Quote1/ A midfield of O'Donnel, Healy and Joey is quite a mouth-water-prospect.....Originally Posted by Hitman
2/...as long as they ignore Doolin's "we need to be more defensive" Bull and start pressing and harressing teams from the get-go. If we'd started like we played the 2nd half, Dundalk would have probably lost heavily....
3/ Denis is having his best season in ages-holding up the ball well, looking to bring people into play, unsettling centre-halfs, chipping in with a decent amount of goals. He's matured.
4/Danny Murphy, Patrick Sullivan and both quite good as full-backs. Especially going forward and their tackling. Positioning they can sometimes be caught out.....
5/Dan Murray is still Dan Murray.
6/I feel more "wide" players like Davin and Billy could add a different dimension and restart our season.
7/Thank god we've two weeks off......
Negatives
1/Killer to play centre-half in our next game? Kevin Long? Just not Greg please....
2/Doolin's tactics are stifling us-we have a strong defense and midfield but we are not a defensive team. We NEED to press people and force games. If we sit back and defend, errors creep into our play.
3/Guntars cannot play as a lone-striker. He cannot play as a right winger. As the second of a 2 man strike-force he's decent enough though-we should stick with that-even if it means playing a back-three or something, just not up top on his own.....
4/Dan Connor didn't look too confident going into the season-well we don't like him, he's not a nice person and his antics on the pitch in recent seasons are something he should carry around his neck for the rest of his career-and, despite playing quite well the past few weeks-his head is starting to drop a bit after a number of errors. We could do with Nults coming in for a few games....
5/Doolin as lacking sense in his tacitical decisions, must be questioned for playing people like Timmy Kiely and Alano in the manner he has done in both Sligo and tonight, both players have gotten very little gametime but are now expected to settle immediately into the side-if they'd been given more of a chance in games where we were drawing or winning and allowed to adapt to our system in a game scenario, then I feel harsh critism could be levelled against them. Starting both tonight and changing around two of your three strikers smacks of desperation......
6/ That first half felt like Mounty's last game....
Plays a bit like a very young Joey Gamble-puts in a lot of running, very determined in the challenge but his discipline is a bit lacking. He should be our fourth choice midfielder and that's no disrespect to him-just that Healy, O'Donnel and Gamble are very good-but he looks a good prospect.
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