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A magic injury time goal from Aidan O'Keefe gave the Drogs a fully deserved win at Belfield on what turned out to be a wet night and despite our superhuman efforts and tow woinderful strikes by Robbo we failed to make our superior footbel pay dividends until the last minute, . But three points are three points as the bishop said to the actress and as we wend our way back to Boyneside with the three points clutched to our ample bosoms, we can reflect in the satisfaction that we don't have to go there again this season. Make no mistake about it , this was a good win, we battled hard all through and as time ticked on in the second half, many of us would have settled for a point as the rain lashed down to make a less than salubrious setting look even more miserable than usual. Annyway , I won't go on about this.. I hafta meet the boys below in the Widda's... we're planning the annual Ned Skully memorial match......
I know I'm ramblin' a bit ... , y'see we had a few jugs before and of course Skinner had the dutch gold in the boot for the lomg journey home. that it long when you hafta stop for a hit and miss FOUR times on the way home.
The Clubs first ever Austrailian Greek John Tambouras made an auspicious debut alongside Garto in the middle and showed enough form tonight to show how valuable an acquisition he will be for the Drogs. He is strong and incisive in the tackle and looks very comfortable on the ball... Damian Lynch dropped to the bench and Grayser filled in at left full with Brian Shelley returning to right full . Robbo and Stewie patrolled the middle to great effect and Sami partnered Eamon up front. With James on the left and Gavin on the right, we had a good balanced look about us and it wasn't long before we created our first chance when Sami headed a good Gavin Whelan cross narrowly wide. The interplay between Gavin Whelan, Zayed and Sami deserved better and the heaviness of the pitch was not conducive to close control. James Keddy and Steven Gray played the ball intelligently and on the half hour, a good low shot by Sami was held by the keeper... and we were unlucky not to make the breakthrough before half time.
We came out for the second half and took up where we left off and we suffered from a few poor offside decisions and a number of cynical UCD tackles , but still pressed on. On 67 Aidan O'Keefe replaced Zayed and his pace gave us another dimension and on 75 following some clever interplay Robbo , who gave his usual 140% all through shot 1.5mm wide of the right hand post with the keeper beaten and seven minutes later Robbo hit another stunning shot from the same position only to see it rebound off the foot of the post. Shortly after that Crowley got a deserved red for another bad tackle... and then as time ticked on we had the expected time-delaying tactics from Gregg much to the annoyance of the scrupulously fair-minded Drogs supporters. With 10 to go on came Keego and Tony Grant and as time ticked away Tony in a beautiful piece of skill transferred the ball to James whose shot was beaten away and there was Aidan to send it home !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And that was all we wanted and outa there we could not wait to get remembering the words of our late friend Tommy Nelis that Purgatory is a wet night in UCD and for 90 minutes it was Purgatory until on 92 we ascended into Heaven. And so dear brethren, here endeth today's lesson (Drogs teach Students) and we will now gird our loins and partake in some liquid refreshment of the amber nectar variety and put a few away in honour our new man John form Down Under. .
