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Gaffney played a bliner there as blocker for the goal. Shows the value of experience. Greene also played young Mayo. He will learn. Irrespective of result now, we can be more positive about the season I think. The ups and downs of football, O'Kane the width of a post from being 0-2 and 1-1 moments later. Shows how close the game is considering the newly assembled team against the old and tested settled side.
Dont worry, tradition will save you!Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
It’s bad Nesta. Ten minutes plus stoppage time to save our season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Sean Boyd ,subbed on ,scores and sent off all within 15 minutes!!
Totally agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Bohtastic
Rovers looking more likely winners now.
7,610 I think was attendance announced. I must have overestimated the north stand crowd!
Lilander is atrocious.
2-2 well worked equalizer has to be said. Clarke header from Dylan Connolly cross.
Looks to have been a change with S+C with Rovers. Players have bulked down and look more mobile. Gaffney is ageless anyway but Hoare looks slimmer and a lot more agile and mobile as a result, even looks to have a bit more pace. If Towell was on be interesting to see if he also has lad off the weights a bit and focused more on pure fitness than bulking up, something I think took from the best part of his game.
First 5 mins all Sligo next 20 all Bohs and a goal. Then Bohs went home and let Sligo in for 2 goals. Second half was all about Sligo stifling Bohs, but Bohs scored. Best player Clarke, worst player lilander when he came on. Fkcu me it's going to be a long hard slog. The fact Cornwall went off injured with no direct replacement shows the importance of doing business early. But we are BohsQuote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Pitch in Galway was atrocious and didn't lend itself to anything approaching a decent game to be played. Big patches of the pitch were missing altogether and it was generally unplayable. Conor Keeley could have played on his own and Galway wouldn't have scored, he was dominant and probably the worst defender in the league they could come up against in terms of being able to handle their style of play.
Happy to take the 1-0 and get out of there. Plenty more opportunities to actually look good this season.
Were Rovers fans on a silent protest?
Barely any fans left when the players went over after the game.
Pitch was absolutely shocking at the RSC aswell made it impossible to try play a good game of football. Shels very poor in the 1st half improved a bit as it went on but a fair result in the end despite the brilliance and absolute headcase worst out of Boyd
I think Waterford will be ok this season I predicted 7th for them didn't see anything to increase or lower that. Shels more of a question mark I predicted another 4th, pitch was awful which didn't help us but the one area of the squad I was worried about before the season was the middle of the park the only area we didn't make signings and we suffered there tonight
Shocking. His control and passing were like something you’d see in a Sunday League.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
We really have to hope Clarke stays for the season. If he is gone in the summer god help us. I know it was the first game and the standard line is that things will get better but honestly we could get worse.
An awful lot of deep defending in Bray for the second half in particular, and then when it looked like we'd weathered things, Bray scored with five to go. Nervy ending, but still - a first away win in 15 months, and with ten men. Looked quite decent in the first half. Enough that I'm actually looking forward to the season for a change!
Rovers anything but a settled side as missing the following Byrne, Lopes, Burke, Kenny, Towell,McEneff , all of whom would have started or being on the bench …. Add that to losing Farrugia and Clarke to injury , so no way you could call out team this evening anything near our first eleven…. You got us on the right night and made the best of it, good luck to youQuote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
A John Caulfield side would prefer to play on a ploughed field weekly. They coud make ED Park a horrible place to go this season but Caulfield's tendancy to be super conservative away from home tactics have bitten his sides before and the need to be winning at home regularly to stay safe but once figured out at home then an old pattern could ensue. Long isnt an advocate of anti-football so the RSC should improve. t is LoI though and the very different quality of surfaces that need to be coped with weekly should be well expected until May at least. Drogheda seemed to have been competative in Derry, last season that was a game that Derry could have dropped points so maybe Hoban could very wel be the player that can get those wins ove the line. Bohs and Slgo playing out a draw isnt a surprise and seemingly Bohs were awful. The two tradition clubs for the drop....Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
Clarke very good but we should have just man marked him as he was really all Bohs had. Great goal by Hartmann but that’s 2 points dropped that we really can’t afford to be doing. McGinty was very rusty. Agree on Lilander being abysmal. Simon Power was excellent but no doubt he’ll be injured in a bit.
Nice to get off to a win at Bray, who I had seen pre season, and actually took some of the 9-4 tonight that we would beat them. Think Bray are poor, toothless up front and mistake prone at the back. Don't think Ryan will make the mid season transfer window. For a manager who was a defender, his teams don't defend well.
Lilander is one of the worst players I've seen in this league in a while. Thank god for James Clarke. He's going to have a bad back if he has to carry us like that all season.
Another LOI season begins,another LOI game overseen by the abysmal hennessy in the middle. Middling start by an understrength Rovers against a who-knows dundalk.
Never called it a first 11. But are you saying that the side put out lacked familiarity with eachother, that there was a bunch of players that had little time playing or training together, full of new signings and debutatnts, promoted youth etc. Getting cranky early CJ, next you will be moaning about teams only putting in effort against Rovers! Anyway if Burke was available he'd have been sent off, Byrne would have been another injury prone players to go with Farrugia and Clarke, Greene was the right tactical introduction over Kenny if he had been on the bench, McEneff is too brittle yet to be in a battling game, Towell im not sre would have added too much more than what was available. Lopez is a star player but with the few counter attacks that Dundalk had, including the goal I dont know where he would have made a major difference, might have made a better atempt than Hoare for that chance but it was hardly a rearguard action where he excels at snuffing out chances when Rovers are under sustained pressure. It was simply going 2 up front that made the tactical difference 2nd half.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
Hennessy was awful but I'd take a point at half time. Hopefully a few back Forncett weekQuote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
What did the ref get wrong? Bradshaw and Gullan yellows were soft, he rightly waved away penalty shouts. By usual standards it was an unspectacular performace that lacked controversy of note. Certainly both managers had little complaints post match.Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
What is it with Dubs and a need for a pitch invasion? Bohs fans ran on after their goal in the cup semifinal last year, Pats fans couldn’t stay behind the boundary wall when they score tonight. Is it some kind of fetish we don’t know about?
Was anyone carrying an umberella?
I’m saying the Rovers side/squad tonight was nowhere near to what it would be if all the players I mentioned were available ; tonight’s team my be more familiar to each other but many of them are squad members rather than starters ( I know Bradley as he is obliged says he trusts all the players).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
What you say re injury prone players has some merit and we’ll over the course of the season see how that effects us….. at the moment it feels like we’ve a fantastic potential first team/squad but in reality too many missing on a regular basis . Still think we’ll easily win the league
Bizarre Rovers think the Ref was against them - frankly embarrassing.Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
Eamonn Deacy Park gets a pitch invasion of children after every game. It can't be everyone else's fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
Great feet from Hartmann for Sligo’s second this evening…
Treaty United with a good 3-1 win over Cobh Ramblers, a scoreline that flattered the visitors.
Stellar performance from Treaty with standout performances from Thomas Considine and Robbie Lynch to name but two.
1,926 a cracking crowd.
There’s a difference between kids going on to the pitch after a game, and grown men going on to the pitch during the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Ref wasn’t an issue tonight. Rovers were poor going forward. A bit better when Watts came on but didn’t create over the 90 to deserve the win. Don’t care who was out, that match day squad should be good enough to beat that Dundalk squad, but on the night, they weren’t.. still, day 1 and will get better.
thought Dundalk were well enough organised sitting back and will feel it was a comfortable point. Presume they’ll get better as players get to know each other / the system but can’t see them finishing close to European spot based on tonight. Accept its day 1 only!
And his side-kick was a defender too…Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bowler
Some encouraging signs for Kerry despite a 2-0 loss away to the likely First Division runaway winners. Games against 3rd to 9th from last year will tell a lot more.
Yeah, was comfortable by the sounds of it, first night only etc but I think Treaty will be competitive in the best of the rest battle in D1.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
I was thinking at the friendly in Finn Park that he likes rusty enough as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Cobh were dire last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Not sure how their squad compares to last season, but the loss of Doherty is huge.
Wouldn’t be so quick to judge lander John, was playing on his wrong side I think. Anyway the passing from our whole team was awful not helped but not excused by that muckheap!Quote:
Originally Posted by RealJohn91
Clarke was trying and busy but guilty of giving it away as much as anyone, had a poor first half but finished strong. Was impressed by McManus and Flores gave his usual 100%.
A bad night but relieved to scrape a point.
Connolly HAS to start ahead of Grant who has done zilch since rejoining, should be nowhere near the team.
Devine out.