Very poor policing, why are one set of fans escorted past a pub full of opposition fans?
In 2019 Rovers & Dundalk were kept well apart. We were allowed nowhere near the Irishtown end of the ground.
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Very poor policing, why are one set of fans escorted past a pub full of opposition fans?
In 2019 Rovers & Dundalk were kept well apart. We were allowed nowhere near the Irishtown end of the ground.
SUPER atmosphere. Looks about 40,000 there.
Not 40k. Few rows cordoned off at the front all around, and the second tier at the Shels end mostly empty. Ditto the two corners in the top tier
Probably has hit 30k though. It's a decent crowd
Great finish, Farrell totally lost under that cross field ball
Said it to some lads around me before the game, and was typing here before the goal.... I think this could be one of the most one sided finals in a long while. Derry match up terribly for Shels, and Connor Kane missing is a huge loss for Shels.
Goal was coming, could be 3 or 4 by the end.
Graydon is giving Shels a roasting so far
Shels massively out of their depth here….
Ruthless by Derry. They aren't breaking a sweat. The Aviva suits them.
Derry look very well set up. Men against boys stuff for the first half. Two wingers are destroying Shels.
Shels have got it all wrong for this game. 3 at the back is destroying them, Boyd has too terrible of a touch for the game etc etc
On the way to repaying the favour to Pats
Looking like a good call. Shels really needed to get to half time without conceding the second.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa
Cawley and Stuey look sick there!
“Stuart, your heart was telling you Shelbourne would win the before the match, what have they got to do to get back into the game”Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
”Well they’ve got to get a goal Peter and they can’t concede a third”
Riveting stuff from football expert Angry Stewie Byrne
32,412 confirmed by RTE.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
1990 the last time a team lost the Cup final by three goals.
No-one's ever lost by a bigger margin
Can’t remember the last time a team put in as bad an FAI Cup final performance as this shels team. I suppose this is what happens when a team gets the luck shels have had to get to the final. The fact that a 6th place Bohs team (who are regarded by their fans as the worst in their clubs modern history) are the best team shels have faced en route to the final is mad
Certainly wouldn't put it past Derry to win by 4, Shels appear to have given up already.
35% of our points this season came against Shels :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Was it not a crowd from Wrexham who obtained tickets and caused the trouble last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
That's the fun of the Cup I guess. Anyone can fluke a good draw. The Rovers/Dundalk/Cork domination was unhealthyQuote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Derry were always favourites - maybe not to win this easily, but to win anyway - but if both clubs can get the sort of crowd boost that Bohs and Pats seem to have gotten from last year's final, then it'll be worth it
Real missed opportunity for Pats this year I think, with losing to Waterford. Don’t think it would have happened if we hadn’t been in Europe that week.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Shels fans throwing flares into the Derry keeper's six yard box
****wits
Edit - Gardaí wading into the Shels end now
see yellow jackets running in to the end I presume to take someone out. (81mins).Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yeah, they got a guy out alright. He nearly got away from them too - hopped the barrier but the Gardaí held onto him
Handiest semi final and final for a cup winner in a long time? Thought Shels might rise to the occasion and keep it tight at least but it looks like two teams from different leagues out there. Derry deserve the cup though after knocking us out in the quarters.
And that's the record, from the penalty spot.
They've resorted to punching the head off each other now instead. An absolute embarrassment of a club on and off the pitch. Maybe duff was right after all with the ‘little old shelbourne’ phrase he inventedQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
https://twitter.com/tallaght_saint/s...QiqNMcUZF0G_gA
Jaysus. Serious headbutt on the guy getting arrested at the end there.
Looks like it was only a couple of them and others were trying to restrain them for the Gardaí in fairness. But they need to come back for headbutt guy if at all possible.
Got a good chuckle from this - "Never buy the bootleg scarves kids"
Tweet: https://twitter.com/garyonuallain/st...23967924670464
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhdLdVQX...jpg&name=small
Unfortunately had to watch the game on RTE, but it couldn't have gone any better.
Comiserations Total Hoofball, a decent Shels poster on here, if your team and some fans let you down, your management didn't... Given us some hard games this year.
I knocked Duff on here after the semi-final, but to be fair he was pretty classy today.
A learning experience for him as well. Conor Kane must have been a big loss for Shels (as Matty Smith), but really, there was a too big difference in terms of talent available on the pitch.
Again, for me, Derry looked like a complete team. A near-perfect game for their midfield 5. It is so hard to imagine that they finished on the same points as Dundalk in the league. The difference in quality in that game to Dundalk's best is huge. There are levels to this game. Rovers found a level come to the end of the season and Derry found a new one today.
I don't mean this as slight against Rovers, who are also an excellent team, but I would fancy that starting 11 over theirs - or at least they are both in a class of their own compared to the rest of the league. I would be dying to see how an in-form Derry team face an in-form Rovers team, esp Duffy and Graydon against Rovers wing-back system.
The league is a lot poorer that we missed the best from Jack Byrne, Burke, Duffy and Fats this year. Here hoping that both are in flying form next (.... and Ryan O'Kane develops into Messi so we are still relevant)
Doesn't happen in other sports in Ireland. Are we gone that bad that mixing and banter between fans isn't possible anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
This behaviour really is pathetic
Congrats to yourself and Derry, you's turned up today and put in your best most professional performance of the 5 matches between the teams while we put in the worst display of the 5 matches, you can't not turn up on cup final day whether you had a positive season or not!Quote:
Originally Posted by DCSIL
Unless Derry and Shels mess up recruitment in the off season I think both teams will be stronger moving up the league table in 2023 certainly lessons learned for Duff and some of our young players after today's stinker
As a neutral thought that Aodh Dervin had a great game for Shels. Thought ex town striker Sean Boyd was fierce poor and was lucky to stay on the pitch. Why was Aaron ODriscoll not playing?Quote:
Originally Posted by total hoofball
:D brilliant :DQuote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Well that’s just not true that it doesn’t happen in other sports. It’s a constant in GAA, with the latest example of this being a video from club fixture that was doing the rounds on Saturday this weekend of 2 teams punching the head off each other on the pitch meanwhile supporters in the stand were doing the same including a woman smashing people over the head with a hurley.Quote:
Originally Posted by pateen
Some amount of scummy behaviour today ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
dervin was very poor IMO. He looks very busy but it worked against shels. not very disciplined at all with his pressure. left lots of space in behind him. thought boyd did ok given he barely had service esp 1st half. moylan was shocking. shels badly missed someone with a bit of class like smith. they'll need to upgrade the 3 cm + 2wb positions this off season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
https://twitter.com/swiftycook/statu...64323318820864Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
I think this is the video.
Sure Waterford could say the same, and we could too when losing to Waterford, I think the common link is, how on earth did that Shelbourne team reach the final, they were very poor yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by TonyD
I remember Dundalk lost 3-0 to Rovers in 87 final, but we were decent that season, came through 3 games v Bohs in the semi (the old H+A semi, then a replay), we just froze on the day of the final, but bounced back and won the double in 88.
Derry were very impressive yesterday, full flowing football and congrats to them.
Overall end of season worked with no one having any complaints, Rovers best in the league albeit a bit dogged but they got job done, Derry won a major trophy and in style, Dundalk back in europe at first attempt, Pats by the back door in Europe, UCD staying up on absolute merit, and Cork City winning the FD with game or to spare?