Originally Posted by
Acornvilla
The Limerick lads surprised me in fairness to them, held the ball better, and moved it quickly in attack. our defense was all over the shop, and I think it would have helped to have some sort of height in the back to cut out Limericks high balls. We also had no game plan in the 1st half, Don kept looking dangerous until he overplayed the ball, his end product was dire. Limerick won most if not all 2nd balls, work rate was way up. Davy looked great, Shaw kept being hoofed at way too deep for him to have any real effect, we were way better in the 2nd half, and should have scored one of those two headers, and was it Shaw through 1 on 1 when he took too long to take a shot, and then got flattened?
Limerick didn't have many real chances, but their goals were good counters, with our marking and closing down abysmally. On another day we could have gotten 4 or more goals, but if you play like that you don't deserve to win.
Conor Powell was tremendously bad, caused us all sorts of problems and ruined a bunch of attacks, the game would likely have been different if anyone else was playing at left back.