Derry 2 Bohs 1

[sonofstan]

Lofty9, I think it was 'You Dirty Northern Bast**d' they were singing.

:D

It was 'you dirty rovers basta*d'. Obviously

[BohDiddley]

Good write-up Lofty.
One quibble: you are clearly mistaken if you think there is some sort of Dublin solidarity sentiment among refs, or fans for that matter. If (God forbid) I were the ref for any match in Derry, or anywhere else outside Dublin, it wouldn't be the home team that would be worried about bias. I think fans of SRFC, Pats, and Shels would agree.



Boh Diddley,

The ref was very poor last night... didn't take any notice of the linesmen as their ineptitude is par for the course. He is one of the first referees I could honestly say gave Derry more decisions than the away team. Normally the Dublin referees give decisons to their Dublin buddies ( presuming he was from Dublin) Maybe sometime we can get a Derry ref to officiate a Dublin team v Derry. Were else would you get it? Only in Ireland.

He started off in the first minute by awarding a free to bohs when a derry player won a good tackle by the dugouts. He had a word with player and this set the tone for the rest of the match. It was stop start all night and he was to blame. He was giving free kicks for absolutely nothing and bohs players didn't help their cause in the match by falling to the ground every time they challenged for an aerial ball as if they had been shot by a sniper from the cemetry.

As far as the main decisions went : bohs goal as I saw it was over the line. The penalty bohs gave away was clear from the jungle (good to be back!) - collins showed his inexperience by shoving brennan , who was just inside the box. Bohs were playing well up until the penalty. The ref booked Oman for kicking the ball away 3 meters (fair enough- some would say) but it really was innocuous. Molloy was booked a minute earlier for the same thing - so he had to book Oman. I was surprised when he gave Oman his 2nd yellow as I thought Martin was stumbling when the tackle was made. Harsh sending off. Molloy was withdrawn in the second half before the ref could do him again for persistant fouling.

However his poor performance got to the bohs players who completely lost their cool. He brandished yellow cards to the rest of the Bohs players for dissent - Hunt and no 25 come to mind. If Hunt had been able to get close to Higgins to stop his sublime passes last night then he might not have had the same frustration. That kid gave a lesson on how to pass a ball, shown when he set Beckett free for Martyn's goal.

Its a pity we only have the likes of Mc Court ,Cash, O Flynn, Deery, Doherty, Mc Callion, and Hargan to come off the bench or return from injury to oversee our expected collapse for the rest of the season. Cork are uncatchable, unbeatable, brilliant, have the best manager in the league and the best attendances with the greatest fans ever ;) All the best lads when you lift the trophy :D

[Slash/ED]

Good write-up Lofty.
One quibble: you are clearly mistaken if you think there is some sort of Dublin solidarity sentiment among refs, or fans for that matter. If (God forbid) I were the ref for any match in Derry, or anywhere else outside Dublin, it wouldn't be the home team that would be worried about bias. I think fans of SRFC, Pats, and Shels would agree.

I remember someone making the exact same argument in a Shels fanzine before. I agree, if I was reffing Derry v Bohs, as a dubliner, Derry would have quite a few dodgy penos :p

[lofty9]

Good write-up Lofty.
One quibble: you are clearly mistaken if you think there is some sort of Dublin solidarity sentiment among refs, or fans for that matter. If (God forbid) I were the ref for any match in Derry, or anywhere else outside Dublin, it wouldn't be the home team that would be worried about bias. I think fans of SRFC, Pats, and Shels would agree.

I just think it is ridiculous that we have a Dublin referee officiating a game with a Dublin team involved. It could work both ways, you never know who these guys support. However, you would hardly get a ref from Manchester officiating a Man Utd or Man City game. If it came to the last match of the season and derry are playing cork for the league title, would the fai allow for example - Alan Kelly(I think he is from Cork) referee the game? I'm sure this wouldn't be ethical. Although he played a blinder at the brandywell a few years ago to keep us up!!!!!!! :D

[derrymac]

I think people are a bit paranoid about refs from dublin... most refs live in dublin, it's a fact, nearly half the teams in the league are from the greater dublin area. It's inevitable that there will be refs from dublin reffing matches with teams from dublin. Can we not trust them to be professional and ref the game impartially? At least it's not as bad as the old days when the ref for the derry game was getting a lift up to the brandywell in the visiting teams bus.. not the best way to have an impartial official

[BohsFans]

You mean one of your players got sent off for being a dick ? :) We were missing players as well you know (e.g. Hargan is a key man for us). Anyways - you have more resources than us, so why don't you have more depth to your team ? :confused:

You can only play what it put out in the pitch against you BTID. 3:1 is a good result for that game by any standards - I was convinced we'd drop points tonight. Your injury list and player's inability to stay on the pitch is not a reflection on us.....


We have more resources? - YOUR JOKING

Also we were absolutely robbed by that joke of a ref!! NEVER a pen.

[BohsFans]

Thats been changed to the "Big Pub", because we all know that Bohs fans are very self-critical and always tell the truth about themselves...

We are still The Big Club!
Where do you get the big pub from??
I bet your a Corkie

[patsh]

We are still The Big Club!
Where do you get the big pub from??

Only in the deluded minds of the few Bohs fans......

The big pub? Haven't you ever been to Dalymount? The pride and joy of Bohs is their pub, thats their only claim to fame these days....:D

[dcfcsteve]

We have more resources? - YOUR JOKING

Also we were absolutely robbed by that joke of a ref!! NEVER a pen.

You have a better stadium that you actually own, more sponsors, similar levels of support, and more than likely have a higher wage bill than we do. (As an aside, up until the end of last season you also had the league's top scorer and most recent Irish international).

How does all of that not translate into more resources ?