Friendly Results [Archive]

dcfcsteve

02/02/2008, 10:08 PM

Bohs 1-0 Monaghan
Chris Turner

Another convincing friendly start to a season by Fenlon. :eek:

This time last year we lost 4:0 away to Dundalk. 1:0 at home to Monaghan uis an extremely poor result for a team with genuine title aspirations - Friendly or not.

Aaron

02/02/2008, 10:10 PM

Also before Bohs fans say its only a friendly and its the first game, we said the exact same thing last year, look how it turned out

scottish_bohs

02/02/2008, 10:49 PM

ah jeez lads, get a grip. picking holes for the sake of picking holes.

1) you never saw the game
2) worry about supporting your own team

Rovers1

02/02/2008, 11:10 PM

what was the Bohs team?

scottish_bohs

02/02/2008, 11:14 PM

dcfcsteve

03/02/2008, 12:17 AM

ah jeez lads, get a grip. picking holes for the sake of picking holes.

1) you never saw the game
2) worry about supporting your own team

Touchy !!

Getting defensive about Fenlon already SB......? :D

You guys should be humping Monaghan at home.

dcfcsteve

03/02/2008, 12:19 AM

Also before Bohs fans say its only a friendly and its the first game, we said the exact same thing last year, look how it turned out

Speak for yourself CTID.... :)

I said at the time that we shouldn't have been getting thumped unanswered by a First Division team when we were hoping/expecting to win the league, and I got the hairdryer response from the usual 'Thought Police' on the City site for it.

Just thought I'd get a similar ball rolling for Nutsy in his new job... ;)

:p

scottish_bohs

03/02/2008, 9:31 AM

Touchy !!

Getting defensive about Fenlon already SB......? :D

You guys should be humping Monaghan at home.

at least my comments on fenlonare based on things i witnessed and not just on reading a scoreline on a page.

As i said earlier, worry about your own team.

BohsPartisan

03/02/2008, 9:50 AM

Highlight of the day was meeting Magicme!;)

Magicme

03/02/2008, 10:11 AM

Aw you auld charmer Mr Partisan. It was very funny the way you and your "posse" were debating if it was me when I went past and then one of you got the nerve up to shout "Magicme". The way you all blamed each other for shouting was classic too!

Was great meeting you too.

As for the game, we had a few players looking very unfit but since they have only been back in training a few weeks and some of them have been out of football for awhile, I am confident they will improve. It was funny how Crowe and Fenn had loads of chances but neither of them good pull it off. Sheppard had some good chances for us and hope that he can find his sharpness coz then he will be superb.

It was a pleasure to be in Dalymount and watch our lads battle it out with such a strong team and despite the goal and some of the aforementioned fitness and sharpness problems, our lads gave a good account of themselves.

Was nice to chat to Robbie Farrell too. Him and Gill must be planking themselves after seeing how good we were. ;)

BohsPartisan

03/02/2008, 10:14 AM

One of your strikers and the guy wha started on the left wing look seriously out of shape.

Buller

03/02/2008, 10:16 AM

Highlight of the day was meeting Magicme!;)

Legendary!

Magicme

03/02/2008, 10:18 AM

Yeah I know but apparently, according to our Physio, I haven't done the research myself, it is all muscle! Not an ounce of flab.

BohsPartisan

03/02/2008, 10:19 AM

Yeah I know but apparently, according to our Physio, I haven't done the research myself, it is all muscle! Not an ounce of flab.

Maybe you should check it out. In the interest of science and all that.

Magicme

03/02/2008, 10:32 AM

No thanks. I dont need child molestation charges thank you very much. My reputation is bad enough!

finnpark

03/02/2008, 10:36 AM

Starting line-up was...

Kronopka (sp?)

Heary McGuinness Oman Powell

Joxer Turner Cronin Brennan

Fenn Crowe

Oman off after 5 mins injured. Rossiter came on at RB and Heary moved to CB.

Singh came on for joxer after 65 mins, O'Donnell replaced Turner after 69 mins. McGinley replaced Crowe late on, and Phillip McDonagh came on late

That must be Bohs' strongest team? Why is Murphy not in goals?

Problem with the strikers. crowe seems past it and Fenn is not a natural goal scorer. Just my opinion

Anto McC

03/02/2008, 10:57 AM

Jaysus, you Derry lads don't half come across as bitter, in this thread.

BohsPartisan

03/02/2008, 11:15 AM

That must be Bohs' strongest team? Why is Murphy not in goals?

Problem with the strikers. crowe seems past it and Fenn is not a natural goal scorer. Just my opinion

Kronopka and Cronin are trialists. No point having them on trail and not playing them. Up front we will have Byrne hopefully fit for the start of the season, Mansaram and McGinley there too.

Aaron

03/02/2008, 12:35 PM

Jaysus, you Derry lads don't half come across as bitter, in this thread.

Only giving my opinion;)

Rovers fan

03/02/2008, 1:05 PM

Kronopka and Cronin are trialists. No point having them on trail and not playing them. Up front we will have Byrne hopefully fit for the start of the season, Mansaram and McGinley there too.

was mcginley not transfer listed?

BohsPartisan

03/02/2008, 1:06 PM

was mcginley not transfer listed?

Yeah. He came on for Crowe though.

kdjaC

03/02/2008, 2:54 PM

Sunderland reserves 1 Pats 1

we made 8 subs so starting 11 only

Ryan(clarke)
Brennan O Carroll(Foran) Paisley(partridge) Rogers
Ryan(haverty) Fahey Lynch Byrne
Quigley(fitz) O Neill(guy)

We looked solid O Carroll looks the dogs ****** big strong fast and has the touch of an arsenal player :eek:

Their goal came from a ryan kickout hitting one of theirs in the back of the head and trickling in :(

Our goal was possibly the greatest solo goal ever scored, quigley picked it up just inside our half danced by their entire midfield , skinned the 1st centreback then used his strentgh to push off some 7 foot monster before slotting it under the keeper.

We looked very solid in that they never troubled us and only had one shot, last 20 minutes we dominated them and should have one only for a sitter missed by someone ;)

kdjac

DmanDmythDledge

03/02/2008, 3:03 PM

We looked solid O Carroll looks the dogs ****** big strong fast and has the touch of an arsenal player :eek:
Any defence with Rogers at full back doesn't look too solid to me.;)

You know he used to play for them? :D

dcfcsteve

03/02/2008, 3:23 PM

Jaysus, you Derry lads don't half come across as bitter, in this thread.

Aye real bitter ! :o

We got shot of Fenlon and now have Stephen Kenny.

There's been a real run on citrus fruit in the shops in Derry, I can assure you..... :D

Roll on season's start...

BohDiddley

03/02/2008, 6:09 PM

Another convincing friendly start to a season by Fenlon. :eek:

This time last year we lost 4:0 away to Dundalk. 1:0 at home to Monaghan uis an extremely poor result for a team with genuine title aspirations - Friendly or not.
My inner maths genius tells me that's a five-goal gap in performances, friendly, as you say, or not. If he keeps that differential he'll be ok! :D

atfconline

03/02/2008, 6:46 PM

Our goal was possibly the greatest solo goal ever scored, quigley picked it up just inside our half danced by their entire midfield , skinned the 1st centreback then used his strentgh to push off some 7 foot monster before slotting it under the keeper

Sounds like our Brian McCarthy who has been over on trial with them. Do you have the Sunderland line up?

CharlesThompson

04/02/2008, 11:24 AM

That must be Bohs' strongest team?

Hardly, with Byrne, Hunt, Mansaram, Burns all out injured Murphy not starting and Oman going off injured after only 5 minutes. That's practically half of a starting 11.

That said, Monaghan looked like a bunch of auditioners for the Rolly Poly's and on paper at least Bohs should have won easily. FWIW, I thought Monaghan were unlucky not to go in at half time with a lead as they had the best of the opportunities in the first half.

Bohs owned the second half and Turner scored a lovely goal into the top corner from the edge of the box.

dcfcsteve

04/02/2008, 11:32 AM

My inner maths genius tells me that's a five-goal gap in performances, friendly, as you say, or not. If he keeps that differential he'll be ok! :D

Now factor in the away vs home element, and the differential in ability between Dundalk and Monaghan, and see how unconcerned you should be..... :p

;)

monutdfc

04/02/2008, 11:43 AM

That said, Monaghan looked like a bunch of auditioners for the Rolly Poly's and on paper at least Bohs should have won easily. FWIW, I thought Monaghan were unlucky not to go in at half time with a lead as they had the best of the opportunities in the first half.
Can't argue with that - i was shocked at the state of some of our players. I know we don't pay them a lot, but still to be a professional footballer and be as overweight as some of them were is theft from the people who pay their wages.

WoodquayBoy

04/02/2008, 1:10 PM

Touchy !!
You guys should be humping Monaghan at home.
Er, was no one else a little bothered about this suggestion? Humping Monaghan? I dunno, maybe its an Ulster thing . . . .

Magicme

04/02/2008, 1:31 PM

well its just a northern version of Rico's RRS isnt it??

BohDiddley

04/02/2008, 2:15 PM

Now factor in the away vs home element, and the differential in ability between Dundalk and Monaghan, and see how unconcerned you should be..... :p
;)
How long ago was that match? For a friendly, it really must have stung. :eek:

dcfcsteve

04/02/2008, 2:34 PM

Er, was no one else a little bothered about this suggestion? Humping Monaghan? I dunno, maybe its an Ulster thing . . . .

Everyone humps Monaghan. It's because they're in Ulster..... :D

dcfcsteve

04/02/2008, 2:35 PM

How long ago was that match? For a friendly, it really must have stung. :eek:

It was 12 months ago. Which is precisely the number of bites I'm hoping to get on this thread by bringing it up. Thank you for being No. 5. :D

It was an early sign of where our season was to end up going. No team with genuine title aspirations should be getting beaten 4:0 by a team in the division below - friendly or not, away or not. Hence why i drew a parallel with Bohs low score at home against a team much, much weaker than Dundalk.

Now who's for No.6 then.....?

dcfcsteve

04/02/2008, 2:39 PM

well its just a northern version of Rico's RRS isnt it??

Humped Red Handed (HRH)

Also stands for something else ironically.... :)

Magicme

04/02/2008, 2:49 PM

ha ha. I think I will add HRH to my name from now on!! :D

lofty9

04/02/2008, 3:03 PM

ha ha. I think I will add HRH to my name from now on!! :D

Do we have to bow ma'am?

There will be no red carpet for HRH Magicme at the Brandywell on 23rd I can assure you!;)

Steve, I wouldn't get too worked up - Monaghan have to come to us for a friendly. You'll hardly be judging our season on the basis of that one performance.

Magicme

04/02/2008, 3:14 PM

Yeah you should, you didnt exactly have a great season last year after playing us and only just about managed to dump us outta the cup. If you dont take our scalp I would be very worried!!

Den Perry

04/02/2008, 4:50 PM

No thanks. I dont need child molestation charges thank you very much. My reputation is bad enough!

Magicme....I think I caught you checking me out in Buckley Park last season;);)

BohDiddley

04/02/2008, 7:35 PM

It was 12 months ago. Which is precisely the number of bites I'm hoping to get on this thread by bringing it up. Thank you for being No. 5. :D

It was an early sign of where our season was to end up going. No team with genuine title aspirations should be getting beaten 4:0 by a team in the division below - friendly or not, away or not. Hence why i drew a parallel with Bohs low score at home against a team much, much weaker than Dundalk.

Now who's for No.6 then.....?
As they say in all the best pub conversations, everything's relative...
I'm just pleased that, even a year on, my taking up the point along with a whole four other people has allowed you to take some comfort from being tanked by First Division opposition. :p
I may be wrong, and there's always the cup, but I don't think anyone from Bohs will be posting in February 2009 about how we miraculously turned over Monaghan in 2008.

dortie

04/02/2008, 8:24 PM

Im saying nothing, i remember 4/5 years ago getting beat by Londonderry Institute in a pre-season friendly, dont want to tempt fate as we play them tomorrow night again. By far a bigger humiliation than the thumping by Dundalk......

Im in agreement with Steve though, friendly results may not be taken too seriously but from past experience they can show potential or indeed a lack of it...btw that year we were beaten by Stute was also one i dont want to remember too well.

finnpark

04/02/2008, 8:52 PM

Any defence with Rogers at full back doesn't look too solid to me.;)

Finally a UCD fan I agree with :D

Very valid point though, surely Dessie Bryne is a left back. Hes just a hoofer.

Also where is Ndo these days?