Games weekend 2nd to 5th May

[2 Year Contract]

The Derry vs Pats game was very chess match orientated last night. Two teams for large parts cancelled each other out.

Yeah neither keeper had a particularly busy night at all, it had the feel of a game that would be settled by a mistake and it turned out to be the case, though Derry could’ve killed the game off earlier if they were more clinical on their counter attacks. The only replay I’ve seen of Mulraney's goal didn’t have him in the frame when the ball was crossed but he was a few yards onside when he headed it, hard to see how that many yards were made up in the space of time it took for the ball to arrive in the box but its total guesswork without a proper angle. The Melia one looked very tight but again you’d need a proper camera angle in line with it to tell for certain. In person I thought Forrester should’ve had a penalty in the second half but haven’t seen a replay back on that. Keena and Forrester were both missed from the starting lineup but given I didn’t think they’d be in the squad last Friday due to injury concerns, it was never likely they’d start both the Friday and Monday games this weekend

[DonegalHoop]

Didn't think the Forrester one was a penalty. He was looking for it too much, dragged his leg and went over fairly easy. Ref was justified in not giving it imo

[2 Year Contract]

Absolute howler from Conor Kearns yesterday for the Waterford goal. He’s giving up a lot of cheap goals recently which seems to be going under the radar

[brendy_éire]

Didn't think the Forrester one was a penalty. He was looking for it too much, dragged his leg and went over fairly easy. Ref was justified in not giving it imo

Agree with that, though thought it was a penalty in realtime.

That was as nervy I've felt at a match this season. The five at the back seems to be working, and it's good that we can switch it around when needed, something we didn't do a lot of in recent years. Pats worked hard in fairness, and you could argue a draw would have been a fair result, but that's great win for us.

Strange end to the match with the Pat's bench getting into an argument with a steward, all over standing in the aisle and being asked to move. The red cards were probably over the top, it was handbag stuff really.

Cork away for us on Friday. After two cracking performances against Shels and Pats, can we actually follow it up with a win against a lower ranked side who are leaking goals? You just couldn't trust us.

[joey B]

Didn't think the Forrester one was a penalty. He was looking for it too much, dragged his leg and went over fairly easy. Ref was justified in not giving it imo

It was never a penalty….

[2 Year Contract]

Fair enough, happy to go along with the general consensus, as I said I've only seen it in person and haven’t seen it back and its not in the leagues highlights package which typically misses a few moments people would like to see in pretty much every highlights package they put out

[sbgawa]

Forester went down like he'd been shot from the back of the stands.
I actually didn't really care who won the match but I was glad it wasn't decided on that incident.

[Nesta99]

Good points. He doesn't have the nickname 'Long Ball-field' for nothing. Unfortunately for us, we've only had managers in recent times that had us scraping for our lives right to the last day (Jeff Kenna, Sean O'Connor etc). Tommy Dunne was shoved off way too soon IMO, and then we spent years in the first Division after that. So this current era is kind of unprecedented, despite it generally containing the most distilled form of Trapattoni-ball one can possibly imagine. So it'd make sense to see if we can finish mid table again this season with him at the helm from that standpoint. The frustrations of the style of play will remain, and we'l be dogged and stalwart and hard to play against, but that style eventually becomes a law of diminishing returns over time too.

I'm thinkin there is merit in the old becomes the new again and we're seeing tactics 'evolve' to 442 direct. Im fine with that. Do what is effective and Galway are very effective mostly. Before Galway JC did as mentioned, had a rearguard deep setup away from home. At home abrasive, in your face, physical, effective at home mostly. But in an era where the away goal was done away with because away games werent disadvantage though statisticaly well not just approach games as if you are home and trust the atmosphere give that extra that a home crowd might. There are moments not to go at games for Galway, Drogs small pitch, Rovers showing form, Derry same + pitch, teams below them like Waterford when looking vulnerable, the games they go behind and then switch on home mode - it would be unlikely to do a load of harm if it was tried but could be Europe v 7th.

[CorribsideSteve]

I'm thinkin there is merit in the old becomes the new again and we're seeing tactics 'evolve' to 442 direct. Im fine with that. Do what is effective and Galway are very effective mostly. Before Galway JC did as mentioned, had a rearguard deep setup away from home. At home abrasive, in your face, physical, effective at home mostly. But in an era where the away goal was done away with because away games werent disadvantage though statisticaly well not just approach games as if you are home and trust the atmosphere give that extra that a home crowd might. There are moments not to go at games for Galway, Drogs small pitch, Rovers showing form, Derry same + pitch, teams below them like Waterford when looking vulnerable, the games they go behind and then switch on home mode - it would be unlikely to do a load of harm if it was tried but could be Europe v 7th.

7th might be our lot this year. I don't think our brutalist catenaccio architecture will be as effective as last seasons efforts.