Weekend 1st to 4th of March 2024

[TonyD]

Ah, sick with that. Thought we deserved a point. Chris Forrestor had a great chance before Derry’s winner, but tried to place it instead of putting his foot through it.

[kksaints]

Sick losing that. Didn't deserve that result.

[osarusan]

Kerry have come on leaps and bounds since last season. Played some nice football, lots of pace in the side, very solid keeper as well. They missed a 96th minute penalty (blazed horribly over) and were well worth a point.

Treaty were decent in the first half and possibly deserved a lead af HT, but apart from a scrambled goal we created very little in the second half. Still, 9 points from 9.

[El-Pietro]

City were the better team in the first half but lucky to come away with three points. UCD definitely the best non City team I've seen so far (ahead of Kerry, Athlone and Cobh). Think they'll do well this season.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Have created sweet f all in our 2 home games this season. Mark Coyle superb for Shels.

[joey B]

Great start to the season for us,by and large a dreadful game but we really limited Athlone to nothing,far more solid than last year ,Noe Baba in particular been excellent since the start of the season…

[Knocklyonhoop]

Has the pitch in Derry gotten worse?

[D24Saint]

Sick losing that. Didn't deserve that result.

Imo we are dreadful. Not set up to play football so we deserve what we get. It’s a dreadful set up this season with three at the back.

[Olander]

GUFC full value for the win against Waterford tonight. Should've won by more in the end and showed a lot of character to come from behind to win.

It's been a good start to the season, 2 wins from 3. We were possibly unlucky not to get a point against Pats on the opening day too. Over 3k in Terryland Park to see tonight's win.

[outspoken]

Imo we are dreadful. Not set up to play football so we deserve what we get. It’s a dreadful set up this season with three at the back.

Why the change? Wexford did something similar in week one v Athlone. What ever happened to if it's not broke....

[nigel-harps1954]

Good win and a super start to the season for Harps. Solid without being anything spectacular. Playing some nice football, and knowing when to play football as well as knowing when the play the long ball and mixing the two very well. Success Edogun having a cracking start to his Harps career.

[legendz]

Kerry spurned a lot of chances and blazed a late penalty over the bar with the last kick of the game. Treaty maintain their 100% start to the season with the 1-0 win.

[joey B]

Jaysis Waterfords keeper is absolutely dreadful for Galway’s winner …..

[Zico]

Kerry hit the crossbar, the post, had one cleared off the line, forced Treaty keeper to rescue them a few times,, free header 6 yards out straight into Keepers hands and then to cap it all off a missed penalty. On another night Kerry could have scored 3 or 4… Great to see Treaty start well and up at the top of the table, long may it continue. Kerry’s fortunes will turn soon - a much improved side physically, technically and much more organised..

[SPXcyan]

An absolute howler by Sargeant tonight, he's usually solid in goals but wow.. that'll haunt him for a long time.
Some say he's still trying to catch the phantom ball.

[Thewhitepele]

https://twitter.com/ciaran_hargadon/status/1763666911311618403?t=gOOC5w3NCwTNa3vU5Ue2LQ&s=19

Ref terrible last night in the showgrounds. Definite handball in the box not given and disallowed this goal.

[Jd2793]

youd think daly would have taken something from some of the turgid stuff rovers played last year when they were missing their wing backs when changing to 5 at the back. pats dont have enough pace or creativity from anyone that can play there. it lends itself to slow turgid play, which infairness, maybe is what he wants when going away to derry. he'll need to change something soon though against "lesser" opponents. a draw was probably fair. derry wont win anything with their Dundalk 2016 legends setup. higgins gone by august after they crash out of europe

[Shearer]

Big three points for Treaty United.

Kerry failing to take chances cost them badly. They should have been reduced to ten for the final 20 after a woeful challenge from Kevin Williams.

[wonder88]

Really that disallowed Sligo goal. Galway fans would be a bit surprised at times about the claims made by the Shelbourne manager about his goalkeeper.
"You know what to expect from Galway" John Daly and Keith Long post match quotes, hopefully Duff won't forget to included this in his analysis on Monday.

[total hoofball]

Have created sweet f all in our 2 home games this season. Mark Coyle superb for Shels.
Sligo looked to have more compared to all 4 games against Shels last season but the combination of being blunt in the final third and Shels being smart defensively decided the points. Coyle really has developed into an outstanding player he was appointed captain for that reason we would not have ground out anywhere the amount of points over the past 2 seasons without him in the middle of park, though it's the one area of the pitch I feel we are missing another physical workhorse body to support Coyle and our backline as we have probably won too many games more than we should have with backs against the wall performances

[nigel-harps1954]

Coyle has been great for years but that was never noticed while he was at Harps.

[da bishop]

Enjoyed my trip to the kingdom as i did last season too,a super if very much undeserved 3 points ,Kerry left this one behind them big time.Treatys performance was at times abysmal.Still the brilliant Tommy Barrett has us top of the league.

[oriel]

Sick losing that. Didn't deserve that result.

Only saw second half of second half, Pats had a few chances ok, but looked like Derry the more likely who would win it.

Any team scoring on 90+3 to win it, its a killer to the ones conceding (happened us v Pats in Oriel Park end of 2022, but we still finished ahead of them and made europe, even taking into account the 3 free Sligo points), but it always shows who has the most desire to win the game scoring so late, as you keep going.

Tough one all the same.

[oriel]

Have created sweet f all in our 2 home games this season. Mark Coyle superb for Shels.

Saw the disallowed goal for Sligo, it was neither offside nor was it a bad challenge, should have stood. That said in 8 times out of 10, any attacking player jumping to same height and close to the GK, even with his hands down, the ref will nearly always side with the GK.

I would say all fans on here will experience this against their team this or last season, the refs (wrongly) are obv being instructed to rule on GK side, now if the attacker 'blarges' into the GK, different story, auto free out.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Id say it’s more like 99 out of 100 then 8 out of 10. Was very surprised when it looked like he was giving it initially.

[brendy_éire]

Ah, sick with that. Thought we deserved a point. Chris Forrestor had a great chance before Derry’s winner, but tried to place it instead of putting his foot through it.

Yeah, ye probably did deserve a point.
Brutal first half, really boring. Second half was much more lively. Great finish from Keating after Ben Doherty played him through.
Delighted to come away with the 92nd minute winner, which was a lovely goal. McMullan really changed the game when he came on, and his step over for the goal was class.

Noticed that Pat's played a wee bit like we do. Lots of possession, probably great completed pass stats, but very little end product. You'd think with the likes of Keating up front, they'll get it right eventually though.

[Budgie]

Top of the league after 3 games does not matter. It's the end that counts and no doubt they won't stay there . Widely tipped to be down with Kerry which is a fair assesment . Barrett seems to be the type of manager that will get results anyway he can ....great to be abysmal and get 3 points. Players seem to give their all for him and that's all that counts . Kerry a good side and you can see they have improved a lot . A lot of good athletes

[Shearer]

Top of the league after 3 games does not matter. It's the end that counts and no doubt they won't stay there.
lol.
It's a good start, that's all it is. Anyone from down this way (or anywhere) saying that Treaty are on a title charge are saying it in jest.

[redarmyfaction]

Id say it’s more like 99 out of 100 then 8 out of 10. Was very surprised when it looked like he was giving it initially.

He gave it until he saw the lino with the flag up.

[Neish]

Coyle has been great for years but that was never noticed while he was at Harps.

Too busy moaning about the pitch to notice the players playing on it

[joey B]

that’s a disappointing crowd in Tallaght no ???

[sbgawa]

I had a bet with a mate there wouldn't be 4000 there. Terrible might weather wise and a school night plus on TV. Probably twenty to 30% of our crowd normally is kids

[joey B]

Dundalk 3 down in half an hour

[Nesta99]

Dundalk 3 down in half an hour

Seems that the effort in Tallaght was a blip, we are in trouble already imo!!

[redarmyfaction]

Seems that the effort in Tallaght was a blip, we are in trouble already imo!!

Too much uncertainty and change behind the scenes has weakened your club.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

We have the gale for the second half as well

[pineapple stu]

Pádraig Amond seems to be what Pat's might have hoped Eóin Doyle would have been.

Mental league so far.

[sbgawa]

We are beyond bang average. Sligo will be looking forward to us coming up next Friday. We need Clarke farrugia or byrne / mcaneff back ASAP. Derry don't look to great either

[joey B]

Rovers have had 3 fairly guilt edged chances,Derry have had a couple too but not as good as Rovers ones….

[TonyD]

Jesus Christ, Pats keeper is horrendous. He can’t start another game. Should be hooked at half time. We were poor enough, got ourselves back into it, and then he goes and does that.

[RealJohn91]

Shocking first half from Bohs, have offered absolutely nothing

[total hoofball]

My post somehow deleted but in summary Shels winning another game so far that the opposition have the better of and that's mental for Dundalk being 4-0 down at halftime when they and not Sligo had the night off in Friday

[Nesta99]

3rd goal in Oriel was great fun, Boyle admiring his tackle and stood there pointing that he got the ball. Sligo picked up the lose ball and put it in the net. Talk about not playing the whistle! 2nd was a keeper blunder, is some mitigation with conditions and view obsecured, am I allowed used the pitch as an excuse too where the ball skidded up late? 1st and 4th caused by the dreaded high defensive line and either lacked pace to get back of were just flatfooted. I have always felt that you cant rely in officiating enough in LoI to play a very high line with the offside trap. Playing with a gale hasnt been of any help, if anything the ball hanging playing in to the wind has had more impact with defence and keeper caught between dropping deeper or keeper coming to claim. At 0-2 in the conditions it wouldnt have been over but with the added blunders it obviously is. If Sligo add any more than 1 second half then O'Donnell is definitely favourite for the sack.


Too much uncertainty and change behind the scenes has weakened your club.

But I had banked on the tradition of not being relegated too recently....

One crazy man has weakened my club!

[pineapple stu]

Jesus Christ, Pats keeper is horrendous. He can’t start another game. Should be hooked at half time. We were poor enough, got ourselves back into it, and then he goes and does that.
Has there been a lot of goalkeeping howlers in the last couple of years, or is it just more TV footage showing them up?

Waterford keeper last week. Cork and Bohs shared howlers last year, and the Cork keeper got sent back home. Healy for UCD was prone to a couple. Abibi at Dundalk of course. Even Mannus at Rovers wasn't great in the European games (bit of a higher level I guess)

Probably more too (edit - as Nesta cites a keeper blunder in Oriel) - don't remember anywhere near as many 20 years ago, say.

[Nesta99]

Dundalk change keeper at half time. This was already like a bad preseason fixture...

1st away win for Sligo since May it seems and will be first league win in 8!? They really were on a bad run that Cork can rue that 6 pointer game v Sligo in Cork last season.

[redarmyfaction]

3rd goal in Oriel was great fun, Boyle admiring his tackle and stood there pointing that he got the ball. Sligo picked up the lose ball and put it in the net. Talk about not playing the whistle! 2nd was a keeper blunder, is some mitigation with conditions and view obsecured, am I allowed used the pitch as an excuse too where the ball skidded up late? 1st and 4th caused by the dreaded high defensive line and either lacked pace to get back of were just flatfooted. I have always felt that you cant rely in officiating enough in LoI to play a very high line with the offside trap. Playing with a gale hasnt been of any help, if anything the ball hanging playing in to the wind has had more impact with defence and keeper caught between dropping deeper or keeper coming to claim. At 0-2 in the conditions it wouldnt have been over but with the added blunders it obviously is. If Sligo add any more than 1 second half then O'Donnell is definitely favourite for the sack.



But I had banked on the tradition of not being relegated too recently....

One crazy man has weakened my club!

How's the view from down there, see Athlone and Longford from there can ya?

[Dermobohs]

3rd goal in Oriel was great fun, Boyle admiring his tackle and stood there pointing that he got the ball. Sligo picked up the lose ball and put it in the net. Talk about not playing the whistle! 2nd was a keeper blunder, is some mitigation with conditions and view obsecured, am I allowed used the pitch as an excuse too where the ball skidded up late? 1st and 4th caused by the dreaded high defensive line and either lacked pace to get back of were just flatfooted. I have always felt that you cant rely in officiating enough in LoI to play a very high line with the offside trap. Playing with a gale hasnt been of any help, if anything the ball hanging playing in to the wind has had more impact with defence and keeper caught between dropping deeper or keeper coming to claim. At 0-2 in the conditions it wouldnt have been over but with the added blunders it obviously is. If Sligo add any more than 1 second half then O'Donnell is definitely favourite for the sack.



But I had banked on the tradition of not being relegated too recently....

One crazy man has weakened my club!
I’ll see your o donnell and raise you Deccy , hasn’t a clue.

[Nesta99]

How's the view from down there, see Athlone and Longford from there can ya?

I can! I have openly said that if 8th was called preseason id have been very very tempted! You are picking the wrong Dundalk fan to wind up! I also happen to be the one that suggested that Sligo may be underestimated and are most dangerous when seemingly most quiet. Still if the gauntlet has been thrown down I will thoroughly enjoy the season's jousting!! Sligo havent needed to be very good to beat Dundalk so I wouldnt see it as a major statement. We will be bottom tonight right behind the champions as things stand.

[sbgawa]

Completely expected tbh. When we keep signing players that are semi.permanantly injured it has to catch up on you. Only hope we have is that the rest of the league are as bad as they were last year.

[Nesta99]

Derry may just have turned that corner tonight.