LOI Fixtures Fri 13th - Tues 17th April 2018

[A N Mouse]

They might play at the rsc, but Waterford heavily involved in the am-dram again.

Comerford treated on the pitch for a couple of minutes, can only assume it was for embarrassment, after taking a fancy fall when Peers squared up to him. Neil Doyle didn't fancy his performance and showed him yellow when finally restored to his feet. About only thing ref got right.

Not long before that I thought, probably, same player was having some kind of seizure, after appearing to foul Patterson in the box, but quickly recovered when no penalty was forthcoming.

Better performance from Derry than last home game.

[oriel]

Derry coming into right good form last month or so, the return to the Brandywell certainly has ignited their season.

[samhaydenjr]

It's his son. He's 17 or 18. He scored 2 tonight so I think he's already surpassed his father. :D

♪ He only scored in Sidetrax ♪

[CorribsideSteve]

Also, Kabia just scored for Cobh.

There's a random nostalgia trip!

Did Kabia score for Cork City against Pats (i think)? Was late 90's maybe 1998, one of the first LOI games I watched on TV, vague memories.

[placid casual]

I brought a relative newbie to tallaght, and he said boez played the better football, without being penetrative in the final 3rd for most of the game. Rovers looked heavy legged for large parts of the match,and Carr going off affected their sharpness in front of goal. Shaw missed a fuc*in sitter before boez scored. It is how it is.

[Candystripe]

Derry coming into right good form last month or so, the return to the Brandywell certainly has ignited their season.

The score line flattered Waterford. Last 25 minutes Derry missed 3 absolute sitters. Biggest attendance at the Brandywell for years. Probably 3,300+ but official attendance probably 2,700 again!

[sullanefc]

They might play at the rsc, but Waterford heavily involved in the am-dram again.

Comerford treated on the pitch for a couple of minutes, can only assume it was for embarrassment, after taking a fancy fall when Peers squared up to him. Neil Doyle didn't fancy his performance and showed him yellow when finally restored to his feet. About only thing ref got right.

Not long before that I thought, probably, same player was having some kind of seizure, after appearing to foul Patterson in the box, but quickly recovered when no penalty was forthcoming.

Better performance from Derry than last home game.

Reynolds was a scut of a player. No surprise he is managing a team of scuts.

[WoodquayBoy]

Alan Murphy took the penalty and equalised or set a new goal scoring record for Galway.
Joined Paul Ski McGee as club’s record league scorer on 74 league goals

[Ezeikial]

Cheeky Keith Ward!



Keith Ward‏ @KWard102 (https://twitter.com/KWard102)



Sorry @ShamrockRovers (https://twitter.com/ShamrockRovers) about the corner flag take it out of our cup final bonus

https://twitter.com/KWard102/status/984934135100858370

[mcgonigle]

Reynolds was a scut of a player. No surprise he is managing a team of scuts.

You're a gas man

[Dalymountrower]

Cheeky Keith Ward!



https://twitter.com/KWard102/status/984934135100858370
A clearly inspiring pre match pep talk from Bradley.

[disgruntled]

We just don't seem to be getting the breaks lately. Played really well in Derry, against Dundalk in the league cup, and now tonight by all accounts but got nothing. Luck has to turn soon hopefully.

Pats had plenty of the ball & played some nice football.
Some very experienced players in the Pats team with Garvan looking very good at times but very light at centre forward.
Got in some very good crosses but no one in the middle to convert. Pats brought on Fagan, Markey & Kelly later on but it made little difference.
Bit of quick thinking from McCormack created the goal & we also hit the post a couple of times.
Overall poor game but City did just about enough to scrape it.

[Ezeikial]

Keith Ward‏ @KWard102 (https://twitter.com/KWard102)




Sorry @ShamrockRovers (https://twitter.com/ShamrockRovers) about the corner flag take it out of our cup final bonus



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DavKeBgX4AAjMgl.jpg

[bluemovie]

Derry deserved their win last night. We were very good in the first half and missed a few great chances, but Derry were well on top in the second and Vigouroux kept us in the game. We might have survived the loss of the suspended players but no Browne or Duffus meant we were without our best four outfield players. Akinade had a great first half, but totally ran out of steam - seems to be having some health issues possibly related to his surgery last year and isn't fully fit. Very happy with our first half performance in the circumstances, but struggled in the second. The new Brandywell is terrific even though the view from the away section is still poor.

[Charlie Darwin]

Town 1-0 up in Drogheda. Dean Byrne. Cracking little player that Fenn picked up from Hardwicke in the lower divisions of the LSL.
Hardwicke play in the top level of the AUL but, yeah, it'd roughly correspond with the fifth tier of the LSL. Some teams like Sheriff obviously a lot better, but a few worse too. Hardwicke are a very good junior club who will produce a lot more LOI players I suspect.

As for Rovers, not our worst performance of the season but same problems there. We don't seem to be able to move through the gears and think things through on the pitch. Horgan can't be blamed this time - we were coasting with 20 minutes to go and collapsed again. A few players need to look at whether they're justifying the faith in them.

[White Horse]

“We know it’s their cup final".

https://www.thesun.ie/sport/football/2444559/shamrock-rovers-boss-stephen-bradley-admits-his-side-deserved-to-be-beaten-by-bohemians-for-not-showing-enough-fight/

Bradley doesn't know when to stop digging.

[GCdfc]

Bradly deserves his own his own thread like Kenny Shiels.

[patrickccfc]

If Rover's are Bohs cup final, going by that trail of thought, Dundalk and Cork are theirs. And they have lost to both of those.

[Ezeikial]

In the interests of balance, I would like to point out that Stephen Bradley is not the only one at Shamrock Rovers to have illusions of grandeur and make wild statements

While there seems to be a media silence currently, here is a Dave McAllister piece from earlier this year after the first defeat to Bohs


SHAMROCK Rovers midfielder David McAllister believes the Hoops are the one team, against whom, all other sides in the league step it up.Given the success the club has enjoyed down through the years, Rovers are a team, McAllister insists, that other sides particularly aim to scalp.

“Something I came to quickly realise last season is that everyone wants to beat Rovers and that’s the team we play for now,” he told The Echo.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a bitter thing, but teams just want to put one over on you and that’s something we have to deal with.
“You see it especially with teams who have ex-Rovers players like Bray. They have a point to prove and they managed to beat us twice last season so we’ll be hoping to get a bit of revenge when we play them on Monday” he said.

http://www.echo.ie/sport/article/beat-shamrock-rovers-mcallister

To put Rovers 'greatness' and 'success' into context, Dave McAllister will be 30 years old this year. Since he was born Rovers have won the league 3 times, have zero FAI Cup win and a single League of Ireland Cup (to be fair they also won the First Division title in that period too)

The level of underachievement at Rovers is only matched by a breathtaking level of arrogance

[Nesta99]

For the sake of contrast, Dundalk over the same period have 6 league titles, 3 FAI Cups, 3 League Cups, (2 1st Division titles).

[marinobohs]

In the interests of balance, I would like to point out that Stephen Bradley is not the only one at Shamrock Rovers to have illusions of grandeur and make wild statements

While there seems to be a media silence currently, here is a Dave McAllister piece from earlier this year after the first defeat to Bohs


http://www.echo.ie/sport/article/beat-shamrock-rovers-mcallister

To put Rovers 'greatness' and 'success' into context, Dave McAllister will be 30 years old this year. Since he was born Rovers have won the league 3 times, have zero FAI Cup win and a single League of Ireland Cup (to be fair they also won the First Division title in that period too)

The level of underachievement at Rovers is only matched by a breathtaking level of arrogance

Bradley is a clown, only tolerated by shams because they don’t want to sack another manager. His arrogance is matched only by his incompetence.
....long may it last 😊

[Calcio Jack]

In the interests of balance, I would like to point out that Stephen Bradley is not the only one at Shamrock Rovers to have illusions of grandeur and make wild statements

While there seems to be a media silence currently, here is a Dave McAllister piece from earlier this year after the first defeat to Bohs


http://www.echo.ie/sport/article/beat-shamrock-rovers-mcallister

To put Rovers 'greatness' and 'success' into context, Dave McAllister will be 30 years old this year. Since he was born Rovers have won the league 3 times, have zero FAI Cup win and a single League of Ireland Cup (to be fair they also won the First Division title in that period too)

The level of underachievement at Rovers is only matched by a breathtaking level of arrogance

You just don’t get or understand heritage , history , context , peasant attitudes etc. and not forgetting inferiority idolization.

No doubt as usual you’ll attempt attempt some reply please try if you do to raise it above your usual intellectually stagnant dross.

Ps - I agree Bradley is poor and should be replaced and I also know we’ll have more days in the sun to add to our long unmatchable history of same , because that has been the natural order of LOI and historyteaches us one thing and that’s that life has an uncanny faculty to repeat itself

[Ezeikial]

You just don’t get or understand heritage , history , context , peasant attitudes etc. and not forgetting inferiority idolization.



I would be eager to learn more about the 'peasant attitudes' and 'inferiority idolization' you mention, although I doubt if you are willing or able to explain.

The 'heritage, history, and context' bluff I understand to be about living in a sepia-tinted history. The example of 3 leagues and 0 Fai Cups during Dave McAllister's lifetime puts Rovers as the least successful Dublin club in that period bar UCD and Cabinteely, and an under-achieving phenomenon. All except Rovers staff and fans appear to be able to see that as clear as day.





No doubt as usual you’ll attempt attempt some reply please try if you do to raise it above your usual intellectually stagnant dross.



I am used to personalised attacks and insults being pretty normal in responses from most Rovers posters, even if you do not include the obligatory "obsession" and "yawn" additions





Ps - I agree Bradley is poor and should be replaced and I also know we’ll have more days in the sun to add to our long unmatchable history of same , because that has been the natural order of LOI and historyteaches us one thing and that’s that life has an uncanny faculty to repeat itself

PS We don't agree on all that at all - I would like to see Bradser get a contract extension!

[Calcio Jack]

I would be eager to learn more about the 'peasant attitudes' and 'inferiority idolization' you mention, although I doubt if you are willing or able to explain.

The 'heritage, history, and context' bluff I understand to be about living in a sepia-tinted history. The example of 3 leagues and 0 Fai Cups during Dave McAllister's lifetime puts Rovers as the least successful Dublin club in that period bar UCD and Cabinteely, and an under-achieving phenomenon. All except Rovers staff and fans appear to be able to see that as clear as day.





I am used to personalised attacks and insults being pretty normal in responses from most Rovers posters, even if you do not include the obligatory "obsession" and "yawn" additions




PS We don't agree on all that at all - I would like to see Bradser get a contract extension!

QED- Pavlov rang his bell and on cue Ezekial comes running - woof woof

[NeverFeltBetter]

You sure got one over on him.

[Ezeikial]

QED- Pavlov rang his bell and on cue Ezekial comes running - woof woof



Would it be fair to say that most Shamrock Rovers fans (and players) suffer from Pavlovian Conditioning, in that they are conditioned to believe that Rovers are a successful club? Even Ireland's number 1 club? Biggest club in Ireland. TM

[Ezeikial]

Bray can be got at over 6/1 for a win and almost 4/1 to draw against The Biggest Club in Ireland (TM) on Monday.

I don't know the odds on Bradley to get sacked this week or Rovers fans to go into total meltdown

[Ezeikial]

Remarkable goal from Rhys McCabe from inside his own half - (even if the ball was moving when he took the free kick)

https://twitter.com/SSEAirtricityLg/status/985573621102972928

[Yossarian]

Bray can be got at over 6/1 for a win and almost 4/1 to draw against The Biggest Club in Ireland (TM) on Monday.


Great odds for a cup final.

[El-Pietro]

Remarkable goal from Rhys McCabe from inside his own half - (even if the ball was moving when he took the free kick)

https://twitter.com/SSEAirtricityLg/status/985573621102972928

Well taken finish, but definitely should not have been allowed to stand.

[Kingswood Rover]

Rovers are **** poor again this year, at the start of the last 5 seasons i think maybe we will be there or there about but this season is particularly disappointing as they have some outstanding players but i have to admit after denying it for over a year are poorly lead and by the way most Rovers fans cheer any bit of success European wise by any other LOI teams and when i talk to the people who slag off the football in it i say well you obviously have not watched Dundalk recently. Some of the tripe spouted here our club is bigger, better, gets bigger crowds, does not have scumbag supporters is infantile. Is Bradly gone yet.

[White Horse]

After watching Rovers against Dundalk last week, I really thought they are going somewhere. They were disciplined, creative, and played with a high tempo.

All teams are struggling for consistent form. Cork are not playing great if you listen to their fans. Dundalk have been lucky in games. This time last season, the performance against Bray would have got us no points. Despite only conceding one goal this season, we have given teams lots of chances.

I feel very uncomfortable defending Bradley, but Rovers appear to getting no luck in games. Things are constantly going against them.

[Ezeikial]

After watching Rovers against Dundalk last week, I really thought they are going somewhere. They were disciplined, creative, and played with a high tempo.

All teams are struggling for consistent form. Cork are not playing great if you listen to their fans. Dundalk have been lucky in games. This time last season, the performance against Bray would have got us no points. Despite only conceding one goal this season, we have given teams lots of chances.

I feel very uncomfortable defending Bradley, but Rovers appear to getting no luck in games. Things are constantly going against them.

+1

Bradley just needs more time....
...along with a bit of media training and a belt or two of a hurley stick (or whatever else might curb his arrogance)

[micls]

Is this the 'give Bradley a new contract' petition? I'm in.

[disgruntled]

Is this the 'give Bradley a new contract' petition? I'm in.

+1 😁😁😁

[PartySaint]

A taller goalkeeper and we might have got a point down in Cork :(

[marinobohs]

You just don’t get or understand heritage , history , context , peasant attitudes etc. and not forgetting inferiority idolization.

No doubt as usual you’ll attempt attempt some reply please try if you do to raise it above your usual intellectually stagnant dross.

Ps - I agree Bradley is poor and should be replaced and I also know we’ll have more days in the sun to add to our long unmatchable history of same , because that has been the natural order of LOI and historyteaches us one thing and that’s that life has an uncanny faculty to repeat itself

Wow, way to go on answering the ‘arrogance’ claim. Thanks for confirming the ridiculous sense of self worth is not restricted to that clown Bradley.

[Calcio Jack]

Wow, way to go on answering the ‘arrogance’ claim. Thanks for confirming the ridiculous sense of self worth is not restricted to that clown Bradley.

QED -You ring the bell and the dog and it’s pups just can’t resist .

[brendy_éire]

Very happy with our first half performance in the circumstances, but struggled in the second.

Almost sums the match up entirely there.
Waterford was pretty decent in the first half, really controlled the game, and had us convinced they would get a goal. Probably should have with Akinade's chance, but great defending from Peers to clear it. Always been a fan of his, great signing.
The second half was all Derry. Decent header from Doyle for the goal, could Vigeroux had done better though? Should have scored a few more, pretty wasteful attacking from us.
Can't understand why Waterford did so little the second half, mind. I know Derry changed things around a bit, sent Peers to mark Akinade, which kept him quiet, but there was such a contrast between Waterford's energy compared to the first half.

[marinobohs]

QED -You ring the bell and the dog and it’s pups just can’t resist .

Translates as - boo hoo anyone saying bad things about Shams is a dog.
Deluded doesn’t even begin to describe the derby bottlers.

[placid casual]

If boez fans had a brain cell in their head, they'd be questioning why their team only turns up for the derby games.
To think Rovers fans are deluded.. Duh!

[Ezeikial]

QED -You ring the bell and the dog and it’s pups just can’t resist .


Have you just bought a new book?

https://www.easons.com/globalassets/5637150827/all/books/education/psychology-academic/9781118603598.jpg

[brendy_éire]

If boez fans had a brain cell in their head, they'd be questioning why their team only turns up for the derby games.

They can worry about such mysteries tomorrow.

McDermott is out for tonight's game, but that'll allow Cole to slot back in.
Derry priced at 4/5, but I think that's being slightly unkind to Bohs. We just about beat them earlier in the season, I'd expect it to be tight.
Interesting to note that Kenny Shiels has a 100% record against Keith Long, eights wins in eight. (H/T https://twitter.com/gametwohalves/status/985870901903347712?s=09)

[redarmyfaction]

Waterford look a price tonight I just got 4/1 on Betfair, I had them 11/4 in my head.

[pineapple stu]

Rovers losing to Bray AND Waterford with a man sent off.

Recent history suggests this could be the longest thread in the history of foot.ie

[patrickccfc]

Red card for Bohs in derry too and they are now 2-1 down

[White Horse]

Red card number three. Rovers imploding. Carr sent off.

[Ezeikial]

Sander Puri off for Waterford & Paddy Kavanagh off for Bohs. Both a goal down and a man down away from home.

It looks like Rovers might be the only away team to keep all players on the pitch

EDIT - holy moley!

[patrickccfc]

Carr sent off for Rover's now.

[Ezeikial]

This will not be a long thread - Rovers fans are boycotting again