rico has been accused of being a bottler since his shels days so you could be right ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
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rico has been accused of being a bottler since his shels days so you could be right ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
League Champions!Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinR
Shels definitely reflex Fenlon.
Derry City very open like Kenny.
Longford have Matthews *zzzzzzzzzzz*
touché :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pete
you can add keely-dub city to the list as well
I thought it was an OK game but I expected much better. Footballing-wise (and atmosphere-wise), the lesser team won.
Cork were obviously well on top in the first half and only for Connor's save and St. George missing a sitter, would have deserved to lead at half time.
They seemed to let Drogheda back into it much more in the second half. I don't think that can be attributed to St. George going off injured, cos on TV anyway, he didn't seem that central to Cork's earlier dominance - that was more down to Gamble who I thought was absolutely outstanding. For a lot of the second half though, he seemed to be carrying Cork - by comparison, O'Brien, Behan and Fenn were nowhere.
I'd say Drogheda persevered well and dragged themselves back into it - Doolin's substitutions seemed to work well and improve them, whereas Cork's smacked of desperation - it was almost as if Rico wasn't happy with his O'Flynn-less starting line-up to begin with and kept tinkering with it throughout. Even before the goal, Cork were starting to rely more and more on long balls, whereas what worked for them in the first half was passing interchanges and speed of movement.
The more it went on, the more I was thinking of Ozo's prediction of a 1-0 Drogheda win on last week's eL Weekly, that and the fact that they only nicked a late winner against us in the League a couple of weeks ago. They basically kept their heads more than Cork.
Doolin, on the other end, had totally lost his by the time of the post-match frothing at the mouth session - it was the nearest thing I've seen in our league to Kevin Keegan's notorious "I'd love it..." interview a few years ago.
Not strictly speaking from our league but David Jeffries on air response to Healy surpasses even Keegos rant.....they replayed it as the highlight of teh setanta cup this year at the end!
Its also totally obvious from the coverage that Alan Matthews utterly hates Dolan - the look he gave him at the end was pure evil. What a panel!
"some of the things that were said were absolutely obnoxious" Paul Doolin
To my knowledge no-one bar DOOLIN has commented on Drogs at all at all - its pure small time Murinho complex from the bald eagle!
I was thinking the same myself. No one from Cork City Football Club said anything derogatory about Drogheda.Quote:
Originally Posted by wws
The only people who said that Drogs didn't deserve their FAI Cup win were CCFC fans on internet forums. If Doolin reads these forums and takes them seriously then he has lost it IMO.
This mind game nonsense is superb. We are working away, getting results and will be a point behind Drogs if we win our game in hand while our challengers are getting flustered. We get little attention from the media and haven't been talked about on el weekly for a while. Keep it up lads.....
I think the main reason yere not getting a lot of attention is simply because ye didnt qualify for the setanta final and ourselves and drogheda have bulit up a bit of a rivalry atm,ye shud be back in the spotlight soon enuf:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Speranza
As for the final itself,well done to drogheda,ye took yere chance and we didnt take our chances simple as that.
A note aswell on Mr McKeon.He is quite possibly the worst ref ive seen since jimmy o'neill.He missed so many blatant fouls and off the ball incidents,twice in the space of 10 seconds in the 2nd half Gavin went straight into the back of 2 city players with his elbow and the ref just stood there as if nothing happened!Its not a personal attack on the man himself but he's just not a good ref and he seems to get a lot of games that are just too important for him to be refereeing
rant over,well done drogs:(
Very good match report by Johnny Ward on the Setanta site:
http://www.setanta.com/portal/system...25715800779250
Im pretty happy not being in the media spotlight:)Quote:
Originally Posted by daveh
.......i'D SAY IS WRITING SKILLS WERE IMPROVED BY THE BIG BET AT 12'S he took drogs at before the competition!
Quote of that article:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
Atmosphere at Tolka - about time it showed itselfQuote:
The pace was frantic early on, with a rare atmosphere at the old Drumcondra venue impacting on the players.
Always is when Derry are there;)
:p :ball: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Hi, Wummy McWumerson here.
Try again iceman.
Anyone know when the game is been repeated on Setanta?
Are you actually serious??Danny Murphys actions pale in comparison to that scut of a keeper ye have:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Look at it again - he at least deserves a lenghty ban, The video does'nt lie.Quote:
Originally Posted by daveh
Either you didn't see what happened or you have zero credibility. Which is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by daveh
I read in one of the papers today that Murphy was actually sent off after the whistle (absolutely correctly) so presumably its down to what McKeown says in his report as to how long Murphy is banned for.
Violent conduct is generally a minimum of 3 matches but Murphy deserves a lot more than that. To punch someone as they are clearing the ball and not in a position to either see it coming or defend themselves is the lowest of the low.
sunday indo reports Gamble as the player receiving the red card after the final whistle - might make sense if ref didnt see the punch and than red carded gamble who joined in afters and mouthed
You would want to watch that again?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor H
Utterly tedious game. No idea how O'Callaghan missed his various close range chances in the first half. No idea how Drogheda keep winning despite putting ten men behind the ball and hardly bothering to play football at all. No idea how Drogs fans can watch that rubbish week-in-week-out - I've had it two weeks in a row now and it was too much for me. Couldn't bring myself to bother watching extra time - even left the pub so I wouldn't have to be tortured any more!:eek:
Im sure that no matter what is in the Referees report this is going to end up before the Setanta disciplinary committee and the video evidence of what actually happened is crystal clear.
I was actually refering to icemans comment about City getting banned from the setanta cup which is total nonsense,i just threw in a dig at connor because i have absolutely no respect for him,wasnt talking about anything he did on the night.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
And yes i saw the incident involving Gambles sending off,not Danny,and i can only assume that the Drogheda player(Leech?) said something to him cos ive never seen Gamble react so badly to anyone before
From where I was standing the Drogheda lad should have been sent off too cos they were both squaring up to each other and i didnt see any punches thrown by Gamble,then again it was McKeon refin it so what do you expect:rolleyes:
It was Murphy that threw the punch as the ball was being cleared, Gamble got involved in the afters, but I didn't see him throwing any punches.
Whatever about McKeown, the linesman (& Devine) deserve credit for calming it down & avoiding an ice-hockey style brawl.
Good man pineapple stu - its obviously still festering that Doolo left UCD to go and manage a proper club. Obviously festering even more that he has started to win trophies.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
As regards your assertations about the Drogs style of football, the managers of Portadown, Dungannon and Linfield (and incredibly Longford) have a diametrically opposite view to you - but hey what would they know?
Speaking personally my only beef with Doolo is that he didn't go two weeks earlier. Pete Mahon would have kept us up with another game or two to play with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
Which should also depict O'Brien throwing a punch for which he will also recive a lengthy ban.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Just on all the observations of what happened during and after the game. I saw a couple of incidents from Cork players and fans that really let them down.
First of all in the first half, Cork had a corner at the Ballybough end, I was watching Georgie Boy walk into the box and Bradley came up beside him to mark him, no big deal. Well that was until as Bradley walked by him, Georgie flung his elbow back and missed him by an inch. Now fair play to Bradley for just walking away as Georgie tried his cheating antics again.
Then later on when Shelly got injured for us, he was told to leave the field by the ref and was brought over to the Riverside area where all the Cork fans were. I watched in disbelief as one Cork guy, ran from half up the Riverside down to the railings and starting shouting, spitting and swinging his arm at Shelly. It took 2 stewards to take your man away.
Then there was the thuggery at the end by Murphy, and then when the people were putting up the stand, Gamble for some reason started to race over to the Drogs side like a demon:confused:
I have to say I was fed up last week with all the Cork V Drogs tripe going on, but after seeing how they take defeat then I think I'll join in!
I see the "Attack the post, not the poster" theory of debating has been lost to another muppet.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
The game was tedious. So was Drogs-UCD. Both involved Drogs by and large putting ten men behind the ball and countering occasionally. From what I've heard, they've been similar enough to other Drogheda games. Simple really.
Well you heard wrong.Drogs v linfield was a great game.We played some great passing football,and scored a wonder goal.We played poor on sat nite against cork,BUT STILL WON THE GAME !!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I saw that game alright. Drogs played well, but Linfield were muck. As, with respect, were the other NI teams I saw.
I'm aware you won the game against Cork. I never said it wasn't successful. I saw it was tedious.
Oh the irony.............Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Shelley dove, there was no foul, he smiled and did a mini jig as he was being walked off to let the CCFC fans know he's conned the ref, it was a pure wind up and some fans reacted. No one spat, though there was plenty of shouting, and it's funny how a phrase like 'swinging his arm' means something completely different to what happened 'shaking his fist, giving the finger'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drogman.
And before you start, I KNOW I was a damn sight closer to it than you and if I saw someone spit, i'd be the first to call for him to be flung out.
Difference being that I backed up my comment with references to his post.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Raheny Red
Well that just proves stu's point doesnt it:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
so attacking the poster is ok then :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu