Article 7 subsection 23

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

And if you're two goals worse than us, then you should be happy with a draw.

As for the notion that you're as good as Cork...!

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its only hindsight but the first ten minutes we dominated the game, we got our goal and for some reason went defensive, noone was commited forward, bar the 5 foot 6 striker who is being fed high balls, unfortuately we didnt play attacking football and just tried to fly by with the one goal, and fair duece to ye ye deserved the draw for our efforts,

we can play better,

never said were as good as corkm, i used it as an example that cork thought they were 5 goals better than us and they proved it,

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Originally Posted by Allstar

Your supposed to be supporting the team and your constantly moaning about this that and the other. will ya start praising and encouraging people and stop being a hater getting everyone down.

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i do support the team but you have to tell people that there playing bad, bilko has to work on his distribution and his eccentricities, and tellin him is the only way hell learn, if you dont tell somone there doing somthing wrong then theyll just keep doing it,

While il agree R14 has problems beyond the furthest horizon its a bit unfair to be saying the team is been put down constantly,Gutsy,Murray,j.meath,Cummins,Reilly,Col eman ae all players who are model examples of what we need and couldnt be swapped for anyone,The rest?? Take a look at our league position and a few results its getting a bit boring blaming the officials!!

bilko is not a bad keeper had a shocker for goal the other night but has saved us loads this season, he was at fault in ucd but so was 10 other players who should have watched gregg and total negative tactics by manager were wrong too

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Originally Posted by Rambler20

Not a hope kid theres no way hes been beaten that many times at his near post i can remember two and ive only missed the away game to pats.

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He was beaten at his near post there too by Ryan Guy. I remember it well.

He was at fault for all 3 up in Drogheda (2 dropped catches and 1 near post), Bohs goal at home (near post), 2 vs Cork City (both near post) and Gregg's goal up in UCD. (A.W.O.L).......................That makes 5 at the near post. I win!:):D

The boy needs a good hard kick up the hole and some sort of electronic tag to stop him coming off his line.

Having seen it again last night on mns i agree bilko ****ed up for the goal but the amount of times he has saved us this season far outweigh the times he has ****ed up but so did everybody else standing in the box that ignored gregg. We were trying to hold what we had when U.C.D were there for the taking. Had we got the ball down and played we would have won comfortably but as ive noticed in last few week were playing long ball alot more and tbf r14 its not just Bilko doing it

The long ball game probably stems from the players subconscious and not from anything Hendo is saying.

It's perfectly natural that that players feel pressure and realise the situation they are in which often resorts to hoofing the ball long all the time. It's amazing the amount of teams in trouble that automatically do it. It's like a defence mechanism which probably comes from the old idea that workrate and scrapping will get you out of trouble and that itself, comes from the mindset of so many managers in the British and Irish game.

If only they still realised football was a simple game....

If only they still realised football was a simple game....[/quote]

Agree but surely the players realise that what got them to the premier division was playing the ball on the ground. Any time weve tryd to play the ball on the ground this year against rovers away and pats at home the team have played far better. Another thing thats creaped into there game is needless fouls which are costing us dearly like lallys foul saturday night which lead to the goal. Theres only so much hendo can do once theplayers cross that white line its up to them

agree r20 when we play on ground we are a good team, but to do this you need confidence which we are lackin at moment as the best pundits say when confidence is lackin players dont want to be the ones to make the mistake so it is safer to boot it rather than try and do something with it
if we were to get a few results this would prob change

just need a little run of results and we could kick on, but getting that run started is hard due to confidence a kind of catch 22

the lucky thing is that other 3 teams around us are poor as well so we havent rerally lost ground