Pats awful for the second time we’ve played them this season. We didn’t really play that well but got the only goal and it looked like a game where one goal would win it. Injuries piling up.
9 yellows and 1 red
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Pats awful for the second time we’ve played them this season. We didn’t really play that well but got the only goal and it looked like a game where one goal would win it. Injuries piling up.
9 yellows and 1 red
23 yellow cards and 2 reds and 1 of the 5 games still left to play....if refs were paid on card commission they would sail through a cost of living crisis!
and just like that Dundalk are no longer looking over the shoulder at a playoff spot and in to 4th. Starting to think Sligo may be edging toward favourites tag for a European spot.
That stat is pretty damning! coupled with the defensive mess earlier in the season, you have to wonder about the coaching and tactical setup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
Great finish this evening by himQuote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
Bad day for Cork but they could have been 1-0 up inside the 1st 30 seconds only for an excellent double save by Talbot from Keating. I didn’t think Bohs were overly dominant at 11v11 but after the red it was one way traffic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jd2793
Flores being back made a huge difference for Bohs. Without him or Buckley on the pitch it seems they revert to their rudderless 2022 form.
Coote being back also clearly brings back a spark.
Has anyone else noticed Afolabi just does not seem to be on the same wavelength as the rest of the team? He’s a fine player but just doesn’t seem to click with those around him…
I said to a mate earlier, I could see UCD overhauling City like they did Harps last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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Originally Posted by Philosophizer
infairness we started well, keating was stopped by talbots wonder save oh and the ref nailed us calling a free in, instead of playing advantage when coffey was going through 1v1. after that i dont think we got past half way then the card came.... bohs had some good chances before the goal came tbf twardek made crowley look a fool. dont think the red had a bearing on the outcome but definitely added a goal or 2 to bohs total. the defending for yer 3rd + 4th was horrendous. coote is a classy player, kind of one who will bring the level of a team way up.
Bradley was bang on when he said Sligo were the best team Rovers have played this season, and if the sligo board backed their manager financially they could easily finish 2nd.
The rest are far, FAR behind Rovers.
Seven goals and two clean sheets in four days for Treaty United.
A result on Friday against Athlone would be another step in the right direction, but a long way to go.
Have RTE reverted back to Errortel form or something cuase the table there has Bohs 4 point clear at the top, ahead of Rovers no!?Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
Agree…. Couldn’t believe how easy that was …. As an aside what language is Rory Paterson speaking ? He’s inaudibleQuote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
In fairness jd, gilchrists decision to kick Afolabi in the nuts even though he’d won the ball, and city were in posssesion was mental. Reale didn’t even see it btw, was allowing play on but the Lino, Michelle o neill made him bring it back, how he missed it from where he was is baffling.
Your call back for the 1v1 was a city player shouting for it, he was allowing play on otherwise. Mad game altogether, we’re nowhere near handing out 5-0 s to anybody(ask ucd) but some daft play by city helped it along.
Anyhow we are very unexpectedly on top and well milk it till we’re not thanks!!
( prob about two weeks)
no excuse for gilchrists stupidity. ridiculous carry on from our most experienced defender. way to ruin the game but a goal was on its way at that stage anyway ye were miles on topQuote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
Go on the Town. Rode their luck at times without doubt but worked like dogs and they deserve a bit of luck. Great boost for a very young team.
Who'd of thought the top two would lose today, quite surprising.
Deserved win for Treaty ,Bray on top for 30 mins but after that Treaty more than held their own until lead goal.Bray lost their way completely ,too many yellow cards and big 3 points for Tommy Barrett ,another goal haul plus a decent performance.A big queue for the playoffs starting to form what with Treatys and Longfords results.
Men against boys in Finn Park,Athlone absolutely monstered us physically,zero answer from us and in the end a desperately disappointing weekend all told….
Yeah they was grim. Completely outmuscled and out played. Worried where we'll be at the end of three tough fixtures. Injuries to two important players too. Don't have a deep enough squad to cope with injuries
Athlone have some good players. Pierrot is a real handful. They're probably the best of the rest after the top two as the table shows at the moment.
I've been critical enough of us so far but credit where it's due, we've deserved a win like tonight. While our quality can be questioned, the workrate can't be. Probably deserve another couple of points than what we have so good to ride our luck a bit tonight. Have seen a few fans of other clubs say it but there isn't a whole lot between 3rd and 9th in the first division from what I've seen. All are much of a muchness on any given day.
Fully agree. Always prepared to cut a young team giving everything a bit of slack. And they're improving too. Keeping the show on the road and being in the mix for the play offs is as much as we can expect.
great weekend for Rovers and Dundalk.
If Rovers can beat Bohs on Friday and close up to 1 point from the top a huge recovery from a disasterous 6 game with no wins start will be complete.
Sligo can make their way into the mix i reckon in what still seems a prety poor league .
Sure was SB, couldn't believe we climbed to 4th. Rovers look in good shape now for another title.
Meant to add, I sincerely hope Cm Whelan is OK-
like a load of people, I'd say, my heart sank a little when I saw him hit the deck and he appeared to be in distress.
Did he run it off or they just kept him on regardless as it was hard to tell on the tele?
Grim enough result and another injury for Harps and more inept refereeing.
Turning out to be a terrifically fun season in the First Division.
We've about 100 players out atm and yet we're still doing heads in :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jd2793
We'll keep battling on though ;)
Rovers remain streets ahead. It's bad enough simply not playing well, even worse when we insist on shooting our own feet off...
Derry desperately miss Connolly, Dummigan and Fats, not to mention a fit Whelan playing every week. For all the money spent, our squad is wile thin in key areas. But none of that is any excuse for how flat we've been for long stretches this season.
Just watching the Derry/Rovers highlights and what a goal for Rovers opener…..
What was Maher at for the second though,terrible timing to concede then and it seemed like a really ill advised rush of blood to the head….
A player who needs to learn rapidly that just because you can doesn't mean you should. Being a ball-playing sweeper keeper might be your USP but that also means learning to Row Z it in first-half injury time.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Flat performance from Waterford at the RSC after 6 wins in a row. Wexford scored early on with Dobbs heading in a cross. Waterford had a lot of the ball but didn't create much against a solid Wexford team who worked hard. Coughlan had an off day by his standards missing 2 good chances. Home fans were quiet too and crowd was down a bit on our usual Friday nights so a flat day all around.
With Waterford having been beaten by Wexford earlier in the day there was a chance for us to be 13 points clear by Friday night with two wins.
As it was Jack Brady made a great save from David Hurley after about 90 seconds and Longford went up the other end and scored. With a lot of hard work from their players and some pieces of luck thrown in as well as a few more saves from Jack Brady, Longford held on for the 3 points.
Maybe it's the kick up the hole our lads need ahead of Waterford. If we do win we'll be 10 clear of them, which would be very hard for them to overhaul.
Between Athlone in 3rd and Longford in 9th there really is nothing between the teams - Pierrot from Athlone does look a handful - he was incredibly strong at holding the ball up against us and you'd imagine if he comes up against a young defender he'll get a lot of joy, which I guess was the case in Finn Park.
Just as an aside on Adriano Reale's non-advantage for Cork. He was the referee who earlier in the season did the same when Derry were in on goal against Sligo (I think) live on TV. Referees make mistakes but it's bad for the same referee to make exactly the same mistake he made a few months ago.
Probably along with Patching, the only player you signed from us that I didn't mind losing. He has terrible luck with injuries and then it takes him a few games to get back up to speed when recovered. He gets back to being the best player in the league and then gets injured again and the cycle continues.Quote:
Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton
Derry badly missing Connolly and Dummigan. Jack just ran the midfield with ease. He's really looking close to his very best. Our first goal was one of the weirdest and best I've seen. If you can't play on the pitch, play over it. Such a lovely goal to watch.
Second half was a non-event really. Pico and co completely shut down anything Derry tried. Duffy started the game brightly enough but seemed very deflated for most of it.
Very sorry to see Whelan go down. He looked like he was in some amount of pain but somehow played the game on? Hope he's alright.
With an ACL you can still in certain circumstances continue torun .. I was amazed that Derry left him to play on unless they were convinced it wasn’t anything serious…. Hopefully that’s the caseQuote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
I was on here on Friday saying we were poor against Sligo but the stats for the game against Derry back up how good we were 3 days later
68% possesion away from home against any team is good , in Derry against a good Derry team its fantastic.
On Clancy going id say it was a case of jump or wait to be pushed and he was ****ed off with the pressure.
He could end up back at Drogs if Doherty's performance earns him a move if a vacancy comes up somewhere in the league.....Cork maybe?
Doherty is on the record as saying he wants to go fulltime but always caveats it by saying "hopefully with Drogheda".
Genuinely hope Whelan is ok , appreciate Derry are rivals and all that but hes only a kid and seeing him in tears last night makes me think he knew it was the ACL again. Amazed Derry didnt haul him off.
Hope Manus is ok for Friday agaisnt Bohs , Pohls isnt bad , saved the peno last night which killed the game for us but he is no Alan Manus
I don't see either Derry or Bohs slipping out of the top 3, so whoever gets last euro spot will prob either need to win the cup or finish 4th (prob 80% chance one of top 3 will be in the final) so that usually gets last spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
The classic 'best of the rest' and Sligo do look in a good position, esp when you have a main striker like Max scoring regularly, then again as we saw last few weeks, Pats were flying and climbed to 2nd, then lost 3 in a row and now 7th, look at ourselves up to 4th after a terrible run of form (also lost 3 in a row) but we could easily drop to lower mid table after this weekend.
4th spot is wide open in my view, put a good run of results in and any team obv gains that advantage.
Jaysus I didn't realise until reading here that Whelan was in trouble again. When he did his ACL at Finn Park, the UCD physio told him to run it off and sent him back on, he went off subsequently. I'm sure he will have learned from that calamitous physio advice to be careful when told to run it off. Really hope he is OK, christ that's stomach churning if he's done it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
Yes, hope he’s ok. Grace was it, standing over the lad shouting in his ear, presumably accusing him of diving. Bit insensitive to say the least.
Meant to post last night, the co-coms on LOITV for UCD are hilarious. Last night they covered Spice Bags and IPA beers while the game was on, and then updated that those 'up in Dundalk' might prefer Harp or Macardles.
Outstanding stuff, and all in wonderful D4 accents, almost like the soft tone you would hear at Golf or Tennis.
These lads seem to be complete marmite,I think they're great but loads of others cant stand them..........Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel