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Premier Division
Friday 26th (All 19:45)
Drogheda v UCD
Bohemians v Shelbourne
St Pats v Dundalk
Cork v Shamrock Rovers
Saturday 27th 19:45
Sligo v Derry
First Divison
Friday 26th (All 19:45)
Treaty v Finn Harps
Kerry v Wexford
Bray v Cobh
Galway v Athlone
Saturday 27th
Longford v Waterford (19:30)
Rovers need to go to Cork and put last weeks home loss behind us and hopefully go on another long winning run.
Bohs v Shels is an interesting match and Drogs if they back up the win in Tallaght by beating UCD can start looking up instaed of down.
The good weather should boast the crowds this weekend?. The live tv north Dublin derby is up against Tubridy's last Late Late with all the stars so the viewing figures could be very low. Athlone scored a great goal against Galway and played well in the game up at Lissywollen, and they have a new manager(again), so the game could be close enough.
The Late Late will only clash with the last few mins of the live match. Shouldn’t be that much of a hindrance.Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
Always enjoy having a 'Friday off', as we're away to Sligo tomorrow. Shels-Bohs should be interesting, and will probably have Pat's - Dundalk on the tablet.
Can't see Cork scoring a repeat of the four goal they had in Tallaght, but they maybe they're finally getting their act together.
Obviously Sligo's form has been really inconsistant this year, and having picked up a few losses, it's probably their turn for a win tomorrow night. We played them earlier in the season, and I thought they were decent when they came to Brandy, and controlled the game for large periods. On paper, it should be a Derry win, but just not convinced with us still.
Rovers turn this week to suffer from awful decision as Towell given a red for a non incident in the box - Cork had a corner so aside from not being a red ; if ref deemed it to be then surely should also award a peno
https://twitter.com/semusmurphy/stat...UXJblxYIQ&s=19
Hardly nothing according to Se...
We’ll no sign of that on the replay… and as I said it had to of occurred while the ball was in play so therefore should of been a peno… just the usual weekly poor decision ( feel like I’m I’m turning into Duffer )Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohtastic
LOI officials are a malignancy on this league.
Rovers down to 8 players now?!
If Cork can't win this, they deserve to take our spot in the First Division next year.
Kenny only on a few mins and gets sent for two stupid yellow cards…. He’s a disgraceful pup whose attitude since he joined us has been suspect as he’s behaved like a prima Donna since day one …. Time for Bradley to sort him out ….Now Hoare sent off the ref is a joke as Hoare never touched the player and in fairness Cork commentators agree
Whos Athlone Towns new boss Wonder88? I cant keep up the soap opera down there!Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
The amount of sending offs in the league is out of control. It’s like cardfest on a weekly basis.
Lopes now booked , again for nothing … and Cork one up in 86th ….. ref definitely Corks motm but they won’t care as big three points for them
Credit to the Cork commentary team for being fair minded , unbiased and entertaining
You know it's bad when even Cork fans on their forum describe it as 12 v 8
Rovers players remonstrating with linesman and ref at the end not a good look
Bad decisions are the norm - but have a look at the Pats sending off. For being caught in a headlock. Jaysus!
Lopes got his for mouthing, I would guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
Same with Hoare too, maybe. Silly stuff. Don't think there's much to argue about for the yellows for either side in that match tonight, even if it wasn't at all a dirty game (Towell aside).
Pat's will be delighted with that win, and now only a point behind Bohs.
Shock of the night was down in Limerick, Harps winning, scoring three, and keeping a clean sheet. Didn't see that coming at all
as a city fan i can safely say ive never seen anything like that display from grant. what did kenny get his first yellow for? did lopes get a yellow for winning the ball? the game was complete carnage. rovers heads went but the ref incited a lot of that, needless cards for everyone bar towell imo
Fair play Jd2783. That was very hard to take. 11 cards in total for us and I'm not sure of any of them. Haven't seen Towells. Even outside of the cards there were frees that shouldn't have been frees. Probably the worst refereeing effort I've seen. Sean Grant has now sent 5 rovers players off in two games and only one wasn't controversial.
Aaron Bolger is such a tidy footballer. Great to see him recovered.
I need a drink.
Heroic but costly win for us tonight. Sojberg, Mark Doyle and Grivosti went off injured, Grivosti's looks particularly bad. Huge shift put in by the lads after going down to 10 after some shocking refereeing. Seemingly putting someone in a headlock isn't a red card. I've no real issue with Mulraney getting sent off as his reaction looked like a swing out and he went back for more but how the Dundalk player wasn't sent off is beyond me. Not allowing advantage when Eoin Doyle was clean through and bringing it back for a offside a few minutes later was also terrible. We really should have scored more than once in the first half and Dundalk's equaliser was soft on our part. But we dug in and Cartys goal was fantastic work by Lonergan to set it up.
Harps finally won again,highlight was a goal on his debut from young 16 year old Aaron McLaughlin......
Fair play… did you see Towell do something as on the replays on LOITV nothing to see ? as I said it was our turn this week to win first prize on the crap ref roulette ; this time next I wonder who will it be ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jd2793
Aside from criticism of the ref Bradley does need to have a word with the players as there is too much mouthing leading to needless cards going on in general and when you have a clown like Grant in charge it’s just plain stupid…..
he also needs to sort the ‘pup’ Kenny out and tell him to cop on and that he’s not anywhere as good as he seems to think he is and be a lot more humble instead of mouthing off ….. the fans will love him if he does that and forgiving even if continues to miss chances…. He’s on thin ice but hopefully he’s young enough and has the smarts to learn….
Honestly no idea about the red cards. Chaotic game and they teo double yellows happened so quickly I didnt know what happened until i saw the red.
Delighted that Towell and Hoare were sent off. Especially enjoyed Towell making tge longest possible walk of shame to get to the Tunnel in front of the shed.
We're having a rough season and we won't get many moments to celebrate so that one was special.
Also. How good of a season is Ruairi Keating having. We have maybe 3 Premier Division players and he deserves consideration for team of the season so far this year. Not just his goals but his all around play.
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Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
i was at the opposite end so i hadnt a clue what happened for the towell one, plenty of rovers lads on twitter saying it was a red though. i havent a notion why kenny got his first yellow? his 2nd one is a yellow alright but its madness from the ref to not even give him a warning and there was a foul on farruiga i think it was in the lead up to that one. again with hoare i saw some arguing but no idea how he got the card. grant lost all control of the game tbh. rovers do seem to have an issue with giving lip to refs but imo some of it was justified there tonight because some of his decisions were mental for both teams.
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Originally Posted by El-Pietro
keating has been outstanding the only one who has shown hes a definite PD level player this year with us. he wont be short of offers come november so hopefully we can get our act together once the window opens
Massive win for pats tonight, you can’t beat a big win after seemingly everything going against you. First Sjöberg coming off injured, then Grivosti getting stretchered off meant a pieces together back 4 for the second half after Pats should’ve scored another 1 or 2 more in the first half. The 3 changes at half time changed how Dundalk looked and they got their goal 2 mins into the half before a truly embarrassing refereeing decision to not send off Malley who instigated a fight between the two teams with this headlock https://twitter.com/ericdonegan1993/...218230790?s=46 Frustratingly Mulraney then reacted and raised his hand to Malley's face which was a correct red card but for the ref to award only a yellow to Malley was laughable. Despite the extra man advantage Dundalk didn’t create much in the way of clear goalscoring opportunities despite their pressure and then Conor Carty managed to squeeze in the winner from what should’ve been an easy block and/or save
Said so many times that I don't like to pile on the officials but it was embarrassing tonight, some going that we still won.
Was in Turners Cross tonight, worst refereeing performance I’ve ever seen and I’m 40 years watching LOI. Although Drogheda was nearly as bad, same ref. Shocking.
Also Cork are garbage, struggled badly to beat 8 men. Well done lads, UCD will finish ahead of you.
they wont though. they arent making up any double digit gap.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
I see the bald lad is now doing everything he can to raise Pats electricity bill ;)
https://twitter.com/jamesrogersie/st...814740481?s=46
Cork fans signing songs about a 9 year old boy with cancer is just about the lowest of the low. One of the most disgusting things I’ve heard of from any football clubs fans ever. Pure vile human beings if you can call them that
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/...-41149015.html
I try not to talk too much about other clubs fans because there's obviously good people at every club but the cork fans chanting about Bradley's son should be hung, drawn and quartered. That's as low as it gets.
what kind of twisted person(s) do you have to be to even have something like that on your mind to throw at someone after a football game? havent any idea can the gardai do anything but hopefully they can. ***** should have the whole book thrown at them
That is absolutely f'ing disgusting behaviour. I hope Cork can identify and ban them. I've never been a huge Bradley fan but I sympathise with him completely.
Its the society we live in,respect long gone and you get people feeling comfortable saying stuff like that over a stupid game of football,shocking.....
Only had one eye on the game in Cork so was surprised to hear it was three men sent off instead of two, since the LOITV red card graphic only has room for the two reds...
Watching back it's hard to be definitive about any of the reds cause it was carnage. Replay on Towell is inconclusive though there's a sliver of a suggestion he stuck a boot in.
But, on the basis that the ref clearly wasn't having any dissent, Kenny (in particular) and Hoare were a bit foolish. Kenny got his first yellow for basically losing it point blank at the lino 30 seconds after coming on. Hoare was clearly frustrated, and the second yellow was a bit tight, but Rovers had lost their heads.
Pretty sure Lopes' and Kavanagh's yellows were both for dissent too, but by then we were really into chaos stages.
The reports about the singing are very grim, hope Cork get whoever's responsible identified and booted out for good.
mark mccadden has a clip of towells red, yeah looks like we bought that one. bit of luck is nice for once
The Cork fans chanting re: Bradley's young lad sounds particularly horrific.
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Originally Posted by Jd2793
Saw that alright. Looks like a free out. Not sure how the lino or ref could have even been sure of it if something had actually happened. Neither would have had a clear view.