Agree 100% with what dublinwanderer said (including that insulting Eddie as happened was out of order). Every fan has a right to voice an opinion as long it is not racist or derogatory. Trying to stop someone shouting Eddie out is out of order, and to be honest probably led to it escalating to the other chant (not trying to excuse or condone it in anyway, but the frustration of stopping the eddie out chanting in such a manner probably had something to do with it). Friday is best forgotten and all parties should spend their time concentration on ensuring that we don't have to suffer another night like that for the rest of the season.
On the tactics front I think Eddie would do well to take a leaf out of Russells book. We don't have the personnel to play free flowing football, we should set out the side to be difficult to beat. For example Kavanaghis a luxury player and shouldn't start in a side like ours when you have more defensive, ball winning types such as O'Brien, Brennan and imo Massey (who is wasted at left back,looks far more effective in the middle) if I was in charge I'd go with:
------------------Kane
Doyle(when fit) Webster O'Connor Tyrell
----Brennan/O'Brien Shields Massey----
Shane O'Neill--------------------------Kelly
----------------Doyle----------------
This way we could pack the midfield to make things difficult, with O'Neill and Kelly dropping back to make it a 5 man midfield, with them using their pace to support Robbie when he has the ball. Keep two of the 3 man middle in the middle at all times with one heading forward to help out the lads. Sure we won't score many like this but the goals are hardly flowing the way things are and this should stop the glut of goals going in at the wrong end
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