Originally Posted by
rambler14
Despite the defeat it was a fantastic performence by Ramblers.
The back four were brilliant. Kenny Coleman was brilliant. His crosses were deadly accurate all night. Great to see him as captain. I've always said he has the potential to captain Ramblers and last night he proved what a great player he is and how valuable a player he is to us. Here's hoping he stays in the team because in my opinion he should be starting every week.
Have to compliment John Kearney aswell, playing out of poition at centre-back against the best team in the league and he didn't put a foot wrong all night.
Midfield were superb. Greg was tackling hard and Colin was constantly cleaning up. Davin played well as did Lally.
Stephen Mulcahy was outstanding. He man-marked Keith Fahey for 75 minutes and took him out of the game so much so that Mark Quigley kept having to drop back to get the ball. Mul was the first player i've seen this year to take Fahey out of the game and thats no easy feat!
Cummins worked his arse off and got no reward which was unfortunate.
I personally thought we deserved a draw. If we played like that against any other team in the league we would have hammered them.
I never thought i'd say this but I thought the referee had a great game, as did his assistants. Especially the linesman on the dressing room side, didn't put a foot wrong all night and was in good humour with the fans too.........................there was the handball by the Pats player in the box that was probably ball to hand but still I felt it should have been given!
All in all a performence that will kick-start our season!