Fixtures 9th - 12th March

[White Horse]

Nowhere in that Examiner piece does it suggest JC says McCormack was targetted by fans, and he clearly means being targetted by players looking to draw another yellow out of him.

But I suppose if my club's sorry excuse for a ground was the scene of embarrassment due to either the facilities or some of the attendees, I might look for a handy deflection too.

No one had to draw a yellow card out of McCormack, he was the creator of his own problems. I thought he was going to hit Buckley at one point. Caulfield is just trying to deflect attention away from a headless display by his captain, by hinting that he was "targeted" by Dundalk. Anyone who saw the game, and has seen McCormack playing Dundalk before, knows that McCormack was wound up too tight from the start of the game.

The incident after the game is a separate issue. It is being dealt with by the club. This is not an isolated incident in Oriel Park, or in the LOI in general. It is about time clubs, including Dundalk, stamped out yobbish behaviour.

[El-Pietro]

The incident after the game is a separate issue. It is being dealt with by the club. This is not an isolated incident in Oriel Park, or in the LOI in general. It is about time clubs, including Dundalk, stamped out yobbish behaviour.
Interesting that they updated the press release to spread the blame to Cork City fans though. Not the first bizarre press release from your club after a Cork City game though.

[White Horse]

Interesting that they updated the press release to spread the blame to Cork City fans though. Not the first bizarre press release from your club after a Cork City game though.

Yes, the update was very odd. I'm not aware of any allegation that Cork fans were anything other than the target of yobbish behaviour.

Whatever about the deficiencies of the statement, it is important that the club stamps out this behaviour by removing these individuals.

I agree with other comments that stewarding could be better, but the fundamental problem is a number of louts who have should not be allowed in the ground.

[Kingswood Rover]

Cant make to Cork tonight but the team are improving and who knows, Pity it was not on this Friday we would have brought 500 plus, anyway come on Rovers.

[wonder88]

Big honor for Ronan Hale, scoring first goal at the new Brandywell. Nice also in a historic way, that his grandfather used to be a Derry striker back in the 60's.

[Johnnie C]

Live commentary of Derry v Limerick on Radio Foyle.

[osarusan]

Bray 1-2 Sligo
Cork 1-0 Rovers
Derry 5-0 Limerick
St. Pats 0-0 Dundalk
Waterford 1-0 Bohs

[NeverFeltBetter]

Another away tonking for Limerick. Race to the bottom with Bray.

[El-Pietro]

Interesting that bar the Derry hammering, all the big scores have been the Monday/Tuesday games. Also interesting that Rovers have as many points as Limerick. They were poor tonight. One nil flattered them in the way our one nil loss Friday apparently flattered us (I did not get to see it as I was out of the country)

[sulywaterfordfc]

The only memo anyone from Dundalk should be issuing to travelling fans is a health warning about the away end in Oriel.

Ironic

[TonyD]

We just need Dundalk to get a few lads sent off.

I reckon they're going to give us a hammering tonight

Great point for Pats tonight. Defended manfully (two cleared off the line) Dandork also hit the bar from a free kick. Gritty performance though. Last year we would have shipped a bit of a hiding in that game.

[sbgawa]

Didn't think we were flattered at all by 1 nil but I suppose everyone sees it from there own perspective. Will be interested to see the peno. Looked very harsh but guess it doesn't matter anyway. Next 4 matches against limericks Sligo pats and Waterford will be interesting.

[micls]

Didn't think we were flattered at all by 1 nil but I suppose everyone sees it from there own perspective. Will be interested to see the peno. Looked very harsh but guess it doesn't matter anyway. Next 4 matches against limericks Sligo pats and Waterford will be interesting.

I thought we completely dominated the second half. We weren't anyway clinical enough, and should have put it to bed early in the second half.

Thought rovers offered very little in attack, against a very inexperienced defense. I was surprised, I expected ye to score a few given ye're recent results.

Weird league. Great result for us and very impressive performance, especially from a couple of the younger lads. Need to finish more chances though.

[ger121]

Derry tonked 6-1 on Friday, win 5-0 on the Monday. It’s a mad League this season, even by LOI standards.

[sbgawa]

I thought we completely dominated the second half. We weren't anyway clinical enough, and should have put it to bed early in the second half.

Thought rovers offered very little in attack, against a very inexperienced defense. I was surprised, I expected ye to score a few given ye're recent results.

Weird league. Great result for us and very impressive performance, especially from a couple of the younger lads. Need to finish more chances though.

Didn't play as well as we have done but still could have scored a couple, lost to a dubious (time will tell) peno. It's a league where points will be dropped, are Waterford good ? Are limericks that bad? How did we manage to lose to bohs....... big game on Friday against pats.

[ToberonaTornado]

Great point for Pats tonight. Defended manfully (two cleared off the line) Dandork also hit the bar from a free kick. Gritty performance though. Last year we would have shipped a bit of a hiding in that game.

Pats defo deserved the point.Dundalk on top 1st half and looked likely to score and you'd be thinking they defo will 2nd half.
But Pats dug in 2nd half,Dundalk got it hard to build anything and their usual set-piece routines werwe awful.Hard to name anyone player that played well for us in what was a pretty awful game of ball.

Sooner S o'd and Mounts come back for us the better.

[DannyInvincible]

Good win for Derry tonight and badly-needed after a number of poor results. Crucial to get off to a good start in the Brandywell too.

[SwanVsDalton]

A fitting night in the Brandy - the kind of night that makes you love football again. :)

Derry wern't as good as the scoreline suggested, although there was some very nice goals in there. Limerick folded up completely after the second, they were already halfway home mentally by the time the fourth went in.

That result will do a world of good for a team clearly still finding its feet with a cache of relatively young players new to the league. We also look capable of conceding from nowhere at almost any moment. But the new pitch is lush and zippy, the players largely like to get on the ball and I'd be optimistic we'll become very, very good at home once we properly start to gel and our back four gets a bit more stable.

[samhaydenjr]

Big honor for Ronan Hale, scoring first goal at the new Brandywell. Nice also in a historic way, that his grandfather used to be a Derry striker back in the 60's.

Good also for the future - he's the first of a large batch of teenage Irish strikers who have been scoring regularly at underage level in England. After a great year in Birmingham's U18s, he seems to have struggled a bit over the last year or so to adjust to u23 level (albeit partially as a result of injury, I believe). But if he can keep this up at senior LOI level, it will really be a great boost to his confidence and will hopefully get his career back on the fast track. Of course, as a Cork City fan, I hope he only does it in, say, 75% of games and not against us:p

[PartySaint]

Great point for Pats tonight. Defended manfully (two cleared off the line) Dandork also hit the bar from a free kick. Gritty performance though. Last year we would have shipped a bit of a hiding in that game.

Absolutely delighted with the result, there seems to be a bit of steel and determination with this Pats side that we haven't had in a few years, Toner, Desmond and Madden excellent at the back, Garvan and Markey great with the ball.

Even though it was a 0-0 Dundalk are a class above anyone else inn the league

[placid casual]

Having seen both Dundalk and cork now, I think its safe to say once Dundalk learn to score they should have a canter to the league.
Rovers are much much nearer to cork than last year, both in terms of better players at Rovers and less impressive from cork. And who knows what Waterford are gonna do this year!

[Pablo Escobar]

Having seen both Dundalk and cork now, I think its safe to say once Dundalk learn to score they should have a canter to the league.
Rovers are much much nearer to cork than last year, both in terms of better players at Rovers and less impressive from cork. And who knows what Waterford are gonna do this year!

Opposition fans knock us after every game, that is nothing new. We've played all of the rest of the top 5, plus Sligo, and we're 3 point clear with Waterford. They don't give out league titles in March, but I'm sure we'd have taken that at the start of the season. Anyway, this league is never easy to win and it's very rarely straight-forward, but it must be our target. I do think that we haven't played very well since the beginning of the season, but you could look two ways. Personally, I think there's a lot more in this squad and we'll see that come through over the next few games. If we don't get maximum points for the remaining fixtures in round 1 I'll be right in your camp.

[Real ale Madrid]

Having seen both Dundalk and cork now, I think its safe to say once Dundalk learn to score they should have a canter to the league.
Rovers are much much nearer to cork than last year, both in terms of better players at Rovers and less impressive from cork. And who knows what Waterford are gonna do this year!

To be fair you would have said that after the 2-1 win we had in Tallaght last year as well early doors. Gap has closed a bit mind you. No way it stays as wide as it was last year.

[sbgawa]

I don't think there is much to choose between Dundalk Cork and Rovers.
Nil nil in Tallaght against Dundalk us missing Finn , Clarke and Kavanagh (Dundalk were missing some as well).
A 1 nil loss away from home in Cork.

The next 4 matches are really important, if we are still only 2 behind Dundalk after the first series of Matches that wold be a big improvement on last season.
Cork may be further ahead but not out of sight...
Maybe I'm deluded....time will tell :)

[Ezeikial]

I don't think there is much to choose between Dundalk Cork and Rovers.
Nil nil in Tallaght against Dundalk us missing Finn , Clarke and Kavanagh (Dundalk were missing some as well).
A 1 nil loss away from home in Cork.

The next 4 matches are really important, if we are still only 2 behind Dundalk after the first series of Matches that wold be a big improvement on last season.
Cork may be further ahead but not out of sight...
Maybe I'm deluded....time will tell :)


A (blinkered) eternal optimist maybe.

You can keep believing, right up to the point that Stuey Byrne tips Rovers for the league title - that's when you know all hope has gone

[Crosshead]

Worthy winners, but was fearful we'd be left to rue missed chances as Rovers looked to put pressure on us towards the end. Delighted for McLaughlin, a solid performance at centre-back. On another day O'Brien could have seen red for his tackle on McCormack but it was more of a "strong yellow" and a sending off would have been soft. Have seen them given, though.

[oriel]

Absolutely delighted with the result, there seems to be a bit of steel and determination with this Pats side that we haven't had in a few years, Toner, Desmond and Madden excellent at the back, Garvan and Markey great with the ball.

Even though it was a 0-0 Dundalk are a class above anyone else inn the league

A draw was a completely fair result last night, Dundalk may have passed it about nice at times, but certainly didn't do enough to win the match, Pats stuck with us and battled hard for the point.

After a slow start, I suppose 4 points from two games v Cork at home and Pats away isn't bad, still no goals conceded but we need to start scoring more regularly.

We can have no complaints with the result last night.

[sbgawa]

A (blinkered) eternal optimist maybe.

You can keep believing, right up to the point that Stuey Byrne tips Rovers for the league title - that's when you know all hope has gone

I said we'd win the league back in 2010 and was told I was a blinkered optimist :)

[Ezeikial]

I said we'd win the league back in 2010 and was told I was a blinkered optimist :)

I would not be surprised to hear that you said that every season

[sbgawa]

I would not be surprised to hear that you said that every season


I think I've suggested it 17 times :) but then I'm getting a little old in the tooth and I might have misremembered

[Philosophizer]

I think I've suggested it 17 times :) but then I'm getting a little old in the tooth and I might have misremembered

The expression is "long in the tooth", so yes it seems like you are misremebering...

[sbgawa]

If I only had a tooth left to be long in.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

A (blinkered) eternal optimist maybe.

You can keep believing, right up to the point that Stuey Byrne tips Rovers for the league title - that's when you know all hope has gone

And what makes it so far fetched? We did draw with you while missing 3 of the best players in the league which suggests there's nothing between the teams so if you consider yourselves to be title condenders that puts us right up there also.

Nice to see you're maintaining your keen interest in us though

[Kingswood Rover]

I think that Rovers are getting there next year will be the Brad lads 3rd in charge providing we progress to the level the club are happy with and hopefully with the vast majority of players we have now. I think this team may need another season.

[Ezeikial]

And what makes it so far fetched?

Stephen Bradley


We did draw with you while missing 3 of the best players in the league which suggests there's nothing between the teams so if you consider yourselves to be title condenders that puts us right up there also.


Relax a little.

Rovers played the top two in recent weeks and took 1 point from a possible 6. That's not league winning form

[sbgawa]

Lads you have to take EZ s obsession with rovers as a compliment ....the little folk are always interested in what the big boys are up too. :)

[El-Pietro]

Rovers are a huge club, having a great season. They even have as many points as Limerick.

[sbgawa]

Tis just a blip on the radar EL P. Don't u go getting all bitter and twisted as well. You should def be enjoying things at the moment.

[El-Pietro]

Tis just a blip on the radar EL P. Don't u go getting all bitter and twisted as well. You should def be enjoying things at the moment.
I'm in great form, don't see why you would think otherwise.

[sbgawa]

Good to hear. It's important to enjoy the good times.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Stephen Bradley



Relax a little.

Rovers played the top two in recent weeks and took 1 point from a possible 6. That's not league winning form

And drawing with Bray at home is?

[redobit]

Ye gotta luv the Shamrock fans default response. Clubs are either obsessed, jealous or bitter. Or a combination of all three. :p

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Ye gotta luv the Shamrock fans default response. Clubs are either obsessed, jealous or bitter. Or a combination of all three. :p

Normally I don't think that but this Ezeikial lad is 100% obsessed, posts more about Rovers than Dundalk on here I'd say

[Ezeikial]

And drawing with Bray at home is?

Certainly not, that draw and the one against Rovers is not title winning form.


Normally I don't think that but this Ezeikial lad is 100% obsessed, posts more about Rovers than Dundalk on here I'd say

Do you see the irony of you posing questions to me and then whinging when I give you the courtesy of a response?

[sbgawa]

Normally I don't think that but this Ezeikial lad is 100% obsessed, posts more about Rovers than Dundalk on here I'd say

Completely true. The rumour is bradser stole his girlfriend :) gotta be an explanation.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Certainly not, that draw and the one against Rovers is not title winning form.



Do you see the irony of you posing questions to me and then whinging when I give you the courtesy of a response?

So nobody's winning the title then...

The questions were rhetorical, no winging here(i find your obsession with everything Rovers, especially Bradley, quite amusing actually) , you actually brought up Rovers before I asked any questions(as per usual), nope can't see any irony there.

[Ezeikial]

Completely true. The rumour is bradser stole his girlfriend :) gotta be an explanation.

I don't think it's fair for you to take Bradser's personal life into it - he just doesn't seem to be a lothario type. Based on one of his many infamous quotes, he might have enough problems in that department already



'My wife won't be happy but I'll go over the game tonight till all hours'

http://www.the42.ie/dundalk-shamrock-rovers-reaction-3869508-Feb2018/

[RathfarnhamHoop]

I don't think it's fair for you to take Bradser's personal life into it - he just doesn't seem to be a lothario type. Based on one of his many infamous quotes, he might have enough problems in that department already
The fact you actually remembered that/had it saved/looked it up is fairly pathetic.

[Ezeikial]

So nobody's winning the title then...




I suspect that same two teams who have battled for the title in 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014 will do so again

Despite having some quality players, there is no indication of Rovers being able to seriously challenge - 1 point from 6 available in those recent games supports this




The questions were rhetorical, no winging here(i find your obsession with everything Rovers, especially Bradley, quite amusing actually) , you actually brought up Rovers before I asked any questions(as per usual), nope can't see any irony there.

If you re-read the thread you may see that I replied to a comment that sbgawa made comparing Rovers with Cork & Dundalk (post #124 / #125) - I did not actually bring up Rovers at all!

If you ask a question (rhetorical or otherwise) or post a comment, please don't be surprised if someone responds (especially the person you aimed it at). If you just want to applaud each other and pay homage to Bradser (should it have a capital or lowercase B ?) the Hoops forum is probably the safest bet.

[Ezeikial]

The fact you actually remembered that/had it saved/looked it up is fairly pathetic.

I have this bookmarked - it makes for hours of fascinating entertainment

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Farcial+Bradser+quotes