Darren Dennehy makes it 1-1 at the Cross.
EDIT: Brian Gartland makes it 2-1 in a minute. 6 min to go! HON DUNDALK!
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Darren Dennehy makes it 1-1 at the Cross.
EDIT: Brian Gartland makes it 2-1 in a minute. 6 min to go! HON DUNDALK!
Not so fast.
Not on here a lot but its a great feeling to hammer the gypsies :)
All over at the Cross. 2-1 to Dundalk.
Rather appropriate that on the night Stephen Kenny guides Dundalk to the title, that his permanent successor on Whitestown Way presides over another embarrassment. It is time Jonathan Roche acted. You didn't have the balls to stick with Kenny less than 24 months ago. Our club is in free fall since we all got bloated on the excess of Europa league in 2011. Get off the fence.
Handy win for Town against baby Rovers. They were incredibly defensive but once we got the first it was all over. Great finishing from the boy Davy O'Sullivan again
That hurt so much.. thought we were gona push on after the goal but we let one thing in the other end.. good game of football and brilliant crowd.. never thought we were gona win the league but to be up there so long has been great we just need to keep it up for the rest of the season and get Europe which would be a great reward for the effort the lads have put in.. fair play dundalk worthy champions should it happen
We were phenomenal. Only complaint is that we were a wee bit wasteful with the chances; it's not an exaggeration to say that we should have had at least 10. Best football of the season and the past few weeks have shown that maybe our players can play some ball...
Next week will be an absolute cracker.
Fair play to Dundalk, deserved champions.
I don't want to take away from Dundalk, but Sutton has consistently ****ed us over in every one of our games that he has ref'd. To be clear, I have no complaints about the result.
I thought we were excellent and even if it wasn't one one our most attractive performances it was definitely one of the hardest working ones.
Maybe it was a bit tough on Cork and to be fair that looked a peno near the end from Boyle, but to score 60 seconds after losing a lead and away from home is a sign of a very good side. I also don't think Cork created enough chances to win the game, so we were probably worthy winners.
6 points is a big lead there is no point saying otherwise but, I still think anything could happen and two bad results and we could be under pressure, but it is looking very positive, however we need to be in this position in October not August.
What I will say is, it was an excellent hard working display tonight, so the team deserve credit for that.
Still a third of the season so play, plenty of points left to be fought over. Congratulating Dundalk at the start of August seems very premature.
Not that it matters a whole lot, but that was an absolutely exhilarating second half in Finn Park tonight. Both teams knew they needed a win and both went for it, resulting in pure attacking football, end to end stuff for about 30 minutes solid. Fantastic viewing, although utterly despairing for Harps to throw away a lead twice and miss a penalty.
As well as that, we've had 10 red cards this season if you include Ollie Horgan getting sent off. Pretty impressive. Disgraceful decision by Simon Rogers to even award a free that led to the scuffle that resulted in a silly red card for Caoimhin Bonner, but, we come to expect goings on like that in Finn Park this season.
Rumours afloat that it was indeed Crolys last game and Ian Barraclough is all but certain to be taking over from him in the next week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sligo Hoops.
Couldn't get over how slow the rovers defence was tonight. Gaffney was burning them with easy if he got any kind of a run at them. I'd say it's curtains for Croly. Some very average players in that rovers squad. Another clear out on the cards there at the end of the season id imagine.
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Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
995 they are awful at crowds.
Boccer Bayly and Kenna had a scrap after the game.
No way! They couldnt could they? Free flowng attacking football for the Rovers faithful it will be?! Give him a 5yr contract while they're at it...Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Probably over not locking TC out of the dressing roomQuote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
Word on da streetz is the lad in oz who writes all the cheques doesn't like Nutsy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Probably over Conor Kenna diving in his own box looking for a free out allowing Rory Gaffney a clear walk in on goals (which he fluffed bless him)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Always thought Boxer Bayly would have been a better name for our Robert.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
He won handy by all accounts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
The completely mental lads like Robert are not to be trifled with. Like that special lad at school that if you pushed him too far he'd completely lose it and make bits of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
That is a very bad defeat for UCD, especially on the back of last weekend
Were Drogheda that good? Or UCD v bad?
Bit of both. Drogheda were excellent going forward though. Could easily have been 8 or 9.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRDoc
I just can't believe Bayly would do something like that.
5 league games without scoring in Inchicore now. Any chance Pats could move ground?
Torn apart in the first half. Quigley excellent. Played a lot better second half. North should have scored and Clarke made a great save from Zayed in injury time but Pats deserved the win.
The first half was our best half of the season so far. Should have had the game wrapped up by half time. Sligo came into more in the second half with North and Zayed both missing a great chance each.
Absolutely delighted with the win, we had no one on the bench and didn't make any subs.
Sign of Champions from Dundalk. They really have been excellent this season. Congrats to the new Champions
Treble still on the cards
An air of resignation coming from Inchicore?Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
It was much better when ye were bristling with indignation about all sorts of things - now it seems that even a truckload of Queen CD's would do little for motivation and inspiration.
The gap is only 9 points and we are still due to come to Richmond Park on Sept 5
Ref was very poor all night. City need to convert possession into goal scoring chances. I thought that Dundalk bossed the first half and should have gone in two up. The second half was very different, City bossed possession but apart from set pieces, posed no real goal threat. In my opinion, that is the difference between the two teams at the moment; Dundalk always look threatening when they have possession. However, Caulfield will put that right. Cork are going places.Quote:
Originally Posted by CityRebel
The moment in the game that defined why Dundalk are six points clear at the top was just after City scored. Dundalk won a free kick with the chance to put pressure on the City goal. Kenny sent both centre halves up. Many clubs after being under the cosh for 40 minutes of the second hall, playing away from home, and getting a result that would preserve their 3 point lead would have kept the four defenders back. Dundalk sent the two centre halves up and one got the winner.
As the man said, you have to earn the right to win.
We fairly gifted Drogheda two or three goals. Can't really do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRDoc
First goal was three Drogheda players on the edge with acres of space to find the best man; shot was straight at the keeper (making his debut; O'Donnell must have been injured) and through his legs. He seemed to be a bit flat-footed; messed up his footwork.
Second was an absurdly short back-pass.
Third was a breakaway from our attack; Sami laid the ball off to Creevy on the edge of the area and then went to ground jumping over a Drogheda tackle. He wasn't looking for anything and it wasn't a foul; think it was an awful call by the ref gave a free out and book him for diving, but Drogheda went straight up the pitch and scored. Fourth was similar - Sami missed an open goal; Drogheda went straight up the pitch and scored.
Drogheda played well, but they didn't tend to have anyone on the ends of all the crosses they were putting in. Against a better team, they might have lost 2-1 or something and been likening it to that Man Utd v Fulham game.
For our part, whenever Benson or Ayman got on the ball, Drogheda fouled them, and that stifled our only plan really.
So we were wasteful up front and absent in defence; can't have any complaints really. I think it was good that Bray equalised in injury time, even though it drops us down to eleventh.
We have to be the most inconsistent team in the league though. We've played some super stuff this season - against Pat's twice, in Derry, gave it a right go in Dundalk, beat Sligo. Played really well in Cork. And then we go and concede ten in two games to mid-table sides. Ridiculous.
On another note - is that now ten games in a row without a goal for Shamrock Rovers B? That must be getting on for a league record?
Hugely disappointing for us to concede straight after equalising having worked so hard to get back into the game, especially with 6000 people there. Congrats to Dundalk.
Hopefully we can consolidate 2nd place and get back into Europe.
It's a shame what he did last night. Two of the best teams in the league playing in front of over 6000 people, live on tv, it was a great chance to show off the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Making up the numbers, well and truly.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
already down to 6thQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
It must be very disheartening for the young lads. I genuinely think some of their attacking players didn't touch the ball at all apart from kicking off after goals last night. Daniel Purdy could be doing better than wasting his time there. Maybe he feels he'll get in the first team at some point but he's not exactly got a platform to show how good he is. He could have stayed with us and I'm sure he had other offers.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
I though apart from one half v Rovers, possibly 15 mins v Pats, the only other side to challenge us at home so far was during a 20 min period in the second half v UCD. They were excellent and may have got a result had we not been 2 goals up at the time. It did finish 5-1 but it was far from plain sailing at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
It just have been very disappointing last night from Corks viewpoint and they will have thought they deserved a draw, but they took a very long time to really threaten us, I think 75 mins before the first real chance. They did improve in the second half and are a decent team, but I thought we deserved huge credit for getting the winner 2 mins later. As mentioned above, sending both centre halfs up immediately after losing the lead showed the hunger to get the winner.
The way Dundalk are set up makes it difficult for teams to threaten our goal, a consistent back four, decent keeper then Shields sits in front. This means one less in 'regular' MF but when you have sometime like Towell charging forward it's a system that works well.
Still long way to go and almost 3 months left to play, anything could happen, but it's looking good for us, that's for sure. Just need to keep focus on the next match, and Drogs away will be a tricky match.
Edit, that game v UCD finished 5-2 not 5-1, and they were 1-0 up after 2 mins. During the spell I was talking about it was 4-2, and we were actually 'hanging on' at times.
How did Gaynor do for Cork?
He was ropey at first, with a few misplaced passes. I thought he settled into it though and looked more composed as the game went on. Overall not bad for a first start.Quote:
Originally Posted by poster
5-2 - give us that bit at least!!Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel