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Eleven league games ago, Shels were in third place in the League. Since then, we've gone on a fantastic run that's seen us win ten games out of eleven, gain thirty points out of a possible thirty three, and guess what? We're still in third place.
Testament to the consistency of the top two I suppose.
Yeah, you were just very unlucky you found the right starting 11 and some form too late!
So what exactly is the settled 11 that ye have?
We've mainly been playing with
Byrne O'Neill
Hoolahan Crawford Ndo Ryan
Cahill Rogers Hawkins Heary
Delaney
Though that was with Crowe out at the start of the run so lost his place, and Reynolds, Stuey Byrne and Steve Williams out, all who might replace Crawford for the first two players and obviously Delaney for Williams.
EDIT - sorry, should have been O'Neill, not Crowe.
The settled back four has really helped. Injuries and suspensions early on in the season cost us defensively.
Thats a very strong team save for Crawford.
Could never understand why Ndo didn't get his game. Definately the most physically strong player in the league and fairly nifty too.
How's Ollie doing left back?
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Very well, suprisingly good defencively and obviously supports the attacks well. I'd still like someone to come in there, but he's done very well and played there quite a few times now.
Agree about Ndo, a truly quality player.
Cahill's really come into his own in that left back position! Ndo, genius!
Crawford has been a major reason for our success lately imo
Personally i think the reason for our success recently has been the fact we've played really poor teams on that winning streak.
Some might say thats me looking at the glass as half empty but the fact of the matter is that glass contains 2 better teams than us this season,Cork and Derry
I think we've played every team in the league during that run and only lost once. If we were able to beat the really poor teams all season we'd win the league without needing anything from Cork and Derry. League wins are built on beating those teams. During the two in a row seasons Bohs had a better record against us than we did against them
Did this run not coincide with the playing of O'Neill up front with Byrne? No coincidence then that the only defeat in this period was in the Brandywell when O'Neil was injured.
Its pretty impressive but not a record. We won 11 from 12 this season too albeit in the First.
It did, but Crowe played a big part as well netting 6 goals in those 12 games (I think that was his record, open to correction) despite not starting large amounts of the matches, he started a few and often came off the bench and did very well for us. Both O'Neill and Crowe played very well during the run.Quote:
Originally Posted by lofty9