.com have the match report online already.

http://www.dundalkfc.com/report-dundalk-1-1-sligo-rovers-august-2011

[sullanefc]

Watch MMS. I reckon!!!!



I will watch it on Television thanks very much.



That's probably a very good place to watch MMS:rolleyes:

Ha ha, what a dope. I normally watch MMS on my phone!! :p

[Guinney]

Would need to see both decisions again that went against Sligo. Quigley did well to get the penalty and if I was a Sligo fan I feel hard done by. The Sligo fans would have a better view of Ventres dismissal but it looked like a soft booking. I'm sure the replay will tell if Connolly made the correct decisions. Even for us he made bad decisions like Foran was all over Griffin at times and little was done about it. Everytime I see Connolly ref I come up with the same conclusion that he is not fit to referee in this league. He is to fond of his whistle and even more fond of dishing out soft yellow cards.

On the game, it was a dramatic finish. Sligo edged it for me and dominated the midfield and we didn't make the extra man count. We couldn't get the ball in the box enough to create goal scoring opportunities.

[Ezeikial]

Tommy Connolly is an awful referee - but he had difficult calls to make.

I can't offer an opinion on Ventre's first yellow as I didn't see it, but once Connolly decided he dived looking for the penalty the second one was inevitable. He certainly went looking for the penalty and it appeared to me that he went into the contact with the defender. The penalty "won" by Quigley was also a soft one, but the difference was that Russell foolishly had hands on his back. If Sligo fans are looking for fallguys maybe they should look at Ventre and Russell more so then Connolly.

A draw was probably a fair result and credit is due to Cook for his positive attitude in trying to win the match even with a man down. Very few other managers would have made the attacking substitutions that he did and fortune often favours the brave.

[nigel-harps1954]

Any Harps fans at the game, how did Devaney and McGoldrick play?

Devaney is terrible. Scored a great goal, has good delivery from dead ball. Basically he has a sweet right foot but has absolutely nothing else to his game and is as yellow a player as I've seen play LOI football in a long time.
McGoldrick as said just didn't get into the game. Didn't see much of the ball at all. A bit light yet for first team football.

Game changed completely when Curran and McGoldrick came off the field. Blaine Curtis with his 4th goal in 6 games and O'Donnell running the show in midfield. Mervue were absolutely shocking nonetheless.

[srfc1928]

Tommy Connolly is an awful referee - but he had difficult calls to make.

I can't offer an opinion on Ventre's first yellow as I didn't see it, but once Connolly decided he dived looking for the penalty the second one was inevitable. He certainly went looking for the penalty and it appeared to me that he went into the contact with the defender. The penalty "won" by Quigley was also a soft one, but the difference was that Russell foolishly had hands on his back. If Sligo fans are looking for fallguys maybe they should look at Ventre and Russell more so then Connolly.

A draw was probably a fair result and credit is due to Cook for his positive attitude in trying to win the match even with a man down. Very few other managers would have made the attacking substitutions that he did and fortune often favours the brave.
Not this time though :(

[oriel]

I didnt agree with Ventre sending off, also thought it looked a peno, thats 2 huge pen decisons at that end this season and both have gone in our favour, and I think both were pens. Both were also in front of the away fans, the other was v Shamrock Rovers on 2nd May, but we didnt get one in same end in the v Bohs back in April. (kearns)

I think Sligo are a quality side, even with 10 men they looked better than us, passing was excellent and they really did look like a side who will be going into the final few games with title credentials. We battled hard, had some decent chances, but overall I am happy with the result. Keeps us ticking along and still in with a chance of nicking the last euro spot, esp if we beat Drogs & Bray next 2 games.

Also have to admire Cook for putting on 2 forwards, he wanted to win the game, no doubt, but overall a draw was a fair result.

[sligoman]

Dundalk fans can never claim Connolly is biased against them ever again.

[dfx-]

Top of the League and having a laugh with 10 men. How's that for a joke???????

A very funny one:rofl:

[colonelwest]

Dundalk fans can never claim Connolly is biased against them ever again.

Connolly isn't biased for or against anyone, he's just utterly, utterly inept no matter who is playing.

[colinf]

outrageous refereeing tonight. couldnt believe some of the decisions he made. i fear for the league as a whole. time after time referees are centre of attention.

they were massive calls.

Ventre was clearly taken down, no way was it a dive. terrible call. linesman had a perfect view but as always in this league, they dont make decisions.

quigley dived in the first half, connolly told him get up, then stopped play and warned him. why no yellow??? kearns dived over the far side too, again connolly waved at him to get up. no free kick, no yellow. why?

judges ventre to have dived then, when you can clearly see he knocked the ball by mchugh and was fouled, and after not booking their two for diving in the first half, he sends off danny.

for their penalty, quigley knows well what he was doing. running away from goal, no danger, he stops in russells path, feels him at his back and jumps to the ground. clearly looking for the penalty. massive mistakes from connolly tonight

no point arguing on here about it, just watch MNS for yerselves

[El-Pietro]

can someone send me the MMS? do people still send those? email it to me instead sure

[placid casual]

With pats & sligo drawing it was a good weekend for the Champions.
And derry as well,i guess.

[pineapple stu]

Bohs v Rovers stuff moved to a new thread.

[White Horse]

Would need to see both decisions again that went against Sligo. Quigley did well to get the penalty and if I was a Sligo fan I feel hard done by. The Sligo fans would have a better view of Ventres dismissal but it looked like a soft booking.

The referee had no option but to dismiss Ventre. It was an outageous dive. I'm not sure if Quigley's was a penalty. There seemed to be a tug but it didn't take a lot for him to go down.

Refereeing was terrible. When Connolly blew the whistle it was generally a toss up as to which team would get the free kick.

[hoops1]

Having watched MNS Tomney got all the decisions right except the last sending off which was laughable.
Ventre first booking was harsh, Second was correct ridiculous dive. Peno Harsh