Sheridan
24/07/2004, 12:17 AM
Actually, PP DCFC (if you mean Derry City)have climbed the table by PLAYING good football (still mightn't be brilliant but a damn side better than what we were). It was being all physical and HOOFING the ball that had us down in the relegation mire for so long (thanks to Messr's Keeley and Dykes). Its strange that we're climbing the table(heres hoping it continues) by playing the kind of football that Sheridan purports that Dublin city play, yet they look doomed to go down.
If we had either the means or the inclination to buy our way out of trouble (note that Derry's rise up the table has coincided with the return to form of a striker acquired at great expense and in dubious circumstances) I'm sure we'd zoom off the bottom just as quickly.
But you're right. We are where we are because we can't defend. But then, Bohs have defended just as badly all season (our 100% against them remains intact, incidentally) and are at the opposite end of the table.
We've had two vital results (as much for their potential psychological impact, as for the points at stake) snatched from us by shocking refereeing that bordered on the sadistic. Namely, the penalty awarded against us in Derry for a handball that was both ball-to-hand and five yards outside the box (the ref's assessor, a Donegalman, said at half-time that it was a valid pen. :rolleyes: No-one, and I mean no-one, else in the ground thought so) and the 1-1 draw against Drogheda, when the ref, in an obvious attempt to engineer an equaliser, awarded Drogheda a ridiculous free-kick right on the edge of our box in the 96th minute, having indicated four minutes of stoppage time.
If we had either the means or the inclination to buy our way out of trouble (note that Derry's rise up the table has coincided with the return to form of a striker acquired at great expense and in dubious circumstances) I'm sure we'd zoom off the bottom just as quickly.
But you're right. We are where we are because we can't defend. But then, Bohs have defended just as badly all season (our 100% against them remains intact, incidentally) and are at the opposite end of the table.
We've had two vital results (as much for their potential psychological impact, as for the points at stake) snatched from us by shocking refereeing that bordered on the sadistic. Namely, the penalty awarded against us in Derry for a handball that was both ball-to-hand and five yards outside the box (the ref's assessor, a Donegalman, said at half-time that it was a valid pen. :rolleyes: No-one, and I mean no-one, else in the ground thought so) and the 1-1 draw against Drogheda, when the ref, in an obvious attempt to engineer an equaliser, awarded Drogheda a ridiculous free-kick right on the edge of our box in the 96th minute, having indicated four minutes of stoppage time.