Jay McGraths suspension doesn’t apply tonight so happy days.
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Jay McGraths suspension doesn’t apply tonight so happy days.
Well Galway seem well up for the Premier anyway. Already 2-0 up on Dundalk
And a disallowed goal too
3-0 and triple substitution from Dundalk on 32 min
Even more weirdly, Dundalk have conceded more goals against Galway tonight, than Kerry have in the H2Hs subsequent to the infamous 9-1.
Any excuse for this :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI0MRyUFIXU&t=1s
The general thinking was the cup would get overshadowed by Derry vs Rovers. Not sure about that at the moment.
Can't stress enough just how bad we've been so far. Harps look more likely to score a 2nd then we are to get an equaliser.
Told yas. Even when we've won recently we've been poor, was hoping tonight might be a chance to click into place a bit but I expected more of the same honestly.
In saying that the goal did look well offside, but can't complain too much based on the performance and balance of chances. Hopefully a wake up call for the second half.
At least we're in the semifinal draw. That wasn't a good performance.
Home tie is all we can ask for at this stage.
Brave effort from us tonight,thought we competed well for the most part,needed to start the second half better though and gave away a stupid penalty instead,Pats were distinctly unimpressive though,Bohs will fancy their chances to win it now…
Haven’t played particularly well since before Europe. When he first got the job , Daly got an initial reaction but it has gone back to the Clancy era stuff in recent times. I’m delighted to be in the hat but the terrible performance tonight doesn’t bode well that we could win the thing. In fairness to Harps they should have been two up at half time then the cat was truly amongst the pigeons.
Have to say that was extremely easy. Very poor Dundalk team. Scoreline should have been double. We had 2 perfectly good goals disallowed and plenty more chance.
Another home draw hopefully, don't care who.
That is some result in Galway,the kind of scoreline that could see a manager in bother at the other end of it though….
Robbed by Rob Harvey again in a cup quarter final. The man is a dreadfully inept referee. So disappointed to lose that game
How does O'Donnell keep his job after that? What a night for Gaillimh. But to be undone from routine set pieces like that must be worrying. Dundalk have been poor for months now. Terryland looks. great these days, especially when full. Galway have had their dark, notorious times; DVD gate, the Nick Leeson days, losing 8-0 at home to Sligo in a year where they conceded about 130 goals.Two clubs going in different directions was what it looked like to me tonight.
No hoofball tonight my friend, we destroyed Dundalk on the deck, out wide, through the centre and from set pieces, second top-flight side handed their backsides by us this season
Sounds somewhat like sour grapes, he made poor decisions all around like most refs every week. Imo we were there for the taking this evening and harps should have capitalised. I don’t think Harps will have a better opportunity to reach a cup semi for years , we were just plain awful all night.
It's not sour grapes, it's wanting to burn down Rob Harveys house. I think there's some sort of difference.
He was utterly dreadful all night. Pats were definitely there for the taking and we should have been probably two or three up at half time, only for Lyness in Pats goal and for a bit of poor finishing from Harps.
I thought the penalty decision was a bit soft, and Harvey was utterly disgraceful giving a throw in for Pats, overruling the linesman, when it was clearly a throw for Harps, which led to Lonergans goal, unfortunately Rory Kelly decided to stand out of the way and allow him a free shot at goal too.
Deciding a referee has robbed your team by giving a throw in the other way is a new one on me I have to say. Also considering the same officials gave your side an offside goal and didn’t award pats a second penalty for an absolutely blatant handball a few minutes after the equaliser, I don’t agree that you were ‘robbed’ by Harvey tonight, as crap as he was for both teams. Another bad cup performance from pats this season but another cup draw to look forward to which is obviously the main thing
James Clarke is class. Joy to watch him carry the ball. Seems like we deserved the win and we were denied a stonewall peno in the first half and not sure Drogs’ was a penalty at all. Clever but not convinced Flores makes any contact.
Ours was on the line of the box, clear foul which both officials chose to ignore, their penalty was a clever dive, Flores dosent make any sort of movement towards that at all.
Worrying how we always switch off completely when ahead though, go into negative mode immediately. Down to Devine and the coaches to stamp that out.
Harps goal was onside.
Ref overruled linesman to give a Pats throw.
He repeatedly ignored Pats handballs all night, and gave soft free after soft free to Pat's while Harps got next to nothing.
It was as bad a performance from him as I've seen since the last cup quarter final he officiated in Finn Park when Shamrock Rovers got three second half penalties off him.
He was shocking alright but to suggest that he was more biased for one side over the other is incorrect IMO. Not sure I agree with how you deem a foul as soft considering you saw the foul on Mulraney as soft when it’s a stonewall penalty every day of the week as the defender took his legs from behind. I assume ignoring the blantard handball in the box means you agree that pats should’ve been awarded a second penalty. To say you were robbed by the ref when there was no major decision that went against you is essentially what I mean (I don’t deem overturning a throw in 35 yards up the pitch with your full defence back at the time as a big decision, it was a small decision that resulted in a goal due to weak defending and goalkeeping)
The real controversy is how the highlights of the Galway match aren’t up on the FAI YouTube yet. Looking forward to seeing how much xG Dundalk created, as we all know that’s what their manager cares most about :)
We’re getting Bohs at Dalymount in the semis. Guaranteed !