Wasn't sure about our penalty shout last night, they didn't show a decent replay, but Brush being refreshingly honest that it was.
https://www.derrynow.com/news/derry-...a-penalty.html
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Wasn't sure about our penalty shout last night, they didn't show a decent replay, but Brush being refreshingly honest that it was.
https://www.derrynow.com/news/derry-...a-penalty.html
We have been awful recently. The second half was the best that we have performed in months. Since the Derry home game the only time we have played well was the 7-0 V UCD. I'm encouraged by Lonegran potentially hitting form at the crucial part of the season. I like Carty as he works hard but his finishing is poor.Quote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
I don’t know that that’s the case. I don’t sense any great dissatisfaction with Jon Daly. I think he’s done well. Yeah, we’ve been off the boil a bit lately, but have been generally getting results. Shels away being the exception, but we’d possibly have seen that out with 11 on the pitch. Second half last night was much better, as has been said. (Someone needs to tell SOD that games last 90 minutes, not 45 ;)) We won’t win the league, but I think we’ll get top 3, and with the Cup, who knows ?Quote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
Defo a peno, but we had an equally blatant one disallowed at the BW last time, goal was HB too if SR's delay in celebrating is anything to go by.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
*Haven't seen a replay of either.
*Ye were cat all the same.
Comfortable win for Treaty against 10 man Athlone.
Poor crowd owing to the game being a dead rubber, but all of a sudden it seems we might have a chance...
Not sure about that in our case JC. Bradley still has plenty of support at Rovers. Nobody thought going for 4 in a row would be easy. There's definitely some who wouldn't mind a fresh approach but you'd only have to go to Tallaght for a game to see how much support Bradley has from the majority.Quote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
I'd be surprised if the majority at bohs weren't happy for now but I do think they'll finish behind Shels so we will see how that goes. If they get 4th it would have to be seen as a good season. 5th...probably ok.
For me Sligo are the only team massively underperforming and I'm surprised Russel is still there but I don't know if he is well like or not.
Go on and win the cup and congrats on promotion. It's good to have Galway back.
Re Bradley I’d be the first to moan/criticise many of our performances this season …. However hopefully he’s about to deliver a 4-in-a - row ; plus where he’s taken us from and how he and his ‘team’ have also developed the academy as well ( their vision supported by a board that were bereft of ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
So I think he has huge support and any fans or board members looking to replace him would be fools to put it mildly…. The big question is will he want to stay ( yes methinks) but only if he can agree with the board the next steps and also that the board can financially commit
Game last night was a slog,and UCD defended well,but that's all they did. Rovers lost focus in exploiting the weakness in the students and the paint by numbers approach of our football was rendered pointless by the 10 UCD players in the box. Burt hasnt been a success and Burkey insistence on playing head down football made us about as dangerous as a rubber knife.
Still derry conspired to lose a game they had to win so it's a case of never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Just had a look there and we were on a run of 16 successive defeats against Rovers.
Don't know is there a worse record elsewhere in the league?
The club are set to lose something like 2m this year was said at the members meeting recently I think that is backing your manager. I want bradley to stay but the board deserve credit for the backing they have given him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
I think the only Rovers fans that want Bradley gone are Runners in to be honest, rovers always had a solid 1500 - 2500 core of supporters that show up even when we are S***e, great to have the buzz of extra attendances but who in the name of god would get rid of a manager that has won the cup and three leagues in the last 4 seasons (hopefully 4 in a row) he has brought us from a team who were very predictable and average to where we are today, I think there have only been 3 previous managers to win 3 leagues in a row, so his achievement has to be acknowledged, and you have to remember he didn't want the job in the first place, he was happy coaching the underage teams, so a lot of credit has to go to the likes of himself, Pajo Flynn, Duffer, Stephen Rice Graham Gartland, and several ex players who have made the academy a success, I'd say if Bradley isn't with Rovers next season it will be his decision and nobody else'sQuote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
No chance of him getting sacked even if we don't win the league. The crowds have doubled in the last 3 years so the newbies think we win the league easily every year.
I am.worried at the losses though 2m this year and unless we refresh the team I can't see this group winning next season ....is that another 2m? Or more or maybe less , either way its a worry
For most of the hardcore of fans, the league is always 'bread and butter' and all that will ever matter. But nowadays since the financial reward for doing well is so great, how much money can SRFC afford to lose out on due to his inability to get decent results in Europe?
On a match thread where Galway get promoted after 6 years in the wilderness a Galway fan decides that the thing he wants to talk about is Rovers in Europe.
We are gargantuan. Thank you Steve.
And congrats. Looking forward to seeing how you do next season.
Waterford got a confidence boost with a good 3 0 away win against a team that we had drawn with 3 times already this season. Ronan Coughlan back and scored after being out injured the last month. Bastian Hery sent off again for Longford.
Coughlan's goal was an og but for a man out for so long he looked very lively. Blues will need him if they are to get through the play offs.Quote:
Originally Posted by trevy
Was that a €2m loss for 2022 even with all the European money?Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Said to death but transfers and tv/streaming revenue really needs to increase in the league. Too much reliance on match day revenue and European prize money, if you are one of the lucky 4 to qualify.
I think Russell is too well liked, he is part of the DNA of the club and would be a big tear to sack himQuote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
Personally I don’t think this is the appropriate forum to be mentioning €2m losses for this year…. Reason being is that it is a ‘headline’ figure that gives a distorted view of our overall real financial position ( which I don’t intend explaining here ).Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Bottom line literally is the Board set the budget and targets and Bradley and his back room team plays a big part in achieving the targets ( he’s exceeded the targets set out on a rolling 3 year basis) . Internal controls of the budgets and spending rest don’t with him and any failure there is the responsibility of the Board.
So hopefully he decides to stay but that will depend hugely as to whether the Board are willing and or able to back his recently submitted plans - methinks they will
Are you the real John Delaney CJQuote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
Nope…. He’s just a poor imitation of meQuote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
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Originally Posted by placid casual
UCD's draw on Friday officially confirmed relegation?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Wexford v Longford is an interesting playoff 6 pointer. Wexford can extend the gap to 10 or Longford can cut the gap to 4, with only 4 rounds remaining afterwards. Those final 4 rounds mightn't have much to play for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Even if we win, 4 points with 4 games remaining is still a decent cushion for Wexford. Longford gave up so much ground at the start and it's going to cost them. Friday was absolutely atrocious as was Kerry (and that's without all the off field stuff). It appears our season is fizzling out and anything bar a win tomorrow will confirm that. I'm more interested now in how much of the squad we can keep for next year and hopefully Hendo being backed to strengthen it early this time around. If he can do that there's no reason we can't be top 3 next season. This season was always going to be toughQuote:
Originally Posted by legendz
Yes. Yes there is.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
We have lost 23 times in a row to them.
To be ended next season.
Re: Bradley, I wasn’t saying Rovers fans want him sacked but that if he did leave (of his own will) that from fans I’ve been speaking to at matches they wouldn’t be too concerned that things would be freshened up and a new manager comes in for the required rebuild.
And to bring the thread back to Galway United - I would say a majority of United fans, myself included, wanted Caulfield gone after last year’s playoff.
Some was down to the style of play but for me his recruitment last year was terrible. He brought in players who he quickly fell out with, then brought in and played players who weren’t good enough and also experimented with a 3-5-2 formation that was an utter disaster, which he stuck with for far too long.
But for Conor Kearns having an absolute disaster in the playoff we may have beaten Waterford that night and ended up promoted but I think we’re far better prepared now for the Premier Division.
We’re a much better team than Cork from last season and they didn’t really add much at all to their squad but I feel we’ll be looking to add 5 or 6 players.
Maybe 6th is ambitious but I’d rather aim for 6th and miss out by 2 spots than aim for 8th and miss out by 1!
We could potentially finish ahead of Cork/Playoff Winner, Sligo, Drogs & Dundalk and any other team who has an off season.
Guessing that's a fair enough assessment of where a lot of Rovers fans would sit at the moment but by the same token I only know about 2 of them :DQuote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
Caulfield kind of makes that rod for his own back. When his teams aren't effective it's fairly turgid. Essentially patience wears thing with a poor Caulfield side quicker than it does with others. Or maybe it's just something to hang your coat on when you're fed up with sub par results and performances and fans have little patience for either. He's a fairly combative character and opposition love getting one over Caulfield's teams. If Bohs beat Galway in the semi's you'll hear Caulfield's name being bellowed in chants and general conversation in... let's say a "gleeful" manner. If we lose the Caulfield factor will similarly ache and we don't even really have that big a history with him bar one cup semi where he just happened to be managing Cork.
Expecting a tough game tonight , Drogs are well set up. We have McGrath back at CB so should be spared a heart attack from starting Norman.
Bohs/Shels is a huge game tonight,Shels could go 2 points behind second with a win,should be a good atmosphere at that one…..
If Shels win tonight they will travel to Tallaght on Friday knowing a win puts them 4 points behind Rovers.
I simply cant see how Shels are where they are on the basis of what ive seen of them in the 3 matches we played against them this year.
The standard of the league this year is awful (and thats from someone who still hopes we win it) rather than someone down the firld throwing Darts at the team winning.
Even with that said Shels must have something about them that we havent seen this year in matches against Rovers
Dreadful standard overall imo. We shouldn’t be anywhere near a title race but still in the mix at the business end of the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Shels have really impressed me this season. Think they're excellently coached but have just lacked in individual quality and were too reliant on Moylan. Not surprised that with Wood and Jarvis being successes they've gone on even more of a run and capitalised on how ropey the more established sides have been.
Daly had made three changes tonight. I’m ok with Leavy starting but Norman and Mark Doyle should get the stress levels up a few notches.
Cork clearly accepted their play off fate….
Nobody wants to take the title off Rovers.
Watched the last 30 mins of the drogs-pats game. its an absolute scandal the level of officiating in this League of Ireland. It's criminally poor. They literally look like the kind of refs you see on the replays of The Big Match from the 1970's on cable tv- overweight, part timers who don't belong in a professional league.
Cracking winner by Drogs all the same
He was utterly incompetent, probably the worst I've seen. We were poor but it was shocking refereeing. Drogs winner is unbelievably good, needs to be seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
I'm off to do a bit of research on the record low average points total per game in the leagues history to see if there has been one as bad as this one. I guess there has to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Absolutely bizarre game. Freak goal and a wonder goal for Drogs and from what I could tell one of the worst refereeing performances I've ever seen. Only decision I've managed to watch back was him booking Forrester for diving rather than giving a penalty which has been backed up as one of the more scandalous decisions I've seen.
In a two minute spell in injury time he gave Forrester a yellow for being fouled (in the box) and Curtis a red for being fouled. Crystal clear on the replays. With multiple cameras covering all incidents these days you’d like to think the officials would have some accountability as in England but we know that won’t happen. Pats will surely appeal the Curtis red but the system will close ranks as always.Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
The fact that we didn’t take three points from a game we dominated is down to our own mistakes but the penalty howler cost us an almost certain point which could yet be the difference between getting Europe or not.
The Pat’s midfield made it hard for Markey?*??Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B