Cant believe we let that lot off with a point. We dominated the game from start to finish and should have been two up in the opening 20 mins or so. Due to a lack of players we had to line out with only one striker so Mick went with a 4-5-1 system with Heffernan and Cosgrave on the wings. Harps were shockingly bad. We destroyed them down the wings and even played true them down the center. Paddy kept McHugh silent for the entire game. Heffernan went close in the first min but McCarthys miss on the 20 was miss of the season. One on one with the keeper he chipped the ball wide.
A crap crowd of some 300 only saw this game and i spoke to John Gill (Dublin city manager) in the second half. He was telling me we have a great chance to get the forth place as we are the best footballing side in the league and Kildare are going to fall to pieces. He raved long about Paddy and if they get promoted.....but forget that we are gonna get promoted. He thought Mick Kerley was doing a great job if only he could sign a few players. There goal in the 87th min was a killer blow. Keating lost posetion in midfield (for about the tenth time) and we conceaded a corner. A short one taken and long ball to the back post which Bonner headed home. (1st shot all game for harps) We went back down the field where our sub goalkeeper (i **** you not) Graham Loughman set up Sugru who was felled. The pitch helped but Heffernans free was well taken and we got an undeserving draw (u see we should have stuffed um)
The players attitude is supurb. to see them embrace each other after the game was great and to see them come over and thank the fans for supporting them was almost "family" in appearence.
Now who have i left out? oh yea the ref!!! if he isnt the worst ref in the league i dont know who is. Before the game he told Brendan Sweeney that he had heard about him and was watching him....guess what Brendan got booked and is out of the Galway game. I dont know his name but when he booked Paddy for being kicked in the wall by a harps player it was laughable. Contact was not allowed as the reputation of some of the Harps players had gone straight to his head. another thing that annoyed me though was Johnathon Speak telling Declan Boyle to dive when Harps were defending a limerick attack. He did dive but he forgot that there had to be a player close to him to warrent a "push" claim but it didnt matter our ref mate gave him a free out anyway (much to the delight of the harps bench who broke into fitts of laughter)
The Limerick fans are super, just great. The cheer when Heffo goaled was so loud and to see us all jumping round it felt like european nights beconed.
Brendan Hughes could be rejoing us next week.
TEAM: Healy, O'Mahoney, Purcell, Finucane, Moylem, Cosgrave, Sugru, Sweeney, Keating, Heffernan, McCarthy. MaCauley for McCarthy 60mins approx and Loughman (gk
:rolleyes: ) for Cosgrave 89 mins. Well done blues!
