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Sligo fans doing their rain dance and hoping for 10 minutes injury time.
Ya O'Donnell got a second yellow for diving. Seems yellows for diving in the league are rife at the moment.
fyp ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by white horse
Interview with Vinny Perth about tonights game in the Showgrounds
http://audioboo.fm/boos/1419283-vinn...rs-28-may-2013
Think our first eleven is the best in the league at the moment. Not sure how we'll fare if we get a few injuries, particularly in midfield. Things are certainly looking good at the moment and we're definitely looking like potential champions, and results have gone our way big time in the last week, but there's a long way to go. Sligo looked like they were going to run away with it for the first seven games, so you never know. We should be there till the death at least. Could be a big big season for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by marinobohs
So happy our next league game is away to Pats. Also, just realised UCD and Pats' next game is against each other again. Wonder how Students will try and psych themselves up for that one?
Dundalk played us off the pitch tonight, especially in the first half. Thankfully, Elding will be gone for five matches now and Danny North is close to return. That crowd in the sheltered housing were some ejits to sack Stephen kenny.
Just in the door, stayed in Sligo for a few pints, what a win and what a performance
Fair play Sligo fan for honest view on the game. Sounded like Dundalk were good value. Next home match for us v Pats. Should be a cracker. Speaking of, why did Pats and UCD play last night? They were not behind on games played.
Just guessing but was it to do with Pats being in Europe and was the UCD game brought forward to avoid congestion? Such sense is rare in the LOI if so!Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Yeah, that's the fixture that would have been played in between the two legs of our European tie. Fair play to UCD.
UCD did similar for Rovers during European qualifiers a few years ago and I'd expect them to do the same for anybody else - class act of a club.
Now, onto more important matters... is Ian Baraclough the new Trevor Croly?
Baraclough has shown himself to be a good manager......so noQuote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I doubt it - but it gives me a great chuckle that the Hoops opted for first Brian Laws and then Trever Croly over Stephen Kenny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Well they opted for Stephen Kenny over anybody after O'Neill left. They couldn't exactly hire him again after firing him, could they?
I'm completely fine with a manager other than Kenny. Dundalk have been brutal any time they've played in Tallaght this season.
Poor performance in the league match. We were the better team in the EA match though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Charlie - you are a hoot!Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Glad to hear you are so happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Do you realise that Kenny has returned about 30% more league points so far operating off about 30% of the budget Croly has at Shamrock Rovers?
Can't say I agree with that, but I haven't seen any of your other matches this season so can't comment overall.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
I do realise that. I said I'm glad we don't have Kenny, not necessarily glad we have an inexperienced manager who is having trouble dealing with the same pressure Kenny buckled under. I said at the start of the season that Dundalk have done well to get Kenny - he's a good manager who will get the best out of that squad and has an eye for raw talent. If he'd trusted some of the younger players at Rovers he may not have found himself in the self-imposed hole he did. But he was an unmitigated disaster at Rovers and, results aside, Rovers are in far better shape for his absence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
did this make anyone else laugh? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I'm sure a Bohs fan this season could appreciate how you can make overall improvements without that being reflected on the scoreboard. Sure last season yous were thumping us 10-0 or whatever score it was after my tears finally dried up. Obviously the team lacks cutting edge and Croly has been rattled a few times but the football being played is light years ahead and if the board persevere then I think that will pay off eventually. The title this year is a write-off but Europe is a very realistic goal.
I suppose you're right.
What made me laugh though is the Rovers fans who were talking about euromillions and decade long LoI dominance are now content with league mediocrity and reachieving stability a couple of seasons later...not as funny as the Bohs situation to some, obviously, but funny nonetheless...!
So.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
The Rovers board should be patient with a manager and not have a knee jerk reaction if the style of football is better then before and/or shows potential - results don't really matter as long as Europe is a realistic possibility?
Is that a fair summary of what you are saying? :)
BTW, do you realise that last season under Stephen Kenny Shamrock Rovers had more points after 15 league games then this Croly led bunch have?
To be fair, a lot of that talk was coming from fans of rival teams. I had to selflessly pull a few out of their beer-soaked myopia myself. The Kenny experiment was an expensive and badly-handled mistake but luckily it hasn't damaged the fundamentals of the club too much. If Croly does manage to get it right, Rovers will be hard to catch and there have been a couple of false starts this season that suggest he's a lot closer than it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Yes, if you ignore all the differences they are exactly the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Look, I appreciate Kenny is a good manager and a good for Dundalk. I always said he'd do well there. He seems to thrive when allowed to assemble a squad of promising young players with little expectation for success. With all due respect, the Rovers job is a completely different box of umbrellas.
It wasn't working under Kenny - the football was a dire regression on the previous manager and he seemed clueless on what type of football he wanted to play. Kenny is a reactive manager who makes his selection based on nullifying the opposition's strengths, which is completely fine and has worked for a great many managers, but at Rovers the expectation is that the team will go out and play its own game regardless of who is put in front of them. Michael O'Neill completely bought into that but Stephen Kenny didn't.
Rovers is a big job. No one doubts that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
The Kenny you describe is not the one we have seen this season. Players have a lot of freedom to play and express themselves.
Given the quality of the players he had at Rovers, it is strange that he adopted such a conservative approach.
I'll bow to your superior knowledge as all I've seen of Dundalk this season is at Tallaght, but I'm going very much on what I saw at Derry too. I hear Dundalk dominated at the Showgrounds last night so perhaps he has turned over a new leaf.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
I can hear Martin Russell's team talk now. "We're never going to lose 5-0 again"Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter