SSE Airtriicty League 17th/18th/20th/21st May

[DFCForever]

Bohs fans better never accuse us of cheating again, kicked us around the place and were lucky to only have one man sent off.
It was also a stonewall penalty, and a thoroughly deserved victory.

[sbgawa]

I'm not buying the stonewall penalty stuff until i hear it from Marinobohs

[RathfarnhamHoop]

So that's 10 penalties in 18 games for Dundalk now. Wonder what the season record is? Might have broken it already.

[marinobohs]

I'm not buying the stonewall penalty stuff until i hear it from Marinobohs

Almost worth it to keep the scum off the top 😁

[patrickccfc]

I remember a few seasons back, 2017 I think, Stephen Kenny giving out about all the penalties we were getting, quite the opposite now. Damn crisp packets.

[total hoofball]

Can't buy a goal at the moment. Daylight robbery from Cork, who were generally awful but scored from a defensive howler.

Bottom on goals scored now, which is appropriate
I wouldn't call it daylight robbery, Cork are certainly not great but both sides threatened enough it wasn't a surprise one goal eventually went in, Kearns was all over the place all evening you could see that type of goal coming. Your only decent forward Mahdy who has scored goals this season was on the bench again and brought on far too late

[Ezeikial]

That Jarvis chap falling over at the box! I think it was the pink boots up in the air that attracted the ref's attention. I feel sorry for the Bohs lads.

[sbgawa]

Almost worth it to keep the scum off the top 


Peno ?

P.S
You care way to much about us

[pineapple stu]

I wouldn't call it daylight robbery, Cork are certainly not great but both sides threatened enough it wasn't a surprise one goal eventually went in, Kearns was all over the place all evening you could see that type of goal coming. Your only decent forward Mahdy who has scored goals this season was on the bench again and brought on far too late

"Daylight robbery" was the phrase the Cork fan behind me used in fairness!

Cork were really dire though; one of the poorest sides I've seen this year. Even Waterford and Harps had a bit of direction about them. Agree that Kearns was at sea alright. But most of the chances were at the other end, albeit that we've no confidence in front of goal at the moment. A 0-0 draw would probably have been fair, but Cork didn't deserve three points at all.

Davis is first choice, btw, not Mahdy. Was injured earlier in the season which didn't help, but I think he has more in general play.

[White Horse]

Is Ali Reghba related to Thomas Byrne? Byrne is the only other player to try as hard to get a red card. Long had to take him off after 10 minutes, the ref should have done it after 5.

[Ezeikial]

Thoroughly deserved win by Dundalk tonight. An injury time winner is always a great way to win and the fact that it was a penalty makes it even more enjoyable in many ways. The truth is that Dundalk should have had it wrapped up much earlier. James Talbot had an outstanding game.

Bohs management (and any objective supporters) will need to look at the roles played by Ryan Graydon and Ali Reghba tonight. Graydon lasted 13 minutes on the pitch before departing after 2 yellow cards, while Reghba was subbed off 12 minutes after coming in as a sub for Ryan Swan as he also should have picked up a second yellow (the ref bottled it twice)

[marinobohs]

Peno ?

P.S
You care way to much about us
Peno

PS
you care way too much about me 😁

[MattB11]

Handy win for Rovers our keeper gifted them the 2 goals in the first half, we passed it about well at times but could be there till christmas and still wouldn't of broke them down

[joey B]

Second best tonight unfortunately,Rovers sharper all over, in midfield in particular they impressed,in saying that the 3 goals were gifts,not the games that will define our season but had hoped we'd have troubled them more,still think Rovers are a proper number 9 away from winning the league.

[Ezeikial]

Most teams have now played 18 games - half their league fixture list.

In the last 9 matches Dundalk have taken 25 out of 27 points. Pretenders beware!

[oriel]

An absolutely deserved win for Dundalk. The second half display almost constant attacking, tough on Bohs but only as it was so late, ridiculous challenge for their man take Jarvis out of it on 94 mins.

Good decision by Bohs to take Reghba off even though he only came on a sub, he was heading for their second red and no mistake.

Dundalk still not at their best performance wise, slowly getting things moving, results have been excellent though. 8 wins in the last 9 now. Impressive.

[ToberonaTornado]

Ali Regbha is a big child.Absolute disgrace how he played when he was brought on.
Then when he''s subbed,pulls a huge strop and letting on then he didn't know why he was taken off and crazy thundered down the tunnel in Oriel when he was ! Hear he was on the Bohs bus after the match in his Harry Potter pyjamas :D

Dundalk not really on form last night but kept going until the last second.Penalty was a penalty despite all the crying going on.


Ahead of the chasing pack at the halfway stage of the league,we'll take that!��:cool::star:

[Dalymountrower]

Penalty was a penalty despite all the crying going on.


Who is crying?,Full time professional side win narrowly against part time young players.The only surprise is the decision to contest the game so physically.The yellow card count is disgraceful and points to a team out of control or just too in experienced to play that sort of game.
Need to focus on our rivals for third place.

[White Horse]

Ali Regbha is a big child.Absolute disgrace how he played when he was brought on.[/B]

I was very close to the Bohs dugout and Long was incredulous at his childish behaviour. The lad should consider Aussie Rules as a career option.

[Park_Lane]

Who is crying?,Full time professional side win narrowly against part time young players.
Ah the Bohs narritive! Always with the excuses after a loss!

[Dalymountrower]

Ah the Bohs narritive! Always with the excuses after a loss!
When we regularly beat you lot we are still a part time team with young players, is that a reason we beat you or an excuse?
Anyway , good luck to Rovers in their pursuit of Dundalk. I am afraid that by the time the season is coming to a close the interesting battle will be for third /fourth place

[Northsider]

Ah the Bohs narritive! Always with the excuses after a loss!

Thankfully we never have to use it after we play the Shams.

[seand]

I can understand Bohs' frustrations losing to a late penalty, again, but they can have no justifiable complaints really. Gifted a goal after 2 minutes they were time wasting from early in the first half and there was none of the football we're used to from Bohs. The two yellows were pretty clear cut, the penalty was clear, how Reghba didn't get sent off I'll never know and one of the centre halves could have gone for a terrible studs up tackle on Flores on the edge of the box. Even Mandriou had two bites at Murray before hacking him down for his yellow and Talbot's yellow came after a good 70 minutes of time wasting. A bad day at the office. Dundalk going ok, but really need to be more clinical up front and tidier at the back. Played football until the 96th minute and got the reward.

[Jack B]

At this rate Dundalk will score more penos than we do goals this season.

That isn't a dig at Dundalk either.

Not expecting much from tonight as you can probably tell.

[Nesta99]

The penalty count for Dundalk might not be as much of an anomaly as it seems. With 2 pacey wingers in Duffy and Kelly, fullbacks and at least one midfielder driving in to an opponents box consistantly the chances of mistimed tackle or quick footwork in/at the box are high. Add in the physically robust type of player that Hoban is then defenders have to get physical to manage and a decision eventually will go with the striker if there are 50/50 decisions. Add in the dark arts of course. It would be interesting to see how many frees are given in the final third due to pace in the team and trying to go past defenders, when attacking players get down the flanks especially and in to the box in the way that Duffy does there is always going to be a risk of being fouled.

Maguire was a specialist as using his pace and a similar thing was happening. Kenny's issue at the time was that Dundalk were not getting decisions as he saw it more than Cork were gettin soft decisions. Cork fans lauded how Maguire 'manfactured' penalties and there is no doubt going to be some element of this with Dundalk currently and as distasteful a part of the game it is a 'skill'. I still dont think SK came out of that media rant too well!

What is highlighting the penalty count mainly is how sketchy Hoban's finishing has been yet is top of the goal scoring charts with only something like 3 goals from open play. I think its only 6 points that you could argue were gained by a penalty decision as points were dropped by missing penalties. Then how many prevented goal scoring opportunities?!

[PartySaint]

At this rate Dundalk will score more penos than we do goals this season.

That isn't a dig at Dundalk either.

Not expecting much from tonight as you can probably tell.

Another Kenny masterclass of 'go out and try score some goals lads'

[oriel]

Just on the pens Dundalk have been awarded, I’d agree with John Gills post match summary, all were correct decisions, bar the one away to Bohs. I’d also say one more wasn’t given that should have been, when Gannon was taken down away to Rovers, then again Rovers should have got one also with the handball by Hoare in the same game.

In both home games v Bohs this season, pens were awarded after decent attacking moves well into injury time, and on theses occasions the ball was kept on the deck and to go wide as most opportunities. These are the rewards you get when you keep going. In saying that we didn’t deserve to beat Bohs in April, but we absolutely did last night.

[Bohs11]

The only positive out of last night, is we've only one more game this season where we'll start a referee and a penalty down.

[sbgawa]

The only positive out of last night, is we've only one more game this season where we'll start a referee and a penalty down.


If only we could say the same :)

[Charlie Darwin]

The only positive out of last night, is we've only one more game this season where we'll start a referee and a penalty down.
Did you manage to coax Stephen O'Donnell out of retirement?

[Park_Lane]

I am afraid that by the time the season is coming to a close the interesting battle will be for third /fourth place

Jaysus Lads, 8 points isn't insurmountable! Plus you've a guaranteed 6 against us ;)

[El-Pietro]

The penalty count for Dundalk might not be as much of an anomaly as it seems. With 2 pacey wingers in Duffy and Kelly, fullbacks and at least one midfielder driving in to an opponents box consistantly the chances of mistimed tackle or quick footwork in/at the box are high. Add in the physically robust type of player that Hoban is then defenders have to get physical to manage and a decision eventually will go with the striker if there are 50/50 decisions.
I'm fairly confident if I went through the crisp packet thread I could find 80% of posts by Dundalk fans were them complaining that the exact same thing couldn't have possibly been true about Maguire, Sheppard and Dooley.

[sbgawa]

Just on the pens Dundalk have been awarded, I’d agree with John Gills post match summary, all were correct decisions, bar the one away to Bohs. I’d also say one more wasn’t given that should have been, when Gannon was taken down away to Rovers, then again Rovers should have got one also with the handball by Hoare in the same game.

In both home games v Bohs this season, pens were awarded after decent attacking moves well into injury time, and on theses occasions the ball was kept on the deck and to go wide as most opportunities. These are the rewards you get when you keep going. In saying that we didn’t deserve to beat Bohs in April, but we absolutely did last night.

Breaking News DFC "Manager" and supporters think 90% of decisions were right on penos and feel they should have had more.
In other news the Pope said he thought the bible was just about Gospel and Rovers fans feel that we are the biggest club in Ireland :)

[Nesta99]

Complain? Of course, isnt that true of all football fans! Specifically and it could have been yerself EP there was comment or debate on Maguire 'manufacturing' penalties, and example of a relatively new skill that isnt diving - its leaving a trailing foot and the like to create contact and 'win' a penalty. Sheppard in the Cup Final, for example, cutely waited for contact from Hoare and went over and the penalty was given. Hoare should have been more aware especially as Shep was heading away from goal and was waiting for any contact. As Ive said I dont think it was one of Kenny's finer moments in trying to play mind games. Im not excluding Dundalk from the same type of gamesmanship. I am suggesting that if a team is relentlessly attacking in to the box there is likely to be a higher number of penalties awarded than a team that sits deep and maybe hits on the break - this could probably result in a higher number of professional fouls to stop a break. It seems that Bohs fans have resigned themselves to there being at least 2 refs that are biased toward Dundalk. One poor decision has set that tone and not so much the sending off and Long needing a Sheperds hook for another player that is just on the pitch. There was also scorn poured on Rovers fans ascertations that poor referring sealed the result of the last Dublin Derby. Not lastnight, but there is usually a grey area of debate on refereeing in the league and that it is inconsistant, fans dont have much faith, some refs like to be in the spotlight et al and we have all been on the recieving end of the most confusing decisions. Claiming refs have favourite clubs so far this season is highly unlikely!

[oriel]

I'm fairly confident if I went through the crisp packet thread I could find 80% of posts by Dundalk fans were them complaining that the exact same thing couldn't have possibly been true about Maguire, Sheppard and Dooley.

Slightly different style with those two wingers, and Shep was made into one, but one thing not up for argument, that was some front 3 that Cork had in 2017. Maguire obviously, but Dooley was an almost constant nuisance against Dundalk, caused us problems in most games, he was a big loss for Cork when he moved on. He did go to Coleraine, but I forgot he went over to Rochdale, hasn't seem to have featured there, is he injured I wonder ?

[patrickccfc]

Steven Beattie went-a-fishing last night. Plenty of bites too.

https://twitter.com/steven5beattie/status/1130575797230678017?s=19

[RathfarnhamHoop]

I know it's said a lot that Dundalk apply a lot of pressure, have tricky wingers and a physical striker so they get a lot of penalties because that's a dangerous combination but even when you look at the likes of 2008 Man United, Real Madrid the last decade or so and Barcelona all of them would have been similar combinations of players style wise to Dundalk (Barcelona minus the physical centre forward for the most part) and dominant teams and their league penalty counts were rarely above 10 over a whole season so for Dundalk to have 10 half way through a season is a serious anomaly.

[D24Saint]

Crucial to get the three points. I thought we played ok in patches but the last half hour we disintegrated and if Derry had a decent striker we would have been punished.

[TonyD]

Crucial to get the three points. I thought we played ok in patches but the last half hour we disintegrated and if Derry had a decent striker we would have been punished.

Yeah, important 3 points, but Derry will feel hard done by, wth some justification. Hit the post late on. We really don't look a good side at all.

[joey B]

Derrys lack of a goalscorer has them 1 win in 8,Friday will be interesting should be a spicy affair:D!!

[sbgawa]

You Pats fans make the Rovers support look patient.
You are one point off a probable euro place and 4 off 3rd place,
You have taken 5 points off the two teams around you in your last 3 matches.
I'm starting to feel sorry for Harry.
Hes had 18 matches to stitch a complete new team together.
Total football will follow , keep the faith

[Ezeikial]

I'm fairly confident if I went through the crisp packet thread I could find 80% of posts by Dundalk fans were them complaining that the exact same thing couldn't have possibly been true about Maguire, Sheppard and Dooley.

Shoot - go for it!

Maybe you could post up the results in a nice pie chart

[D24Saint]

You Pats fans make the Rovers support look patient.
You are one point off a probable euro place and 4 off 3rd place,
You have taken 5 points off the two teams around you in your last 3 matches.
I'm starting to feel sorry for Harry.
Hes had 18 matches to stitch a complete new team together.
Total football will follow , keep the faith

He receives very little stick at home game most of the criticism is kept online. The grade of football dished up has been largely rubbish.

[Jack B]

You Pats fans make the Rovers support look patient.
You are one point off a probable euro place and 4 off 3rd place,
You have taken 5 points off the two teams around you in your last 3 matches.
I'm starting to feel sorry for Harry.
Hes had 18 matches to stitch a complete new team together.
Total football will follow , keep the faith

I've said it previously that normally I would agree with this sentiment and have acted as much, but this is a particularly special circumstance.

We just look absolutely clueless even in games that we've won. Tonight is a case in point where if I was a neutral I'd actually feel sorry for Derry, it legitimately should have been 3/4-1. We created a solitary chance all game, scored from it and then stuck 11 behind the ball at home and hoped for the best.

I'd have more time for Kenny if there was an obviously identity or style forming but it's obvious that he's been completely winging it since the start of the season. We played all pre-season with a 4-3-3, then after injuries dictated we played 3/5 at the back in the first game of the season he just abandoned all his previous work and stuck with it, even though it's clear we don't have the personnel for it to the point it restricts us every week. It's honestly unfair the expectations that are being put on Bermo and Madden, and for all his talk of believing in playing "an attractive brand of football" it's becoming more and more obvious that he doesn't know how to implement it, so we've now been reduced to hoping we can nick something off a set piece and then lump it up to Gary Shaw for the rest of the game. For the squad we have it's a bit depressing to be honest.

[D24Saint]

Got a bit fortunate tonight the Derry player had cotton bud up his nose after a challenge and for some bizarre reason was ordered by the ref to change the dressing before a corner and his marker Toner just headed it unmarked into the net , I’ll take it though.

[Nesta99]

You Pats fans make the Rovers support look patient.
You are one point off a probable euro place and 4 off 3rd place,
You have taken 5 points off the two teams around you in your last 3 matches.
I'm starting to feel sorry for Harry.
Hes had 18 matches to stitch a complete new team together.
Total football will follow , keep the faith

You Placid in disguise?

[desaintsno.12]

You Pats fans make the Rovers support look patient.
You are one point off a probable euro place and 4 off 3rd place,
You have taken 5 points off the two teams around you in your last 3 matches.
I'm starting to feel sorry for Harry.
Hes had 18 matches to stitch a complete new team together.
Total football will follow , keep the faith

First of all, we are a very patient fan base, always have been, some would say too much at times.
Totally get how it looks from the outside when we give out, but its very different when you watch us week in week out. Time and time again, we look clueless, and its not just about wanting sexy bucko ball, not at all.
We have absolutely poxed results, all starting with week one against Cork.
Kenny is not developing anything there is nothing improving.
I wont last too long, but sadly long enough to waste a decent squad/budget.

[White Horse]

What is the story with Forrester? He appears to be only playing in bits of games. He should be tearing the league up.

[Ezeikial]

You Pats fans make the Rovers support look patient.

You imply Rovers are impatient.

Apart from the 'enough is enough' banner (while conceding 5 goals at home) and the occasional whinge here by Rovers fans, I think there has been a very passive reaction to lack of achievement over the last few years

[D24Saint]

What is the story with Forrester? He appears to be only playing in bits of games. He should be tearing the league up.

I don’t think he is capable of tearing up a pack of tayto this season. It’s looking like we are going to have to wait long term for his signing to bear fruit.