Longford 1-0 UCD

[Poor Student]

Yeah, he does bring the ball forward a lot and tries to work it with the left winger. He had an unusually poor game against Longford, only got forward once.

[mcglinchey]

I'm a critic of Derek Doyle myself but that's not on. He's a limited enough player but he's not the worst in the world and he doesn't deserve that kind of criticism. He makes an honest effort and I wish we had a better left winger but you can't castigate him like that.

well im sorry poor student doyle is crap and i hope he reads this and maybe he will get the finger out for once. he can never take the ball by the full back,NEVER,always goes inside and does nothing with the ball,hes worse than limited,you must be wearing rose tinted glasses watching him play.hes rubbish. doesnt look bothered when hes playing by the way.

[Sonic]

Your all gettin very big for your boots over here! From what Ive seen from UCD in a few games ive seen on four different occasions you yourselves are a very limited team. The result was fully deserved simple as that! The better team won.

[thegit]

To be fair to Doyle he isn't that type of winger, he never had pace but he has a trick or two and he'll have a go if he gets near the box. Birmingham is a good player but all the full backs do is play the long ball in the air up to the forwards one of which is Sammon who for some reason know only to himself is afraid to head the ball or he really does have the worst timing for jumping i have ever seen EVER! I have never seen Mahon score from a set piece why notlet other people have a go I'm sure Mcfaul or Finn are due a turn. Also think Quigley has been treated a bit s***y this year he would get into any other team in LOI.

[Bald Student]

Also think Quigley has been treated a bit s***y this year he would get into any other team in LOI.

And he will as soon as one of them ponies up the cash, that's how the system works. He's looking for a transfer so Pete signed another keeper. It's harsh on him that he's not playing as much but it would be equally harsh to have dropped Greg.

[thegit]

Harsh Gregg had one bad game and he was dropped is that not harsh?

[Bald Student]

Harsh Gregg had one bad game and he was dropped is that not harsh?

It's less harsh than dropping him more often which, I think, you're suggesting.

[thegit]

Thats not what Im saying at all I just think QUigley didnt deserve to be dropped in the first place.... Yes he might want a move to a different team but if he isnt playing your not going to get the money you want.... I just think its stupid to not be playing your best players and he is a better player than Gregg, fact! maybe if he played more you wouldnt find UCD in the possition there in.

[Bald Student]

Playing Quigley more often means playing Gregg less often, there's no getting around that.

I don't think we'd be much higher in the table if Quigley had been playing. I can't think of any points Gregg cost us except the one against Shams and there's no guarantee that Quigley wouldn't have had the odd blooper had he been playing all season.

[thegit]

Fairenough! its all opinions. maybe gregg might get the next ireland B cap

[Poor Student]

Quigley got injured, Gregg played ok in his place and Quigley seemed/seems to be for the off so Gregg wasn't dropped again to accommodate him. If you think Quigley's dropping is harsh just remember how he won his place in the team.

[Bald Student]

Fairenough! its all opinions. maybe gregg might get the next ireland B cap

I think he's english but, in any case, I think we'll agree that there are bigger problems in the UCDD team. Either keeper is up to standard.

[Schumi]

Dropping Gregg after the Rovers game is no more or less harsh than dropping Quigley after missing a game earlier in the season. Both are good keepers and I'm quite happy with either in goal. I marginally prefer Quigley because he's generally more composed with backpasses but it's not a big deal.

Goalkeeper is the least of our worries at the moment, we've only conceded just over a goal a game. It's surely painfully obvious to anyone that our lack of choice of strikers and (more importantly IMO) the lack of link play between midfield and strikers is more of a problem than our embarrassment of riches between the posts.

[thegit]

I think its a bit s****y actually he put in some pretty good performances over the last two or three years and because he wants to try get away he gets dropped, a little bit of loyalty by Mahon wouldnt have gone astray! ...... maybe it s a bit of karma coming back to him with the bad results lately. I mean how long will Alan Mahon play for ? do you think he will ever be dropped? Im not having a go at him cause he is a nice passer of the ball but i think he is the achilles heel of the team on a lot of occasions.

[Poor Student]

A solid goalkeeper was dropped three years ago just to make way for Quigley. As I already said Quigley was injured when Gregg came into the team, he wasn't just ruthlessly dropped.

There's no signs of Alan Mahon ever being dropped. Some of our fans who attend U-21 games rate the right back there quite highly, think Declan O'Donnell is his name.