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Yeah. Fortress.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
Peers seemed to go off from the after effects of the second challenge when he got a boot in the head.
He was sitting down on the picth holding is head as we took a corner,then ref blew up when Bray keeper caught the corner as Peers was still prone on the ground holding is head.
Why oh why do we continue to pass the ball inside the 18 yard box when a player has a chance of a shot on goal? why do we take short corners and then not now what to do next/feck it up? Why can no one on the team win the second ball??????? Oh and WTF was Owen Morrison at in his continous attempts to turn down blind alleys and give the ball away - then not bother chasing back.
word is peers went off with a head injury, thank god its not a reoccurence of last one
peersy just had concusion after a late challenge on him, not the thigh muscle again thankfully. he done well when he came on. hoping he gets through another week's training and play against bohs
bad result imo, bray were brutal. had nothing about them at all. number 5 was muck for them, worst defender ive seen ina long time. raff took his goals well. blinky quietest ive seen him, but wouldnt say anything bad about him, he tries his best. doyle done well i thought, gave his everything on the left, morrison was poor imo. great footballer at the heart of alot of our goals but just didnt have the best of nights.
need a result against bohs, 11 games left, still time to get out of this. galway will be dragged into the mix soon imo. pats will probably be strong enough to geta few results and pull away too. think its a 3 horse race for the 2 play offs between us, drogs and galway.
we stopped at a shop on the outskirts of dublin after the game. the galway united team were in there aswell, a young rovers fan tried to have a bit of banter with barry ryan (galway keeper), then ryan walked over to him, pulled him by the arm and squared upto him, pushing him away with his head. then walked back to the counter. on his way out he said he was lucky he didnt break his jaw. great to see such professionalism from an experienced LOI player. scumbag
Absolute joke. Yes indeed it was me. HOOLIGAN!!:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by red bellied
Was an absolute joke though in fairness, the event controller said he seen me with a pint of guinness down the road at the pub and he wouldn't let me in when i approached the gate(even though i am 18).
He kept saying after the trouble with Shams and the wall collapsing he wasn't letting in any drunkards!! I went mad as i had done nothing wrong only to travel down to the match all the way from sligo and have a couple of beers. He insisted i walk away, i refused rightfully, and he called the guards who demanded i walk away as well, i refused and was subsequently put in a cell for the night.
I'm so annoyed right now its unreal. Can you imagine traveling down for that match, doing nothing wrong, and being put in a f*cking cell for the night??? I'm ringing that club tomorrow looking for answers as to who this John Fitzpatrick(event contoller) thinks he is.
As for the game..... well i cant actually comment on it as i was in bloody jail for the night!!!!
NOW RORYH/ROVERSFAN THATS WHY I DONT GO TO AWAY GAMES.:D:p
Poor barry...i do believe aggression is one of the side effects of the stuff he dabbles in!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CF1989
or jail for 3/4 of an hour more like;)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Midget Gem
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Originally Posted by The Midget Gem
Didn't realise they had computer access in prison cells?
Of all matches to ****ing miss.
On the performance side, cant say a lot as I wasn't there :(. Terribly disapointed still. Kept telling myself, "no we wont go down", "we'll pick it up", "were better than the likes of Bray, Drogheda, Galway". We may have bigger budgets, better players, but we certainly don't have a better team as of late.
Is there any truth in the rumour that cookie's buying a dog for every member of the squad?
What exactly was the penalty for?
At least the Bray stewards were up for a bit of craic, though.
bray player had the ball about 19 yards out, bit to the left of the goal. either boco or keane were behind him and just put both hands on his shoulders and either pulled him or he just went down. cant put your hands up like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by brianw82
I was walking by at that time and i'll be honest, you looked and were kid of acting drunk so i think the club had every right to refuse you entry. But i can understand your annoyance, pain in the hole !Quote:
Originally Posted by The Midget Gem
Didn't think it was a peno to be honest. Clumsy tackle by Boco who in my opinion had a stinker. Disappointed how we gave the lead up so easily after having it on two occasions. We stepped off our men far too much, seemed to be waiting for the break of the ball rather than going to win it. No passion or gusto in that performance. A game there for the taking, but for some reason we don’t seem to have the killer punch required. Disappointing performances throughout the team. Too many players just not up for the 100% requirement. There seems to be a worrying lack of knowledge in the precarious position the club finds itself. Very hard to see where the win is going to come from over the next few games. Huge improvement required in the application stakes if we are to fight our way out of this conundrum, don’t see it on last night’s performance.
It was Keane, defo peno alright.Quote:
Originally Posted by CF1989
The club?? I asked to talk to a club official but this fella refused again. Totally unreasonable. He was completely on a power trip. Indeed i had a couple of beers, i was still completely literate and i was nowhere near as bad as some others on the bus down and i felt i was very very harshly treated.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrayUnknowns
When you have Hooligans kicking the sh!t into each other, getting into grounds and not getting arrested, yet me, a true LOI fan who just wanted to see the game being refused entry and being put in a cell you have to question the whole thing. I'm still so annoyed by the whole thing its unreal, will be a while before i go to an away game again i think.
Really dissapointed we didnt get teh 3 points, they were there for the taking. A lot of Rovers players not on their game at all and we just cant seem to close games out at the minute.
Peers done well when he came on, made a great block in the box. He said after that he was feeling grand but just couldnt remember anything about what happened.
As for The Texaco Standoff, discraseful stuff by Ryan. Ian Foster has gone up a peg in my book tho - at least he was using his head (the right way that is).
Because you're a "true LoI fan"?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Midget Gem
You do realise that you have to be inside the box to get a penalty?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by CF1989
I would have said that he was eight yards out, ball came to him, Boco was wrong side and hauled him down.
Sure we'll see it again on mns. Looked fair enough to me. Camano should have gotten his head to it in the first place.
Dissapointment on our side that we didn't get the three points aswell.Gifted you the 2nd goal and if Paul Byrne was fit I think we would have won it.
Always liked Cretaro and thought he was a class act, but last night he constantly tried to get players booked, is this a part of his game or did he just do it last night? Trying to get players booked for nothing tackles isnt on and imo Sligo, and Cretaro in particular, seemed intent on that all night.
Fair play to the lads who came down, made a lot of noise
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Originally Posted by dong2008
Camano would make a good football version of an air guitarist.
Was not at thew game but was reading the extratime match tracker and on their reports it said he took some horror tackles and a few times in mentioned the Bray players deserved their booking for tackles on him !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulsey
From where I was it didn't look like that at all. It wasn't a dirty game by any means and he did seem to make a meal of a lot of tackles. Wasn't looking to have a go at Cretaro was more asking does he have a habit of this kind of thing or was it a once off occurance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
Raf is an honest player tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulsey
He gets alot of abuse on the pitch because of his size, skill and pace and thus will get a free where its deserved.
But I would never call him a cheat or purposely going out of his way to get players booked, just does what he has to with his stature.
Fair enough, thanks for clearing that up. Didn't think on previous occasions that I've seen him that he was that kind of player, which is why I gave him the benefit of the doubt and asked rather than coming on to abuse himQuote:
Originally Posted by Da Real Rover
There was the incident where the Bray player went in shoulder first into his chest which led to the sending off. I know he rolled around a bit but it was definitely a yellow card and must have been painful. He's as honest as most Cretaro and he takes serious stick off defenders most games.
He didn't look too impressed with our defending for the goals. Gave a few of them an earful and they deserved it.
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Originally Posted by Rovers1
He's quite obviously saving up early for Oxygen next year.
He'll never live that one down.
oops should have been 10 yards, not 19, obviously. :P
for the sending off, he absolutly pole axed peers and then raff made a dope out of him, knockin the ball by him and he just shouldered him in the chest. definate 2 yellows, first one could have been straight red
if ya cant beat the teams in and around ya when in a relegation it spells trouble. imo brush needs to be dropped he is gone way below par. his aerial ability is gone shocking and shop stopping not much better. he should not have been bet at his near post. how can defencers have confidence when brush wont come for a cross so its left to defenders every time and we are conceeding from it. only positive for me was all teams around us all got bet so we a point up really. oh its hard following the rovers but its an addiction and we be there every week regardless lol. morrison was shocking too and camano. thank god for raf and boco
Give me Morrison over someone like Sean Doherty any day of the week. For all his faults he has the ability to change a game with a bit of skill.
im morrison fan but he was woeful friday nite and should have been subbed but injury to peers restricted cook. worst part is how low our confidence looked at the back. brush looks like a startled deer and flaps like a humming bird when does come out. even kendrick looks hesident to cross the halfway line
Good summary I would go further and sack Morrison for breach of contract as the guy is seriously overweight for a "professional" and is obviously not looking after himself in Derry, we are in the middle of a dogfight and don't need passengers who strut around the pitch unwilling to track back because they can't run pointless playing him on the wing either if he is not mobile.Quote:
Originally Posted by rovers100%
Camano wasn't at the races bad attitude when he was subbed needs to cop on was lucky to get away with a few blatent obstructions, badly need Peers back to shore up the defence there was a nice calm feeling for the 20 mins or so he was on the pitch we also miss him badly upfront as he seems to be only one able to attack the ball at setpieces , we had about 10 corners and frees in the second half and never looked like scoring from any of them also .
Still dissapointed that we blew the 3 points after 2 moments of magic from Raf but think we should have enough to stay up especially if we get Peers back.
What a dissapointment that was. All the talk pre-match was that we absolutely had to win and now we haven't everyone's trying to make excuses when the fact was that we just weren't good enough to win.
That said we're not dead yet and we CAN turn it around.
Bring on the Bohs...;)
One thing for sure, sink or swim, we need to part company with this manager at the end of the season.
dont think there is any manger currently in the league i would take tho so we would have to look abroad for a new manager. maybe bring back king seanie...................:eek: he would do as a tea lady !!!
think we need to give cookie a break tbh. up until the st pats game we had little or no squad, only 11 players plus ciaran kelly and maybe another sub. you cant do much about that, when you have so many injuries and suspensions. we have 33 points left to play for, and im confident we'll have enough in us to get away from the drop zone. we went around 10 games unbeaten at the end of last season and got to europe, albeit after cork and drogs were deducted points, but still a great achievment from cook and his squad last year. we'd be in a league cup final only for officials who robbed us in dalymount. we're in the 1/4 final of the cup aswell, and we have plenty of time left to get the wins we need to escape the drop. in a ten team league we were always going to be in or around the bottom 3 or 4 with out budget at the start of the season anyway. we wernt realistically going to be in the top 4.
give cooky a chance, he'll get us out of this situation
No matter what way we look at this “sink or swim” we are all in this together. Not one of us wants to go down or find ourselves in the dreaded play-off positions. But, unfortunately there has to be a but, on last Friday night’s performance the questions are there to be asked and the confidence factor in whither this squad are capable of pulling us out of this quagmire. Sadly on last Friday’s performance I’m of the opinion that we are not! From here on in all games have to be treated the same and that’s as if our lives depended on it and the point has to be driven home that yes our lives do depend on it. We have players presently that are not mentally up for it. These players need to be singled out, spoken to and if things don’t or won’t change then the approach has to be adopted that there’s no point playing them. If players are not loyal to the crest there’s no point in being loyal to the players. Last Friday night a blind man could have seen that we were at least one man short out there and as long as Cookie’s hole faces downwards that player will always be first on the team sheet. As long as this ‘loyalty’ persists we’re going nowhere other than down.
Was buying my ticket when you were in lets say discussions with the Garda, never on a winner when it comes to that score so best just to walk away points of principals don't work with those lads.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Midget Gem
What was the story with the brown paper bag you had ?
I have to back you up and say you did seem alot more sober than the lads in the stand as the singing was a bit more off key (some may say slurred but not me!!) than usual for the first 15 or 20 minutes, then the Westlife vocals came back!!!
If it is any comfort (I appreciate it wont be) when I was buying some grub from the Brazilian lads at the chipper at halftime the event controller was getting an earful from a young stewards mum for a comment he made to the young one for apparently "not doing your job probably", the young one was on the main gate beside the shipper/turnstiles and in floods of tears....
then the singing to the two decent stewards in front of the Rovers fans, baldy lad with a voice like a character from Killinaskully and a young one, "he's gonna score he's gonna score, the stewards gonna score.....then the young one roars "thats my bleedin DA!"........Jaysus it was like an episode of Eastenders last Friday!!
the mr.blue bib came along and threatened to throw one of the lads out for shouting at someone. idiot....i presume this was the same fella who refused you entry, looked like a bit of a balx to be fair