"The scoreline is not a true reflection of the game"
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"The scoreline is not a true reflection of the game"
https://soundcloud.com/shamrock-rove...interview-1618
At about 1:20 the interviewer asks Stephen Bradley "do you think Dundalk were over physical tonight?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Are even the Rovers media people taking the pi$$ out of the unfortunate manager?
Populist statements that Ward makes on Twitter about us are there for a reason!!(RT's and likes)
Ward is a bit of a****** in my eyes.Some Dundalk fans like to hear everything positive said about the club - he knows that,he knows his audience.
Lots of ITK Dundalk fans pass no remarks of him.
We know full well that overcoming Cork will be a huge challenge.
As far as budgets go? Stop guessing.Because Nobody knows.
Why are Cork fans and Cork people in general so desperate for acknowledgement and acceptance from others?? Cork are a good, effective side, champions, cup holders, the club of pure virtue in League of Ireland. Who cares what anyone else thinks!? Rovers/Pats/Bohs fans singing 'We hate Dundalk' was music to the ears when it made a return in recent seasons. European performances tend to grab the interest more in general in this country than domestic titles. Put together a good European run and you will likely get the accolades you crave.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Must have been another cup final. I saw the challenge by Lopes - straight red and the boy is lucky.
I know we've not been consistent at all this season, but Galway are no addition. Their keeper is simply horrific, and I had to laugh at him giving away another indirect free kick after that ****show against Cabinteely.
https://www.facebook.com/ltfc.ie/vid...7428971681970/
Great ping here to open the scoring tonight from local lad Aodh Dervin. Great little player.
Curious to know why Aaron Barry, marque signing, and Karl Sheppard are not getting picked, i think I read the former made too many mistakes early season, but still a decent player? However it’s the latter, Sheppard I’m more surprised with given the almost mass celebratory actions when he decided to sign back.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Harps won ,Athlone are terrible not much else to add,Monday will be a different game......
I'd have Shep in the team, especially in games where we need width he changed the game tonight. JC likes Barry McNamee but also likes Sadlier and Buckley and is trying to figure out how to get them all into the team. As things stand hes been playing McNamee wide right where he is not at his best. Thats before you think about Stephen Beattie who came in and played number 10 tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Aaron Barry didn't have a great start to the season and lost his place to the two young centre halves McLoughlin and McCarthy and is probably fourth choice right now with Benno coming back into the side in recent weeks
I think if people talked about how much they hated us we'd be fine. But we get fobbed off as just another side and that is infuriating!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
When we did put together a decent Euro run those *****s from Louth (your lot!) went and over shadowed us ever so slightly!
Brian Kerr was so busy hating Shamrock Rovers that he refers to Bohs discipline issues:rolleyes::DQuote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
I think most people in the stadium felt once Hoban scored that the result was only going one way. We really needed to get a second on the board to force Dundalk to open up but we really lacked a cutting edge without Burke or Carr.
Surprised by the banners. We've played far worse than that loads of times and there's been only applause from the stands. Stinks of "we made this banner so we're ****ed if we don't get to use it."
Dundalk are the best team in the league by a decent stretch I think, but we all know that doesn't guarantee anything. I can't imagine they'll have it as easy as they did in that ten-minute spell when they scored three though.
For what its worth and was said above, Cork have never been fobbed off in Dundalk. There is a respect as much as rivalry even if through gritted teeth. It isnt the media approval that you're looking for but from your closest rival its something. The reason Dundalk are seemingly annointed club in some eyes over Cork does have something to do with playing style. Few would have believed that an Irish club could compete in Europe playing it out from the back on the deck - not even the best Irish international footballers do it. That belief got us to EL groups and favour has snowballed. Even when in London for the game in Turners Cross we went in to a bar in London city centre to watch the game and the TV that the game was on said 'Showing Dundalk'!!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Don’t want to be rude but Galway have been brutal in the three games I’ve seen them. Tonight was the worst, they were appalling. A back three consisting of a disgracefully overweight Williams and Walsh who couldn’t get a game for a ****e town team last season. None of Galway’s back 3 were comfortable on the ball and invited so much pressure on themselves. Only for the red and a disgraceful set of officials town would’ve won by 4 or 5 tonight. Keegan is in botherQuote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
Well I don't really think it's just that. We hammered Cork 3-0 in Tallaght and Dundalk put five past us. Dundalk won 4-1 at the Brandywell and Cork struggled to a 0-0. Dundalk slaughtered Pats and Cork have just edged past them. Waterford beat Dundalk but, guess what, they beat Cork too. Even Limerick have done well in all their games against Cork and Dundalk beat them 8-0. Obviously everyone outside the top two is a level below, but we're all looking at our games and saying Dundalk are clearly the better side. If it wasn't for Cork's clear commitment to never committing fouls, it might be closer, but you have to commend Dundalk on their cynicism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
While those are valid points about those games, the game are a bit cherry picked and there's a recency bias there. There's a reason we'll be top of the league if we win Monday with the same games played.
I'd agree dundalk will likely finish with a much higher goal difference, I doubt it will come into play but it could. I also have no issue with people thinking dundalk are the better of the two teams, rovers in particular given the relative performances.
What I think is ridiculous is the claims that Dundalk will win the league by 8-10 points. Come Monday, we could be a point clear with 21 games played. There are only 15 games less. Assuming dundalk keep winning as they have been, it assumes we'll for some reason drop our performances significantly. I don't think that is justified, regardless of how good dundalk are.
We're actually just starting to hit our stride, and performances are improving, rather than the opposite.
Now, who knows what will happen with Europe, and the league games around it. We have a habit of not doing great in those. But I think there's no chance in hell a Caulfield team drops off to the level as to lose 11 extra points relative to Dundalk in 15 games.
On the point of why does it bother us, I don't think there's a team in the lead that wouldn't be annoyed if they were a point of top at this stage and continuosly told they were going to lose the league comfortably, despite a 100% home record!
And next Friday, away to UCD.Quote:
Originally Posted by SeanDrog
If ye can take 6 points away to first and third in a week, ye'll go 4 points clear and will have to be favourites. A draw against Shels and it's starting to look more and more like a two-horse race for the title with others' lack of consistency an issue really.
Dundalk coughed up a lot of chances last night , that would be a concern from thier point of view.
I love it when people write us off. Please keep doing it.
There was a swagger about is for the last 20 mins last night that I haven't seen since the bygone days of Seani Maguire. This could be best title race of the lot.
Different keeper. Tadgh Ryan was injured last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.
Obviously the head to head games are key and we have been second best mostly to Cork recently. Cork are clear favourites!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid
Nice try :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
I don't think there's much doubt Dundalk are favourites, and I'd agree that for us winning it this year would be a bigger achievement than last, especially considering we've never retained the league, but you're right, the head to heads will be key. As will the response to games around Europe.
Big first game back after the break in Oriel.
Wow... Back to school for the pair of them!Quote:
Originally Posted by gufc2000
Big few weeks for us. Away to Shels twice, away to UCD, home to harps and Cobh. Will be alot clearer after those matches.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
We were rubbish last night. Draw was fair result. But it's a good sign that we were able to grind out the result.
We're a weird team. Away to harps a few weeks ago, first half we looked like a premier division team. Second half looked like ragball rovers. Back to ragball rovers last night!
Like they did last year?Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
A 4-0 win for Harps last night was incredibly generous for Athlone.
Harps weren't overly great, but really should have, without the slightest hint of exaggeration, put ten past the worst team I've ever seen in Finn Park.
John O'Flynn should have had a hat-trick, Michael O'Connor should have had one, Ciaran O'Connor should have had a hat-trick, and Mikey Place could have had a couple more on his home debut. Mark Coyle missed from 6 yards, Tommy McBride missed from the penalty area...could go on all day. A truly brutal Athlone team. More clinical finishing and there could have been a record scoreline.
Will be an altogether different story on Monday evening.
Dundalk could have won 8 or 9-2 last night. When they go forward with one touch passing, it's so swift and seamless. There's no other side that can match them for footballing quality. Rover's concession of the 3rd and especially the 4th goals are the stuff of nightmares though.
Automatic Promotion dreams seems to be fading away for Galway too, but the introduction of the Playoff systems still gives a chance. I dread the day we have to play Dundalk when they're in beast mode though, if we do somehow manage get promoted.
Not comparable. The league was over at that point. Caulfield teams are incredibly competitive, right from his first season with us. When it's on the line, they won't fall off like that. Criticise his style of play, but his teams are never not up for it when there's something on the line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
OK, but they literally did exactly what you said they'd never do in your post.
Yeah, I think Dundalk came close enough to winning the title last year to say that it wasn't "over" when the collapse started
Fair point. I should have been clearer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
It was though. There was no point last year, even after we started losing games, that anyone thought dundalk would win it. We needed a point from our last 4 games or something to win it. After winning it, we proceeded to drop more points which made it look closer at the end, but it was over. There was never a risk of losing it. Seani made sure of that with the hattrick up in Oriel.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
It would be great but they are going to be two extremely hard games. I think we have tightened up at the back which helps but upfront we aren’t as dynamic as we were at the start of the season. On a plus Sean Brennan is really getting into his stride and passing/controlling the ball like a master.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Meh; can't agree with that. Had Dundalk won in Turners Cross, ye'd have been in full ****ting-it mode and anything could have happened. Ye'd still have been huge favourites, but it wouldn't have been over. That draw was the one which really sealed the title. It certainly wasn't over enough earlier on to dismiss the collapse over the last 15 games or whatever it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
It seems Dan Cleary feels he has a point to make
https://www.balls.ie/football/dundal...-cleary-390240Quote:
Daniel Cleary Continues To Remind Stephen Bradley What He's Missing
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DesGCX5X0AE92s1.jpg
Speaking to the Dundalk Democrat after last night's 5-2 win against Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght, Dundalk's Daniel Cleary described scoring his goal as "the best feeling I've ever had."
Giving Stephen Kenny's men a 2-1 lead on the night, Cleary's attention was drawn toward the Rovers boss Stephen Bradley, however.
Heading straight toward Bradley, Cleary's cupped his hear, suggesting that the Shamrock Rovers manager missed a trick when he overlooked the former Liverpool man.
Booked for his celebration last night, Cleary added to the furore surrounding his celebration with a Tweet this afternoon.
Can I register my thanks and appreciation to Steven Bradley for sending a highly motivated and very good player our way.
It's really great to players come to the LOI and talk about how it helps them to fall in love with football again. Whatever about what club they're at, Cleary saying how good it feels, Vigoroux posted how it helped him enjoy football again, Seani and others have said similar. Its a huge benefit for the league, and we should be shouting it from the rooftops.
So much for Dundalk throwing the kitchen sink Asterix, sounds more like Bradley decided against signing Cleary and he thorougly enjoyed showing the Rovers management what he thought of that. Your various claims more and more sound like a steaming pile of sh!t!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Bradley done him a favour, he should be thanking him
And people say Bradley doesn't know how to get the best out of players.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
The League of Ireland is:Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
- not bleak
Well, another four goals shipped by the Derry defence today. That's 19 in the last six games. Utterly pathetic stuff.
The transfer window can't come soon enough.