Nightmare!!!

[mahony]

Well the scum are going to be celebrating tonight. City 1-0 up after 20 mins with john o'flynn getting his 7th of the season and then grant equalising in the second half before OUR NEW SIGNING HEDDERMAN doing the scum a favour and putting the ball into his own net!! Nice one! I'm sick. :(

[A face]

I wouldn't go too hard on Hedderman, everyone is entitled to make mistakes ... It was his first game, a vauable lesson to learn no doubt.

I can remember a time when a certain Alan Bennett scored an own goal, there was a big fuss back then but look at him now.

Take it easy ... it is early days yet lads, it would be alot worse if it was a game that was down to the wire at the end of the season.

[eoinh]

I wonder what position Hedderman was playing in when Dolan brought him on.

We should beat Waaaaaaaaaaaaterford next Friday though!

Ill have to wear my City top round Dungarvan during the week. :D

[Ali]

I Think Dolan threw Hedderman in at the deep end. He's not even training with the team a week. We were 1-1 with the scum and he came on for his first game in front of very vocal and frustrated city fans and was expected to work miracles. I wouldn't be too hard on him either. I hope Dolan didn't put him on for he sake of it. Anyway bring on the Blues.

[patsh]

How did the team play overall, lads?
A few reports seem to suggest that we should have got a draw at least?
Best/ worst performances?
I thought Hedderman was a defender, so why did he replace Woods?

[Gary]

I thought some of dolans substiutuions were baffluing to say the least. As someone above said, hedderman shouldnt have been brought on at such a crucial time in the game.

We were by far the better team in the first half, but whatever Dolan said at half time obviously didnt work as we sat back and invited them on to us. Noone could have complained when they equalised, aprt from the fact that **** Grant scored it.

The winner was really offside. The linesman couldnt have missed it, but apparently he did.

A draw would have been nice, but on the whole, i dont think we deserved to get anything from the game.

[dejan]

unfortunatley i was sick and not able to go, but surely if grants shot deflected off hedderman on the way in that means he was onside when he shot.

other players could have been in offside positions but the rules were changed last year so they are not flagged unless directly interfering with play, ie either recieving a pass or not, so that if a shot is taken, no other player is interfering,
look at henrys goal when parlour shot henry was offside but after the save he was on cos it came off the keeper.

also grant hardly shot AWAY from the goal to get a deflection so he must have been on??

[Muppet]

Originally posted by dejan
unfortunatley i was sick and not able to go, but surely if grants shot deflected off hedderman on the way in that means he was onside when he shot.

other players could have been in offside positions but the rules were changed last year so they are not flagged unless directly interfering with play, ie either recieving a pass or not, so that if a shot is taken, no other player is interfering,
look at henrys goal when parlour shot henry was offside but after the save he was on cos it came off the keeper.

also grant hardly shot AWAY from the goal to get a deflection so he must have been on??

It was a cross, two Rovers players were offside and interfering with play when the ball was sent in. Rovers deserved the win though.

[leesider]

Was at the match yesterday, first one this season! very impressed with the first half performance, second half they tried to defend too deep and lost all composure. First touches and lay offs from callaghan and flynn were class! Didn't think O'Grady played that well and Cronin is lacking in pace and his passing is poor.

City fans were well represented and some of the songs were very funny indeed!!:)

Rovers fans are scum though, was in the shed for the first half and when woods was taking corners and flynn whacked off the advertsing hoardings the abuse they got was unbeliveable! *****s!!!:rolleyes:

[dejan]

it even includes that,

i presume the cross went to grant directly who was onside, therefore the other players under the new rules were not interfering in play, ie the cross to grant is the play, the others are'nt involved.

i'll have to see it on tv youre probably right but we were robbed of 3 points last week when granty was fouled in the box so its only fair.

[shedite]

Devine came for the ball, collided with Molloy who was about three yards offfside, the ball cleared both of them and fell at the feet of grant. DOn't think he meant it but it hit him and was heading towards goal. Hedderman couldn't have known if it was going in or not so had to go for it and he knocked it in.

Absolutely gutted!

[Muppet]

Originally posted by dejan
it even includes that,

i presume the cross went to grant directly who was onside, therefore the other players under the new rules were not interfering in play, ie the cross to grant is the play, the others are'nt involved.

i'll have to see it on tv youre probably right but we were robbed of 3 points last week when granty was fouled in the box so its only fair.

Well, as I say you deserved to win so I don't particularly feel robbed. City defended too deep in the second half and were asking for it. It was just a bit of a sickener because we thought we had gotten away with it!

[A face]

Nightmare debut for Hedderman

Shamrock Rovers 2-1 Cork City
Robbie Hedderman endured a nightmare beginning to his time at Cork City with a late own goal that handed all three points to Shamrock Rovers, and ended the Leesiders’ unbeaten start to the new season.

City were aiming to go top of the Premier Division table following Shelbourne’s slip-up at home to St Patrick’s Athletic on Friday night.

And when John O’Flynn nabbed his seventh goal in four games after just 23 minutes, it looked like it was going to be a third successive away victory for Cork, who were notoriously feeble away from Turners Cross last term.

O’Flynn combined with George O’Callaghan and slammed a shot past Barry Ryan in the Rovers goal from the edge of the area.

But Rovers fought back after half-time, and winger Stephen Grant levelled fourteen minutes into the second period, heading home from Glen Lacey’s pinpoint cross.

The game looked likely to end with the sides sharing the spoils, which would have been Rovers’ fourth draw in five games.

But the unfortunate Hedderman was in the wrong place at the wrong time in the 89th minute, as a Stephen Gough cross evaded Michael Devine in the Cork goal and spun off the City new boy to the net.

The win preserves Liam Buckley’s Hoops’ unbeaten record, and moves them onto nine points, just two behind Shels at the Premier Division summit.


www.eleven-a-side.com (http://www.eleven-a-side.com/premier/story.asp?newsid=5319)