i give up after that result. this is a f**kin joke at this stage,we cant even beat crap like that. we have to start asking questions about pete mahon at this stage.
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Well it took ye 25 years to win a League game in Belfield Park!Originally posted by RocketfingersComment
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You tend to have a feeling of expectation for the victory when you play the teams below you in the league, if you didn't you'd expect to finish bottom. What an utterly irrelevant post.Originally posted by RocketfingersComment
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Longford were ****. If we played half as good as we are capable of we would have won 3 or 4 nil. That's his point (or something along those lines).Originally posted by Rocketfingers
We were truely awful, which can be gathered by the scoreline. Our only shot on goal was in the 85th minute, which was over. Very few players can hold their head high after that performance. It was one of the worst I've seen in a few years. We had absolutely no attacking threat- hoofing the ball to the wingers just doesn't work. What happened to the good football we played on Monday?
Quigley made a few decent saves- good to see that Gregg was dropped. Also McFaul got injured in the warm up and Tony Mc came into the side, and played well enough. The full team was:
Quigley, Mahon, Kenna, McNally, Bermingham, C Byrne, Tony Mc, Finn, Doyle, Sammon, Forsyth.
I'll post the report sometime tomorrow.
Also the officiating was dreadful, even by eL standards.Comment
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Bad game. Poorest performance I've seen by the team in ages. Longford are a very limited team but they put in a good effort and deserved at least a point if not their win. Fair play to the fans who still turn up and make an effort to chant.Comment
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I don't think there's much Pete can do. We have a good defence, a descent midfield and no one scoring goals.
I'm getting more and more frustrated with Sammo as the season goes on. About once every second game he'll run at the defence and usually does OK when he does. Every other piece of possession he gets falls into one of two moves. A bit over half the time he receives the ball with his back to the goal and a defender behind him, with his first touch he puts the ball away from goal about two feet further than he can reach it and there's a scramble for possession in front of him. His other move is to receive the ball in the same position but place it a little closer to him, so as he can just about reach it to poke it with his toe in the general direction of a UCD player, this leads to a scramble for possession a little bit away from him.
We haven't scored a goal in I don't know how long and I don't think that's about to change.Comment
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We didn't have a good defence or midfield on Saturday though. Doyle is useless, can't control the ball, has no pace- all he can do is pass the ball 5 yards. Conan had a poor game, he let his frustration get the better of him. Most of the balls he was getting were high but when he had a chance to run at the full back I don't think he got past him once. Tony Mc had a good game- won almost everything in the air, broke up their attacks but his distribution is terrible. All he can do is pass the ball back to the defence who hoof it.
We badly missed McFaul to dictate the tempo. Finn was decent enough when he got the ball but most of the time he was looking at it go over his head.
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Students slump continues
UCD fell to their fourth straight league defeat tonight with a 1-0 defeat against Longford Town at Flancare Park. Despite enjoying more of the possession the visitors created hardly any chances and Longford ran out worthy winners.
Pete Mahon made four changes to the team that started against Shamrock Rovers- Matt Gregg was dropped and Darren Quigley returned to the staring line-up for his first league game in almost four months. The three other changes were forced- Derek Doyle came in for the injured Shane Fitzgerald, Shane McFaul injured his hip in the warm up and was replaced by Tony McDonnell and Darren Forsyth deputised for long-term absentee Paul Byrne upfront.
Longford had the first opportunity of the game after 18 minutes. Some poor UCD defending allowed Patrick Sullivan to pick out Dave Mooney with a through ball. However he skewed his right-footed effort well wide of the goal. Robbie Martin managed to prevent the ball going out for a throw and picked out Dessie Baker at the edge of the box, who forced a good save from Darren Quigley.
Baker again almost opened the scoring after 42 minutes. He received the ball in space and hit a low, well struck shot from 25 yards. Quigley was at full stretch to pull off a magnificent save, pushing to the ball away from the goal and to safety.
The second half was an extremely drab affair. The first goalscoring chance of the half came after 71 minutes and it was again Longford who almost broke the deadlock. Sullivan whipped an inviting cross into the box; Baker rose highest but he could only get the slightest of touches on the ball and headed wide.
This seemed to spark some life back into the game and Longford came even closer to taking the lead. On 80 minutes Baker was one-on-one with Quigley. The Irish B international was quickly off his line to pull off a good save. The loose ball fell to Mooney who seemed destined to score. However Alan McNally was able to clear his goal-bound effort off the line.
Longford continued to press for a winner and Quigley had to be at his best to keep UCD in the game. The UCD defence failed to defend a corner; Damien Brennan rose unchallenged and headed towards goal. Quigley made a wonderful save, reacting quick to tip the ball around the post.
UCD's first chance of the game came after 85 minutes. Derek Doyle made space for himself just inside the Longford area but his right-footed shot was narrowly over.
With the game seemed to be heading for a draw Longford scored a dramatic late winner. Robbie Martin laid the ball to Gary Deegan who struck a well placed shot into the bottom corner of the net, out of the despairing reach of Darren Quigley to send to home side's supporters into jubililation.
UCD: Quigley, Mahon, McNally, Kenna, Bermingham (Crowley '71); C. Byrne, McDonnell, Finn, Doyle; Forsyth (Purcell '85), Sammon.
Subs not used: Gregg, Shorthall.Comment
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i still think UCD'S problems start at the full backs.... Alan Mahon is past it sure he has been a good reliable player over the years but I think his best days are gone. Teams get at him all the time. Every time the full backs pump the balls up to the front two they loose it and then the pressure starts on the midfielders who run around like headless chickens trying to get the ball back. Pete Mahon needs to start letting his players play and not being so direct. During the Rovers match the comentator said its been 190 games since Mahon has scored and maybe its gonna be another 190 if that free kick was anything to go by.... yet weekin weekout he still takes them
Sorry lads rant over.
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In fairness to Mahon when he takes free kicks he rarely shoots, it's almost always to set up a cross.
As for his goal scoring record, well that's the stuff of legend. He's never scored in the league and his sole goal for the club came in a 1-1 draw in the FAI Cup away to Rockmount.Check out my new sports blog http://www.action81.comComment
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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.
Unfortunately Tony was well off the pace in that game. I don't know if it's lack of match practise or if sadly his legs are begining to fail him but he wasn't keeping up with the play in central midfield. I think Pete realised this and shifted him to centre back to accommodate him by bringing on Crowley for Bermingham.
Conan Byrne did fairley well given what was going on. He beat his man a few times and whipped in at least a couple of dangerous crosses in the second half. As has been well documented in this thread the service to him was hoof balls well away from his reach. The defenders, Alan Mahon particularly are banging the ball into the air when they have time to distribute it on the ground. Alan Mahon has taken 5 or 6 direct free kicks this season, 3 of which were very threatning. It's not a problem and I haven't seen anyone else in the team do much better.Comment
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I don't think it's fair to say our problem is with the fullbacks, Birmingham's a good player.Comment
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