LOI fixtures 10th/11th April

[SkStu]

Doesn't sound like Bohs fans at all...are you sure it was us? ;)

[osarusan]

Bray 4-0 Limerick.

We completely disintegrated in the 2nd half, and have at least 3 or 4 players that are nowhere near good enough. Defensively shocking and handed Bray three points. They didn't have to work hard for any of their goals. Very worrying.

[sligoman]

RTE will do well to get any highlights from Galway/Rovers last night, one of the worst games of football ever, two poor sides (although still hopeful we'll improve).

[wonder88]

It will be interesting to see the penalty decision from Galway/Sligo on rte and what the experts make of it. Looked very dodgy to me, and I used to think Doyle had the makings of a good ref.
Stuart Byrne rates Heary as a manager, but blames his poor start at Sligo on the lack of 2/3 year player contracts in the LoI (Mirror last week). If friday (and few Bohs matches I was at last season) is any indication of his management I would have to disagree with Stewy on this one.

[gufcfan]

Stuart Byrne rates Heary as a manager, but blames his poor start at Sligo on the lack of 2/3 year player contracts in the LoI (Mirror last week)

What?

[dong]

The approval of Stuey Byrne: Kiss of death if ever there was one.

[Nesta99]

The key to Stephen Kennys success - Stuey Byrnes disapproval during live on air rant!

[bluewhitearmy]

Well in fairness to Long, Athlone were as good as relegated when he took over. To get them to the last game of the season with a chance of staying up was remarkable. And to see what he's doing at Bohs now compared to what Heary did and what he's doing at Sligo at the moment is proving Bohs are moving forward whereas Sligo are been left behind.

I always see people saying this but didn't he take over with 20+ games to go?

[Dodge]

I always see people saying this but didn't he take over with 20+ games to go?

23 but they were gone already having lost the opening 10 games under Mick Cooke

With Cooke - 0 points in 10 games
With Long - 22 points in 23 games (4 wins, 10 draws, 9 defeats)

By anyone's standards, that's an excellent improvement

[Nesta99]

Many of those draws Athlone were very unlucky not to get the additional 2 points.

[Town Legend]

Long also had to work with the squad Cooke assembled. The damage was already done when Long took over.

[bluewhitearmy]

How many points were they behind 2nd bottom when he took over?

[atfconline]

8, we went 10 behind after his 1st game.

We only took 1 win from 5 against Bray and UCD just above us, under Long.

[bluewhitearmy]

10 points with 22 games to go is hardly gone tbf and with the stats there against Bray and UCD it seems he had the chances to get em out of it. Not saying the improvement wasn't impressive but to make out he hadn't a hope of keeping em up is plain wrong imo.

[Town Legend]

If it were Sligo, Rovers, Dundalk or another team with a similar squad then fair enough. But it was Athlone, a newly promoted team with a squad put together by someone else. For a team like that to give a 10 point advantage to anyone is a lot. So to get them to the last game of the season with a chance of staying up was remarkable.

[Nesta99]

If it were Sligo, Rovers, Dundalk or another team with a similar squad then fair enough. But it was Athlone, a newly promoted team with a squad put together by someone else. For a team like that to give a 10 point advantage to anyone is a lot. So to get them to the last game of the season with a chance of staying up was remarkable.

Admit it! You were thinking of Sligo but decided upon including Rovers and Dundalk for balance or to keep peace...

[Town Legend]

Haha I just listed those 3 cos they've been champions the past couple of seasons! I suppose I can throw Pats in there too.

[PartySaint]

Haha I just listed those 3 cos they've been champions the past couple of seasons! I suppose I can throw Pats in there too.


We don't do relegation. Those 3 yoyo clubs that you mentioned were a good example.

[Nesta99]

Well Dundalk it was more yoyooooooooooooyo! You're sounding a bit like Roddy Collins PartySaint..

[Town Legend]

Did you have to bring Roderick into this? :p

[wonder88]

Terrible decision by ref for Sligo peno, even 80 yards away it looked wrong to me on the night. In 3 of the 4 league games in Galway so far this season the refs have being very poor.

[L.T.F.C.]

Terrible decision by ref for Sligo peno, even 80 yards away it looked wrong to me on the night. In 3 of the 4 league games in Galway so far this season the refs have being very poor.
Same bull**** with Shaw being brought down at 1 nil Bohs.

[Longfordian]

I thought at the time from the far end of the stand that Shaw's one was a penalty and there was no reason for him to go down. The replay makes it even worse than I thought then he books Shaw.

[outspoken]

Sean Grant has a lot of history against us. Booked Alan Kirby for diving a few seasons ago as well when he was also cleaned out.