FIRST DIVISION - 17:00
Athlone v Longford
Bray v Harps
Cobh v Treaty
Cork v Kerry
UCD v Wexford
PREMIER - 17:00
Bohs v Waterford
Drogs v Galway
Dundalk v Pat's
Shams v Shels
Sligo v Derry
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FIRST DIVISION - 17:00
Athlone v Longford
Bray v Harps
Cobh v Treaty
Cork v Kerry
UCD v Wexford
PREMIER - 17:00
Bohs v Waterford
Drogs v Galway
Dundalk v Pat's
Shams v Shels
Sligo v Derry
It'll be a Turners Cross crucifixion for Kerry or a resurrection. All the other games have little between the sides. Bray 2nd v Harps 5th and UCD 3rd v Wexford 4th is like a round of playoff semi finals already.
Sligo have an opportunity to close the gap on Derry in a playoff 6 pointer. New league leaders Pat's travel to Dundalk and Shams host Shels in two top half clashes.
Having rested key players on Friday, we have to justify that decision by beating Athlone on Monday.
I imagine Virgin arent showing matches tmw lads?Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Were they tested or dropped ? Good players to be able to bring in .. very good squad and will fly up the table no doubt . They will beat athlone from what I’ve seen . Good back line and better up top
Sligo v Derry I think is the key game of tomorrow, a lot on the line for both and depending on results elsewhere could be almost season defining even at this early stage. Sligo win and Lynch has to go. Derry win and its a big hole Sligo are falling in to. Wouldnt be terminal but other sides that were expected to be in a relegation scrap look like they can pick up points, Waterford, Galway and Dundalk with good results on Friday for example. but its possible that there was some Rovers complacency in Waterford, as their form isnt good, winless and playing an in form Bohs. Derry and Drogs get results and bottom 2 dont and you are in to area of 3 wins to close gaps to safety. Early for that sort of stuff and just looking at the Dundalk example 2024, you spend a season on the edge waiting for thing to pick up, string 2 or 3 wins together to get in touch but there isnt a magic wand without change and good manager in and signings that will make a difference. People were happy with Waterfords squad so manager seems the change needed. Sligo, Russell looks bullet proof, so players in in june?
Without something major happening it, on showing so far it doesnt look like Dundalk, Galway, Drogs will be pulled in to a relegation situation. Derry should pull away.... Pundits on VM were saying its too early to assess anything -I agree when it comes to the fine details of predicting league winners, European slots, but I dont think the its too soon to suggest who is in for a relegation battle.
Im absolutely delighted at how Dundalk have performed and with some pretty nightmarish numbers unavailable at times in what is or was considered a 1st Division squad with a 3 or 4 Premier Division players. Im not sure we have had a full hand to pick from bar maybe Wk1 or 2. Im finding it hard to not think we'll be found out and slowly get pulled toward the foot of the table but you cant argue with going toe to toe with the table toppers last week, the fight to win after coughing up a 2 goal lead, late point against the champions and the like. We got schooled in Inchicore, will be interesting to see how we approach a free scoring St Pats again tomorrow.
Rested.Quote:
Originally Posted by Budgie
Suppose it shows where Treaty are at if Longford are resting 5 players and still getting a result and possibly could have won . Not a bad league this year from what I’ve seen everyone is competitive. Cork will win it well but not much between teams on any weekend after that .
Great to see Ryan Kelliher back on the score sheet for Kerry. Great finish from a tight angle after quick thinking from a thrown in.
Some lovely spells of football by Dundalk. Didnt expect this scoreline at HT. If we can close out this game its a great 3 points. Could have been 1 or 2 more and I dont think St Pats have particularly threatened so far*. We certainly havent sat back in an effort to limit St Pats, if anything we have gone at them which is brave after the previous result against them. You couldnt call the game done and dusted but it would be really disappointing to not take the 3 points but we were 2 up v Shels and nearly did so, hopefuly we've learned from that.
Ref a little card happy imo with only Dervin really deserving one but conversely the ref has let the game play even when getting a little feisty. Its set up for a good 2nd half, as long as we dont concede early, so far, nothing to suggest we cant see it out and will have chances too. Arubi has been a real handful.
It's real light and day stuff when seeing how well this Dundalk side is coached . Lot of young players, lads considered 1st Division level and yet are far from shrinking violets against anyone. Coaching teams has instilled belief too. It really does show that it is possible to achieve something on a shoestring with the right coaching ticket and being a reasonable PD side is not always just a correlation with budget.
So we go again and try and see this out!!
*forgot about the Mata chance early on that he probably should have scored. But generally half chances, and caused Dundalk to scramble defence and get last ditch blocks in especially late on but as far as being carved open, no not really.
Waterford may have a good weekend if the results sticks, pushes Sligo bottom unless they score now. Handy result for Drogs too if it sticks. Little bit of pressure on O'Brien if they can pull it out of the bag. Plenty of football to be played ye this evening.
Drogs throwing a 2 goal lead away, a great weekend for Galway now too. Bohs look to have saved a point. With Derry looking pretty inept Sligo probably pick up a point but its still relegation candidate favourites like Dundalk and Galway adding 2 point gaps on the bottom to. Didnt think we'd have the trap door filled this year keeping things pretty safe for others to just look up if they can rather than looking over the shoulder.
Nervy last 1/4 for Dundalk but good value for the win! Happy days.
Another double yellow for Borden. Gave away the penalty for the equaliser. Colin Healy back from a touchline suspension picks up a yellow. Disappointing to concede the third from a corner routine, despite being down to 10 men.
Bohs by far the better team, created the most and best chances, but we're undone by a set piece. The keeper was totally at fault, the ball should never have traveled that far across the goal. Bohs looked like the only team going to score but not from open play. Waterford keeper was excellent and as a team they were difficult to break down. . The back introduction of Flores and Tierney was great, to which makes you wonder why they didn't start.
well deserved 3 points for Rovers, Shels were second best for long stretchs but when Noonan missed a 1 v 1 to make it 4 to 1 it kept Shels in it.
Results accross the weekend werent bad for us , big two weeks coming uo now against Pats and Bohs.....6 points and we are well set
Disagree we didn’t look likely from open play? Parsons with a header just wide, parsons with a dipping shot brilliantly saved, whelan with a header off the bar, bounced off the keeper and out, two fine crosses by strods just missed , two good crosses from tierney just missed, we had a lot of open play effort. Someone is going to catch a hiding soon, maybe save it for tallaght!!
Seriously, that keeper was brilliant tonight, at least four very good stops, and amond is always a threat on the counter. They’re a limited side are blues, but they lack nothing in organisation and guts.
Good point for them, fair play.
Have to hope we can make a game of it against your galacticos so…….Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Big game for you guys alright, well we cant be worse then we were in Dalymount.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
One of the worst games of football I’ve seen in a long time. 2 awful teams. What’s the record for least amount of goals scored in a season?
Dundalk the form team in the League. Bohs a good bet if you fancy a draw.
You just never know who is going to do what in this league.
Dundalk totally dominant. Easiest victory of the year so far.
I dont know but Dundalk managed 3 in the first 9 games of 2024. Our Scottish super striker got 3 for the season I think and we changed very little from start to finish under 2 managers though the interim lads tried changing formations and 2 up front, didnt last of course. Arguably less lauded and definitely less experienced players overall are the total opposite as joint to scorers this season so far.
I dont really agree with that, Mata's chance goes in and its a different game, we scrambled a good few times. It was deserved but I dont think it was the easiest. Didnt expect to see us have well over 60% possession mind. Though we didnt turn that in to significantly more attempts. Similar on target I think. 2 goal cushion may have made it feel less stressful but if Pats had gotten one I think we'd have been hanging on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa
Horgan red took some of the gloss off, maybe no harm he is rested but there was damn all timewasting by him certainly in comparison to what is seen generally. Rare that a 2nd yellow is give for that, refs tend to avoid it with warnings or book players that havent already been booked. Keepers get away with murder by comparison.
13 of the 16 players Dundalk used to beat table toppers Pats were playing in the 1st Division last year.
Totally dominant is a stretch but ye did deserve the win. We created enough chances to get something but didn't take them. Palmer and Keena going off isn't good and I hope they're not too bad. Edmonson has been good so far but he missed some very good chances this evening. Arubi looks very promising, was a real handful for Redmond and co.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa
Treaty are truly appalling.
The 2023 to 2024 organised/tough/effective/hard-to-beat/smartly recruited Damien Duff lead title winning Shels are long dead and buried, we're an absolute mess going solidly to the bottom half of the table
Disappointing as a Harps supporter to lose the lead twice but another fairly solid team performance.If we keep playing like that we should be in the playoff fight come October.
Two good team goals from Harps the first a well worked set piece by Walsh and Tourish and the 2nd a great counter attack Aijibola finished well for Harps (hopefully it spurs him on as he did little else all season) but McAteer takes most of the credit of starting the counter attack, and in fairness it was two quality goals from Bray too It was a fairly entertaining game despite the fact we lost the lead twice.
Credit to the Harps support too kept the noise going throughout the game barely heard a peep from the home support
It was an awful game of football. Can't remember so much aerial play in quite a while. The two teams were brutal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
If we got our act together, we could have a scored a couple, mind. Conversely, there was a pretty strong shout for a Sligo penalty in the second half. Haven't seen it back, but felt like we got away with one there.
Take the positives, a clean sheet? Second of the year. Negatives, everything else.
Normally, I'd be anticipating a club statement tomorrow morning. Not confident that there will be.
Not that it’s relevant to Dundalk deserving the win, which they did, but I’m not sure where you’re pulling that possession stat from but it’s absolutely miles off every source I’ve seen. Dundalk had 35% of the possession as per Sofascore, LiveScore etc. Pats had 21 shots, 3 on target compared to Dundalk's 5 on target from 7 shots. Kind of tells the story of the game, Pats wasteful in the final third and should’ve scored one of the 3 or 4 good chances in the first hour or so and they might’ve nicked an equaliser but as the second half went on it looked more and more like they’d not score if the ref added on 3 hours of injury time, one of those days. Too many lads had their worst performance of the season today for Pats coupled with Dundalk lads well on it all over the park, it was never gonna be an easy day at the office and the deflected first goal and slip for the second goal certainly didn’t help things either. Hopefully the injuries to Keena, Palmer and Leavy don’t leave them out long. Also, Aodh Dervin putting a signature tackle of 6 studs into Leavy’s shin was deserving of a red card in the first half, he’s an absolute cowardly little rat of a footballerQuote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Palmer looks like a 4 week sort of layoff. Didnt see him get a dead leg to put the hand up and limp off not being able to put weight on the leg, so days out, but didnt pull up like a hamstring either which is 6 weeks. Muscle spasm maybe which would be best case scenario. Be interesting to hear what the story is. Keena is a key man for yiz but didnt see the the sub, possibly in the bog at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by kksaints
(Any thought on how so much possession was ceded considering SK likes to play the possession game and wearing opposition down by chasing and - never mind) then hit late with high tempo. Didnt control things at all, so a bad day for St Pats or Dundalk just winning that battle and imposing themselves better. As Kiki says, its a 1st Division squad on paper, lot of inexperienced youth, castoffs and 3 real veterans. Nobody more surprised than Dundalk fans at just how competitive we are, never questioned spirit of the squad but many thought we lacked the quality to do much more than scrape 8 or 9th with people would have taken 9th in advance. Pardon the pun but its of course pointless to bemoan late dropped points but the silly coughing up late equalisers to Derry and Drogs that with a bit more guile we wouldnt have done and we'd be top of the table. Quite remarkable so far. I dont recall a promoted side settling in so well, quickly and competitively and it not a total overhaul of PD signings.
I know you’re half joking, but at a guess I’d imagine 2011 Galway’s 20 goals scored, 115 goals conceded is likely close to, if not THE record for both least scored and most conceded over a season, particularly a 36 game oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
As respectful as we should be to everyone's views and opinions, this is total bull sh1t. I'm guessing you weren't at the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa
A draw was the fair result. Both teams missed several chances. Dundalk took two of theirs. Pats missed all of theirs. Could easily have finished 4-4 even with us playing a hand in both dundalk goals - a deflection and a slip.
Anyway, tonight we sit top. We welcome Rovers to Inchicore Friday. We have the belief we can beat them. K
Swap ya the game in the BowlQuote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
I think there was a rugby game yesterday - pitch was in a bad state. It's been fine most of the season, permanently because Sunday to Friday gives five days to fix it, but Sunday to Monday and it's still in a jocker
Cork pulling clear at a rate of about a point a game. On course to win by 36 points, give or take
Twas RTE (i know I know) but its opposite now to as you say so corrected, shots on target have also been flipped as it had St Pats with more. I did watch the whole game and didnt question it so my error there.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
How many of them were signed with this season in mind? Prob quite a few so calm down. You will finish btm half of table. That's your level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa
We scored 19 in 2023 and 2008Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Ah, here, we're after winning a Premier Division game after being two goals down for the first time since 1987 and the first time we've done it away from home ever, don't be mentioning 2011Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Im not really to be honest. We’ve scored 4 goals in 10 games and it’s not like we’re missing a tonne of chances.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Yup, you dont sound at all a tad annoyed and hence condescending - slips and deflections, missed chances, draw a fair result blah blah - you lost to a side that their level is bottom half of the table! Something we all thought, will be a real struggle of a season, but so far hasnt been the case. Are you Patsdad in disguise?Quote:
Originally Posted by Inchicore