UCD 3 Bray Wanderers 2

[el tk]

Whitmarsh was pretty awful and Tony Mac was distinctly average, even by his standards. I hardly noticed Robbie Martin until he missed that sitter late on.

[centre mid]

Kieran "Tarzan" O'Brien swung through a jungle of players to equalize on 26 minutes to leave the half-time score 1-1.

Thats the Cheezeist pun I've heard for a while

Nice One

[CollegeTillIDie]

Whitmarsh was pretty awful and Tony Mac was distinctly average, even by his standards. I hardly noticed Robbie Martin until he missed that sitter late on.

Let me see Whitmarsh has played two games in the First team so far and we have won them both and he set up the third goal.
P.s. Even an average Tony Mac is better than some players at the top of their game

[pineapple stu]

517 is shocking! Got 640 last year in the First Division!

Was the weather that bad? 'Twas lovely up in Cavan all weekend!

Damo was given compassionate leave by Pete Mahon - it was well-documented (UCD website, the Mirror, Aertel), so I'm amazed the UCD committee member didn't get wind of it!!

Five goals in a UCD-Bray game though - that's the most ever (only equalled by the League Cup game, when if Barry Andrews hadn't been playing, there'd only have been two goals... ). Be thankful for something!

Still, seven games unbeaten now, eleven points off the bottom, finally beating teams in the bottom half and getting better all the time, it seems. Got to be happy with that.

Incidentally, Brian de Salvo on RTÉ radio described Paul Whitmarsh as like "Paul Doolin on a bad hair day"!

[el tk]

Let me see Whitmarsh has played two games in the First team so far and we have won them both and he set up the third goal. :

That's great about the team winning with Whitmarsh, it doesn't change the fact that his overall contribution came to about touching the ball twice in the first 10 minutes and then passing the ball to McWalter.

P.s. Even an average Tony Mac is better than some players at the top of their game

That's just not true, I don't know many players at the top of their game who spend on game missing as many chances as they can and the next just ambling around with a passing interest in the football.

[CollegeTillIDie]

517 is shocking! Got 640 last year in the First Division!

Was the weather that bad? 'Twas lovely up in Cavan all weekend!

Damo was given compassionate leave by Pete Mahon - it was well-documented (UCD website, the Mirror, Aertel), so I'm amazed the UCD committee member didn't get wind of it!!

Five goals in a UCD-Bray game though - that's the most ever (only equalled by the League Cup game, when if Barry Andrews hadn't been playing, there'd only have been two goals... ). Be thankful for something!

Still, seven games unbeaten now, eleven points off the bottom, finally beating teams in the bottom half and getting better all the time, it seems. Got to be happy with that.

Incidentally, Brian de Salvo on RTÉ radio described Paul Whitmarsh as like "Paul Doolin on a bad hair day"!

Well you are part of the reason the crowd was so pathetic by your absence and yes the weather was cat!

[CollegeTillIDie]

Whitmarsh was pretty awful and Tony Mac was distinctly average, even by his standards. I hardly noticed Robbie Martin until he missed that sitter late on.

Three goals in his previous three games I think says it all about Tony Mac's contributions to the club this season!

[Poor Student]

Tony Mac was distinctly average, even by his standards.

I take it by this your none too impressed with our captain on a regular basis?

[Schumi]

getting better all the time, it seems.

Easy knowing you weren't at the game!

[student]

I wasn't at the match but i was delighted to see Pat McWalther get the two winning goals. Although ive been at very few of the matches this season i still think McWalther is the most underated player on the UCD team.
His workrate and movement are both excellent and he does all the simple things well. The only thing lacking from his game in recent months has been a few goals so it was great to see him address that the other night.

It must have been like rubbing salt into Bray wounds that it was the two wicklow lads that got the goals for ucd.

[Roo69]

I wasn't at the match but i was delighted to see Pat McWalther get the two winning goals. Although ive been at very few of the matches this season i still think McWalther is the most underated player on the UCD team.
His workrate and movement are both excellent and he does all the simple things well. The only thing lacking from his game in recent months has been a few goals so it was great to see him address that the other night.

It must have been like rubbing salt into Bray wounds that it was the two wicklow lads that got the goals for ucd.

No really, the boys who scored has no connections with Bray at all so there was it was'nt like Robbie Doyle, Jason Byrne or Paul Keegan scoring against us.

[Poor Student]

I wasn't at the match but i was delighted to see Pat McWalther get the two winning goals. Although ive been at very few of the matches this season i still think McWalther is the most underated player on the UCD team.
His workrate and movement are both excellent and he does all the simple things well. The only thing lacking from his game in recent months has been a few goals so it was great to see him address that the other night.

I completely agree with you. He's a fierce hard worker. I'm still not sure what his best position is though.

[el tk]

I take it by this your none too impressed with our captain on a regular basis?

Precisely, he's tall but he doesn't get up to head the ball, he's not an inspirational player who fires up others, at times he just lets the game go right past him without getting involved.

[Colie]

Precisely, he's tall but he doesn't get up to head the ball, he's not an inspirational player who fires up others, at times he just lets the game go right past him without getting involved.

Eh, Tony Mac? Scored 2 headers this year already from midfield. He wins every header that comes near him & keeps the team going when they're on the back foot.

Anything bad to be said about Tony's aerial ability or inspiration to the team is just not right.

[pineapple stu]

I'm still not sure what his best position is though.

Definitely up front - scores more from there and creates far more problems with his runs.

Easy knowing you weren't at the game!

Maybe, but hey - rather a poor 3-2 win than a poor 1-0 defeat! Still, every result in the second round of matches has been at least as good as in the first round...if we can start beating the lower teams, then, with our record against the higher teams so far...