Awwww bless, did the bad men waste time and get their team a very good result?
Crowd last night was 911 not 711 as stated above, point still stands tho, crap crowd.
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Looking at the picture of the penalty spot again, it seems bizarre to call the game off. Presumably it was in the same condition for the Bohs v Drogs game on Friday (three days before). Should that game have been played? Should the points now be awarded to Drogheda!!!!?
Buttimer (who else) requested repairs to be carried and Bohs decided to perform remedial work three hours before the game. The remedial works seems to have entailed resurfacing several areas of the pitch. They would have been better leaving well enough alone rather than hacking into the sod at such a late stage.
Love this from the Dundalk twitter account:
https://twitter.com/DundalkFC/status/501436044643168256
Credit to them for getting a point, and I understand completely why they'd waste time, but the manner in which they did that was disgraceful. As I said, if City players behaved like that our own fans shouting at them to get up and cop on. Our manager wouldn't tolerate it either.
Will Bohs be able to stage another game at Dalymount this season? The ref mentioned 8 weeks for the botched repair to work?
Cork City once again saving the morals in football
Praise the Lord.
I can see why bray would time waste they are desperate for points but was just ridiculous staying down for 2-3 minutes and then jumping up like nothing happened.. and also if I'm not mistaken a team can play on when an opposition player is down unless it is a head injury? Well that didn't happen last night as whenever a bray player went down the ref stopped play.. ah well no point moaning over it.. very frustrating knowing dundalk were dropping points that we couldn't get the win.. hit the crossbar and the post and if Danny Morrissey was more clinical he could of scored at least 2.. only upside is we didn't lose any ground on dundalk and pats lost
There weren't any more people there at the start of the season either.
Players and managers always want the game to go ahead. The Gards wanted it to go ahead because otherwise thought there'd be a riot like they've seen on TV3. The only person who matters is the referee and he decided it wasn't worth the risk to players' safety.
The groundsman allegedly told him sand would take eight days to bed in, which sounds like total waffle from whatever volunteer Bohs had appointed to talk to him. It was a shambles from start to finish.
Well thats true, but with us having the much harder game, and especially after your impressive away win in Derry, this was certainly two points dropped by Cork. That could be costly with only 7 games to go before the final game away in Dundalk. We will need to lose two games and Cork win same two for them to go ahead.
However a 4 point lead (5 really with the GD) is by no means out of sight stuff with 8 games to go. A lot could still happen.
oh definitely 2 points dropped by us especially being a man up for an hour, more composure in front of goal and we would of won for sure.. wouldn't necessarily need ye to lose 2 games even one or two draws with us capitalizing would reel ye back in.. a lot can happen but whatever does happen it's been a fantastic season and one which we can build on for next year
Exceptional.
Yeah right, I can see Cork last day of the season taking the lead and rushing around keeping play quick to ensure Dundalk have every chance possible to get a result that could lose Cork the title.........