What a perfomance by Richard Dunne. Last ditch tackles, clearances off the line. A tower of strength. Oh for another centre-half like him.
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What a perfomance by Richard Dunne. Last ditch tackles, clearances off the line. A tower of strength. Oh for another centre-half like him.
Saw that match as well, one of the best performances I've ever seen from a centre-half.
http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pagegid={DBD12D53-8346-431D-A04F-5D0F8664DE80}&newsid=519222
Sven agrees. “I thought Richard was colossal,” Sven asserts, “He had a magnificent game, absolutely outstanding. The entire back four were superb and I thought we deserved the point.
“Richard and Micah have been so important for us this season, it’s like building a house, you start from behind and they have done an excellent job for us all season. They are great football players.
"last ditch tackles, clearing off the line" surley the great defenders dont have to to do this because they cut out things earlier but maybe im just negative.
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Originally Posted by Dave77
In fairness, even the great defenders can't be every place at once to cut out every through ball, so the last ditch tackles and blocks are generally required at any level. However, City were pretty much outclassed by Liverpool, and if weren't for Dunne in particular they would have gotten at least the one goal required to win the game.
What a majestic performance by Dunne today. It was definitely the best individual performance I've seen from an Irish player in quite some time. He's matured into a top-class central defender and an outstanding leader.
correct. typical irish view IMO, youd really want to study the game to pick negatives out of his game, fair play for putting in the time to do so. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave77
While that would generally be true it doesn't apply to this performance- you'd only see this by looking at the highlights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave77
I agree with Jamaican PM- absolute top quality from Dunne today. He's definitely up there now as one of the top centre backs in the Premiership.
In all fairness I cant really comment since I only saw highlights and Dunne seemed to have a good a game, my problem is Dunne is always likely to make a mistake during games, he does something brilliant then something stupid, compared to what we have had I think he is good nothing more, but maybe im negative.
That post is about 2 or 3 years (if not more) out of date, Dunne rarely makes mistakes these days, it's actually very unlikely that's he'll do so in any given 90 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave77
He was superb yesterday and should be our next captain without doubt.
Agree, Dunne for our player of the year, Dunne for our captain. One Tallaght boy for another.
Superb performance: leadership, judgment, strength, pace, subtelty, timing, reading...
He really contained Torres though Alan Greene was ranting on all through the 606 phone-in that it was a penalty for "manhandling Torres". I'm obviously biased but Torres was trying to push across Dunne just as much as Dunne was trying to repel Torres. He was just stronger.
I used to think Dunne was really only a "backs to the wall" defender but now I think he's the real deal.
The last-gasp tackles are one thing but his general game was superb. Young McShane makes very good last gasp interventions but in his case I think it sometimes betrays poor initial positioning, very often he's recovering from an earlier error. Dunne used to be like that at times.
Dunne was superb yesterday, I havent seen any other defender play Torres as well this season. It was refreshing to see both Torres and Dunne play the game as it should be played both players trying to use their talents to outdo the other without resorting to diving/cheating etc.
Torres was very much off his touch, but Dunne's attentions didn't help him one bit. Massive performance from the Honey Monster.
Really enjoyed that match, if not the result, as a Liverpool fan.
excellent performance frm dunne.
that for me is the real positive of Dunne's performance. As good as his tackling, passing, intercepting and all round perfromance was, he was constantly talking to players around him, encouraging players with pats on the back, encouraging the young keeper, organizing at corners etc. He really and truly needs to be our captain - he has it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
You could see that Torres was just demoralized as he was beaten in the air, on the ground, out wide, in the box.
As one other poster said here, this has been Richie Dunne for the past 2 years - incredible conistencty.
If he continues to show the form he has shown since the start of the English season, he will make the team of the year.
Great performance from Dunne although I thought Torres looked very tired even early on in the game. Probably not used to playing so many games over the Christmas period. Not Dunne's concern though and in the last 15 minutes he more or less kept Liverpool out by himself as they laid siege to the City goal.
I see Dunne is linked with Liverpool in the Indo today.
He was linked with them in the summer too.
Needs to stay where he is, doing perfectly well, good role model for S.Ireland and they are a team on the up. Don't see any reason from an international fans point of view as to why he should leave.
Granted he's doing fine where he is but then again regular European football wouldn't hurt him. With Hyypia probably leaving in the Summer a centre half berth will be free at Liverpool. It's one of those ones though where I don't think it'd be neccessary for him to move but it's hard to turn down one of the really big clubs when they come in for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by livehead1
i thought they started at the bottom, but im no builder so....Quote:
Originally Posted by Philly
Dunne has certainly come on in the last few years - he is much more of a McCarthy-type player than someone like McGrath but that's not necessarily a bad thing given the current state of our international setup.
McCarthy had the pace of three legged donkey and couldnt tackle a good fart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emmet
Very Dunne-like alright.
McCarthy was much more effective in backs-to-the-wall situations, as is Dunne. As to whether he was able to tackle a fart or not - I really don't know. Unlike yourself, that's not something I know too much about :D
He's having another cracker against Newcastle.
Super tackle in penalty area. Winning praise from commentators.
Where are you watching this Tricky
Just watched Man City Newcastle, Dunne was outstanding, MOTM again in all likeliness, Ireland played well, Given had no chance with either goal and made one good save, Duff looked OK but tired and was subbed.
Was watching on one of the steams fromQuote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
http://forum.freefootball.org/
Obviously it is over now but I didn't see your comment untill now as I was also busy doing well in a couple of poker tournamants, hard work playing 4 tables and watching footie at the same time!!
They have streams for a lot of the top games although it can be a bit hit and miss regrading quality/reliability.
Plenty of praise for Dunne from Erikkson in this article:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_...src=rss&feed=5